The Apollo missions showed scientists that the craters on the Moon were from impacts rather than volcanoes, overturning previously held hypotheses. Now, new research using data collected by China's Chinese Chang’E 1 and 2 orbiters has discovered a hot spot under the surface. Using an instrument that made observations at ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: College NightAs back to school season is in full effect, tonight we invite anyone with a college ID to join us for free for a night of cinema and science. Don’t miss a special conversation between soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and director Vincent Tricon, whose film Bernie Krause: A Life with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
 Geologic settings required for a viable geothermal resource depend on a variety of specific conditions to be present and active, hence goldilocks.Geothermal energy has a big role to play in the move to renewable energy, possibly supplying as much as 8% of U.S. electrical needs by 2050.New technology that expands ...
In honor of Steinhart Aquarium’s 100th anniversary, let's party like it’s 1923 and celebrate a century of aquatic wonder and innovation.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Science is a Piece of Cake: A Geology Bake-OffDo you know your Bay Area geology? Learn about all the bizarre, gorgeous and really freaking old formations via ... cake! KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area Producer Cecilia Phillips, in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences and local bakeries, will host a cake bake-off where rocks serve as visual ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: In Person: $20 / Livestream: Free.
Friday, 09/29/23
Cyber Defending Taiwan: Lessons from UkraineDeepening Taiwan’s defense and resilience in the cyber domain is key to advancing diplomatic solutions to the rising geopolitical tensions with China in the region.This one-day conference engaging private, public, and academic leaders will focus on increasing the resilience of Taiwan to threats and vulnerabilities in the cyber domain and ...
Oceans Seminar Series - Two TalksExploring the Resilience of Tunicates: Oceans survivors of 550 Million Years of EvolutionWhile climate change is a major threat to marine life, it is impossible to know exactly how quickly species will adapt to warmer and more acidic seawater, or which species will survive into the future. In this seminar, we will ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
StorageX Tech Talk - Two TalksImpact of fixed-resistance thin films on improved lithium-metal battery performanceSpeaker: Kenzie Marie Sanroman Gutierrez, Ph.D. Student, Stanford UniversityEnabling In-the-Field Operation of Second-Life Battery Energy Storage: Analysis and AlgorithmsSpeaker: Aadil Khan, Ph.D. Student and Xiaofan Cui, Postdoc, Stanford UniversityAttend in person or online
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nanomaterials in 3D Functional Mesosystems: From Neural Interfaces to Environmental MonitorsComplex, three dimensional (3D) micro/nanostructures in biology provide sophisticated, essential functions in even the most basic forms of life. Compelling opportunities exist for analogous 3D structures in man-made devices, but existing design options are highly constrained by comparatively primitive capabilities in fabrication and growth.Recent advances in mechanical engineering and materials ...
Join the Young Birders Club to bird the babbling Stevens Creek and mature riparian habitat of McClellan Ranch. We will visit the feeders to observe birds such as the Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Oak Titmouse and Downy Woodpecker, and stroll along the Stevens Creek Trail for the Anna’s Hummingbird, California Scrub-Jay, California ...
Where: CupertinoCost: Free
Stewardship Saturday: Studying Marine Mammals in Elkhorn SloughTraverse Moss Landing’s Elkhorn Slough with The Marine Mammal Center, Kayak Connection, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Rehabilitation Team! Through this event you will learn more about The Marine Mammal Center and Monterey Bay Aquarium’s work along the California coast, the different types of marine mammals present in ...
Did you know that California has a holiday just to celebrate biodiversity? Let’s celebrate by having a month long BioBlitz through iNaturalist to help scientists document our local pollinators. Come learn about local pollinator species and how you and your family can contribute to scientific research and conservation!
Los Cenzontles Mexican American Music Performance at the Lawrence Hall of ScienceJoin us to celebrate Mexican music and culture featuring Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based arts academy and band that amplifies Mexican American culture through education, performance, and production. Los Cenzontles will perform music, teach visitors about various musical instruments, and discuss how music relates to immigrant traditions, cultural identity, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with museum admission ($20 for guests 3+)
 CSM's Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace (formerly Family Science Day) brings the wonders of science to our community! Future scientists-in-the-making are welcomed to campus to participate in fun makerspace activities, watch Chef Ed make comets, visit fascinating biology, chemistry, geology, and math stations for hands-on demos hosted by ...
Where: San MateoCost: check website
How to Photograph an EclipseThis talk will focus on how to take pictures of the eclipse while still allowing you to enjoy the experience. It is based on a series of talks I gave in 2016-17 prior to the last US eclipse and has been updated for the latest information. Taking photos of eclipses ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The Peril and Profit of Near-Earth Objects; Is Asteroid Mining Possible and Practical?Near-Earth objects present both an existential threat to human civilization and an extraordinary opportunity to propel our exploration and expansion across the solar system. While the risk of a sudden, civilization-altering collision with an asteroid or comet has markedly diminished in recent decades due to diligent astronomical surveys, a significant ...
Charla is the inaugural Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Officer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, and the elected President of SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science). At CSHL, she is an academic administrator who guides DEI-motivated institutional change initiatives; on the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Imaging the Brain at High Spatiotemporal ResolutionThe brain enables physicists and astronomers to explore the universe. Dr. Na Ji will describe how concepts in physics and astronomy help us understand the brain by imaging neurons at sub-micron spatial and millisecond temporal resolution.Speaker: Dr. Na Ji, UC Berkeley
In 1977, the physicist Freeman Dyson1 proposed the burial of biomass, as a scalable, economical solution to the CO2 problem. Today we know2 that the harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry Environmental Chamber. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Alzheimer's Disease: recent advances and practical tips for prevention - LivestreamA third of dementia cases worldwide are estimated to be at least partly attributable to seven modifiable factors. At this virtual event, hear Dr. Irina Skylar-Scott discuss practical strategies you can put into place in your daily life to improve and maintain cognitive function. Also hear about current treatments, and opportunities to ...
The Universe is magnetic. From stars to galaxies to intergalactic space, magnetic fields thread the cosmos. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, hosts a magnetic field that helps to sculpt the interstellar medium: the “stuff between the stars†out of which new stars are born, and into which some old ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 10/03/23
IEEE Day Panel Discussion on Ethical AI: Shaping the Future Responsibly - LivestreamWith a focus on “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for a better tomorrow†to align with the theme of the IEEE day.Panelists:Dr. Ruchi Dass, Managing Director, HealthCursor, UKhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/drruchidass/Dr. Katharina Koerner, Tech Diplomacy Network, USAhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/katharina-koerner-privacyengineering/Chinmay Nerurkar, Principal Engineer, Microsofthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nchinmay/Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU, San Jose, CA, USAhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/pendyala/Moderator: Meenakshi Jindal, Netflix, Los Gatos, USAhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshijindal/Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Live Taping - The Future of Everything w/Russ Altman with Special Guest, Karl DeisserothJoin us for an electrifying live taping of "The Future of Everything" podcast with host Dr. Russ Altman, Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science, and Computer Science (by courtesy), and special guest Dr. Karl Deisseroth, D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Singapore's Multi-Stakeholder Approach to AI GovernanceOur flagship autumn Seminar Series on International Technology Management in 2023 will examine ways in which new digital technologies, business models, and data governance frameworks are addressing problems and opportunities at the interface between the digital economy and the external world, with special attention to new patterns of competition and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Technology, and Threats to Our PrivacyAre you one in a million? One in a billion? What if an app could pick you out of a crowd based on your face alone?New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members in person, $10/Free web
we are piloting a three-part Human-Centered AI Vodcast. A sort of hybrid podcast, live audience and seminar series. Through this series, we hope to better understand what all of you want from AI. So, welcome to Stanford Human-Centered AI Vodcast, where we don't sweep anything under the rug; where we ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Innovating Solutions at the Ocean-Climate Nexus - LivestreamThis talk will provide an introduction to Ocean Visions, a relatively new organization working through a collaborative partnership to advance a new agenda for solutions at the ocean-climate nexus.With a range of partners including MBARI, Ocean Visions works on a “Four R†agenda to abate the ocean-climate crisis:Reduce: Developing ocean-based ...
Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement learning, it became obvious that it’s too difficult to think of everything ahead of time and write it down. Instead, these days the objective is viewed as a hidden part of ...
Climate change has been deemed the greatest threat to global public health. And yet, there is a yawning research gap surrounding the impact that this anthropogenic phenomenon may have on health-relevant infrastructure and decision-making. In this talk, I present my dissertation work structured around a theoretical framework and four lead ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Radical Founders AI: Geoffrey Hinton in Conversation with Fei-Fei LiIn this Radical AI Founders Masterclass, Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li will share their experiences building tech-first startups and scaleups, offering up their guidance, advice, and personal viewpoints. This discussion is delivered in partnership with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.Stanford ...
Cody Coleman is a co-founder of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content, and serves as the CEO. Coactive leverages AI to make it easy for enterprises to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data. Coleman is also a founding ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Special Screening of 'Collision'A worldwide increase in shipping traffic is threatening our oceans, its inhabitants and the planet. Collision is a powerful feature documentary which highlights the severely under-reported issue of fatal ship strikes on whales, a threat which is endangering their very existence. The film suggests solutions to encourage and convince governments and global ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $13.25 General, $9.75 Seniors/Youth, $7.75 Members
Zoom Lenses for Bird PhotographyThis presentation will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of zoom lenses for bird photography. Zoom lenses offer many benefits such as flexibility, excellent image stabilization, and portability. Mastering the zoom lens allows one to capture compelling, professional quality bird photographs without breaking the bank.Speaker: Shravan SundaramSee weblink for Zoom information. ...
Hear Seth Shostak, Earth’s official Alien Hunter, talking about space exploration with host Haritina Mogoșanu.Seth Shostak directs the search for extraterrestrials at the SETI Institute in California - trying to find evidence of intelligent life in space. He is also committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited about ...
