Quantitative measurements of physical, chemical, and biological variables that retain the local environmental context are critical for applications spanning disease diagnosis to water security and ecosystem resilience. However, many current analytical methods face tradeoffs in sensitivity, portability, and scalability. This talk will describe two examples from her research tackling these ...
Where: StanfordCost:
Connecting Subsurface Stress and Geomorphic FeaturesThe lithospheric stress field controls the development of topography, faulting, and non-brittle deformation. At long wavelengths, the sources of stress can be found in variations in the thickness and density of the lithosphere and mantle flow acting on the base of the lithosphere. How these sources of stress manifest themselves ...
Speaker: Dr. George Obaido, UC BerkeleyAttend in person or online (see weblink)
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Virtual Halloween Event: Learning Through Death - LivestreamAt The Marine Mammal Center, our experts perform fairly unique work on every patient who dies at our hospital and on whales that wash ashore. Pathologists, who are like scientific detectives, search for underlying causes of why an animal died and identify patterns for different diseases through a necropsy, or ...
Look at a Moon atlas, and you’ll see a land populated with the names of philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers. Great men like Plato, Aristarchus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Planck have been immortalized by naming Moon craters after them, cementing their names in the firmament. But - what about the women? ...
What better place to celebrate spooky season than at the Exploratorium? Observe human heart cells beat on their own, discover how many blood cells you have, and watch your body turn transparent - skeleton, organs, and all! Your adventures will be scored by Oakland’s own Awesöme Orchestra as they perform ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Life as a Space Weather Analyst - LivestreamEver wondered what Space Weather is? Curious to know what it’s like to analyze Space Weather real-time? Carina Alden will take us through a day in the life of what it’s like being a Space Weather Analyst, monitoring Space Weather real-time, and what it could take to get a job ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightLife on Elm StreetOne, two, NightLife’s comin’ for you. This Halloween, don’t sleep on NightLife because we're summoning all the creatures of the night for one of our favorite times of the year. Brace yourself for spine-chilling drag performances by Oaklash, scary stories, costumes, and more.Get in the spirit and come dressed to ...
Natural medicines and pharmaceuticals have gone hand in hand together for thousands of years, with up to 60% of the modern pharmaceutical market consisting of drugs derived from nature. Such examples include the fungal antibiotic penicillin, morphine from the poppy, or the anti-cancer drug taxol originating from the Pacific yew ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
NeurocryptographyHow can we make it harder to misuse powerful AI systems, such as GPT-4, for propaganda, fraud, academic cheating, copyright violation, and so on? In this talk, I’ll survey one class of approaches, which I’ve called “neurocryptographyâ€: namely, putting cryptographic functionalities inside or on top of AI models. I’ll detail ...
