Coloring the Universe with Rubin Observatory - OnlineVera C. Rubin Observatory has developed a series of FREE online astronomy investigations using authentic data that provide rich and interactive experiences for students, from advanced middle school through college, covering topics commonly taught in introductory astronomy classes or units.This webinar, hosted by the ASP, will unpack how to access ...
Have a whale of a time with the PG Museum as we celebrate the birthday of beloved community icon Sandy the gray whale! Get ready for some major merrymaking and learn about whales and other animals that migrate.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Salamander Search at SanbornSanborn is famous for its amphibians; you just need to do some extra searching to find them! Join us for a fun day of looking under rocks, logs, and other unique hiding spots that Sanborn’s Salamanders call home!Ages 4 - 12, with registered adultRegister at weblink
Where: SaratogaCost: $25 per person
Stewardship Saturday: Icing Out IceplantsHelp protect our beaches with The Marine Mammal Center and Sonoma County Parks! Through this event you will learn about the impact of the iceplant along our coastal ecosystems and support in removing this plant from a section of Bodega Bay. We hope that by the end of this event ...
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
Lunar Landing Sites, Past and FutureAs we look back on the discoveries of the Apollo program, now more than fifty years ago, and stand on the verge of a new generation of lunar exploration through the Artemis Program, it is appropriate to reflect upon the sites chosen for lunar exploration. In this talk, we will ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Is Anybody Out There? What’s New in the Search for Extraterrestrial CivilizationsWhat is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe? Can we detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations? Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer. Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches and will show how new technologies are revolutionizing ...
Dr. Smith is currently a Conservation Research Fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium:Â I am a community ecologist studying how species interactions shape the structure, functioning, and stability of nearshore marine ecosystems. I focus on temperate rocky reefs and am particularly interested in combining theory with observational and experimental approaches to ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Drivers of plankton communities and foodweb structure in a changing oceanZooplankton are essential components of marine pelagic ecosystems: as trophic intermediaries they play a key role in energy transfer up the food web, they mediate biogeochemical cycling and organic export, and their month-to-year life cycles and close species links to the physical environment make them important sentinels of climate change. ...
A large and growing share of the American public turns to social media for news. On these platforms, reports about crime increasingly come directly from law enforcement agencies, raising questions about content curation. We gathered all posts from almost 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by US law enforcement agencies, focusing on ...
Lake Tahoe is one of the longest studied lakes in North America. Yet, the processes that control its motions, health and clarity are still not fully understood. These processes are a complex interaction of physical, biological and biogeochemical processes, all of which are subject to large-scale changes associated with climate ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Shot noise in a strange metalStrange metal behavior has been observed in materials ranging from high-temperature superconductors to heavy fermion metals. In conventional metals, current is carried by quasiparticles; although it has been suggested that quasiparticles are absent in strange metals, direct experimental evidence is challenging to acquire. We measure shot noise to probe the ...
Muon colliders offer a unique path to multi-TeV, high-luminosity lepton collisions. Muon collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV or above would offer significant discovery potential where the constituent collision energies exceed those of the LHC program by an order of magnitude.  Significant progress on the fundamental R&D and ...
Unprecedented development of renewable energy projects and infrastructure is expected across the U.S. to meet decarbonization goals by mid-century. How do Tribal Nations fit into this energy landscape? Tribal lands hold an estimated 6.5% of the utility-scale solar potential in the contiguous United States. Siting principles that support a just ...
Speaker: Jonas Cremer, Stanford UniversityAuditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Flying robots: exploring hybrid locomotion and physical interactionAutonomous flying robots have become widespread in recent years, yet their capability to interact with the environment remains limited. Moving in multiple fluids is one of the great challenges of mobile robotics, and carries great potential for application in biological and environmental studies. In particular, hybrid locomotion provides the means ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field ResearchMagnetic fields represent a remarkably flexible research tool that has opened up new frontiers of research in physics, engineering, chemistry, geochemistry, environmental sciences, biology, and biomedicine. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (the National MagLab) in the United States exists to provide uniquely powerful magnetic fields to thousands of researchers ...
The United States is strategically disadvantaged in building its critical mineral supply, in particular in the upstream and downstream portion. In this presentation, I will report findings on a year-long conversation with government officials, academics, and international industry experts on the status of the US critical mineral supply chain, in ...
The development of classical electromagnetism and quantum electrodynamics are highpoints of nineteenth and twentieth century physics, respectively. Recent, remarkable discoveries, involving neutron stars and black holes, are taking electrodynamics into unfamiliar and “extremeâ€Â territory, requiring new theoretical approaches. Examples include 100 GT (10^15 Gauss) magnetic fields surrounding neutron stars (and ...
I will discuss how vertebrate skin colours and skin appendages (scales, feathers, hairs, ...) are patterned through Turing and mechanical instabilities. First, I will show that Reaction-diffusion (RD) models are particularly effective for understanding skin colour patterning at the macroscopic scale, without the need to parametrise the profusion of variables ...
Brainstem trauma or neurodegenerative diseases can often result in the inability to move or speak, despite intact cognition. The inability to communicate often results in severely decreased quality of life for individuals living with these conditions. Our recent work has shown that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), can employ neural signals to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Innovative Patient-Centered Care for CancerThe current system of cancer care is not built to optimize for patients, according to our speakers. Clinical trials optimize for sponsor outcomes. Hospitals and clinics optimize for payer reimbursement. Translational research optimizes for publication impact. Electronic health records are optimized for billing efficiency.Join us in-person as Mark Laabs (cancer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members in person, $5/free online
Wonderfest: The Psychology of Confidence - RESCHEDULEDHow confident should we be? Overconfidence leads people to delude themselves with wishful thinking, take too many risks, pursue impossible goals, and waste their time on doomed ventures. Underconfidence dissuades people from taking risks that would pay off, and scares them away from trying things they would enjoy. Pschological studies ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Wednesday, 01/31/24
RoundTable: Taking Generative AI Enterprise Models to ProductionGenerative AI (GenAI) is an emergent area that has many AI users excited. One key feature of GenAI applications includes using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to pull up text data from internal enterprise sources. Another key feature is to reason about the retrieval results, the question, and the context of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
How to Make an Eye: Cephalopod Eye Development and the Evolution of ComplexityUnderstanding the mechanisms that enable the evolution of complexity remains a difficult problem in biology. In On the Origin of Species, Darwin discussed the eye as an important context to better understand his theory of natural selection and the generation of complex phenotypes. My lab is interested in the evolution ...
Can aquaculture be adapted to support conservation and ecosystem restoration? The only native oyster on our coast, the Olympia oyster, is depleted throughout its range. Many estuaries in central California are facing local extinction. Without a healthy oyster population, these estuaries lose vast amounts of biodiversity and cannot protect shorelines ...
 Around the world, people recognize that E=mc^2 oozes cosmic insight. But what does this "most famous equation" really say? What are energy and mass? And what makes the speed of light, c, so important? [Hint: mass, moving at speed c, doesn't turn into energy!] Using little more than common experience ...
Home to more than 13 million people, the urban area of Los Angeles sits on top of a large-scale deep sedimentary basin that during large earthquakes can considerably amplify the recorded seismic amplitudes. One significant example of this effect is the magnitude 6.7 Northridge in 1994. The repercussions of the ...
Latin America is one of the world’s most urbanized regions, with over 80% of its total population projected to be living in urban areas by 2050. Amazonia, often associated with images of remote, mostly rural spaces, has not escaped this trend. In recent decades, Amazonian cities have grown, prompting Indigenous ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Galactic Archaeology with the Coldest Stars and Brown DwarfsLarge-scale photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric surveys have revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way and its satellite systems. Nearly all of this work has made use of red giants and FGK dwarfs as tracers of Galactic structure and evolution, but greater insight can emerge from the Milky Way's lowest mass ...
The first commercial 5G deployments were in March of 2019 - now almost 5 years ago--and the path to 6G is well under way. It is without a doubt that 6G will be evolution and revolution beyond 5G, but its territory is still rife with speculation. However, some of the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
After Dark: Phenomenal FunThe Exploratorium is your playground after dark! Sip a cocktail and explore extraordinary science phenomena with 600+ interactive exhibits. Watch water freeze, eavesdrop on people at the parabolic dishes, and paint in colors using soapy water. No kids allowed - but you can still act like one.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLife: Black ThursdayCelebrate Black joy with a vibrant night of history, culture, and innovation.
Energy Innovation: What It Is and How to Accelerate It - LivestreamInnovation is central to economic prosperity (although not necessarily equity and justice), and is particularly key to efforts to address the climate crisis. Berkeley professor Daniel Kammen will examine perspectives and methods to track, understand, accelerate, and make more just and inclusive the process of energy innovation.While UC Berkeley and Stanford ...
Jennifer Doudna developed CRISPR-Cas9, a groundbreaking technology that some call “genetic scissors.†With it, scientists can snip and edit DNA - the code of life - unlocking remarkable possibilities in biology, including treatments for thousands of intractable diseases. This work has changed the course of genomics research, allowing scientists to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdyssey Come together as a family, visit early, and stay late!Swing into the weekend with live music, a food truck, animals and fun! On the first Friday of every month, from 5 PM until 8 PM, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Dance to some of your favorite pop and rock ...
Where: San MateoCost: 0-$19.95
First Friday: Celestial CinemaJoin Chabot in a galaxy far, far away to get a behind-the-scenes look at how space films are made and put the science in science fiction with experts in the field of filmmaking. Create your own flipbook sci-fi adventure, attend hands-on workshops and guest lectures, and take a trip to ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 Kids/Seniors, $5 Members
N = 1: Alone in the Milky WayPlanetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee will review our present knowledge about each term of the Drake Equation used to estimate the number (N) of advanced civilizations present in our Milky Way galaxy, which is at the heart of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He will examine star and planet ...
