AI and Science for Climate SymposiumJoin us at the forefront of innovation and environmental stewardship at the University of California, Berkeley for a pivotal symposium. This gathering will convene experts across the fields of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences to explore groundbreaking interventions in climate change technology.This symposium will have two foci:Accelerating Discovery:Â Development of ...
How and why do corporations decline? Blackberry (98% FRESH at Rotten Tomatoes) offers a tragicomic portrait of decline in Earth's foremost business smartphone maker. Following this special Science on Screen presentation of BlackBerry, UC Berkeley's Dr. Don Moore will illuminate the psychological challenges that face all businesses and, in fact, ...
Where: St. HelenaCost: TBA
Uncovering the Ocean's Deepest Secrets - LivestreamWe are thrilled to accompany author, Susan Casey in "Uncovering the Ocean's Deepest Secrets". In her latest book, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, she embedded for seven years with explorers and marine scientists as they endeavored to unravel the deep sea’s many mysteries.Is the giant squid a ...
This talk will cover Achlorophyllous plants, Fungal Molds, and other Fun Gis that just can't seem to live without each other. All photos were taken by me throughout California and Oregon. These plants and fungi truly opened my eyes to the intricacies of symbiosis. I'm excited to share my finds ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wednesday, 03/27/24
Beyond the Initial Cure: Expanding Horizons of Orphan Drug Indications - LivestreamThe Inflation Reduction Act stands as key legislation aimed at improving the accessibility of medicines, yet it has introduced some potential unintended consequences on biotechnology innovation and patients suffering from orphan diseases. In response, the Orphan Cures Act has emerged as a proposed bill dedicated to bolstering research and development ...
 The seafloor plays a critical role in global carbon cycling, and thus is important to global climate change studies, including those on warming trends and ocean acidification. On smaller size scales, carbon cycling assessments are used to evaluate aquatic ecosystem health and trophic status. The oxygen flux between the seafloor ...
Where: Cost: Free
Assessing Image Coding in the High to Nearly Visually Lossless Quality Range - LivestreamThe past decades have witnessed rapid growth in imaging as a major form of communication between individuals. Due to recent advances in capture, storage, delivery, and display technologies, consumers demand improved perceptual quality while requiring reduced storage. In this context, research and innovation in lossy image compression have steered towards ...
Where: Cost: Free
AI and Science for Climate SymposiumJoin us at the forefront of innovation and environmental stewardship at the University of California, Berkeley for a pivotal symposium. This gathering will convene experts across the fields of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences to explore groundbreaking interventions in climate change technology.Click on weblink for listing of keynote speakers ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Leveraging Medical Discourse to Answer Complex QuestionsWe review the literature on medical discourse and attempt to build a computational model of it. Medical discourse sheds a light on communication structure of patient-doctor and other communication scenarios in healthcare and should be leveraged to facilitate and automate this communication when it is possible and practical. We propose ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Electric Vehicle Charging Basics Workshop - LivestreamJoin us for an electric vehicle (EV) online workshop focused on EV charging.Learn about the best ways to find and use public chargers.Discover different available charging speeds, charging options for multi-family dwellings.We'll guide you through the available rebates for Bay Area residents. This webinar is available in Spanish and English.Register ...
Baleen whales are some of the largest animals that have ever existed on our planet. They have enormous energetic needs that can only be satisfied by feeding on large schools of dense prey that are patchily distributed in the oceans. Using a suite of emerging technologies we have developed new ...
Designing new polymer membranes with a set of previously unachievable transport properties will have an enormous impact on various applications, including energy-efficient separations, energy storage and health-related devices. The advancement of these technologies is dependent on polymer membranes which selectively transport only desired penetrants while maintaining chemical stability. Molecular transport ...
Where: Cost: Free
Reinventing Cities: Can zero-carbon development play a role in San Francisco’s recovery?San Francisco has entered two City-owned sites in the fourth edition of C40 Cities Reinventing Cities Competition, a global design and development competition to transform underutilized urban sites into innovative, zero-carbon and resilient developments. The competition invites teams of architects, designers, and developers to submit proposals for sustainable development projects ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The Psychology of Misinformation and Its Remedies - LivestreamIn the battle against misinformation, having truth and facts on your side is often still not enough. People are stubbornly - and seemingly inexplicably - willing to believe things that are obviously not true. What are the underlying psychological reasons for this, and what can be done to address them?Join ...
Where: Cost: Free
Perlmutter, Campbell and MacCoun on Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of NonsenseJoin a Nobel Laureate physicist, a psychologist and a philosopher for a conversation about the tools and frameworks that scientists have developed to keep from fooling themselves, to chart a course through the profusion of possibilities, to better understand the world, and to make intelligent decisions. These trust-building techniques, which ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General $10 Members
After Dark: See for YourselfDive into the world of emotions, thoughts, and other fascinating human phenomena tonight! Learn about the science behind your feelings, and investigate how human interactions shape our society. Do you trust a stranger to help you unlock a safe? Can you work with your friends to win at the cooperative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
Join California magazine Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph in conservation with Professor Stuart Russell, head of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, about both the tremendous promise and considerable perils of artificial intelligence.In 2023, TIME magazine counted Stuart Russell among the 100 Most Influential People in AI. He is co-author with ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40 General, $35 Cal Alumni & BAMPFA members
Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, will talk about general recommendations for adult vaccinations, benefits and risks, new technologies like MRNA vs traditional vaccines, and considerations for travel and those living with chronic disease.Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, is director of the Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices in the Stanford Preventive Research Center.Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Oumuamua: Watching the scientific process unfoldHumanity's first discovered interstellar visitor, Oumuamua, was found in 2017 while it was already on its way out of our solar system. The sparse data astronomers could gather over the span of 2.5 months included a few surprises and mysteries. In this talk, Dr. Mathews will outline the observations, the ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Science Is a Piece of Cake: Astronomy Cake-offDo you know your astronomy? Learn about all the planets and stars in our (rare night of fog-free) Bay Area sky via ... cake! KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area producer Cecilia Phillips is hosting a cake bake-off, where celestial bodies serve as our visual inspiration. Enter in the competition as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: In Person: $20 / Livestream: Free.
Friday, 03/29/24
Public Astronomy Viewing NightsSonoma State University hosts astronomical viewing nights open to the public. Events are weather dependent. Check the weblink for cancelations prior to attending.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
In Town Star Party - CANCELEDCome join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) for an evening of stargazing.Event details:Events are held at the parking lot of our headquarters, Houge Park San Jose. The event duration is 2 hours. SJAA volunteers will share night sky views from their telescopes.Please refrain from bringing your own telescopes (Binoculars are ...
Roar into spring with dinos and fossils! Learn about different kinds of fossils and prehistoric animals and plants. You can even trace your lineage in the phylogenetic tree.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Sunprint Kit Celebration at the Lawrence Hall of ScienceCelebrate Spring Break with solar science! We’ll have a printmaking station all week featuring our Sunprint® Kits paper in Forces That Shape the Bay. Use your creativity, a variety of fun materials, and the sun’s power to express yourself and create stunning art. On Sunday, April 7, come back from ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Through the Looking Glass PilotHelp us test a new activity for your future scientists aged 6 and under. Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with museum admission ($20 for guests 3+)
Stewardship Saturday: Experiencing Fish KitchenJoin us for this exclusive behind-the-scenes opportunity to visit The Marine Mammal Center, observe patients being fed and support our hard-working volunteer crews with some extra help during our peak patient season. During these busier months, our patients can consume up to 1,000 pounds of fish per day! That’s a ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Afternoon Hike at Mindego HillJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
A Night for Beginning AstronomersThe SFAA is hosting a night dedicated to our members beginning in visual astronomy. Beginners will bring their optical instruments and experienced members will be present to provide assistance. Cosmic delights for the evening include: Jupiter with its Great Red Spot visible and its moon Io casting a shadow, an ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 03/31/24
Through the Looking Glass PilotHelp us test a new activity for your future scientists aged 6 and under. Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with museum admission ($20 for guests 3+)
It’s there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it’s time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we’ll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Science on Tap: Ancient EcologyDive into the ancient world with an incredible panel of experts discussing fossils, paleontology, and local research and digs! Learn more about the tooth discovered in Santa Cruz last year, current research and digs happening in the county, and get some great insights into other fossils, bones, and more. It’ll ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $20 General, $15 Members, Free for Students
Monday, 04/01/24
Through the Looking Glass PilotHelp us test a new activity for your future scientists aged 6 and under. Explore nature with various optical tools that can focus far beyond what our eyes typically see. Zoom in and zoom out with microscopes, periscopes, binoculars, and lenses carrying different magnifying powers. Which tools will you choose ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with museum admission ($20 for guests 3+)
Climate change is increasing hydrological variability and water stress in many regions, leading urban water planners to invest in expensive new water supply infrastructure. These costly investments raise water bills, challenging affordable water access for low-income populations. Adaptive infrastructure planning, in which planners develop infrastructure incrementally if-and-when needed, has the ...
Some of the greatest triumphs stemming from research in symbolic systems are computer algebra systems, particularly those addressing non-numeric problems that arise in nearly every discipline of mathematics: logic, geometry, calculus, differential equations, transforms, group theory, statistics, and beyond. This talk will demonstrate some of the immense power of such ...
The American winner-take-all congressional district system empowers politicians to engineer electoral outcomes by manipulating district boundaries. To date, computational solutions mostly focus on drawing unbiased maps by ignoring political and demographic input, and instead simply optimize for compactness and other related metrics. However, we maintain that this is a flawed ...
Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Fulbright Fellow and became a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max ...
Akshai Baskaran will share learnings of his journey from studying at Stanford (BS Chemical Engineering ‘15, CISAC Honors Program) to management consulting at Bain & Company and finally making his mark at climate companies, including Impossible Foods (plant-based meat), Brimstone (carbon-negative cement), and Gravity (industrial and commercial carbon measurement and ...
The contemporary humanities is largely concerned with the social and political function of texts and images, often at the expense of the meta-discipline’s long engagement with the uncanny, the visionary, the paradoxical, the otherworldly, and the abject. But it may be these latter concerns that become most salient in the ...
Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of exoplanets in orbit around other stars. What are these different planets like? Are any hospitable to the development of life? Answering these questions leads us to delve into the rich chemistry that accompanies the formation of new solar systems. Powerful telescopes including JWST are ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
