Conservation genomics has long operated within a colonial framework of resource extraction: biologists collect specimens from habitats and transport them elsewhere for analysis. Sample collection often occurs in resource-poor but biodiverse regions, with analysis restricted to resource-rich urban areas. This process not only removes samples but also opportunities for local ...
Previous research finds that group members often prioritize benefiting their in-group over harming out-groups (“in-group love” hypothesis) and typically focus on maximizing positive outcomes for their group. However, real-world decisions often involve choosing between net-negative options, where group members may avoid supporting opponents even at their own group’s expense. In ...
Coping with Political Stress: Staying Grounded, Engaged and EffectiveIn today's dynamic political landscape, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, anxious, and disconnected. In a 2022 study done by the American Psychological Association, more than three-quarters of adults (76%) said that the future of our nation is a significant source of stress in their lives. The constant barrage of news, ...
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Join the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity for an exciting webinar featuring Citizen Lab(opens in a new tab) researchers Noura Aljizawi, Gözde Böcü, and Nicola Lawford to present their report, "Enhancing Cybersecurity Resilience for Transnational Dissidents."The report examines the cybersecurity challenges faced by grassroots transnational advocacy groups in the United States. that are targeted by ...
Science on Tap: Nuclear Testing Impacts and ResilienceNuclear testing has had long-lasting and serious impacts on our environmental and human communities, shifting, distorting, and creating new and often difficult landscapes, needs, and stories. During our next Science on Tap after a happy half-hour sponsored by our wonderful friends at Peter B’s Brewpub, we will talk with three ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $20 General, $15 Members advance, $25 at door
After Dark: See For YourselfSummer might be almost over, but the fun is always going strong at After Dark. Come play with 700+ interactive exhibits that explore the wonderful scientific phenomena all around us, and dive deeper with some of our most iconic exhibits. Feel your way through the Tactile Dome guided by your ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for Members
Vagrancy in Birds - LivestreamDo you chase rare birds that accidentally occur in our area outside of their normal migration range? If so, you enjoy finding vagrant birds, a phenomenon many Marin County birders pursue at the Outer Point within Point Reyes National Seashore and other California coastal areas. This presentation will highlight the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Bots vs Ballots: AI and the 2024 ElectionHow worried should we be about AI and the election? As advances in generative artificial intelligence stand to disrupt elections, we ask what the latest developments mean in 2024 and for the future of democracy. AI has been used to doctor photos, create deep fakes, manipulate candidates' voices and seed ...
How do individuals decide whether to get vaccinated, consume genetically modified foods, or vote to support climate change mitigation efforts in their neighborhood? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions about scientific issues. In, Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It, Sinatra and ...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received widespread attention over the past 20 years due to their remarkable physical, mechanical and chemical properties, and our ability to integrate them into devices. In this seminar, I will detail our recent work in the development of the next generation of 2D materials. I will ...
Kits Cubed is back and excited for our fourth annual STEM Fair presented by California Life Sciences. The fair will feature a wide range of STEM booths to introduce Oakland youth to the wonders of science.Come enjoy energy filled games, hands-on science activities, and live music. This event will kick ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Lucy and the Taung Child: A Century of Science - LivestreamA century ago, a small skull discovered at a South African quarry challenged what we thought we knew about human origins. Fifty years later, the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia further transformed our understanding of how we became human. Join experts from Ethiopia, South Africa, and North America for a free ...
Where: Cost: Free
Designing Tomorrow - LivestreamThe half-century history of environmental protection is, at best, mixed and the approaches of the past will need to be significantly changed if we are going to realize a sustainable future. While there have been improvements since the 1960's in the most obvious and egregious problems such as air and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Family Nature Adventure: The Amazing World of Butterflies, Insects, and Helpful PollinatorsThrough fun, engaging activities, experiments, and crafts, children will discover the diverse and extraordinary characteristics of native pollinators. Learn about the butterflies, bees, birds, and others that pollinate our favorite flowers, then embark on a short exploration walk to spot some in the local redwood forest. Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic ...
Where: OaklandCost: $35 General, $25 Members
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. See weblink to register via EventBrite. Space is limited.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
City Public Star Party - Observe the Moon NightJoin us for a special edition of the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers city star party where together with thousands of people around the globe will all observe the moon for International Observe the Moon Night. For more information on ways to participate and to learn more about our nearest celestial ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Observe The Moon Night at FoothillIn partnership with the Peninsula Astronomical Society, the Foothill College Astronomy Department is hosting an event as part of NASA's Observe the Moon night. We will have a variety of telescopes next to the Foothill College Observatory, to enjoy views of Earth's moon and other fun objects on the sky (like ...
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 ...
Speaker: Durell Kapan, California Academy of Sciences
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Butterfly Walk in the Garden - SOLD OUTJoin our butterfly docent specialist Sally Levinson and Andy Liu for a guided walk through the Garden in search of butterflies, as you learn about their plant relationships and amazing life cycle. Bring binoculars if you have them.Registered children welcome. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Groups larger than 6 ...
The properties of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor host with two valleys related by an underlying C4 rotational symmetry are studied using Hartree-Fock (HF) and various other many-body approaches. A familiar artifact of the HF approach is a degeneracy between the valley polarized - “Ising nematic” - ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Regulatory Mechanisms of Cargo Transport Kinesin MotorsKinesins are mechanochemical molecular motors that convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into mechanical work. Kinesins are capable of stepping processively along intracellular microtubules, a mechanism harnessed by cells to transport a myriad of intracellular cargos in a directional fashion. A subset of kinesin motors is specialized for long-distance ...
Semiconductors power almost every aspect of modern life, from our mobile phones and computers, to how we light our homes, how we store and transform energy, or how we can access renewable energy. Understanding the complex quantum mechanical processes that make some semiconductors more useful than others in the context ...
Environmental icon Jane Goodall returns to Climate One in person to reflect back on her life’s work and offer a look forward to how we can heal our relationship with nature by better understanding ourselves. The indefatigable Goodall is now focused on three intertwined crises: biodiversity loss, climate change and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $40 Regular in person, $19 online
Our group specializes in ultrafast spectroscopic methods, enabling in-depth studies of material chemistry in intricate environments and the control of quantum phenomena on femtosecond timescales. In the first part of this seminar, I will discuss the role of lithium in various systems from its contribution to symmetry breaking (LiNbO3), to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
World Transitioning to Hydrogen Economy: How prepared are we in the USA? - LivestreamIs hydrogen the Super Fuel of the Future?Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe. Its potential is promising. Hydrogen could become the main power source for cars, trucks and other vehicles. It could be a solution for heating buildings.But extracting hydrogen is energy-intensive. Both the source of the hydrogen and method of extraction ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lead in Oakland Unified School District Community WebinarYou may have heard about the lead situation going on in Oakland Unified School District. The overview is that extremely high levels of lead was found in the drinking water of dozens of schools last spring, but no remediation or community information was done until the start of this school ...
From very early times, individuals and cultures dreamt first of human flight, and then space flight, which ultimately contributed to the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The Apollo landings, in turn, were inspirational for many, including some who ended up becoming astronauts. Human spaceflight further evolved during the Space Shuttle, Mir, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Pitching the Future in AIDon’t miss your chance to connect, expand your understanding, and play a role in shaping the future of AI technology. Meet seven Swiss startups from different industries during this pitch event.The startups presenting their solutions are taking part in our Startup Bootcamp:AIDONIC revolutionizes aid management for governments and non-profits with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Fei-Fei Li's AI JourneyArtificial intelligence has been dominating the headlines recently, but Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field.Li shares her inspiring journey - chronicled in her new book, The Worlds I See - from her early struggles as a Chinese immigrant in the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Habitats, Life Cycles and Ecology of Mushrooms The talk will answer the question "What is a Mushroom Anyway," including life cycles and dispersal syndromes. Additionally, we will explore some of the vitally important roles fungi play in the natural environment. Individuals may attend in-person, beginning at 6:30pm, for mushroom ID, refreshments and social interaction in the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Tucson #99: All About the Early Universe - LivestreamJADES-GS-z14-0: Updates from the Beginning of Time - Kevin Hainline&Cosmic Inflation: What is it, and does it fix the Big Bang? - Joe Adamo This month, we’ll be joined by Steward research professor Kevin Hainline giving us the inside scoop on the earliest galaxy known to exist, and Steward grad ...
Muscle Stem Cells Get a New Look: Dynamic Cellular Projections As Sensors of the Stem Cell NicheMechanisms whereby quiescent stem cells sense tissue injury and transition to an activated state are largely unknown. Quiescent skeletal muscle stem cells (MuSCs) have elaborate, heterogeneous projections that rapidly retract in response to muscle injury; the cytoskeletal changes associated with retraction in turn promote downstream MuSC activation events. MuSC projections ...
Much high-impact research in the chemical and biological sciences, particularly that which underlies innovations in medicine, began with curiosity about the structures and mechanisms of bioactive small molecules. In search of potentially transformative discoveries, my research group is focused on molecules that are anomalous by virtue of their structures and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the USHave you ever wondered why certain states in the US have better health outcomes than others? What happened historically that this is the case today, and how does it influence our present-day reality? Speaker: Sarah Hooper, UC Law San FranciscoAttend in person or online (see weblink)Room E126
Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars, are starting to pop up in the world around us. These systems use complex combinations of model-based and data-driven algorithms to make real-time, safety-critical decisions. In this talk, I will provide some thoughts (and hopefully insights) into what engineers need to do to convince ...
It is possible that the only news we hear about more than politics is the climate crisis, and sometimes it is politics about the climate crisis? But what are we hearing and saying about climate change, and is it what we think we’re hearing and saying? Genevieve Guenther, founder of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, 30 - 50% off for members
On March 27, 2023, six people were gunned down in a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The horrific event led Tennessee House Representative Justin J. Pearson and two colleagues to protest for common sense gun legislation on the Tennessee House floor. House Republicans retaliated by expelling Representative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 in person, $5 online, members get discount
Autumn BirdingSpeaker series with Allen Fish has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Instead we invite you to join us for a look at the upcoming birding opportunities that will accompany a shift in the seasons! Get set for fall with a look at the migratory visitors who will be passing ...
Where: Cost: Free
Design of Holographic Display Systems based on Artificial Intelligence - LivestreamEmerging spatial computing systems are widely believed to be next-generation computing platforms, offering transformative experiences across various domains such as teleconferencing, education, entertainment, industry, and basic vision research, among others. To deliver perceptually realistic and visually comfortable experiences, optical interfaces, such as imagers or displays, must be compact, adaptable, seamlessly ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nerd Nite #146: Psychedelic Science, Geysers, and the New Science of Learning The heat is rising in San Francisco, and you know what that means: late summer has finally arrived, and back-to-school season is finally upon us. Well, most of our beloved Nerd Nite audience probably isn’t going to school anymore, but that hasn’t stopped us from learning together each month! This ...
Speakers: James Doty (Stanford, Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism) on "Mind Magic" Kristina Dutton (Composer) on "Soundscapes and Nanoscapes: the natural world through visual and sonic storytelling" Miguel Angel Novelo Cruz (Stanford) on "Technoshamanic Playgrounds: Thermodynamics and Memory"Room: LiKaShing Building, Room LK120
Allen Fish will speak about his decades of work at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, just in time for the annual migration of Raptors through the Bay Area!Register at weblink to receive connection informationSee alternate event at this same time
Conserving Marin County’s farms and ranches not only means protecting the land through conservation easements, but also ensuring its agricultural viability and helping to steward the health of the land. MALT supports local farmers and ranchers through grants and technical assistance and leveraging partner agencies funding opportunities. MALT stewardship staff ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Thursday, 09/19/24
Ranger-Guided Hike: Main LoopHave you ever wondered what a ranger looks at when they go for a walk in the woods? You’re invited to come with us!On Sept 19th, Ranger Ryan will be leading a 2-mile guided hike along the Redwood Creek Trail and Hillside Trail. The tour should last approximately two hours, ending at 12:00 ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve which hosts tide pools ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: $10 Donation encouraged
Lunch Break Science - LivestreamLunch Break Science is a dynamic live web series featuring fascinating short talks, engaging interviews, and lively Q&A with Leakey Foundation scientists. Each episode digs deeper into the latest human origins discoveries, with topics like Neanderthals, chimpanzee behavior, and more! Even better, you can interact with researchers during the show ...
Where: Cost: Free
The ecological effects of lightning in a tropical forestLightning is common in many tropical forests, but its ecological effects are not well documented. Data from a decade of lightning monitoring on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (BCI), show that lightning is an important agent of tree mortality; the average strike kills 5 trees and damages 21 others. Collectively, lightning ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Seti Live: New Exoplanets Just Dropped! - LivestreamAnd Citizen Scientists Helped Find Them Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. We've been finding potential exoplanets more often since the Kepler and TESS spacecraft were launched. But confirming these planets takes time, and telescope time is limited. To speed up the process, amateur astronomers are ...
In this presentation, first, a brief history of the production and evolution of electricity will be presented, then an overview of our body of work on the application of artificial intelligence (AI)-based control techniques and Internet of things (IoT) for control and management of microgrids (MGs), which are considered the ...
The first commercial 5G deployments were in March of 2019 - barely three years ago and the path to 6G is already a few years under way. It is without a doubt that 6G will be evolution and revolution beyond 5G, but some of the differences are already quite clear. ...
Artist Jane Kim is best known for creating monumental works of public art that celebrate the natural world. From the Wall of Birds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to From Sea to Sky at Occidental College's Moore Lab of Zoology, birds play a central role in her dramatic storytelling. What's her secret to ...
Discover the science behind sound and the role it plays in the environment. Join us for a screening of The Last of the Nightingales, a short documentary about pioneering sound ecologist Bernie Krause, and hear from Bernie, his wife Katherine, and the filmmaker afterward. Then dive deeper with the exhibits ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
Join SOMA to kick off the mushroom season. Many of our board members will be present andwe will have a casual potluck followed by a presentation by Gordon Walker & Harte Singer about the "early" season fungi and unusual findings of cool Summer fungi.
Where: SebastopolCost: Free
NightLife: FalastinShare in the rich culture, art, and stories of Falastin (Palestine). By the community for the community.
Where do we turn to when the sky is falling? When even as we mask to stay safe, we expose ourselves to a long history of othering? Retreating inward by looking and listening outward, Amy Tan found solace in her backyard, the birds that are her neighbors, and the joy ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 09/20/24
Space Mission Sustainability Leveraging Picard-Chebyshev Methods and Optimal ControlSpacecraft sustainability is crucial for the long-term exploration and utilization of space. As humanity ventures further from the Earth, responsible and sustainable management of space assets becomes imperative to ensure the preservation of the space environment. In-space servicing missions enable the extension of the operational life of satellites and other ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
InSight Mars Lander - Instrument Deployment SystemNASA’s Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) Mars Lander’s mission overarching goal is to understand the processes of planetary differentiation that formed the terrestrial planets and the global processes that subsequently modify them.Dr. Trebi-Ollennu will talk about his work as InSight’s Product Delivery Manager and Operations ...
Transportation is on the path to decarbonization, led by the electrification of cars, trucks and buses. However, numerous questions remain. How much reduction in vehicle use is desired and possible? How might aviation and shipping be decarbonized? How might strategies differ between advanced industrial nations and the Global South? What ...
Synthesizing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as nanoparticles is critical for their large-scale processability in real-world technologies and is poised to alter wide-ranging MOF behaviors, especially those related to transport phenomena. Little is known about controlled synthetic techniques, however, and studies into the impact of nanosizing physical properties have only just begun. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 09/21/24
40th Annual Coastal Clean-up Day 2024Join us for Coastal Clean-up Day - the statewide movement that removed 376,308 pounds of trash from California’s coastlines and inland waterways last year! Volunteers will enjoy beautiful ocean views while they remove litter and debris, protect native habitats, and help minimize marine debris. This is a fun family-friendly volunteer opportunity, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Critter Search at Sanborn ParkSome of the most exciting critters are hard to find. Join us as we look for some of the smaller residents of Sanborn Park. Look for Salamanders under rocks, Millipedes under logs, and newts in the ponds! Let’s see who we can find!For ages 1 - 5 + parent
Where: SaratogaCost: Free
Bair Island Walking TourJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a walking tour at the Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! You’ll be guided by POST ambassadors who will share the history of this beautiful protected space, information about the species that live there, and what you ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $10 Donation encouraged
Twilight Marsh WalkExperience the salt marsh at twilight on an easy stroll along refuge trails (about .6 miles). At the setting of the sun we will observe the beginning of nature’s night shift. Come discover the sights, sounds, and smells of the refuge as night descends. Not suitable for young children. ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Is Human Hibernation a Possible Tool for Future Long-Term Crewed Space Flight?Dr. Wallace’s talk with discuss the fantasy of human hibernation, what are the different types of hibernation, what are the proposed mechanisms of hibernation, and why humans are biologically and physiologically unlikely to tolerate hibernation. This discussion will review how anesthesia is fundamentally different from hibernation with separate risks and ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 09/22/24
Family Hikes Youth 3 - 12 (first session)Pack your sunscreen and lace up on your hiking shoes, we’re venturing forth for a gentle 1-2 mile hike. Explore the lush redwood forest that surrounds Chabot, hike off some steam then have a sit-down and snack with your family and new friends you’ve just made. Expert Chabot staff lead ...
Where: OaklandCost: $40 Adult, $30 Youth 3 - 12, Members $10 off
Discover the beautiful diversity of succulent plants! We’ll explore their amazing features, talk about where and how they grow, and learn how you can grow them at home too.This hands-on workshop includes creating your own designed potted succulent garden to take home!Admission and all materials included. Children must be accompanied ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 Adult, $15 child, $2 off for members
Morning Walk at WavecrestJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a very easy 2-mile walk at Wavecrest Open Space in Half Moon Bay! We’ll walk through groves of trees and fields where we’ll have a great chance to spot a variety of birds, especially raptors! We’ll also walk along the coastal bluffs where we ...
Where: Half Moon BayCost: Free
Family Hikes Youth 3 - 12 (second session)Pack your sunscreen and lace up on your hiking shoes, we’re venturing forth for a gentle 1-2 mile hike. Explore the lush redwood forest that surrounds Chabot, hike off some steam then have a sit-down and snack with your family and new friends you’ve just made. Expert Chabot staff lead ...
Where: OaklandCost: $40 Adult, $30 Youth 3 - 12, Members $10 off
Fundamentally new, and unexpected phases may emerge when superconductivity appears in a strongly correlated system. In this work we use scanning tunneling microscopy to study an unusual charge density wave (CDW) order in the heavy fermion triplet superconductor, UTe2. Our STM data reveal an incommensurate CDW whose intensity gets weaker ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How do Neurons, Humans, and Artificial Neural Networks Predict?Dr. Sarah Marzan of Pitzer, Scripps, and Claremont McKenna College will pose the question: Do neurons, humans, and artificial neural networks predict efficiently, and if so, how? Dr. Marzen attacks this problem with information theory and machine learning, applied to new experimental data.Speaker will join remotely.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Regulation of LRRK2: Identifying vulnerabilities for Parkinson’s Disease therapeuticsParkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, affecting ~10 million people worldwide. One of the most commonly mutated genes in PD codes for Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2). Autosomal dominant mutations in LRRK2 cause familial PD, while mutations in LRRK2 are risk factors for sporadic PD ...
The last few years have seen a remarkable development in our ability to control many neutral atoms individually, and induce controlled quantum interactions between them on demand. This progress ushers in a new era where one can create highly entangled states of many particles, break certain limits for quantum sensors ...
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? Proponents of the new technology say AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Opponents say it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction.Gary Marcus ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, Free students in person, $10 Online
AI Developments in California: Follow-up DiscussionThis program will allow attendees to the September 23 program with Dr. Gary Marcus to discuss the implications of his talk and ideas on developments in artificial intelligence in California, especially proposed and pending legislation (such as SB 1047). We will also be seeking attendee input on what areas they ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8 General, discounts for Members
Tuesday, 09/24/24
AI Agents, LLMS, AI Voice & Building AI AssistantsJoin us for the premier event exploring the cutting-edge advancements in chatbots, conversational AI, and large language models (LLMs). This three-day conference is a must-attend for technology professionals looking to build AI Agents. We offer a comprehensive exploration of the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the field.Gain invaluable ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Ranger-Guided Hike: Alice Eastwood LoopHave you ever wondered what a ranger looks at when they go for a walk in the woods? You’re invited to come with us!Ranger Katie will be leading a 3-mile guided hike along the Camp Alice Eastwood Loop. The tour should last approximately two hours. Redwood Creek Trail is almost entirely flat and ...
AI could make society or break it. It could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could lead to the downfall of democracy, an explosion in cybercrime, or possibly even worse. It’s also been wildly oversold. In this seminar, moderator ...
My laboratory explores new strategies to directly transform alkenes and arenes for streamlining bioactive small molecule synthesis. This seminar will cover three themes representative of our research program: 1) oxidative Rh(III)/(IV)/(II)-catalyzed C - H functionalization en-route to benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, an approach distinct from conventional Rh(III) catalysis; 2) synergistic Brønsted acid/Lewis ...
The Digitalist Papers seek to inspire a new era of governance, informed by the transformative power of technology to address the significant challenges and opportunities posed by AI and other digital technologies. The Federalist Papers, a series of essays written in the late 18th century, advocated for the ratification of ...
In recent years, a series of initiatives have emerged with the aim to advance women’s participation in the nuclear weapons field. These initiatives are informed by two assumptions. Women are missing, and women’s inclusion can bring change. Currently, empirical evidence is missing to support either of the two assumptions. Systematically ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How Enterprises are Building AI Agents with LLMs, Prompt Engineering, & RAGJoin us for the premier event exploring the cutting-edge advancements in chatbots, conversational AI, and large language models (LLMs). This three-day conference is a must-attend for technology professionals looking to build AI Agents. We offer a comprehensive exploration of the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the field.Gain invaluable ...
Hydrocarbons of all shapes and sizes are found throughout the various stages of star- and planet formation. Recently, using radio astronomical observations, a variety of cyclic- and even polycyclic hydrocarbons have been detected in the very cold (10 K) Taurus molecular cloud. These detections challenge our understanding of the chemical ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Quantum Generative AI Lectures6:15 - 6:35: Emerging Legal Trends in AIVijay will explore the evolving legal landscape surrounding AI and quantum technologies, offering insights into the regulations shaping their future.Speaker: Jijay Sekhon, Sidley Austin LLP 6:40 - 7:00: Quantum Computing for Engineers in a Hurry!Imran will deliver a fast-paced introduction to quantum computing, ...
Join us for an exceptional story. In March of this year, Vancouver Island residents were gripped with the story of “Brave Little Hunter” who had been stuck in the Zeballos (BC) lagoon since her pregnant mother was stranded and drowned. Join us to hear the story of coaxing this calf ...
Where: Cost: $10 Donation encouraged
Wednesday, 09/25/24
SETI Live: Unistellar + SETI: Citizen Science Q&A - LivestreamJoin Dr. Franck Marchis, Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Unistellar and director of Citizen Science at SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, Outreach Manager at the SETI Institute, for a conversation on citizen science with the Unistellar network in partnership with the SETI Institute. We will take the time ...
Transposable Elements are fragments of DNA that can move themselves from one place in a genome to another, creating mutations and potentially genome instability. To control transposable elements, eukaryotic cells target them with chromatin modifications and/or DNA methylation to repress their transcription, and this regulation can be heritable (epigenetic). The ...
Just Futures: A Panel on Climate Adaptation, Infrastructure, and Resource Stewardship in the CaribbeanThis panel aims to unravel the Caribbean region’s current climate challenges, firmly rooted in its historical legacies. Equipped with the knowledge of long-durée histories and historical contingencies, our discussion aims to illuminate how these factors have shaped the present moment of climate change impacts. From this vantage point, we explore ...
Despite the increasing focus on the energy impact of AI, internet growth, and data centers, nearly all studies have overlooked the subsea cables that transport over 99% of all transoceanic internet traffic. This talk describes the work of Sustainable Subsea Networks, including the first carbon footprint calculator for subsea cables; ...
Director Johns will discuss the Departments clean energy transition initiatives and how her office supports Tribal energy sovereignty and the next generation of Tribal climate change leaders.Speaker: Wahleah Johns, US Department of EnergyAttend in person or online (see weblink)
Europa is one of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in 1610. It almost certainly harbors a salty ocean underneath a thick ice crust. This ocean has all the requirements for a habitable zone where primitive life could potentially thrive: liquid water, energy in the form of chemical ...
Pathogens and colonialism are interconnected threats. Both can be deadly; both can be difficult to see. These forces often work together in the most destructive of ways. Ancient DNA has the power to untangle stories where these “invisible enemies” intersect. My research focuses on the DNA of ancient pathogens brought ...
California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) works to ensure that companies are following the rules for proper management of their hazardous waste. Hazardous waste includes materials such as waste oil, no longer needed household products like cleaners or paints, or discarded commercial chemicals, which if not properly managed, can ...
This student-run monthly series spotlights the latest research from Stanford, presented by PhD candidates and postdocs. Registration is required (see weblink)Speaker: Luqi Li, Stanford University
Where: Cost: Free
Advancing Wildfire-Resilient Architecture in a Post-Climate Change CaliforniaAs wildfires increasingly threaten communities in California and beyond, innovative approaches in architectural design and technology are essential for enhancing resilience. Wildfire-resilient architecture, defined as the capacity of structures to withstand and recover from wildfire impacts, is crucial in mitigating risks to individuals, homes, and communities.To bolster wildfire resilience, building ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $15 students
Ecological genomics in NZ: human-induced evolution of insect color and wing phenotypesRapid adaptation is thought critical for the survival of species under global change, but our understanding of human-induced evolution in the wild remains limited. In New Zealand, widespread deforestation has underpinned repeated color and wing-phenotype shifts in wild insect populations. Loss of forest has led to color changes across Zelandoperla ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Reduced Order Modeling and Inverse Design of Flexible Structures by Machine LearningRecent advances in highly deformable structures necessitate simulation tools that can capture nonlinear geometry and nonlinear material. We propose machine learning, neural networks (NN) in particular, to capture this nonlinearity and solve highly nonlinear inverse problems in structural mechanics. Two representative problems will be discussed in this talk.In the first ...
When learning to program, students are often most focused on how to write code that functions correctly??"yet many different code structures can have the same functionality while differing in how easy they are to understand or extend. Thus, helping students to understand how to write well-structured code is an important ...
Expect the unusual as art and nature collide at this NightLife providing an exclusive sneak preview of the new BigPicture: Natural World Photography exhibition. Check out special programming like screen printing with Haight Street Art Center, enjoy special talks, and more.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
After Dark: Land UseExplore the relationship between humans and the environment at this After Dark, which features the second session of our conversation series Open Question. Hear from UC Davis researchers on climate response, and stop by our Observatory to take in stunning views of the San Francisco Bay, a part of our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95, free for members
Do Galaxies Breathe, Too?Galaxies are more than just hundreds of billions of stars; the gas that fills the space between the stars plays a crucial role in determining the fate of a galaxy. In this presentation, Dr. Du will discuss how we use spectra to study the physical properties of gas in distant ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Friday, 09/27/24
Land x Good Fire: Sonoma ValleyJoin fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Cybersecurity and the Clean Energy TransitionThe ability of the US and other countries to meet their clean energy and climate commitments will depend partly on how well we can design secure new, distributed renewable energy infrastructure and train a workforce to manage it - and how well the climate and clean energy and cybersecurity communities ...
Educator Resource Giveaway Days at the Astronomy Society of the PacificFREE SCIENCE MATERIALS, GAMES, POSTERS, BOOKS, and MORE!The ASP is opening its doors to Bay Area educators looking for FREE materials for their classrooms or other educational settings.We have a lot of games, classroom materials, posters, books, and more all available to take away. Bring your own vehicle to transport ...
Porous materials shape the world around us: many of the chemicals we use in our daily lives have, at some point, been purified or chemically transformed within subnano- to nano-sized pores. In this talk, I will discuss my group’s efforts to enhance the catalytic activity and physical properties of porous ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
In Town Star PartyCome 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 ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 09/28/24
Educator Resource Giveaway Days at the Astronomy Society of the PacificFREE SCIENCE MATERIALS, GAMES, POSTERS, BOOKS, and MORE!The ASP is opening its doors to Bay Area educators looking for FREE materials for their classrooms or other educational settings.We have a lot of games, classroom materials, posters, books, and more all available to take away. Bring your own vehicle to transport ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Land x Good Fire: Bodega BayJoin fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops ...
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
Stewardship Saturday: Valuing Seaweed for Humans and Marine LifeJoin Kelpful and The Marine Mammal Center as we explore the many values of the macroalgae, seaweed, for humans, marine mammals, and the ocean! Through this event you will have the opportunity to eat and touch seaweed, learn more about foraging for it, create consumable products out if it, and ...
Where: Avila BeachCost: Free
Life's Better Electric: Electrification FairLife is better electric! Most San Francisco homes use natural gas for heating, water heating, clothes drying and/or cooking, which creates indoor air pollution and contributes to climate change. That‘s why the Bay Area is starting to phase out gas appliances in favor of electric alternatives starting in 2027. Luckily, modern ...
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 plants, animals. insects, fungi, and more. Come learn about local species and how you and your family can contribute to scientific research ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Access to Adventure Day 2024Join Support for Families for a family fun day at the Crissy Field Center on Presidio Tunnel Tops! Learn about inclusive recreation, after-school and summer programs available in San Francisco, and explore one of San Francisco’s newest accessible parks.?Connect with other families and staff from Support for Families and San Francisco Recreation and Park’s Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion ...
The United States has set a goal to decarbonize energy production by 2035 and the entire economy by 2050. Multiple analyses estimated that to do so requires significant investment in energy storage technologies to time shift when the energy is produced by sources such as wind and solar to when ...
Where: FremontCost: $25 in person members, Free online
CSM's Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace 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, math, and physics stations for hands-on demos hosted by CSM instructors and ...
Through demonstration of the latest computer vision technologies in Google colab, Claire will introduce her AI co-pilot socio-emotional training system for autistic children. 1 in 36 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Some key symptoms and supporting neuroscience are: lack of emotion interpretation (amygdala theory), not showing sign of ...
Where: SunnyvalleCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is a FREE monthly public stargazing event! Occurring on the Saturday nearest the 1st quarter moon (check our Events Page), join us in building 36 on the 4th floor observatory for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Latinx+ Engineering DayJoin us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), where we welcome visitors from all ages and backgrounds to connect with engineers and STEM educators.Our annual Latinx+ Engineering Day - now in its 25th year - offers a chance to engage with ...
RedoxBlox, a silicon valley funded high temperature battery startup, has invented a new class of energy storage - thermochemical energy storage (TCES). Much like electrochemical solutions, RedoxBlox uses a chemical reaction to store energy to achieve Li-Ion levels of energy density, but without the need for any rare earth or ...
Future role of wearables in precision medicine and mental healthThis talk will explore the progress made in the integration of wearable devices into precision medicine and mental health, highlighting key milestones and challenges. Over the past decade, wearable technology has advanced from basic step counters to sophisticated devices capable of ...
In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent efforts to derive effective descriptions of the collective dynamics of active fluids, a broad class of systems for which local energy injection is converted into directed motion. Such systems evolve far from equilibrium, which precludes the standard formulation of hydrodynamic ...
Speaker: Mark Lipsitch, Harvard UniversityRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Physics of MicromachinesMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) is a highly interdisciplinary field that produces devices integral to modern daily life such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. Daniel Contreras went from physics in undergrad to graduate school in electrical engineering to study MEMS and now works as a professional engineer in radio frequency (RF) semiconductors.This talk ...
Anyons, particles with quantum statistics that go beyond that of bosons and fermions, rapidly transitioned from theoretical possibility to reality in the quantum Hall effect. However, the extreme conditions required for those realizations, including strong magnetic fields, have posed limitations. Recently, significant advances have led to the observation of anyons ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Stargazing with the SETI InstituteJoin us for a night of outdoor stargazing at the Library and a celebration of 40 years of the SETI Institute! We'll kick things off in the Library Program Room at 7 p.m. with a 40th anniversary party, followed by a short talk from Simon Steel of the SETI Institute ...
In this presentation I will highlight recent work from my group focused on the use of photochemistry and photocatalysis to aid the synthesis of high-value molecules. The presentation will focus on: Boryl radical reactivity. Amine-ligated boryl radicals are highly reactive open-shell intermediates with significant potential for the synthesis of ...
I will present our experiments leveraging electron and nuclear spins out of equilibrium to build highly sensitive, deployable, chemical sensors. These sensors utilize solid-state systems, such as semiconductors, where nuclear spins can be optically “hyperpolarized” to levels thousands of times greater than thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, these nuclei also exhibit extended ...
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to ...
Despite implications of the prefix "uni," many scientists now think that there might be more than a single universe! Our universe may be just one example in a far larger "multiverse," but an unusually complex one that is conducive to the existence of life. Come learn - and inquire - ...
Born in California, OceanWell is developing a planet-friendly technology to harvest water molecules from the ocean using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a new way. Unlike the heavy industrial RO process typically conducted on land, OceanWell passively extracts freshwater from the deep sea without harming marine life. Its LifeSafe circulation ...
Over the last decade, competition has intensified between gas and electric utilities to meet all building energy needs for homes and businesses, including sectors like heating and cooking. Policy incentives to transition from gas to electric appliances as part of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies and improvements in electric technologies ...
This presentation will analyse how digital capitalism renews wealth inequalities and urban segregation through the transformation of urban housing markets by real estate platforms. Focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, I examine how housing, a foundational site of racial capitalism, has been re-coded financially, algorithmically and legally into an asset class ...
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that ...
Despite ominous foretelling of a slowdown, the computational throughput has increased by orders of magnitude over the last decade. Energy efficiency is critical not only to maintain this incessant advancement, but also to ensure that electronics does not become a drag on the finite energy resources of the world. This ...
We are at the beginning of one of the most significant industrial transitions in history, moving from an economy based almost exclusively on carbon-producing fossil energy - coal, oil and gas - to one eventually fueled by renewable energy - sun, wind, steam, and innovative technologies that generate and enable ...
In 2023, Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. This year, she has been placing Osprey eggs (from USDA) into active nests, and working with a local utility company to get chicks ...
Speaker: Eric DunhamAttend in person or online (see weblink for stream information)Room 350/372
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Anthropogenic impact on biodiversity: consequences for biotic interactions and human wellbeingAlthough a major emphasis in conservation science is the global extinction of species, the current pulse of massive population loss has a plethora of ecological consequences for ecosystem process via the disruption of species interactions. This presentation will illustrate how the decline and extinction of local ecological processes has cascading ...
Marek Miltner (birthname Marek Szeles) is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, between Czech Technical University in Prague and Stanford. He received his MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge University (UK) in 2021 and his MEng in AI and Computer Science from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague ...
Hardware engineering is a critical to designing and manufacturing successful high frequency systems and presents unique and complex challenges. This presentation will discuss what delineates RF, microwave, and high frequency engineering as a specialization and describe some design and testing methodologies useful in application. Additionally, some basic simulations and troubleshooting ...
E.ON is one of Europe's largest energy companies with the business areas of energy distribution grid, energy infrastructure solutions and energy sales. With a 1.6-million-kilometer-long energy distribution grid and around 47 million customers, E.ON is playing a leading role in shaping a green, digital and decentralized energy world.In this inaugural seminar, Birnbaum will ...
Today, polymers face some of the consequences of their pervasive success in society: plastics littering, discussions about microplastics and environmental persistence, and the emissions from their fossil production. For a circular economy within the planetary boundaries, polymer design, production, use and end of life have to change: Recycled and biobased ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: See For YourselfAt the Exploratorium, Thursday nights are a portal to a new world of fun. Come play with over 700 exhibits that will turn your perspective upside-down - sometimes literally. Investigate your reflection in the Giant Concave Mirror, find the missing colors in our Monochrome Room, and much more, all accompanied ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, members free
NightLife just got a whole lot cuter! Join us for a night of fuzzy fun with Muttville, Ramon Puppetry, and more!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Friday, 10/04/24
Bair Island Walking TourJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a walking tour at the Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! You’ll be guided by POST ambassadors who will share the history of this beautiful protected space, information about the species that live there, and what you ...
Iron-sulfur proteins are found in all kingdoms of life and carry out some of the most kinetically challenging reactions in the biosphere. In this talk, I will discuss my group’s efforts to understand how the remarkable functions of these proteins derive from the unique electronic structures of their iron-sulfur clusters. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriodysseyJoin us for a Summer Sunset! Dance to some of your favorite pop and rock hits with the band, Right Time! while enjoying animal presentations, authentic Singaporean food from Satay By The Bay, and tacos from Carnitas Aguirre. Kids will imagine, create, and tinker with giant tangrams and maze puzzles!
Where: San MateoCost: $21.95 General, discount for members
First Friday: OTHER WORLDSWelcome the change of season by exploring what’s up in the sky, what’s going on in space this Autumn. Fun activities for all ages include a DJ Disco DanceParty, Spaceship Runway design your own space fashion, Star Stories on the observation deck, guest speakers, bar in the courtyard and live ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 Adult, $5 under 12 & Seniors, Free for members
SETI Talks: A Celebration of Science, Art and StargazingIn partnership with Chabot Space & Science Center’s First Friday program, this event kicks off a series focused on the Drake Equation. Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier, the evening will spotlight the first term of the equation: star formation. Attendees can enjoy Sun and stargazing with Dr. Ian Weaver using ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, $5 youth, Srs, Students, free members
Night OwlNight Owl is soaring back to the Museum and bigger than ever! Come ready to meet beautiful owls, enjoy delicious drinks and fantastic food, buy one-of-a-kind goods, and maybe just meet the new (fluffy) love of your life! This year’s Night Owl can’t be missed: Owl Hour with Antonio Balestreri and ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $45 General, $35 Members, $50 at door,$75 VIP Hour
The Astrobees are free-flying robots that operate inside the International Space Station (ISS) and were launched to the ISS in 2019. Designed as a mobile camera, an astronaut assistant, and a research platform, they have successfully performed hundreds of activities in space supporting dozens of research projects. The robots were ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 10/05/24
Fall FestivalCome celebrate our valley's rich agricultural history! The 8th Annual Fall Festival will have local arts, crafts and food, kids activities, agricultural workshops, historical autos, antique farm equipment, live music, food trucks, exhibitors, entertainment, pumpkin patch - and more.
Where: San JoseCost: Free ($6 parking fee)
Family Nature Day at Huddart ParkJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks, San Mateo County Parks, and San Mateo County Health for a family-friendly morning filled with hikes for all ages, hands-on learning experiences and arts activities. Register now to reserve a free ticket for you and your friends and ...
Where: WoodsideCost: Free
Land x Good Fire: Austin CreekJoin fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops ...
Where: GuernevilleCost: Free
Science in the ParkScience in the Park is a biennial event hosted by Supervisor Elisa Marquez and created by the late Supervisor Richard Valle. It is an opportunity for the community to learn more about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math), the environment, and health, while having fun and supporting the school districts ...
Where: HaywardCost: Free
Foothills Family Nature WalkEnvironmental Volunteers' Family Nature Walks program is designed to help community members get to know our local open space areas. Small groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based activities, and a ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Nike Missile Site Veteran Open HouseVeterans of the Nike program come to the site to share their stories with visitors and give guided tours of SF88 between the hours of 12pm - 3pmThe SF-88 Nike Missile Site is the most fully restored Nike missile site in the country. During the tense years of the Cold ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Owls of the Tennessee ValleyJoin us on an easy four-mile, three hour dusk hike through the Tennessee Valley where we will search for and learn more about the owls that reside in and visit the Tennessee Valley.Registration required (see weblink)
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Starry Nights Star PartyThe San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA), working with the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA), is glad to co-host a public star party at Rancho Canada del Oro (RCDO) Open Space Preserve. This site, just 30 minutes south of downtown San Jose, features dark skies. It's dark enough to ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
Sunday, 10/06/24
Blue InnovationAre you passionate about protecting our ocean and water sources? Join us for a day full of inspirational exhibits and lightning talks from researchers, nonprofits, and businesses who are tackling water and ocean concerns. Enjoy food, live bands, and art from local artists as you learn about the newest research ...
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
Monday, 10/07/24
Understanding and Responding to the Current Mpox Outbreak - LiveestreamThe recent, rapid spread of the new clade 1B strain of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in Central Africa has prompted the second Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) since the global outbreak of mpox in 2022. Learn the latest about the current epidemic in this panel conversation with experts representing a variety of perspectives. In ...
This talk examines the role of soft-switching inverters in electric vehicle (EV) charging and battery management systems (BMS), focusing on technological advancements and their impact. The integration of variable frequency critical soft-switching (VF-CSS) with wide-bandgap semiconductors, optimized AC filters, and real-time control enables the production of stable sine wave output ...
We construct a local decoder for the 2D toric code using ideas from the hierarchical classical cellular automata of Tsirelson and G'acs. Such a decoder is realized as a circuit of strictly local quantum channels that preserves the logical subspace of the toric code for exponential time in the presence ...
Dark matter is a feebly interacting particle that is thought to compose 85% of the matter content of the Universe. One potential candidate for the dark matter is the axion, a particle so light it exhibits wave-like behavior. At SLAC, we search for axions using ultra-low noise radios immersed in ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Cryo-EM of proton pumps in the mammalian brainIntercellular communication in the nervous system occurs through the release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft between neurons. In the presynaptic neuron, the proton pumping vesicular- or vacuolar-type ATPase (V-ATPase) powers neurotransmitter loading into synaptic vesicles (SVs), with the V1 complex dissociating from the membrane region of the enzyme before ...
Speaker: Sarah Slavoff, Yale UniversityRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
What Physicists Do - Student Research TalksFour Sonoma State Physics students will present short talks based on their summer research projects on topics including: ATLAS, the largest general purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, using quantum sensing to search for direct detection of Dark Matter, and exploring Conformal Field Theory.Speakers: Madison Ambriz, Bahareh ...
What do black holes get up to when they are on their own? This talk will describe the evolution of a universe containing only a single black hole, starting with classical physics figured out in the 1960s and continuing to dynamics that requires a fully quantum theory of gravity and ...
The Sun, our nearest star, is more than just a blazing ball of fire. Its atmosphere, hotter than its already scorching surface, presents a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for years. How does the Sun's magnetic field heat its chromosphere to 10,000 degrees - and its corona to more than ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Robert Oppenheimer successfully directed the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the world’s first nuclear weapons. However, two other Berkeley faculty members played crucial roles in this development. Ernest Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron enabled Glenn Seaborg to discover plutonium and led to the development of uranium isotopic ...
The mountain ranges of the central and southern United States have long been considered enigmatic, both for their sustained topographic relief and exceptional levels of freshwater biodiversity. In my talk, I will propose that the erosion through heterogeneous bedrock is an important mechanism for explaining the topography and freshwater biodiversity ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Einstein without Tears - 6 week courseThis non-technical, non-mathematical introduction to some of the most awe-inspiring ideas from the work of Albert Einstein is designed for people with little or no science background. If you’ve been intrigued by Einstein (who was Time magazine’s “Person of the Century” in 1999), but have been scared away by thoughts of ...
Understanding deformations of macroscopic thin plates and shells has a long and rich history, culminating with the nonlinear Foeppl-von Karman equations in 1904. However, thermal fluctuations in thin elastic membranes fundamentally alter the long wavelength physics, leading to strongly scale-dependent elastic constants, consistent with experiments that twist and bend atomically-thin ...
Optical spectroscopies have contributed immensely to the present understanding of metals, semiconductors and superconductors. Unfortunately, optics encounters problems when it comes to “seeing” effects at length scales below the diffraction limit of light and also with probing physics outside of the light cone. Both capabilities are highly desirable for the ...
This presentation will explore the integration of emerging AI into healthcare to provide personalized, empathetic care. We will highlight current and future AI prospects and how healthcare professionals can effectively collaborate with AI while maintaining a patient-centered approach.Speaker: Yaa Kumah-CrystalRegister at weblink to receive connection information
The Geography of Hope: Using GIS to Change the WorldFrom Prague to Berkeley to Nairobi to Kyiv, location data is being collected and analyzed through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to map a better future. It's a powerful tool that can be applied to environmental conservation, healthcare, law enforcement, and educational innovation.Join us as Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and former ...
Whether analytical questions are answered by querying relational databases or in dialog with the latest Large Language Model (LLM): a key component for ensuring trustworthy answers is the retrieval of relevant data to answer the question at hand. In this talk, we will discuss how retrieval systems for structured data ...
Seeing without labels: Applied AI at the National Library of SwedenWhile the digital archives of memory institutions have expanded exponentially in recent years, much of this material remains inaccessible. With the advent of mass digitization programs and the ever-increasing flow of incoming born digital material, the range and extent of digital heritage collections has grown enormously over the past two ...
Illuminating the Dark Matter of the GenomeDr. Michael T. McManus’s research career is distinguished by a strong emphasis on technology and innovation, particularly in gene function analysis in health and disease. His lab uses systematic and synthetic approaches to develop new tools and methodologies for studying gene regulation. Since joining UCSF, Dr. McManus has led a ...
Over the last 25 years, South Korea has witnessed growing inequality through non-standard employment, mushrooming real estate prices, and the growth of its super-conglomerates. That this expansion has taken place amid declining rates of economic growth and turbulent political events marks a departure from Korea’s past recognition as a high ...
Hydrogen is projected to play a significant role in the future energy mix, with the IEA forecasting an increase of almost an order of magnitude compared to hydrogen consumption today. This increase is driven by the possible dual use of hydrogen: to provide a clean or green high energy density ...
Astronomers have now discovered thousands of planets in orbit around other stars. Dr. Weintraub will discuss those discoveries, and predict the progress astronomers are likely to make in their more detailed studies of these planets over the next fifty years. Then he will consider the consequences of those potential discoveries ...
San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) scientists will talk about their work protecting and restoring the estuary’s vital tidal marsh habitats including China Camp. We’ll explore how these ecosystems help combat sea-level rise and support the diverse wildlife that calls the Bay Area home. Learn about the science ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Thursday, 10/10/24
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Alexandra “Sascha” von Meier is a Senior Advisor for the Electric Grid program at the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE), UC Berkeley. Her research centers on power distribution systems, the use of high-precision synchronized measurements, and the integration of distributed and intermittent generation. Current projects explore new control strategies ...
For the past 15 years, companies have been seen as central to addressing climate change, given their emissions and level of accountability to civil society and the public. However, the current system of greenhouse gas inventories and related interventions -particularly for indirect emissions (Scope 3) - has proven inefficient, as ...
Celebrate the journey of life at After Dark through stunning artworks and performances. Prepare to be mesmerized by Elderflora, Majel Connery’s powerful song cycle about a tree’s existence from seedling to log, contrasting and comparing it to a human’s life cycle. Then engage with the awesome natural phenomena all around ...
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 ...
Because a total solar eclipse occurs in any given location only about once every 375 years, experiencing an eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime event for most of us, and even more so for most other animals. There is surprisingly little published about the effects of eclipses on people and other animals. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions of the young planet. Primordial earth had little oxygen and in the deep seas, no available light. One theory proposes that life evolved near undersea vents, taking energy ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Raptor Quest: Chasing America's Raptors - LivestreamScott Harris will be discussing his book “Raptor Quest: Chasing America’s Raptors”, which documents his 17-month adventure tracking 53 raptor species across 34 states in the US, from the common (Red-tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles and Peregrine Falcons) to the rare (Bat Falcon, Steller’s Sea Eagle and Eurasian Eagle Owl). He ...
Where: Cost: Free
State of Environmental Activism in FranceJoin us to learn more about the current state of environmental activism inFrancethrough the experience of French-American citizens, members of some major players " les Soulevements de la Terre " and " Bassines Non-Merci" a.k.a The Earth Uprisings and Reservoirs No Thank You.Learn some history of these collectives, about elements ...
