Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del OroJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area.The ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
Baking With the Stars, Recipes for Getting Started in AstrophotographyBaking and Astrophotography share many things in common: You need the right equipment, attention to detail, and a creative flair. If it seems intimidating, following a recipe can be a great way to start. SFAA member Jason Griesbach will guide you through Four Astrophotography Recipes, using only modest equipment. The ...
Democratizing California’s water future: data, models, and tools for inclusive decision makingIncreasing drought, extreme floods, and environmental degradation are taxing California’s water system. Water shortages are borne inequitably and decisions over how water is allocated are constrained by poor water accounting, entrenched power imbalances, and limited public engagement. Building a resilient water future requires new water planning tools that advance sustainable, ...
Fingerprinting of mining environment involves identifying and characterising the unique environmental impacts associated with mining activities. To this end, this seminar highlights the use of smart sensing to "fingerprint" mining environment (land, vegetation and air), citing three examples:Automated characterisation of spoil piles: Using drone and mobile images, this method marks ...
Superconducting resonators are technological building blocks for quantum computing, cosmology, and particle physics. Yet, despite their prevalence, in some limits they can exhibit rich and poorly understood behavior. Resonators formed from an array of Josephson junctions are a prime example. I will present two studies exploring their physics. The first ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A Conversation: Governance Options for Generative AIThe Cyber Policy Center invites you to a dynamic panel discussion in celebration of the release of its latest report, Regulating under Uncertainty. Governance Options for Generative AI. This event will bring together leading voices to explore and debate various regulatory approaches to generative AI governance. Distinguished panelists include Professor Florence G’Sell, ...
David Veesler investigates infectious diseases with a focus on understanding, controlling, and combating cross-species transmission, or spillover, of pathogens to humans. Veesler and his team use structural and immunological approaches to study antibody responses to viruses in bats - known reservoirs for zoonotic transmission. Specifically, they pinpoint viruses with no ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Cosmic Alchemy: How Neutron Star Smash-Ups Forge Heavy AtomsThe source of about half of the heaviest elements in the Universe has been a mystery for a long time. The key may lie in the collision of neutron stars - violent, energetic, and unusual events that we are now beginning to observe. Dr. Enrico Ramirez Ruiz of UC Santa ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Quantifying the physical genomeMy lab aims to understand how a 2 meter long object, the human genome, encodes for molecules which, through physical interaction with the genome itself, evince the immense cellular diversity we observe in the human body. I will discuss efforts to catalog regulatory elements and transcription factor grammars that are ...
Come learn about our CA native bats with Director of NorCal Bats Corky Quirk. In her presentation, you will learn about the nature of bats and the importance of bats in our environment. We’ll also discuss the harmful myths that surround these animals. Live bats will be presented for viewing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $18 Members, $8/$6 Age 5 - 17
The isolation 20 years ago of the first truly 2-dimensional, one atom-thick material, graphene, has revolutionized physics and materials science, and led to numerous applications. For example, it allowed the observation of deeply quantum relativistic phenomena directly at room temperature. Moreover, scientists quickly realized that new heterostructures sandwiching various 2D ...
With the ever-increasing number of wireless devices, the frequency spectrum is getting more crowded and the need for multiband filters that operate at emerging wireless bands is ever more critical. Recent advances in thickness downscaling of piezoelectric transducers has opened up new horizons for resonator operation at the millimeter wave ...
The Campi Flegrei Caldera (CFc) in Italy exhibits periodic unrest episodes characterized by slow ground deformation known as bradyseism, first described by Charles Lyell in the 19th century. These events involve substantial uplift, measuring meters each time, accompanied by delayed seismicity despite the significant accumulated strain energy, followed by a ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Case in Favor of Space Exploration - Livestream>Aerospace engineering is currently experiencing extraordinary growth driven primarily by space (as opposed to atmospheric) flight. In this seminar, a case will be made about the present and future opportunities associated with space exploration.Speaker: Panos Papadopoulos, UC BerkeleyRegister at weblink
A broad effort is currently underway to develop quantum computers that can outperform classical counterparts for certain computational or simulation tasks. Suppressing errors is one of the central challenges for useful quantum computing, requiring quantum error correction for large-scale processing. However, the overhead in the realization of error-corrected "logical" qubits, where information ...
The synthetic tunability of electronic structure and surface chemistry of semiconductor nanocrystals make them attractive light absorbers for light-driven chemistry. A variety of architectures have been constructed where nanocrystals are coupled with multielectron redox catalysts to drive reactions like H2 generation, CO2 reduction, N2 reduction, and water oxidation with light. ...
Chris Clay, the son of the late Roy L. Clay Sr., will share the story of his father's journey that led him to Silicon Valley, where he garnered the nickname "The Godfather of Silicon Valley." Unstoppable, by Roy L. Clay Sr. and M. H. Jackson, explores the life of Roy ...
For 136 years, the National Geographic Society has championed exploration, science, conservation, education and storytelling to deepen understanding and protection of our world. The Society’s conservation efforts date back to the early 20th century with environmentalists like Horace M. Albright.Today, in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, National ...
Mathematicians have spent decades wrestling with questions about coloring. Here's one famous example: how many colors do mapmakers need to ensure that no two adjacent regions have the same color? Mathematicians struggled with that for over 100 years! In this colorful presentation, we'll share these coloring problems, the exciting breakthroughs, ...
Computers are now better than humans at logical games and puzzles such as Sudoku, Chess, Go and so on. Mathematics can also be framed as a logical puzzle game. When will computers become better than humans at developing new mathematics and proving new theorems? Certainly this has not happened yet, ...
Sessile organisms face unique challenges in acquiring and allocating resources to various cellular processes. In plants, competition for limited resources such as light and nutrients drives transcriptional programs that maximize growth. Conversely, herbivores and pathogens activate the expression of defense-related genes at the expense of plant growth. Research in the ...
Andrew Berke will discuss USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) role in implementing provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to support clean energy initiatives in rural America. This includes a historic $65 billion investment in broadband infrastructure, and a $9.7 billion for electric cooperatives transition ...
Join us at our YSI Vasona Park Nature Center for an amazing educational event hosted by bat specialist Dave Johnston. Learn all about bats and their local ecosystems during an introductory educational presentation followed by an evening stroll through Vasona down to the lake to observe our nocturnal friends fly ...
Where: Los GatosCost: Free
Science on Tap: CoRE: Supporting and Empowering Women in AcademiaCoRE (for Community of Replenishment and Empowerment) is devoted to supporting and empowering women in academia through intensive weekend retreats. I will talk about the 30-year history of CoRE (originally called Nag’s Heart), our goals, our many retreats (>100) focused on a wide range of themes, our retreat formula/process, our ...
Our oceans are facing many threats, including warming temperatures, ocean acidification, and overfishing (to name a few). At Point Blue Conservation Science, we have over 50 years of experience studying marine wildlife and what they can tell us about the health of our ocean. We work with federal agencies (U.S. ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Thursday, 10/31/24
Renewal of Science ConferenceThe goal of the conference is to highlight examples of scientific research that go beyond the currentstate-of-the-art and that call for a rethinking of the foundations of the respective fields.This involves the selection of researchers who have significant contributions that are the cutting edgeof their fields and their subsequent invitation ...
Addressing climate change will require concerted action across society, including the development of innovative technologies. While methods from machine learning (ML) have the potential to play an important role, these methods often struggle to contend with the physics, hard constraints, and complex decision-making processes that are inherent to many climate and ...
Cocktails, costumes, and a creepy good time - After Dark has everything you need for a hair-raising Halloween. Put some scare in your science by exploring our galleries full of brain-tingling exhibits, decorated just for the season. Show up in your most phenomenal garb, steel your nerves, and explore the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, members free
Everyone’s entitled to one good scare - serve up your spookiest looks for Halloween at NightLife. Featuring frightful drag performances by Oaklash.Ages 21+
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Friday, 11/01/24
Renewal of Science ConferenceThe goal of the conference is to highlight examples of scientific research that go beyond the currentstate-of-the-art and that call for a rethinking of the foundations of the respective fields.This involves the selection of researchers who have significant contributions that are the cutting edgeof their fields and their subsequent invitation ...
The world is in an unprecedented time of transition. New and emerging geopolitical, economic and climate forces are converging at the state-local level to affect every aspect of decision-making. Gordon’s talk will focus on how all these forces are driving California’s leadership on the move away from fossil fuel extraction ...
Nature uses barely more than a handful of transition metal ions. Yet, when incorporated into protein scaffolds, this limited set of metal ions carry out innumerable cellular functions and execute essential biochemical transformations such as photochemical H2O oxidation, O2 or CO2 reduction, and N2 fixation, highlighting the outsized importance of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseySwing 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 hits, while enjoying animal presentations and science activities.Come together ...
Where: San MateoCost: TBA
First Friday: SPOOKY ASTRONOMYFirst Friday: SPOOKY ASTRONOMY is creeping up on you with a night of cosmic chills and family thrills! Join us for a frightfully fun evening featuring live music by local band Side Pony and the Homestead High Choir. Get into the Halloween spirit with out-of-this-world space face painting, then head ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, $5 kids & seniors, Free members
The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first generation stars, and early galaxies, are all very faint, which presents a challenge for current and next generation telescopes. Larger telescopes are the primary (if not only) way to address this ...
