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 ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 11/02/24
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 ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: See description
Creepy Crawly Critters: Live Spiders and Snakes!Commemorate the spooky season with a celebration of misunderstood creatures! Come dressed in your Halloween costume and learn about our skittering and slithering friends from eight legs to no legs. Get up close and personal with our resident snakes in the Animal Discovery Zone and observe live spiders from UC ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Event is included with admission
Waterbird trends on Tomales BayAs Audubon Canyon Ranch gears up for another season of winter bird monitoring, we’d like to share an update about our waterbird bird research to date. Please join us for a presentation by Conservation Science Director Nils Warnock, as he shares 30+ years of waterbird monitoring results from Tomales Bay. REGISTRATION REQUIRED: ...
Where: MarshallCost: 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 ...
Join us for a conversation with Fish Stark, the American Humanist Association's new Executive Director. This is a great opportunity to meet and speak directly with Fish and talk everything Project 2025: what it is, what sets it apart as a graver threat, and how you can get involved to ...
Is it merely fun to play with the idea of ghosts, or do ghosts truly exist? Naturally, evidence of non-corporeal spirits is hard to come by. Where should we look? Perhaps the ghostly haunt of choice is an abandoned winery in beautiful Napa Valley! Isn't that where many spirits would ...
Where: St. HelenaCost: $10
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 ...
Assessing climate impacts on inland and coastal water qualityQuestions surrounding water sustainability, climate change, and extreme events are often framed around water quantity - whether too much or too little. The economic and ecological impacts of water quality impairments are equally compelling, however, and recent years have provided numerous examples of unprecedented harmful algal blooms and hypoxic dead ...
The power grid has evolved from a physical system to a cyber-physical system that consists of digital devices that perform measurement, control, communication, computation, and actuation. With increased penetration in distributed energy resources (DER) that include renewable generation, flexible loads, and storage, these devices can be as large as 8 ...
One of the most important properties of social conventions is their generalizability. They amortize costly on-the-fly coordination into priors that allow us to interact flexibly with new social partners in new situations. But how do generalizable conventions emerge in the first place when so much of social interaction is situation-specific? ...
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered the Higgs boson and confirmed the predictions for many of its properties given by the “Standard Model” of particle physics. However, this does not mean that particle physics is solved. Mysteries that the Standard Model does not address are still with us ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Graphene Quantum DotsDr. Jairo Velasco of UC Santa Cruz will present a talk regarding how the harnessing and manipulation of electronic states in quantum materials has the potential to revolutionize computation, sensing, storage, and communications, thus impacting multiple facets of our everyday lives.
Birds flock, bees swarm and fish school. These are just some of the remarkable examples of collective behavior found in nature. Physicists have been able to capture some of this behavior by modeling organisms as "flying spins" that align with their neighbors according to simple but noisy rules. Successes like ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
AI in Health Care: Will the Reality Match the Hype?The 14th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture features Robert Wachter of UCSF and his predictions about what advances artificial intelligence will make, and will not make, in health care.Why has health care not undergone the kind of digital transformation that has completely remade industries ranging from retail to entertainment to travel? ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General in person, $5 Online
Sunspots, Solar Storms, and Aurorae: Exploring Solar MaximumWith dazzling auroras lighting up the night sky across the US in recent months, the Sun's increasing activity has become more apparent than ever. These awe-inspiring and far-reaching light shows are tied to the increased solar activity as we move deeper into Solar Cycle 25. In this lecture, we will ...
Over the last several decades, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to look deep into the Universe, a practice that continues with the James Webb Space Telescope. The images from these instruments, as well as those from ground-based telescopes and space probes, have introduced us to a celestial plentitude: ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 11/05/24
Florilegium Exhibition 2024 OpeningThe University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley Florilegium. A florilegium is a collection of illustrations featuring plants growing in a specific area such as a botanical garden.Centuries before digital or analog photography was commonplace, people relied on detailed botanical illustrations to identify plants and flowers. This years’ participating artists ...
After more than a century of seismological observations, little data exists for the rare ground motions that recur at millennial scales, or the strongest ground motions that occur very near earthquake sources. Geologic data, including fragile geologic features (e.g., precariously balanced rocks, rock towers, speleothems) and other paleoseismic observations (e.g., ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Transforming Astrophysics with AI - LivestreamJoshua S. Bloom, Professor of Astronomy, will describe ways in which astrophysics is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to break through some computational and human bottlenecks that otherwise impede scientific progress.Register at weblink to receive Zoom information
Solid state spin qubits, in particular the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, offer a path towards truly nanoscale magnetic imaging of condensed matter and biological systems with sensitivity to single nuclear spins. Here I discuss our NV-based magnetic imaging experiments as applied to condensed matter systems. I first present ...
UC Berkeley Physical Chemistry Seminar - RescheduledSpeaker: Stefano Sacanna, New York UniversityEditor's Note: This lecture has been rescheduled for November 12. See our listing for this date for the replacement speaker.
