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.
Knowledge gaps in the spatial distribution of habitat formers in the deep-sea leave communities at risk of anthropogenic disturbance such as bottom-contact fishing. Understanding how habitat formers, such as corals and sponges, are distributed on seamounts can inform area-based management necessary to protect biodiverse communities. This research therefore aims to ...
Once medical foundation models achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of biomedical applications, there was a push to build even larger models by training on more medical datasets. Despite their encouraging performance on artificial biomedical benchmarks, critical gaps remain that must be filled before these models can be used in ...
Atmospheric rivers are associated with some of the largest flood-producing precipitation events in western North America, particularly California. Insight into past extreme precipitation can be reconstructed from sedimentary archives on millennial timescales. Here we document past atmospheric river activity at two lake sites in California - Leonard Lake and Wildcat ...
The City of San José continues to be a leader in climate action and San José Clean Energy (SJCE) plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our energy grid. This presentation will share how Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs), like SJCE, are critical components in the transition. In addition, we ...
As robots become increasingly integrated into public spaces such as hospitals, shopping malls, airports, and museums, their ability to navigate intelligently and socially is crucial. Socially-aware navigation (SAN) goes beyond simply moving from one point to another; it involves understanding and respecting human social norms to ensure that robots’ interactions ...
The internet stands accused of dividing us, spying on us, making us stupid, and addicting our children. In response, the press and panicked politicians seek greater regulation and control, which some fear could ruin the web before we are finished building it.Jeff Jarvis is convinced we can have a saner ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General, $10 Online, member discounts
NightLife: Día de los MuertosLas puertas del más allá están abiertas. Join us in honoring departed souls in celebration of Día de los Muertos.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
After Dark: Color UncoveredTake a deep dive into the science of color, from their natural occurrences to our aesthetic perceptions.Age 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Members Free
Total Uruguay - LivestreamLast year GGBA offered Total Uruguay for the first time - a 15-day small group trip at a great price. Two of the participants on that inaugural trip, Viviana Wolinsky and Steve Hunter, will lead us on a GGBA Travel Program Speakers trip through Uruguay.What can you expect to see? ...
Developed originally by Maurice Leblanc in 1922 and later advanced in the 1950s and 2000s, extremum-seeking (ES) control has long faced challenges with steady-state oscillations and biased convergence. This talk presents multivariable ES designs that achieve the ?rst unbiased convergence of inputs to their optimal values, eliminating these oscillations and ...
One of the challenges in biomedical sciences is the development of next-generation tools that can accurately image, identify, and execute desired missions in a selectively programmed manner. In this lecture, I will discuss magnetic nanoparticles as core platform materials and tools for a variety of functionalities such as sensing, targeting ...
