AI-Driven Load: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities - LivestreamThe growth of AI is driving increasing energy demand in the form of new data centers, while also changing how data centers are designed and operated. In this webinar, experts from EPRI’s DCFlex initiative and Stanford’s Bits & Watts Initiative will discuss trends, challenges, and opportunities arising from this AI-driven ...
Where: Cost: Free
Drive-Thru USA - the Spatial Analysis of Car-Centric Sprawl - LivestreamDrive-thru businesses, in which customers place and retrieve orders without ever leaving their cars, discourage social interaction and physical exercise, and degrade a street’s walkability and air quality. Despite these negative attributes, their proliferation across the United States has never been quantified or spatially analyzed. This study pursues this topic ...
Extreme urban heat, driven by climate change and rapid urbanization, poses a growing threat to public health, energy systems, and economic productivity. Yet effective urban heat mitigation is hindered by two key gaps: limited mechanistic understanding of urban heat environment across global cities, and a lack of robust tools to ...
The crustal magnetic anomalies near the lunar crater Gerasimovich are among the highest-magnitude anomalies on the Moon. Previous work has suggested they formed from the deposition and magnetization of ejecta from the Crisium basin, which is antipodal to the region. In this talk, I will describe the correlation between topographic ...
Feminist interventions have instrumentally shaped critical perspectives in mapping. Yet, feminist mapping has often been erased or considered niche within both GIScience and critical GIS conversations. Drawing on recent work in data feminism, design justice, and feminist digital geographies (among others), I engage with a feminist mapping framework to reveal ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Productively Programming Accelerated Computing SystemsModern accelerated computing systems are increasing in scale, becoming more specialized and diverse, and evolving more quickly. While these changes bring significant performance improvements, they also come with the challenges of productively developing software that targets complex and rapidly changing hardware. For software to keep up with modern hardware, programming ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Leading Scientific Innovation: A conversation with Dr. Kimberly BudilJoin us for a fireside chat with Dr. Kimberly Budil, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as part of the Russell Women in Science Leadership Lecture Series at Northeastern Oakland. Dr. Budil will discuss LLNL's mission and core scientific capabilities, her leadership approach as the Lab's first woman director, and ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
The Age of Tech x Biopharma - Livestream(In-person tickets are sold out)AI and emerging technologies are reshaping biopharma and redefining how science is built, scaled and valued. As the landscape shifts, the industry must confront critical questions about leadership, capital strategy and what innovation really looks like in the years ahead.Join us to hear inside perspectives from ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Skeptics on the PubThis is a casual night of socializing with fellow science-forward skeptics and with others inhabiting our oblate spheroidal planet.Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.Click here to join.
Who gets included in neuroscience - and who gets left out?Many common tools in psychophysiology and neuroscience - like EEG, EDA, and fNIRS - struggle to work accurately across different skin tones and hair types. While not intentionally exclusionary, these technologies often fail to accommodate darker skin and curlier or ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Thursday, 02/26/26
Fostering Resilient Communities with Prescribed Fire - LivestreamLearn how fire readiness extends to both prescribed fire and wildfire, and why collaboration with communities is essential for all types of resiliencies.All Hands Ecology Director of Prescribed Fire Julia Berkey will introduce her work with All Hands’s Fire Forward program to build prescribed fire capacity in the North Bay, ...
Where: Cost: Free
eyond the Benchmarking Paradigm: Audits & Evaluation in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceDespite great potential, there is a growing gap between what AI systems promise and what they deliver, with real human costs.AI auditing is the practice of independently evaluating deployed AI systems to determine how they behave, what risks they pose, and whether they meet their intended objectives. This interdisciplinary endeavor ...
NightLife: SF Center StageWe're bringing you classic art forms in an unexpected setting. It's an elevated crossover of the symphony, opera, and ballet, brought to you by the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
After Dark: Unplug and PlayPlay with eye-opening exhibits, test your knowledge at science trivia, and enjoy a dance performance in our Bay-adjacent gallery.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
What can fashion teach us about sustainability, culture, and justice?Join Grace Toléqué - Stanford lecturer, researcher, and fashion designer - for a compelling look at fashion, environmental justice, and sustainability in West Africa.Drawing on West African sartorial traditions, this lecture explores how custom-made clothing, reuse, and women-led cultural practices have ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Friday, 02/27/26
International Polar Bear Day: Melting Ice, Mighty Bears - LivestreamStep onto the frozen Arctic seas (without leaving your classroom) to meet the largest bear on Earth, the polar bear. This session takes students through icy hunting grounds, explains how shrinking sea ice changes their way of life, and invites them to think like Arctic scientists. With real polar bear ...
Citizen Science in Astronomy - LivestreamJoin Dr. Franck Marchis, Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyMapper, 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 discuss making ...
More than five decades ago, President Kennedy exhorted the nation to rise up and meet the biggest challenges of that period, amongst them being the Race to the Moon that led to the “Moonshot” and the establishment of the Apollo program. It is quite likely that we, as a nation ...
Metalloenzymes catalyze the challenging chemical reactions that lie at the core of vital life processes, from carbon and nitrogen fixation to photosynthesis and respiration. Native metalloenzymes use only earth-abundant transition metals and operate under mild conditions, accessing reactivity that remains largely out of reach for synthetic systems. Given the importance ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Muir Woods Night TourEver wondered what Muir Woods is like after the park closes?Join us on our free evening tour to explore what keeps the redwood forest awake when we go to sleep. Step outside your comfort zone and into the ancient, nocturnal setting of Muir Woods for this two-hour, two-mile walk.After all, we're ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
IMPACTS OF PLASTIC POLLUTIONFour exceptional speakers will present their research and experience of key impacts on human health, animal health and biodiversity.Dr Desiree Labeaud , MD, Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine ??" impacts on human healthDr Padraig Duignan, DVM, and Dr Cara Field, DVM, Directors at The Marine Mammal Center - ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 UFE & FACC Members
Saturday, 02/28/26
Stewardship Saturday: Exploring Human and Marine Mammal AdaptationsThis free program for high school students features rotating events along our 600-mile range exploring various realms of conservation.Join Seymour Marine Discovery Center and The Marine Mammal Center for a hands-on event exploring marine mammal adaptations. Together, we will conduct experiments comparing and contrasting our human capabilities with various marine ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Science Saturday: Reptile RevelryJoin us for a FREE Science Saturday celebrating the remarkable lives of reptiles and amphibians! With family-friendly games, crafts, and special guests, this event includes free admission to the Museum.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Science Saturdays: Hands-on Exploration for KidsFrom how snow forms, to how erosion impacts the earth, to how we can read the clues that animals leave behind, we’ll explore topics that will both engage, fascinate and help us all be a little more conservation-minded. Each month will cover a different topic, such as Weather & Climate, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20/child
Sunday, 03/01/26
Solar ObservingIt’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 ...
Subsurface energy production and storage play a central role in the energy transition. However, subsurface systems are inherently complex. Predicting and optimizing these systems remains challenging due to coupled multiphysics processes, multiscale behavior, and substantial uncertainty. In this talk, I will present three lines of research spanning reservoir stimulation, underground ...
Optical spectroscopy based on second-order nonlinearity is a critical technique for characterizing two-dimensional (2D) crystals, and it also finds numerous applications in bioimaging and quantum optics. It has been generally believed that second-harmonic generation (SHG) in crystals with inversion centers (centrosymmetric crystals), such as graphene and other bilayer 2D crystals, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Bird Feathers & Their Fascinating Functions - LivestreamJoin Heather Wolf, author of "Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are" and "Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront", as she discusses the many fascinating functions of bird feathers - they’re not just for flight and warmth! Come ...
This talk explores how to push the boundaries of robotic autonomy and mobility. We review the current state of adaptive legged locomotion and navigation policies, and discuss pathways toward policies that generalize beyond their developers’ original intentions. We examine how such policies can be trained across diverse modalities and data ...
Modern tests of Quantum Electrodynamics in the strong-field regime Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is a well-established physical theory and its predictions have been confirmed experimentally in various regimes and with extremely high accuracy. However, there are still areas of QED that deserve theoretical and experimental investigation, especially when physical processes occur in the presence of intense background electromagnetic fields, i.e., ...
China has emerged as the global leader in clean energy industries, reshaping the trajectory of the energy transition worldwide. This talk examines the rapid rise of China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry. I discuss how coordinated industrial policies, consumer incentives, and rapid expansion of charging infrastructure helped scale early adoption. Over ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Residential Decarbonization: the Next Climate BattlegroundWhat does it actually take to decarbonize the places we live, why does local policy matter so much? Presented by Manny's Climate ClubResidential buildings are one of the largest sources of climate pollution, and the transition away from fossil gas toward clean electric homes is already underway. But this shift ...
The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative is dedicated to improving the diagnosis and treatment of children affected by rare genetic diseases. Our group has compiled some of the largest pediatric cancer RNA-sequencing databases, and we leverage this tool to employ genomic and transcriptomic analyses to identify diagnostic and therapeutic options for ...
Join Chabot astronomers for a live watch party of the magnificent Total Lunar Eclipse from Chabot’s Observation Deck. Bring your friends & family and a lawn chair to enjoy Eclipse-themed crafts and demonstrations, then get bundled up with a cup of hot cocoa to watch this stunning celestial show. During ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $7 Kids, free for members
Precisely Controlled Macromolecular Architecture by ATRPVarious well-defined polymers with precisely controlled macromolecular architecture were prepared under environmentally benign conditions, with ppm of catalysts, in an aqueous environment, and in open-air with temporal control by light, electrical current, mechanical forces, or benign chemicals such as ascorbic acid. The dynamic exchange between active radicals and dormant species ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
AI, Cyber & Systemic Risk: Securing the Digital FrontlineNicole Perlroth, former NYT journalist and cyber investor, explores how AI is amplifying threats and reshaping defense - implications for risk, resilience, and governance.Attend in person or on Zoom (see weblink)
Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) hold promise to advance mental health equity by addressing provider shortages, reaching individuals who might not seek services in traditional healthcare settings, and making evidence-based treatments available 24/7. However, DMHI science to date has rarely involved members of historically marginalized groups in the development, testing, ...
The proliferation of marine algae in the Neoproterozoic Era is thought to have stimulated the ecology of predatory microbial eukaryotes (protists) and the evolution of more modern marine food webs. Paleontologists and geochemists have predicted that these algae-eating microbial predators would have been restricted to well-oxygenated marine waters, and would have been near-absent in anoxic ...
In this talk, several recent developments in the study of fractionalized states of matter will be reviewed. The focus will primarily be on the condensed matter physics perspective, presenting a theoretical approach to the Fractional Chern Insulator (the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without a magnetic field), its unique properties, and ...
Polaritons are hybrid light-matter states that arise from strong interactions between the confined electromagnetic field of an optical cavity and an ensemble of intracavity molecules. Molecules under such strong cavity coupling appear to demonstrate distinct reactivity and photochemistry from molecules in free space, but the mechanisms and scope of these ...
Advancements in quantum computing have enabled the development of small-scale quantum computers and simulators that adhere to the principles of quantum physics. Despite its rapid progress, those devices are not yet flawless and errors accumulate, posing serious challenges to their application to interesting problems. In this talk I will first ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Amazing Nature of Animal SensesJoin POST for a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong, author of the New York Times bestseller An Immense World. In this captivating lecture, Ed explores the extraordinary sensory worlds of animals - from the echolocation of bats to the magnetic navigation of sea turtles - revealing ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $45 General $25 Seniors, Students, Youth
