World Water Day: Follow That Drop! A Journey to the Ocean - LivestreamEver wonder where a single drop of water travels? Join us on an exciting adventure as we follow a drop from your faucet all the way to the vast ocean! Along the way, discover the secrets of the water cycle, explore how humans use water every day, and learn why ...
Where: Cost: Free
Imaging the Invisible: How PUNCH and Eclipses Reveal the Solar Wind in 3DDuring a total solar eclipse, the hidden solar corona becomes visible, but only for a few fleeting minutes. NASA’s PUNCH mission builds on this natural experiment, using polarized imaging to reconstruct the 3D structure of the solar wind as it expands from the Sun to Earth and beyond. Join us ...
In an age of all-in energy portfolios, increasing fossil fuel production and use in the U.S., and an energy transition happening internationally, energy security has a significant role in global geopolitics and security. Within this context, this presentation will explore the intersection of energy security, sustainability, and resilience, with a ...
What’s the safest way to give birth-and who gets to decide?Conversations about childbirth often center on risk, safety, and medical technology. While interventions have saved lives, they’ve also reshaped birth-and how we understand it. In this lecture, medical and cultural sociologist Meghan Warner of Stanford explores the history of childbirth ...
The search for life in the universe invites deep exploration of our own world’s 4-billion-year habitability. We begin to see the cosmos as a vast and seamlesss network of relationships - a web that envelops our own Earth and the human heart. In this age of ecological disruption and social ...
The Explore and More precollege program connects high school students with Oregon State University student mentors to co-develop creative research projects that address community needs using both Western and Indigenous sciences. This presentation will describe the formation of the program’s community partnerships and culturally responsive science education framework. It will ...
Jane Goodall, the legendary primatologist known as “the chimp whisperer,” died in 2025 at the age of 91. Looking back at her life and scientific contributions - she studied the social lives of wild chimpanzees for over six decades and tirelessly advocated for their protection - experts at CUNY discuss ...
Where: Cost: Free
Alzheimer's Disease: A New Direction - LivestreamWhat if Alzheimer’s disease is driven not only by harmful proteins, but by the loss of a natural element the brain needs to protect itself? Lithium is widely known as a psychiatric medication - but what if the brain naturally depends on lithium to stay resilient as we age? In this ...
Where: Cost: Free
From Peppers to Peppermints: how spices helped unlock the secrets of pain sensationPlease join us for the next session of The Science Scoop, a quarterly public lecture series hosted by UCSF Basic Sciences. Discovery for ALL!We invite you to learn about how curiosity-driven research is leading to critical medical advances. Through engaging lectures geared towards a lay audience, premier researchers at the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 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.
The Story of Your Nervous SystemJoin us for a session to reset your nervous system, turn stress into resilience, and feel empowered, restored, and deeply connected.Join in this conversation and practice emotional regulation and resilience in a safe, fun, and intuitive workshop. Human beings are meant to wobble but NOT break! Too much stress will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 General
Thursday, 03/26/26
Ecological Puzzles & Passion: Tales of Cyanos, Sensors, & Community ScienceFreshwater ecosystems have long inspired human interest, passion, and investment. They are essential to our economic, environmental, and personal wellbeing. Freshwater lakes around the globe, however, are degrading. Especially concerning are the toxic cyanobacterial blooms that are on the rise worldwide. Until recently, cyanobacterial blooms were thought to be prevalent ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Live: From Moon to Mars: What Aretmis II Means for the FutureAs NASA prepares to return humans to the Moon with Artemis II, what does it really take to live and work on the lunar surface?Join host Simon Steel and planetary scientist Pascal Lee as they explore the science and strategy behind humanity’s next giant leap. From cutting-edge spacesuit design and testing to the challenge of choosing where ...
Where: Cost: Free
PARC Forum: The future of defense technologiesJoin us at SRI’s PARC Forum as we explore the future of national and global security and defense technologies. California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis will be joined by Christopher Kirchhoff (head of AI strategy and global security at Scale AI and Defense Innovation Unit advisor) and Raj M. Shah (managing partner ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
After Dark: Unplug and PlaySurprising experiences and memorable interactions - what more can you ask for on a Thursday night?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
NightLife: Colors of IndiaNon Stop Bhangra is taking over with an explosion of vibrant color, big sound, and all-night movement. Experience the beauty, sounds, and flavors of India right here in the Bay through a one-of-a-kind night for the senses. From live music and dance performances to food, drinks, and an Indian Bazaar, ...
Most every page of Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi novel, Project Hail Mary, glows with the promise of science and technology. In Weir’s first novel, 2011’s The Martian, the protagonist endures interplanetary travel, and struggles to survive on a harsh new world. However, in Project Hail Mary, the hero faces a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General in person, $10 online
Alone in the Algorithm: Human Connection in the Age of AIJoin California magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Jodi Halpern and renowned technologist Jaron Lanier to explore the seductions and dangers of artificial intelligence against the backdrop of America’s deepening loneliness epidemic.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40
Reinventing the way we break down plastic wasteFrom our kitchens to our clothes to the delivery of medicines, plastics play an indispensable role in our daily lives. But, the end-life of these plastics is not always taken into account. Few types of plastics can be readily recycled, and durable plastics take centuries to break down in landfills ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Friday, 03/27/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
Where: San JoseCost: $38.00
Saturday, 03/28/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
The Garden is thrilled to host plantsman extraordinaire Daniel Hinkley for a colorful globe-trotting botanical adventure. For forty years, Dan has been an advocate for the diversity of plant life as a traveler, lecturer, nurseryman, designer, and naturalist. He has authored four books, including The Explorer’s Garden: Rare and Unusual ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $20 members
Robo Expo @ ChabotMartian rovers. Driverless cars. Huggable food delivery bots. Whether assisting in data collection on faraway planets, zooming through city streets, or vacuuming kitchen floors, autonomous robotics have become a regular part of life here in our part of the galaxy.Join Chabot for a fun, hands-on exploration of robotics, featuring OUSD’s ...
Where: OaklandCost: $24 General, $19 Kids, Free for members
Science Saturday: Celebrating Women in ScienceJoin us for Science Saturday celebrating the achievements of women in science, past and present! We’ll learn about botany through the lens of the Museum’s founder, Mary B Norton. We’ll dive into marine biology with the famous mayor of Pacific Grove, Dr. Julia Platt, plus special guests, crafts, and games. This family-friendly ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Science Saturdays: Hands-on Exploration for KidsJoin the EV each month on the last Saturday from 10-11:30am for a hands-on exploration of nature and science.From 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 ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20 per child
TechFestCHM’s all-day TechFest events offer special activities and experiences for all ages included in the price of Museum admission. We're celebrating Apple's 50th Birthday! Come get hands-on with vintage Apple computers from Retro Roadshow, create Apple-themed party hats, dance to 50 years of hits, play "Pin the iPod," and more!
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free with admission
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. Good for ages 6 and up; all children must be accompanied by an adult.Please click the link to register via EventBrite. Space is limited.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Whale Entanglement: Risks, Responses, and PreventionExplore the operations of the Whale Entanglement Team (WET)®, including the detailed process of a whale rescue, the challenges faced, and technological advancements in the field. This work is conducted under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, through a permit issued to the Marine Mammal Health ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Secrets of the SunThough we rely on the Sun every single day, there are still many things we don’t know about it. Researchers around the world use telescopes, satellites, and computer models to try and solve some of the Sun’s greatest mysteries. Join Dr. Becca Robinson as she tells the story of how ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 03/29/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
Where: San JoseCost: $38.00
Family-friendly and Bilingual Bird Walk at the UCSC ArboretumJoin the Bird School Project as they help kick-off the celebrations for Hummingbird Month in the beautiful gardens of the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden. This bird walk is beginner and family-friendly. Bring binoculars if you have them, if not, binoculars or a monocular will be provided for you during ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, $8 Seniors, $5 Age 4 -17
Bair Island Sunset StrollJoin 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 ...
Dr. David Ensminger is an alumnus of the SSU Biology Graduate program, specifically the Crocker Lab. From Dr. Ensminger's Bio: "...I am a broadly trained biologist and my interests are in how challenges in the environment can alter the traits, phenotypes, and behaviors of organisms across vertebrate taxa. My goal ...
Adam is an economist at UC Berkeley who studies consumer behavior in health insurance, retirement saving, and other social insurance programs. His research focuses on generating policy insights that improve economic security and welfare.
Probing vibrations at single-molecule level is essential for achieving bond-specific chemical control in realistic heterogeneous environments. Here, we introduce a new measurement scheme integrating frequency-tunable infrared excitation with scanning tunneling microscopy to characterize vibration-mediated nuclear motions of single molecules. We first validated the technique by monitoring the infrared-induced rotation of ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in part to climate scientist Syukuro Manabe, largely due to his early and accurate estimate of Earth’s climate sensitivity to increasing CO2. This estimate relied on a proper coupling of radiation and convection - the two avenues by which energy flows through ...
Europe’s energy system is changing fast - but in a very different way than in the U.S. While the U.S. is expanding nuclear capacity as a cornerstone of its future energy mix, several European countries have chosen a different route and rely more strongly on renewables, system innovation, and sector ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Plastics Proliferation - Impacts of Plastics PollutionContinued plastics proliferation generates more pollution impacts of macroplastics and microplastics on human&animal health and biodiversityDuring this conference organized by UFE San Francisco Bay Area in collaboration with FACC California Sustainability Committee, four exceptional speakers will share an update on impacts of plastics pollution (macroplastics, microplastics, nanoplastics) on human & ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members, Students Free
The Bahamonde group is interested in the development and mechanistic understanding of Ni-catalyzed processes that involve light-mediated steps - either to generate radicals that can be trapped enantioselectively or to promote C - heteroatom reductive eliminations at room temperature. Like other first-row transition metals, Ni participates in both one- and ...
The Great Valley forearc (GVF) basin preserves >13 km of stratigraphy deposited during latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous to Miocene time, preserving one of the most complete sedimentary archives of the North American Cordillera. This research investigates the mechanisms driving forearc basin development through integration of sedimentology, sandstone petrography, and geochronology. In turn, I compare the evolution of ...
Endless Learning and Wonder - 40 Years Observing Killer Whales - LivestreamPlease join us as we hear from marine biologist and killer whale expert Nancy Black. Nancy started Monterey Bay Whale Watch 34 years ago guaranteeing her regular on-the-seas observations and study of marine life in what is known as the "Serengeti of the Oceans". She has been photo-identifying Monterey Bay killer ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 04/01/26
In Science We Trust? Understanding Americans’ Confidence In Science, Scientists, And Scientific Institutions - LivestreamThe Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions webinar series features speakers who are developing innovative ideas, conducting groundbreaking research, and taking important actions to improve trust and efficacy in American institutions. Speaker expertise and topics span governmental institutions, civic organizations and practice, and the role of public opinion and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Earth on a chip: AI-based autoregressive models of the Earth systemRecent advances in machine learning offer transformative potential for Earth system modeling, yet purely data-driven climate and weather emulators face critical challenges of instability and unphysical behavior when integrated over long timescales. This talk presents a unified framework for AI-based autoregressive Earth-system models that are stable, physically consistent, and computationally ...
Planetary-scale outflow channels were carved by catastrophic floods flowing into Mars’ northern lowlands, inspiring the hypothesis that they may have fed oceans. However, the sizes and durations of these catastrophic events remain highly debated. To estimate flood discharge, previous studies have typically assumed that canyons were filled to the brim ...
Offering a snapshot of Andrea Pollio’s recent book, Silicon Elsewhere, this talk explores the concept of arbitrage as a central logic shaping Digital China’s presence in Kenya’s Silicon Savannah.Beyond geopolitical and geoeconomic narratives, Pollio demonstrate how discourses of arbitrage identify and capitalize on perceived temporal and developmental lags between these ...
This talk will review recent work adapting tools from causal inference, including tools for estimating decompositions, average treatment effects, and heterogeneous treatment effects, to problems involving sequence data, such as sequences of words in text, sequences of jobs in worker careers, and sequences of measured behaviors and actions in customer ...
Across oceans, rivers, and murky streams, many fish have evolved the remarkable ability to generate and detect electricity. While the famous electric eel often steals the spotlight, it’s far from the only aquatic electrician. From stealthy sharks detecting faint signals from hidden prey to lesser-known species quietly scanning dark waters ...
Mark Chung is the co-founder and CEO of Verdigris, a Silicon Valley based technology company empowering carbon-intensive enterprises with high-precision, AI-driven scalable electrical intelligence. Verdigris delivers real-time global monitoring with granular diagnostics and analysis, focusing on reducing stranded electrical capacity, CO2 emissions, and ensuring regulatory compliance for Mission-critical buildings.
Modern electrical infrastructure was built around industrial and building loads that are fundamentally different from the high-density silicon and IT environments now driving AI. As compute power density rises, facilities face new challenges in capacity visibility, fault detection, event diagnosis, and reliability. This talk explores the mismatch between legacy electrical ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SETI Live: Evidence of Planet Collision - LivestreamAstronomers may have just witnessed the aftermath of a massive planetary collision in another star system - offering a rare glimpse into how worlds are destroyed… and possibly reborn. Join host Dr. Moiya McTier and guest Anastasios Tzanidakis (University of Washington) as they break down new evidence suggesting that two ...
Superconducting circuits support quantum degrees of freedom that can be used to encode quantum bits. These superconducting qubits are a leading quantum information technology, but they are plagued by errors when performing multi-qubit conditional operations. One alternative is to make multi-mode circuits where multi-qubit operations are natural. I will introduce ...
This talk is focused on new techniques for the inverse design of large-scale structures in engineering that incorporate many design parameters based on combining mathematically rigorous gradient-based approaches like topological optimization with artificial-intelligence (AI) techniques for reducing the dimensionality of the design problem by several orders of magnitude. Despite the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
What Science Says about Astrology - LivestreamToday, astrology is a multibillion-dollar business, encompassing newspaper and magazine horoscopes, digital apps with millions of subscribers, and a growing number of professionals offering services ranging from financial advice to psychotherapy. Yet its tenets are demonstrably false.Join us for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with science journalist Carlos Orsi. Astrology is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95, Free for members
Astronomy on Tap Davis - Cosmic Rays and Dark MatterDaniel Cebra (UC Davis) will talk about “Galactic Cosmic Rays and Their Impact on Space Exploration”andSukanya Chakrabarti (University of Alabama) will speak about “Dark matter - in real time”
Where: DavisCost: Free
NightLifeThursdays hit different at NightLife. The museum comes alive after hours - wilder, more curious, and full of exciting creatures. Grab your friends, grab a hand-crafted drink, and let yourself wander into whatever weird or wonderful corner calls you. You never know what you’ll stumble into next, and that’s the ...
Architecture isn’t just about style or aesthetics - it’s about navigating a complex web of constraints, from budgets and regulations to human needs and lived experience. So how do architects turn all of that into something real?In this lecture, Howard Blecher, principal of Blecher Building + Urban Design in San ...
Join us for an inspiring afternoon as we welcome Jose Hernandez, the visionary CEO of Tierra Luna Engineering, to our campus! His journey from a migrant farmworker to a NASA astronaut is a remarkable story of perseverance and technical excellence, brought to life in the movie “A Million Miles Away.” ...
Understanding actinide-ligand covalency is at the center of efforts to design new separations schemes for spent nuclear fuel, and thus features considerable practical importance. NMR spectroscopy is a widely available means of measuring 5f covalency that is complementary to more established methods, such optical spectroscopy and XANES. However, its use ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseySwing into the weekend with science, animals, music, food trucks, and fun! On the first Friday of every month, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Dance to some of your favorite hits, while enjoying animal presentations and science activities. Activities and programs are different each time, so make it a ...
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Micro FestJoin us for a celebration of seeing small through a variety of tools, from simple hand lenses to powerful microscopes. Uncover textures, patterns, and ecosystems that are normally invisible to the naked eye. Meet drifting plankton, explore immune cells, identify parasites, and dive into hands-on activities that invite you to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Are There Gray Foxes in Your Backyard?Learn all about our local gray foxes and how to identify evidence of their presence!On a walk/talk from the Visitor’s Center out into the refuge, Bill "The Fox Guy" Leikam will show you how to identify indications of the presence of foxes, and tell stories about gray foxes that he’s ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Sunday, 04/05/26
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
Special Community Whale Watching TourJoin the American Cetacean Society for a Special Community Whale Watching Tour!We’re excited to host a special whale watching tour with Monterey Bay Whale Watch!This exclusive outing is more than a whale watch. It’s an opportunity to experience Monterey Bay alongside researchers and conservationists who have dedicated their lives to ...
'Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science'Join us for a book signing, reading, and discussion with Dr. David Blumenthal, professor of the practice of public health and health policy at Harvard and former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, of his new book co-authored with James A. Morone, Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on ...
Dino is a microbiologist interested in understanding how microbial ecology shapes macroscale ecology. He received a BA in biology from Sonoma State University and an MS in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Dino has worked on projects exploring how reintroduced Tule elk modulate terrestrial arthropod populations, how antibiotic ...
Infants undergo rapid, transformative change, such that by the end of their second year of life, they can walk, talk, play, and prank. Yet, research using fMRI with awake infants has shown, across many types of tasks, that brain functions are found in similar regions in infants and adults. This ...
Magnetic insulators are promising materials for efficient propagation and transduction of spin waves and for the stabilization of topological phenomena. Of recent interest is the class of spinel structure ferrite thin films where we have realized ultrathin ferromagnetic insulating thin films with low magnetic damping. More specifically, we have developed ...
What happens when quantum simulations become cold enough to surprise us? So far, quantum simulations have primarily served as impressive proof-of-principle demonstrations, realizing a wide range of many-body quantum phases. However, temperatures have remained too high to truly access uncharted regimes relevant to strongly correlated quantum materials. In this ...
Cities generate most of the world’s emissions - but they are also where many of the most innovative climate solutions are emerging. Drawing on her experience as Mayor of Oakland and her work with global networks of climate mayors, Libby Schaaf will discuss how cities shape energy demand through land ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Understanding the Glue That Binds Us All -- The Science & the Promise of the Future Electron Ion Collider (EIC)A high-luminosity high-energy polarized electron-hadron collider will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) and will start operation in the middle of the next decade. The EIC will be capable of colliding polarized & unpolarized electrons on polarized protons/light nuclei and ...
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 ...
In this presentation, several chemical and biocatalytic syntheses of amino acid-derived natural products will be discussed. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a growing class of natural products, many of which possess antimicrobial activity. Sactipeptides are one subclass of RiPPs that are defined by thioaminoketal functional groups. In ...
The Hawaiian islands are an excellent natural laboratory for studying the controls on long-term landscape evolution because (1) both landscape age and initial condition are known, (2) rock properties are generally uniform (but locally heterogeneous), (3) most of the global variation in annual rainfall is represented, and (4) there is ...
As AI products rapidly integrate into the lives of kids and teens, from educational tools to companion chatbots, the technology industry faces fundamental questions about how to design and deploy these systems responsibly. Drawing on three years of risk assessments conducted by the nonprofit Common Sense Media across major AI ...
Quantum spin liquids represent new states of matter that are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement. Unlike common magnets, the spins in a quantum spin liquid (QSL) do not order or break conventional symmetries, but rather they remain fluctuating even as the temperature approaches absolute zero. 50 years after the theoretical ...
Building and controlling new chemical matter is the foundational challenge in chemistry and the confluence of two tools, nonequilibrium control and machine learning, is providing exciting opportunities to expand our capabilities for control. In this talk, I will describe two efforts that sit at the interface between chemistry and machine ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Auroras & Escapades: Space Weather and Mars ExplorationJoin Dr. Rob Lillis to learn about NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars and the secrets these robots may unlock!Dr. Rob Lillis is the Principal Investigator (i.e. Lead Scientist) for NASA's recently-launched ESCAPADE robotic twin mission to Mars. He'll discuss how the million mile-per-hour solar wind strips away the Martian atmosphere ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 General, $9 Online
Future of Cinema: From Locarno to San FranciscoAI discourse often divides between critics who reject the technology and advocates who emphasize its advances, particularly in film and media, where concerns about labor, authorship, ownership, and aesthetics meet promises of democratized cultural production and a new golden age of filmmaking.Bringing together filmmakers, artists, and researchers, this session opens ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Registration required
Incorruptible by DesignWhile the corporation, profit maximization, and financial systems feel immutable, all of our commercial and civic infrastructure is invented by us - and it can be reinvented. Eric Ries, building on his upcoming book, Incorruptible, will talk about how founders and leaders can build incorruptible organizations that will last for ...
Millions of Americans are using AI tools for mental health support, but the rules governing these technologies are fragmented, fast-moving, and often poorly understood - even by clinicians and researchers working in this space. This webinar brings together experts at the intersection of mental health, technology, and regulatory policy for ...
How does fault mineralogy influence earthquake rupture behavior? How do ruptures heal in the postseismic period? Addressing these questions improves our understanding of in situ earthquake processes and the controls on local ground shaking. This talk presents new observations from the Mw 7.6 Elbistan earthquake surface rupture - the second large-magnitude ...
In Judicial Territory, I trace the development of US domestic law involving foreign sovereign governments in order to argue that, from the 1940s on, American empire became increasingly bound up with the transnational extension of US judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term “judicial territory” ...
Artificial intelligence is leaving the cloud and entering the world, not as abstract code, but as a property of physical systems themselves. This is the promise of Physical AI: intelligence that is compact, adaptive, and embodied, inspired by the dynamics of living systems. Such AI could make our technologies more ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Ocean Encounters: Into the Abyss! Exploring the mysteries of the deep - LivestreamThe deep ocean is one of the most inaccessible parts of our planet, yet it plays a vital role in supporting life on Earth. Join us to hear about the technologies enabling deep ocean research, what we can learn from mapping the seafloor, and how life has adapted to thrive ...
Suzannah Wistreich (Stanford) on "DexSkin, a Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation" Jodi Lomask (Choreographer and Sculptor) on "Motion Sculpture: Designing Forms That Think with the Body" Melanie Swan (University College London) on "Galois Smartnetwork Field Theory, a Framework for Unifying A.I. and Physics"
The NASA Psyche mission is on its way to orbit a small but immensely ancient world in our asteroid belt: A metallic object, the first humans will ever have visited. When our solar system was in its infancy, thousands of planetesimals (tiny planet-like objects) formed in less than a million ...
An emerging population of irradiated, low-mass exoplanets falls close to rocky bulk densities but are underdense relative to Earth-like composition. In this talk, I will first discuss my previous work, where Prof. Diana Valencia and I proposed puffy Venuses, magma ocean worlds with thick carbon-rich atmospheres, as a potential explanation. ...
In this presentation, I will present some of the recent progresses in building conversational agents, with a focus on the speech modality. I will introduce desirable properties of such systems and explain some of the key concepts, core ideas, and main technologies developed in practical systems.Speaker: Dong Yu, Tencent AI ...
At the center of thousands upon thousands of games and sports lies a basic kind of interaction: the to-and-fro of a bouncing ball. What do bounce and its many variants - ricochet, rebound, spring, ping, Pong, coefficients of restitution, squash-and-stretch, and other kinds of elastic motion - tell us about the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
After Dark: Unplug and PlayRobots, trivia, and philosophical inquiry - choose your own adventure tonightAges 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
AI vs. Everybody: Making Sense of AIAI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with - including the people building it. So we're bringing in reinforcements.Join us for a live taping of the SF Standard's “Pacific Standard Time” podcast, where hosts Emily Dreyfuss and Jesse Alejandro Cottrell sit down with journalist and “anthropologist of disruption” Jasmine Sun to make sense of ...
Annual lecture on Energy and the EnvironmentSpeaker: Isha Ray, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Yalla! NightLifeCelebrate the rhythm, artistry, and flavors of Arab cultures in a bustling night full of energy and connection. Stay tuned for more programming info!
Point Blue Conservation Science has monitored the Adelie penguins of Antarctica for decades, witnessing firsthand the profound effects of climate change, including the recent, rapid decline in Ross Sea ice that is now threatening their survival. Grant will share recent research made possible by their advanced technology and extensive, multi-decade ...
This year, we invited Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, as our speaker. A world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, she is the author of the best-selling book, Merchants of Doubt (2010) and a ...
In far-flung parts of the United States, people share similar ghostly tales involving ghosts who wander along railroad tracks in remote areas, searching for the remains of a loved one who perished in a gruesome railroad accident. Enduring lore describes one such ghost in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. These ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 04/10/26
Artemis II Splashdown PartyChabot is celebrating the Splashdown of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will send a diverse crew of astronauts to the moon and back down to Earth, as phase II of a larger effort (Artemis) to eventually land the first humans on Mars. Here at the Center, you’ll have an opportunity ...
Family Astronomy: Invisible AstronomyChabot Space & Science Center’s Family Astronomy Series invites families with children ages 6-12 to explore the wonders of the universe together! This program features an engaging presentation in Studio 3 followed by hands-on activities and opportunities to make discoveries together. Each event includes complimentary hot cocoa and snacks.Delve beyond ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adults, $15 Youth, Members $5 off
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 ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 04/11/26
Wildflower photography walkConnect with the beauty of the natural world through a wildflower walk and photography workshop at Bouverie Preserve. This event will be both a technical workshop on iPhone photography and an invitation to slow down and experience the springtime blooms on the preserve.All Hands Ecology staff will provide a space ...
Where: Stinson BeachCost: Free
Whalefest 2026Whalefest is a 2-day event set around Monterey’s Old Fisherman’s Wharf and the adjacent Custom House Plaza, designed to be enjoyed by attendees of all ages.Whalefest features exhibits from dozens of local and national non-profit organizations related to marine science, sustainability of land and sea, and the environment.Whalefest Monterey features ...
Where: MontereyCost: Free
Family Nature Adventures: ScatThis Months Theme: Let’s Chat About Scat - Tracking Animals of the Redwood Forest!Get the scoop on poop and uncover the wild secrets of our local fauna!Interactive Workshop: Learn how to identify animals by their tracks, eating habits, and yes - scat! Dive into the fascinating clues these creatures leave ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adults, $35 Youth 3 - 8, $15 off for members
BUGOLOGY: WHERE SIDEWALKS MEET SOIL: FINDING LIFE IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLEJoin SaveNature.Org in this class to explore the tiny worlds that thrive beneath our feet! Our educators will guide you through nature observation, where you will be provided all the tools you need to catch and observe insects and arthropods up close.We will meet at the Dogpatch Hub, a vibrant ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $28.52
City of Sunnyvale's Earth Day Festival - CANCELEDShow your love for the planet by attending Sunnyvale's Earth Day Festival! The event will feature family-friendly, sustainability-focused activities and information from local organizations.Attend the festival to enjoy:E-bike test rides Interactive games and activitiesYummy eats from local food trucksAnd much more! Join us in empowering our community and building a sustainable Sunnyvale. ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: FREE
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. Good for ages 6 and up; all children must be accompanied by an adult.Please click the link to register via EventBrite. Space is limited.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Starry Nights Star PartyJoin the San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) and Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA) for an unforgettable night of exploring the night sky. Our knowledgeable docents, members of SJAA, will be your guides to providing valuable insights into the wonders of our universe. The viewing site features darker skies ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free (registration required at weblink)
Celebrate Earth Month with us at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge!The event will be an open house, with time to explore, learn about wildlife and plants, join a guided tour, participate in arts & crafts, and much more as we celebrate our Earth!Event parking may be ...
Where: AlvisoCost: 0
Morning Hike at San Vicente RedwoodsJoin us for a community hike at San Vicente Redwoods! This will be a moderate hike of 3.5 miles with moderate elevation gain. Guests will be led by a POST ambassador, who will share about the human and natural history of this important working forest, the history of its protection ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Whalefest 2026Whalefest is a 2-day event set around Monterey’s Old Fisherman’s Wharf and the adjacent Custom House Plaza, designed to be enjoyed by attendees of all ages.Whalefest features exhibits from dozens of local and national non-profit organizations related to marine science, sustainability of land and sea, and the environment.Whalefest Monterey features ...
Where: MontereyCost: Free
Curious About Coyotes? Free Community GatheringThis is an invitation to re-meet the often-misunderstood urban canine called the CoyoteJoin the Presidio Trust Wildlife Team for a fun, all-ages morning dedicated to one of our wild neighbors. We’re hosting an interactive celebration of coyotes in the Presidio.Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with snacks, coyote-themed coloring pages, and storybooks. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
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 ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marine Science Sundays: Marine Mammal MysteriesThe Marine Mammal Center leads the way in marine mammal research. Come learn more about the ways we have been deepening understanding of these incredible animals in recent events!Talks at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:00 PM, each lasting 30 minutes.
From Dr. Yang's website: "...I am working to develop a temporally explicit view of ecology that examines how ecological communities combine complex, coordinated and changing interactions over time. I am particularly interested in the effects of climate change on species interactions, community responses to strong perturbation events, phenological cues and ...
As our tools grow more intimate and invasive, understanding the patterns at play when artifacts and minds interact has never been more urgent. We routinely underestimate what seem like minor details, yet subtle shifts dramatically alter what follows. Drawing on two decades of designing learning spaces and digital experiences, this ...
Quantum computers have begun to achieve the scale and precision required to simulate condensed matter models in regimes that push the limits of classical supercomputers, offering a fully programmable platform for simulating quantum materials. This talk will explore recent experiments at the frontier of quantum advantage for simulating the dynamics ...
Speaker: Angelike Stathopoulos, California Institute of TechnologyRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Statistical Structural BiologyIn a post-“AlphaFold has solved structure prediction” world, our lab is obsessed with the concept of statistical structural biology.First, we collect large datasets (X-ray fragment screens from 1000s of individual crystals) and use new statistical approaches to identify small molecule binders. This inspires new inhibitors, allosteric modulators, and enzyme design ...
How should we understand black holes at a quantum mechanical level? In the past years, we have made dramatic progress in answering this question, from a better understanding of how information can escape from a black hole to exact gravitational calculations of black hole entropies. In this talk, I will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Colliders in the Sky: Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological DataThe first fractions of a second after the Big Bang likely involved physics operating at energy scales orders of magnitude above those accessible to terrestrial experiments. This epoch - known as inflation - played a crucial role in cosmic history, sourcing quantum fluctuations that seed structure formation in the late ...
Disruptive forces of change such as urgent electricity demand, onshoring supply chains, and increased weather volatility are combining to create the biggest innovation wave in a generation: Cleantech 2.0. In the US, early-stage cleantech companies are emerging to address some of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. They use unprecedented ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
120 Years After 1906: Strengthening San Francisco for the Next Big EarthquakeTo commemorate the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, SPUR and partners are hosting a conversation on the past, present, and future of seismic safety in San Francisco. Join us to explore how the city has strengthened its building stock through retrofit programs and policy reforms, where risks remain, ...
Natural product (NP) total synthesis involves experimental discovery and decision-making at every stage: why this route and not another? Why this intermediate and not its close analog? Why this NP, optimized for the producer organism’s survival in its ecological niche, and not a close analog, optimized for therapeutic use? The ...
Ocean crust is formed by magmatism along 65,000 km of divergent plate boundaries known as mid-ocean ridges. Decompression partial melting of mantle peridotite ascending beneath these ridges produces the basaltic magma that forms the crust. The depth at which partial melting begins is controlled by a combination of mantle potential ...
Cellphone bans in schools have become a popular policy in recent years in the United States, yet very little is known about their effects on student outcomes. In this study, we try to fill this gap by examining the causal effects of bans on student test scores, suspensions, and absences ...
Chagas Disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects millions worldwide, yet current therapies suffer from limited efficacy, long treatment duration, and poor tolerability. Two complementary discovery strategies, one mechanism-driven and one phenotypically guided, were explored toward safer, shorter-course treatments. Covalent picolinamides were developed as highly selective inhibitors of ...
Quantum platforms are approaching a scale at which they will enable the realization of a vast number of quantum circuits. Some of these will solve computational problems of interest to industry and commerce; others will address longstanding questions about quantum systems; and still others will vindicate Wigner and Dyson. Yet ...
Join Van Pierszalowskifor an overview of the California Bird Atlas project, one of the most ambitious community-driven research efforts ever undertaken in the state. While 44 states have already completed a statewide breeding bird atlas, California has long been an outlier. That is now changing.The Atlas officially launched in January ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Skeptics in a Real PubEnjoy an evening of socializing and feasting with fellow Bay Area science-forward folk in an Irish Pub on the Peninsula with great food. < Menu >Join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Wonderfest: Ask a Science Envoy: Cosmology & EvolutionStanford physicist Mahlet Shiferaw on Learning Cosmology from Galaxies - The Universe is shaped by an invisible “cosmic web” of dark matter that guides where galaxies form. By comparing observations of galaxies to predictions from models, we can probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Cosmologists are now developing new ...
This month, we have two excellent talks lined up: First, Caleb Harada (UC Berkeley) exoplanets and the exotic zoo of neighboring worlds. Then we’ll hear from Maya Beleznay (Stanford) about how astronomers weigh neutron stars!
Advanced imaging technologies are rapidly reshaping how we observe and quantify the world, from satellites to laboratory instruments, across all industries and sciences. In this talk, Ryan Barlow, CEO and Founder of GeoPulse Solutions, will explore the current state of spectral imaging systems, highlighting both their transformative capabilities and the ...
Aaron Meisner is an astrophysicist working at the intersection of image processing, participatory science, and machine learning. At Radcliffe, he will combine these techniques to search for cold worlds in the Sun’s neighborhood of our Milky Way galaxy.Register at weblink
Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of the 21st century. Microplastics are now pervasive throughout marine ecosystems, yet the pathways by which they move from land into coastal food webs remain poorly understood. From 2023-2025, our team conducted a comprehensive regional assessment of microplastics across the river-ocean ...
Io's extensive volcanism was predicted in 1979 as a consequence of Europa and Ganymede's gravitational influence on Io's orbit around Jupiter. Less than a week later, this was confirmed by Voyager 1 observations of volcanic plumes on Io's surface. Decades later, the Galileo spacecraft (named for Io's discoverer) observed magnetic field variations that hinted ...
This talk will share a chapter from my first book project, Cultivating Sustainable Sovereignty: Palestinian Agrarian Lives in Transnational Focus. How have Palestinian agro-ecological and food systems changed due to settler colonialism over time? How do Palestinians’ agricultural practices and relationships - their food sovereignty efforts - serve their struggles ...
We share our experience using LLMs to obtain new results in mathematics and computer science. We begin with an illustrative example from load-balancing in planet-scale cloud systems, outlining the abilities and limitations of LLMs. Next, we describe our experience with AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary language model from Google DeepMind, to establish ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A window to the Universe from the bottom of the worldWe are pleased to welcome Dr. Clara Verges, staff scientist in the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She is an observational cosmologist, focusing on instrument modeling, systematic studies and data analysis for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments.Located in one of the most remote environments on Earth, on ...
Everything we can see - stars, planets, galaxies, and even ourselves - makes up only a small fraction of the cosmos. The rest appears to be dominated by mysterious forces we cannot directly observe.In this mind-bending lecture, Stefano Profumo, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explores ...
Join us for an in-person evening about eBird and community science! Brian Sullivan will speak on the work he and the rest of the team at Cornell are finding what can be learned within the mountain of data that is collected by eBird. Our everyday observations serve the greater understanding ...
The Universe's Barcode: What Colors in Space Tell UsSpeaker: Cole Meyer, University of ArizonaMartian Mystery and Mayhem: Exploring the Rd Plante's Enigmatic Early EvolutionSpeaker: Ruby Fulford, University of ArizonaClick here to watch
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 04/16/26
AVs & the City: DRIVE AI Demo DayAVs & the City: The DRIVE AI Demo Day is a drop-in event that transforms UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station into a 175-acre living laboratory for the future of autonomous mobility the day before 10th Anniversary Autonomous Vehicles & the City Symposium at the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California ...
Extreme El Niño events amplify floods, droughts, and wildfire risk worldwide, yet models still disagree on how ENSO variability will evolve under anthropogenic warming. Using multi-century CESM1.2 simulations spanning the Last Glacial Maximum to future scenarios, together with individual foraminiferal analyses (including new central Pacific/Line Islands constraints), we show that ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Decoding marine physiological mechanisms to build biotechnological resilienceCutting-edge biotechnological innovations and transdisciplinary approaches have opened the door for deep understanding of physiological activities within marine organisms. These tools and approaches facilitate integrated studies of complex endogenous processes, such as immunological responses, metabolic pathway perturbations, and mechanisms that underpin survival and resilience in the face of unprecedented global ...
Recent developments in hydrogen production from renewable energies and fuel cell (FC) technologies have increased interest in their application toward sustainable and emission-free electricity generation. In addition to the fuel-to-electricity conversion advantages of FCs over conventional generation methods, their heat exhaust can also be recovered for combined heat and power ...
Superconducting circuits support quantum degrees of freedom that can be used to encode quantum bits. These superconducting qubits are a leading quantum information technology, but they are plagued by errors when performing multi-qubit conditional operations. One alternative is to make multi-mode circuits where multi-qubit operations are natural. I will introduce ...
For most of human history, survival depended on two things: group loyalty and split-second decisions. Today, those same ancient instincts are plugged into a network of billions of strangers and an endless stream of content. Deception is a universal survival strategy in nature; by understanding how the rapid pace of ...
Despite the increasing availability of climate data, there is a significant gap between the production of scientific information and its practical use within planning and decision-making. Over the past two decades, climate services - decision-support processes and tools - have been developed at this interface to transform climate data into ...
Mikhael found himself out of work last year due to health issues and chose to travel to Mt. Shasta for 6 weeks. While there, he studied everything he came across, from the ground to the sky. Waking to the sounds of chipmunks chittering as they chased each other up the ...
Where: SebastopolCost: Free
After Dark: Altered StatesQuestion your perception with unusual sensory experiences and hear from researchers on psychedelics.Ages 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
Fungus Among Us NightLifeExplore the weird and wonderful world of ‘shrooms during our annual mushroom celebration. Expect fascinating talks, exciting surprises, and a marketplace full of artwork and local orgs to connect with.
Ready for another good, old-fashioned, classic Nerd Nite SF? We’re back at it again at the Rickshaw and ready to rumble! It’s been fun experimenting with format and location for our first few shows of the year, but you just can’t beat a classic Nerd Night show: We’ve got talks ...
With five arms, no clear front or back, and no obvious head, starfish break many of the rules we expect animals to follow. So how did such unusual symmetry evolve - and what happened to the head?In this fascinating lecture, marine biologist Chris Lowe, Professor of Biology at Stanford University ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27
The Invasive Spartina Project and Rails- LivestreamThe Invasive Spartina Project (ISP) is tasked with removing invasive Spartina species to restoring native habitat in SF Bay and protect our newly restored tidal wetlands. Tall, dense, and fast-growing, hybrid Spartina outcompetes other marsh species, overrunning wetlands and mudflats. Infestation reduces shorebird habitat but also provides cover for secretive marsh birds, including endangered California Ridgway’s Rails (RIRA). From 2005-2025, hybrid Spartina was reduced from 805 to 18 net acres, a reduction ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 04/17/26
Autonomous Vehicles & the City: Policy, Deployment and Ecosystem LeadershipAs autonomous vehicle technology reaches maturation, the most urgent challenges are no longer just technical - they are civic and systemic. The 2026 Autonomous Vehicles and the City Symposium marks our 10th anniversary, and goes “Beyond the Tech” to focus on building a robust automation ecosystem that works for people and ...
Atmospheric N2 is a cheap, abundant resource with great potential for energy storage and chemical synthesis, but it is difficult to convert it into other compounds (“fixing” nitrogen). This seminar will describe some challenges and opportunities of nitrogen fixation, as well as my students’ discoveries of how to break the ...
The state of video compression standards is strong and dynamic, and more compression is coming in their future. To explain why will start by presenting deployment and adoption of the two most recent video compression standards: AV1 and VVC. Will then discusses new deep learning-based video compression technologies that standards ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $5 General, Free for members
Saturday, 04/18/26
Butterfly Garden Volunteer Work Day at the EECHelp us with maintaining and improving the habitat and trails at the Environmental Education Center at the Don Edwards SF Bay NWR while enjoying wildlife and scenic views! Activities may include removing invasive plants, picking up litter, or maintaining trails! All gloves and tools will be provided, so just make ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Earth Day 2026With the focus on "Species and Habitats" come learn how important the health of our watersheds are for wildlife and our communities and the small actions we can all take for a healthy Bay Area.Connect with our incredible conservation partners and local environmental organizations at interactive booths, where you can ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Mt. Sutro Geology & Paleo TourLearn about fascinating geologic evidence contained in the rocks underneath Mt. Sutro of ancient island arcs, lost marine basins, oceanic trenches and subduction along the Pacific Ocean Ring of Fire and the important role played by radiolarian fossils contained in chert beds. All part of the interesting story of California's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
PBC Earth Day EcoFest 2026Pacific Beach Coalition's annual Earth Day EcoFest is a free, family-friendly outdoor community event. Starting off the day at 9am across more than 15 site locations for cleanup and habitat restoration events across San Mateo County, the fun continues from 10:30am - 1:30pm with our main festival event at Pacifica ...
Where: PacificaCost: Free
2026 Earth Day Festival & Green Business Expo Join the fun and kick off Earth Month and SF Climate Week with a bang at the Yerba Buena Gardens 2026 Earth Day Festival! The San Francisco Green Business Program is hosting an exciting Green Business Expo in partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy and Climatebase. This will be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
SkeptiCAMPTo quote our friends at the Manchester Skeptic Society, “you don’t need to be a published author, famous podcaster or professional communicator to get involved.” Just an interested skeptic.Attend, and/or consider presenting a 20 minute talk yourself.
NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Junior Rangers at the Refuge: Native Plant ProtectorsLove learning about new habitats? Curious about wildlife? Our Junior Rangers at the Refuge program is perfect for your family! Join us each month as we explore the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge through fun, educational activities.This April, we'll learn about the hidden superpowers that help our California native species ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
'Climate Wayfinding'Join us for readings and a conversation about Dr. Wilkinson’s new book, Climate Wayfinding.As climate disruption reshapes landscapes, politics, and daily life, a deeper question lingers beneath the headlines: How do we live - fully, honestly, boldly - within this moment? Where do we turn for steadiness and imagination as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 04/20/26
Speed & Scale’s Reality CheckIn 2021, legendary investor John Doerr outlined his plan to solve climate change in his bestseller Speed & Scale. The plan outlines 10 objectives, each with their own set of key results, to cut emissions to net zero. And in true John Doerr style, the results are to be measurable ...
From Ellie's LinkedIn Bio: "...I am the fisheries biologist for the United Anglers of Casa Grande High School (UACG), a student-founded conservation hatchery dedicated to the conservation of Steelhead Trout in the Petaluma Watershed. I primarily care for the steelhead trout reared in the facility, and instruct participating high school ...
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are driving the need for fundamentally new information processing paradigms that exceed the limits of existing nanoscale technologies in energy, performance, and functionality. Biological systems offer a compelling model, tightly coupling sensing, computation, and memory within distributed architectures that achieve remarkable energy efficiency and adaptability. ...
Gottesman, Kitaev, and Preskill proposed to encode a qubit in a remarkable wavefunction, which satisfy location and momentum constraints simultaneously. Such a state offers superior error correction, but is rather hard to achieve and stabilize. We propose a circuit architecture for a dissipatively error-corrected GKP qubit. The device consists of ...
In most condensed matter systems we think of electrons as delocalized particles that roam about the energy terrain of a material much like waves in the ocean. But what happens when Coulomb repulsion between electrons becomes the dominant energy in a material? In this regime you might expect electrons to ...
The promise of quantum is real, and we are beginning to see where this technology can have the greatest impact. Decades of quantum research and development point to one primary class of practical application for quantum computing next to cryptanalysis: the simulation of quantum systems, especially for chemistry and materials science. As we ...
Across the globe, more than 30 million people make their living collecting, sorting, and recycling what we throw away. Often overlooked, these waste pickers are increasingly recognized as a vital “green workforce,” helping reduce emissions and support more sustainable resource systems.?In this lecture, Kate O’Neill, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy ...
Across the globe, more than 30 million people make their living collecting, sorting, and recycling what we throw away. Often overlooked, these waste pickers are increasingly recognized as a vital “green workforce,” helping reduce emissions and support more sustainable resource systems.In this lecture, Kate O’Neill, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy ...
What is consciousness - and how might we describe it scientifically? Neuroscience can map neural activity with extraordinary detail, yet the relationship between electrical signals and subjective experience remains one of humanity’s most enduring questions.Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane approaches this question from an unexpected direction: geometry. In ...
Chemically induced proximity of bimolecular complexes is a powerful modality to rewire signal transduction networks. Most extensively studied in the context of protein degradation, the full scope and potential of chemically induced proximity for novel targets and pharmacological mechanisms has yet to be realized. I will discuss structure-based strategies to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Meet a Wildlife ScientistDid you know mountain lions are roaming the hills right here in the Bay Area? Come meet Alys Granados, Wildlife Ecologist for the Felidae Conservation Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting wild cats and their habitats, and hear all about her incredible work tracking and studying these majestic big cats ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free with admission
Who Pays? Private and Public Funding Innovation for Flooding and Sea Level Rise ResilienceAs climate change and sea level rise increase flood risk to shoreline and inland communities, the cost to adapt can seem daunting. Public dollars alone won’t cut it. In this session, thought leaders from the Bay Area to the East Coast will share insights for how we pay to address ...
Can gravity and extra directions of space emerge from systems that naively lack them? Holography - the celebrated AdS/CFT correspondence - predicts that this can happen via one magic ingredient: entanglement, or strong quantum correlations. I will present in an accessible manner recent advances on this longstanding theoretical idea, using ...
A key frontier of modern condensed matter is to harness light??"matter interaction to coherently engineer quantum states in materials. Under optical driving, quantum materials exhibit emergent many-body phenomena, from ultrafast switching to dynamical quantum states without equilibrium analogs. Progress hinges on using light to both uncover new nonequilibrium states and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nature-based solutions in the fight against Climate Change Secretary Wade Crowfoot (California Natural Resources Agency) will discuss California’s groundbreaking work on nature conservation. He will explore the State’s critical partnerships with American Indian Tribes, the creative ways that California is achieving climate and biodiversity goals and how California’s leadership is being recognized by the UN Climate and Biodiversity Conferences. The Secretary’s comments will be followed by a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Next-Generation Pathology: How Is Technology Changing the Way We Diagnose Disease?Pathology - the study of disease through the examination of tissues and cells - is undergoing a technological transformation. New tools in imaging, computational analysis, and spatial biology now allow scientists to study how cells interact within the architecture of human tissue at unprecedented resolution. These advances are helping researchers ...
Wonderfest comes to San Francisco’s BookShop West Portal for a special author event featuring cosmologist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. In her latest book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein “embraces cosmic wonder and takes us on a mind-altering journey to the boundaries of the ...
Over the past three years, a collaborative partnership between community scientists and academic mycologists, organized through the Fungal Diversity Survey (FunDiS) and funded by the California Institute for Biodiversity, has transformed our understanding of California’s macrofungal diversity. Together, we have documented, DNA barcoded, and accessioned more than 11,000 fungal collections ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Wednesday, 04/22/26
The Frozen Frontier - A Journey into Antarctica - LivestreamAntarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth, filled with geological marvels and remarkable wildlife. In celebration of Earth Day, join Road Scholar expert Nicole Flores for an introduction to this remote continent. Explore the secrets beneath its icy surface and its fascinating history. Meet the intrepid explorers ...
AI for Climate Adaptation and Disaster Response: Public Sector Pathways to ImpactArtificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to climate challenges, from wildfire detection and flood forecasting to public health surveillance and disaster response. But fully realizing that potential requires grappling with real barriers: under-resourced public agencies, fragmented data infrastructure, procurement and equity gaps, and the distance between what a tool can ...
From the reintroduction of beavers for natural flood management to the managed grazing of cattle for biodiversity gain, the inclusion-or use-of nonhumans in/as environmental interventions is gaining traction as ‘win-win’ governance techniques for the Anthropocene, associated with a policy turn towards ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NbS) to climate change and biodiversity loss. ...
The emergence of large language models has prompted a surge of interest into theoretical models that might give us insight into both their successes and their shortcomings. We’ll give an overview of recent work in this direction, focusing on a surprising line of positive results that shows it is possible ...
Stanford Public Humanities invites you to join us for an event and lively conversation celebrating the release of historian Jessica Riskin's new book The Power of Life (Riverhead Books/Penguin, March 24, 2026). The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented figures in the history of science. Working in ...
Where: StanfordCost: 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.
Where: Cost: Free
Consumers and the Future of Energy AffordabilityThis panel will explore how rising energy costs, new technologies, evolving climate & energy policies are influencing households nationally.Moderated by award-winning energy reporter Mary Catherine O'Connor and featuring Neil Chatterjee, Former FERC Chairman, Chris Kemper, CEO of Palmetto, and Arnab Pal, Deploy Action, the discussion will examine the impact of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Thursday, 04/23/26
Cortical Areas involved in motor control of the limbs: Plasticity within and across lifetimesForelimb morphology and use in mammals is extraordinarily diverse. Evolution has produced wings, flippers, hooves, paws and hands which are specialized for a variety of behaviors such as flying, swimming and grasping to name a few. While there is a wealth of data in human and non-human primates on the ...
Lina Li is Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University. She is a Scientific Advisor of Singularity Energy, Inc, a startup providing a suite of innovative products, developer APIs, and intelligent tools for companies to build the future of decarbonization solutions, and Elastro ...
Electricity and its Discontents: Unreliability and the Struggle for an African Energy TransitionSpeaker: Gbemi AkinsipeAnalyzing Energy System Decarbonization Strategy: Linear Optimization and Techno-Economic ModelingSpeaker: Jesse Griffin-Carney
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: Climate JourneysLearn about creative ways to navigate climate change, and don’t miss a preview of our new exhibits on local ecosystems.Ages 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
Fighting Wildfires from the Sky: Toward Safer, Around-the-Clock Aerial OperationsAircraft have been supporting wildfire response for decades - dropping water and retardant, tracking fire movement, and helping protect communities. Yet most aerial firefighting today is still limited to daytime operations using crewed aircraft, with only limited capability in challenging conditions like heavy smoke or low visibility. This leaves critical ...
