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 ...
