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Total Lunar EclipseThe observatory deck opens at 2am for a special presentation about the eclipse. Stay after the presentation for the late night viewing festivities. A Lunar Eclipse occurs when the Moon passes through the shadow of the Earth. For this to happen the Sun, Earth, and Moon must be closely aligned ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, Free for members
Data Analytics in EnergyEd Abbo is currently President and Chief Technical Officer of C3 Energy, which offers smart grid analytics SaaS solutions that enable utilities to realize the full promise of their investments in the smart grid Mr. Abbo was formerly Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation responsible for Oracle's application and SaaS ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Enhancing Decision Making for New Vaccine Development and Health PolicyThe Institute of Medicine has developed SMART Vaccines-a decision support software system that offers the promise of enhancing decision making about the priorities for developing new vaccines and prioritizing for deployment among existing vaccines. It can also be used to help specify desirable vaccine characteristics, and potentially applied in comparing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Steven Pinker: The Science of Writing WellSteven Pinker, a leading scientist of language and the mind, regularly appears in lists of the world's top 100 thinkers. A psychology professor at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books including The Stuff of Thought and How the Mind Works. His latest, The Sense of Style: The ...
The Baltic Sea is an ideal natural laboratory for the study of climate change impacts on the ocean, where the greatest rate of change is now being found in semi-enclosed seas. The recent IPCC AR5 assessment reports that under RCP 8.5 Baltic sea surface temperatures will increase by 4.3°C by ...
I will start by describing specific ecological systems that have multiple stable states, lakes and coral algal grazer systems giving models of the latter. I will then discuss approaches for predicting sudden shifts in the face of slow parameter change. The approach will depend on developing a simple stochastic model and using ...
Go Wild! Nature Program for KidsEver wonder about the San Francisco Bay wetlands and the wildlife in your very own backyard? Join us for an adventure here at your local library. You'll get up close and personal with real feet and beaks of birds while you play bird games and create your very own wild ...
Critical information systems remain vulnerable to attack by a wide range of potential adversaries. Unfortunately, the risks are real and the problem continues to worsen in scope. This talk will describe the current and evolving nature of the threat and will highlight dangers in cyberspace today. The talk will discuss ...
Twitter's 250 million users generate tens of billions of tweet views per day. Aggregating these events in real time - in a robust enough way to incorporate into our products - presents a massive scaling challenge. In this talk I'll introduce TSAR (the TimeSeries AggregatoR), a robust, flexible, and scalable ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Spooky Halloween ScienceGet ready for Spooky Halloween Science Fun! In this workshop, you will handle slimy worms and learn about their role in decomposition, turn your lab partner into a "mummy", make a witch's potion, concoct Oger boogers, create a skull mask, and observe a real sheep's brain. If you like disgusting, nasty, ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
How Google Works: Authors Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg in Conversation with Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionaryâ€" and frequently contrarianâ€"principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: TBA
8 Big Ideas - Science at the TheaterAt Berkeley Lab, we pride ourselves on great, socially responsible ideas. But can we explain them in a way that non-scientists can understand -- and applaud -- in only 8 minutes? The answer is yes and we will prove it on October 8 at Oakland's Kaiser Theater from 7-9 p.m. when 8 Berkeley Lab scientists take ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Exploring the Frontiers of Astronomy and the Lick ObservatoryThe Sonoma County Astronomical Society and the Robert Ferguson Observatory present:A benefit lecture by Prof. Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley.Hosted by the Sonoma Academy 'Black Box Theater'Purchase tickets here.
7:00-7:25: Alison Gopnik(UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "The Philosophical Baby"What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life...Read more7:25-7:50: Edward Frenkel(UC Berkeley/ Mathematics) on "Love and Math"Abstract...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art ...
Judy Irving, a Sundance-and-Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker known for The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, is coming to Sonoma. Now it's pelicans and their ancient magic, near-extinction and recovery paralleling our human relationship to the environment. One August afternoon, a confused, tired, and very hungry young pelican landed on the roadway of ...
Where: SonomaCost: $8
The Copernicus Complex: Are We Special in the Cosmos?Is humanity on Earth special or unexceptional? For the first time in human history, we stand poised to answer this question from a scientific perspective. Extraordinary discoveries in astronomy and biology have revealed a universe filled with endlessly diverse planetary systems, and a picture of life as a phenomenon intimately linked with ...
In an age of terrorism, where should a democratic society draw the line on government surveillance? Edward Snowden's explosive disclosures about the National Security Agency's intelligence-collection operations have ignited an intense debate about the appropriate balance between security and liberty in America. In a special series this year, nationally prominent ...
Engineer/Comedian Don McMillan headlines and hosts a FULL night of Nerdy Comedy on Wednesday, October 8 at Roosters! This is not your typical comedy show: Don't expect jokes like "Cats are different than dogs". It's more like "Einstein was way different than Newton..." Combining a solid scientific method and 25 ...