Measuring galaxy photometric redshifts for Stage IV weak lensing cosmology experimentsA key challenge for upcoming “Stage IV" weak lensing cosmology experiments (LSST, Euclid,WFIRST) will be measuring accurate redshifts for billions of faint galaxies using only broad-band photometric observations. Specifically, dark energy constraints from weak lensing cosmology depend on excellent characterization of the N(z) distributions of galaxies in ~10-20 cosmic shear ...
Complex models in Earth Sciences refer to the combination of multiple properties, scales, observations, and physics relating the various model components for the description of geological objects. As natural objects the reservoirs, earth crust or planets require a multidisciplinary description, and setting such a description into a joint numerical framework ...
The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day will highlight student-led projects that apply tech and data for social good.The event will showcase student projects from the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program; the Center for Technology, Society and Policy (CTSP) Data for Good Project, sponsored by Facebook; and Big Ideas finalists in ...
Where: UC BerkeleyCost: Free and open to the public. RSVP requested
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is technique capable of visualizing challenging systems that otherwise defy structural characterization, as it overcomes the need for crystallization, requires only small amounts of sample, and has the potential to deal with and describe compositional and conformational mixtures. Therefore, cryo-EM can be used to investigate complete and ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
THE SuperCDMS SNOLAB EXPERIMENT: SEARCHING FOR ELUSIVE DARK MATTER A MILE UNDERGROUNDAlthough yet to be directly observed, there is a wealth of evidence for the existence of some form of non-luminous matter distinct from the normal material that makes up our everyday world. Although an extremely challenging search, there are a number of experimental groups attempting to detect and characterize dark ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Fundamental Physics in Cislunar SpaceNASA plans to establish a moon-orbiting, crewed space station called the Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway. The Gateway will host science missions subtending multiple technical disciplines.  A moon-orbiting platform provides unique opportunities to address fundamental questions related to quantum mechanics and gravity. This concept, and other preliminary mission concepts in the area ...
Dian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy expert. Dian began her career in the late 1970’s at the California Energy Commission in the first Jerry Brown administration and help developed the first clean energy policies and programs. Dian served as a Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Spring 2018 Report on the Sierra Nevada's Rain, Fires, Snowpack, Trees, Water and EcosystemsJoin our distinguished annual panel for an up-to-date report on the Sierra Nevada mountains, habitats, water, rivers, trees, ground cover, and the harsh economic impacts caused by fire, degradation, drought and ecosystems changes. Where are we now in the 2017 - 2018 climate cycle and the cycle of destruction, renewal ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members & Students
Nerd Nite East Bay: Polyandrous Tamarins, Roller Coaster Design, Merritt College ProtestsWhite Hills, Black Flats: Black Studies and the Struggle for Community Control of Merritt CollegeDisappointed with the failures of integration and the racist curricula and hiring practices of the 1960s, Black students took over the administration building at Oakland’s Merritt College on March 15, 1971 to protest the relocation of ...
Your body is inhabited with 100 trillion microbes, collectively referred to as the microbiome. Join us for a walk through the history of studying our microbial inhabitants, their roles in health, and how scientists hope to use microbes as treatments in the future. Join us at the San Mateo Public Library ...
