From museums to monuments and texts to traditions, the 3rd Int'l Congress on DigitalHERITAGE brings together leaders from across the cultural heritage world to explore the science and technology of saving the past.  Being held for the first time in North America here in San Francisco, this summit on digital tools, 3D, VR, ...
Offered annually since 2013, Aero Design Challenge explores the engineering design process with an aerospace-themed project and competition for Grades 5-12. Each program includes a series of foundational experiences in the Hiller Aviation Museum’s exhibit gallery and lab spaces, after which teams of 3-4 students work together to design, build, ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
The abundance and dark matter structure of galaxies in alternative dark matter modelsStrong dark matter interactions are proposed to alleviate the tension between observations and theoretical predictions in CDM. Among different interaction channels, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have received considerable attention. However, most models and simulations have so far neglect the contribution of the baryons. First, I will present a combination ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Fate of Supernova-Heated Gas in Star-Forming Regions of the LMC: Lessons for Galaxy Formation The Magellanic System is an excellent, nearby case-study in galaxy formation and galaxy dynamics. As the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) orbit around each other, they fling material behind them, forming the Trailing Magellanic Stream, an immense reservoir of gas that may someday fall into the Milky ...
Since its purchase of Fayetteville shale from Chesapeake in 2011 and Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian shale from Petrohawk,  BHP has invested billions of dollars in developing and applying new technologies for unlocking these resources. My focus in this talk would be around BHP’s efforts in subsurface characterization and production ...
Get a special guided tour of our newly opened Habitarium and CA Trail exhibits. Guests will learn all about our interactive learning space and our new resident animals.Registration required, and opens on October 19 at weblink
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an experiment that is being performed on a global array of millimeter wavelength telescopes that span the Earth from Hawaii to Chile and from the South Pole to Arizona. With the full array, it is capable of imaging the event horizons of the supermassive ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
ELECTRONS IN NANOSTRUCTURESDavid Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford, studies how electrons organize themselves and flow on the nanoscale. He will discuss how in such submicron devices, quantum effects and electron interactions are important, which confounds intuitions gleaned from larger-scale electronics and opens new regimes of physics.
Physics at LHCb (Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment)I will describe the LHCb experiment that studies decays of baryon quarks (mass of 5 GeV), and charm quarks (1.5 GeV), and show how studying these particles we are sensitive to physics and new particles at very large mass scales of several TeV and up. Specific measurements of CP violation ...
Claudia Perlich advises Dstillery’s machine learning efforts that power digital intelligence and programmatic advertising for marketers and media companies. With more than 50 published scientific articles, she is a widely acclaimed expert on big data and machine learning applications, and an active speaker at data science and marketing conferences around ...
A discussion surrounding several more controversial topics related to power generation:the ongoing role of coal in the global fuel mixthe modest global contribution to CO2 emissions from California and the U.S.the true cost of renewables and the faster declining cost of natural gas powered generationthe impact on CO2 levels of ...
How can artists, scientists, and designers collaborate to develop new methods of public engagement around marine conservation awareness? swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with Marie Griesmar, artist, diver, and science communicator, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. Marie will provide insights into ...
Why do we need natural history museum collections? The millions of specimens contained in the six natural history museums at UC Berkeley have provided the building blocks of data from which scores of researchers have described new species, unraveled complicated kinships among organisms, and discovered how organisms evolve and adapt ...
Join UCSF neuroscientists for a deep dive into our most complex and fascinating organ. Hands-on activities will spark your brain, inspiring talks will inform your brain, and food and drink will fuel your brain!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free, registration required
Nerd Nite East BayDoing the Devil’s Work: Bay Area Satanism and Political Activism.Modern Satanism has a long history in the Bay Area, from Anton LaVey to decades of left wing political work. Far from being baby-eating devil worshippers, modern Satanists act as an adversary against the mainstream, combining occult aesthetics with activism to ...
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder of Openwater whose goal is to see deep into the body with the detail of a high resolution 3D camera. The implications are broad for both healthcare and for communication directly with thought .Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] ...
