Berkeley-Inclusive Intelligence AI SymposiumTo ensure sustainable success, organizations are turning to new approaches to lead their transformation in a digital age. Technology and data hoarding aren’t the answer. It takes a more thoughtful strategy to create durable value from analytics. Humans, ethics, diversity are a large part of the equation to foster a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
CITRIS Research ExchangeAs the amount of available data increases, the human ability to locate, process, and analyze it is strained and eventually overwhelmed. To address this challenge for nonproliferation analysts, we have been designing a large-scale multimodal retrieval system to help analysts triage and search open source science, technology, transaction, and news ...
Stephen Wright is a professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto in Canada. He received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2003, working with Deborah Charlesworth, and did a postdoc at the University of California, Irvine, with Brandon Gaut. His primary research interests concern ...
During 2013-2014, China launched a nation wide real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed moment in the history of its environmental regulations. We present the first empirical analysis of this natural experiment by exploiting its staggered introduction across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China’s environmental ...
Learn about the Presidio’s archaeological process and excavations during this one-hour tour. See standing Spanish adobe in the Presidio Officers’ Club before moving to the state-of-the-art lab and collections facility where artifacts are cleaned, catalogued, studied, and curated. It’s a unique opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes workings of an archaeology ...
Join us as we discuss the basics of beekeeping, honey bee biology, and life inside the hive. Have the opportunity to put on a bee suit and see inside a live beehive! Once suited up, watch as Planet Bee Educators open up a hive and point out the honey, pollen, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Of bancas and coconuts: conducting cetacean research in the PhilippinesCetacean research in the Philippines is a relatively young field. With only a handful of research projects dedicated to cetaceans and a few local marine mammal researchers covering the vast coastline of 7,641 islands with 28 species of marine mammals known to occur to date, it is a challenging and ...
At the UCSF Human Performance Center, we partner with other scientists and clinicians at UCSF and in the Bay Area to study biomechanics, exercise physiology, and sleep & athletic performance. During this tour, you’ll get a glimpse into a number of the mechanisms we use to evaluate performance and have ...
Natural wonders, natural disasters, technological leaps, and environmental portents. The BAMPFA Art Study Centers present a special Five Tables viewing of art with a scientific bent. Works on view include: a barnacle-encrusted tea bowl from a 500-year-old Vietnamese shipwreck; the unique refractive “fingerprint†of a camera lens placed on a ...
Most of the diversity of living things around us is microscopic. These microbes do a lot of very important jobs for the ecosystem, and for us. From microscopes, to bacterial cultures, to DNA sequencing, learn about how scientists “see†these very important microorganisms. Try using some of these techniques yourself ...
There’s a terrifying new flu epidemic and your team are the only ones that can prevent a global outbreak. Travel across the globe collecting data, then come back to the lab to race against the clock to build the most effective vaccine. You’ll have to use your investigation and communication ...
Gladstone Institutes bring together over 350 scientists who use transformative science and technology in cardiovascular biology, immunology, neuroscience, and stem cell biology to overcome unsolved diseases. On this tour, you will be able to explore Gladstone labs and learn how their state-of-the-art biomedical research is helping scientists to find new ...
From abandoned mining towns to towns long underwater, come learn about maps and the ghost towns they depict at the Earth Sciences & Map Library. Explore featured maps and other documents of ghost towns and other abandoned places. Librarians and other speakers will be on hand to discuss the stories ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
New Deal to Green New DealThe Green New Deal has raised hopes for a major push to address climate change and social injustice. Is it just pie in the sky? Not at all. The original New Deal of the 1930s brought a revolution in conservation and public health, worker rights and wages, income and regional ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Engineering the FutureCan oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? Lord John Browne attempted it for over nearly two decades as CEO of British Petroleum. Credited with strengthening BP’s balance sheet and leading a successful “Beyond Petroleum†rebranding campaign, Browne ultimately stepped down after a series of disasters and heavy criticism ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Yes, You Could Help Build the Next Disruptor!! Samaira Mehta has been featured on the Today Show & CNBC while gracing the pages of Time Magazine & Vogue. She has won the Youth Entrepreneur Award and her initiative "Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code" is taking Silicon Valley by storm!Samaira's ...
You will use a virtual reality headset to handle, break apart and assemble familiar molecules from water and carbon dioxide to saturated fat, ATP (the energy that runs living things), and sulfuric acid.RSVP needed to attend at weblink.
Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? Lord John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, where he led the company's “Beyond Petroleum†rebranding campaign. In his new book, Browne argues that the solution to reducing emissions and addressing climate change is to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Geologic and geophysical framework of Mt DiabloBased on the upcoming article “Structural and seismic hazard implications of geologic map and potential field geophysical observations at Mount Diablo, California†Mount Diablo has been characterized as a large overturned anticline, but its actual structure is more complex. Offset geologic units and gravity/magnetic anomalies show the mountain is bisected ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Have you ever wondered how scientists research and protect birds? Then join The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory’s Biologist Ben Pearl for an engaging science talk about the work SFBBO does to study and conserve the Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus), an adorable bird that is so rare it ...
Join us for a smorgasbord of bite-size science talks. Be educated and entertained by engaging talks from veterans of UC San Francisco’s popular Grad Slam and Postdoc Slam competitions, who will present their research in just three minutes using language that everyone can understand. Audience trivia contest, too! Afterwards, you’ll ...
