2023 EDGE in Tech Symposium: Smarter Tech for a Resilient Future - LivestreamHow can we engage diverse talent to transform the future of infrastructure to address inequality and promote smarter environments?Join EDGE in Tech, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and Berkeley Engineering for a virtual symposium highlighting the experiences of experts using emerging technologies to advance innovation for more sustainable infrastructure.The event ...
Where: Cost: $50 General, $25 Academic/Nonprofit, Free students
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Over the last four years, NASA’s InSight mission has enabled unprecedented investigations of Mars’ structure and dynamics. Its final year of operations saw a series of huge meteorite impacts detected both seismically and from orbit. In this talk, I will present some of my latest work studying both natural and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Tony VegaSince Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Register ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
How a Scottish academic in 1873 set the stage for today’s global communications - LivestreamHard as it is to believe today, the connection between electricity and magnetism was not made until early in the 19th Century. James Clerk Maxwell brought together field theories from Gauss, Ampere and Faraday into a unified set of equations. At the publication of his “Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism†...
Where: Cost: Free
From Pupils to Space Telescopes: What Your Eyes Can Teach You About How Telescopes Work - LivestreamIn this 1-hour workshop for middle school teachers, we'll explore how your eyes form images, and how your pupil and iris are key to understanding how all optical tools work, even the largest space-based telescopes.While most people have a general idea of how their eyes work, they haven’t made the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience - LivestreamWe are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery ― loosely defined as the spread of false “knowledge,†often accompanied by various versions of “snake oil†― is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Extended CinemasThe warm glow of the projected image invites us to in-between worlds. During this cinematic celebration the passive act of watching turns to listening, peering, touching, and interacting as Exploratorium Cinema Arts takes over museum spaces to provide experiences - both on and off the screen - created by artists ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightlifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
