An Enzyme's-Eye View of EvolutionCoffee & Refreshments served on lower level Stanley Hall @3:50pm-4:10pmSpeaker: Professor Richard Wolfenden, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Biophysics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillRoom 105
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Physiologically-based predictors of speech intelligibilityAccurate models of normal and impaired neural representations of sound are useful tools in understanding how acoustic stimuli are encoded in the brain, predicting speech intelligibility, and developing and testing speech processing schemes for hearing aids. In this talk I will review recent developments in modeling the effects of hair ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF MATTERDr. Maxwell Chertok from the University of California, Davis will discuss how the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadronic Collider in Switzerland enables physicists to search for the Higgs Boson and investigate undiscovered principles of nature.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
The Evolving Internet: Driving Forces, Uncertainties, and Four Scenarios to 2025What will the Internet be like in 2025?How much bigger will it have grown from today's 2 billion users and $3 trillion market?Will it have achieved its full potential to connect the world's entire population in ways that advance global prosperity, business productivity, education and social interaction?Or will it be ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Emission Reductions in the Electricity Sector by 2030: High Resolution Modeling of Rapid Decarbonization ScenariosDecarbonizing electricity production is central to greenhouse gas reduction. Exploiting intermittent renewable energy resources demands a new class of power system planning models with high temporal and spatial resolution. SWITCH, a mixed-integer linear program developed at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at UC Berkeley, is used to analyze capacity-expansion ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Tuesday, 10/26/10
Pritzker Lecture: Disaster Medicine: In the FieldWhen disasters strike, doctors from around the world take to the field. Doctors from the Bay Area community and UCSF will enlighten us about how they join forces on the ground in response to tragic and unexpected large scale disasters, specifically in Haiti and Guatemala. This talk will be hosted ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 general, $10 seniors, Free members
Indoor Environment in Buildings and Occupant Comfort, Health and ProductivityA poor indoor environment caused by e.g. insufficient ventilation, strong air pollution sources, or unsatisfactory thermal conditions may cause occupants to feel discomfort, a range of different symptoms (headache, tiredness, itching eyes, etc.) related with the occupancy, and result in decreased performance. The presentation will summarize recent studies on the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
PET Imaging Probes for Imaging Cancer Phenotypes and Response to TherapySpeaker: Jeanne Link, Ph.D., University of WashingtonUCB staff and students can use their UC ID card to obtain access to LBNL off-site shuttle buses and do not need to RSVP; Others, and those who plan to arrive by car, need to RSVP to arrange site-access. RSVP by October 25 by calling Ciccina ...
Off Grid Energy Solutions In Developing Countries Speaker Series· Works to create sustainable energy infrastructure in marginalized communities in Nicaragua· Developed and implemented bio sand water filters and hybrid solar-wind energy generation systems in Bluefields, Nicaragua.Find out ways you can make a difference and join BlueEnergy on one of their service learning trips! Click here for more information.Speaker: ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
EcoTuesday SF, with John ShegerianEcoTuesday, a unique, structured monthly networking event for sustainable business leaders held concurrently in nine cities across the country, will feature John Shegerian, the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), as our speaker in San Francisco this month. Sheregian will discuss his thoughts on:• This green movement is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 advance, $10 at door
Free 3-Session Climate Action Workshop During three weekly workshop sessions, you will join with a small group of Bay Area residents to:*Calculate your carbon footprint*Consider ways to reduce your ecological footprint and make substantive changes in your community*Take action (as much or as little as you choose)*Access the wisdom, advice, and collaboration of your community ...
In Cambodia, wildlife and people depend on a unique and fragile freshwater ecosystem. The flooded forests surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake support a bewildering array of animals. Yet the lake's fishery is collapsing. This would lead to the loss of one of the most productive fisheries in the world, with ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $15 General, Free Members
Killing Pain with Killer SnailsKilling Pain with Killer SnailsGeorge Miljanich, CEO Airmid PharamaceuticalsThe Deets:Tens of millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain - pain that lasts longer than six months. Chronic pain can be mild or excruciating, episodic or continuous, merely inconvenient or totally incapacitating. With chronic pain, signals of pain remain active in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Pritzker Lecture: Disaster Medicine: In the Field CANCELEDThe 7:00 PM edition of this talk has been canceled.When disasters strike, doctors from around the world take to the field. Doctors from the Bay Area community and UCSF will enlighten us about how they join forces on the ground in response to tragic and unexpected large scale disasters, specifically ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 general, $10 seniors, Free members
When given a set of images showing the passing of time - for example, a baby maturing into an adult and then becoming an old man - speakers of English will arrange the images from left to right. Speakers of Hebrew will arrange them from right to left. No matter ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $9.01
Wednesday, 10/27/10
Automatic Speech Recognition at 60: Old and ImmatureAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a venerable discipline, with significant research papers going back to the early 1950's. Given this long history, ASR is often viewed as a mature field. However, like human beings, a research topic can be old without being mature. While major advances in speech engineering have ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
New Search Strategies for SETISETI continues to embroider the search strategy pioneered by Frank Drake, a half-century ago. Although the technology of the search has enormously improved, are we being too conservative in our choice of targets? In this talk, we'll consider some of the other places we might look for ET.Speaker: Seth Shostak, ...
Green Policy Conflicts in KoreaBoosting the green economy is a goal for many nations; the efforts of South Korea include tidal power plants and a new "green city" in Incheon Metropolitan City. Ironically, both of these "green" initiatives in South Korea require a significant loss of tidal-flat wetlands that host tens of thousands of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rumors of the Web's DemiseWired has declared "the web is dead." We will look at several technologies and information systems that have died (or are on life support) - pigeon post, the area code - and others that are thriving - mobile applications, cable, World of Warcraft - and try to figure out whether the ...
Intel Light PeakLight Peak is a new I/O interconnect technology developed by Intel aimed at connecting computing and consumer electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10 Gb/s and scaling to 100 Gb/s over the next decade. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Force for NatureThe Natural Resources Defense Council was founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement, including John Adams. Since then, NRDC lawyers have helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws and continue to provide legal services in support of environmental ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Fracking For Gas: Clean Energy Solution or the Next Drilling DisasterJoin us for a free viewing of "Gasland", a pathbreaking documentary on the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale that is spreading across the country. Pockmarking the landscape in 38 states, fracking is now nearly everywhere. Some tout is as a job-creator and a way to achieve energy ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Climate Action WorkshopConcerned about climate change? Not sure what more you can do? Whether you're new to the environmental arena or a veteran of activism, you're invited to a fun and informative workshop Learn new ways to reduce your carbon footprint and help your community respond! At this workshop you will: √ ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Bay Area Puma ProjectThe Bay Area Puma Project (BAPP) is the first major study of pumas in the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal of this 10-year research and conservation program is to increase our understanding of local puma populations and their interactions with humans in order to facilitate a healthier co-existence between ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 10/28/10
TRUST Security Seminar: Secure Information Flow in Trust NetworksWho is responsible for the harm and risk of security flaws? The advent of worldwide networks such as the internet made software security (or the lack of software security) became a problem of international proportions. There are no mathematical/statistical risk models available today to assess networked systems with interdependent failures. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Designing Infrastructure Around Evolving Sea Level: A Physical Scientist Looks at ArchitectureSea level rise is among the most tangible and costly global changes facing societies and economies worldwide in the near future. Our response to sea level rise, including adaptation of coastal infrastructure, requires planning guided by good predictions of what sea level may actually do. Much scientific and policy effort ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Energy Efficiency and a Cleaner Energy Perspective for IndiaMr. Farhad Forbes of Forbes Marshall Inc., a global company manufacturing advanced engineering products for process and power industries worldwide, provides a broad overview of the power generation scenario and policies for clean energy in India. He then focuses on the challenges of improving energy efficiency through reduced downtimes in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
TOWARDS A WHOLE-CELL MODEL OF MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUMThe target of our research is a fundamental milestone in biology: to build a computational model that can simulate a complete life cycle of a single cell, taking into account all genes. We will describe our recent efforts to build a model which can track all biological processes, including for ...
The Bay Area is home to many outstanding examples of sustainable architecture. Local architects and engineers are pushing design boundaries to achieve improvements in the places we live, work, learn, and play. This tour is the second in a series of excursions behind the scenes where sustainability supports and infuses ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 Exploratorium Members, $25 Non-members
A SuperNatural NightLifeKick off your Halloween in-costume at a SuperNatural edition of the Academy's weekly NightLife event. Why? Because your fabulous get-up deserves more than one night of glory! In the spirit of Halloween, step into the world of parapsychology with Professor Paranormal, one of the world's leading experts on ghosts and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Dams provide water supply, power generation and flood control, but they have finite life spans and can disrupt river and coastal ecosystems. Removal of two large dams on the Elwha River of Washington in 2011 will be the largest dam removal project ever. Will removing the dams aid the recovery ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The Art of EmbalmingThomas Marsden from The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA, will take us along on a body's trip from death to burial. He will explain the hows and whys of the embalmer's art, give a bit of historical perspective, and demonstrate (without a real cadaver) some of the high-tech techniques ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Friday, 10/29/10
Soil Water: A Microbes PerspectiveThe ESD Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series is a monthly seminar featuring eminent individuals from various disciplines in the scientific community whose research is outstanding, interdisciplinary, and of broad interest to strategic interest initiatives in the earth sciences.Speaker: Prof. Mary Firestone, ESPM, UC BerkeleyRoom: B50 Auditorium
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
History of the Bay ModelWhat was it that brought about the need for the Bay Model? How did the Bay Model help save San Francisco Bay from being developed into a mere puddle of water surrounded by giant freshwater dams?
Energy Research and Commercialization at SRISRI International has been described as the birthplace of some of Silicon Valley's most important innovations. With a corporate commitment to solving important problems, this talk will cover why SRI believes ensuring affordable, clean, and dependable energy supplies is one of the world's important problems, highlight current energy projects, and ...
Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Energy Conversion: Nano Seminar SeriesDirect solar energy conversion to storable fuels offers a promising route toward less reliance on fossil fuels.Photoelectrolysis of water to generate H2 on a semiconductor/electrolyte interface has the attractive advantages of clean processing and energy savings over steam reforming of natural gas. One of the most critical issues in solar ...
Modular Reinforcement Learning as a Model of Embodied CognitionThe severe speed limitations of the brain's neural circuitry mean that vast amounts of indexing must be performed during development so that appropriate behavioral responses can be rapidly accessed. One way this could happen would be if the brain used some kind of decomposition whereby behavioral primitives could be quickly ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Marine MasqueradeKids, bring your parents and join us at the Seymour Center for a night of scavenger hunts, creature crafts, flashlight tours to our whale skeleton, scary stories, and more! Members $4 adults, kids $3; regular admission applies to the public.
Where: Santa CruzCost: See description
10000: Things that Go Bump in the NightOn this dark, foggy, and dreary night - Chabot will be hosting it's after dark party. Featuring music, costume contest, spooky beverages, and views of the cosmos*. 10000 Admission includes event activities, access to interactive exhibits, one planetarium show and one megadome show. *weather permitting10000 is a very popular event ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20 Adults, $15 Students, $8 Members
Saturday, 10/30/10
SuperNatural FestivalGet into the Halloween spirit (and your costume) with some daytime SuperNatural fun at the Academy - home to thousands of slithering, crawling creatures, and millions of pickled and preserved specimens. Treat your family to thrills, chills, and spook-tacular activities:• Turn heads at an Academy costume parade• Complete a scavenger ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Introduction to Rooftop GardeningRoof gardens are being implemented as an attractive and effective response to the urban challenges by providing numerous environmental and health benefits. In this workshop there will be a showcase of inspiring roof gardens from around the world, discuss the many benefits, introduce various methods and technologies and demonstrate how ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Sinister Science Halloween Party and Space MissionsTrick or treat at Chabot. Dress up as your favorite extraterrestrial or character and receive a treat! Drink some spooky punch and participate in hands-on sinister science activities. Enjoy guest appearances by special costumed friends. There will be Discovery Lab activities for tots with costumes, spooky read-alongs and much more. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, $5 Members plus regular admission
Earth Surfing the Seismic WaveSan Francisco is not the only city in California built on Rock 'n' Roll. Most Californians have experienced the earth move beneath their feet. The wave motion typical of our area is both exciting and scary. Are you ready to ride out the Big One?
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
SMCAS Star PartyThe City of San Carlos Department of Parks and Recreation and the San Mateo County Astronomical Society have open Star Parties twice a month. Note that inclement weather (clouds, excessive wind and showers) will cause the event to be canceled without notice.If you have kids interested in space or planets ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
Sunday, 10/31/10
SuperNatural FestivalGet into the Halloween spirit (and your costume) with some daytime SuperNatural fun at the Academy - home to thousands of slithering, crawling creatures, and millions of pickled and preserved specimens. Treat your family to thrills, chills, and spook-tacular activities:• Turn heads at an Academy costume parade• Complete a scavenger ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Connections Workshop: Plankton PropertiesCome be our ghosts this Halloween when costumed kids (and grown-ups, too) haunt the exhibits and explore creepy crawlers-from giant insects and tarantulas of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarantula Society to blood-sucking leeches from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Make and decorate sugar skulls with local artist Irma ...
