Keeping FitStaff from the Recreational Sports Facility will present their new insights about older adult fitness and people with mobility issues and their recent purchase of new fitness equipment. Public Health Professor William Satariano will present his collaboration with New Media Center associate director, Greg Neimeier, on mobilitySpeakers: Matt Grigorieff, Coordinator, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 General, Free for UC Berkeley
How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do"Stereotype threat" is a problem that pervades American life, according to Claude Steele, an internationally recognized social psychologist and professor at Stanford University. An afternoon with Dr. Steele promises to be insightful and engaging.Speaker: Dr. Claude Steele, StanfordSibley Auditorium
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Predicting and Preventing Asteroid Impacts: The B612 Foundation Sentinel Space TelescopeThe B612 Foundation is building the Sentinel Space Telescope, an infrared space telescope to be launched in July 2018 that will find and track over 500 thousand Near Earth Asteroids. I will discuss what it takes to find, track, and deflect asteroids to protect our planet.Speaker: Ed Lu, B612 Foundation
Join us for a late-afternoon conversation with world-renowned psychotherapy authors on therapeutic ventures on the screen and on the page Speakers: Irvin Yalom, world-famous psychiatrist and author of "When Nietzsche Wept", "Lying on the Couch", "The Schopenhauer Cure", "Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy"Yael Hedaya, screenwriter for the critical acclaimed ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Automobile Electronics and Electrical Vehicles1. Automotive Engine and Drive Train Control Electronics: Ranjit Deshpande, VP of Engineering of Renesas2. Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure at GM: Dr Frankie James, Managing Director of GM Advanced Technology, General MotorsThis talk describes GM's approach to plug-in electric vehicle charging infrastructure. GM is collaborating with other stakeholders to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The New GoldThe New Leaders Initiative is hosting the next installment of its Rooted and Rising series, entitled "Water – the New Gold?". The discussion will include Brower Youth Award winner Martin Figueroa, UC-Berkeley student activist Angélica Salceda, and Colin Bailey of Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. This event will explore contemporary ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Human Evolution as Revealed by the Neandertal GenomeRichard E. (Ed) Green is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He's a researcher in the exciting field of ancient DNA, where DNA from fossils are extracted, sequenced, and compared to genomes of living species. He led the analysis of DNA extracted from the 40,000 year ...
Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity is critical for conservation planning, particularly given the need to prioritize efforts in the face of rapid habitat loss and human-induced climatic change. Biodiversity and endemism are traditionally measured using species counts and ranges. However, investigation of patterns of species distributions alone misses out on ...
Experience the wildlife and natural beauty that make Younger Lagoon an exceptional local treasure on this docent-led tour to the lagoon and its beach habitat. Younger Lagoon is excellent for bird watching and seeing animals that call the reserve's intact coastal dunes home, such as: bobcats, foxes, seabirds, raptors, and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Science Smart Kids- Radical RecyclingRadical Recycling with Science Smart Kids offers engaging, multi-sensory, hands-on science workshops for children. Kids learn best when they are having fun!
Where: San JoseCost: Free
MAKING SMART COMMUNITIES RESILIENTRecent disasters locally and worldwide have demonstrated the difficulties in mounting fast, coordinated, and successful responses as well as the importance of incorporating citizens in preparing, responding, and communicating. The Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Silicon Valley, develops open, interoperable solutions using smart phones, mobile devices, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San FranciscoCafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco. We'll meet at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club! Look for the black balloon.For more information or if you have questions please ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
LED Lighting: State of the ArtThe future of lighting is here. What is LED Lighting? What are its benefits compared with other lighting technologies? What products are available and how are they made? Tim Benson, CEO Advanced LED LLC, will discuss how to choose the right lighting for your applications - residential or commercial, to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Advance Tickets $6.50 or $10 at the Door
April LASER Event6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Jesse Houldingon "Phenomena as material"Installations that use light and other natural phenomenon to explore perception...Read more7:25-7:50: Chris McKay(NASA) on "The Curiosity Mars Mission"Abstract...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'People of a Feather'Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes the audience through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present, and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10
What Nitrogen Deposition Can Teach Us About Birds, Butterflies, Native Plants, and the Future of Conservation Brent Plater, Executive Director of the Wild Equity Institute, will discuss the largely-unknown landscape of the Antioch Dunes. The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge was created to protect extremely rare insects, and remains the only wildlife refuge specifically created for invertebrate conservation. An unforeseen problem threatens this dune community: nitrogen ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: Free
Friday, 04/05/13
Field Botany FridaysCome hike with ACR staff. While we hike, we may identify plants, survey for rare plants, photograph wildflowers, discuss ethnobotany or other trailside botany. Takes place the first Friday of every month.Please dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to ...
The Role of Supply-Following Loads in Highly Renewable Electricity GridsDriven by renewables portfolio standards and emissions limits, electrical grids are phasing in renewable electricity generation at an unprecedented rate, primarily displacing traditional fossil fuel-powered sources. Most electricity generation by renewables is non-dispatchable, meaning that it often fluctuates unpredictably and cannot be scheduled or shifted. This makes matching supply and ...
Science Smart Kids- Wormology and CompostingWormology and Composting with Science Smart Kids offers engaging, multi-sensory, hands-on science workshops for children. Kids learn best when they are having fun
Public Star Viewing NightsJoin Sonoma State University's Physics and Astronomy department for a star party.Topic: Beehive and M67, Open clusters
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Houge Park Start PartyMeet with members of San Jose Astronomical Society for a Star Party, weather permitting.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 04/06/13
Annual Salt Pond Mud Stomp: One small step for plover lovers, one giant leap for ploverkindJoin PRBO plover biologists and our partners from the Department of Fish and Wildlife at the Moss Landing Wildlife Area salt ponds to view and help Federally Threatened Snowy Plovers and other shorebirds as they begin nesting. Put on rubber boots and walk along the margins of the drying ponds ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free for members
Golden Gate Playdate: Super Seas"S" is for sea. Join us as we celebrate seals, sea stars, and whales as our Sea-lebrities in the spotlight. We will guide you through hands-on activities designed to engage your preschooler's sense of wonder and imagination through story, song, movement, and inquiry. Together, we will take a walk inside ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $15/per child per session, 1 adult admission free
The San Mateo County Eco-Friendly Fair is a gathering of environmentally-conscious and friendly individuals, companies, and organizations, sponsored by the San Mateo County Youth Commission. Come for a day filled with vendors from all over the Bay Area featuring unique green products, food, and special finds. Engaging free DIY workshops ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Nano DaysPassport to the world of tiny things. This year NanoDays is filled with a dozen new activities. At a billionth of a meter find out how the physics of every day materials dramatically change allowing incredible new applications. Explore gold, butterflies, sun block, electricity and so much more. Complete the ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Spring Celebration: Coastal Camp Open HouseJoin us for an opportunity to learn more about our fabulous upcoming 2013 Coastal Camp season. Meet our staff, participate in a family hike, and touch the tidepool creatures in our marine lab.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free, drop-in event
Trekking the ModelJoin a ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5 acre hydraulic model of San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 – 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Fish Feeding FrenzyHelp Ranger Bill feed the hungry inhabitants of our fresh and saltwater tanks. Watch the different feeding styles of rock cod, sea stars, and steelhead trout.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
San Mateo County Astronomical Society Star PartyThe City of San Carlos Department of Parks and Recreation and the San Mateo County Astronomical Society have open Star Parties. These events are held in Crestview Park, San Carlos California. Dates and Sunset times are below. Note that inclement weather (clouds, excessive wind and showers) will cause the event ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
Sunday, 04/07/13
Wildflower RamblesTake a Moderate 5-mile loop hike with a park docent from valley floor to ridge top to enjoy spring wildflowers in a variety of habitats. Meet at the Calero Reservoir boat launch on McKean Rd. $6 parking fee. Dress in layers, bring a camera, carry water, wear a hat and ...
Where: San JoseCost: $6 Parking
Free Day of ScienceFirst Sundays are FREE! OMCA is free all day the first Sunday of every month. Tour the building with members of the Museum's Council on Architecture at 1 pm and enjoy a Docent-led tour of the Gallery of California Art at 2 pm. Grab lunch or a snack at Blue ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Big Data for Big Decision MakersThe 30-year old spreadsheet is no match for the tsunami of information available today; yet it remains the primary tool for decision-makers. By discussing real customer use cases, CEO Harry Blount will demonstrate how The Personal Analytics Cloud (PAC) is able to leverage the aggregation capabilities and the processing power ...
Editor's Note: This event has been postponed until this fall.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $12 advance, $15 at door
Monday, 04/08/13
Summit to SeeA monthly cross-country hike to a high point or other highlight of the sanctuary with natural history, photography, birding, etcPlease dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to bring a hat, an extra layer, and a snack. There are no ...
Miniature microscopes are being developed to examine tissue in situ for early anatomic and molecular indicators of disease, in real time, and at cellular resolution. These new devices will lead to a shift from the current diagnostic paradigm of biopsy followed by histopathology and recommended therapy, to one of non-invasive point-of-care diagnosis with the possibility of treatment in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Coping with climate change: 6 myths and 1 factChris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. He ...
The threat of climate change has profound implications for the evolution of the world's energy system over the coming decades. More than many environmental problems, uncertainty is a central characteristic of the problem – uncertainty regarding the physical science of climate but also uncertainty regarding the impacts, technologies (for mitigation, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Illuminating The Atomic World: The X-ray Free Electron Laser At SLACThe Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is the world's brightest source of hard X-ray laser light. Not only is this light a billion times brighter than any previous hard X-ray source, it also comes in strobe-like pulses just a few tens of femptoseconds long. This ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Warning California: Science and Technology to Reduce the Growing Earthquake ThreatSince 2003, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory has been hosting a free public lecture series in honor of Professor Andrew Lawson on earthquakes and earthquake science. Held every year in April, the lecture series highlights a broad range of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community.Speaker: Dr. Richard Allen, Berkeley Seismological ...
On April 22, 2012, a small asteroid impacted close to home in California-at Sutter's Mill, the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, leading to the California Gold Rush. Meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens kept a tally of finds and mobilized NASA Ames Research Center into leading the recovery ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members, $10 Seniors
Jeff Goodell is a best-selling author, journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. The New York Times called his book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future "a compelling indictment of one of the country's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries." Goodell is the author of ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $22
The Higgs Boson and Our LifeOn 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson (hunted for almost 50 years), which is a crucial piece for our understanding of fundamental physics and thus the structure and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 04/09/13
Engineering the emergence of life through convection, serpentinization and the first metabolic pathwayThe alkaline hydrothermal theory for the emergence of life holds that the endergonic (thermodynamically uphill) reactions vital for life's origin and continued existence require free energy converters (nano-engines) fuelled by various disequilibria. The first two primary engines were i) a carbon fixation engine to generate the organic building blocks of ...
The Higgs Boson and Other Recent Results from ATLASRecent results from the ATLAS experimenta at the CERN Lrge Hadron Collider (LHC) will be presented, with an emphasis on Higgs physics. Measurement of the Higgs boson properties and the present understanding of this recently discovered, very special particle, will be discussed.Speaker: Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, CERN
It's all about "prediction" at the next Café Sci.Greg Laughlin and a collaborator captured the world's attention in 1999 when they announced they had identified the five ages of the universe. Is it possible to know the universe's life story from beginning to end? More generally, which kinds of events can be predicted ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sugar -- The Bitter TruthDr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at University of California, will speak on "Sugar: the Bitter Truth." His new book, Fat chance: beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease, addresses how sugar is toxic to our health. A book sale and signing ...
A major shift has occurred in the types of workloads run in large cloud data centers driven by the "mega-trend" of the growth in data-intensive mobile devices. The rise of cloud companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon is bringing about a change in attitudes to processors -the emphasis is now ...
EXPLOSIVES: WHY THINGS GO BOOM! By Zach DemkoExplosives are the most powerful chemical reactions possible. They are used for destruction and creation, propulsion, intimidation, and art. But what makes a good explosive? In this talk you will learn how terrorists blow up hummers, NASA gets astronauts into space, and the ...
