For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce children to the fascinating world of snakes and other reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with the docile animals of For Goodness Snakes.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Get Your Goose On! Nature Program for KidsEver wonder about the San Francisco Bay wetlands and the wildlife in your very own backyard? Join us for an adventure here at your local library. You'll get up close and personal with real feet and beaks of birds while you play bird games and create your own wild craft. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
UNIQUE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS)As part of the Valley Christian High School of San Jose AMSE (STEM) Program, the ISS Student Science Experiment Project will be launching 18 student science experiments from 12 schools from Hawaii to Finland to the ISS on May 1, 2014. This presentation will provide an overview of the AMSE ...
After Dark: Wearable TechnologiesExperience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events.Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic-from music to sex to electricity- but all include a cash bar ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General; $10 Members; Free for Lab Members
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 in Menlo Park at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club! Look for someone wearing a CFI (Center for Inquiry) T-Shirt. Café Borrone
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Energy from Waste Water - Silicon Valley Clean Tech Speaker SeriesNitrogen pollution is a major environmental threat that depletes oxygen in aquatic ecosystems that leads to "dead zones". The number of "dead zones" worldwide has nearly doubled every decade since 1960, many are so big they can be seen from space. Wastewater treatment facilities are facing increasing pressure to reduce ...
7:00-7:25: Robert Rich(Composer) on "Slow Music in a Manic World"Sound focused on a listener's state of mind rather than the composer's ego... Read more7:25-7:50: Patricia Burchat(Stanford/ Physics) on ""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 ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Friday, 04/04/14
Robots and New MediaFor decades robots have diligently been tasked to perform a range of roles and duties largely scoped within industrial manufacturing. However, recent trends, motivated in part by high-performance, low-cost hardware, software, and networks have given rise to a new range of more social, personal, expressive, nurturing, and emotional robotic platforms ...
Personalizing Cancer Diagnostics Using Microfluidics: Nano Seminar SeriesCancer therapy has a critical unmet need, which is to identify the best therapy for individual cancer patients. There are currently over 250 FDA-approved drugs for cancer chemotherapy. Most of these were identified and are applied empirically, either alone or in combination, to treat cancer. Drug choice is guided ...
Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her new book, Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around us. Long before her work with ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $35 (includes signed book)
Get Your Goose On! Nature Program for KidsEver wonder about the San Francisco Bay wetlands and the wildlife in your very own backyard? Join us for an adventure here at your local library. You'll get up close and personal with real feet and beaks of birds while you play bird games and create your own wild craft. ...
Guided Hike: Mount Diablo State ParkLet The Greenbelt Alliance take you on a journey through 200 million years of Bay Area geologic history, from the age of the dinosaurs to present day. Karen Synowiec, a professional geologist at Chevron Energy Technology, will be leading the hike as you caravan through Mount Diablo State Park for ...
Where: Cost: $10 park entrance fee
NanoDaysNanoDays! Passport 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. This year's new activities include electroplating, capillary action, ferrofluid, stain resistant ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce children to the fascinating world of snakes and other reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with the docile animals of For Goodness Snakes.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
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
From Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility - CANCELEDA giant leap for mankind taken by Neil Armstrong began as a small step taken by Orville Wright from the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers made history with the first powered flight to carry a human pilot. This great feat lasted only twelve ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Star Formation Through Radio EyesCARMA, a millimeter-wave radio telescope, is being used to probe the origins of stars within their cold, dusty natal clouds revealing how magnetic fields affect the star-formation process. Speaker: Dr. Chat Hull, UC Berkeley
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 04/06/14
Earth Day MarinThe Earth Day Marin 2014 Festival and Day of Action on Sustainability Solutions will be a fun, free, family-friendly event and a day of action on sustainability solutions addressing drought, climate change and other environmental concerns. The entertainment packed day includes award-winning storytellers, puppet shows, and high quality music – Tim ...
Where: LarkspurCost: Free
Free First SundayFirst Sundays of the month are free at the Oakland Museum of California. Pick up a treat for yourself or a loved one in the OMCA Store, or enjoy a lunch or snack in Blue Oak café. Take your pick and join an OMCA Docent for the Architecture Tour at ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Junior Academy: Naturalist Know-howCalifornia Academy of SciencesSundays at 2pm – 2:45pm (sign-up at 1:30pm) Naturalist Center / Lab (Level 3 across from the Planetarium exit)This program is designed for youth ages 8 to 11. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited to 20 youth with attending adults. Onsite registration is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Academy admission
Monday, 04/07/14
Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Healthy (Child) DevelopmentThere is growing interest in the social determinants of healthy child development, and more specifically, in understanding the ways that low-income social environments can have a negative impact on child development. This presentation by Douglas Jutte will describe an exciting research initiative to examine efforts to improve low-income neighborhoods and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Evolutionary Genetics in the Crush of GenomicsThe melding of Darwin's fundamental theory, descent with modification via natural selection with Mendel's particulate theory of inheritance, provided a simple and fertile foundation for the elaboration of population genetics theory in the last century. The lack of direct observations of genetic variation in natural populations fostered creative investigations of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE SIDE EFFECTS OF RESEARCH: MAKING ROOM FOR THE UNEXPECTEDDr. Derek Padilla from Santa Rosa Junior College will discuss some of the unintended consequences that research has on the student researcher. From developing fundamental math skills to analyzing bell hooks with a tomato farmer, this talk will focus on what you don't realize you learned until long after you ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Saving Time and Energy through Bus-Rapid-Transit Project Around the WorldAs the cost of providing space and energy for personal transportation options have increased both on the capital side as well as its energy footprint and consequences, mass transportation is gaining priority for developing and developed countries. In this presentation, we will provide a few examples of the successful and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Seeing Through the Big Bang into Another World? USF Welcomes Sir Roger Penrose Universally recognized mathematician, cosmologist, and physicist to give public lecture at the University of San Francisco (USF). Recent Results from WMAP Satellite and Planck Space Platform. Is our world just one of an infinite succession of universes? How can we tell?A new theory proposes that what we presently regard as the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Our East Bay GeoheritageOur East Bay rocks and landforms are libraries of "deep time," bearing stories of the fascinating structure and surprisingly active geologic history of our remarkable region. With examples of rock exposures, fossils, and landforms in our neighborhoods, this talk will explore how we can better recognize and celebrate our geoheritage ...
Amy Stewart is an award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. In her New York Times bestseller The Drunken Botanist, she explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits and fungi that humans have contrived to transform into alcohol. Learn more about ...
Abstract: The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment's (HiRISE) imagery of Mars allows for meter scale identification of surface features. In this imagery we can identify boulders clustering on polygonal patterned ground terrains in polar environments on Mars. Previously, terrestrial analogs of Mars were used to explain boulder clustering. However, the ...
Self-assembling nonlinear wire networks in complex virtual environments have some amazing properties: They learn to play computer games such as Tetris, if the network inputs represent the state of the virtual environment and the network outputs control the environment with actuators and if the virtual environment offers energy as a ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce children to the fascinating world of snakes and other reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with the docile animals of For Goodness Snakes.
Top SoC Design Challenges – PanelThis talk features a panel of leading experts discussing the top challenges of SoC design in today's competitive world. Hans Spanjaart will be the moderator for the discussions.Panel: Naresh Sehgal, Intel, SW Director for FPGA based Silicon platforms for Mobile productsPaul McLellan, SemiWiki Project, Blogger & EDA ExpertTom Dillinger, Oracle, ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Conversations on Science: Extracting DNA: The Power to Restore Life Imagine a future with mammoths and sabre tooth tigers. Is it possible? Is it ethical? A National Geographic emerging explorer, MacArthur Fellow and professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, Beth Shapiro aims to better understand how populations and species change through time in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $25 Members
Wednesday, 04/09/14
Oakland EarthEXPOEarthEXPO is an annual environmental fair hosted by the City of Oakland Public Works. The fair highlights transportation, environmental health, waste reduction, water, energy, urban design, nature and community themes. Over 80 exhibitors will gather to showcase their contributions for a sustainable environment to an estimated 2,000 attendees.Last year's attendees ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Joe R. McBride: The History, Ecology and Future of Eucalyptus Plantations in the Bay AreaMcBride will explain the ecology of the eucalyptus forest in the Bay Area. He will discuss its structure, the variety of plants and animals that live within it, its health and the ecological functions it performs. There will be a description of the dynamics within these forest stands (such as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 non-members, $8 members, $7 students
David Culler is the Faculty Director of i4Energy, and the Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He joined the EECS faculty in 1989 and is the founding Director of Intel Research, UC Berkeley and the Associate Chair of the EECS department. He is a member of the National Academy ...
One of the greatest stories ever told is how the scientific community has been group-sourcing, extending, and improving since the sixteenth century. The scientific portrait of the universe, from the smallest to the grandest scales, has become consequential for every individual and for the global population. Some of the traditional ways that the scientific ...
Toward Reproducible Computational Science, Reliability, Re-Use, and ReadabilityThis talk motivates the rationale for this shift, and presents solutions I have been developing to facilitate reliable and re-usable computational research including: new empirical findings on changes to journal data and code publication policies; best practices for code and data release; the open source dissemination and access tool ResearchCompendia.org; ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Augmented Reality at the America's Cup, the Technology Behind AC LiveLineAugmented reality was first used in live broadcast sports with the Fox Trax highlighted hockey puck introduced at the Hockey All-Star Game in 1996. Far more popular was the Yellow First Down Line which was introduced in 1998 and is now ubiquitous on broadcast football. AC LiveLine is the latest ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Science for YouthScience for Youth promotes the love of science through exciting demos, interesting videos, and thought-provoking hands-on activities. Past topics include: Chemical Bonding, Weather and Natural Events, Genetics and DNA, Renewable Energy, Newtonian Motion, and the Solar System. (Most appropriate for youth, ages 8-12)
Where: San JoseCost: Free
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce children to the fascinating world of snakes and other reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with the docile animals of For Goodness Snakes.
In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"-a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon-and potentially reverse global warming. As the granddaughter of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Brain-Computer InterfacesBrain-Machine Interfaces offer the promise of helping disabled patients by allowing them to control prosthetic limbs and computer interfaces directly from their brain. Two key challenges remain before these devices are widely available: the development of practical and reliable physical interfaces and the achievement of nearly natural movement. Dr. Philip ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free & tickets required for admission
Jared Diamond, author of 'The Third Chimpanzee'Author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" "The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal" and "The Third Chimpanzee for Young People"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diamond examines the evolutionary history of humans and the unique traits and behaviors that distinguish us from other animals. Diamond also explains why our ...
