Bring Solar to Wildlife DayThis special event is an interactive fundraiser to help Wildlife Associates go solar. "Wild Teachers" or animals sheltered at Wildlife Associates will present on the organization's educational programs and their focus on sustainability and conservation. Kids and adults are welcome!RSVP at https://bringsolartowildlife.eventbrite.com.
Where: Half Moon BayCost: $0
The Physics of FootballAre you ready for some football!? Really get in the game with the science behind those great catches, long punts, perfect passes. Take a closer look at America's game exploring angles, velocity, resistance, materials- it's not just tackle and fun there's science to making these players great! Once you dive ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Launching your STEM Career -- Young Women Talk about Getting StartedAre you a young woman interested in science, technology, engineering, or math? Thinking about making it your career? Join us to learn about launching your STEM career.We have a panel of young women who will talk about their budding careers in research, software, coding, math, and technology startups. They will ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Ship Operations in the BayJoin Captain Craig Thomas of Agile Marine as he provides a better understanding of commercial shipping operations and movements in the Bay. The program includes the types of ships, ship construction and layout, commercial considerations, types and locations of terminals in the Bay Area, manning requirements including careers and International, ...
Where: SausalitoCost: 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
The Birth of SunsWe normally think of space as empty, but it's not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on average, about 1 atom per cubic centimeter. That's a better vacuum than the best vacuum chamber we know how to make, but there are a lot of cubic centimeters in ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 11/09/14
Marine Science Sunday: An Ocean Feast!This month we celebrate Thanksgiving by highlighting the amazing feeding and hunting strategies of marine mammals! Find out about how orcas have learned together to wash seals of our ice in Antarctica, humpback whales use bubbles to trap fish and otters use tools to crack open their favorite foods! FREE Classroom Programs: An Ocean Feast- 12 PM ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with admission
Finding Life Beyond Earth- Carl Sagan Day 2014The search for life in the universe is one of the grand quests of current science, and there are multiple approaches that are likely to yield results within the next few decades. Depending on the nature of these discoveries, there may be a variety of impacts on society.Morrison was one ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
ASTRONAUT LULLABIESAre you in the mood from something new in the universe?Then check out ASTRONAUT LULLABIES, an immersive live concert planetarium experience at the SRJC Planetarium.Featuring the astronomy-inspired, thought-rocking songs of Jim and Kathy Ocean, ASTRONAUT LULLABIES is a conceptual ride through outer and inner space. With songs like "Coming of ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: Advanced Purchase: General Admission: $15; Childr
National Parks Free DaysIn celebration of Veteran's Day and US Veterans, admission to National Park Service locations is free this weekend.
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 11/10/14
MANIPULATING ATOMSDr. Andreas Heinrich of IBM Research will discuss his work using a scanning probe microscope to explore and control individual atoms.
Program:6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Brenda Hutchinson(Composer) on "Sound, Listening and Public Engagement""Experiential practice" as it relates to the medium of sound... Read more 7:25-7:50: Amy Ho(Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit"Abstract...Read more 7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
National Parks Free DaysIn celebration of Veteran's Day and US Veterans, admission to National Park Service locations is free this weekend.
30 Ways to Be a ShorebirdThe Bay hosts an ever-changing array of 30 different species of shorebirds, living by the seasons and tides, moving and feeding in patterns that reflect their physical attributes. Meet these fascinating, varied, and beautiful neighbors – some stay-at-home, some from half a world away – in a talk by Bay ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
National Parks Free DaysIn celebration of Veteran's Day and US Veterans, admission to National Park Service locations is free this weekend.
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 11/12/14
ROSETTA-PHILAE Comet LandingJoin us to witness history. Over the past decade Europe's ROSETTA spacecraft has been traveling toward a rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and arrived there last August. Now ROSETTA is getting set to achieve a first-ever feat in space exploration: landing a probe, Philae, on the surface of the comet. We're ...
Where: OaklandCost: $7
Communicating Across the Cosmos: Summary of a Workshop on Interstellar Message DesignFor over a half century, astronomers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have scanned the skies for signals from distant civilizations. Would humans be able to decode information-rich signals from another planet? Could we create a "universal language" that would be meaningful to an independently evolved civilization? To ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Energy Investments in Start-upsNat Goldhaber is a co-founder of Claremont Creek Ventures and brings more than 30 years of information technology experience across Internet, networking, energy, healthcare, and transportation sectors as a successful investor and entrepreneur.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occurring in Our MidstHuman beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, how that information is interconnected. As medical data continues to explode and become increasingly digital, the vast amount of information that is able to be ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) was closed abruptly and permanently in February 2012. During the previous decade, SONGS had produced about 8% of the electricity generated in California, so its closure had a pronounced impact on the wholesale market, requiring large and immediate increases in generation from other sources. ...
Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing A wide-spread adoption of 3D printing is democratizing manufacturing. The ever expanding range of printing materials allows for fabrication of complex multi-material objects that cannot be manufactured using any other method. However, while there has been tremendous progress in the development of the output devices, the provided digital content creation ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
I ♥ Logs: Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, and Real-time DataThis talk will discuss how logs and stream-processing can form a backbone for data flow, ETL, and real-time data processing. It will describe the challenges and lessons learned as LinkedIn built out its real-time data subscription and processing infrastructure. It will also discuss the role of real-time processing and its ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How are we doing? The National Parks and Fire Management - CANCELLEDCome join us for a stirring panel discussion around fire in National Parks with experts in the field. The panelists will discuss both the history of fire management in parks like Yosemite, but also the strategies and complications with managing fires today, such as allowing lightning fires to burn in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $6.27 General, Free for members
Lloyd Knox, Ph.D., of the University of California, Davis, will discuss Images of the Infant Universe: The Latest Results from the Planck Satellite, an illustrated, non-technical lecture.
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Biologging: Using technology to study the elephant seals of Año NuevoThe northern elephant seal is an iconic species along the california coast. Once near extinction, the population has recovered and is allowing researchers a unique glimpse into the depths of the north Pacific. The combination of a consistent research program (Dan Costa's lab at UC Santa Cruz), a unique location ...
What comes after the Internet? What is bigger than the web? What will produce more wealth than all the startups to date? The answer is a planetary super-organism comprised of 4 billion mobile phones, 80 quintillion transistor chips, a million miles of fiber optic cables, and 6 billion human minds ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16.52
Thursday, 11/13/14
Stars In Motion: Impact in Star Formation, Compact Objects, and Galactic Centers The era of high-resolution infrared imaing and astrometry was ushered in with the advent of large-format infrared detectors in space and on ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics. These capabilities enable unique experiments in many fields of astronomy, especially the study of the disk and center of our Galaxy. I ...
Since 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.Speaker: Cindy ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Drought and the Winter Weather OutlookCome hear the latest on the California drought from a NOAA meteorologist, and learn how likely it is that winter rainfall will improve our ongoing dry conditions. Logan Johnson, a Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service, will explore the potential for an El Niño winter, and how past ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
EDUCATE TO INNOVATE: CREATING INNOVATIVE THINKERS THROUGH SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONIn a world of fast-paced technological development, large-scale STEM initiatives, and ever-decreasing funding for public education, how are we, the parents, teachers, and professionals of today, supposed to mold a generation of innovative thinkers capable of creating the new ideas needed to build a stable economy for tomorrow? The Educate ...
Conversations About Landscape - Water and the California Drought: Watershed Science, History and the Policy of ScarcityFor this timely program, we're bringing together a panel of experts to discuss the implications of drought and water use decisions on people, salmon and the landscapes of California. Panelists include: -Felicia Marcus, Chair of California State Water Resources Board -Jay Lund, Director, Center of Watershed Science, University of California, Davis -B. Lynn ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, but RSVP required.
Elemental NightLifeThis week, NightLife partners with California College of the Arts for a night that explores the elements of creativity-from things you can see and touch to concepts only imagined.Through a head-turning array of interactive displays and installations, learn what it would feel like to use various types of animal teeth ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Women's Environmental Network: Urban Redevelopment in Mission BayThe Women's Environmental Network (WEN) is pleased to present a multi-faceted discussion of urban redevelopment in Mission Bay and San Francisco. Join us for a one-hour presentation and Q&A, and participate in pre- and post-discussion networking while enjoying light hors d'oeuvres and drinks. You will learn about property contamination issues ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 Early Bird, $15 Students and Impact Hub member
Behind the Scenes at the International Whaling Commission (IWC)The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the global intergovernmental body charged with the conservation of whales and the management of whaling. It is set up under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling signed in 1946. Join Melanie Smith, SF Bay ACS Vice President and ACS National Representative to ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Donation
Preventing or Delaying Type 2 Diabetes - Part Two of a Three Part SeriesType 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, is the most common type of the disease, affecting 95 percent of people with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes affects people at any age, even during childhood. However, this type of diabetes develops most often in middle-aged and older people, and those who are ...
In our society - in education, especially - people are encouraged to provide the "right" answer, and are not encouraged to focus on the process utilized to achieve the results. Consequently, most of us hate being wrong. This talk will focus on the psychological processes at work when we make ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Friday, 11/14/14
Data Science Lecture Series: Ask, Measure, LearnData is changing our world. Predictions using massive data not only have improved many products. At the same time, they have, in some industries, disrupted business models and created new ones. What does an organization need to do to generate a new competitive advantage out of data? The answer ...
Twenty years ago, a video game that you could neither win nor lose was inconceivable unless you were Will Wright. With five years of college under his belt and no degree, then twenty-something year old Wright created a game based on designing and building cities. In achieving that goal, Will ...
Where: OaklandCost: $23 + service
Green FridayOur speakers will be Paul Valva and Dr. Peter Joseph of The Climate Reality Project. Paul will give a summary of The Climate Reality Project and Peter will give a talk entitled "The Little Engine That Could: Carbon Fee and Dividend. Harnessing the economy to fight climate change".In 2006 Paul ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
From Puff-Ball Neptunes to Earth-sized Rocky Planets -- Exoplanets in the Kepler EraSince the discovery of the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star in 1995, ground based surveys and space based telescopes have discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system. The properties of exoplanets range far beyond what we see in the solar system. From Jupiter sized planets nearly touching ...
