Gordon Moore: The Man and the LawOn April 19, 1965, Gordon Moore-chemist, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation-published a paper in Electronics magazine entitled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits." In it he set forth the concept that became known as "Moore's Law," a principle that has propelled the technology revolution for half a century. ...
Future Fridays: From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Human Capability Imagine if your coffee maker new when you awoke and automatically started the brewing cycle. Walking to the kitchen, lights turn on and off as you enter and exit. Imagine if your car could send a message directly to your mechanic informing them of a problem. Science fiction at one ...
Where: OaklandCost: $26 General, $23 Members advance, $30 at door
SUPER STAR BENEFIT FOR the PACIFIC PINBALL MUSEUMCity Hall Rocks for Pinball!A musical benefit and fundraiser for the Pacific Pinball Museum and the Reuse of the Carnegie Library featuring City Manager John Russo's band "Civil Defense" opening for City Auditor Kevin Kearney's band, "The Mighty Neptunes"You can't find entertainment like this at any price! City Manager John ...
Where: AlamedaCost: $75/person $100/couple
Saturday, 04/18/15
Cal DayEach year, UC Berkeley opens its doors to the public with a day of free events covering just about every imaginable field of study and topic. See the full list at the website.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
Bear pride comes to the Hall for Cal Day, UC Berkeley's annual open house. Come make new memories as you explore SPEED: Science in Motion and do your favorite Hall activities. Go Bears!
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free for everyone
Epic Genetics DayJoin us for a day devoted to DNA. This is the last chance to see the Smithsonian exhibition, Genome: Unlocking Life's Code, before it closes! Hands-on activities will explore and explain how DNA works, and you can even learn how the dog genome has provided deeper understanding of human disease.Hands-on activities11 ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with Admission
Randall Museum's Bug Day!Don't miss the Randall Museum's annual Bug Day celebrating everything insect with hands-on science and art activities, games, entertainment, and more!Join in the insect-inspired fun and learn how important these little creatures are to the earth and to our survival here. Kids and their families can make their own fabulous ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free Admission; Low Cost Activities
Joshua Light Show + Linda Perhacs & Julia HolterThe legendary Joshua Light Show returns to the Exploratorium's Kanbar Forum to improvise an immersive, otherworldly environment of light in collaboration with acclaimed musicians Julia Holter and Linda Perhacs.Combining classic analog methods such as liquid light, overhead projection, and reflection with digital imaging techniques, these seminal artists create visually striking ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $15 Members
Some creeks are so grand. Some are pipsqueak. Lobos Creek is the only major surface creek left in San Francisco. It's big, supplying almost all the water to Presidio buildings with still enough left to gush to the ocean. Creeks help us understand what leaky San Francisco hillsides were like ...
Take a look inside the life of the diminutive snowy plover. Threatened by habitat loss, poor reproductive success, and human disturbance, the snowy plover has been federally protected since 1993. This shorebird nests locally on the sandy beaches of Monterey Bay and beyond, from Southern Washington to Baja California.Join Point ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
'Revising the Monterey Flora' with Michael MitchellIf you're interested in identifying wildflowers to the genus and species level, this lecture is for you. Corky Matthews' book "the Plants of Monterey County – an Illustrated Field Key" has recently been updated. Michael Mitchell, editor of the new edition, will discuss the updates (including changes to taxonomic organization ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Joshua Light Show + Linda Perhacs & Julia HolterThe legendary Joshua Light Show returns to the Exploratorium's Kanbar Forum to improvise an immersive, otherworldly environment of light in collaboration with acclaimed musicians Julia Holter and Linda Perhacs.Combining classic analog methods such as liquid light, overhead projection, and reflection with digital imaging techniques, these seminal artists create visually striking ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $15 Members
Monday, 04/20/15
THE FUTURE OF ENERGYDr. Frank Shu of UC San Diego is a preeminent Astrophysicist who has turned his attention to alternative energies in an effort to make an impact on climate change.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Nanophotonic control of thermal radiation and energy applicationsNanophotonic structures provide new opportunities to control both the near and far field of thermal electromagnetic fields. Exploiting these opportunities can lead to significant novel energy device and system applications. In this talk, we review some of our recent theoretical and experimental efforts towards developing some of these nanophotonic structures. Specifically, we show that combining near ...
Going Live (a Computer Architect Perspective)Abstract: Professor Renau will talk about the still not published Live Simulation environment being developed by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Live Simulation environment is a collaborative environment with statistical sampling for very fast computer architecture simulations. The talk will present the philosophy and a live demo of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Earth Day Talk: Climate Change and ViolenceProfessor Marshall Burke's research focuses on understanding how changes in environmental conditions affect a range of social and economic outcomes, and on understanding the causes and consequences of rural productivity improvements. In this talk, he will discuss the effects of climate change on violence, including wars, civil unrest, and strife, ...
The Antibiotics Crisis: The Health Care and Human Costs of Drug ResistanceAs part of a series of events sponsored by Kaiser Permanente focused on health care costs and affordability in the age of health care reform, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and School of Public Health present a provocative panel discussion on the antibiotics crisis, its roots in our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Quantum Entanglement in Higher DimensionsThe 2015 Robert Hofstadter Memorial lecturer, Prof. Anton Zeilinger of the Univ. of Vienna & the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium.
Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes. The best theoretical explanation of this uniformity is provided by the inflationary theory. Rather paradoxically, this theory also predicts that on a very large scale, much greater than what we can see ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How to Think Like a NaturalistJack will share his enthusiasm and passion for the natural world as he illustrates ways to improve one's observation of nature, and develop a curiosity and appreciation for one's role as steward of the natural world.Naturalist, award winning educator and artist John (Jack) Muir Laws is trained as a wildlife ...
Astronomy Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe by Norbert WernerJoin astrophysicist Norbert Werner, of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, for a presentation on The Dark Side of the Universe. Dr. Werner's talk will explore the 95% of the Universe that is unseen, "The Dark Side of the Universe," and will show how ...
Hearing mechanisms in baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti) are essentially unknown but their vocalization frequencies overlap with low-frequency anthropogenic sound sources. Synthetic audiograms were generated for a fin whale by applying finite element modeling (FEM) tools to X-ray CT scans. We scanned the head of a small fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) ...
Urban water infrastructure systems must meet future challenges in managing water quantity and quality in growing cities worldwide. Information and monitoring technologies will play an important role. Within engineering and planning fields, resilient systems typically support quick returns to normal operations following outages. Other conceptions of resilience from ecology, however, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
The History of Carbon: Tracking Greenhouse Gases Through TimeIn this special Earth Day Lab & Lunch Program, Jim Butler, the director of NOAA's Global Monitoring Division will take us through a brief history of atmospheric carbon dioxide, describing events and their atmospheric consequences from almost a million years ago through the industrial age to the present day. He'll use animated ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, but RSVP required.
Recent advances in reflective hard x-ray / soft gamma-ray optics and the prospects for future astrophysical missions Over the last forty years, reflective x-ray telescopes have enabled detailed observations of the 0.1-10 keV x-ray sky and dramatically improved our knowledge of astrophysical processes, cosmology and fundamental physics. Focusing optics overcome intrinsic limitations of other techniques (e.g., absorptive collimation), and their use above 10 keV should revolutionize our ...
Watershed Collaborations: Entanglements on common streamsIn the tradition of Barad and Haraway, I practice Science and Technology Studies (STS) "from the inside", drawing on my own natural science training to inform the theoretical frameworks I develop. My interdisciplinary outlook is grounded in training, publication, and research in hydrology, aquatic ecology, and fluvial geomorphology, as well as in ...
Online Arms RaceThere is an accelerating arms race going on in the online world. We have all extended our lives from the real world to the online world. However, our data and our privacy is being threatened by attackers in the online world. We have to fight online criminals and online hacktivists. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Earth Day Speaker: Dr. Barbara BlockOn Earth Day, Dr. Barbara Block, a marine scientist from Stanford University, will speak about the health of our planet based on her research about marine organisms.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Coal WarsCoal is taking a beating in the United States, but it is gaining market share in Asia. Coal-fired electricity is lifting people out of poverty. It is also frying the sky. Join us for a journey from the mines of Wyoming to China's coal region.Panel: Richard Martin, Author; additional panelists TBA
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Member, $7 Student
Building Community - Strengthening Marin on Earth DayOur final lecture of the 2015 series will start an important conversation exploring the intersection of environmental conservation, and social equity in Marin. Adhering to the principle; strength lies in diversity, we must empower all the voices of Marin to be heard. Minority and marginalized voices are critical strands in ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $10 Advance/$15 at Door General, Free for members
Rob Blumenschine describes nearly 30 years of research at Olduvai Gorge that sheds light on the origin of the capabilities in the earliest stone-tool maker, Homo habilis. In habilis we see the emergence of brain sizes larger than those of apes and the distinctly un-primate-like behaviour of competing with large ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. Skeptics in the Pub is a group of like-minded people informally discussing the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale.Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly meeting for discussion of topics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Thursday, 04/23/15
Lyrids Meteor ShowerHang out on the hill and watch as the Lyrids Meteor Shower makes it annual trip through our atmosphere and light up the night sky. Our astronomers are on hand to answer questions.*Visibility is subject to weather conditions.
Where: OaklandCost: $5
The Bay Model Wants You!!! Become part of Sausalito's very own attraction known around the world! We have a variety of volunteer positions that are suited for people just like you! Greet visitors, lead tours, work with school groups, and more! Come and be a part of one of the largest working hydraulic models in ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Volunteering
Quasar feedback Quasars are now thought to have made critical impact on galaxy formation. In particular, feedback from accretion onto supermassive black holes is implicated in establishing the black hole mass vs galaxy bulge correlations and in limiting the maximal mass of galaxies. Theoretical models predict that both radiative output of the ...
We tend to think of "home" as the building in which we live, or the town or city where we reside. Voyage to the edge of the known universe, and gain some perspective on the tiny planet we call home. See some of the amazing ways the universe is structured, ...
The Full-Body BicycleThe Full Body Bicycle allows riders to pedal with their feet alone, their hands alone, or both at the same time, leading to upper and lower body workouts. The effort to design and build the bicycle began in a mechanical engineering class at Stanford University in 2003 and has since ...
Become one with nature as NightLife gets out and about for an evening of nature-themed fun.Learn how to keep a hive (and make sweet honey) at home with Urban Bee, hold giant insects in the palm of your hand courtesy of Save Nature, and brush up on local flora with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
The elusive spotted owl is a species of true owl. It is a resident species of old-growth forests in western North America, where it nests in tree holes, old bird of prey nests, or rock crevices. Spotted Owl has been at the center of debates between forces for and against ...
Where: SonomaCost: $8
Update on MigraineMigraines are an intense and often debilitating type of headache which affect nearly 24 million Americans every year. This talk will focus on the causes of migraines, how they are diagnosed, and how they are differentiated from other kinds of headaches, as well as current treatments for this condition.Speaker: Meredith ...
Ray tracing acceleration is coming to a GPU near you! In this talk, we will discuss the hardware architecture changes that we have made to Imagination's PowerVR GPU in order to enable ultra-efficient accelerated 3D spatial queries. Following this, we will explore the roadmap for ray tracing in the coming years, looking ...
We tend to think of "home" as the building in which we live, or the town or city where we reside. Voyage to the edge of the known universe, and gain some perspective on the tiny planet we call home. See some of the amazing ways the universe is structured, ...
