Earth Day Beach Cleanup Help keep trash out of the Bay. At Aquarium of the Bay, we try to treat every day like Earth Day-and we need your help. To celebrate Earth Day, we hold an annual beach and coastline cleanup at Aquatic Park. We hope you will join us, no experience necessary. Volunteers ...
Founded in 1973, Astronomy Day gives amateur and professional astronomers an opportunity to share their love of stargazing and its exciting discoveries with the public through displays, family-friendly activities and demonstrations, astronomy club information, and information about astronomical research and education at local colleges and universities.The Academy will partner with ...
Experience a robot showdown! Over 20 teams of high school students will compete with robots they designed and built themselves at this annual competition run by UC Berkeley's Pioneers in Engineering.
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Going Back Thru Time: Open HouseFamilies can treat themselves to a different type of Halloween. Gather around the Tule Hut and listen to stories of the "Spirits of Tyson Lagoon." They can earn treats by going to the different stations and learn about nature at Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon. They can pick bones from ...
Where: FremontCost:
Science Saturday: Identification DayBring your shells, rocks, insects, feathers, bones, and plants to Identification Day! Natural science experts from the Bureau of Land Management will do their best to identify those mystery flowers, feathers, and rocks from your yard, while their archaeologists will be on hand to tell you more about that mysterious ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Climate Change 101Dive into the basics of climate change! How do we know the earth is warming? What do scientists have to say? Find out the answers to these questions and more, and participate in a discussion of why we care and what we can all do to make a positive difference.Target ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
The BayMobile Visits the Bay Model Visitor CenterAquarium of the Bay's BayMobile is coming to the Bay Model! Visitors will experiment with the science of climate change and meet some of Aquarium of the Bay's animal ambassadors. All Bay Model visitors are welcome to stop by for this free hour-long program.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Find Your BalanceThe balance of the earth's natural cycle is off, but fear not! Find out the role we play in the earth's balance, and explore how new innovations–such as solar power–give us the power to return balance to our environment.Target audience: Kindergarten and up.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Marine Science in Action! 25th Discovery Day Open House at Romberg Tiburon CenterThe Barbara & Richard Rosenberg Institute for Marine Biology & Environmental SciencepresentsMarine Science in Actionthe 25th Discovery Day Open Houseat Romberg Tiburon CenterDiscovery Day is the Romberg Tiburon Center's annual open house, when we invite the public to visit our marine lab on the Bay and see marine science in ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
S^4-Super Summer Science Search™ Contest Public Information MeetingThe S^4-Super Summer Science Search™ Contest is back for a fourth year! All outgoing 6th, 7th and 8th grade students living in the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD) are encouraged to join the search this summer for fun, learning and prizes. This year students are being asked to create and ...
Where: CupertinoCost: Free
Rocks and Ice in the Solar SystemPlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for an astronomy program in the Lower Summit Parking Lot of Mt. Diablo State Park. The program starts at 7:30pm (enter the park at least 45 minutes earlier). Although there is no fee for this program there is a $10 park entrance fee.Comets, meteors, ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: 0
Jazz Under the StarsSee the first quarter moon, Jupiter, and more thru our telescopes, while listening to KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly and come by anytime between 8:00 & 10:00 pm. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5.
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Stepping Out of the NestHow does research into the search for water and habitable planets, astrobiology, space biology, small satellites, advanced manufacturing, autonomous vehicles and synthetic biology make science fiction into science reality? NASA-Ames scientists have a vision for human flight from our Earthly nest to explore and live in space.Speaker: Dr. Jacob Cohen, ...
Saturday marks the kickoff of the PLUTO-PALOOZA national tour, incorporated into the Academy's Astronomy Day activities. Like the 2003 "Marsapalooza" and the 2007-2009 "Polar-Palooza," PLUTO-PALOOZA is a touring event produced by Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, who was a senior producer on the original Cosmos television series featuring astronomer Carl Sagan. The hour-long "palooza" ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Sunday, 04/26/15
YTH Live 2015YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that is advancing the health and wellness of youth, young adults, and other underserved populations.Each year, the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations. ...
Experience a robot showdown! Over 20 teams of high school students will compete with robots they designed and built themselves at this annual competition run by UC Berkeley's Pioneers in Engineering.
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Earth Day soil sampling and testing!Wondering about lead pollution in your garden? Interested in soil ecology? Did you know the UN declared 2015 the International Year of Soils? Come celebrate Earth Day with us by doing some soil sampling across Oakland! Soils feed the world, and they're long overdue some appreciation. Targeted areas are along the ...
Where: OaklandCost: 10
Monday, 04/27/15
YTH Live 2015YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that is advancing the health and wellness of youth, young adults, and other underserved populations.Each year, the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations. ...
LIGHT FROM DISTANT SUPERNOVAE Dr. Xiaosheng Huang of the University of San Francisco will talk about Type Ia supernovae, the most powerful of all astronomical standard candles used to measure distances of far away galaxies.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
The Energy Industry's Earthquake Problem And How To Manage It, Natural Gas mini-series two of threeSince 2009, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of small-to-moderate size earthquakes in the central and eastern United States with a significant amount occurring in Oklahoma. In a number of cases, the increase in seismicity appears to be associated with injection of saltwater that is a byproduct ...
In the past few years, research around (big) data management has begun to intertwine with research around predictive modeling and simulation in novel and interesting ways. Driving this trend is an increasing recognition that information contained in real-world data must be combined with information from domain experts, as embodied in ...
Are you suffering from allergies and want to learn how to effectively manage this chronic condition? Join Dr. Kishiyama for an informative talk on the following topics:• Bay Area allergens and its role in allergic disease and asthma• Symptoms of allergic disease• Environmental triggers for allergy and asthma
YTH Live 2015YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that is advancing the health and wellness of youth, young adults, and other underserved populations.Each year, the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations. ...
Shape dynamics: a relational view of the UniverseShape Dynamics is a new theory of gravity which removes the notion of local relativistic time from the guiding principles of gravity in the universe. It is a very promising approach which has been shown to be equivalent to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, without being embedded in time. It ...
The 21st century is barely underway, and with it, the field of epigenetics has become the century's first evolutionary leap into health optimization. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, a renowned integrative oncologist, uses epigenetic modalities with his patients, and they are the focus of his latest book, The Gene Therapy Plan: Taking ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Wind TurbinesDesign, build, and test a high-efficiency wind turbine that can harness the power of the wind. Experiment with the length, weight, number, and angles of the blades, and then test your design to see how much electricity it generates.Homeschool classes at the Lawrence Hall of Science engage students in experimenting, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 ($20 for members)
The Adorned and Adorning SpeciesWhat makes us distinctively human? Religion, morality, and art are all strong candidates. But in this talk Prof. Davies will argue that our propensity for ornament – painted faces and eathers in the hair – is no less characteristic. It is similarly ancient and pervasive. This is understandable because adornments ...
A Civilization of Discontents: Social Media DemystifiedFirst as Tragedy. Then as Farce. Then as Tweet. – Social Media Demystified.Join us for a conversation with Eric Jarosinski, Editor of @NeinQuarterly, the Internet's leading "Compendium of Utopian Negation," about Critical Theory, culture, social media, German grammar, and other assorted specters haunting Europe.Of the many academics who have turned to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Reimagining America's InfrastructureOnce a point of national pride, America's infrastructure is showing its age. Yet even in their heyday, the big infrastructure projects of the past were not always mindful of the communities in which they were built, nor did their designs appropriately reflect the varying regional needs of our broad nation. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Successful companies use computing power (sometimes even High Performance Computing, HPC) to build better products, faster, cheaper. They often need to chose between workstations, clusters, and cloud computing resources. This talk will address the benefits and challenges which each of these approaches bring. As a part of his talk, Burak ...
Astronomy Lecture April 28th, With Speaker – Chris FordPlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the April 28th general meeting. The meeting starts at 7:15 and ends at 9:15. Our monthly meetings begin with a short "What's Up" presented by one of our members, followed by a speaker. This month's speaker is Chris Ford. The topic this month ...
Our University was created by Californians to improve the quality of their lives. As a research university we fulfil that role by converting our amazingly creative discoveries into practical benefits for society. An efficient way to provide benefits while simultaneously promoting job and economic growth is for our scientists to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Three Presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterAnn Holmes (Kimmerer Lab) Using high-throughput sequencing to quantify zooplankton diets in delta smelt habitat Ryan Hartnett (Nielsen Lab) Connecting the dots in the Gulf of the Farallones: from physical ocean conditions to ocean productivity to the top of the food web Tricia Lee (Wilkerson Lab) SFE ...
Both managed and native pollinators have suffered recent declines, leading to concerns that crop pollination will suffer in the future, particularly since an increasing proportion of agriculture is devoted to production of pollinator-dependent crops. In California, this is certainly the case, with the massive conversion of many agricultural lands to ...
Knowledge Vault and Knowledge-Based TrustIn this talk we describe our knowledge extraction and fusion efforts at Google, including the Knowledge Vault project and the Knowledge-based Trust project. We use 15 extractors to periodically extract knowledge from 1B+ Webpages. The results are 3B+ distinct (subject, predicate, object) knowledge triples. Errors can creep in at every ...
Alan Turing's one-dimensional model of universal computation of 1936 led directly to John von Neumann's two-dimensional implementation of 1946. The Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study jump-started the digital revolution by bringing engineers into the den of the mathematicians, rather than by bringing mathematicians into a den ...
Where: Palo AltoCost:
2015 Lawson Lecture: Induced Earthquakes in the 21st CenturyEarthquakes triggered by human activities have been documented for over half a century, but the past decade has seen a resurgence of induced earthquakes associated with energy resources. In 2006, a M3.4 earthquake occurred during geothermal energy development in Basel, Switzerland, causing the project to be abandoned. In 2009, concerns ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Cryptography: From Mathematical Magic to Secure CommunicationCryptography, the science of communicating securely, is used by billions of people to protect Internet traffic from prying eyes. It is also a vibrant area of research where new discoveries are made every year. This talk will explore the beautiful mechanisms that enable secure communication on the Internet and describe ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Science at the Theater, 5 Big QuestionsEvery discovery and invention starts with a question. From simulating supernovae, to growing food in our cities, to the enormity of tackling the emperor of all maladies, come see Berkeley Lab scientists dive into the big questions that drive their research.Scientists include:Judy Campisi - Cancer and agingKai Vetter - Radiation and ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Conversations on Science: The Internet of Things (IoT)Widely known as the "Father of the Internet," Vinton Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. He worked on developing the protocols that would become the basis for internet communication throughout the 1970s. In the early 1980s, while at MCI, he developed and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $24 Members
Evolutionary tools to solve environmental problemsNovel pathogens, pests, and plants are introduced to California every day through the global movement of people and goods from around the world. Most of these organisms are unable to thrive and are never noticed, but a small number become invasive weeds or cause destructive diseases or pest outbreaks. How ...
Keith Hansen is a wildlife artist who specializes in the inspirational and accurate portrayal of birds.His most resent endeavor has been a 14 year project illustrating the book "Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status and Distribution", authored by Ted Beedy and Ed Pandolfino. He illustrated about 1,400 portraits ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 04/30/15
Scientists at Work: What Are Local Seabirds Eating?How do scientists learn what Bay Area birds are eating? Come see for yourself, as biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science invite visitors to watch them while they work. They'll be studying the diets of local cormorants by dissecting the indigestible pellets coughed up by these birds. Each pellet contains ...
Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator for EPA's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 9) was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as EPA regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest in November 2009. His priorities at EPA include strong enforcement, environmental justice, protecting and restoring our air, land and waters, building strong federal, state, ...
Our world today--from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon--has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nature NightlifeBecome 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
Screening of Sean Penn's 'The Human Experiment'The Human Experiment is a documentary from Oscar-winner Sean Penn and Emmy-award winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy.Refreshments will be served prior to the screeningThe screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with the the film's executive producer and Ashvini Bhave, and a panel of experts, including award-winning investigative journalist Mark ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Action for LemursDr. Patricia Wright has been studying lemurs – the most endangered mammal on the planet – and working with the local people to conserve lemur populations. She was also able to convince the Malagasy government to set aside space for Ranomafana, the largest national park in Madagascar. Oakland Zoo lemur ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12 - $20
Latest Advances in Stroke TreatmentSpeaker: Jeremy Heit, MD Clinical Instructor, Neuro-Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Friday, 05/01/15
Computational Imaging with Nonlinear Inverse ProblemsComputational imaging involves the joint design of optical systems and post-processing algorithms such that computation replaces optical elements, enabling simple experimental setups. This talk will describe new optical microscopes that employ simple experimental architectures and efficient nonlinear inverse algorithms to achieve high-resolution 3D and phase images. By leveraging recent advances ...
Globular Clusters of the Milky WayMuch of Graeme Smith's research centers around properties of red giant stars within the Milky Way galaxy: their physical evolution, their chromospheric activity and mass loss, and what they can tell us about the chemical enrichment history of the Galaxy. Much of this later work has been directed towards the ...
