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 ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 05/02/15
Free Community Day at CuriOdysseyExplore science and meet native California animals! CuriOdyssey's free Community Days take place on varying days, both during the week and on the weekend, so that more visitors have the opportunity to experience CuriOdyssey.Please be aware that Community Days are typically crowded in the morning and early afternoon. If you'd ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
An Introduction to Deep Sky Video AstronomyVideo astronomy is no longer just for the planets, the moon and the sun. Today's astro-video cameras can easily reach down to 18th magnitude or lower and bring up dramatic color views of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and many other deep sky objects. No longer do you need to stare ...
Learn about simple circuits then let your imagination soar as you explore and express your creative side!Ages 10 and up.Register here.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40
MinecraftEdu: Entertainment and Education in the Classroom!Coming all the way from Finland, join TeacherGaming for a free informational session about how to use popular entertainment games, like Minecraft in the classroom. You'll learn how the games work, how they support learning and about the growing community of teachers behind the movement. You will also find out ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Monday, 05/04/15
Joint Engagement and Attachment Patterns in Infants with Visual ImpairmentsThis research reports on two early childhood developments, joint engagement and attachment patterns, and explores a possible relationship between the two in a sample of 20 infants with various levels of visual impairments, without additional disabilities. Joint engagement and attachment patterns have been associated with positive developmental outcomes, such as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The UC San Diego Design Lab. Human-Technology TeamworkDon Norman likes to explain that he was living happily in Palo Alto, retired, busy, and did not want a job. But Pradeep Khosla, the chancellor at UCSD came to his home and lured him back by giving him two goals: be important, be exciting. In this public seminar, Don ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Modern Coding Theory - Many Ideas, One GoalError correcting codes are ubiquitous. Every time we make a call, connect to WiFi, download a movie, or store a file, they help us get things right. Over the years, the way we construct these codes has changed significantly. Initially, algebra brought structure to a previously intractable problem. Then ...
As Senior Director for Microsoft's World Wide Public Sector team, Bill Mitchel leads the company's government business development to drive energy, transportation and sustainability solutions.Over the last three years, Mr. Mitchel has built an ecosystem of strategic partner relationships with ISVs, systems integrators, universities and government to deliver innovative energy efficient ...
In less than two decades, more than a thousand planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. This has sparked a post-Copernican revolution, as we realize our solar system is not alone. However, we still don't know if our solar system is rare or unique - the powerful techniques that detect ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members
Tuesday, 05/05/15
Brown Dwarf Variability and implications for ExoplanetsBrown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects that occupy the region of parameter space between gas giant planets, like Jupiter, and the smallest bona fide stars. Since brown dwarfs never achieve sustained core hydrogen fusion, they are destined to cool over cosmic timescales from thousands to hundreds of degrees Kelvin. Observations and ...
The American Health Care Mess: A Doctor's PerspectiveDr. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. His two books about his medical education and career-Intern: A Doctor's Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician-provide trenchant insights into the inefficiencies and waste of our troubled, profit-driven ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage A graphic novel debut that transforms a compelling scientific collaboration into an unexpected -- and hilarious -- series of adventures.A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. ...
Junky Dory Sail your way through the discovery and resurrection of early 1900s Chinese junksy shrimp boats that worked in San Francisco Bay. From archaeological excavation of wrecks in China Camp State Park to research in the shipyards of Southern China to the accurate reconstruction and sailing of the resurrected ...
