Science Saturday: Magnificent MonarchsCelebrate the return of Pacific Grove's monarch butterfly population during Magnificent Monarchs.View live butterflies up close, create an origami monarch, have your face painted like a monarch, and learn more about these amazing insects that return to Pacific Grove every year.
Do you sometimes see paw prints in mud or scat (poop) on the trails and assume that a dog left it? It could be from something else. Come along with me and I will show you how to distinguish and identify the markings of a gray fox. Gain some insights ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Jazz Under the Stars - CANCELEDCome peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly.  Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5.  Directions here.Editor's Note: This event was canceled due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Sunday, 11/26/17
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Making ColorExplore some of the many ways to make color - from neon signs to oil slicks to rainbows and more. Learn all about light, how it is made and interacts, and take home materials to build your own spectroscope. You’ll see color in a whole new light!Presentations at 1:00 and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission to the Exploratorium
Methane hydrate is an ice-like substance abundantly present in deep ocean sediments and in the Arctic. Geoscientists recognize the tremendous importance of gas hydrate in the global carbon cycle and climate change, while reservoir engineers evaluate its potential as a possible energy source. For computational science the modeling of hydrate formation and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Overinformativeness? Rationally Redundant ReferenceReferring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal?Rational theories of language use have come under attack for decades for not being able to account for the seemingly irrational overinformativeness ubiquitous in referring expressions. ...
People and Robots Seminar - POSTPONEDSpeaker: Brian Gerkey, Open Source Robotics FoundationEditor's Note: This seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Clean Energy Finance Panel Panelists: Jeffrey Ball, Scholar-in-Residence, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance; Lecturer, Stanford Law SchoolSoh Young In, Doctoral Candidate in Civil and Environmental EngineeringDan Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance; Professor of Practice, Stanford Law SchoolModerator: Alicia Seiger, Deputy Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay: Pilgrims, Shipping Cranes, Urban WineThanksgiving Sinners: True Stories of the Appalling Pilgrims This November, get your understand of the Pilgrim journey to Plymouth rocked. With a well-known origin story that turns out to be mostly false, the Pilgrims set sail with a cargo hold full of heresy, sedition and hanky panky, took a ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 Advance, $10 at door
Tuesday, 11/28/17
Nearby Galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter ArrayALMA is a revolutionary new telescope that is dramatically expanding our understanding of the high-frequency radio sky. Astronomers are using ALMA to make exciting new discoveries in topics ranging from star and planet formation to galaxies in the distant universe. I will begin by highlighting some of the recent exciting ...
Mathematical method and the metaphysics of Newton's PrincipiaSpeaker: Robert DiSalle, University of Western Ontario, is the author of Understanding Space-Time (Cambridge University Press) and numerous papers on Newton, Einstein and other philosopher-scientists.Room 307
Solar power is a clean and renewable source of energy, but it has struggled to compete with fossil fuels on cost. Most solar cells, which absorb sunlight and produce electrical energy, are built from silicon. SLAC’s Kevin Stone is exploring a new class of materials for solar cells. Like silicon, these materials ...
Dr. Molly Coye served as Chief Executive Officer of the Health Technology Center (non-profit education and research organization), which she founded in December 2000. Before that, Dr. Coye served in both the public and private sectors including Senior Vice President of the West Coast Office of The Lewin Group, Director ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Net Energy Analysis and Transitions to Low-carbon Energy SystemsAll proposed transitions to more sustainable energy systems require the growth of a variety of different low-carbon technologies. Some of these, such as photovoltaics (PV), contribute with a net energy surplus returned to society. Other technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and batteries, in some ways act as net ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Radar GlaciologyRadio echo sounding is a uniquely powerful geophysical technique for studying the interior of ice sheets, glaciers, and icy planetary bodies. It can provide broad coverage and deep penetration as well as interpretable ice thickness, basal topography, and englacial radio stratigraphy. However, despite the long tradition of glaciological interpretation of ...
Decarbonization of Residential Space and Water Heating in CaliforniaAchieving deep decarbonization goals will require a transition away from fossil fuels for residential space and water heating. While many options are available to decarbonize this sector, electrification appears to be the most promising. In this presentation, Imran Sheikh will share analysis of what widespread electrification of heating would mean ...
While neural networks had been used in speech recognition in the early 1990s, they did not outperform the traditional machine learning approaches until 2010, when Alex's team members at Microsoft Research demonstrated the superiority of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for large vocabulary speech recognition systems. The speech community rapidly adopted ...
Join us for a conversation with Patrick Brown, the founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, a company that provides nutritious, environmentally friendly alternatives to meat and dairy - directly from plants. Previously, Brown was a world-renowned geneticist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University. He ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 Teachers/Students
Aliens in our Rocky ReefsFinding an eel amongst the immense boulder and cobble habitats in southern California may seem like trying to find a needle in a haystack. However, we have discovered that if you bait the traps, morays will come. Since 2010, my lab has been slowly uncovering the natural history of moray ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
SETI Talks: Kepler, K2, and Beyond: The Era of Exoplanets Has Arrived!NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 and measured the brightness of 200,000 stars at unprecedented precision for over four years, with the prime mission goal of detecting Earth-sized exoplanets. Now after another four, Kepler’s final planet catalog is complete --- over 4,000 planet candidates have been found, with ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Taste of Science: Vaccines and Artificial BrainHow did we learn to walk?You have over 640 muscles and only 1 brain to control them. Have you ever wondered how you orchestrate this complicated system with such great precision?It's difficult to decompose a brain to single neurons to understand how it works. Instead, we designed a "simplified human" ...
