Saturday Seminar Series: Converging and Emerging towards EquitySuccessful use of language in academic settings requires that students make decisions about what they say or write, how they do this, and for what purposes. This requires that teachers understand discourse-level features of language, which are not always apparent. It is necessary to design pedagogy and curricula that teach ...
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 ...
Where: FremontCost: $15
Science Saturday: Bees, Wasps, Honey, and HivesExplore the sweet-side of science as Science Saturday turns its attention to Bees, Wasps, Honey, and Hives. Do all bees make honey? How do you tell a wasp from a bee? Do all bees sting? Find the answers to all of your buzzing questions as you complete a craft, taste ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Shark DayMSI loves sharks! Our special Shark Day invites one and all to learn about these amazing creatures, from the great whites that swim just off our ocean shores, to the gentle Leopard sharks that are common in our Bay. We will be feeding and touching our local Leopard sharks in ...
The Life Art Science Technology (LAST) Festival on March 23-24, in the futuristic setting of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will combine a program of science talks and art installations to discuss how technology is changing the nature of humanity and what role Silicon Valley is playing: How far can biomedicine extend ...
John Reber, the Man with Grand IdeasBack in the 1940s, John Reber would look out over the San Francisco Bay and visualize a massive civil works project of dams and locks to harvest fresh drinking water, and barriers that would support railway systems and a highway. His intention was to improve the quality of life for ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
San Francisco City Star PartyCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Gravitational Waves presented by Science TimeScience Time is funny, informative, and will probably be laughably incorrect 100 years from now. In this installment, you'll hear all about gravitational waves. Alex, a regular at Upright Citizen's Brigade in Los Angeles, will also interview a real-life scientist, and you'll get some snippets of recent science news as ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Members, $15 at door
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, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission to the Exploratorium
The theme this month is Celebrating Our Oceans: The Big, The Small, and The Weird. Come learn about the amazing diversity of life that lives out in the Ocean, from the big to the small and everything in between.  Docent-led tours will take you around the hospital showcasing some of the patients we ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Tidepool AdventureJoin Greater Farallones sanctuary naturalists for a tidepool adventure in Pescadero. Explore the amazing intertidal habitat at the edge of the sea while learning how the animals and algae survive under ever-changing conditions. Search for chitons, anemones, sea stars, sea urchins, nudibranchs and other creatures that call this biodiversity hotspot ...
The modern scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is decades old. Why, so far, have we gotten no hint of cosmic companionship? SETI pioneer Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches, and will show how new technologies are revolutionizing SETI.Speaker: Dan Werthimer, Berkeley SETI Research Center
In complex organisms such as ourselves, cells must coordinate their proliferation and differentiation to build and maintain normal tissues and structures. The Hedgehog signaling protein is one of the extracellular signals that cells use to coordinate their behavior. Hedgehog signaling has profoundly important roles in the normal processes of embryonic ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM MERGING COMPACT BINARIESProf. Lynn Cominsky from Sonoma State University will present an introduction to LIGO's discoveries of gravitational waves and will review the most recent results reported from LIGO and Virgo.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Advantages of Streaming Architecture in Management of Machine Learning ModelsThere is a massive shift underway, a change in the best way to build things, and a key aspect of that change is a widespread and fundamental use of streaming architecture. The advantages of an event-stream-based approach go far beyond just the need to address real-time or low latency applications ...
7:00-7:25: Deneb Karentz(USF/Biology) on "Considerations of Antarctic Ozone Depletion"What is expected for the future of our ozone layer? ...Read more7:25-7:50: Neeraj Sonalkar(Stanford/ Design) on "What improvised theater, jazz and design thinking have in common"Design thinking has a lot in common with the improvisational mindset practiced through improvisational ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay: Thermal Comfort, Quantum Communist, East Bay Hills HistoryQuestioning the Core of Quantum Physics with CommunistsQuantum physics attempts to explain reality, but Heisenberg and Bohr’s famous “Copenhagen Interpretation†of quantum mechanics fails to answer some simple questions and paradoxes about the real world. A revolutionary second theory, encouraged by Einstein, answered many of these questions with faster than ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 Advance, $10 at door
Science vs Cinema: THE MARTIANFollowing the film, join Kishore Hari (@sciencequiche) and Jeff Silverman (@J_M_Silverman) as we dissect what is regarded as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi movies ever. Are ion propulsion engines real? Can you keep yourself warm with spent nuclear fuel? And even if you can you grow potatoes with ...
Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffmanand Jackie Speier are hosting an Offshore Oil Drilling Listening Session Tuesday, March 27th to get feedback from local stakeholders, experts and government representatives regarding the Trump Administration’s proposals to allow offshore oil drilling on our pristine California coastline. These proposed changes would open California’s waters to expanded offshore drilling ...
Soil Health Series: Understanding Growth Media & the Chemistry of SoilIn the second class in the soil series, join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for a hands-on class to discover how the chemical reactions of soil clean our air, clean our water, and make nutrients available to plants. You'll understand chemistry like never before!You've ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
'JANE' & Why Study Apes?Jane Goodall may be the world's foremost expert on our genetic and behavioral kin, the chimpanzees. She is certainly a brave and thoughtful steward of planet Earth. In the 2017 documentary Jane, we see the young, untrained researcher challenge scientific consensus on the road to revolutionizing people's understanding of the natural ...
Where: St. HelenaCost: $8
Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto IndustryVolkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a long history of skulduggery. One VW executive went to jail for his role in Dieselgate and the plot thickened recently with revelations that VW, BMW and Mercedes paid researchers who locked monkeys in a room watching cartoons and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Profusa is pioneering sensors that continually and wirelessly report health status to a mobile device from within our body. Profusa’s novel sensors are based on fluorescent, soft, biomaterials that integrate with tissues permanently for long-term biomonitoring. After a 2016 regulatory approval in Europe, the company is accelerating commercialization activities while ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $9 adv/$10 door general; $4/$5 IEEE members
Roving on Mars: Revving up for Future Exploration of the Red PlanetOrbiters, followed by rovers sent to Mars, have yielded a dramatic increase in knowledge about Mars over the past decade. Today thanks to several years of data collected in situ and remotely we have a better understanding of its geology and habitability potential. Three SETI Institute planetary scientists who have ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Heirs to our OceansJoin ACS-SF Bay Chapter for a fascinating presentation HEIRS TO OUR OCEANS. That’s who we are, along with your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and newly-spawned zygotes. Heirs to our oceans are the next generation and the future generations who will inherit this planet and all that comes with it…. after your ...
Ocean acidification impacts on krill and krill predators in the Southern OceanThe Western Antarctic Peninsula region of the Southern Ocean, a National Science Foundation Long-Term Experimental Research Site, has exhibited a subtle but steady increase in surface water temperature and a rapid decline of sea ice during recent decades, posing an eventual threat to the physiological and biochemical adaptations of krill, ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Stability and Flexibility in Motor NetworksFor us to interact with the outside world, our brains must plan and dictate our actions and behaviors. In many cases, we learn to reproducibly execute a well-defined series of muscle movements to perform impressive feats, such as hitting a golf ball or playing the violin. In other cases, however, ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 Teachers/Students
Peninsula Gem & Geology Society monthly meetingHans Thern will show a short video and discuss the Moore Creek Mine (Garnet Hill area). He will cover collecting molybdenite, epidote, garnet, quartz and tungsten ore. There will also be a door prize drawing and many rocks and related items available by silent auction.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Science on TapSpeaker: Regina Spranger, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept., UC Santa Cruz
If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. We are a group who informally discuss the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale. Sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.WHY: Because we’re curious creatures.
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
taste of science: The STEMinistsWomen and their microbesJust like our guts, vaginas have their own microbiome too. In this presentation, I will talk about which microbes live "down there", how they are associated with a woman's reproductive and general health, and how mothers transfer their microbes to their babies.Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth Bik, uBiomeA blind ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $5
Name that Bloodsucker!Marin Science SeminarSpeaker: Eric Engh, Marin-Sonoma Mosquito Vector
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Saving the Bay from “the Futureâ€!From the weird madness of the Reber Plan to dam both ends of the Bay into freshwater lakes in the 1950s to the Save the Bay movement of the early 1960s that helped create the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, we’ve come a long way in a half century. Today’s ...
How and Why We Control Invasives in the Park - Talk and Field Workshop!Join Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist, Tennessee Valley) for this informative and interesting class on something we should all be aware of: the threats posed to the parks by invasive plants. Learn results of research within the park showing negative effects to habitat value when non-local, invasive plants are introduced, ...
Where: RichmondCost: Free for presentation, $10 for refreshements
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The Trouble with BiasCity Arts & Lectures Conversations on Science SeriesKate Crawford is a leading researcher, academic and author who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is a Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Fingerprinting the Climate SystemFingerprint research seeks to improve understanding of the nature and causes of climate change. The basic strategy is to search for model-predicted patterns of climate change (“fingerprintsâ€) in observed climate records. Such studies exploit the fact that different factors affecting climate have different characteristic signatures. These unique attributes are clearer ...
Where: LivermoreCost: $32 - $40 Adults, $12 Students
Wonderfest: How Machine Learning Changes Software DesignTraditionally, software is built by programmers who consider the possible situations and write rules to deal with them. But recently, many software applications have been created by machine learning: the programmer is replaced by a trainer, who shows the computer examples until it learns to complete the task. This shift ...
The Wild & Scenic groundswell continues in the city by the bay. Join us for a night of environmental and adventure films that will inspire activism and transport you to the farthest reaches of the globe. Mix and mingle with special guests, filmmakers and learn more about the South Yuba ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 Advance, $25 at door
