Restoring San Francisco's Rare ManzanitasSan Francisco hosts two of the rarest manzanitas in the world: Raven's Manzanita (Arctostaphylos montana subsp. ravenii) and Franciscan Manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana). These endangered species grew together in a distinct maritime chaparral habitat that once covered the serpentine hilltops of San Francisco. Their story is one of discovery, loss, salvage, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $15 Members, Free UCBstaff & students
The freest of lunches: Using out-of-domain data to boost oceanographic image classificationOver the past decade, the biological oceanographic community has increasingly relied on in situ digital imaging to sample the denizens of the sea. These data sets have grown intractably large, requiring countless hours of human labor for analysis. Oceanographers have begun to leverage advances in machine learning to automate the ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Lab and Lunch: Conserving the CanopyJoin forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni to hear how she brings her research on the science of forest canopies to churches, poetry slams, and prisons. She hopes to both learn from these audiences and inspire them to care more about science, trees, and nature. “Part of the scientific enterprise is to disseminate ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free - Registration required
Medicine in the Digital Age Healthcare has entered the digital age. You can track your heart rate with wearable devices like Fitbit or Motiv. Smartphones send patients reminders to take their medication. And according to the CDC, 86.9% of office-based physicians are using electronic health records. However, many medical professionals and technologists alike believe tech ...
Rescheduled to May 16 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
2001: A Space Odyssey at 50. HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and RealityAlong with celebrating 50 years of software engineering, we can also celebrate the premiere of one of the most famous science fiction movies in history, 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of the central characters in the movie was the supercomputer HAL, the most powerful computer imagined at that time. Possessed knowledge superior to that of a human, HAL controlled the spaceship, found solutions to the most complex problems, played chess with the astronauts, and served them continuously. Then something went wrong. Why? ...
