Exoplanet Imaging in the 21st Century: Tools and Techniques for a New Era of Detailed Exoplanet CharacterizationIn the last thirty years, over 3,000 planets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars. However, this menagerie of new worlds represents only a part of the planet formation parameter space: the most prolific methods for exoplanet discovery, transits and radial velocities, are sensitive to close-in planets, but largely miss bodies ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: A Herring OperaA Herring Opera by Tessa Ellie Schmidt (2017, 27 min.) looks at the complicated but beautiful flurry of activity that happens in Sitka, Alaska each spring, when herring arrive to spawn. Commercial fishermen descending on spawning sites is posed against local, indigenous fishing practices as the small town comes to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with After Dark Admission
First significant summit explosions in nearly a centuryLargest summit collapse volume since at least 1800Voluminous fissure eruptions feeding channelized lava flowUnparalleled new opportunities for understanding the volcanic systemSpeaker: Kyle Anderson, USGSÂ
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Taking Heat with Tim X LeeTaking Heat is a global warming surfin’ safari: the endless summer meets The Endless Summer. It's the first in-person production about climate change that is written and performed by an actual scientist. Taking Heat follows comedian Tim Lee’s expedition around the world looking for the perfect wave. Far from what ...
BFT in the lens of Blockchains and Blockchains in the lens of BFTBlockchain is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) replicated state machine, in which each state-update is by itself a Turing machine with bounded resources. The core algorithm for achieving BFT in a Blockchain appears completely different from classical BFT algorithms: • Classical solutions like DLS, PBFT solve BFT among a small-to-medium ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mind the Gap: The Intercalation of van der Waals Heterostructures: Nano Seminar SeriesThe assembly of layered (van der Waals, vdW) materials into novel heterostructures relaxes the requirements on crystallographic commensurability across interfaces and enables the creation of atomically precise superlattices that may be synthetically intractable by chemical growth. Inherently, these heterostructures possess artificial two-dimensional (2D) interlayer galleries not present in bulk materials, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Grounds for Science - Galaxy Clusters and Black HolesSearching for Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole by Nicholas Huang, UC BerkeleyGalaxy clusters are made up of hundreds of galaxies, held together by the force of gravity. Nicholas will describe how scientists are using powerful telescopes in chilly places (i.e., the South Pole!) to detect and measure properties of ...
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Biohack The Planet Conference 2018Biohack The Planet is a conference that brings together individuals doing exceptional, crazy and innovative things in the biology, biotech and medicine space. Speakers include Professors, individuals with garage labs, journalists and CEOs. Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biohack-the-planet-2018-tickets-43415735634Tickets include snacks and beer for those 21+.  Â
Where: OaklandCost: 69.99
Saturday, 09/01/18
Biohack The Planet Conference 2018Biohack The Planet is a conference that brings together individuals doing exceptional, crazy and innovative things in the biology, biotech and medicine space. Speakers include Professors, individuals with garage labs, journalists and CEOs. Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biohack-the-planet-2018-tickets-43415735634Tickets include snacks and beer for those 21+.  Â
Where: OaklandCost: 69.99
Family Bird WalkLet family walks become a shared time of nature learning. We’ll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to find those birds. A limited number of binoculars are available to borrow. Recommended for children ages 5-10. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Register ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Learn coding fundamentals with the CoderBunnyz board game! This program is for children, ages 4-11, who have no experience with coding. Pre-Registration RequiredSponsored by: Friends of the LibraryHashtag: #Coding5k
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 09/02/18
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk TalkThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Over the past few years, our group has utilized photoredox catalysis to access highly-reactive radical intermediates. Our broader aims are centered on utilizing these intermediates to deliver structural motifs that are commonly found in drugs and agrochemicals. This lecture will include recent findings that have enabled us to overcome inherent ...
Modeling the Non-Linear Universe using Cosmological Simulations Current and upcoming cosmological surveys are turning their eyes towards the late time universe in an attempt to answer fundamental questions about the structure of our world and the physical laws that govern it. Given the non-linear nature of the observables studied by these surveys, perturbative modeling approaches have limited ...
The ground state variational principle is arguably the most important tool in quantum chemistry, as it allows one to diagnose and correct problems in approximate ground state wave functions. Indeed, this principle is relied upon directly or indirectly by essentially every method in quantum chemistry, from density functional theory to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Using New Technologies to Create Safe Marine EnvironmentsThere is an accelerating effort among ocean scientists, advocates and technologists to harness new technologies for marine conservation. These technologies, which include satellite sensors, drones and artificial intelligence, can be used to monitor and manage marine ecosystems, discovering new coral reefs, identifying illegal or unsustainable fishing fleets, and exposing destructive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
The World on FireThink this is a record fire year? Given all the news coverage lately it may be surprising that the number of fires and acres burned in the United States is actually down this year from 2017. But the intensity and nearly year-round timing of the fires in the American West has entered ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Odd Salon: ExploreStories of investigators and travelers, of restless adventurers and inquisitive minds on the threshold of discoveryTamar Baskind ~ Of Cures and Circumnavigation; the Explorations of Jeanne BaretArthur Kay ~ You’re Not the Boss of Me: the Pre-Raphaelites Explored Whatever They Darn Well Liked in ArtMatt Mills ~ 40,000 Miles, A Century ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 - $25
San Francisco Orchid Society MeetingSkills Session: begins at 7:00pGeneral Meeting: begins at 7:30pmSkills Session: hands-on demonstrations of re-potting or other skills related to growing orchidsSpeaker: Every month we have a different guest lecturer - see our website for more info (http://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org)Plant Opportunity Table: A variety of orchids are available to all attendees at each ...
A fish of many scales: Managing threatened and endangered fish species in the West Coast Region The California Current Ecosystem produces abundant ecosystem goods and services including fisheries, recreation, tourism, energy production, climate regulation, pollution control, and transportation. This highly productive ecosystem is fueled by cyclic upwellings of cold, nutrient-rich water. Although occasional extinction of species is natural, extinctions are currently occurring at a rate that ...
To help protect climate, California is currently pursuing 40 and 80% reductions in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (below 1990 levels) by 2030 and 2050, respectively. While carbon dioxide from fossil fuel consumption is estimated from sales tax receipts, non-CO2 GHG emissions are much more difficult to account for accurately and ...
Home to our country's largest agricultural economy, California employs an estimated 500,000-800,000 farmworkers, many of them immigrants. As federal immigration policy shifts, this key sector of California's economy faces a massive and fundamental challenge to maintain its seasonal workforce. Join Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Bioinspired Designs from Gripping Geckos, Bouncing Bugs, Leap’n Lizards, and Smart Squirrels As human technologies take on more of the characteristics of Nature, Nature becomes a better teacher. The field of Biologically Inspired Design is becoming a leading paradigm for the development of new technologies. BioMotion Science has figured prominently in advancing our understanding. Geckos climbing with hairy toes has resulted in ...
