Magnetic reconnection in AGN jetsMagnetic reconnection is invoked as an efficient particle accelerator in a variety of astrophysical sources of non-thermal high-energy radiation including, but not limited to, the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The energy dissipation and particle acceleration processes during magnetic reconnection can only be studied from first principles with fully ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Metabolic Syndrome and Mental HealthModern health means metabolic health. The main pathway to chronic diseases today is the breakdown of our finely tuned metabolic machinery inside, due to processed food, lifestyle and â€" mental health? Stress and depression have potent effects on our behavior and creating imbalance of hormones such as glucose, insulin and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Have you heard about the Makers Lab in the UCSF Library? The Makers Lab is UCSF’s makerspace, or a creative, DIY space, where you can gather to make, invent, tinker, and learn. During the 60-minute pop-up, Makers Lab staff will provide an introduction to the space, technology, and supplies. Never ...
Neuroscape uses a cutting-edge approach to improving brain function -building a bridge between neuroscience and consumer friendly technologies.Take a peek inside our center to see how video games are being developed to support treatment of brain disorders such as ADHD, Autism, Depression, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroscape Research ...
Shedding Light on Dark Matter with the CMB: Implications for EDGES 21cm SignalIn this talk, I would like to review how the Cosmic Microwave Background (in particular its temperature and polarization anisotropies) can be used to perform both direct and indirect detection of Dark Matter. In a first part, I will show how the CMB can be used to put stringent constraints ...
Speaker: Daniel M. Kammen, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL); Professor in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG); and Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy.Note new location.
We will handle molecules of living things like water, carbon dioxide, fat, aspirin, caffeine, chlorophyl, and break them, toss them, and modify them, using hologram virtual reality visualizations with HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headsets.Registration required. Sign up at weblink starting October 19th.This tour is also offered on October 30.
Discover what it’s like to be a molecular biologist at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes. We invite you to join us for a lab tour hosted by the Cancer Cell Map Initiative (www.ccmi.org) where you get to learn how we make maps of cells and explore the effects of cancer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
After Dark: Vs.Is thinking about the world in terms of dichotomies all good or all bad? Do direct comparisons help or hinder understanding? Investigate the relationship between this versus that via matter, microorganisms, ecology, and human behavior.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.95 advance, $19.95 at the door
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco.For more information or if you have questions please email sf@centerforinquiry.net
Scientists and science enthusiasts are mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds and spirits of our time. In this introductory, non-technical talk, Andrew Fraknoi will briefly summarize Hawking’s life, and talk about the importance of his scientific work. He’ll focus particularly on Hawking’s work merging the ...
What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly with telescopes. Instead, this matter must be observed indirectly through its gravitational pull on the objects that we can see. This ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Social Implications of AIIf anyone can make provocative predictions about technology and its impact on business and our everyday lives, it is Tom Siebel. One of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs for more than four decades, he remains at the forefront of enterprise software, big data, cloud, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning - formerly at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $20 Member, other options on website
Virtual Reality Technology Treatment for Mental IllnessVirtual Reality (VR) has been used for two decades to treat a variety of mental illnesses effectively. Recent technological developments in VR are offering even more potential. Embodied and immersive VR is being explored to treat body image disorders and psychosomatic illnesses. It also has potential to rewire implicit and ...
Join us for our final Astronomy Night of 2018! This FREE event consists of a public astronomy lecture and stargazing on the roof of Campbell Hall with our fleet of telescopes. Learn all about the search for extraterrestrial life, the SETI and Breakthrough Listen projects, and how you can help ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mini-Med School: Using Design to Make Healthcare BetterUCSF has a long history of pioneering innovation and advancing its bold vision for health worldwide. Whether it’s a new drug molecule, medical device, digital health application, or care process, our goal is to ensure that innovation reaches our patients and benefits patient care. UCSF leaders in innovation--representing a wide ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15, students free with ID
Friday, 11/02/18
23rd American World Dentistry CongressWe are hosting the "23rd American World Dentistry Congress "(Dentistry World 2018) along with external scientific association with the researches, academicians, and Students around the globe, scheduled on November 02-03, 2018 at San Francisco, USA. The theme of the conference is “Tomorrows Dentistry Today†which works with an objective to ...
Where: BurlingameCost: $799
THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT ON LATE TIME EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS -HALO MASS RELATIONThe Stellar Mass-Halo Mass (SMHM) relation provides insight into the galaxy-dark matter halo connection. In Golden-Marx & Miller (2018), we incorporate the magnitude gap, the difference in brightness between the BCG and 4th brightest cluster member within 0.5 R200, into the cluster SMHM relation. We observe that at fixed halo ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Painkiller: How Oxycontin ignited the opioid epidemicPlease join us for a fireside chat with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Barry Meier and Paul Costello, Chief Communications Officer, Stanford School of Medicine.Barry Meier was the first journalist to shed a national spotlight on the abuse of OxyContin. He was a member of the New York Times reporting team ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Concordance cosmology and beyond I will discuss the relevance of statistical tools aimed at testing the concordance of cosmological observations and how they can be used as the most model independent test for the standard cosmological model. These statistical tests are a powerful way of assessing whether a specific model explains the observed measurements ...
Ultrafast Manipulation of Topological Phases in WTe2 NanolayersManipulation of topological invariants in quantum materials plays a key role in topological switching applications and can stabilize emergent topological phases in otherwise trivial materials. Lattice strain has been proposed as one means of tuning these topological invariants. However, conventional means of applying strain are not extendable to controllable time-varying ...
The Garcia lab studies one of nature’s abiding mysteries: how does a single cell develop into a multicellular organism? As the organism grows through a series of cell divisions, different cells adopt unique fates to become familiar cell types such as those found in muscle, liver, and our brains. Cells ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Are New Vehicle Emissions Standards Effective and Efficient?This paper demonstrates the historic effectiveness of new vehicle emissions standards at reducing local air pollution from personal automobiles, but it also argues that the efficiency of such policies is greatly reduced by the failure to use complimentary policies that accelerate fleet turnover. The project combines new vehicle certification tests ...
Each $5 First Friday at Chabot is an exciting and immersive experience for all ages! Join us each month for hands-on activities and live demonstrations that are fun for the whole family. Each month there will be new things to explore!
Where: OaklandCost: $5
November Night HikeCome on a naturalist-led hike through Joaquin Miller where we'll look for the many spiders inhabiting the park. We'll be armed with UV flashlights and look for fluorescing scorpions, and we’ll be looking and listening for bats!Ages 12+. RSVP at weblink
The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know?By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for ...
Have you ever wondered, “How many piano tuners are there in the city of Chicago?†How would you figure it out? Enrico Fermi had a knack for quickly calculating things using back of the envelope calculations. It’s surprisingly fun to test your ability to quickly answer strange questions using general ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Say What? The Power of Communication in Raising Healthy, Engaged KidsCommunication is both an art and a science and is critical to any relationship - especially the parent-child relationship. Challenge Success is hosting our 15th annual Parent Education event on Friday, November 2nd, at 7:30pm at Memorial Auditorium. This year's event, "Say What? The Power of Communication in Raising Healthy, ...
Where: StanfordCost: $10
The Hunt for Planet NineScientists have proposed that there is a giant planet lurking beyond Pluto, a Neptune-size world orbiting the sun about 20 times the distance of Neptune’s orbit, but so massive that it may have tipped the entire solar system a few degrees sideways. A race is on to discover this as ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 11/03/18
Mt Tam Docent TrainingVolunteer your time to assist visitors in appreciating and protecting Mt Tamalpais!We are now recruiting Visitor Center and Gravity Car Barn Museum docents! The Visitor Center and the Gravity Car Barn at East Peak attract many visitors who enjoy learning about the mountain and its natural and cultural history. Visitor ...
STEM can take you to your Possible Self! During this day long, conference style event, middle school aged students will take part in multiple Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) oriented sessions to get exposure to STEM concepts from ecology to physics! Students will sign up for activities at the ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: f
23rd American World Dentistry CongressWe are hosting the "23rd American World Dentistry Congress "(Dentistry World 2018) along with external scientific association with the researches, academicians, and Students around the globe, scheduled on November 02-03, 2018 at San Francisco, USA. The theme of the conference is “Tomorrows Dentistry Today†which works with an objective to ...
Where: BurlingameCost: $799
Bison DayThe American Bison became the officially national mammal of the United States in 2016. Join us on November 3rd in celebrating this amazing national mammal! There will be exciting opportunities to learn more about this majestic species at interactive tables in flamingo plaza. Learn more about the relationship between bison ...
Discover the world of drones with flight simulation, real flight training in the Museum’s Drone Plex, exploration of historical aircraft and more!Launch an adventure into multi-rotor flight accessible for the youngest aspiring drone aces!  Drone Rangers is designed for children ages 5-10 and includes a range of explorations into remotely ...
During the 8th annual Discovery Day at AT&T Park experience hundreds of dynamic demonstrations, engaging experiments, and geeky games led by Bay Area scientists and engineers. The entire ballpark is packed to the rafters with science content: on the field, at every entry/exit, and every level of the ballpark.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
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
Intersections: CODAME Evening at The Leonardo ConveningIn “Intersections,†CODAME showcases work that defies boundaries: Where art meets technology, experiment and play collide, and new media wander curiously in the footsteps of old. Featuring gallery installations, screenings, and performances, “Intersections†explores the surprising, inspiring, and challenging crossings of art, science, and technology.What is the purpose of creative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20
Phantom of the Universe (new planetarium show)Phantom of the Universe is a new planetarium show that showcases an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider.The show reveals the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term ...
Where: CupertinoCost: 7.00
The Leonardo ConveningThe Leonardo Convening is the culminating event of our 50th anniversary. The event’s aim is to initiate a challenging, vital network-wide experience. The event is designed to bring together attendees from diverse disciplines and experiences. We want this event not only to celebrate 50 years of building our network but ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 215
Sunday, 11/04/18
Aero Workshop: HelicoptersPut your engineering skills to the test in the Aero Workshop! Each session is a special 2-hour mini design challenge designed for children ages 8-12. Each workshop centers on a particular problem in aerospace illustrated by a pair of hands-on experiences. Participants then work in small teams of 3-5 to ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free with admission
The Leonardo ConveningThe Leonardo Convening is the culminating event of our 50th anniversary. The event’s aim is to initiate a challenging, vital network-wide experience. The event is designed to bring together attendees from diverse disciplines and experiences. We want this event not only to celebrate 50 years of building our network but ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 215
Monday, 11/05/18
New Directions in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Following the First High-z 21-cm DetectionOn March 1st, the EDGES collaboration reported the detection of a sharp absorption signal in the all-sky radio spectrum at ~80 MHz. This frequency is roughly consistent with early theoretical predictions for the global 21-cm signal, a sky-averaged spectral signature of neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium before cosmic ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Neutrino Torquing We show how galaxy spin alignment directly measures the initial tidal field, thus doubling the information content of galaxy surveys. The initial density field can be recovered to $ksim 1$ using spin alignment and non-linear galaxy displacement reconstruction, separately. By measuring two scalar fields, we measure the gravitational field of ...
Increased demands of high energy density, long lasting batteries, low cost and safe batteries for applications in consumer electronics, electric vehicle and grid with renewable energy integration present great opportunities and challenges to the society. This seminar will review the status of existing battery technology and present the challenges, opportunities ...
'Nature in the City' MapThe program will begin with an introduction to the map and a pop-up exhibit. The Nature in the City map may just be the first of its kind. A collaboration among artists, scientists, mapmakers, and more, it seeks to express the built world of San Francisco within the larger, older, unfolding, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Revolutionary Materials Path for Computing beyond CMOS TransistorsComputing is at a momentous point as devices approach the 10 nm dimensions even as new breakthrough AI/QC architectures evolve. In this talk, I will outline the framework that combines the energy/dimension scaling (Moore’s law), computer error rates (Shannon computing) and modern AI architectures. I also outline how the next ...
People and Robots SeminarThe promise of driverless vehicles to transform the urban mobility experience is contingent on them behaving well within the human driving and pedestrian ecosystem. Driverless vehicles must behave in a socially acceptable manner. This talk will unpack what this means and explore how the technologies for achieving this.Speaker: Liam Pedersen, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sketching Big DataA "sketch" is a data structure supporting some pre-specified set of queries and updates to a database while consuming space substantially (often exponentially) less than the information theoretic minimum required to store everything seen, and thus can also be seen as some form of functional compression. The advantages of sketching ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE PHYSICS OF 2-D MATERIALSDr. Jairo Velasco of UC Santa Cruz, a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, presents his research on the characterization and control of Dirac fermions within nanoscale p-n junctions.
Digitalization, data sets, computing, technology, analytics are all rapidly advancing. Our energy analytics approach and collective tool kit of models and capabilities has advanced considerably over the past decades.  Today, we are at yet another precipice of change, with exponential increases in data availability, advanced analytics (including AI/ML/NNs), and scalable ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Toy Models‛Toys’ here have a special sense: objects from daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal behaviors that puzzle good physicists for a while. (In particular, if you can buy one from a toy store, it's almost certainly not a ‛toy’ ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the EarthOur Earth is just one of ten billion trillion planets in the Universe. Using the latest science, in this talk we'll see that we’re likely not the first time a technological civilization has emerged from planetary evolution. More important, all those other worlds and other possibilities have a lesson to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
How Do We Become “Robot Proof†in Our Professional Lives? How Will AI Put Humanity Back to Work?In this talk, Vivienne Ming will address the challenge that technology is changing faster than culture, and many of the jobs available today will soon be radically de-professionalized by automation and AI. How can society adapt to this change? How do professionals maintain their value in this ever-developing technological climate?Speaker: ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 11/06/18
Two KIPAC Tea TalksTBASpeaker: Vera Gluscevic, Institute for Advanced StudiesThe GRB-170817A afterglow: simulations, light curves, and radio imagesSpeaker: Jonathan Zrake, Columbia
A Perturbative Treatment of Intrinsic Alignments Intrinsic alignments (IA), correlations between the intrinsic shapes and orientations of galaxies on the sky, are both a significant systematic in weak lensing and a probe of the effect of large-scale structure on galactic structure and angular momentum. In the era of precision cosmology, it is thus especially important to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
IndieBio Demo DayIndieBio, an SOSV accelerator, is the world’s leading seed-stage biotech accelerator. At IndieBio, we are devoted to building startups dedicated to solving humanity’s most pressing problems with life itself. Our 4-month program includes $250K funding, lab space, and mentorship to foster the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs.Come see the culmination of IndieBio's ...
Throughout history medicinal molecules have changed the path of human societies. The foundational art and science of synthetic chemistry powers modern strategies for the discovery and development of new medicinal compounds. This seminar will explore the interplay between target molecules, molecular design, synthetic strategy, and reaction discovery in the context ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tales from the front lines of wrangling earth science dataBuilding the data capabilities and products needed to help enable understanding of watershed dynamics, tropical forests, carbon flux, and soil carbon. are just a few of the areas where we are working. This talk will describe the role inter-disciplinary data science is playing in helping to address these challenges. Many ...
The Miracles of MicrosurgeryThe concept of microsurgery is fairly new in the history of surgery. Microsurgery is a technique that allows the surgeon to repair one millimeter blood vessels and nerves using an operating room microscope and suture finer than the human hair. In the mid-1960s, Gregory Buncke’s father, Harry Buncke, M.D., recognized ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Mini-Med School: Snoring and Sleep Apnea: What is it and how do I stop?We all have concerns about our health, but when should we ignore them and keep fingers crossed, and when should we see the doctor? With the internet a part of our daily life, does ready access to information ameliorate or amplify these concerns? We have assembled a group of leaders ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15, students free with ID
Join us at the San Mateo Public Library for an informative talk with Stanford neurologist and sleep expert, Dr. Clete Kushida. Learn how to optimize your sleep & recognize serious sleep problems. Dr. Kushida is is a neurologist who specializes in the diagnosis and management of sleep related breathing disorders ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
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 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Odd Salon: UnknownJoin us for stories of unsolved phenomena and secret histories, unanswered questions, uncharted territory, and enduring enigmas of science
