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: $20 General, $15 Fremont residents
Psychedelic Plants: Introduction to the biology and ritual ethnobotany of Peyote, Tobacco, and Ayahuasca - SOLD OUTPsychedelic plant rituals are part of humanity’s ancient relationship to nature. Other psychoactive plant species, such as tobacco, are partner to those rituals. Each of these can carry potential wisdom, healing, yet also shadows, depending on human factors. Learn about the botany, chemistry, and indigenous ceremonial histories of these few ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $45 General, $40 Members
Monday, 03/04/19
Simulations for Cluster-Based CosmologyObservations of galaxy clusters have thus far supported the standard model of cosmology and provided constraints on non-standard models including evolving models of dark energy and modifications of gravity. The statistical power of galaxy clusters is at a golden age, where forthcoming observations will provide data for tens of thousands ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Finding the next Einstein in Africa: the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) was founded in 2008 by Neil Turok with a simple yet profoundly ambitious goal: to find the next Einstein in Africa. More broadly speaking, the AIMS organization works to improve the overall level of math and scientific education throughout the African continent while ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Geomechanics in geothermal reservoirsEnhanced geothermal systems have the potential to play a major role in deep decarbonization of the power sector. Geothermal's unique ability to provide clean power with flexible load profiles would support the high penetration levels of variable wind and solar power needed to reach a 100% clean electricity grid. The ...
At the so-called critical or Schwinger intensity the quantum vacuum becomes unstable with respect to electron-positron pair production. This strong-field regime of quantum electrodynamics (QED) plays an important role in extreme astrophysical plasmas, in upcoming laboratory high-energy density laser-plasma experiments, and at the interaction point of future high-luminosity lepton colliders. ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Extrasolar Planetary SystemsOne of the mysteries arising from the study of exoplanets is that we see systems where the planets are misaligned, even though they are born in a flat, circular disk. Maybe a cosmic tsunami hit these systems and rearranged everything about them, but we haven’t had proof. Our paper gives ...
Exploring Embryonic Patterning with Colonies of Human Embryonic Stem CellsEmbryology at the beginning of the 21st century finds itself in a situation similar to neurobiology; the behavior of the component pieces is understood in some detail, but how they self-assemble to become life is still very hazy. There are 100’s of molecules that enable cell communication and genetics defines ...
This discussion explores the roots of the Native American reservation electricity gap through a case study of the Yurok Tribe’s work to extend the electric grid to the Yurok Reservation in Humboldt County, California. Native American reservations are the communities in the continental United States most lacking in access to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
OSIRIS-REx: NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Return MissionNASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is the first U.S. mission to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. The mission’s target is Bennu, a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that is also potentially hazardous to Earth.Asteroids are the leftover debris from the Solar System’s formation process ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
The Whole-Brain ChildDr. Daniel Siegel is a leading expert on psychiatry and psychotherapy, focusing on the brain’s impact on the well-being of children and adults. A clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, Dr. Siegel is the author and ...
Simulations for Cluster-Based Cosmology Observations of galaxy clusters have thus far supported the standard model of cosmology and provided constraints on non-standard models including evolving models of dark energy and modifications of gravity. The statistical power of galaxy clusters is at a golden age, where forthcoming observations will provide data for tens of thousands ...
Membranes serve multiple crucial roles in cell biology: they act as hosts to membrane proteins, as templates for the nucleation of signalling domains, and as boundaries that define cells and their organelles. We are broadly interested at elucidating molecular mechanisms that regulate the structure, function and organization of membranes and ...
Electric Cars 101 WorkshopThis workshop presented by the San Francisco Department of the Environment and 350 SF offers all the information you need to know to shop for, purchase/lease, and own an electric car â€" including how to charge it. Discussions will cover how to determine which car works best for you, which ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Odd Salon: DoomedJoin us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits.Speakers:Tamar Baskind ~ Emanuel Ringelblum & the Archives of the Warsaw GhettoLeonard Apeltsin ~ Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes WrongLin Lawhn ~ Caledonia, Conquered: How ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 - $25
Wonderfest: Expanding the Darwinian RevolutionDavid Sloan Wilson is one of Earth's foremost evolutionary biologists. His new book, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, "moves us in the direction of sustainable living at all scales ... with the compass of evolutionary theory." Professor Wilson will be in conversation with another of the planet's ...
Discovery Station: GymnospermsDiscover gymnosperms -- a type of plant that, literally translated from Greek, means "naked seed." Gymnosperms - in contrast to angiosperms or flowering plants - are plants whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary..See examples of gymnosperms, including cycads and ginkgos -- along with conifers and Gnetales (like Ephedra ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Quantum computing algorithmsThe Center for Quantum Coherent Science presents The Spring 2019 Berkeley Quantum Science and Technology Seminar. Join the group for talks and conversations over refreshments. Talks feature distinguished scientists in the fields of Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Computer Science.Speaker: Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Biophysics of cell adhesion: how cells sense and respond to forceCells in tissues exert forces as they squeeze, stretch, flex and pull on each other. These forces are incredibly small - on the scale of piconewtons, but they are essential in mediating cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation. A key protein responsible for sensing mechanical forces, are the classical cadherin family ...
Katherine Yelick is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. She is well known for her ...
Investment in adaptation capital reduces the damage from extreme weather, mitigating the welfare cost of climate change. Federal aid for disaster relief reduces the net costs to localities that experience extreme weather, decreasing their incentives to invest in adaptation capital. We develop a heterogenous-agent macro model to quantify the relationship ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
TECH WEEK: Inventing TomorrowPizza! Guest Speaker! Film!In celebration of Tech Week, enjoy a special presentation from Cal NERDS, then watch a film about 6 teens from around the world using STEM to help improve their communities while competing in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) https://bit.ly/2IHX5Xr.Pizza while supplies last! Everyone welcome!Cal NERDS provides coaching and mentoring ...
Measurements of neurotransmitters in the extracellular space are limited by combinations of poor chemical, spatial, and temporal resolution. Brain chemistries, therefore, are unable to be investigated dynamically, particularly at the level of neural circuits and across numerous signaling molecules.1 To understand neurochemical signaling at scales pertinent to encoded information, micro- ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Inequality and the Social Cost of CarbonWe present a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the social cost of carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based estimate and an equity weighted estimate as special cases. We use two integrated assessment models (FUND and RICE) ...
Recent advances in deep learning and satellite imagery make it possible to remotely monitor economic and agricultural trends across the developing world, at high resolution. These advances are now being translated from research labs into the real world. This seminar will discuss the technology and vision behind Atlas AI, ...
Placebo effects are most often considered in the context of randomized controlled trials, in which an active drug or treatment is compared against an inert placebo treatment. This allows the factors that contribute to placebo effects to be separated from the medically active properties of a drug or treatment. But in the ...
Where: Palo AltoCost:
Thursday, 03/07/19
Near-Field Cosmology and the Lowest-Mass GalaxiesGalaxies less massive than the Small Magellanic Cloud (10^8 Msun) have become increasingly relevant to a broad range of astrophysics from cosmic reionization to deciphering the nature of dark matter. Yet, they are simply too faint to be directly detected at any appreciable redshift, compromising our ability to place them ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Cosmology with neutral hydrogen in the post reionization era Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and, more recently, of the distribution of galaxies at late times led us to the definition of a concordance cosmological model, the so called LCDM model. Despite its phenomenological success, several fundamental questions about the origin and fate of our Universe remain ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Studying Distant Galaxies with Innovative Astronomical InstrumentationRecent advances in diffraction-limited techniques on 8 - 10m telescopes using adaptive optics (AO) and integral field spectrographics (IFS) have led to significant scientific achievements and are stimulating the design of future instrumentation. My talk will focus on development and use of current near-infrared AO instruments to study galaxies in ...
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
NightLife & DeathIt’s a matter of NightLife and death when we team up with the Reimagine End of Life Festival to examine the big questions about death in the natural world through an evening of science, discussion, and art.Dealing with Death African HallAt 7 pm, Learn about the animal care provided in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Expand your perspective with an evening of innovative storytelling that illuminates the fluid relationship between art and science. Hear from scientists working directly with artists to share their research in new ways and artists using science as inspiration - then immerse yourself in a spectacular multimedia artwork highlighting ice studies.Can ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, $0.00 A.D. members. $14.95 explO members
Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz - Death in the UniverseThe night sky might seem peaceful but there are many things simmering under the calm facade. Come to Astronomy on Tap this month to hear Dr. Jeffrey Silverman discuss some of thew ays the Universe is trying to kill off humanity. From killer asteroids to exploding stars, The Universe is ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Path of the JaguarHumankind both admires and reveres the mighty jaguar. They have been used as symbols throughout the Americas and continue to gain global and local support for conservation. Yet, their predatory behavior and massive, connected habitat requirements bring them into conflict with humans, leading to dramatic decline over the past 20 ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 - $30
Friday, 03/08/19
Nursery Series: Planning for Next Year in the NurseryThis class will introduce participants to planning for collection and growing of native plants. Covered subjects will include: communicating with restoration managers about their plant requests; calculating amounts of seed to collect; scheduling of collection, pre-germination treatments, propagation, facility maintenance; after care issues, monitoring, managers responsibilities for safety, resources available ...
Women in Tech: The Future of AISince Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program nearly 200 years ago, women have contributed to the advancement of computing and helped pave the way for today’s artificial intelligence (AI). Today, women are pushing the frontiers of AI in applications from robotics to recruiting, from startups to venture capital. Equally ...
Molecular Perspective on Nanoscale TransportUnderstanding how mass, energy, or charge are transported on small scales is challenging, as standard hydrodynamic descriptions developed for macroscopic phenomena need not remain valid. On small scales, matter is discrete, thermal fluctuations render currents stochastic quantities, and nonlinear response is ubiquitous. In this talk, I will discuss ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Friday: Bay-Delta Water Quality Plan update: 2nd PhaseThere will be a presentation by Heinrich Albert, San Francisco Bay Chapter Water Committee co-chair, entitled Bay-Delta Water Quality Plan update:Â 2nd Phase covering the Sacramento River Watershed and the Delta itself.California Rivers, the Delta, the San Francisco Bay Estuary and the wildlife that depends on them are in severe ...
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: $20 General, $15 Fremont residents
Addressing Hot Spots of Air PollutionAir pollution has long been viewed as an environmental issue, but recognition of air pollution as a social justice issue has only recently become far more widespread. At this presentation you'll hear about:The hot spots of air pollution in the Bay Area and their implications for health. New technologies which enable ...
Where: DanvilleCost: free but $10 donation encouraged
The Chemistry of ColorThis talk, which includes a walk, is a wonderful introduction to the chemistry of color and to the special structures of colorful plant substances and those that can be used as dyes on fibers. Learn about anthocyanins, tannins, flavonoids, and more!Price includes admission to the garden
Calling All Eco-Explorers! Youth ages 5-15 will be up to their elbows in FREE, hands-on activities. Learning through fun interactive, nature science experiences and regional field trips, your kids will find out all about the Bay Area ecosystem and become the next generation of Citizen Scientists! We have extended Welcome ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Night Owl: Hoot & HollerThis high-flying event features live owls hootin’ about, Whiskey Hoo-Hoo cocktails, Alvarado Street Brewery craft beers, savory eats, live music, a ‘craft beer, beer craft’, plus a competition and prize to the best owl call of the night.WHOOOOO’s Down? Join the fun and come learn about this elusive creature of the ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $39 General, $29 Members, $49 at door
