Speaker: Bruce Dunham, Stanford Linear Accelerator
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Exploring Fundamental Physics with Galaxy Redshift SurveysIn this talk, I will present various ways in which we can use galaxy redshift surveys to constrain fundamental physical models. This year the DESI experiment will launch, collecting a dataset of about 50 million galaxies and Quasars. Using observables like Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift-space distortions we can use ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Deep MedicineOne of America's top doctors reveals how artificial intelligence (AI) will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care. Medicine has become inhuman to disastrous effect. The doctor - patient relationship - the heart of medicine - is broken: Doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Ada Lovelace: the Making of a Computer Scientist Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, is an iconic figure in our vision of computing’s past for her remarkable work with Charles Babbage and on the possibilities of computing machines. And yet her engagement with computing at a time before the roles and definitions of digital computing emerged has ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
After Dark: Outer SpaceFrom exoplanets to space biology, what exists outside of the boundaries of planet earth has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. Come catch a glimpse into what lies ahead in the future of space exploration and join Exploratorium host Ron Hipschman for Full-Spectrum Science: The Universe to learn ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
NightLife Spotlight: Women in ScienceThe spotlight’s on women in science when NightLife celebrates National Women’s History Month. Join the celebration and learn from local scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF, the Academy, and more whose expertise spans everything from microbes to coral reefs and infectious diseases to arachnids. Listen and learn during an insightful ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General, $18 Members
Persistent Memory in Consumer ElectronicsDigital storage and memory are crucial elements in modern consumer electronics, whether in a consumer device or used for on-line cloud services. With the advent of faster wireless networks and IoT applications, storage will grow at device endpoints, at the edge and in data centers.  The trade-off of performance versus cost will ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 General, $5 IEEE Members, CES/IEEE Stud. Free
Science Night at Menlo Park LibraryJoin Science Night VIII (free event) for fun and fascination, with exhibits and hands-on activities & experiments aimed at elementary school-aged children, all the way up to adults.Scheduled participants includeTsquared RoboticsHappy Hollow Park & ZooPalo Alto Junior MuseumMuseum of American HeritageBay Area Amphibian and Reptile SocietyFelidae Conservation Fund Bay Area ...
The link between groundwater use and sinking landscapesWhat is land subsidence, where does it happen, and why does it matter?How do weather and land use affect land subsidence in California?Why are we optimistic about the future of land subsidence in California?Speaker: Michelle Sneed, USGS HydrologistÂ
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Wonderfest: Ant Behavior; Blue SkyStanford biologist Daniel Friedman discusses how ants have conquered the world through their use of collective (emergent, colony-level) behavior.UC Berkeley physicist Yi-Chuan Lu explores how a thin layer of air generates a beautiful blue sky and reveals a process of radiation transfer that is responsible for our warming climate.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Saturday, 03/30/19
Feast for the BeastsEver wanted to be a zookeeper? Curious about what elephants eat? Do you want to go inside a zoo exhibit?! The zoo opens early giving guests the opportunity to spread food for select zoo animals. Bring produce to donate and receive a free child’s ride ticket.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Habitat Restoration: Phoenix Lake Broom Saturday, March 30, 9 am to NoonHelp us improve the oak woodland and grassland habitat around Phoenix Lake by removing invasive French broom.We will meet at Phoenix Lake dam. The gate at Natalie Coffin Greene Park will be open from 8:45 to 9:00 to allow volunteers to drive up and park next to the dam. Folks ...
Where: RossCost: Free
MMWD Trail Crew: Bill Williams CanyonMount Tamalpais Watershed trail work will include drainage and vegetation maintenance around Phoenix Lake. Mandatory safety talk starts promptly at 9am! RSVP required.We will meet at Phoenix Lake dam. The gate at Natalie Coffin Greene Park will be open from 8:45 to 9:00 to allow volunteers to drive up and ...
Where: RossCost: 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: $20 General, $15 Fremont residents
Marin Headlands' Plant StrollCurious about the Marin Headland's wild plants? Come join Ranger Jamie on a short guided walk as she identifies plants, their medicinal uses, and purposes of these amazing plant species in the Headland's ecosystem. Meet at the Marin Headlands Visitor Center parking lot 15 minutes before the program. Sign up ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Cells and DNALearn about cells and DNA, the building blocks of life! Get a chance to see cells under a microscope, build a model of DNA, and other fun activities to help understand these important pieces of who we are. Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Where: Los GatosCost: $15
Habitat Restoration: Saplings and SalmonJoin us in Lagunitas Creek to enhance salmon habitat by planting native trees! We will be planting ash, alder, bay, and buckeye saplings on National Park Service land in a stretch of Lagunitas Creek that MMWD has been working to enhance for the past year. The goal of this event ...
Where: Poynt Reyes StationCost: Free
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 ...
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
The Crucible's SPRING OPEN HOUSEJoin us for our most hands-on Spring Open House yet! There will be free hands-on activities in indigo dyeing, leather working, stone working, and ceramics, plus inspiring and educational exhibitions in Neon, Glass Blowing, Blacksmithing, Welding, and so many others. With two live fire demonstrations, a curated art gallery from ...
Where: OaklandCost: FREE
The Weather is Changing and So is the LandscapeLearn how weather conditions and human impact are rapidly changing the California landscape. Learn how to identify a slow-moving landslide. Is there really such thing as Earthquake Weather? What is real and what is fake? Join Ranger Linda and find out.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
'Hostile Planet'The Hall is excited to invite you to attend an exclusive preview screening of National Geographic's latest documentary series, Hostile Planet. Produced by Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director Guillermo Navarro and hosted by Bear Grylls, Hostile Planet draws attention to the most extraordinary - indeed, almost supernatual - accounts of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Explore Live! - Discover the Beautiful Night SkyThe De Anza College Planetarium will present “Explore Live!†- a live astronomy series featuring presentations by our professional planetarium staff.Speaker: Toshi Komatsu, Planetarium Director
Where: CupertinoCost: $9
Sunday, 03/31/19
'Hostile Planet'The Hall is excited to invite you to attend an exclusive preview screening of National Geographic's latest documentary series, Hostile Planet. Produced by Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director Guillermo Navarro and hosted by Bear Grylls, Hostile Planet draws attention to the most extraordinary - indeed, almost supernatual - accounts of ...
A grand challenge with great opportunities is to develop a coherent framework that enables blending conservation laws, physical principles, and/or phenomenological behaviors expressed bydifferential equations with the vast data sets available in many fields of engineering, science, and technology. At the intersection of probabilistic machine learning, deep learning, and scientific ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Towards Higher-Tc Cuprate Superconductors"Quantum materials" are heating up, and let's not forget the cuprate high-temperature superconductors being one of them. These oxides are structurally layered, host a plethora of symmetry breaking phases, and have strong electron-electron Coulomb interactions. The ultimate questions are - what makes its transition temperature (Tc) so high, and (how) ...
Shortly after the birth of the Universe, space was filled with glowing red-hot plasma. As the universe expanded and cooled over the next 13.8 billion years, the glow of that plasma redshifted to longer wavelengths and is observed today by our telescopes as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Spatial variations ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black HolesUsing a "wedding cake" combination of multi-wavelength X-ray+infrared+optical surveys, we measure the growth of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies over the ~12 billion years. Most actively growing black holes ("Active Galactic Nuclei" or AGN) are heavily obscured and thus look like inactive galaxies in optical surveys, so ...
This presentation will cover the history and roles of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) as it relates to their delegation agreement with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Organizational near-term priorities will be discussed as it relates to current and future ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ohm's Law meets Moore's Law: Whatin the world does the digitalization of energy mean?Shuli Goodman is the founder and Executive Director of LF Energy, a Linux Foundation project that supports open source innovation in the energy and electricity sectors. LF Energy’s ambition is to accelerate the energy transition and the decarbonization of the world’s economies. She has nearly three decades experience in the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Building a Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Wave DetectorGalaxies grew in the early universe by merging with each other, and as they coalesced, the supermassive black holes at their hearts merged with each other, too. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts the existence of gravitational waves - the stretching and squeezing of space itself - as such black ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
A comprehensive cultural portrait that Kirkus recommends for fans of John Markoff and Ari Levy, Clive Thompson offers smart, funny, necessary reporting with Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. This tech journalist uncovers lesser-known origin stories within the field and outlines its future ...
Cosmological applications of the kSZ effect We show how kSZ tomography measures a bispectrum containing a cosmological power spectrum of the velocity field and an astrophysical power spectrum of the electron density. While these are degenerate up to an overall amplitude (the "galaxy optical depth"), scale-dependent effects on large scales are much better constrained by the ...
C++ is one of the key foundations of our software - including much of the open source software becoming fundamental for data science. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It's in your computer and your phone. It's in the machines that manufacture your computer ...
Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of five books, including How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate; Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future; and the most recent, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, Free for members
Cyrus [suh-ROOS] is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer.His second book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is due out May 8, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Noninvasive monitoring of chronic kidney disease using MR based pH and perfusionChronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a cardinal feature of methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a prototypic organic acidemia. Impaired growth, low activity, and protein restriction affect muscle mass and lower serum creatinine concentrations, which can delay the diagnosis and management of renal disease in this patient population. We have designed a general ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Molecular Insights into Aquatic Food Web Ecology in the Estuary and BeyondBroadly, I am interested in resolving the stories of intense biological warfare occurring at the base of aquatic food webs between predators and their prey. Since the balance of any aquatic environment is at the whim of human influence, it is important to know how predator-prey interactions vary when prey ...
This analysis directs critical environmental justice and black feminist studies perspectives towards the racialized state violence of urban austerity in Michigan, and examines the degree to which multiple and intersectional forms of ethnic, racial, and gendered environmental injustice have been undertheorized in matters concerning access to safe and affordable water. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
California's Drinking Water CrisisYou're invited to a briefing on California's drinking water crisis.More than one million people don't have access to safe and affordable drinking water in California [confirmed by Politifact Feb 14, 2019]. Come engage in a conversation with people working on solutions to end this crisis NOW.Confirmed panelists include Susana De ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Myths of AstronomyMarin Science SeminarSpeaker: Thomas Targett, Sonoma State Univ.
