How to not run cosmological n-body simulationsExtracting cosmological information from current survey data is increasingly reliant on computationally-intensive n-body simulations of large-scale structure. For weak-lensing surveys, the matter distribution is directly measured from simulations on scales where linear perturbation theory fails. For galaxy-clustering surveys, haloes are identified in simulations and then populated with galaxies to provide ...
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL or MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory that performs research at high magnetic fields in materials physics, chemistry, geochemistry, and biology. It is the only magnet Lab in the US and is ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Decoding the cancer genome one codon at a time and its therapeutic implicationsDr. Davide Ruggero, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Urology and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, he holds the Helen Diller Family Endowed Chair of Basic Cancer Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ruggero has made numerous breakthrough discoveries in the area of mammalian translational ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Stanford Energy SeminarSpeakers: Julie Mulkerin, Manager of Climate Change Strategy, and John White, General Manager of Energy Transitions at Chevron
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Scalable Agreement is What We NeedFast rise of decentralized systems and cloud computing introduces a new challenge, designing highly scalable algorithms; algorithms that have asymptotically-small communication, computation, and latency costs with respect to the network size. Moreover, systems with thousands or even millions of parties distributed throughout the world which are not controlled by a ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Tuesday, 05/21/19
Using Gaia, Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS to map the Milky WayGaia is revolutionizing our view of the Milky Way. Taken together with ongoing and upcoming surveys, such as LSST, we are at an exciting moment in the study of our Galaxy. In this talk, I will discuss a new 3D dust map based on Gaia parallaxes, as well as optical ...
The Acasta Gneiss Complex (AGC) is a unique exposure of 4.0 to 2.9 billion-year-old (Ga) meta-igneous rocks in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The AGC represents the oldest known silicic and zircon-bearing terrestrial crust and thus can provide critical insight on the tectonic processes operating on the early Earth. The primary ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Botany Series: Introduction to Grass IdentificationJoin the talented team of Maria Alvarez (Restoration Ecologist), Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist), John Anderson (Restoration Technician), and Patrick Nicholson (Seasonal Restoration Technician) for a Park Academy class on the identification of grass species - especially those within our parks! This will be an interactive class, sure to improve ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
Wonderfest: Climate Change and the Human BodyHumans are homeotherms, maintaining constant body temperature in both cold and hot environments by virtue of shivering or sweating. In the future, however, if our atmosphere absorbs enough carbon dioxide, the temperature and humidity will exceed survivable values for many Earthlings. Wonderfest Science Envoy Yi-Chuan Lu will use climate models ...
If You Won’t, We Will: Youth Action on ClimateFour years ago, 21 plaintiffs served the U.S. government with a lawsuit. The government, they asserted, had violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by failing to act on climate change. All plaintiffs were students under the age of 23.On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Greta ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Hope for Reefs: Addressing the Coral Reef CrisisWhile they cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support approximately one-quarter of marine biodiversity on Earth and the livelihoods of tens of millions of people. The ecosystem services that coral reefs provide (e.g., fisheries, coastal protection, habitat, cultural services, tourism) are valued at nearly $400 billion ...
I will be discussing common and less common edible fungi found in urban environments like parks and residential zones to the coast to the Sierra. My talk is geared towards beginners but seasoned mushroomers will also enjoy my presentation.Speaker: Kingman Bond-Graham
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Seeing is Exploding: Snapping Biological Images with X-ray Laser BlastsSLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, launched a new generation of light sources when it opened 10 years ago last month, with beams 10 billion times brighter than any before. The energy from those powerful beams is enough to destroy any molecule put in its path, yet LCLS ...
Dr. Jen Gunter is OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician, writing on topics of sex, science, and social media. A fierce advocate for women’s health, Gunter is devoted to correcting the myths and misinformation perpetuated by the internet around women’s well-being and reproductive health. She is the author of The ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $29
Wednesday, 05/22/19
Artificial Intelligence for Industry (AI4I) Forum - SPR2019Co-Design of Deep Neural Nets and Neural Net Accelerators for Embedded Vision ApplicationsSpeaker: Kurt Keutzer, UC BerkeleyBenchmarks for Post General Purpose Computing EraSpeaker: Lingjie Xu, Alibaba Low-Power Computer Vision: Status, Challenges, and OpportunitiesSpeaker: Yung-Hsiang Lu, PurdueAI: What Makes it Hard and Fun!Speaker: Pradeep Dubey, IntelSee weblink for speaker bios and ...
What is Consciousness?What is consciousness, exactly? Does the brain create it? Or is a spiritual phenomenon that can't be reduced to matter? In most of human history, these kinds of questions were studied solely by philosophers. But in the last two decades, the question of consciousness has reached the fields of neuroscience ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free!
Emerging AI Applications & Infrastructure Systems w/ Active Storage-class MemorySince the rise of deep learning in 2012, much progress has been made in deep-learning-based AI tasks such as image/video understanding and natural language understanding, as well as GPU/accelerator architectures that greatly improve the training and inference speed for neural-network models. As the industry players race to develop ambitious applications ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeNOTE: The Warriors won the series which means that there won't be a game Wed evening. Come and celebrate either that we get to have Skeptics in the Pub or that the Warriors won in 4 and we can have our regularly scheduled Skeptics in the Pub!Science and Reason with ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Free coding club for kidsThe Raspberry Pi Foundation has a free coding club, called a Dojo, for kids at the office space located in WeWork City Center. The team is incredibly excited to continue engaging in the community by providing a fun and social environment for kids to freely explore technology and watch their ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Thursday, 05/23/19
Understanding the Interiors of Neutron StarsNeutron stars have long beckoned to physicists from many fields as realms of extreme physics beyond what we can test in terrestrial laboratories.  In the realm of nuclear physics, the lure is that the cores of neutron stars are several times denser than atomic nuclei and yet are technically cold; this ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The story of how low frequency radio waves connect space, underground, and everything in between The simple act of recording very low frequency (VLF) radio waves (3-30 kHz) is incredibly simple, yet unlocks a bevy of connections across science and engineering. Â Lightning releases VLF energy which travel thousands of miles, allowing lightning to be characterized, geolocated, and integrated into weather forecasting. VLF waves reflect from ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Time to change a paradigm: non-specific effects of vaccinesUnknown to most people, vaccines were never tested for their effects on overall health before being introduced. Everybody was so certain that vaccines only affect the target infection that it did not seem necessary. Our population-based epidemiological studies in one of the world’s poorest countries, Guinea-Bissau, have now revealed that ...
Explore the many converging facets of identity on this journey to the center of the self. Question your assumptions, weigh your psychic baggage, and dare yourself to try on a new persona as you explore both self and society. Come as you are and let’s take a look in the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Tiny NightlifeThis week, we’re shrinking NightLife down to size with a celebration of all things tiny, miniature, and microscopic.Interested in downsizing and shrinking your footprint? Learn about the how-tos and challenges of living that tiny home lifestyle.See what NASA advisor and Spacehack.org founder Ariel Waldman found when she traveled to Antarctica ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Members, $15 at door
The Science Of Magic - With Live DemonstrationsFrom ancient conjurers to quick-handed con artists to big ticket Las Vegas illusionists, magicians throughout the ages have been expertly manipulating human attention and perception to dazzle and delight us (or scare us, or steal our watches). Of course you know that the phenomena of cognitive and sensory illusions are ...
Where: Castro ValleyCost: FREE
Friday, 05/24/19
Quantum Computing with Superconducting QubitsQuantum entanglement is a very real effect, in which (usually nearby) quantum states of real materials can become so very well connected that acting on one component will strongly affect the other. This effect of entanglement, which can be present in materials not used for quantum computing as well, plays ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Small scale structure of the IGM: A Dark Matter Tale The intergalactic medium (IGM) plays a unique role in constraining the (small scale) matter power spectrum, since the low-density, high redshift IGM filaments are particularly sensitive to the small scale properties of dark matter. The main observable manifestation of the IGM, the Lyman-alpha forest, has provided important constraints on the ...
I will describe our efforts to understand and design stiffness-changing soft matter with inspirational structure and rheology. Polymer networks and fibrous elastic components are common themes across the three different stories. First, a new design paradigm experimentally realized: soft solid materials that can change stiffness by up to 100 times ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astronomy 101: Sights of the Cosmos, Intro to AstronomyThis event provides a different introduction to astronomy than our Intro to the Night Sky talks. During this hour, you'll gain an appreciation for the size and scale of the cosmos and our place within it. You'll see many examples of the beautiful objects visible in the night sky, learn ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 05/25/19
Gardening with Nature in MindJoin renowned environmental educator Judy Adler in this in-depth tour of her half-acre Walnut Creek garden. Judy’s suburban garden, part farm, part classroom, part nursery, and part nature preserve, features happy chickens, a rainwater harvesting system, a pond, and many California native and/or pollinator-friendly plants. Judy’s was one of the first gardens ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $35
Science Saturday: Water WildWe're making a splash during this last Science Saturday of the school year, as we dive into the wonderful world of water. What is a watershed? Where can you find a steelhead? Find out while we explore all-things aquatic while completing a craft, activities, and more.
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 ...
Learn what Treasure Island was planted on - and what was planted on Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Today, Treasure Island’s soil is being reinforced with fill from the Caldecott Tunnel’s fourth bore. Did you know that its perimeter was built in 1937 using boulders from the ...
Everything is made of elementary particles, the stars, our planet, our bodies… One of the most ghosty and sneaky of these particles is the so-called neutrino, a neutral tiny particle that can go through entire planets like light through glass. Even if they are the most abundant massive particle in ...
This month we celebrate the work taking place to help save endangered and threatened marine mammals found along the California coast and Pacific Ocean, including the threatened Guadalupe fur seals, Southern sea otter, the rarest seal in the United States, the Hawaiian monk seal. Docent-led tours will take you around the ...
