Things designed and built for space exploration have come a long way from Sputnik and dehydrated orange drink. From spacesuits to rovers, come get some insight into what goes into creating the objects needed for cosmic travel. You’ll also want to sample the goods at Pairings: Dehydration, inspired by NASA’s ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
COSMOLOGICAL KOANSCosmological Koans invites you to take an intellectual journey through more than 50 koans: pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition. Anthony Aguirre traverses the world from West to East, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth and depth of the universe. Using beguiling koans and a flair for explaining ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20/$10/$8
Development process of wearable devices through the eyes of a Mechanical EngineerA consulting development engineer will review the development process of wearable devices.The topic discussed will include:1. Development steps from the marketing requirements document to the production prototypes2. Typical challenges that often slow or stop the development process 3. Some sample of designed products4. Where the industry of wearable is going ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: $10 Donation General, Free for ASME members
Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?Today’s solutions for addressing climate change on a global scale are doable but daunting. A vigorous debate needs to be had about how to allocate resources, prioritize policies and design economic trade-offs as we move forward.Project Drawdown has rigorously evaluated a universe of options for reversing climate change, zeroing in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Astro Night: Explosions in the SkyWhile the night sky may appear calm and eternal, the quiet masks a violent dynamism, where stars collide, collapse to black holes, or explode entirely as supernovae. It is only recently that astronomers have begun to deeply explore this transient side of the universe. Such stellar cataclysms stir up spacetime, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
City Star Party @ The PresidioCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Friday, 07/12/19
Grow Redwoods for Coho Salmon: Nursery Volunteer DayJoin local community members, staff, and interns in our native plant nursery between 10am and 1pm this Friday!We will be working together to grow, tend and care for native plants used to restore critical habitat for Coho salmon in Lagunitas Creek.Please pack something to eat and join us for lunch ...
Where: OlemaCost:
'LIKE': A Documentary About the Impact of Social Media on Our Lives LIKE is an IndieFlix Original documentary that explores the impact of social media on our lives. Technology is a tool. It’s here to stay and social platforms are a place to connect, share and care, but what’s really happening? Are we addicted? How do we stop? Where do we start? ...
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, we'll take a look back at each of the Apollo landing sites and discuss why each site was chosen and what made each site so interesting. We'll then recap some of the fascinating things we've learned ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $25
Saturday, 07/13/19
Restore Creeks for Coho Salmon: Restoration Volunteer DayJoin local community members, staff, and interns at our Lagunitas Creek restoration site between 10am and 2pm this Saturday!We will be working together to water native plants and remove invasive species, restoring critical habitat for Coho salmon.Please pack something to eat and join us for lunch after we’ve finished working. ...
Where: OlemaCost: 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
Cassini’s Spectacular Final Year at SaturnCassini’s 13-year exploration of Saturn stands as the most successful interplanetary mission in NASA history. Its “Grand Finale†(with dives off the outer ring edge, and between inner rings & cloud tops) culminated with a plunge into Saturn’s depths. Insights earned during these maneuvers bring Saturn’s complex glory into focus ...
Dr. Natalie Batalha is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. Award-winning astrophysicist Natalie Batalha served as the scientific lead for NASA's highly successful Kepler mission, which discovered more than 2,500 planets around other stars. When the Kepler space telescope retired in October 2018, Natalie left NASA ...
We will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11’s Moon Landing with crafting, playing board games (Spaceteam and Chronology), and then watching a live webcast from NASA on our Prowise big screen. Everyone welcome!12:00 - 1:00 Crafts and board games (Spaceteam and Chronology)1:00 - 2:00 Watch NASA live webcast
Core Network Services provides network connectivity for PayPal site infrastructure. To address 5 9s’ site reliability goals, the demand for network to perform at its best keeps growing. PayPal transformed its data center networks by deploying white-box leaf/spine designs to help with horizontal scaling, low latency, and resilience to failures. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Tuesday, 07/16/19
Astronomy Talks @ ClarmontEver look up at the night sky and wonder what’s all that up there? Have you been following the news about the black hole and the event horizon and would like to understand more about these phenomena and other Astronomy concepts? Join us and get a download on what’s hot ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sean Carroll: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Space-TimeQuantum mechanics is the most accurate and far-reaching theory in physics, yet physicists themselves readily admit that they don't understand it. But Caltech physicist and New York Times best-selling author Sean Carroll suggests that we do have a very promising way of understanding the mysteries of the quantum world.
Where: Palo AltoCost: $22 General, $15 Member, $8 Student
The ocean has entered an era of upheaval - propelled by climate change, overfishing, coastal development, pollution, plastics, and other stressors. The results of this are unprecedented risks to ocean ecosystems and to the people who depend upon them, but also unprecedented opportunities for technological advances, multi-stakeholder action and political momentum. ...
As engineers and scientists, we spend years building our toolkit of design and analysis methods. As projects grow, however, they reach a scale of complexity where one or two experts cannot mentally hold an entire system in their heads. The challenge in building complex systems comes from capturing and communicating ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Behind-the-Scenes Apollo Exhibit TourA special look at the enhanced Apollo exhibition on board, with opportunities to speak to the Collections & Exhibitions Team. Come aboard throughout the day to hear stories about some of the unique artifacts in the exhibit and get some hands-on experience with artifact care in musuems with our interactive Education Collection! ...
Rolling hills, fertile soil: John Steinbeck’s California contrasts a Central Valley that “shouts with grass†during wet years and “puts a terror in the valley†in dry ones. Now, 70 years and four droughts later, California’s cyclical water shortages continue to disrupt a robust agricultural economy one that produces up ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America Long before Margaret O’Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government, ...
July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the moon. In that time, the Apollo missions, a fleet of robotic probes and observations from Earth have taught us a lot about Earth’s surprising satellite. In this nontechnical talk, Andrew Fraknoi, who is sometimes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 - $40
Inside the Black Box: How Does a Neural Network Understand Names?A cornerstone of customer relationship management, chatbot analytics, and research automation systems, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key commercial application of Natural Language Processing (NLP). State of the art approaches to NER are purely data driven, leveraging deep neural networks to identify named entity mentions - such as people, ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #110: Radioactive Elements, Lager, and Cable Cars!“Radioactive and Heavy Metals - The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?†by Rebecca AbergelExposure to heavily radioactive elements after a nuclear accident is a terrifying thought. But radioactive elements - including some that were created and added to the periodic table by scientists here in the Bay Area - ...
