DÃa de la IngenierÃa/Latino Engineering Day 2019Join us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).Latino Engineering Day/DÃa de la IngenierÃa combines panel discussions, presentations on the science and engineering heritage of Latinos, and playful activities such as making NatureBots. This annual, drop-in program is conducted primarily in Spanish and provides opportunities to meet ...
The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the world’s premier gardens. Here you can see thriving collections of plants from all around the world. Our day’s activities will include a docent lead tour highlighting plant forms that are fun to draw, a potluck lunch (bring something to share- you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 suggested donation
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: The Age of StupidOscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Edward Burtynsky is a contemporary fine art photographer and filmmaker; his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes and their incursions into the natural landscape are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world.He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work including the inaugural TED ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 - $100, Free for Members
You know what time is because of your daily experience, but what seems constant and unchanging is not. In 1905, Albert Einstein threw a monkey wrench in our perception of time and space. Join us as we examine a few of these quirks on a conceptual nonmathematical level. Yes, you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: included with admission
Green Film Festival: 'Earth'Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators, or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Once Was Water'This inspiring film explores the innovative water technologies in Las Vegas, Nevada: the thirstiest city in the driest state. The solutions presented could hopefully serve as a model for the rest of the world.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Motherload'A crowdsourced documentary about a new mother's quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of the digital age, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote. How can choices within our nuclear families effect change on a global scale?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: '16 Sunrises' Closing Night Wrap PartyFor six months, French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his fellow astronauts live on the International Space Stateion, 450 kilometers from Earth. As the space station revolves, they experience 16 sunrises each day, witnessing a planet that is constantly evolving. They capture spetacular footage of superstorms, cosmic phenomena, and life in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $25 Members, $16 film only
Green Film Festival: 'Kifaru'Experience the intimate joys and pitfalls of wildlife conservation through the eyes of Kenyan rhino caretakers who witness extinction happening in real-time. With their protection "Sudan", the last make Northern White Rhino in existence, is the subject of a last resort IVG experiment to save the species they love.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Can We Build a Brain?From the Nova Wonders website: "Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web ...
Many jurisdictions in the United States - Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and New York - have recently passed legislation setting ambitious midcentury targets of significant economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions and 100% carbon-free electricity. However, few studies have considered the natural and agricultural land constraints and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Static and Dynamic Control of Topological MatterUnderstanding materials based on their underlying topological order has caused a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics in how we classify and describe emergent phenomena in systems. Controlling and engineering these exotic orders is key for next-generation electronics and topological quantum computers. In this talk, I will discuss how the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
DUNE: How I learned to stop worrying and love the neutrinoSince the discovery of neutrino oscillations more than twenty years ago, we have made steady progress on understanding neutrino properties with ever more challenging experiments. Today, we know that the fundamental parameters that govern this process take on some peculiar values and that they set the stage for CP violation, ...
FROM ASTROPHYSICS TO ANGEL INVESTOR - HOW SCIENCE HELPED ME SUCCEEDEntrepreneur and lapsed astronomer Lance Cottrell will discuss how a background in physics has informed and supported his circuitous path from privacy advocate to intelligence community vendor to startup mentor.
New States in Complex SystemsComplex systems are often described by simple equations that nevertheless can lead to a rich variety of disparate solutions. Discovering and understanding the full spectrum of solutions that correspond to stable states is at the forefront of current research on the network modeling of complex systems. Recent work by our ...
Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.Counter Culture Labs has been partnering with the American Society for Microbiology for their yearly Agar Art Contest (http://www.asm.org/agarart) - last year we even won in the Maker division!In this hands-on ...
Join Nerd Nite East Bay to learn how human systems borrow from nature, how and why the Transcontinental Railroad arrived in the East Bay, and the bonkers biology of our favorite Kaiju.Ecomimicry: How Human Systems Benefit By Copying NatureHuman activities have greatly modified natural ecosystems, sometimes to our own detriment. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8-10
Tuesday, 10/01/19
SynBioBeta 2019: The Global Synthetic Biology SummitSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech.Meet the innovators and companies, find new opportunities, partner up and discover the potential of the biological industrial revolution. We loved our time at Mission Bay Conference Center, but our industry and our attendance have outgrown that facility, so we’re very ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Two KIPAC Tea TalksDirect Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets* (*In the Next Decade)Direct detection and detailed characterization of habitable exoplanets is a key science goal of future observatories. Although space-based telescopes will characterize exo-Earths in the late 2030s, extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) on extremely large ground-based telescopes (ELTs) has the potential to enable such ...
Learning from small scales in weak lensing and CMB data Weak lensing of photons by large scale structure is sensitive to both the growth of the (lensing) structures and the expansion history of the universe. The large number of modes available on small scales have the potential to constrain cosmological parameters beyond what is achievable in the linear regime, but ...
How well do you understand the links between housing policy and our climate goals? Many current housing policies undermine our ability to reduce transportation emissions the biggest source of climate pollution in California. These policies also affect issues of environmental justice, equity, building electrification and affordability. Come learn about these ...
A look at the gigantic animals that roamed Fremont area as well as the rest of coastal California. Irvington area of Fremont is one of the best preserved site of these fossils. Families will learn about sabertooth cats, mammoths, camels, mastodons, and many more large animals.There are 4 activities at ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine LearningParticle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of operating these machines is far from mundane? For example, for every experiment at SLAC’s X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, human operators regularly adjust several ...
The activities of the vast majority of fishing vessels in the world have remained unquantified and largely opaque due to a lack of technology. With newly developed hardware solutions that harness solar power and cost-effective cellular networks to transmit data, it is becoming possible to provide vessel tracking systems at ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
CITRIS Research Exchange - 5G Tech and Policy5G wireless networks hold great potential, enabling unprecedented advancements in linking robots, cars, and other sensor-enabled technologies and infrastructure to revolutionize cities. While the future of smart cities may bring gains in sustainability, mobility, and economic opportunity, ensuring these benefits are felt by all community members remains a significant challenge. ...
Governments subsidize R&D through a mix of interdependent mechanisms, but subsidy interactions are not well understood. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evaluation of how R&D subsidy interactions impact firm behavior. I use funding rules and policy changes in the UK to show that direct grants and tax credits for ...
The Changing Forest Fire Patterns in Central and Northern CaliforniaLarge wildfire occurrence has increased noticeably throughout central and northern California over the last 10-15 year. Climate more conducive to fire spread and changing vegetation (fuel) complexes are readily cited causes of this. This presentation describes the historical context for large wildfire occurrence in northern California using a newly discovered ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Intelligence: Mundane or a Miracle?How do you define intelligence?  Intelligence is a fuzzy concept defined by scientists as “a level of cognitive complexity.†For centuries, humanity thought that we were the most advanced, and hence, a unique expression of intelligence on Earth. We believed a series of improbable events that cannot be repeated elsewhere triggered ...
Black holes are cosmic objects that are so small and dense, that nothing, not even light can escape their gravitational pull. Until recently, no one had ever seen what a black hole actually looked like. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a global array of radio dishes, linked together by ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Thursday, 10/03/19
The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black HoleThe Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array operating at the shortest possible wavelengths, which can resolve the event horizons of the nearest supermassive black holes. Observing at mm radio wavelengths enables detection of photons that originate from deep within the gravitational potential well of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium: Debbie Powell from PG&E - CANCELEDEditor's Note: This speaker is canceled. However, Tatjana Rmus from PG&E will speak on Oct. 10 instead. See our listing for details.Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business ...
Machine LearningMachine learning methods have allowed us to create many powerful and practical models from data to develop many new and life changing technologies. Understanding the underlying algorithms behind the methods provides insight into how the data is being used to learn patterns and achieve the specific goal. This talk will ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Hacking STEM: Modernizing and Democratizing STEM EducationThe jobs of today will not be the jobs of tomorrow. Globally schools are being asked to prepare students with future-ready skills. However, to engage the leaders of tomorrow, teachers need access to the right materials today. These materials need to be easily obtainable, affordable and reflect the mandated academic ...
How are you shaped by the genes you’re born with, and by your environment? How do your body's trillions of cells work together to create a human self? At our brand-new exhibit collection, Cells to Self, you can use microscopes, digital models, and firsthand interactions with cells to explore how cells ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, $14.95 explO members, AD members Free
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sharktoberfest NightlifeIt’s time to raise a glass for NightLife’s annual salute to brews and the ocean’s most legendary apex predators. Sip your way through a pop-up beer hall with libations on tap from local brewery favorites, including Uncommon Brewers, Magnolia Brewing, Laughing Monk, and Black Hammer Brewing.Groove to tunes spun by ...
California is a globally significant biodiversity hotspot. With roughly 6,500 native plant taxa, the Golden State boasts similar botanical diversity to Japan and New Zealand. It’s mild climates and rugged landscapes have also made California a highly desirable place to live, with a population close to 40 million people and ...
First Friday: Spooky ScienceIf there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Scientists!October’s First Friday is all about spooky science. Learn about the science of fear, say hello to some creepy crawlers, and hear scientific explanations for things that go bump in the night. Science is so fun… it’s scary!
This month hear from SETI Senior Research Scientist, Margaret Race. Her lecture, Behind the Scenes Planning - To the Moon and Beyond, gives you an exclusive look into the important prep work that the public never sees before hitting the launchpad.If you’ve ever been curious about the search for extraterrestrial ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
Saturday, 10/05/19
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 ...
Join the Greater Farallones Association, Marin County Parks, and renowned ornithologist and marine biologist Peter Pyle for a day of restoration and exploration on Bolinas Lagoon’s Island. After an early birding walk, we’ll remove invasive plants that interfere with normal tidal flow. As we work, we will learn about dynamic dune ...
Where: BolinasCost: $25, lunch included.
The Climate Reality ProjectGet the latest facts on the climate crisis, and tips on how together, we can solve it.Climate Reality Leadership Corps member Harriet Harvey Horn will deliver the most current version of Al Gore’s Climate Reality presentation (as seen in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth") that aims to answer three key ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Family Science & Astronomy Festival + MakerspaceFamily Science and Astronomy Festival is a day of free learning and fun for the young and young at heart. Featuring planetarium shows, science workshops, astronomical observations, public safety demos, and more.The CSM Library Makerspace offers drop-in crafting, electronics, media and tinkering workshops.The events culminate in a key note lecture by ...
Where: San MateoCost: 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
What To Do With the Body: An Environmental PerspectiveThis talk presented by Deborah Meckler will address both conventional and imaginative ways of dealing with human remains in a massively populated world, with an eye to how these death care activities affect Earth’s ecosystems and resources. She will discuss the evolving death-care choices and necessities world-wide as well as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Illuminating Dark Matter - CANCELEDDark matter is the cosmic parent of all vast structures in the night sky, including our own Milky Way galaxy. Yet, we know so little about this mysterious stuff that constitutes over 80% of the material universe. This talk will illuminate our universe’s elusive dark matter, highlighting the ingenious methods ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Observe the Moon NightThe Foothill College Astronomy Department and the Peninsula Astronomical Society would also like to invite you to join in on NASA's Observe the Moon Night at the Foothill College Observatory. The first quarter moon on Oct. 5 provides a prime opportunity to join people around the world in taking a ...
Have you ever wondered how sea level rise will impact Lake Merritt, and all of Oakland? Are you aware that existing heat in the oceans will cause the seas to rise for centuries, no matter how much carbon emissions are reduced today? Do you have an inkling of why ocean ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
First Friday: International Observe the Moon NightInternational Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar science and exploration held annually since 2010. One day each year, everyone on Earth is invited to observe and learn about the Moon together, and to celebrate the cultural and personal connections we all have with our nearest neighbor. ...
