Natural sources, such as plants, fungi and microbes, have historically provided compounds with potent pharmaceutical properties. While it can be challenging to build complex natural products in a lab using existing chemistry methods, Nature has perfected these biosynthetic pathways. The work described leverages the power of Nature’s tools for building ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two KIPAC Tea TalksI am data science and so can you!: My experience as a physicist in a technology start-upSpeaker: Sean McLaughlin, StanfordThe Polarization Behavior of Blazar JetsSpeaker: Lawrence Peirson, Stanford
Cosmic Shear in the Year-3 DES data: 2-point and 3-point correlationsThe cosmology analyzes of the Year-3 (Y3) data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) is at full speed ahead. Our preliminary weak lensing sample contains 120 million objects over 4200 square degrees of sky and is the largest shape catalog to date. This statistical power comes at a price: the ...
Clean Energy Systems (CES) has developed game-changing technology that is revolutionizing the power industry by eliminating the traditional exhaust stack and making zero-emission power a reality.Speaker: Keith Pronske, Clean Energy Systems
An Evening with Dr. Laurie Marker, Director of Cheetah Conservation FundLearn about the cheetah, its plight and the holistic approach that the Cheetah Conservation Fund has been utilizing to protect the world’s fastest land animal. The Cheetah Conservation Fund focuses on community education and wildlife-friendly farming techniques to allow cheetahs and humans to coexist. One of its most successful programs, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 - $30
Innovation in Sleep MedicineMany hard-charging professionals pride themselves on their ability to work long hours and get by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep. But the truth is that they’re shortchanging themselves. Sleep isn't a luxury. It’s a necessity for optimal functioning and optimally your brain needs 7 to 8 hours of ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Free Bay Currents Talk: (Green) Power to the PeopleBringing sustainable energy, low carbon emissions, and green jobs to low-income people is the passion of Zach Franklin of Bay Area non-profits Grid Alternatives and Rising Sun Center for Opportunity.Stories of struggle and success illuminate why these efforts matter for workers, volunteers, and all of us affected by global warming. Bay ...
Where: AlbanyCost: 0
New Ice Age Fossils Uncovered in FremontConstruction to expand 680 Freeway have uncovered new fossils of Pleistocene Age (Irvingtonian). Caltrans has paleontology moniters that make sure all fossils are recovered during construction. This lecture will go over the early finds of mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, short faced bear, and other megafauna. Exhibits at the Children's Natural ...
Veteran Bay Area journalist Don Lattin will give a talk and slide show.Don draws from two of his books, The Harvard Psychedelic Club - How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, and his most recent book, ...
Speaker: Maureen R. Hanson is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics. She received a B.S. degree at Duke University and a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. Her lab aims to understand the mechanism of RNA editing in chloroplasts and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Symposium on Connections between the SF Bay & Greater Farallones Sanctuary Join sanctuary advisors, scientists, ocean managers, community members, and students, for an information-sharing symposium to explore ecological, oceanographic, and anthropogenic connections and influences between the San Francisco Bay and the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary just beyond the Golden Gate.Please note that parking is limited. We recommend carpooling and giving ...
One year ago, the IPCC’s released its SR15 report, which has focused public debate and activism upon demands to stabilize global temperatures at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Ironically, these demands come at a moment at which it is increasingly clear that limiting warming to 2C will be extremely challenging, much ...
Conversations About Landscape: Feel the Heat - Climate Impacts on Communities, Workers, and Vulnerable PopulationsThe most serious and direct consequence of climate change for human health is the projection of longer and more severe heat waves in the future. Heat exposure is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the nation and disproportionately affects low-income communities and outdoor workers across California and worldwide.Join public ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, RSVP required
RACE your FACTs: Making AI work for EnterprisesThere is renewed interest among companies these days to implement and deploy AI models in their business processes either to increase automation or to improve human productivity. AI models are making their way as chatbots in customer support scenarios, as doctors' assistants in hospitals, as legal research assistants in the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Encounter with Ultima Thule: The Most Distant Object Humanity Has Ever ExploredAfter a successful encounter with Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft, for the first time flew by a member of the Kuiper Belt of icy objects beyond Neptune. This particular object, officially called 2014MU69, but informally named “Ultimate Thule†(meaning the farthest place beyond the known world,) turned out to be ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Nerd Nite SF #113: Sharks & Seaweed & TBA!“Art & Algaeâ€In her newest book, “The Curious World of Seaweedâ€, author and artist Josie Iselin interweaves the science of seaweed with tales of pioneering women scientists and beautiful images of marine algae. Dive into the wondrous and surprising world of these foundational organisms.Speaker: Josie Iselin is a photographer, author ...
From 2012 to 2018, Bill Weihl was Director of Sustainability at Facebook. He built a team that directs work on sustainability and energy efficiency across the company, driving projects to track and reduce the company's environmental footprint in all aspects of its operations. They also drove cross-industry collaborations, including playing ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $10
How Dangerous are Microwaves?The physics behind non-ionizing radiation and a tale of two books titled ‘Zapped‘†with Warren Wiscombe Ph.D. of NASA Goddard.
Join Brian Day, of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, for a presentation on Exploring Planetary Surfaces with NASA’s Solar System Treks. Learn about NASA’s Solar System Treks project that is producing a suite of online interactive visualization and analysis portals. There are now seven web portals in the program ...
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 and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Pat ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
LITQUAKE: The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious ResourceAward-winning writer Obi Kaufman offers an illustrated guide to the ways we conserve, use, abuse and restore water--the source of life and habitat in California.Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his attention to the Golden State's most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The New Jim Code: Race, Caceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday LifeFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, presents the concept ...
Evolving Shorelines Happy Hour - Adapting to sea level rise in our communityOne Tam partners, Marin County Parks and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, are about to embark on developing designs to adapt Bothin Marsh Open Space Preserve and the Mill Valley / Sausalito Pathway to climate change and sea level rise. Come out and talk with us to find out ...
Adaptive Optics is a technology that detects and corrects changing distortions in optical systems. It has been applied to great effect during the past decade to correct astronomical telescopes for blurring due to turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. This talk will describe how Adaptive Optics works, and how it is ...
Drop, cover, and hold on . . . to After Dark: Earthquakes, where we’ll commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake and look ahead to the latest in earthquake preparation, safety research, and building practices. And don’t miss the return of Everything Matters, which picks up with element ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
Automotive Ethernet and Functional SafetyOver the past several years there has been an upheaval in the automotive networking space as a number of mega-trends drive major changes:The trend towards a user defined car,Autonomous vehicle technology,ElectrificationThe presentation will cover these changes taking place in the in-vehicle-networking space, with an emphasis on automotive Ethernet and the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Seismic NightLifeWe’re bracing ourselves for vibrations during Seismic NightLife, including on the dance floor. On the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, we’re digging back into seismic matters and ‘80s culture. Look back at the City’s major 20th-century earthquakes through historic images, and look to the future with experts in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Conservation of Waterbirds of the North BayFor 30 years, Audubon Canyon Ranch has been studying the ecology of wintering and migrant shorebirds and waterbirds in the Bay Area. Find out what they've learned, as well as the results of their 50 years of work on herons and egrets throughout the Bay. This will include a presentation ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 donation for non members.
Introduction to GardeningWith the pending rains, fall and winter are the best time to plan and implement your garden plans.Learn gardening techniques to help care for your landscape, maintain aesthetic, and keep it looking fresh! Desmond Murray (Presidio Seed Ecologist & Longtime Bay Area Gardener) will emphasize natural pruning techniques, fertilizing, pest ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Two KIPAC Tea TalksExoplanet SpectroscopySpeaker: Tom Greene, NASA AmesProspecting for quadruply lensed quasars in the past decade and the nextQuadruply lensed quasars ("quads") are used to study several important astronomical problems, including the abundance of LIGO-mass primordial black holes. But quads are rare, with only one out of every 3000 quasars lensed into ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The influence of melting and viscosity on the thermo-chemical evolution of Earth and other rocky planetsIn this presentation I will firstly show results from numerical simulations of global mantle convection to explore the effects of melting on the thermo-chemical evolution of terrestrial bodies. I applied the models to investigate (i) how does melting-induced crustal production affects the interior state and surface behavior of an Earth-like ...
Join the Astonomical Society of the Pacific in celebrating their 130th anniversary with speakers and activities for all. Planetarium Shows3:40 PM, 6:30 PM, 8:45 PM, 9:30 PM. Lines begin 30 minutes prior outside the planetarium.  Thornton Hall.Portable Planetarium2:00 - 2:30 PM, 3:30 - 4:30 PM, 6:00 - 7:00 PM. Student Services ...
Miniaturized and rationally assembled nanostructures exhibit extraordinarily distinct physical and chemical properties beyond their individual units. This talk will focus on structured metal nanoparticle lattices that show unique diffractive coupling with lattice spacings engineered close to the wavelength of light. Collectively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles induce sharp, intense lattice ...
This talk describes complementary synthetic strategies to enhance the photoluminescence and photoredox properties of organometallic complexes. We have addressed the long-standing challenge of designing efficient and stable blue-phosphorescent molecules, currently the most significant technological hurdle in OLED technology. Our efforts have resulted in new designs for blue-emitting iridium complexes, using ...
NASA’s SOFIA Open DayNASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will be open for viewing to registered guests on Saturday October 19, 2019. SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope. Flying into the stratosphere at 38,000-45,000 feet puts SOFIA above 99 percent of Earth’s infrared-blocking atmosphere, allowing astronomers to study the ...
Where: Moffett FieldCost: Free
All Things Fall With David HerlockerVisit Martin Griffin Preserve throughout our limited Fall Season, with Nature Guide-led walks, activities, or materials to open your eyes to our lovely preserve in a different way each week. Visitors are also welcome to hike our trails on their own, scoop up a newt at the ponds, peer at ...
MSI loves sharks! Our special day invites one and all to learn about these amazing creatures while feeding and touching our local friendly leopard sharks and making a special take home craft.10:00 and 10:30 AM.
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
The Surprises of the SunflowerFive thousand years ago, early farmers took a special interest in sunflowers. Through its continued cultivation since that time, the sunflower has evolved into an essential crop that permeates human life, whether in beautiful bouquets, as salty snacks, or as a primary source of cooking oil in many parts of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Exploring the local universe with the Hubble and James Webb Space TelescopesMost galaxies are so far away that they appear to us only as faint smudges. However, for the nearest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood, the clarity and sensitivity of the Hubble Space Telescope transforms them galaxies from smudges into spectacular collections of individual stars. These observations allow astronomers to study ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: 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
John Reber, the Man with Grand IdeasBack in the 1940s, John Reber would look out over the San Francisco Bay and visualize a massive civil works project of dams and locks to harvest fresh drinking water, and barriers that would support railway systems and a highway. His intention was to improve the quality of life for ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
What's Next for the Blue Bin?Last year, China stopped taking most foreign recyclables. Previously, 40 percent of the United States’s paper, plastics, and other recyclable materials were sent there. Beijing’s decision threw U.S. recycling into a crisis that reaches from global political decision-making all the way down to what we decide to put into our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
ManyaThis is a living history presentation of one of our most famous chemists, Marie Curie, and allows us to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT) in grand style. The story starts with childhood memories that include Marie's dawning interest in science and her determination to conquer obstacles ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $8 student
Community Day at KIPACThe Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford is holding a Community Day open house. See weblink for details.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Charon, Pluto’s Mysterious MoonPluto’s large moon Charon turned out to be far more interesting than scientists expected. Pluto was the star of the New Horizons show, but the features on Charon’s surface tell a fascinating tale of how icy worlds could form far from the gravitational influences of the giant planets. There is ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 10/20/19
Marine Science Sunday: Creatures of the DeepThis month we celebrate Halloween with a creepy collection of stories about the animals that live in the deepest parts of the ocean! Learn how elephant seal's can dive to 5000 feet and stay underwater for 2 hours at a time without imploding (!), find out how a sperm whale ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with Admission
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
Science Sundays: Tales from the Intertidal: Living Where Ocean Meets LandEvery organism inhabiting the intertidal, the interface of land and sea, has a story to tell. Living in an ever-changing and narrow landscape, these organisms are faced with unique challenges threatening their ultimate survival. We can only explore this diverse habitat when the ocean has receded at low tide and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with Admission
Monday, 10/21/19
Constraining Neutrino Mass with the BispectrumMassive neutrinos suppress the growth of structure below their free-streaming scale and leave an imprint on large-scale structure. Measuring this imprint allows us to constrain the sum of neutrino masses, Mnu, a key parameter in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. However, degeneracies among cosmological parameters, especially between Mnu and ...
Transformational changes are needed to sustain energy and water systems in the 21st century. From decarbonizing the energy sector to building a circular water economy, these systemic transitions will require large scale infrastructure design and technology innovation. This presentation will outline these associated challenges for managing high salinity brines from ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Intermediate Energy Spin DynamicsThe dynamics of quantum spin systems beyond the 'universal' low-energy/long-wavelength regime is only poorly explored, despite the fact that plenty of experimental data has become available thanks to recent advances in neutron scattering technology. This talk focuses on 'generic' properties of the intermediate energy regime, in particular properties of magnets ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Allostery and genetic information integrationI will describe recent results which show that allosteric conformational ensembles of sufficient complexity can implement any form of information integration that is achievable without energy expenditure. I will discuss to what extent this mechanism may account for the information processing which occurs during eukaryotic gene regulation, in which many ...
SHINING X-RAYS ON TOPOLOGICAL TEXTURE: INSIGH INTO MAGNETIC SKYMIONS - RESCHEDULEDRecently discovered skyrmions is an example of a topological phase that manifest in magnetic systems as a hexagonal lattice of spin vortices. Due to topological protection, skyrmions can be moved coherently over macroscopic distances with low currents compared to domain wall motion, and is therefore a potential candidate for low ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Catching and reversing a quantum jump mid-flightMeasurements in quantum physics, unlike their classical physics counterparts, can fundamentally yield discrete and random results. Historically, Niels Bohr was the first to hypothesize that quantum jumps occurred between two discrete energy levels of an atom. Experimentally, quantum jumps were directly observed many decades later in an atomic ion driven ...
Challenges in Developing New Drugs: from the Bench to the BedsideNew medicines can change lives, but the development process is time consuming, expensive and fraught with failures. Hear industry veteran Steve Hurst's view on the challenges of drug development and how these challenges are managed. This event is presented by the San Mateo Public Library’s Biotechnology Learning Center.Speaker: Steve Hurst ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Tuesday, 10/22/19
X-ray Impact on Planet Formation: an experimental viewI this talk, I will introduce how planets are formed in the disk of gas and dust surrounding young stars. Stars like classical T Tauri emit copious amounts of X-rays, in addition to ultraviolet photons, confirmed by Chandra/XMM observations of targets in the Taurus molecular cloud. Soft (<1 keV) and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sonoma State Biology ColloquiumSonoma State University Biology ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. W. Berkeley Kauffman, US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Mocking the Universe & Machine Learning Approaches to Large-Scale Structure Efficient generation of accurate mock observations of the sky, tailored specifically to near-future large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background surveys, is a key technical challenge in cosmology. I will first discuss the creation of these synthetic observations, or mocks, through the use of rapid so-called ‘approximate’ simulation techniques, with a ...
Grand Challenges in IoT & Consumer-Facing Automation (over burgers & brews)Robotics and the Internet of Things is driving innovation in how we work, how we socialize, and now, how we eat. What are the unique challenges of bringing automation to consumer products and traditional brick-and-mortars? We’ll explore trends in software spanning robotics and the cloud, human-machine interfaces, and consumer-facing applications. ...
We are entering the 4th major industrial revolution. The first saw the introduction of steam and water power. The 2nd saw assembly lines and mass production. The 3rd was fueled by computers. Now, we see a 4th, marked by AI, big data, Mobile devices, Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), machine ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marine Mammal Research in Malaysia and VietnamJoin ACS San Francisco Bay Chapter for an enthralling evening with scientist, Dr. Ellen Hines, as she reports on her fascinating Fulbright Fellowship work doing surveys off the coastline of Malaysia and measuring bones in Vietnamese whale temples!
Where: SausalitoCost: $10 suggested donation
Fungal Symbioses and Plant Ecological NichesSpeaker: Dr. Michael Van Nuland is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in plant-microbiome relationships. His work combines largescale observations, mechanistic experiments, and molecular approaches to explore how plants interact with their associated microbes, why these interactions vary under different environments, and what effect these interactions have on the ecology ...
Eric Skaar earned his B.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, his Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University, and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Northwestern University. His laboratory is interested in identifying the host and bacterial factors that are involved in this ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rock 'n' Roll, Jazzy and Classical Solutions to the Hubble Tension Local measurements of the Hubble parameter are increasingly in tension with the value inferred from a LCDM fit to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. A general class of solutions to this tension involves temporarily increasing the energy density of the Universe close to the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Hunting for life in sub-seafloor volcanoes and the explosive growth of microbiology as a data science Exploration of Earth's microbial and viral diversity is a major scientific frontier. Sequencing DNA - the blueprint of life - collected directly from the environment provides a powerful way to access the uncatalogued microbial diversity on our planet. These uncharacterized life forms are ripe with novel functions, metabolisms, the potential ...
Understanding and harnessing the coupling between lubrication pressure, elasticity, and surface interactions provides materials design strategies for applications such as adhesives, coatings, microsensors, and biomaterials. This presentation will discuss our efforts to understand how soft materials make contact and adhere under dynamic conditions in fluid environments. Measurements of interactions between ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Carl Zimmer on HeredityHeredity isn’t just about genes that pass from parent to child, argues acclaimed science journalist Carl Zimmer. We also inherit other things that matter as much - or more - to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. Weaving original reporting with historical context ...
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Seeing the World from Above: An Evening with Aerial Photographer George SteinmetzFor more than thirty years, George Steinmetz has been flying through the air like a bird, capturing breathtaking photographs of remote deserts, obscure cultures, and the mysteries of science and technology. His powerful work has been featured in The New York Times and in more than forty National Geographic photo ...
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 and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Auston ...
The Driving Success Behind Open Innovation Outcomes: A Fireside Chat with Henry Chesbrough and Tolga KurtogluOpen Innovation is PARC’s bread and butter. Since its origin, the concept has shifted into an incredibly practical and inclusive way of solving today’s and tomorrow’s problems. Companies have often looked at Open Innovation to creatively utilize the many talents in the room and across organizations. What’s next is how ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
After Dark: It's Alive!Life comes at you fast - but sometimes it’s hard to observe, because it’s too tiny or speedy or is hidden underground, or is deep in the ocean. Discover what you’ve been missing: use scientific tools to investigate living things of all different sizes, the ecosystems they inhabit, and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
Cyberspace NightLifeThis week at NightLife, we’re exploring the many sides of the internet: the good, the bad, and the meme-worthy.Catch a screening of the internet’s funniest, most dramatic, and awww!-worthy cat videos in CatVideoFest, the offline celebration of online cat videos.Step inside the “dark web†with Sonic Internet for a demonstration ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Hardcore Natural History Series - Sea Otters: A Parasite's New HostDespite southern sea otter population growth since 1911, otters are faced with increasing challenges to their survival. One of the largest obstacles they face is a disease caused by the thorny-headed worm, a parasite known by scientists as an acanthocephalan. Since the 1960s, species of this parasite, normally found in ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Member advance, $15 at door
Friday, 10/25/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksRelativistic outflows in neutron star mergersSpeaker: Ore Gottlieb, Tel Aviv UniversityCMB Lensing Tomography at 0<zCMB lensing tomography has the potential to map the amplitude and growth of structure over cosmic time, provide some of the most stringent tests of gravity, and break important degeneracies between cosmological parameters. I use the ...
While many people may think of California’s Central Valley as mostly monocultures of almonds and tomatoes, the landscape is also dotted with small-scale diversified farms. On these farms, you can find 50-100 different types of crops - from jujube to jicama, from papaya to moringa, from water spinach to taro, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with Admission
Novel Nanotechnology Solutions to Oncology ChallengesLiposomal nanoparticles have made important contributions to cancer therapy over the two past decades, but their limited tunability and stability hinder further progress in addressing unmet oncology needs. By harnessing the power of synthetic chemistry and nanotechnology, the Lin group has developed several novel classes of molecular nanomaterials, including nanoscale ...
Come spend an afternoon exploring the pristine Arroyo Viejo Creek and discovering the many wild species of plants and animals that live in the wild spaces within our own urban community. Learn how to submit your wildlife pictures to help exciting citizen/community projects being conducted by real scientists. Create lasting ...
Small molecule activation often requires both protons and electrons. This includes chemical transformations key to sustainable energy and environment e.g. reduction of H+, O2, CO2 and N2. Similarly, mono-oxygenation of organic molecules using molecular oxygen, a process often described as the Holy grail of chemistry, requires protons and electrons. Erstwhile ...
Have you ever wondered what happens at a government research facility? Are you interested in high energy physics, harnessing light, or nanoparticles? Join us for a tour at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and learn about the Lab’s long history of bringing science solutions to the world. Spend the afternoon getting ...
Join us for a vibrant celebration of the nature of California to kick off the 2019 Bay Area Science Festival. Discover how the University of California Natural Reserve System is cultivating tomorrow’s field scientists, providing environmental forecasting, and serving the people of California. Meet scientists working at the UC Natural ...
We will be showcasing state-of-the-art technology that Neuroscape currently uses for research on cognition-enhancing interventions. Some of this technology includes virtual reality, motion capture, 3-D brain activity visualizations that can be experienced in virtual reality, and various games that we use for interventions and assessments.RSVP at weblink
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Art + Tech Festival: Opening NightSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
The Cable Guy is Watching: Pervasive Tracking Online and the Role of DNSIf you thought the big tech companies were the only ones watching you online, think again. Thanks to a major privacy hole in the internet’s infrastructure, your cable guy - Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, also known as your internet service providers (ISP) - have unfettered access to your every move ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The Future of California’s Nature: Conservation leaders in conversationIn today’s world of rapidly warming temperatures and rising seas, California’s land stewards are working hard to protect the state’s renowned biodiversity, unique ecosystems, and natural landscapes. Applying the best available science, land practices, and environmental technologies new and old is more important than ever. Achieving these goals in an ...
Guided Nature Walk Experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland. Guided Nature Walks are no more ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
All Things Fall With David HerlockerVisit Martin Griffin Preserve throughout our limited Fall Season, with Nature Guide-led walks, activities, or materials to open your eyes to our lovely preserve in a different way each week. Visitors are also welcome to hike our trails on their own, scoop up a newt at the ponds, peer at ...
Where: Stinson BeachCost: $20 suggested donation
Art + Tech Festival: WorkshopsSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
CSU East Bay, together with East Bay community groups, will be leading more than 50 hands-on activities, demonstrations, and talks. Experience a chemistry magic show, do some geophysical prospecting and fossil casting, touch sea slugs, bugs and other creatures, learn about your brain in the psychology playground, and so much ...
With more than 100 hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities led by local museums, companies, schools and others, there is something for everyone at the North Bay Science Discovery Day. Discover what it’s like to be a heart surgeon using the newest life-saving technologies, explore the robot playground, go ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Science Saturday: Bats, Spiders, and SnakesJoin us as we slither into the magical world of bats, spiders, and snakes. Learn about these amazing (and important!) animals as you visit fun and educational stations throughout the Museum. Don't miss this opportunity to meet a live animal up close, take home a creepy craft, and more.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
International Archaeology Day at the PresidioHelp Presidio Trust archaeologists celebrate International Archaeology Day with a variety of activities and events for all ages. See 200-year-old standing adobe in the Presidio Officers’ Club, meet archaeologists from around the Bay Area, and take a look behind the scenes in the Presidio Archaeology Lab. Meet archaeologists and researchers ...
Come enjoy a day of STEAM at the Redwood City Public Library! With ten hands-on exhibits, both inside and in front of the library, families can explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math in an interactive environment. We are incredibly fortunate to have the talents of local experts to answer ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: 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
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.
Do you love birds and want to know how you can help study them? Then join San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory citizen scientists Barbara Coll and Jan Hintermeister on a fun bird walk to look for residential and migratory birds in the mudflats, ponds and creeks of Charleston Slough. Participants ...
If the earth didn’t have an atmosphere, would we see the stars all day long? What is the difference between a CT scan and an MRI? If you could ask a scientist a question, what would it be…? Here’s your chance! Send your questions to Science at Cal at our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Art + Tech Festival: Closing NightSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
Who can become a scientist? From media to textbooks, the answer too often is very narrow. This event will feature a collection of short films that tell the stories of how underrepresented scientists have succeeded because (and not in spite) of their identities, culture, and life experiences. Called “Background to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Sunday, 10/27/19
Art + Tech Festival: SalonSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
Step into the (close-toed) shoes of a scientist and explore biology at this community-wide science event! Come to the Innovative Genomics Institute(IGI) on Berkeley campus to experience a range of activities designed for visitors of all ages. Discover the fascinating power of DNA, the instruction manual for life. Hear from scientists ...
This month we celebrate Halloween with a creepy collection of stories about the animals that live in the deepest parts of the ocean! Learn how elephant seal's can dive to 5000 feet and stay underwater for 2 hours at a time without imploding (!), find out how a sperm whale ...
Where: SausalitoCost: 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. ...
Explore the wonder of mathematics, art, performance and magic! Spend the afternoon exploring puzzles and games, and engaging with mathematics through magic tricks, movement and visual art. You will be amazed at the beauty of mathematics and how it shows up everywhere in our lives.Â
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Shore Tour at the Hayward Area ShorelineJoin us for an interactive tour of the Hayward shoreline. The Shore Tour is part of the Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency’s efforts to engage the public in their planning for the future resilience of our shoreline. Join our team of naturalists and planners for a walk along the shoreline ...
The Big Bang theory, describing the origin of our universe, is very well established today. We have ample evidence that the universe originated from a hot "singularity," then expanded and cooled over time. Nevertheless, there is still a missing piece of the cosmic puzzle: How did the first stars form?! This ...
In 1931, Winston Churchill declared: "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under suitable medium." What suitable medium is that?! Beyond chicken, can the tissues of cow, pig, and fish really be grown in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Science Fiction Turned FactScience fiction has predicted many things. Some have come true (think touch screens, submarines, bionic limbs), others, not so much - or at least, not yet. If you’ve ever wondered where your flying car or rocket belt is, or why you don’t yet have a robot servant, find out at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission
Monday, 10/28/19
Searching for supermassive black hole binariesSupermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are a natural byproduct of galaxy mergers. Yet, they remain undetectable at small separations. A promising method is to identify quasars with periodic variability. I will discuss candidates identified in time-domain surveys, as well as ongoing efforts to confirm their binary nature. I will also ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
End of Life Options for People Developing DementiaHaving dementia is the greatest fear shared by most people as they age. One needs to plan for the time when you may no longer have a clear mind and the ability to make decisions about your own medical care. The advance directive (AD) in its usual format is insufficient ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $8 Students
The power sector will likely play a pivotal role in a low-carbon future, and successfully integrating different energy networks will be a key component of that future. Urban energy centers are large and growing. Meeting their heating, cooling and electrical energy demands is both a challenge and an opportunity. We ...
In spite of the growing excitement and participation in the technology sector, there has still been great inequality and bias against certain groups. Many researchers suggest that the “stereotype†that surrounds computer scientists - commonly expressed as geeky, awkward, male, genius, and the like - contributes to this imbalance of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How do emerging light harvesting materials form, transform, and transport energy at the nanoscale?We are interested in the optoelectronic properties and the spatiotemporal nature of photogenerated energy carrier transport of emerging semiconducting materials, broadly defined. These materials include not only semiconductors who basic building blocks are atoms but also those made of small particles or molecules, including the aggregates of molecular pigments involved ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SENSORS AND SPECTROCOPY GROUP AT VIAVI SOLUTIONS - RESCHEDULEDThe sensors and spectroscopy group of Viavi Solutions produces the MicroNIR NIR spectrometer as well as binary multispectral (BMS) filters. The variety of scientific fields used in both instrument development and applications will be discussed. Presented by Valton Smith.Editor's Note: This talk will be rescheduled for November 18
Learn about the complex molecular machines that underlie cancer. Experience UCSF’s state-of-the-art electron microscopy and mass spectrometry facilities and explore the techniques we use to understand protein structures and their functions in cellular processes. Our mission at the Cancer Cell Map Initiative is to enable a new era of cancer ...
Genetic engineering and editing allow us to modify plants in various ways. Questions have been raised about the environmental and human-health effects of these technologies to modify the genetic information in crops and foods. What is the history of genetic modification of plants, and what impact might these technologies have ...
Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR, a scientific revolution giving us unprecedented control over the building blocks of life. Where do we draw the line between curing disease and designing our children? How will this new power change our relationship with nature and evolution? To begin to answer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay: Barnacles, Chevron Richmond, Martian AtmosphereShaped By Chevron: How Oil, WWII and Migration Created Richmond In an echo of the corporate towns of America’s past, learn why Chevron was built in Richmond or, more accurately, how Chevron built Richmond around the massive oil refinery. See how World War II and the second Great Migration bifurcated ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 Advance, $10 at door
Tuesday, 10/29/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksBerti: Testing Galaxy Assembly Bias with PRIMUSThe "halo model" of galaxy evolution assumes all properties of a galaxy are determined statistically by the mass of its dark matter halo. While this assumption yields predictions that largely agree with observations, the full picture of the connection between galaxies and halos is ...
From dark matter to observed skies, creating a universe with state-of-the-art simulations Preparations for upcoming cosmological surveys such as LSST can benefit greatly from the use of simulated observations, however creating realistic galaxy catalogs is an incredibly complex and challenging task. In this talk I will first discuss how such simulations can aid in the interpretation of modern cosmological datasets. I will ...
Ever wonder how plants live? Or what DNA really looks like? Get hands-on with (maybe even spooky!) science to find out! Join Cal Scientists for some cool, food-related investigations at the South Berkeley Farmers’ Market. Subject to reduced hours or cancellation in event of inclement weather.
The event would be an opportunity for teachers, parents, students and all community members to tour the different parts of the Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT). The materials donation department, the teacher collaboration space, and the research and develop labs. The tour of the facility would culminate in several design ...
Go behind the scenes at the only academic marine laboratory on San Francisco Bay, San Francisco State University’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center, located on the Tiburon peninsula in Marin County. Meet our scientists and take a deeper dive into the environmental research they are doing in San Francisco Bay ...
Come and discover the inner workings of a cell! See how electron microscopes are used to peer deep into the world around us and even into our very own cells. We’ll take a hands-on look at how samples are prepared for imaging with electrons. Then, we’ll delve into the rugged ...
The Downtown Oakland Dojo is for youth age 7-17 to explore coding & technology in a fun and social environment. Try out different coding languages and get hands on with making digital creations using the Raspberry Pi. Bring a laptop if you can. Children must be accompanied by a parent ...
The Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, STROBE, is addressing major imaging science challenges through the integration of several areas of imaging science and technology. This multi-million dollar NSF funded research project, involving 5 institutions across the country, includes researchers at UC Berkeley whose labs focus on electron ...
In this lecture, Harvard-trained physician Akil Palanisamy will describe the outlines of a comprehensive road map to heart health, sharing research on the optimal heart-healthy diet, cutting-edge nutritional science, key vitamins and supplements, and the evidence-based practices and techniques of integrative medicine. He will share practical tips on what to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Come explore CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-manipulating technology, with UCSF scientists. During this 90-minute experience, you will engage in hands-on activities, interact with UCSF graduate students who use CRISPR, and tour a research laboratory. Tour is suitable for ages 13 years and up.RSVP required at weblink.Room N114
Our environment is the result of billions of years of interaction between geological and biological forces. Early naturalists worked to observe and document this environment, resulting in the science we know today. What would our current environment look like to a naive naturalist? What will the sediments of our time ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite Silicon Valley #9: Ancient Automatons & Super Sensors!Killer Automatons and Evil Fembots of Ancient GreeceDriverless cars, ships powered by thought, killer robots and replicants, sexbots, fire-breathing bronze bulls, eagle drones, giant animatronic mollusks! Modern Sci-Fi? Nope. All these techno-marvels and more were dreamed up 2,500 years ago in ancient Greek mythology.Speaker: Adrienne Mayor, research scholar in Classics ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Wednesday, 10/30/19
Berkeley-Inclusive Intelligence AI SymposiumTo ensure sustainable success, organizations are turning to new approaches to lead their transformation in a digital age. Technology and data hoarding aren’t the answer. It takes a more thoughtful strategy to create durable value from analytics. Humans, ethics, diversity are a large part of the equation to foster a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
CITRIS Research ExchangeAs the amount of available data increases, the human ability to locate, process, and analyze it is strained and eventually overwhelmed. To address this challenge for nonproliferation analysts, we have been designing a large-scale multimodal retrieval system to help analysts triage and search open source science, technology, transaction, and news ...
Stephen Wright is a professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto in Canada. He received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2003, working with Deborah Charlesworth, and did a postdoc at the University of California, Irvine, with Brandon Gaut. His primary research interests concern ...
During 2013-2014, China launched a nation wide real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed moment in the history of its environmental regulations. We present the first empirical analysis of this natural experiment by exploiting its staggered introduction across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China’s environmental ...
Learn about the Presidio’s archaeological process and excavations during this one-hour tour. See standing Spanish adobe in the Presidio Officers’ Club before moving to the state-of-the-art lab and collections facility where artifacts are cleaned, catalogued, studied, and curated. It’s a unique opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes workings of an archaeology ...
Join us as we discuss the basics of beekeeping, honey bee biology, and life inside the hive. Have the opportunity to put on a bee suit and see inside a live beehive! Once suited up, watch as Planet Bee Educators open up a hive and point out the honey, pollen, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Of bancas and coconuts: conducting cetacean research in the PhilippinesCetacean research in the Philippines is a relatively young field. With only a handful of research projects dedicated to cetaceans and a few local marine mammal researchers covering the vast coastline of 7,641 islands with 28 species of marine mammals known to occur to date, it is a challenging and ...
At the UCSF Human Performance Center, we partner with other scientists and clinicians at UCSF and in the Bay Area to study biomechanics, exercise physiology, and sleep & athletic performance. During this tour, you’ll get a glimpse into a number of the mechanisms we use to evaluate performance and have ...
Natural wonders, natural disasters, technological leaps, and environmental portents. The BAMPFA Art Study Centers present a special Five Tables viewing of art with a scientific bent. Works on view include: a barnacle-encrusted tea bowl from a 500-year-old Vietnamese shipwreck; the unique refractive “fingerprint†of a camera lens placed on a ...
Most of the diversity of living things around us is microscopic. These microbes do a lot of very important jobs for the ecosystem, and for us. From microscopes, to bacterial cultures, to DNA sequencing, learn about how scientists “see†these very important microorganisms. Try using some of these techniques yourself ...
There’s a terrifying new flu epidemic and your team are the only ones that can prevent a global outbreak. Travel across the globe collecting data, then come back to the lab to race against the clock to build the most effective vaccine. You’ll have to use your investigation and communication ...
Gladstone Institutes bring together over 350 scientists who use transformative science and technology in cardiovascular biology, immunology, neuroscience, and stem cell biology to overcome unsolved diseases. On this tour, you will be able to explore Gladstone labs and learn how their state-of-the-art biomedical research is helping scientists to find new ...
From abandoned mining towns to towns long underwater, come learn about maps and the ghost towns they depict at the Earth Sciences & Map Library. Explore featured maps and other documents of ghost towns and other abandoned places. Librarians and other speakers will be on hand to discuss the stories ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
New Deal to Green New DealThe Green New Deal has raised hopes for a major push to address climate change and social injustice. Is it just pie in the sky? Not at all. The original New Deal of the 1930s brought a revolution in conservation and public health, worker rights and wages, income and regional ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Engineering the FutureCan oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? Lord John Browne attempted it for over nearly two decades as CEO of British Petroleum. Credited with strengthening BP’s balance sheet and leading a successful “Beyond Petroleum†rebranding campaign, Browne ultimately stepped down after a series of disasters and heavy criticism ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Yes, You Could Help Build the Next Disruptor!! Samaira Mehta has been featured on the Today Show & CNBC while gracing the pages of Time Magazine & Vogue. She has won the Youth Entrepreneur Award and her initiative "Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code" is taking Silicon Valley by storm!Samaira's ...
You will use a virtual reality headset to handle, break apart and assemble familiar molecules from water and carbon dioxide to saturated fat, ATP (the energy that runs living things), and sulfuric acid.RSVP needed to attend at weblink.
Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? Lord John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, where he led the company's “Beyond Petroleum†rebranding campaign. In his new book, Browne argues that the solution to reducing emissions and addressing climate change is to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Geologic and geophysical framework of Mt DiabloBased on the upcoming article “Structural and seismic hazard implications of geologic map and potential field geophysical observations at Mount Diablo, California†Mount Diablo has been characterized as a large overturned anticline, but its actual structure is more complex. Offset geologic units and gravity/magnetic anomalies show the mountain is bisected ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Have you ever wondered how scientists research and protect birds? Then join The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory’s Biologist Ben Pearl for an engaging science talk about the work SFBBO does to study and conserve the Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus), an adorable bird that is so rare it ...
Join us for a smorgasbord of bite-size science talks. Be educated and entertained by engaging talks from veterans of UC San Francisco’s popular Grad Slam and Postdoc Slam competitions, who will present their research in just three minutes using language that everyone can understand. Audience trivia contest, too! Afterwards, you’ll ...
Creatures of the NightLifeThe creatures come out at NightLife as the Academy transforms into a spine-tingling and outrageous celebration of supernatural science on the spookiest night of the year.For this special Halloween edition, drag queen extraordinaire Heklina hosts our annual Halloween drag show and costume contest outside on the West Garden stage.Inside, African ...
There’s a terrifying new flu epidemic and your team are the only ones that can prevent a global outbreak. Travel across the globe collecting data, then come back to the lab to race against the clock to build the most effective vaccine. You’ll have to use your investigation and communication ...
Join us at the Exploratorium for a special pop-up Halloween salon, featuring six stories of spooky science, spectral visitations, ghostly encounters, and uncanny experiences.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
Join us at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for a 90-minute unique and family friendly tour experience. The tour will begin with a short film, “Making Science Happen,†then visitors will get a peek inside the lab’s facilities. Hear about the ways in which SLAC is a leading force in scientific ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Two KIPAC Tea TalksBenefits of sparsity in gravitational lens modelingSpeaker: Aymeric GalanLens monitoring and time-delay measurement for a precise determination of the Hubble constantSpeaker: Martin Millon, EPFL, Switzerland
Have you ever wondered what happens at a government research facility? Are you interested in high energy physics, harnessing light, or nanoparticles? Join us for a tour at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and learn about the Lab’s long history of bringing science solutions to the world. Spend the afternoon getting ...
In embryonic development, cells read the program encoded in their DNA to become cell types such as those found in muscle, liver or brain. The goal of Professor Hernan Garcia’s lab is to uncover the rules behind these decisions to predict and manipulate developmental programs. Find out how the lab ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's TaleThis year's Emilio Segrè Lecture will be presented by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. In her presentation she will describe how pulsars were inadvertently discovered, describe some instances where they were 'nearly' discovered, and outline the properties of these amazing objects.
July 2019 was 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 non-technical talk, Andrew Fraknoi will look at the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
First Friday: SleepWhat exactly does sleep do for your body and mind? What do researchers know about the science of sleep, and why do we dream? Learn about all of this and more at our Pajama Party First Friday! Join us for fun party games, hands-on activities and even listen to a ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
Banning Facial Recognition TechnologyThis year, San Francisco became one of the first major U.S. cities to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other agencies. But what does the ban really mean for citizens of the Bay Area? How else is this technology being used? What other actions can be ...
In Climate Change Summit, communities work together to weigh different stakeholder positions to solve a relevant problem that requires a nuanced understanding of climate issues. For 2019, our problem is about dam renovation or removal. Participants are randomly assigned into one of eight stakeholder positions and then guided through a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Probing Fundamental Physics with Strong Gravitational LensingIn general relativity, the presence of matter can curve spacetime, and the path of a light ray will be deflected as a result. This process is called gravitational lensing, analogous to the deflection of light by (e.g. glass) lenses in optics.In rare and extreme cases, light can take different paths ...
Build your own oragami-based microscope! After we assemble our microscopes we will take to the Bay to collect our own live plankton samples and test our our creations
During the 9th annual Discovery Day at Oracle Park experience hundreds of dynamic demonstrations, engaging experiments, and geeky games led by Bay Area scientists and engineers.Highlights:Discover the mysteries of science with UCSF! Learn how our bodies work: how cells divide, how we hear, how neurons communicate with each other and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Storytime Science for Childrenin us the first full weekend of every month for Storytime Science! Enjoy a science-themed storybook read aloud followed by a simple related activity geared toward very young children.Exploring, observing, questioning, and learning are our watchwords here at the Exploratorium. When matched with a story, it’s even more fun! Each ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission
Jazz under the StarsCome peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions are available on the Maps, Directions & Parking page.This event is weather dependent. Latest ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Sunday, 11/03/19
Storytime Science for Childrenin us the first full weekend of every month for Storytime Science! Enjoy a science-themed storybook read aloud followed by a simple related activity geared toward very young children.Exploring, observing, questioning, and learning are our watchwords here at the Exploratorium. When matched with a story, it’s even more fun! Each ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission
SciComm Studio 019: Poetry in MotionHow can interactive technologies such as VR/AR, AI, and even data visualization bring poetic experiences to life?In this SciComm Studio event we explore how to bring storytelling beyond the book. Antonio Rodriguez and Marie Thorimbert of the University of Lausanne and winner of the Swiss National Science Foundation's Optimus Agora ...
Cheryl Phillips will go through the history of data journalism, briefly touching on its historical roots, its modern inception, early years and then will delve more deeply into a more recent shift toward larger, data-driven collaborative investigative journalism. She will talk about how data journalism has borrowed tools and techniques ...
Utility end-users often run the last mile of energy solutions. The actual impact of an energy solution directly links to the customers’ choices of end-use technologies and their energy use behaviors in daily life. As a current trend, utility providers offer services and programs that engage customers to play a ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ultrafast enhancement of exchange interaction and short range spin correlations probed by magnetoelastic coupling in CrSiTe3Interactions between electrons in solids are responsible for a wide variety of physical phenomena such as magnetism, superconductivity Mott insulators and more. Understanding interactions between electrons, and manipulating them to stabilize desired electronic phases have been the research focus of the strongly correlated electrons community in the past few decades. ...
The dianionic oxo ligand occupies a very special place in coordination chemistry, owing to its ability to donate pi electrons to stabilize high oxidation states of metals. The ligand field theory of multiple bonding in metal-oxos predicts that there must be an “oxo wall†between Fe-Ru-Os and Co-Rh-Ir in the ...
ON SYMMETRY: FROM NOETHER TO THE HIGGS: AKA WHAT (THEORETICAL) PHYSICISTS DOIn this talk, Alex Miller will discuss how discoveries of the early 1900's completely revolutionized the way that theoretical physicists see the world around them. We will explore how theorists today put symmetry at the forefront, defining our theoretical systems primarily by the symmetries that govern them.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
The Lord of the Rings: structural mechanism of a DNA polymerase sliding clamp loaderThe sliding clamp Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) is a central regulator of genomic integrity and cell proliferation pathways in all eukaryotes. PCNA is a ring-shaped complex that encircles and slides along DNA, serving as an essential cofactor of DNA polymerases and scores of other proteins to coordinate DNA replication ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Driving quantum science and technology with semiconductorsThere is a growing interest in exploiting the quantum nature of individual electronic and nuclear spins in semiconductors for manipulating, storing, and communicating information. We discuss progress in understanding these properties to construct systems that enable new technologies based on the quantum nature of the spin. Challenges include creating and ...
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social RoboticsAs we continue to develop social robots designed for connectedness, we struggle with paradoxes related to authenticity, transience, and replication. In this talk, I will attempt to link together 15 years of experience designing social robots with 100-year-old texts on transience, replication, and the fear of dying. Can there be ...
Join us for a conversation between a Theorist and an Experimentalist, both pursuing the search for Dark Matter.What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly in telescopes. Instead, this ...
The launch of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1999 brought X-ray astronomy into the main stream, with 10 times the resolution and the ability to see objects 100 times fainter than previous x-ray satellites.As Chandra celebrates its 20th year of operations, Dr. Wilkes will review some of the major discoveries ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
The need for efficient access to molecules of importance to human health drives the development of innovative synthetic methods. Our group has had a long-standing interest in exploring stereochemically complex molecular space not well-represented in typical drug screening libraries. This had led to new methods to transform simple precursors into ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two KIPAC Tea TalksDiscussion of the latest Nobel Physics prize award to Jim PeeblesSpeaker: Ari Cukierman, StanfordNew insights into the nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensesSpeaker: Daniel Gilman, UCLA
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Advising for Biology MajorsSonoma State University Biology ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. Richard Whitkus, Sonoma State Univ.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Understanding cosmological evolution of galaxies with intensity mapping Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational technique to study the large-scale structure of the universe. LIM measurements are sensitive to the aggregate line emission from the entire galaxy population, therefore placing important integral constraints on galaxy evolution in a cosmological context. In the first part of this talk, I ...
Dry deposition is a key process that removes trace gases and particles from the atmosphere, and thus one factor that controls the atmospheric lifetime of pollutants and short-lived climate forcers. In fact, dry deposition is the single largest component of uncertainty in our understanding of aerosol effects on climate. Despite ...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Effects of Climate Change on Bay Area WildlifeHow will changes in our climate affect local animal right here in Bay Area. We'll open the doors at six so you can speak with members of local conservation groups and learn more about what they are doing locally to mitigate the effects of our changing climate. At 6:30 we'll ...
Christoph Benning is the Director of the Michigan State University Plant Research Laboratory and a University Distinguished Professor. He received his Masters at Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Germany and his Ph.D. at Michigan State. Research in the Benning laboratory focuses on lipid metabolism in photosynthetic organisms. One area of particular interest ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Uncovering Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis: From Molecular to Microenvironmental SignalsThe Davis lab is focused on uncovering the mechanistic basis for how the heart heals, repairs, and remodels in response to injury and disease. Toward this end we are tackling a fundamental problem associated with every form of heart disease, which is the replacement of contractile muscle with fibrotic scarring. ...
 This paper applies principles of advantageous selection to overcome obstacles that prevent the implementation of Pigouvian policies to internalize externalities. Focusing on negative externalities from production (such as pollution), we evaluate settings in which aggregate emissions are known, but individual contributions are unobserved by the government. The government provides firms ...
Protozoa, sponges, ctenophores, and cnidaria have behaviors largely reliant on calcium ion based electrical impulses but their different forms of electrogenesis show increasing levels of complexity. The position of the ctenophores in the evolutionary tree of life is controversial; their muscle systems are well developed but their nervous system is ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Placing Aquatic Foods at the Center of a Sustainable and Healthy Future of FoodIn recent years, one assessment after another has concluded that to nourish a population of 10 billion people while sustaining the Earth’s natural systems, the world will increasingly need to rely on food produced in ocean and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture. Yet there has been no systematic assessment of the ...
The mammalian organism maintains stable, efficient and “near-optimal†performance and homeostasis in the face of external and internal perturbations via distinct biological systems ranging from the large-scale physiological (nervous, endocrine, immune,circulatory, respiratory, etc.), to the cellular (growth and proliferation regulation, DNA damage repair, etc.), and the sub-cellular (gene expression, protein ...
Katharine Hayhoe is an accomplished atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and why it matters to us here and now. She is also a remarkable communicator who has received the American Geophysical Union’s climate communication prize, the Stephen Schneider Climate Communication award, named Champion of the Earth by UNEP and ...
Please join us for a presentation about global warming by the noted scientist and educator Jeffrey Bennett, Ph.D. Hear about potential solutions to this critical problem in a presentation designed to address common doubts and questions about its science, consequences, and resolutions. A Q&A session with Dr. Bennett will follow ...
Join us as three indigenous activists discuss the role of indigenous peoples in protecting water, land, and biodiversity in the face of environmental and moral hazards. Mark Tilsen (Oglala Lakota), Isabella Zizi (Northern Cheyenne, Arikara, Muscogee), and Melinda Micco (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) will discuss historical truths, enduring challenges, and ...
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 and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Mahesh ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Art Meets Science Lecture: A Different Physics: The Poetics of DiscoveryHow do poetic and scientific exploration create access and insight between domains? Can art created within the worlds of science and technology broaden expectations and possibilities for engagement? Formally trained in physics and poetry, Lisa Rosenberg looks at processes of inquiry and making, with a lens of commonality and shared ...
The Future of AR/VR and Industrial IoT for BusinessAs new wave digital technologies are spreading into our world, the attention is often on consumer applications and lifestyle benefits. This talk will explore the impact of VR/AR and IoT technologies on enterprises and the reasons behind their adoption.Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are now being regrouped under ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Adventure NightlifeTelluride’s Mountainfilm on Tour heads to NightLife with a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed documentary films exploring the great outdoors. Full event details coming soon!Mountainfilm Film Documentary Lineup:Mentors: Hilaree NelsonPHOTO VAGABOND, A Yeti Tribe StoryThe Running PastorThe LitasSafe HavenJágrlamaAll In: Alaska Heli SkiingLife of PieTenaya Creek Kayak RunMission DolomitesBrotherhood of ...
How can we know the truth? Do facts matter? What distinguishes justified belief from opinion, and why do our personal biases keep us from seeing the whole picture? Join us to learn more about the anchors of scrupulous science and diligent data, how they can be exploited, and tools to ...
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
Global Warming Demystified-How You Can Make Sense of the Media DebateJoin us at the SETI Institute as Jeffery Bennett discusses global warming - addressing the science, the consequences, and the solutions. Is human-induced global warming real or a hoax?Speaker: Jeffery Bennett, Author and Educator
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Buffalo/Iinnii - The Circle Never EndsThe Circle of Iinnii is important in many aspects of the Blackfeet culture. The Blackfeet Nation, members of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Oakland Zoo, and Wildlife Conservation Society formed the unique Iinnii Initiative with the goals of enhancing biodiversity, preserving culture and language, and supporting a nature-based economy. Join us to ...
Conversations at the Library: Lucy Kalanithi / When Breath Becomes AirDr. Lucy Kalanithi is a physician, clinical assistant professor of medicine the Stanford School of Medicine, mother, and widow of the late Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, When Breath Becomes Air. Lucy Kalanithi wrote the epilogue to the book, which was a finalist for ...
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park is a habitat island amidst a sea of urbanization, and is home to a variety of rare, threatened, and endangered plant and wildlife species - some of which occur only in this park. This talk will outline recent efforts to map and catalog ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
San Francisco City Star Party: Lands End @ Point Lobos, San Francisco, CACome 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
WiFi, 5G & Your HealthEMF is undetectable to the 5 senses yet it is all around us. Â Come take a deeper look at the landscape of wireless communication, their frequencies, and the technology that is to come. Â We will discuss the science underlying WiFi & 5G waves and their biological and environmental effects from ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $0-$10
Friday, 11/08/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksThe Electromagnetic Counterparts of GW170817 and Future Gravitational Wave EventsSpeaker: Kunal Mooley, NRAO and CalTechProbing the large-scale environments of AGNSpeaker: Meredith Powell, Stanford
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest Neutral hydrogen in the Intergalactic Medium produces a collection of Lya absorptions, called the Lya forest, seen in the spectra of background objects. According to the common paradigm, neutral hydrogen in the IGM evolves from primordial density fluctuations in a low density and photo-ionized environment. It, therefore, acts as a ...
Color Centers and Quantum NanophotonicsLight and matter interaction at the nanoscale has been explored for a variety of quantum technologies pertaining to information processing, communication and sensing. The color centers, atomic defects in wide band gap semiconductor lattices, have had a prominent role in this research. The favorable combination of optical and spin properties ...
Catalytic C-H functionalization offers the promise of atom economical introduction of molecular diversity into organic molecules by direct transformation of C-H bonds to C-C, C-N, or C-O bonds. Compared to more traditional approaches that involve functional group manipulations, the direct utilization of C-H bonds in synthesis can minimize chemical steps, ...
July 2019 Solar Eclipse ExperienceMembers of the Peninsula Astronomical Society will share their experiences at the July 2019 solar eclipse.
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 11/09/19
Possible Self STEM FairA day of interactive, hands-on activities designed for 6th to 10th grade students and their families to Explore, Create, Make, and Learn about excitiing opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Dying Tomorrow WorkshopToday, information about our lives can be packaged, transmitted, and analyzed like never before. Our social media profiles create digital twins. Big data and machine learning could someday create algorithms that understand us even more intimately than loved ones, or ourselves. As the traces of our lives are measured, tracked, ...
Every day, we generate data about our daily lives. What happens when that data lives beyond us? With big data, social media, and shifting social concepts of “a good death†converging to create a digital afterlife, we explore the technology that is driving the transformation of the ways we die ...
Join The Crucible for a panel discussion with Karen Cusolito, Christopher Schardt, and Crimson Rose, where they will discuss how they have developed art for the playa at Burning Man. Crucible Board Member Jeremy Crandell will moderate this discussion showcasing The Crucible creative community and artists from Burning Man. There ...
Where: OaklandCost: 20.00
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway UniverseSome of the most energetic and fascinating objects in the Universe are exploding stars known as supernova. These colossal outbursts result from the deaths of stars and for a time can outshine the entire galaxy in which they're found. Elements necessary for life are built up in stars during their ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 11/10/19
We Are in the Midst of an Extinction Event - CANCELEDThe scientist, broadcaster, Trinity College, Dublin Professor, and winner of the prestigious Boyle Medal for scientific research, Luke O'Neill, is a passionate and radical advocate for imaginative and immediate measures to mitigate the current climate crisis. The title of his talk suggests the most likely outcome of our continued procrastination.Editor's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Monday, 11/11/19
Mercury Transit viewing from the Foothill ObservatoryOn Monday, November 11, the Foothill College Astronomy Department and the Peninsula Astronomical Society will be viewing the transit of Mercury. Join us at the Foothill Observatory (by parking lot 4) from sunrise at 6:44 a.m., when Mercury will already be in front of the sun, until the end of ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Mercury Transit Across The SunNow here's something you don't see every day. In fact, you won't see it again until 2032!This Monday morning, Mercury will temporarily move between the Earth and the Sun. This event is like a tiny solar eclipse, where Mercury will block part of the Sun from our perspective, and we ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Increased Hubble tension with a new measurement of the Hubble constant using strong lensingThe recent tension between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant highlights the necessity for independent and precise probes such as the time-delay cosmography. The measured time-delays between the lensed images of a background quasar depend on the absolute physical scales in the lens configuration. Thus, they allow measurement ...
Metastable phases have been a feature of materials technology for centuries, with hardening of steels by martensitic transformation being a conspicuous example that contributed greatly to the development of human civilization. More recently, there has been increasing interest in metastable phases for a broad range of applications including in opto-electronic ...
In developing the 20th century grid, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla did not design an architecture for distributed or renewable resources. To decarbonize the grid--and to electrify transportation and heating--requires exactly that: a remaking of the grid to accommodate these resources. While doing so will require some new technology solutions, ...
Most plants die when they dry out, but resurrection plants are an exception to this rule. Resurrection plants can lose almost all their water and then come back to life when they are watered again. We call these plants “desiccation tolerant,†because they can survive near-complete desiccation (drying). In fact, ...
Two KIPAC Tea TalksDirect Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters Speaker: Yuan Li, UC BerkeleyThe Extremes of the Blazar SequenceBlazars are among the most luminous, persistent, sources in our Universe. With powerful relativistic jets closely pointed to our line of sight, they are detected at high redshifts (up ...
San Francisco’s Energy DestinyFrom a changing climate to the PG&E bankruptcy, San Francisco is facing a new energy landscape and the city’s elected leaders are considering a shift to public power to stabilize costs, ensure reliability, increase local oversight and expand the city’s use of renewable energy. But can this approach work? What ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Measuring the Hubble constant from time-delays of strongly lensed quasars The recent tension between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant highlights the necessity for independent and precise probes such as the time-delay cosmography. The measured time-delays between the lensed images of a background quasar depend on the absolute physical scales in the lens configuration. Thus, the time-delays allow ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black Holes in Physics and AstrophysicsProfessors Roger Blandford and Eva Silverstein of the Stanford University Physics Department will each give an Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Growing interest in offshore geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) motivates evaluation of the consequences of subsea CO2 well blowouts. We have simulated a hypothetical major CO2 well blowout in shallow water of the Texas Gulf Coast. We use a coupled reservoir-well model (T2Well) to simulate the subsea blowout flow rate for ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sun Country: How to make solar power really shineRaffi Garabedian - the Chief Technology Officer at First Solar, one of the largest solar power companies in the country - will discuss how solar can help the United States lead the global clean-energy transformation.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
E360: California's Energy TransitionThis quarter Stanford Energy Club is continuing E360, our quarterly panel discussion series featuring energy experts in academia, industry, policy, and finance to talk about solutions to the energy challenge. This quarter’s E360 topic is California's Energy Transition: Energy Policy's Role in Achieving 100% Decarbonization, a discussion on current developments ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Debate on Breaking Up Big TechResolved: The U.S. Federal Government should invoke antitrust legislation to break up big technology corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook.Over the last two decades, the valuation and market share of America's largest technology companies has increased massively. Now, some of these companies are under investigation for abusing their customers' ...
Gene therapy is currently undergoing clinical trials to evaluate its effectiveness at treating sickle cell disease. In this talk, Dr. Suchi Pandey will review how gene therapy is currently being used to treat sickle cell disease, the different kinds of gene therapy options being evaluated, and the potential impact to ...
7:00-7:25: Danielle Wright(North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council) on "Natural Refrigerants: The #1 Climate Solution Hiding in Your Supermarket"Most of us have little idea of the environmental impact of keeping our food cold...Read more7:25-7:50: Charles Lindsay(SETI AIR) on "Inter-species Communication" or "Art for a Post-Earth Humanity"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wednesday, 11/13/19
Rocket science for conservationIn spite of numerous technological advancements over the past few decades, reliable, global wildlife tracking remains an elusive goal. Current tracking systems rely on some combination of terrestrial infrastructure with limited coverage (e.g. cell towers), satellites that require bulky and expensive radios to communicate with (e.g. Argos), or physically trapping ...
Dr. Seema Lakdawala is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego and completed her postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. Her lab focuses on emergence ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Blue carbon storage in restored, invaded, and historic marshesBlue carbon is a term used to describe organic carbon stored in coastal wetland ecosystems. In this talk, I will present results from three different projects on blue carbon. First I will discuss the fate of blue carbon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California (the Delta) from its formation ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Jupyter Meets the Earth: an Open, Collaborative Approach for Earth Data ScienceToday’s scientific challenges require combining theory, simulations and data at an unprecedented scale and complexity. While this is beyond the skills of any individual scientist, an open and collaborative approach can give us both the extensible tools and the interdisciplinary teams we need. I have spent my career building such ...
Tom will walk through the architecture of the Simulation Platform that leverages a Big Data approach to simulate analytic models that are instrumental in the detection and deflection of potentialSpeaker: Thomas Doran, PayPal
The Baylands are the tidal wetlands along the shore of San Francisco Bay, which provide a rich habitat for wildlife and can help to protect our shorelines from sea level rise and other climatic threats. As the Bay Area gears up for climate change, how can we engage and include ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, RSVP required
How Medicine (Mis)treats CancerWe have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today as one was fifty years ago. Why has so little progress been made in diagnosing and treating cancer over the past few ...
Central Asia and Siberia have for a long time played a very limited role in discussions of modern human origins. These areas were seen as peripheral to our story, which was thought to have mostly unfolded in Africa, Europe, and Eastern Asia. This story, however, is starting to change.Over the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Meet the Neighbors: Planetary Systems Orbiting Nearby StarsThe NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common. However, most of the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars too faint to permit detailed study. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS,) launched in 2018, is finding hundreds of small ...
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