Is our Solar System Unique? A Holistic View of Exoplanet DemographicsThe Kepler and K2 missions blessed the community with a plethora of planet transit detections which enabled studies of exoplanet size demographics. Much of the recent progress in this field is driven by improved characterization of the stellar hosts. Our group recently used precise radius measurements from the California-Kepler Survey ...
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.Sylvia ...
5G Mobile Wireless: A 5G Overview and Market UpdateThe fifth generation of mobile wireless is now a commercial concept with many operators around the world selling 5G services and many more preparing to launch in the next 18 months. This talk will review the overall concept of 5G, the commercial, technical, and policy drivers, and many of the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Instrument and science for the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiverSPT-3G is a third-generation camera for the 10-meter diameter South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve a high mapping speed, we have developed a new multichroic receiver with a total of 16,000 polarization-sensitive detectors. SPT-3G began a 6-year 1500 square degree ...
Leave your common sense at the door and indulge in a night of nonsense. In celebration of the opening of our exhibition Curious Contraptions, join us for a gathering of artists and makers who specialize in the whimsical, the foolish, and the absurd - including two performances by Maywa Denki, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
BiteLifeLive Talks: Future of Food & Turkey Carving African HallAt 7:30 PM, Join Anthony Myint (Mission Chinese Food, The Perennial) for an optimistic talk about how the State of California and Zero Foodprint are teaming up to help restaurants, chefs, and diners fund a transition from extractive farming to a ...
Golden Eagles are a well-studied, widely distributed raptor species. Long-term monitoring of Golden Eagle populations have revealed several current and emerging threats, including landscape-mediated diet shifts that may increase the potential for disease infection, and warming temperatures that may increase the distribution and abundance of eagle ectoparasites. This presentation will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $5 donation General, Free for Members
NPR has called Susannah Cahalan “one of America’s most courageous young journalists.†Known for her memoir Brain on Fire, which details her experience with a rare autoimmune disease, Cahalan’s work has since been made into a feature film on Netflix.In her newest book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 member, $10 Student
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business CultureCulture is how a company makes decisions. If culture is not purposeful, it could result in accidents or mistakes. As a leader, how do you create and sustain the culture you want? It’s a question crucial to every organization and Ben Horowitz, veteran entrepreneur and cofounder of the venture capital ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Sea-Level Rise, Extreme Water Levels, and Coastal Erosion ... How bad could it possibly be?Sea-level rise represents an unprecedented civil engineering challenge.Small amounts of sea-level rise can disproportionately increase the frequency of coastal flooding. One-third to two-thirds of the beaches in Southern California may disappear by 2100 under sea-level rise of 1-2 meters.A combination of satellite observations and modeling will help to understand and predict coastal ...
Science Trivia NightMAKE SCIENCE GREAT AGAIN!Science Trivia NightA fundraiser for City College of San Francisco scholarshipsBring your smarts and your smartypants friends to Laughing Monk Brewery for a night of nerdy competition. Game begins at 7:30. Come early, grab a beer and a table. Bring a team or we'll help you join one. Maximum ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 per player
Friday, 11/22/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksNobel Prizes in ExoplanetsSpeaker: Lea Hirsch, StanfordA 1700 km/s hyper velocity star discovered by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic SurveySpeaker: Ting Li, Carnegie Observatories
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Reconstruction of Cosmological Fields in Forward Model Framework - Galaxy Clustering and Intensity Mapping In this talk, I will outline the forward model approach to reconstruct cosmological fields in a Bayesian framework. I will focus on two examples - galaxy clustering and neutral hydrogen intensity mapping. In galaxy clustering example, I will use the observations of galaxy surveys to reconstruct the initial Lagrangian field. ...
A Better Future for Fossil Hydrocarbons and Carbon NanomaterialsEvery year we extract over 4.2 GT of oil, 2.5 GT of natural gas, and 3.4 GT of coal to sustain our economies. That’s equivalent to 8.7 GT of carbon and 1.3 GT of Hydrogen. Almost all of these resources are burned to generate energy, causing over 30 GT of ...
Luminescent molecules that can undergo self-assembly are of great interest for the development of new materials, sensors, biolabels…. The talk will illustrate some of the recent results on soft structures based on metal complexes able to aggregate in fibers, gels and soft mechanochromic materials [1]. The emission of the compounds ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 11/23/19
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
When Water Dreams - Art Reception & Astist TalkCanadian artist/photographer Bill Peters presents large-scale color images of the salt ponds, sloughs and wetlands of San Francisco Bay shot from a helicopter from 2009 through July of this year. The shoreline of San Francisco Bay is a crucible where the human forces that work on land and water intersect ...
Explore some of the many ways to make color - from neon signs to oil slicks to rainbows and more. Learn all about light, how it is made and interacts, and take home materials to build your own spectroscope. You’ll see color in a whole new light!
Strain Modulated Superlattices in GrapheneThe quest to create novel material systems with designer electronic properties has often led to the investigation of interfaces and superlattices. The potential of customizing properties by merging different 2D materials via vertical or horizontal stacking to create van der Waals or lateral heterostructures seems limitless. In this presentation I ...
Constraints on Quantum GravityAlthough predictions of quantum gravity are typically at extremely high energy, over the last decades several non-trivial constraints on its low energy effective theory have been found. I will start by explaining why the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics has been difficult. After introducing the holographic principle as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nerd Nite East BayJoin Nerd Nite East Bay for the Treason of Aaron Burr, How Plate Tectonics Can Create Ice Ages, and the History of Extremely Dangerous Toys!Aaron Burr after Hamilton: Conspiracy and Treason in the pre-America WestNerd Nite brings you a live performance of Hamilton 2! (But sorry, no singing). After Aaron Burr ...
Intrinsically disordered peptides are a special class of proteins that do not fold to a unique three-dimensional shape. These proteins play important roles in the cell, from signaling to serving as structural scaffolds. Under pathological conditions, these proteins are capable of self-assembling into structures that are toxic to the cell, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Stress and Symbiosis: How a Crop Plant Prioritizes Communication with Friendly FungiUnderstanding how plants respond to drought is critical to improving agricultural yields under increasingly frequent droughts as a result of climate change. The UC lab grew the naturally drought-tolerant food crop sorghum in the field under drought stress to look at how this changes its gene expression. Their work revealed ...
