​Computational and Statistical Tools to Control a Pandemic - LivestreamThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis and serves as a reminder of the social, economic, and health burden of infectious diseases. This panel discussion aims to explore the role that computational and statistical tools can play in supporting policy makers as they formulate and assess policies to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nordics and COVID-19: Public Health, Economic and Public Policy Responses - LivestreamNordic countries are regularly cited as exemplars of healthy and resilient societies. Join us for a virtual conversation comparing and contrasting the Nordic public health, economic and public policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the responses by Denmark and Sweden, and consider learnings that may be drawn from by ...
Speaker: Nancy Ryan, Energy and Environmental EconomicsSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SQL Workshop - LivestreamIn this 2-hour workshop, we will learn about relational databases using one of the most in-demand versions of SQL PostgreSQL (open-source). The workshop will focus on how to read and write SQL queries.In this workshop, we will work through a large dataset running several queries to select and analyze different ...
Speaker: Neil Degrasse TysonThis event has been rescheduled for May 24, 2021.
Where: San JoseCost: $46 - $96 and up
Tuesday, 05/12/20
Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don’t Talk About - LivestreamAs the global population approaches 8 billion, humans continue to test the number of bodies that can fit onto a planet of finite resources. Empowering women through access to education and family planning may be at the core of establishing a healthy population balance, not just for the planet’s sake, ...
Fast Carbs. Slow Carbs - LivestreamIn Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, David Kessler explains how eating refined grains such as wheat, corn and rice leads to a cascade of hormonal and metabolic issues that make it very easy to gain weight and nearly impossible to lose it. Worse still is how excess weight creates a very ...
Come be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman - follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience. In this new Everything Matters segment, get to know the rare, silvery-white metal palladium. ...
Speaker: Neil Degrasse TysonThis event has been rescheduled for May 25, 2021
Where: San JoseCost: $46 - $96 and up
Wednesday, 05/13/20
swissnex Fireside Chat: Imagining New Realities 001 - LivestreamWork, education, economy, social life: the corona crisis is rapidly accelerating the digitization of important areas of society, and it is deeply impacting every aspect of our lives. How will this structural transformation of society play out in the long term? In a series of fireside chats, the trending informal ...
Andy Slavitt was brought in by the Obama administration to fix Healthcare.gov after a disastrous rollout and then asked to stay on to head Medicare and Medicaid. Since leaving government, he’s been one of the fiercest critics of the current administration’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and combat ...
Where: Cost: Free
COVID-19: Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right - LivestreamAs plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. Â In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and ...
July 20, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the Moon. Since then, 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 mini-course, Andrew Fraknoi will look at the ...
Where: Cost: $29 register online
Not Under Lockdown: Sweden's Singular Response to COVID-19 - LivestreamEurope has been among the hardest-hit parts of the world following the outbreak of the coronavirus. While some European countries opted immediately for a lockdown policy to prevent the virus from spreading, others -- such as the Netherlands and the UK -- soon abandoned earlier plans to fight the disease ...
Where: Cost: Free
Toward the 'New Normal' - Protecting Public Health as America Reopens - LivestreamThe seventh COVID-19 Conversations webinar will explore how public health, economic, and workforce priorities can be balanced to ensure a safe reopening of the country; how models can inform reopening and what data is still needed; how a nationwide testing strategy can support reopening strategies; practical considerations for educators and ...
Despite all the media attention given to black holes, dark matter and dark energy, astronomy is actually all about the light - the decillions of photons careening around the universe.Join us virtually for a conversation with Alex Filippenko, a Berkeley astrophysicist who works on deciphering, from all that photonic information ...
Join Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. This COVID Conversation will focus on the latest developments in testing and vaccine development. Explore why testing is so important to helping us end restrictions so we can get back ...
Where: Cost: Free
Two Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering Colquium talks - LivestreamTandem H2-Scavenging Reactions for Dehydrogenation Equilibrium ShiftingThermodynamic constraints in alkane dehydrogenation can be mitigated by the scavenging of H 2 through reactions with O 2 to form H 2 O or with CO 2 to form CH 4 and CO, an approach often limited in practice by yield losses caused ...
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His life’s work is to develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics.See weblink for streaming information.
Where: Cost: Free
Trends in AI - LivestreamIn this light talk, we will start with a brief history of AI, talk about how the goals of early AI attempts got transformed into the ones of today's efforts, how and why AI efforts fancied hardware accelerators like GPUs, high-level software frameworks and low-level libraries, current trends in both software ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 05/14/20
The Milky Way in Motion: Novel Directions for the Search for Dark Matter - LivestreamOur understanding of the motions of stars within our Milky Way and of the many small galaxies that orbit around it has changed dramatically over the past few years owing to new observational surveys and significant advancements in our understanding of galaxy structure. Specifically, new surveys now enable us to ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Healthy Society Series: Ethics and Value in Health Crises - LivestreamThe coronavirus pandemic has forced communities to face issues of ethics and human value in the health-care system. The higher rates of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 complications in communities of color draw focus once again on institutional inequities in access to health care and on hard questions confronting just ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual NightLife #4 - LivestreamJoin us for Vol. 4 of Virtual NightLife to explore the nature of togetherness, and what it means when we’re all physically apart.Now more than ever, we’re all in this together and we’re just as curious as you are to see what happens. Log-on for this experimental showcase, streaming live ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 05/15/20
The structure of Gamma Ray Bursts: beyond GRB 170817 - LivestreamCombining information from the first gravitational wave detected gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817 with observations of cosmological GRBs holds important lessons for understanding the structure of GRB jets and the required conditions at the emitting region. It also re-frames our understanding of more commonly observed phenomena in GRBs, such as X-ray ...
Where: Cost: Free
Botany Series: Plant Terminology - CANCELEDTaught by the knowledgeable team of Naomi LeBeau and Christina Crooker ( both of the Park Stewardship Restoration Team), this class will provide an introduction to terminology commonly used in identification of plants with a focus on leaf and flower parts. Illustrated examples and hands-on experience will be emphasized. This ...
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve as dusk arrives and the animals start to appear. Our twilight hikes are on select Fridays throughout spring and fall. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
Astrophotography 101: Grab your phone and learn how to take stellar photos! - LivestreamIf YOU have ever wanted to try your hand at astrophotography or hone your existing skills, now is your chance to do it from home! All you need is your cell phone! This beginners’ overview class will be led by the President of the East Bay Astronomical Society, Richard Ozer, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Is there a Star Party in Your Future? There Should Be! - LivestreamThe severe light pollution levels in the urban and suburban areas in which we live make it nearly impossible to see the Milky Way and greatly limits everything else that we are able to see from our backyards or even nearby parks. Light pollution filters and narrow band imaging helps ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 05/16/20
What's That Flower? - CANCELEDWhat are those blooming beauties in the park? It’s springtime, and it’s time to find out!Join the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s Park Stewardship team on a leisurely walk to learn about the folklore, medicinal uses, and biology of wildflowers. Spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and an appreciation for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Near-Earth Asteroids: Impact Hazard and Space Missions - OnlineNear-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are small solar system bodies in orbits that come near - or cross - the orbit of Earth. This illustrated talk will explore NEAs as unique physical worlds, as impact hazards to Earth, and as accessible destinations for spacecraft.Speaker: Michael Busch, SETI InstituteSee weblink for YouTube information.
Stephen Ramsden is a wildlife photographer, solar astronomer, and the founder and director of the highest volume “hands-on†astronomy outreach nonprofit in the world, The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project, named in memoriam for a fellow military veteran. He is a noted motivational science lecturer in the United States with lectures and outreach ...
Where: Cost: Free
Free Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 05/17/20
Sea Level Rise, Extreme Water Levels, and Coastal Erosion How Bad Could It Be? - LivestreamSea level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century. For many regions, projections of the global rise of up to 2 meters by the year 2100, are comparable to the short-lived extremes we experience now due to storms. The 21st century will see significant changes to coastal ...
