AI Talks in Healthcare - LivestreamThis week, we are going to have our third "AI Talks in Healthcare" webinar. We will host Jochen Kumm who is the CEO of Pr3vent - a company dedicated to the early detection and prevention of vision loss in newborns.Speakers: Jochen Kumm, CEO of Pr3vent; Chirag Patel, Stanford; Ryan Spitler, ...
Where: Cost: Free
CuriOdyssey’s Virtual First Friday Family NightsMeet exciting science educators, wildlife keepers and children’s musical performers for an interesting and fun family event on CuriOdyssey’s Facebook page. See how exciting science can be with Kate the Chemist, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, science entertainer and author of the best-selling book “The Big Book of Experiments," as she performs her ...
Where: Cost: Free
Moon Mash Up - LivestreamJoin us on Facebook Live for a a mash-up of Moon-themed activities! We’re bringing together our Moon rocks, one-of-a-kind lunar telescope images, astronomers and more. With a full, bright moon on Friday night, this is the perfect time for a lunar celebration.Look forward to:A closer look at Chabot’s TWO real ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 07/04/20
Virtual 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 be ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 07/05/20
State-of-the-art Clinical Named Entity Recognition in Spark NLP Workshop - LivestreamDeep neural network models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance gains in a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, these gains rely on the availability of large amounts of annotated examples, without which state-of-the-art performance is rarely achievable. This is especially inconvenient for the many NLP fields where annotated ...
Chad Holliday, Chair of the Board, Royal Dutch Shell plc, will be interviewed by Arun Majumdar and Sally Benson, co-directors of Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.Register here to obtain connection information
Where: Cost: Free
LIVE! Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life - LivestreamThe Bay Area Book Festival's #UNBOUND virtual series will be featuring biologist and visionary Merlin Sheldrake about his new book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, in a LIVE conversation with local bestselling writer and journalist Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma), co-hosted by Green Apple Books. Merlin ...
Where: Cost: $20
A Good Direction for Poor Air Quality - LivestreamAt the height of the global pandemic, roughly a third of the world’s population was under some form of lockdown. As a result, daily transportation use plummeted and, with it, air pollution as some of the most polluted cities reported massive decreases in particulate matter. Wuhan, China experienced a dramatic ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members
Wednesday, 07/08/20
Digital Grid Summer Series: Technology Innovation Panel - LivestreamEPRI and Stanford University Bits and Watts Initiative co-hosted a virtual workshop, that brought together utility and information technology companies to discuss the development of a data platform and enabling technologies to achieve the Digital Grid vision. This interactive panel series will provide an opportunity to take this vital conversation ...
Aquaculture is the fastest expanding segment of the global food system and generally relies on wild-caught marine animals as key ingredients in feeds for fishes and shrimps. Farmed seafood production is expected to continue to increase around the world, accompanied by a rising demand for nutrient-dense ingredients harvested from the ...
We now know that not all viruses are bad for us: for example, viruses play a role in the human microbiome. More importantly, viruses are drivers of genetic innovation and therefore of the evolution of life. While we have no definitive evidence of when the first virus emerged, we can ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 07/09/20
The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research - LivestreamScience builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. If not addressed post-publication, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Several high-profile science ...
Where: Cost: Free
What Would a Green Stimulus for California Look Like? - LivestreamAn unabashed reference to the New Deal set of programs championed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, the long-gestating idea for a Green New Deal leapt into the public consciousness in 2019 after Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts introduced the ...
Speaker: Bruno Olshausen, UC BerkeleyRegister at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark Online: COVID Conversations - LivestreamIt’s well-documented that African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are overrepresented in cases of, and deaths from, COVID-19. Join Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo as they discuss why this disease is having a disproportionate impact on these communities and what steps we can take ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightSchool: How To Design A Coral Reef - LivestreamHow do you create a digital coral reef so large and complex it will fill a 75-ft. planetarium dome screen? Get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the Academy’s latest show, Expedition Reef, with production designer Mike Schmitt and animator Ken Ackermann - members of the Academy’s award-winning Visualization ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Movie Night: 'Mercury 13'The SETI Institute will show Mercury 13 for our July 9 movie night. There will also be live interviews with Gena Nora Jessen - one of the original 13 - and David Sington, director of the 2018 film.Mercury 13 tells the remarkable story of astronauts who had the right stuff, ...
