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 ...
Join our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for an illustrated slideshow of butterflies found in the Garden at this time of year. We'll learn about their life cycle, host plants, and more! Our fun Zoom event is suitable for all ages and includes a live ...
The scientist, the teacher, the legend. A personal interview and question session with the multi-award winning astronomer Dr. Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley.links at websiteThis event has been rescheduled for August 24 due to high temperature demands on the electrical grid.Â
Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy hosts a conversation on the Future of Energy with Don Evans, moderated by Thomas Stephenson. Don, the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce (2001-2005), is a senior partner at Quintana Capital Group and senior advisor at Energy Capital Partners. Tom Stephenson, partner at Sequoia Captial and ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci - LivestreamJoin us for a rare visit with one of America's most trusted medical figures and leading experts on infectious disease, and take advantage of this unique opportunity to ask your questions directly.Dr. Fauci was appointed director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research ...
Where: Cost: $22 General, $17 Members
Live ScienceJoin us for Chabot’s new virtual program, Live Science! The Live Science series is every Tuesday morning on Facebook Live.Each week, our Science Educator, Haley will lead a live demonstration of one explosive, chilling, or thrilling reaction that cannot be done at home! We’ll ask for your observations and explanations ...
Where: Cost: Free
National Alliance on Mental Illness - LivestreamNAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation's leading ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lights - Action: Controlling Bacteria with Light - LivestreamDuring these sessions, we will demonstrate and explore the ways in which active, living systems such as bacteria respond to light and can thus be controlled and tuned.Speakers: Arvind Gopinath and Joshua Tamayo, UC MercedRegister at weblink for Zoom information.Intended for high school students and teachers
Where: Cost: Free
COVID-19 and Climate: Technology to the Rescue? - LivestreamTechnology has helped the world survive, thrive and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pandemic world, does tech hold the same promise in the fight to solve climate change? From mapping weather patterns with pinpoint accuracy using artificial intelligence, to engineering algae that ...
Where: Cost: Free
Do You Hear Me? Reaching Students Online in an Age of Disconnection - LivestreamVeteran journalist John Bowe and author of "I Have Something To Say: Mastering the Art of Public Speaking in an Age of Disconnection" explores specific, easily learned and timeless communication techniques to help educators better connect with students through a medium that limits context cues and poses new challenges for ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 08/19/20
Wi-Fi for Billions - LivestreamIt’s not every day that someone gives away $100,000, but that’s what Andrea Goldsmith did when she became the first woman to win the Marconi Prize, the top honor in information and communications research. The Stanford engineering professor’s work has enabled billions of people around the world to enjoy fast, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Solr Learning to Rank: Non-Search as a Machine Learning Problem - LivestreamSearch relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query to return what users want. A search for 'iPhone XS' should rank documents highly when the product name matches. But a different query, 'smartphone with two cameras' ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lights - Action: Controlling Bacteria with Light - LivestreamDuring these sessions, we will demonstrate and explore the ways in which active, living systems such as bacteria respond to light and can thus be controlled and tuned.Speakers: Arvind Gopinath and Joshua Tamayo, UC MercedRegister at weblink for Zoom information.Intended for high school students and teachers
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 colorful element cadmium. Once used ...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, is now en route toward Mars. The mission will pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that could be used by future Mars explorers.Designed to search for signs of ancient microbial life, the robotic ...
Where: Cost: Free
Productivity Implications and testing challenges on Moving to Microservice - LivestreamMicroservices based architectures are increasingly popular as a way of managing the scalability of large software systems. There are implications for organizational structure, product architecture, development methodology, test strategy, and design and simulation tools. Intended for managers and executives considering the implications of adopting a microservices architecture for a major ...
In 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 ...
Chabot Space & Science Center has very old roots in Oakland and the East Bay, and no fewer than three incarnations as a student and public observatory and science education center. Now celebrating the 20th anniversary at its present location on the skyline of the Oakland Hills, the institution as ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 08/20/20
Lights - Action: Controlling Bacteria with Light - LivestreamDuring these sessions, we will demonstrate and explore the ways in which active, living systems such as bacteria respond to light and can thus be controlled and tuned.Speakers: Arvind Gopinath and Joshua Tamayo, UC MercedRegister at weblink for Zoom information.Intended for high school students and teachers
When I was a child, my brothers and I routinely ate peanut butter and jelly for lunch. By the time my children completed high school, their classrooms were peanut-free. 32 million Americans currently suffer from food allergies, some of which are life threatening. What is driving this generational change? We ...
Collecting and visualizing data allows us to see critical issues: a surge in COVID cases, toxins in garden soil, where the climate is warming fastest. Tonight, we hear (and see!) three stories of how data visualization is being used to detect, inform, and spur action on COVID-19, environmental justice, and ...
Bird health and human health are deeply linked. As are the links between the impacts of climate change, poverty, marginalization, and population growth. In this talk, learn how population growth, the rise in carbon emissions and the impacts of U.S. foreign assistance policies have on global health. Hannah Evans will ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightSchool: Food For Change - LivestreamWe’re digging into our local food scene, highlighting just some of the people and organizations, working to better their communities through equity, sustainability, and science. Featuring guests from La Cocina; Florence Fang Community Farm and its neighbor, the Bayview’s new urban farm; 18 Reasons; Anthony Myint (Zero Foodprint); & the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 08/21/20
AI Talks in HealthcareWe will host Alan Gale who is the CEO of Aimee Health and Alex Baqui who is the Co-founder & CEO @ Valhalla Healthcare.Additional speaker: Alex Baqui, MD; Chirag Patel, Stanford School of Medicine; Ryan Spitler, Stanford; Murat Baday: Magnimind AcademyZoom linkWebinar ID: 892-7401-4623
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and Santa Clara County Parks as we welcome back local Naturalist Jeff Caplan, director of Common Language Nature, who will teach tools and tips for identifying and connecting with common birds you might meet in the oak woodlands as well as plants they depend ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lights - Action: Controlling Bacteria with Light - LivestreamDuring these sessions, we will demonstrate and explore the ways in which active, living systems such as bacteria respond to light and can thus be controlled and tuned.Speakers: Arvind Gopinath and Joshua Tamayo, UC MercedRegister at weblink for Zoom information.Intended for high school students and teachers
Where: Cost: Free
Mapping the cloudy skies of a galactic black hole with the help of laboratory measurements - LivestreamHigh-mass X-ray binaries are binary star systems consisting of a supermassive star in orbit around an evolved compact object like a black hole or neutron star. Supermassive stars exhibit strong stellar winds consisting of material from the stellar atmosphere being ejected into space. These winds are unstable with a tendency ...
Where: Cost: Free
137 Years of Chabot Space & Science Center in 60 Minutes - Rescheduled to 8.19.20Chabot Space & Science Center has very old roots in Oakland and the East Bay, and no fewer than three incarnations as a student and public observatory and science education center. Now celebrating the 20th anniversary at its present location on the skyline of the Oakland Hills, the institution as ...
Where: Cost: Free
Chabot’s Star Party Spectacular - LivestreamJoin us as we celebrate our 20th anniversary at our Skyline campus!We will have fun and engaging STEM activities led by our education team, a virtual dance party and an appearance by our resident robot Fritz. Hear from leading scientists, Chabot astronomers and Executive Director Adam Tobin and join in ...
Where: Cost: Free
Evenings with the Stars - CANCELEDOur 'Evenings with the Stars' programs are held annually as part of our Summer Series. Each year we bring world-renowned astronomers to the summit of Mount Hamilton for a night with the "stars" you won't forget!Speaker: TBA
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $25
Saturday, 08/22/20
Galactic Weather - LivestreamJust as Earth has an atmosphere, and stars (like the Sun) have coronas, galaxies are embedded in invisible halos of atomic gases. As galaxies evolve, these gaseous halos exhibit many interesting phenomena similar to rains and droughts on Earth. What do these enormous galactic climate systems look like, how are ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Very First Stars - RescheduledThe 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 big missing piece of the cosmic puzzle: How did the first stars ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $50 General, $90 Preferred, $199 VIP
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 ...
In 1960, the laser was known as “a solution looking for a problem.†Now we can hardly imagine life without them. Learn what’s special about laser light, how it’s made, and how it’s used in everything from DVD players to eye surgery to fusion energy research.Sessions at 1:00 and 3:00Speaker: ...
Dear Friends,Our hearts go out to our friends and colleagues impacted by the wildfires. And we are so grateful for the heroics of firefighters and the support of this community. Due to these difficult circumstances at Mt. Hamilton and our UCO headquarters campus (UCSC), tomorrow's scheduled event has been: POSTPONED  NO event on Monday, ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Case Study in Data Quality with the Covid-19 Pandemic - LivestreamThere is often a long path between the reality which raw data describes, and decision-maker understanding of what is going on (“big pictureâ€). This “data-to-understanding supply chain†has many steps, with potential for lapses in the quality of data and information. This gap (with threats to quality) is particularly evident ...
Where: Cost: Free
August LASER event - Revolution - LivestreamHistorian Steve Harris (SFSU), art historian Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M Univ), physicist Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) in discussion with cultural historian Piero Scaruffi on "Revolution".Register at weblink for connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 08/25/20
Combatting Misinformation by Introducing Peer-Reviewed Journals into the Science Classroom - LivestreamIn an age of misinformation, it is essential that students develop the scientific literacy and critical thinking necessary to discriminate between science and pseudoscience. Peer-reviewed journals are the most reliable source of information but are often full of intimidating jargon and have limited accessibility, while misinformation is generally free and ...
We appreciate your patience and understanding during this difficult time for UC Observatories and our headquarters campus, UC Santa Cruz.Director Claire Max will answer your questions about the wildfires impacting Lick Observatory. Mt. Hamilton staff will join her to help provide updates on known damage and potential future repair/science timelines ...
As a world leader in the environmental and ecological sciences, Professor Steven Lindow has been a dominant force in revealing complex interactions between microbes, plants, and the environment. Using genetic and molecular research techniques, his current work focuses on developing biological strategies for addressing plant disease and frost control that ...
Society, Robots, and Us: Conversations We Need to Have - LivestreamFollowing our "COVID-19, Robots and Us" series, we're continuing the conversation about important robotics topics and socio-technical issues. We'll be inviting domain experts and interesting thinkers to discuss topics relating to robotics innovation, commercialization and inclusivity.Moderated by Andra Keay of Silicon Valley RoboticsRegister at weblink to obtain connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
Free Admission to National Parks that are openCelebrate the National Park Service's 104th birthday as entrance fees are waived on August 25! Find a park near you or explore in-park and virtual events hosted by parks across the country. Get tips to recreate responsibly while visiting parks to keep everyone safe and protect America's treasures for future ...
In this Brains@Bay meetup, we will discuss the role of active dendrites in learning from a neuroscience and a computational perspective. We are thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers joining us!Matthew Larkum (Larkum Lab), a leading expert on dendrites, will give an overview on the main advances in ...
Where: Cost: Free
Ethics in Research: How Far is Too Far? - LivestreamIn this session, we will grapple with some of the most pressing ethical issues facing researchers today. Through a series of case studies, we will examine the foundations of ethical research and discuss some of the thorniest topics that students and researchers may encounter. At the end of the session, ...
The ocean provides critical services to life on the planet, absorbing 93 percent of the heat from anthropogenic warming and a quarter of human carbon dioxide emissions each year. However, rising ocean temperatures and carbon dioxide levels also change the marine environment - pH and oxygen levels fall, ocean currents ...
Where: Cost: Free
Feeling Down or Depressed in the Time of COVID-19? Let's Do Something About This! - LivestreamIt's a stressful time, and it's difficult even for those with a naturally sunny personality to maintain the mood they want. So what about those of us who are coping with unwanted sadness, depression or irritability? And why does stigma still make it difficult to openly discuss these experiences?We have ...
From sediment science to science translation - LivestreamSediment transport research is key for coastal resilience in the face of climate change. How sediment moves along the coast and in particular aroundrocky headlands should determine large interventions, such as beach nourishment, to address coastal erosion. All the science in the world, however, will not provide the information to ...
Speaker: Rob Phillips, California Institute of TechnologySee weblink for contact information to obtain Zoom link.
Where: Cost: Free
Natural Language Processing - Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare - LivestreamFor many years we have been praising Artificial Intelligence (AI) and all its possible applications. The recent pandemic has, however, shown that despite the incredible advancements achieved in the last decade, we are still unable to fully exploit the potentiality of this technology for our advantage. Starting from this consideration, ...
Where: Cost: Free
LASER - Covid-19: Where we stand - LivestreamJulie Parsonnet is the George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. She specializes in adult infectious diseases. She also has an active research enterprise in which she studies the way infections contribute to the development of chronic diseases including cancer, allergy ...
Where: Cost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: Millbrae - CANCELEDScience 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 ...
When I was a child, my brothers and I routinely ate peanut butter and jelly for lunch. By the time my children completed high school, their classrooms were peanut-free. 32 million Americans currently suffer from food allergies, some of which are life threatening. What is driving this generational change? We ...
Where: Cost: Free
Hunting for infection, one molecule at a time - PostponedOur COVID-19 response series continues, this time with a look at hardware solutions. Healthcare professionals need to be able to get diagnoses quickly, rather than sending samples offsite to be processed and waiting for the results. Professor Holger Schmidt’s lab is developing technology that could give doctors compact instruments that ...
Where: Cost: Free
LASER - New Paradigms and Spaces for Artistic Expression - LivestreamComputational forms of art have become widespread, especially among the younger generation of artists/inventors, and at the same time the pandemic is forcing us to rethink art forms for an online world. This evening will focus on three examples of how the process and format of making and exhibiting art ...
It happens around 15 times a minute, regularly and rhythmically. You may not even notice it but if it stopped, you definitely would. Tonight, we turn our attention to human breath. Find out how human breathing has changed over an extended period of time, through both physical and external factors, ...
What goes into the making of an exhibit full of fangs, stingers, and spines? Join Curator of Arachnology Dr. Lauren Esposito, Academy biologist Emma Kocina, and exhibit designer Ashley Boycher for a behind-the-scenes look into the Academy’s upcoming exhibit, Venom.See weblink for YouTube and Facebook connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
San Francisco City Star Party - CanceledCome 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!
The artificial intelligence (AI) that we've seen in fiction bears little resemblance to the AI we have in the real world. Stanford PhD researcher Andrey Kurenkov will analyze the real-world meaning of AI, describe what researchers in AI actually do, and explore how impressive - or not - recent AI ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 08/28/20
AI Talks in HealthcareWe will host Lana Feng who is the Co-founder and CEO at Huma AI.Speakers: Dr. Lana Feng is the co-founder and CEO of Huma.AI; Chirag Patel:Clinical assistant professor of neurology (division of neuro-oncology) and radiology (molecular imaging program) at Stanford University School of Medicine; Ryan Spitler: Deputy Director of the ...
Have you ever wondered where mushrooms come from, what that “moss†is hanging from the branches in an oak tree, or what lies beneath the rotting logs on a Redwood forest floor? Find out when we explore the hidden kingdom of fungus! Let’s learn about lichen, mushroom forms, and even ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
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
Monday, 08/31/20
Living Room Lecture: Dr. Emily Martin - LivestreamSpeaker: Emily Martin, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Santa Cruz and UC Chancellors Fellow. Working on several instrument projects, including PEAS, a new instrument and telescope for Lick Observatory, and IGNIS, a new instrument concept for KeckZoom link. Also on Facebook Live.Â
China & India: Impact on Global Energy Transition - LivestreamStanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy hosts a conversation on the impact of China and India on the global energy transition featuring Sumant Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power and Lei Zhang, founder and CEO, Envision Group. Stanford professor Yi Cui joins Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy co-director, Aun ...
Where: Cost: Free
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - VirtualJoin us to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who make up this fast-growing industry - all during one impactful event. Come learn the latest ...
Where: Cost: TBD
Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure - LivestreamToday we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead of preventive. The result can be diagnoses that are too late and outcomes that are far worse than our level of spending should deliver. In ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 09/02/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - VirtualJoin us to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who make up this fast-growing industry - all during one impactful event. Come learn the latest ...
When faced with a policy decision, we often use historical contexts to predict how the proposed policy will impact outcomes that we care about. But what do we do when there is no relevant historical precedent? How do we determine which policies work best at slowing COVID-19 transmission when we have never ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 09/03/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - VirtualJoin us to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who make up this fast-growing industry - all during one impactful event. Come learn the latest ...
 The world is projected to generate 90 zettabytes of data this year and the next. That’s more than all the data produced since the arrival of computers, and if we still used DVD’s, we’d need 19 trillion to store it all. Swimming in this massive sea of information, humans are ...
Where: Cost: Free
Social Justice Series: Building Healthy Communities - LivestreamWhat does a healthy community look like and how is it achieved? Dr. Iton is considered one of the foremost authorities on the elements necessary to build health communities that will produce healthy equity for all. Join us as Dr. Iton discusses the links between policy and systems changes that ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sometimes you can't see the signal for the trees - LivestreamOne of the challenges of modern communications is finding available spectrum. One of the newer Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands is centered at 60 GHz. The 60 GHz band is notable for its short reach due to the size of the wavelength and oxygen absorption. The short reach can ...
Where: Cost: Free
SFBBO Birdy Hour Talk: Birding - Love at First Sight - LivestreamJoin SFBBO and Latino Outdoors to hear from Sebastian Casarez, an accomplished 17-year-old birder and bird educator from Texas. Learn how a love for birding changed his life and how that passion for birds grew into a birding movement throughout his community and the state of Texas. He will share his experiences being a ...
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree - Understanding Uncertainty - LivestreamAs our nation prepares for a major election, After Dark takes a month-long look at some key factors that influence personal and collective decision making - and the effect these influences have on the democratic process.Uncertainty: it’s certainly uncomfortable. It’s also unavoidable in any election. How can we incorporate an ...
The artificial intelligence (AI) that we've seen in fiction bears little resemblance to the AI we have in the real world. Stanford PhD researcher Andrey Kurenkov will analyze the real-world meaning of AI, describe what researchers in AI actually do, and explore how impressive - or not - recent AI ...
We are taking a special camping trip to Earth’s moon!Join us on Facebook Live as we imagine extreme camping excursions at Camp Luna. What goes through the mind when leaving the comforts of home and dramatically changing our environment, traveling a great distance? Together, we can examine how to plan ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 09/05/20
Understanding and Addressing Bias in Machine Learning - LivestreamMachine learning has long been a hot topic with tech and business professionals. It is used all over these days, and is designed to power technology products that influence human decision making in many domains of life. From healthcare to finance, education and the criminal justice system, machine learning algorithms ...
Where: Cost: Free
Yerkes at 125 - A New Era for the Grand Dame of Astrophysics - LivestreamDan Koehler is a native of the Green Bay area in Wisconsin, having grown up on a dairy farm outside his hometown of Chilton. He has been an avid amateur astronomer since high school with a broad interest in deep sky objects, the solar system and “short-lived†phenomena like eclipses, meteor showers ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astrophotography and Dark Sky Conservation - RescheduledMillions - billions! - of children grow up blind to the grandeur of a starry sky. As astronomers lead the fight against inspiration-stifling “light pollution,†our amateur cameras can preserve gorgeous nighttime skyscapes, and our collective activism can help preserve the starry night, itself.Sivani Babu, Hidden CompassWatch on the Mt ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Erin Brockovich was vaulted into national recognition in 2000, after the eponymous movie starring Julia Roberts made her a water activism icon. Famous for her focus on contamination, Brockovich says there is a larger threat facing water’s very existence: climate change, and the impact it has on dwindling freshwater supplies, ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Four Ways We Tell Machines What We Want, and How We Can Do Better - LivestreamIn our modern world, computers recommend movies they think we’ll like, remind us to order more laundry detergent, and answer our burning questions without breaking a sweat. But how do computer systems know how to do these things for us? It depends on how they were designed.Over two lectures, renowned ...
Society, Robots, and Us: Conversations We Need to Have - LivestreamFollowing our "COVID-19, Robots and Us" series, we're continuing the conversation about important robotics topics and socio-technical issues. We'll be inviting domain experts and interesting thinkers to discuss topics relating to robotics innovation, commercialization and inclusivity.Moderated by Andra Keay of Silicon Valley RoboticsRegister at weblink to obtain connection information.
Planning for future ocean conditions requires historical data to establish more informed ecological baselines. To date, this process is largely limited to instrument records and observations that begin around 1950. Here, we show how marine macroalgae specimens from herbaria repositories may document long-term ecosystem processes and extend historical information records ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Inclusive Workforce: Strategies to Enhance the Future of Public Sector Work - LivestreamWhile a strong body of research has emerged on the ways emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), will disrupt private sector work, less attention has been given to understanding these effects on public sector work and workers. Yet these technologies are increasingly being deployed in the public sector to address ...
Speaker: Carlos Rinaldi, Univ. of FloridaSee weblink for connection instructions
Where: Cost: Free
Experiment with Abseil Flags - LivestreamCommand-line interfaces are a good choice for enabling machine learning experiments. In Python, the argparse package is a common way to implement command-line arguments, but its naive use can lead to at least one anti-pattern that makes code hard to maintain and extend. Google’s Abseil Python package (as used in ...
¡Únase a nosotros para el DÃa de la ingenierÃa 2020 en lÃnea!La sede del Ãrea de la BahÃa de San Francisco de la Sociedad de Ingenieros Profesionales Hispanos y el Exploratorium presentan Conozca a los ingenieros, una conversación con profesionales que trabajan en una variedad de campos de ingenierÃa.Este programa ...
Where: Cost: Free
September LASER Event - LivestreamThe Legacy of Frank PopperWe pay tribute to one of the most influential scholars in both art and science, who died recently. We invited his friend Roger Malina to discuss Popper's work and influence. Born in the Czech Republic in 1918, Frank Popper died in 2020 at the age of ...
Join us for a remarkable discussion about the intersection of the science fiction and science facts behind spacecraft, past, present and future. Two noted space artists and a space historian join forces to explore how the idea of plying the interplanetary and interstellar spaceways came to be, who designed the ...
As our nation prepares for a major election, After Dark takes a month-long look at some key factors that influence personal and collective decision making and the effect these influences have on the democratic process.What happens when our individual voices gather to make collective choices? Tonight, take a closer look ...
Where: Cost: Free
NightSchool: Coast to Coast - LivestreamWhile one of the most biodiverse marine habitats in the world can be found in our own backyard, this virtual NightSchool event will allow you to travel from coast to coast, exploring the fascinating ecosystems that exist where water meets land.See weblink for connections.
The rise of Deepfakes has prompted intense coverage in the press, concern from government officials, and fear among the public. Deepfakes, along with GANs (generative adversarial networks), are a class of “generative†neural networks capable of creating highly realistic synthetic images. The widespread availability of open-source Deepfake tools means anyone ...
Advocates of science and critical thinking often shy away from using marketing to promote their passion. This talk examines several common marketing myths that often prevent us from gaining broad adoption and suggests some well-understood techniques that science advocates and scientific skeptics can use to promote critical thinking in society.Speaker: ...
Join Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) for a conversation with Richard Tejeda, founder of Saved by Nature, a South Bay nonprofit that works to provide all community members with equal access to environmental education and nature. Saved By Nature works to expose, teach, and enlighten people of all backgrounds and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Green Friday: The Sierra Club and Point Reyes National Seashore - LivestreamKen Brower will present “The Sierra Club and Point Reyes National Seashore†about that unique, rich and important national park. Point Reyes is at a pivotal point in its history as the National Park Service considers continued ranching within its borders despite overwhelming opposition from commenters on the draft Environmental ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 09/12/20
Butterflies of the UC Botanical Garden - A Focus on Monarchs - LivestreamJoin our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for an illustrated slideshow of butterflies found in the Garden at this time of year. We'll learn about their life cycle, host plants, and more! Our fun Zoom event is suitable for all ages and includes a live ...
Where: Cost: Free
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, 09/13/20
Learning about Sport Psychology! - LivestreamWant to learn about Sport Psychology? Do you see yourself pursuing a career in Sport Psychology? If so, then this is the event for you!Professor Hayden-Blackburn shares her journey into Sport Psychology, discusses current issues facing athletes and students, and provides details on how to pursue a degree in Sport ...
Where: Cost: Free, but RSVP is required
Monday, 09/14/20
Microscopic evidence for a chiral superconducting order parameter in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 - LivestreamTopological superconductors represent a fundamentally new phase of matter. Similar to topological insulators, the non-trivial topological characteristics of a topological superconductor dictate the presence of a topological edge states composed of Bogoliubov quasiparticles which live inside and span the superconducting gap. The intense interest in these materials stems from the ...
Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. Dr. Elisabeth Bik has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk she will discuss how to identify ...
