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, ...
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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' ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
