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 ...
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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 ...
Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy hosts a conversation on Sustainable Energy Finance featuring Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman of Bank of America, in conversation with Richard Kauffman, Chair of General Capital. Stanford's Sustainable Finance Initiative managing director, Alicia Seiger joins Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy co-director, Aun Majumdar in hosting the ...
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 ...
Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of how to live in symbiosis with nature. Without implementing soft systems that use biodiversity as a building block, designs remain inherently unsustainable.There is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and ...
On the exact 6-month anniversary of San Francisco’s shelter-in-place ordnance, UCSF infectious disease experts look back at what we’ve learned about the strengths and weaknesses of our public health systems and look forward to the next stage of the fight against COVID-19. Panelists will discuss how the pandemic has taken advantage ...
Where: Cost: Free
Decoding the Election: Algorithms, AI, and Your Vote - LivestreamUS presidential elections have been waged on the internet since 1992. Social media was a central battleground in 2016, with the use of big data and algorithms to influence voters. How might advances in AI and voter targeting over the last four years change the 2020 election, and beyond? How ...
Where: Cost: Free
Searching and Characterizing Exoplanets with CHEOPS, AREAL, and PLATO - LivestreamNASA’s Kepler mission and its successor TESS are not the only space telescopes dedicated to finding exoplanets. The European Space Agency (ESA) has embarked on the challenge of finding and characterizing those planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun. We’ll discuss several of these missions in this special ...
Speaker: Karina Edmonds, SAPRegister at weblink for connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
Ocean equity and the future of the Blue Economy - LivestreamThe oceans are rapidly gaining attention as the future driver of global economic growth. As is sometimes wrongly assumed, however, the oceans are not blank spaces and are a place of culture, traditions, and human-natural relationships well beyond commercial use. The 'Blue Economy' is currently the most widely used term ...
Where: Cost: Free
Customer JourneyProblem statement: To deliver a predictive analytics solution for customers to open complaints tickets or not in the next seven days and also identify the customers with high churn propensity without filing a complaint ticket.Use case description: Leverage network performance KPIs and network complaint data as primary inputs to predict ...
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Quantifying Quality of SmartphoneCentric Life ... CANCELEDPatterns of diseases are changing; they relate less and less to sudden infections or crippling accidents, and on a growing scale they develop as slow and debilitating afflictions caused by repetitive harmful behaviors (e.g., poor nutrition). These behaviors relate to different domains - the physical, psychological, social and environmental - ...
With nearly 50% of the stars we see in the sky being part of binary systems, binarity and multiplicity of stars is a common phenomenon in the Milky Way Galaxy. With this percentage measured even higher in star-forming regions, the formation of binaries appears to be part of the star-formation ...
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.Speaker: ...
Air transportation and aircraft design, after it recovers from the current pandemic shock, is likely to be different from what it was just a short time ago. This talk will begin with a summary of potential near-term changes to our air travel experience, and continue with a longer-range view of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Joint Virtual Happy Hour & Movie Discussion “RADIOACTIVE†- LivestreamAWIS East Bay & California ACS invite you to join us for an hour of fun and discussion of the new movie about Marie Curie.Meet STEM professionals & learn more about how to get involved with ACS & AWIS.Register at weblink for connection information
We invited Yi Zeng, one of China's top scholars in A.I. to discuss the state of Artificial Intelligence, in particular three topics that he has been researching: brain-inspired Artificial Intelligence, harmonious Artificial Intelligence principles, philosophy and ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Yi Zeng is a Professor and Deputy Director at Research ...
Where: Cost: Free
Hardcore Natural History: Planting for Monarchs - PostponedJoin us as we speak to Emma Pelton about what we should keep in mind while planting for monarchs, especially around over wintering sites. Emma is a Senior Conservation Biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation where she leads western monarch conservation efforts including developing best management practices for ...
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.How free is your choice? Do you follow the rules or subvert them when you ...
Join us for a new volume of Virtual NightLife exploring the complexities of the relationship between humans and nature and our impact on the environment - good and bad. Featuring BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition winner Jak Wonderly; San Rafael’s WildCare organization & wildlife hospital; muralist Jane Kim of Ink ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wild Mushroom Foraging and Identification - LivestreamFirst 30 minutes will allow participants to share any mushrooms they've found and get expert identification. Main speaker will start at 7:30pm.Speaker: Mikhael SelkSee weblink for link to the talkÂ
Where: Cost: Free
Wildlife and Wildfire: Animal Adaptations for a Dynamic Ecosystem - LivestreamWildfires are an important part of many ecosystems around the world. Fires provide an opportunity for new growth, to return nutrients to the soil, and to create a wholly unique type of habitat. Many species are adapted for these ever-changing systems, and they have developed a wide variety of strategies ...
Speaker: Mikhael Selk, SOMASee weblink for Zoom link.
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 09/18/20
A Modern Look at American Conservation History, From Exclusion to Inclusion - LivestreamThis session explores conservation history and how it fits into the larger context of American history of injustices. Exploring a timeline of events through the 19th and early 20th century, the session will reveal that despite their lofty goals, conservation legislation and early environmental movements were not benevolent and in ...
“Where Jeff Bezos’ Great Grand-Daughter Will Go for Her Honeymoon: The Top Tourist Sights of the Solar Systemâ€Â A Talk and Discussion with Astronomer/Educator Andrew Fraknoi         We will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations†among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava ...
In this presentation I will present some exciting results from a recent imaging campaign that we conducted with our commercial spacecraft R&D partner. Our nano-satellite spacecraft carried a 25mm diameter, LLNL designed, monolithic Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and we used it to capture a large volume of imaging data over the 4 ...
This virtual trivia game will give our community a chance to show San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) Waterbird Intern Lori Liu and Habitats Ecologist Yeimy Cifuentes their ecology know-how. This ]game will be offered in both English and Spanish! The rules are very simple: you just need to beat ...
Millions - 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
Fantasy Flights to the Moon - LivestreamOver the centuries, storytellers have written tales of flights to the Moon. In this graphic presentation, Mr. Garfinkle will discuss these fantasy flights. The presentation will include illustrations from the old books the stories were, in most cases, first published in. The images show the various methods the space travelers ...
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, 09/20/20
Sharing Space with Sea Otters - LivestreamReturning to the California coast from the brink of extinction, sea otters are coming home to a coastline fundamentally altered by the expansion of human activity. Research has largely been focused on the acute threats to sea otter population recovery - oil spills, sharks, and disease - but, recently, more ...
Where: Cost: Free
Solar Sunday Basics: Spots, Prominences, Filaments and More - CanceledJoin us for this on-line event where we'll look in real time for prominences (often thought of as solar flares) and intricate texture within the Sun’s chromosphere (its atmosphere). We'll also provide an overview of how we observe the Sun in different types of light (such as red, H-alpha light), ...
Have you ever wanted to sketch a bird you see in the field? Do you want to learn how to express your love for birds through art? Then join our Virtual Quick Bird Sketches Workshop with artist, teacher, and avian community scientist Yongchun Huang and help raise money to conserve ...
Where: Cost: $20
Solar Sunday: Solar Sunday: Topics and Views of the Month - CanceledJoin this half-hour to see the latest, real-time H-alpha views of our Sun and to join a discussion about news items or more in-depth science discussions related to solar astronomy. These discussion topics will vary month to month.
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 09/21/20
Collective Dynamics of Coexisting Spin Textures: The Antiferromagnetic Switching of FexNbS2 - LivestreamThe theory behind the electrical switching of antiferromagnets is premised on the existenceof a well defined broken symmetry state that can be rotated to encode information. A spin glass is in many ways the antithesis of this state, characterized by an ergodic landscape of nearly degenerate magnetic configurations, choosing to ...
Speaker: Sara Neff, Kilroy Realty CorpRegister at weblink to get connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 09/22/20
Climate Ambition - LivestreamHow are the leaders of some of the nation's biggest environmental organizations responding to a year of race and health crises?Groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 350.org and Greenpeace helped move climate onto the presidential agenda last year, pushing Joe Biden and other Democrats’ stances on bold ...
Get a special look at the teacher behind the scientist during this special interview edition of UCO's Living Room Lecture.   A note from the Science Schmooze:   Lick Observatory needs all of our help. It is a bridge from 19th century science to the 21st century and still doing cutting edge science. You ...
Following 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
Antarctica: Science and Policy on a Frozen Continent - LivestreamAntarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent - an extreme environment that is home to a surprisingly large diversity of species. However, it is a place with no native peoples, no permanent human residents, and no local economy. So why is it important for us to understand the Antarctic? ...
Craig McLean, head of the U.S. Delegation to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Assistant Administrator for NOAA Research, will give an overview of the future of ocean science and technology at NOAA and beyond. As we turn to the ocean for a larger share of our resources, there is ...
Photovoltaic solar electricity has grown much faster than was expected. Continuation of the historical growth rate would enable solar to generate as much electricity as the entire world uses by ~ 2030. California, in particular, has taken a leading role; 19% of electricity generated in 2018 in the state of ...
Where: Cost: Free
University Forum: Community partnerships in the time of COVID - LivestreamPartnerships formed quickly during this evolving health crisis. Salud Para La Gente, the Santa Cruz Community Foundation, Santa Cruz Community Health Clinics, and the UC Santa Cruz Molecular Diagnostic Lab are working jointly to test and treat the most vulnerable in Santa Cruz County. Join us for a conversation with ...
Do you know a 5th-12th grade student who is interested in marine science? Students, their teachers (and parents) are invited to join us for a Q&A session.Parents must give permission for children under 18 to participate. Register to attend here.
Does other intelligent life exist in the universe? Can SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations? Current and future SETI projects, including the new $100-million Breakthrough Prize Foundation "Listen" project, may provide an answer. UC Berkeley astronomer Dan Werthimer will describe the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Art Imitating Life: How Climate Fiction Addresses Climate Change - LivestreamAs ice caps melt and temperatures rise, novels about climate change have moved from the margins to the center of world literature. In this seminar, we will explore the emerging genre of climate fiction (aka "cli-fi") and discuss how the best work in this genre helps us understand our moment ...
Where: Cost: $35
Machine Learning in Healthcare - Opportunities and Challenges - LivestreamJasmine will share her experiences of the machine learning landscape in healthcare space. She will touch upon data structure, application, resources and challenges in this space, followed by Q&A to share her insights with fellow data scientists who are interested to venture into Healthcare World.Agenda:4:50 pm - 5:00 pm Arrival ...
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 ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas - LivestreamFrom the author of The California Field Atlas comes another major work that not only guides readers through the Golden State’s forested lands, but also presents a profoundly original vision of nature in the 21st century. The Forest of California features a stunning wealth of Obi Kaufmann’s signature watercolor illustrations, ...
Where: Cost: Suggested Donation
Thursday, 09/24/20
Future at Work: Design Dialogues for 2030 - LivestreamNow more than ever, the future of work is in question and we are left wondering how will it look not only tomorrow, but also in 10 years and beyond. Vitra and swissnex SF are partnering to explore this question and rethink our own workplace environments. Commencing September 24th, we ...
This event MAY be held online. See the weblink. It currently says to check Facebook, but we were unable to find any mention of this seminar or the entire speaker series on Facebook. No link was provided at the web page.Speaker: Moied Wahid, ExperianThis speaker was originally scheduled for March ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
How Climate Change is Worsening California's Fires and What to do About it - Livestream2020 is already California's worst wildfire season on record, and it's only September. A perfect storm of events conspired to spark the August 2020 California fires - a persistent heat dome, a tropical storm, rare summer lightning storms, and dry conditions.Via Zoom, environmental scientist and climate journalist Dana Nuccitelli will ...
Where: Cost: Free
COVID-19 - Tracing the Evolution of the Virus Genome - LivestreamDavid Haussler, distinguished professor of biomolecular engineering, discusses the role of the open source SARS-CoV-2 genome browser in tracing the evolution of the COVID-19 virus with Russ Corbet-Detig, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Jason Fernandez. Join the conversation to learn how this work impacts each of us.
This could be considered the century of computational mathematics. One consistently encounters it in the most diverse fields, from epidemiology to neuroscience, e-commerce and physics, even internet art, and of course artificial intelligence, as well as in current affairs like domestic politics (Russian interference in US elections) and foreign politics ...
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.“Fake news" has become troublingly well established. But how did we get here? Dig into ...
To mark Sea Otter Awareness Week, we’ve put together a NightSchool curriculum all about your favorite fluffy-furred, tool-using, urchin-eating marine mammal endemic to the Pacific Coast. Get a peek into the Academy’s Mammalogy collections and learn how researchers use scientific collections to study sea otters with collection manager Moe Flannery. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 09/25/20
Walk with Obi: Burned Forests of The Sierra - LivestreamCalifornia has experienced its deadliest wildfire seasons in recent history. Looking across a scorched and blackened environment, we ache to make things better. But are our efforts to restore the land and prevent fires in fact making things worse?Produced by Heyday, this once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with renowned conservationist/artist Obi Kaufmann, ...
Local Naturalist Jeff Caplan is back with a new class to teach us how to ID and connect to birds and their habitat for your next visit to Windy Hill. Whether you’re a regular at the preserve or planning your first visit, Jeff will teach us how to connect with ...
Where: Cost: Free
Planetary Defense: Avoiding a Cosmic Catastrophe - LivestreamOur planet has been continually bombarded by asteroids since its formation, 4.5 billion years ago. While the frequency of large impacts has decreased, many potential Near-Earth Object (NEO) threats remain undiscovered, so if or when they will impact Earth remains unknown.Most of the time, an impacting asteroid will simply burn ...
Did you know that California has a special holiday just to celebrate biodiversity? Let’s celebrate by having a month long bioblitz through INaturalist to help scientists document our local organisms. California is the nation’s most populous state and is home to more diverse species and ecosystems than anywhere in the ...
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Greater Farallones Association, and Shark Stewards invite you to join us for Sharktoberfest™ 2020!Our annual celebration of sharks is going virtual this year! Join us for an online celebration of sharks to raise awareness of the importance of elasmobranchs in our marine ecosystem, coinciding with the arrival of ...
Where: Cost: Free!
Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace - LivestreamCollege of San Mateo's Family Science and Astronomy Festival + Makerspace will be held virtually. Our annual festival brings CSM faculty and community members together to bring the enjoyment of the wonders of science to your family. This year it will be held virtually through Zoom, featuring both live sessions and on-demand recordings. Young scientists-in-the-making can tune ...
Where: Cost: Free
How Climate Change is Worsening California's Fires and What to do About it - Livestream2020 is already California's worst wildfire season on record, and it's only September. A perfect storm of events conspired to spark the August 2020 California fires - a persistent heat dome, a tropical storm, rare summer lightning storms, and dry conditions.Via Zoom, environmental scientist and climate journalist Dana Nuccitelli will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lunar Landing Sites, Past and Future - LivestreamFifty years ago we were in the midst of human exploration of the Moon through the Apollo program. In this presentation, we will look back at each of the Apollo landing sites, why they were chosen, what made these locations so fascinating, and what we learned from them. He will ...
Join us for a special Virtual Telescope Viewing with our resident astronomers. We will go on a guided tour of the Moon for International Observe the Moon Night!International Observe the Moon Night is an annual worldwide public event that encourages observation, appreciation and understanding of our Moon and its connection ...
The Bird Photo Big Day Fall Challenge to Benefit the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO): Photograph bird behavior. We are looking for the best photos that depict bird behavior and activity; all species are in the game.Eating, flycatching, preening, bathing, vocalizing, flying, soaring, and hunting. Even the bird's attitude. ...
Where: Cost: $25
Sunday, 09/27/20
DÃa de la IngenierÃa/Latino Engineering Day 2020 - LivestreamJoin us for Latinx Engineering Day 2020 online!The SF Bay Area Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Exploratorium present Meet the Engineers - a conversation with professionals working in a variety of engineering disciplines.This FREE, bilingual (Spanish/English) program is intended for audiences of all ages, from ...
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!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 09/28/20
Ultrafast Domain Wall Dynamics in Metallic and Insulating Ferrimagnets - LivestreamA promising approach to encode bits of information for next-generation memory and logic is by using solitons, such as chiral domain walls (DW) or topological skyrmions, which can be translated by currentsacross racetrack-like wire devices. One technological and scientific challenge is to stabilize small spin textures and to move them ...
Where: Cost: Free
Macro-Energy Systems: Toward a New Discipline - LivestreamA proposal published in Joule for a new discipline called Macro-Energy Systems (MES) focused on studying the large-scale, systems-level, long-term aspects of sustainable energy planning. The article sparked interest from a wide range of researchers and students and they recently participated in a virtual workshop where they discussed ‘Why do we need ...
Where: Cost: Free
Future Directions for Nuclear Energy - LivestreamFission energy is currently the largest source of zero-carbon electrical power in the United States, but expanded use has stalled due to high construction costs, long schedules, and lack of policies that credit the low carbon emissions from nuclear power. Â This talk will broadly review questions relevant to the future ...
In this talk, Matt will talk about his career trajectories after his PhD and postdoctoral research, transitioning to one of the top management consulting firms, and now working at Gilead Sciences as an Executive Director in the CEO Office, and how his academic background and scientific training still play a ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - LivestreamJoin us for a virtual Astronomy on Tap, streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Konstantin Batygin: “The Planet Nine Hypothesis: An Update†and from Dr. Jackie Faherty: “Mapping our Solar Neighborhoodâ€. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed pub trivia.The event is free and open to all ages. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 09/29/20
SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - RescheduledSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 29 - October 1, 2020 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 ...
Where: OaklandCost: $2,500 after Feb 21
Critical Thinking and the Psychology of Confidence - LivestreamReading the self-help literature could leave you with the impression that the goal in life is to maximize your confidence. On the other hand, research on overconfidence highlights all the ways in which people can get themselves into trouble by being too confident. Expert Don Moore will explore this tension ...
