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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
