Fluids and partial melts are critical factors in several plate tectonic processes. In this presentation, I will briefly review the utility of electromagnetic (EM) methods and discuss two research applications: (1) what the distribution of fluids tell us about shallow plate coupling and slip behavior at subduction zones, and (2) ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Science Spooktacular - LivestreamJoin us for a fun, science-packed evening at our Virtual Science Spooktacular! The evening will be filled with exciting science demonstrations, eerie animals, and your very own homemade activities - and it will end with a virtual costume parade! You'll enjoy these highlights: -Display your decorated pumpkins in ...
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Scientists! Join us on Facebook Live for our variety show all about spooky science. Tune in for exciting science demos led by our Galaxy Explorers, learn how to make your own Halloween candy and witches brew and hear scientific ...
Join us as we crawl and slither into the world of bats, spiders, and snakes. Learn about these amazing animals and their importance in our ecosystem. We’ll trek through underground caves to discover not only how they live but thrive in the shadows.See weblink for Zoom button.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Once In A Blue Moon Halloween Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin us for a special, spooky virtual telescope viewing on Halloween night!This Halloween, we are lucky for a sight that only comes around once in a Blue Moon. The last time we had a Full Moon on Halloween was in 1944, and this year is extra special with a rare ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 11/01/20
All about Honeybees - LivestreamHoneybees are regarded as one of the most important insects on our planet. Did you ever wonder about what really goes on inside a hive? Did you know that the colony is a finely tuned machine where every bee has a job and that these jobs are strictly divided by ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, $5 Members
Monday, 11/02/20
Ethical Analysis As a Core Part of CS Research - LivestreamThis talk is meant to foster discussion on ethical analysis of technological research: particularly, why it's important and how CS researchers can be equipped to analyze tech in an increasingly digital society. We will discuss important issues we knew about before CSCS, how they apply to real world examples as ...
Where: Cost: Free
Low Temperature Properties of Glasses - LivestreamA wide variety of amorphous materials exhibit similar behavior in their low temperature thermal properties regardless of their chemical composition. Examples include a linear specific heat and a T2 thermal conductivity. These features have been attributed to tunneling two level systems (TLS). However, the standard TLS model has not been ...
Last fall, a team at Google announced the first-ever demonstration of "quantum computational supremacy"---that is, a clear quantum speedup over a classical computer for some task---using a 53-qubit programmable superconducting chip called Sycamore. In addition to engineering, their accomplishment built on a decade of research in quantum complexity theory. This ...
Dr. Rita Baranwal serves as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to her current role, Dr. Baranwal directed the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative at Idaho National Laboratory.Register at weblink to receive Zoom information.
Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves - LivestreamMotivated by the exciting prospect of a new wealth of information arising from the first observations of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from the same astrophysical phenomena, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has established a search and discovery program for the optical transients associated with LIGO/Virgo events (DESGW). Using the Dark ...
You are invited on a spectacularly illustrated Tourist Tour of the Solar System and the Galaxy with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi.* Tuesdays, 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM, Oct. 13 through Nov. 3 (Four Meeting Days)* Offered through the SF State Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI), but open to anyone over age ...
Much of the water on land is groundwater, which moves through the Earth’s crust at time scales of days near the surface to billions of years kilometers down. I will focus on the shallow and actively circulating groundwater which facilitates many near-surface processes that directly influence water, energy and biogeochemical ...
 During the 2014 - 2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in Central California. These records contradicted the species established life history, where juveniles less than 2.5 meters in total body length (TBL) remained in warmer waters in the Southern California Current. This ...
This talk will describe the dramatic creation of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) and the broad range of efforts, both inside and outside of the Semantic Scholar project, to garner insights into COVID-19 and its treatment based on this growing corpus of research papers.Speaker: Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for ...
My research program is broadly focused on applied aquatic ecology with an emphasis on fishes. In general, my work aims to fill critical data gaps needed by fisheries and water resource managers to implement effective restoration and conservation measures for imperiled species and ecosystems. In particular, my work has focused ...
The Surprising Usefulness of the Single Decision TreeWhen data scientists think about decision trees it is usually in the context of ensembles of hundreds or thousands trees such as in the gradient boosting machine or random forests. In all the excitement about these powerful but complex learning machines most data analysts have forgotten about their extraordinary ancestor, ...
