Decoding Innovation - The Innovation Delusion and the Maintenance Mindset - LivestreamWithout doubt, technological innovations are tremendously important. We also hear about innovation everywhere: books, magazines, white papers, blogs, classrooms, offices, factories, government hearings, and the list goes on. But for all this discussion, do we really have a good understanding of what “innovation†means, and its proper place in society? ...
 Python, pandas, scikit-learn are essential tools for any Data Scientist today. They are user friendly and rely on the popular Python syntax that is easy to read and implement for Data Science work. However, any Data Scientist who has used them knows that the limits they have are real when ...
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Integrating Planning with Nature - LivestreamOver the next century, the San Francisco Bay Area is poised to face three major challenges: adapting to a changing climate, adding infill development to accommodate a growing population and maintaining natural and working lands in the face of development pressure. Despite appearing to be disparate, these problems are deeply ...
Above our life sustaining atmosphere resides an international team of scientists living onboard an orbiting complex we know as the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is the crowning achievement of many nations. It symbolizes a new beginning in the exploration of space. In the early days of space travel, ...
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Thursday, 12/03/20
Climate & Clean Air Zoomposium #2On October 1, we convened 11 elected officials, environmental luminaries and environmental justice leaders to discuss the potential creation of a statewide ballot measure ahead of November 2022 that could generate significant new funding to accelerate the deployment of transportation, infrastructure and other technologies to finish cleaning our air and ...
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Equitable Practices in Distance Learning - LivestreamJoin us for a stimulating discussion with a diverse panel of educators and non-profit leaders about the impact distance learning has on the educational landscape and challenges moving forward.Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Underwater Happy Hour - LivestreamJoin us Atlas Obscura and expert hosts Stephanie Joseph and Ethan Angelica as we explore the underwater world of the New York Aquarium's one-of-a-kind exhibits. During this one hour online experience, you'll get to take a look at some of the aquarium's incredible exhibits, including the new exhibit dedicated to ...
From the ‘noble fir’ to the ‘humble pine’, join us for a virtual tour highlighting the Garden’s remarkable collection of conifer trees with UCBG horticulturist Gideon Dollarhide. We’ll explore via Zoom the unexpected origins, distinguishing features, and unique uses of this special group of plants. Get to know these winter ...
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Challenges & Opportunities in Plastic Recycling & Disposal - LivestreamBased on his decades of experience in the industry, Mike Biddle, Evok Innovations, will share his perspectives on plastic end-of-use options, the plastic pollution crisis, and where he sees opportunities for researchers and entrepreneurs to make an impact.Register at weblink to receive Zoom information.
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December LASER Event - LivestreamIan Hodder (Stanford/ Anthropology) on "What we learn from studying Çatalhöyük, one of the world's earliest societies"Miriam Dym (Visual Artist & Systems Thinker) on her visual art based on infinitely variable and interactive pattern systemsVijaya Nagarajan (Univ. of San Francisco/ Theology and Religious Studies) on "Embedded Mathematics in Southern India's ...
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Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: - LivestreamWe can't typically see black holes, but this month we will be discussing the exciting events that light them up.At the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH), larger than our entire solar system and millions of times more massive than our Sun. Despite the considerable influence ...
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Global Habitat Restoration documentaries and Panel Discussion - LivestreamThree short documentaries about the success of Indigenous people around the world who are restoring their marine habitat. Enjoy three short films, then join filmmaker Gemma Cubero del Barrio and EOS Center's Habitat Restoration expert Dr. Kathy Boyer on December 3 at 6:30 PM PST for a panel discussion of ...
After Dark Online: Celestial - Rising Tides - LivestreamIn December and January, San Francisco Bay will see king tides, extreme tides caused by three colliding factors: the sun and moon aligning - a full moon - while both are at their closest points to Earth. However, the sea level in the Bay is constantly rising, and today’s king ...
Learn about mountain lions and bobcats, our fellow west coast residents, and the habitat they roam - from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s historic use area in the Olympic Peninsula down to the Santa Cruz mountains.Ages 21 +See weblink for connections to Youtube and Facebook to watch.
How can we explain humanity's extraordinary evolutionary success? In this talk, psychologist Jan Engelmann will explain and explore a series of experimental studies comparing humans to one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. He will argue and present evidence that - maybe surprisingly - humans are not individually but are ...
 The NASA transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is providing exquisite photometry to enable searches for new exoplanets and studies of stars and other objects. In this talk I will discuss how we are using these data to conduct asteroseismic studies of stars, by detecting intrinsic ...
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New Year’s Resolutions for the Land - LivestreamThese are the questions that more and more of our neighbors are asking themselves. As we head into the New Year, we at Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) want to help you answer these questions for yourselves and get some great ideas from others in the community! We are bringing ...
Deep Ocean to Outer Space: Plastic Pollution Solutions - LivestreamAre you concerned about the amount of plastic inside us, in our oceans, and in outer space? Join us for our December 4 webinar, where panelists will discuss the impacts of and potential solutions to plastic pollution in the ocean, as well as in outer space. This special event is ...
In this online talk, Nick Kanas (UC San Francisco, Emeritus) will explore the evolution of celestial cartography. People have observed the night sky since antiquity in an effort to predict celestial events and understand their place in the universe. Many cultures organized the stars into heavenly patterns that reflected issues ...
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Saturday, 12/05/20
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 ...
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Monday, 12/07/20
Energy Futures: Smart Grids - LivestreamUniversity of Applied Sciences in Engineering and Management of the Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD) share their research and discuss how we might face the complexity of future supply and demand of energy sources with three focused areas of research.Mauro Carpita and Mokhtar Bozorg at HEIG-VD’s new Reine laboratory test these control ...
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From Wearables to Cordless Kitchen, NFC delivers wireless power and data - LivestreamNear-Field Communication (NFC) is already in billions of devices and is popular for its "tap-to-pay" functionality, but did you know that NFC can also be used for wireless charging? It's true. NFC charging is emerging as a powerful solution for devices with power requirements up to 3W that can appear ...
Perception is limited by the information that the brain can extract from the noisy dynamics of sensory neurons. I will present a new microscope to monitor neural activity across the primary visual cortex and analyses to quantify the information conveyed by large neural ensembles. The data reveal limitations on the ...
Venture capital may not be a common career path for PhD chemistry students, but learning about how venture capital fits into the funding ecosystem is valuable to anyone interested in how innovations are commercialized. This talk will share some of my own journey from an academic career path to the ...
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Tuesday, 12/08/20
COVID-19 Misinformation: Understanding and Seeking Truth during a Pandemic - LivestreamMisinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley faculty will help us understand the nature of misinformation in order to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. They will discuss some of the ...
The carbonate clumped isotope thermometer is a promising proxy for the study of environmental change through time. In principle, this technique can provide a thermodynamically based estimate of carbonate mineral formation temperature and a relatively assumption-free calculation of water 18O/16O ratios. Over the past thirteen years, I have studied the ...
Join us for a special Director's talk to discover what makes UCBG one of the most plant diverse places on the planet. How did the collection come to be, what does it represent, what work is the Garden involved with, and how can you get involved. Come on a virtual ...
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing.Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the science behind ancient breathing ...
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Telomeres: from curiosity driven research to human disease - LivestreamTelomeres are structures made of repetitive DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes. Every time a cell divides, telomeres shorten by a small amount. This shortening is counterbalanced by the enzyme telomerase, which elongates telomeres by adding repetitive DNA to maintain an equilibrium in length. Increased telomere length enables the ...
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A Grand Tour of Remarkable Exoplanets - LivestreamExoplanets are everywhere. Astronomers have discovered more 4,000 of them and today we know that in average each star in our galaxy has 2 planets! Among them, 300 million could be habitable. That’s a lot of worlds! The SETI Institute’s Franck Marchis will give us a tour of the most ...
