Sparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird - LivestreamOrnithologists often study breeding birds and as a result the winter ecology and social behavior of migratory birds is relatively under studied. For the past 18 years my students and I have been studying a population of golden-crowned sparrows that winter in the University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum. Each ...
In this talk Stephen will discuss his research on the economic costs of local planning restrictions and NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) attitudes in the context of renewable energy deployment. Using data on the United Kingdom, he estimates how wind and solar projects affect nearby property values. He then studies ...
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists?If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A session with ...
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The Chimpanzee Within Us: Why are Humans the Way We Are? - LivestreamOne way to answer this question is to look to our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. Join Assistant Professor of Psychology and Anthropology Alexandra Rosati of the University of Michigan and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology Zarin Machanda of Tufts University as they examine the world of chimpanzees, including chimpanzee social lives, ecological context, ...
At least 75% of the 3 billion base pairs of the human genome are transcribed into ribonucleic acid, or RNA, with the vast majority of these transcripts not coding for proteins but rather for “non-coding†RNAs. In this presentation, we will take a look at this far-reaching, even ancient, “RNA ...
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Labside Chats: A Conversation with a Scientist, featuring Katie Kobayashi - LivestreamTune in for the Seymour Center's next Labside Chat with Katie Kobayashi, Ph.D. candidate in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at UC Santa Cruz and graduate student researcher with the Fisheries Collaborative Program. Discover the differences between a steelhead and a rainbow trout, and what it means for the ...
Grounds for Science - Representation in Research and The Good Side of Viruses - LivestreamRepresentation in Research: The Case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Heart Disease Navya Pothamsetty, Depts. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Berkeley The rate and prevalence of heart disease is increasing worldwide. Although the link between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and heart disease has been heavily studied in military ...
Dr. Chris Clark will present ongoing research in his lab, starting with work on how hummingbirds make sounds with their tail feathers during courtship displays. Then he will shift to ongoing research he is conducting on why owls have evolved to fly quietly.This talk is recommended for high school and ...
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April LASER EventJanine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology, live from New Zealand) on "Weather as Medium"Jennie Lavine (Emory Univ) on "What is the endgame of the covid pandemic? Will covid become endemic?"Cindy Cohn (Executive Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) on "Imagining A Future with Real Digital Privacy"Register at weblink to receive ...
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After Dark Online: BeesThe buzz is true: This After Dark Online will be the bees’ knees! They may be small, but the impact of bees is mighty, and the work of these flying insects plays key roles in sustaining ecosystems as well as human life. At this After Dark, dive into the rich ...
Mars is hot right now, despite its sub-freezing temperatures. With multiple countries sending spacecraft to the Red Planet this year, we’ll take a look at missions past and future, their breakthroughs and challenges, and what we hope to find when we get there.
Many think that storytelling is only for fiction and frivolity. But storytelling is essential to all forms of communication. This is especially true when communicating science. Storytelling primes the brain to absorb and recall information. Without the story, the science does not stick. In this talk, I will explore the ...
You won’t want to miss this exciting and exclusive opportunity to listen to and chat with a scientist involved with history in the making! St. Louis-based research scientist, Dr. Pablo Sobron, will take us along on his journey to discover life on the Red Planet. Learn about his role as ...
From Data to MapsResponsibilities of a national mapping agencyNational Elevation dataNational Hydrography dataNext-generation mapping productsSpeaker: Michael Tischler, USGSSee weblink for connection linkÂ
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Saturday, 04/10/21
Into the Quantum World! Introduction to Quantum Computing (High school +up) - LivestreamJoin us for an interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing workshop! You will be one of the first high school students to learn about this emerging technology that will change the world.In this workshop, part of the Cambridge Science Festival's 30 Days of Science, we will discover:What can quantum computers do ...
Join 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 ...
Join our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for our monthly Zoom presentation, this month featuring an illustrated slideshow about rare butterflies seen in the UC Botanical Garden. Our fun Zoom event is suitable for all ages.Register at weblink
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Monday, 04/12/21
The Discovery of Gravitational Waves - LivestreamA brief (pre)history of the Discovery of Gravitational WavesMario KalomenopoulosThe detection of gravitational waves some years ago, opened a new window to the Universe, created a media fuss and gave a Nobel Prize for Physics! But what is the story behind this discovery? What about the discovery claims of the ...
I'll discuss some of my lab's recent work on assisting learners with personalized curriculum, and helping those that help learners.Speaker: Emma Brunskill, StanfordSee weblink for Zoom link.
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Imaging flat bands and correlated quantum phases in WS2/WSe2 moire heterostructures - LivestreamVan der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin crystals offer an exciting new platform to design flat electronic bands for novel correlated quantum phases. We systematically study the flat band and associated correlated states in WS2/WSe2 moire heterostructues using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). We reveal that three-dimensional lattice reconstruction plays a key role ...
I will describe the LHCb experiment that studies decays of b quarks (mass of 5 GeV), and charm quarks (1.5 GeV), and show how studying these particles we are sensitive to physics and new particles at very large mass scales of several TeV and up. Specific measurements of CP violation ...
The Precourt Institute for Energy welcomed a new director in January. In this seminar, he will share his vision for the future of the institute.Speaker: Yi Cui, Stanford UniversityRegister at weblink to receive connection information
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Neutrino Surprises - LivestreamAs a graduate student, I had the good fortune of being asked to learn about solar neutrinos, so that I could give an introductory talk on the subject to other graduate students, preparing them for an upcoming colloquium by John Bahcall. This started my life-long interest in neutrinos and created ...
For 130 years, a cylinder made of a platinum-iridium alloy stored near Paris was the official definition of a kilogram, the basic unit of mass. This all changed on May 20, 2019: a kilogram is now defined by a fundamental constant of nature known as the Planck constant h, which ...
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Blood memory: evaluating antibody responses to COVID-19 infection and vaccination - LivestreamResearch into detection methods for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in blood has rapidly accelerated during the pandemic in response to global health needs. In this virtual seminar, Dr. DuBois will discuss how her lab applied existing knowledge from their research on antiviral antibodies to contribute to understanding the human antibody response to ...
Who said learning can't be fun? Not us! In this session, Antonio Linari will provide a hands-on coding lesson with the expert.ai Natural Language API where you will develop his new game "Word Invaders". Similar to the classic arcade game "Space Invaders", you will be shooting targets from your spaceship, ...
Chondritic meteorites are fragments of asteroids that formed in the first few million years of the Solar System history. The similarity between the H isotopic composition of certain chondrites to those of Earth’s water suggests that these chondrites may have been the principal source of Earth’s water. However, the origin ...
Ultracold atoms offer a unique platform to study spin physics. When atoms are arranged in an optical lattice in form of a Mott insulator, the atomic motion is frozen out and the study and control of the spin degree of freedom emerges as a new frontier. Heisenberg spin models, where ...
