Nobody's Normal - The History, Culture, Stigma and Future of Mental Health - LivestreamThe way people conceptualize mental illness, and how they talk about it, differs around the world. A new book - Nobody's Normal, by George Washington University Professor of Anthropology Roy Richard Grinker - examines the ways in which culture and historical contexts have shaped our beliefs, stigma and social norms ...
D’Anne Duncan will discuss the critical importance and value of centering graduate student advocacy and activism to create institutional change by fostering relationships between graduate students, faculty, and campus administrators. Learn strategies to engage graduate students in leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion values and principles to enact sustainable change ...
For more than 80 years, astrophysicists have collected data that suggests 80% of matter in the universe is 'dark'. These observations have led them to believe that it is made up of an as yet unknown substance.In this talk Sabine Hossenfelder will explore the evidence for and against the existence ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science Stories from Palomarin, Episode 4: Crossroads & ConnectionsPlease join us at noon on Thursday, June 10th for Episode 4 of Science Stories from Palomarin: “Crossroads & Connections.†We’ll be chatting with two more scientists who have spent decades chasing and observing migratory birds with advancing technology and on foot. RSVP here to join us via Zoom and we ...
Calling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude the albino alligator), the night is sure to be wild.Reserve your entry to the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.50 - $20
After Dark Online: Queering the FutureWhat will it take for humanity to face the climate crisis and related challenges of the coming decades? Some futurists and activists imagine near-term and long-range futures that center thriving queer lives, build our resilience for disruptive future forces, and radically transform broken systems to work for all. This program ...
Peek into cave systems that only the most skilled researchers, cave divers, & advanced tech can reach. Learn about bats, blind shrimp, and the fascinating range of life found in caves across the southern United States and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.How do hundreds of thousands of bats exit a cave in ...
A false memory is a memory for something that never happened to you. Memory is easily manipulated and can change without our awareness. In my talk I discuss different ways that false memories are created and how most people do not recognize the difference between an accurate and a false ...
How "future-oriented" are you? In the near term, nearly half of US adults would have trouble finding $400 to cover an emergency expense. Looking further ahead, our collective futures are threatened by global climate change. Meeting such challenges partially depends on the human ability to regard future selves as continuous ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 06/11/21
90 Degrees South: Detecting Invisible Messengers of the Cosmos - LivestreamWe are delighted to announce this fantastic public & alumni event hosted by our department together with the team at IceCube South Pole neutrino Observatory (US & South Pole).Our Head of Particle Physics Professor Daniela Bortoletto will be hosting a live link-up with Josh Veitch-Michaelis and Martin Wolf, IceCube winterovers ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wildlife Tracking: Tracking Basics and a story about Badgers - LivestreamWildlife is all around us in the Bay Area. Diverse species of animals filter through our urban landscapes, crossing the boundaries of our homes, cities and the protected landsthat surround our region. Whether you are visiting your local parks and preserves on the San Francisco Bay, the coast, the Santa ...
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 ...
The crystallin proteins that make up the refractive medium of the vertebrate eye lens must remain soluble and stable for a lifetime. These proteins maintain their short-range order without strong intermolecular interactions even at concentrations above 400 mg/mL in humans and closer to 1000 mg/mL in fish. Structural and biophysical ...
Where: Cost: Free
Slugs and Steins: Electric Planes, Trucks, and Automobiles: The Promise and Challenges of Energy Delivery - LiveatreamIn consumer applications like electric automobiles, and especially in the astonishing new field of electric aircraft propulsion, high power storage density is essential. High reliability and fault tolerance are also critical attributes. In addition, global energy and environmental concerns call for more efficient and reliable energy conversion systems. This talk ...
Venus today is supremely uninhabitable. Yet it may have been the first planet in our solar system with conditions suitable for life! Just as we can learn about the evolution of civilization from archeological sites, Venus - our twin planet - has deep lessons for what makes our home planet ...
Where: Cost: $15
Tuesday, 06/15/21
AIOps for Intelligent Cloud OperationsProduction computing infrastructures, particularly multi-tenant cloud infrastructures, have become increasingly complex and require constant monitoring and maintenance. Cloud service providers are faced with the challenge of both high operation cost and daunting service downtime penalty. Existing monitoring tools continuously collect a large amount of metric and log data but still ...
Where: Cost: Free
Climate Change Panel Discussion - LivestreamPanelists: Fire Forward director Sasha Berleman, resident biologists and preserve managers Michelle Cooper and Gwen Heistand, resource ecologists Henry Inman and Jennifer Potts, and director of conservation science Nils Warnock.
Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground mycorrhizal networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities, and share and exchange resources and support.Simard's extraordinary research and tenacious efforts to raise awareness ...
Where: Cost: Free
Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - LivestreamBuilding a stronger postman: Improving the messenger RNAs (mRNAs)Speaker: Teena Bajaj (Comparative Biochemistry)Cat, Dog, or Higgs Boson? Can we train AI to recognize particles and save the future of fundamental physics? Speaker: Daniel Murnane, Ph.D. (Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)See weblink for Zoom and Facebook links.
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 06/16/21
Breakthroughs - A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication - LivestreamMatrix multiplication is one of the most basic linear algebraic operations outside elementary arithmetic. The study of matrix multiplication algorithms is very well motivated from practice, as the applications are plentiful. Matrix multiplication is also of great mathematical interest. Since Strassen's discovery in 1969 that n-by-n matrices can be multiplied ...
Where: Cost: Free
Data Science Coast to Coast - Two talksOceanic stirring and Mixing of Passive Scalars: A Novel ClosureMiguel Jimenez-Urias, Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins UniversityBlending Machine Learning and Physics to Improve Climate ModelsLaure Zanna, Professor of Mathematics & Atmosphere/Ocean Science, New York UniversitySee weblink for Zoom link.
Where: Cost: Free
June LASER Event - CanceledMany-headed: Co-creating with the CollectiveSpeaker: Heather Barnett, University of the Arts LondonAdditional topics and speakers TBARegister at weblink to receive connection information
With three countries sending missions to Mars in 2021, including the first Mars helicopter, there is new interest in the red planet. What do we know, and what do we hope to learn, about this alien world next-door?In this free, on-line program, Andrew Fraknoi will discuss the discoveries that revealed ...
I will begin by sharing some results from my research on Globular Clusters, following a brief introduction to these fascinating and ancient structures. In particular I will focus on the role that Binary Stars play in cluster dynamics and show some examples of how my students and I have been searching for these ...
