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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Thursday, 06/17/21
Everything in motion: How our brains learn to control our bodies - LivestreamThe effortless ease with which we move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control processes involved. This is evident when we try to build machines to perform human control tasks. What sets us apart is our ability to learn new ...
How do plants attract insects or keep them away? What composes the colors of insects or of plants, or how do insects communicate with each other?Specific organic compounds determine whether insects are keen on feeding on plants or avoid them altogether. Some insects have learned to use plant compounds as ...
The livestock industry is responsible for 55% of anthropogenic methane emissions and about 4% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the state. California is committed to reducing methane emissions by 40% by 2030 (Senate Bill 1383) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. In his talk, Dr. Kebreab will discuss the ...
Eric Schroeder will take you on a tour of this amazing island, home to 308 species of birds, 108 of which are endemic. Endemism isn’t limited to individual species but, remarkably, extends to the family level; Madagascar has six endemic avian families: the mesites, the asities, the vangas, the tetras, ...
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After Dark Online: Get Up, Stand Up: Organizing for Environmental Justice in RichmondCurious how long you’ll live? Studies suggest that the most accurate predictor is your zip code. Richmond, California has more asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations than anywhere else in its county. These hospital visits are not equal between demographics: time and again, data shows that Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American ...
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Micromitigation: Fighting Air Pollution with Activated Carbon - LivestreamWe would like to invite new members to join Counter Culture Labs' Micromitigation Meetup alternate Thursdays. We will be discussing ways to deploy existing adsorption technology using commodity granulated activated carbon for the mitigation of air pollution. We welcome those interested in both the environmental justice and technical engineering aspects of ...
Join us for a session dedicated to the unique wildlife and ecosystems of Australia. Tune in for stories about platypuses, flying-foxes, koalas, and wombats, and how these populations are faring while facing climate change, wildfires, and urban development. Also: Find out how wombats produce cube-shaped poop.Wildlife photographer Doug Gimesy doesn’t ...
Join Professor of Entomology at UC Riverside, Chow-Yang Lee for a presentation on the many ways and reasons humans eat insects. He'll cover the beneficial roles of insects, why they make a good choice for food, where and which insects are eaten, how they taste, challenges, economic and ecological benefits ...
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Power for Astronomy Away from Home - LivestreamTraveling to a secluded dark site gives us access to skies that we can only dream about at home. In addition to having to pack up and transport all of our equipment, we have to have a plan to provide the power needed to operate our mounts, cameras, computers, etc. ...
