Pumpkin DaysCelebrate the spirit of Autumn all month long during CuriOdyssey’s Pumpkin Days, a harvest celebration for families! This immersive daytime pumpkin experience features Halloween-themed science experiments, animal ambassadors, a pumpkin patch, jack-o-lanterns, and more. Pick out your very own pumpkin to purchase and bring home with you!Grab your costume and ...
This Night Photography 101 presentation will give you everything you need to know to photograph the night sky with your DSLR or mirrorless camera. Aimed both at those who are brand new to nightscape photography and seasoned veterans, topics will include how to photograph the Milky Way, the moon, meteor ...
All about BatsBats are fascinating animals with many special characteristics - they aren’t just a spooky Halloween decoration! Join us in an interactive program which will teach you all about what bats are like and why they are so interesting and important. All ages are welcome - activities will be accessible and ...
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 an illustrated slideshow of butterflies found in the Garden at this time of year. This month we'll learn all about butterfly behavior and then go on a virtual tour of the Garden in search of butterflies. Our ...
Climate change and social justice are two intersecting crises that will define the coming decades on Earth. According to Prof. Kammen, addressing both challenges together makes each campaign more effective, both for meeting and setting new domestic climate and social justice targets, and as part of a coherent pro-justice, pro-poor, ...
Leading up to the recent Tokyo Olympics. athletes Annet Negesa of Uganda and Maximila Imali of Kenya both had their Olympic dreams crushed because of rules set by the track and field global governing body, World Athletics. They are just two - of many - elite women athletes who have been told their natural testosterone ...
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Chemically tuning the exotic ground states of pyrochlore magnets - LivestreamPyrochlore lattices, which are found in two important classes of materials -- the A2B2X7 pyrochlore family and the AB2X4 spinel family -- are the quintessential 3-dimensional frustrated lattice architecture. Pyrochlore magnets are renowned for their exotic magnetic ground states, ranging from classical spin ice to quantum spin liquid. While historically ...
A Journey from String Theory to Oceanography - LivestreamWhile string theory and physical oceanography are quite distant branches of physics, both describe vast, unintuitive structures that (may) govern the conditions of our daily lives. I have recently transitioned from a Ph.D. studying the geometry of extra dimentions in string theory to a postdoctoral position studying the ocean's role ...
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Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development - LivestreamSiobhan Brady received her PhD at the University of Toronto in 2005, and was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University from 2005 - 2008. In 2009 she began an Assistant Professor position and became Professor in 2020 at the University of California, ...
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The molecules and materials for tomorrow, todayThe challenges we face in the 21st century require, in many cases, accelerated molecular and materials discovery. In this talk, I will discuss the research in my group towards the realization of "self-driving laboratories", which have the goal of accelerating the long materials discovery timescales by an order of magnitude. ...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., has been one of the most visible commentators on the public health crisis. His insights and writings have helped shaped some of the country's understanding of the public health impacts of the pandemic since early in 2020. As the country ...
Study on Topological Spin Textures utilizing Full-Field Soft X-ray Microscopy - LivestreamMagnetic skyrmions are topologically stable spin textures, which have attracted massive interests not only due to their fascinating features for understanding the fundamental physics of nanospin behavior but also their potentials in a wealth of technological applications for high efficient storage/memory and computing devices [1]. In the research of skyrmions, ...
Local Decisions, Regional Impacts: Informing Sea-Level Rise Adaptation - LivestreamBy the year 2100, the sea level around the Bay Area is projected to rise by nearly seven feet. New research from the Stanford Natural Capital Project illustrates that traditional methods to keep flooding out of a community, such as sea wall construction, can actually do more harm than good ...
One of the greatest discoveries of the last century is that our universe is evolving and expanding, born almost 14 billion years ago in a fiery event we call the Big Bang. But just what happened in the early life of the cosmos? Here we will step through the major ...
Where: Cost: $15
Lessons from Concurrent Pandemics of COVID-19 and HIV/AIDSJoin us for an important intergenerational conversation with LGBTQ Asians and Pacific Islanders and their allies. Our panelists will share QTAPI stories and experiences of the dual pandemics of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19; their histories as Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States; their past and current roles in community organizing ...
Numerical simulation is an essential tool for many applications involving subsurface flow and transport, yet often suffers from computational challenges due to the multi-physics nature, highly non-linear governing equations, inherent parameter uncertainties, and the need for high spatial resolutions to capture multi-scale heterogeneity. We developed CCSNet, a general-purpose deep-learning modeling ...
How can technology professionals assess whether their technology supports diverse users? And if they find problems, how can they fix them? Although there are empirical processes that can be used to find “inclusivity bugs†piecemeal, what is also needed is a systematic method to assess technology’s support for diverse populations. ...
Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts, natural product synthesis, and agricultural crop engineering. The plant cell wall is a barrier that limits the ease and throughput with which exogenous biomolecules can be delivered to plants.See weblink for Zoom information
As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to describe our surroundings, and this lack of understanding limits our ability as citizens to contribute to political decisions about the landscape ...
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October LASER Event - LivestreamDavid Kirby (Cal Poly) on "The Nature of Diegetic Prototypes and their Social Impact"Jessie Liu (UC Berkeley), David Moses (UCSF) & Sean Metzger (UCSF) on Speech NeuroprosthesisAlysson Muotri (Director of the Stem Cell Program Institute for Genomic Medicine, UC San Diego) on "Applications of human brain organoids"Register at weblink to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Climate-change solutions when there is no more time - LivestreamOur Speaker, Chris Field, is a Director at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. His research focuses on climate change, especially solutions that improve lives now, decrease the amount of future warming, and support vibrant economies. Recent projects emphasize equitable decarbonization paths, including natural climate solutions, as well as decreasing ...
Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs our brains must do. Our hearing is always on. We can't close our ears the way we close our eyes. And yet we are quite adept at ignoring sounds that are unimportant. Nina Kraus explores what is going on in ...
SETI Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Exoplanets and Dark Matter - LivestreamJessie Christiansen is an astrophysicist who searches for, characterizes and catalogues planets orbiting other stars - exoplanets. She’s currently working on TESS to find the nearest planetary systems to Earth that may be studied with the next generation of ground- and space-based telescopes. Sophia Gad-Nasr is working on her PhD ...
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Bird-friendly ChocolateDo you love chocolate and are also passionate about bird conservation? Join Sharol-Nelson Embry at this virtual event to learn about bird friendly chocolate harvesting practices such as agroforestry, wild harvesting, and shade growing and how they connect to some cool bird species. In addition, Sharol is creating special bird-themed ...
Where: Cost: $10 Minimum Donation
After Dark: ExtraterrestrialsThe truth is out there! Observation, science, and a healthy dose of skepticism can show it to us. In June of 2021, the Pentagon released a report confirming that there have been objects of unknown origins observed flying above the Earth. While there is no evidence to support alien technology, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightlifeCalling 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.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
AI 2041How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? Leading AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and novelist Chen Qiufan joined forces to create ten science fiction stories that show how AI might shape our lives.All set in 2041, the stories span the globe, including:In San Francisco, a new industry, “job ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
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 ...
Fire is essential to forest life - hear from experts tending fires and ensuring a more resilient California.See weblink for links to YouTube and Facebook to watch.
Sunset ScienceEnjoy a warm summer evening of activities and stargazing on Chabot’s stunning Observation Deck! Learn about stellar concepts and preview our new offerings with special demonstrations, hands-on challenges and more. When the Sun goes down, the stars come out for exploring the cosmos through historic telescopes.
Where: OaklandCost: $15 Adults, $5 Youth, Members Free
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 10/11/21
Data-driven and data-assisted modeling for applications in fluid dynamics and geophysics - LivestreamAdvances in the field of Machine Learning (ML) have the potential to be important in developing tools for scientific disciplines such as climate modeling, weather prediction, and computational fluid dynamics. In this talk I will consider some aspects of purely data-driven models as well as techniques to construct hybrid models that combine a physics-based numerical ...
Over the last 20 years, searches for dark matter above the proton mass have advanced significantly across direct and indirect searches, but sub-GeV dark matter has until recently been comparatively unprobed. In this talk, I will discuss the state of the Sub-GeV direct detection field, and prospects for applying quantum ...
Inexpensive, long-duration energy storage is necessary to enable the widespread deployment of renewable energy sources like wind and solar, but existing technologies fall short. To meet this need, Antora Energy is combining high-temperature thermal energy storage with novel, high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy conversion. When excess electricity is available - for example, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Earth Science Week - The Incredible Sun - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM) through a live virtual after school program. These 75 mins. sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members for all five sessions
From Frustrated Quantum Magnetism to Public Policy Research - LivestreamIn the first part of this talk, Dr. Parker will give a quick overview of how physicists think about phase transitions, and will discuss an example from his own research, in which he ran large-scale computer simulations of a quantum magnetic marerial known as YbMgGaO_4. In the second part, he'll ...
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The genetic basis of complex traits: from understanding to engineering - LivestreamHunter Fraser studies the evolution of complex traits by developing new experimental and computational methods.His work brings together quantitative genetics, genomics, epigenetics, and evolutionary biology to achieve a deeper understanding of how genetic variation shapes the phenotypic diversity of life. His main focus is on the evolution of gene expression, ...
Standard treatment for obesity, based on a law of physics, assumes that all calories are alike, and that to lose weight one must simply “eat less and move more.†However, this prescription rarely works over the long term. According to the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of obesity, the metabolic condition of fat ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded in 1988 to provide scientific background for the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, it has released six major assessment reports. The Sixth Assessment, released in August 2021, prompted the UN Secretary-General to call it a “code red ...
Where: Cost: Free
Fall Birds of the East Bay Hills - LivestreamThe Bay Area is rich in varying habitats that are home to many bird species. Some birds are here throughout the year, but fall marks the return of a number of species that had gone elsewhere to breed. We’ll talk about many bird species that can be found in our ...
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Fluctuating superconductivity on a partially flat band - LivestreamPhase coherence is considered to govern the superconducting Tc in underdoped cuprates. However on the overdoped side, magnetic and optical evidence of diminishing zero temperature superfluid density are mounting in La2CuO4 cuprates. We combine magnetic and thermodynamic probes with angle-resolved photoemission, and show evidence of superconducting fluctuation substantially above Tc ...
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The New Decade of Venus ExplorationThe coming decade will see a veritable armada of spacecraft arrive to explore mysteries that have only become more compelling since the early days of the planet’s exploration. The Venus science community has a huge laundry list of questions about the second planet that has only grown since Magellan, the ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Earth Science Week - Stars and Galaxies - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM) through a live virtual after school program. These 75 mins. sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members for all five sessions
Wildfire smoke is rapidly becoming a regional air pollution issue threatening decades of air quality improvement. Meanwhile, the health impacts from exposure to wildfire smoke are increasingly understood to be widespread but to exhibit different patterns of exposure than other pollution sources in the United States. In light of these ...
On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism - LivestreamThe 1D Ising model is a classical model of great historical significance for both classical and quantum statistical mechanics. Developments in the understanding of the Ising model have fundamentally impacted our knowledge of thermodynamics, critical phenomena, magnetism, conformal quantum field theories, particle physics, and fractionalization in many-body systems. Despite the ...
Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Patten, Director and Professor, Biomechanics, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Neuroscience, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UC DavisRegister at weblink to receive Zoom information
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Earth Science Week - Forces of Water - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM) through a live virtual after school program. These 75 mins. sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members for all five sessions
Mass Mobility, Fleets, and Innovation: Panel Discussion - LivestreamPanelists:Doug Davenport, Prospect Silicon ValleyBhavin Khatri, San Francisco Municipal Transportation AGencyDavid Rubin, CruiseKristin Slanina, ParkMyFleet and Charge Across America Electric Vehicle RaceÂ
Where: Cost: Free
Animals Asia: Heroes for Moon Bears and More - LivestreamOur guest Jill Robinson, founder of Animals Asia, has taken the lead on rescuing over 600 beautiful moon bears from the bear bile industry. This amazing organization gives these bears a beautiful life in natural enclosures in the company of their fellow bears in their China and Vietnam sanctuaries. Her ...
What are the impacts of wildfires and air pollution on our health? Join the San Mateo Public Library for a virtual talk with Stanford professor and researcher Dr. Mary Prunicki, who will discuss her research on pollution exposure, the increasing burden of climate change, and risk reduction among fire prone ...
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever.In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility - the ever-constant search for resources, stability and opportunity. Driven by global events from conflicts, famine, repression and changing climates ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free for members
Thursday, 10/14/21
The Water-Energy Nexus: Driving Equitable Climate Solutions - LivestreamThere is a strong link, often referred to as the water-energy nexus, between water, energy, and the climate crisis. Reducing energy demand - and thereby reliance on fossil fuels - is necessary to drive the clean energy transition forward. Better water management can play a key role in driving down ...
Where: Cost: Free
Compound Climate Risk Threatens Aquatic Food System Benefits - LivestreamAquatic foods from marine and freshwater systems are critical to the nutrition, health, livelihoods, economies and culture of billions of people worldwide - but climate-related hazards may compromise their ability to provide these benefits. This talk presents estimates of national-level aquatic food system climate risk based on an integrative food ...
Can Data Scientists and General Analysts be Happy with the Same Software?Many analysts lack the time or inclination to become good programmers. They prefer software that is easy to use. Data scientists emphasize analytic depth and reproducibility in their tools. With such different perspectives, can they both be happy with ...
Earth Science Week - Remarkable Rocks - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM) through a live virtual after school program. These 75 mins. sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members for all five sessions
Disaster Preparedness for People with Diabetes - LivestreamManaging diabetes can be even harder when you are dealing with a natural disaster, such as a major storm, loss of electricity, or maybe a possible evacuation from your home. Building a “diabetes kit†now can save a lot of worry and time if - or when - a disaster ...
Where: Cost: Free
Efforts to Protect Breeding Burrowing Owls in our Region - LivestreamWestern Burrowing Owls are a native species to California and long-time residents of our region.But we are in danger of losing them as a breeding species in the South San Francisco Bay Area. Research that Dr. Lynne Trulio and her colleagues conducted on wintering Burrowing Owls, using field and cutting-edge ...
Snakes, spiders, and scorpions, oh my! We share a planet with all sorts of creepy-crawlies and fantastic beasts. They can inspire curiosity, wonder, and a healthy dose of fear. Encounter some of the strangest creatures that have been discovered and learn about the legends that some of them have inspired ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Catch a sneak peek of the new BigPicture exhibit, where life is wild, beauty is bizarre and animals inspire us to be more human. Full event details to come!
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
Bay Area Bats - LivestreamWe’ll be joined by Corky Quirk from Northern California Bats, an organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of bats throughout Northern California. Join us as we learn about these animals and their importance as insect control and dispel fears and myths that lead to the death of roosts ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Stargazing - The Solar SystemThis virtual stargazing will feature a tour of the bright solar-system objects, providing live views of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, and Neptune through telescopes! Want to have a closer look at these amazing objects that you can easily spot in the autumn sky? Come join our online telescope viewings!This ...
Oceanic transform faults are a significant component of the global plate boundary system and are well known for generating fewer and smaller earthquakes than expected. Detailed studies at a handful of sites support the hypothesis that an abundance of creeping segments is responsible for most of the observed deficiency of ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Getting Ready for Lucy's LaunchOn October 16, NASA's Lucy mission will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the SETI Institute's Franck Marchis on the scene. The Lucy mission is the first space mission to explore the small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Join Franck and a group of citizen astronomers ...
Where: Cost: Free
Laser-Based Phase Contrast in Transmission Electron MicroscopyWe have recently shown that laser-based, quantum-coherent manipulation of free electrons can help overcome long-standing problems in electron microscopy, specifically cryo-EM. Our Laser Phase Plate has demonstrated a near-ideal contrast transfer function, but the current implementation still suffers from an increased amount of chromatic and spherical aberration that ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Earth Science Week - Fossil Clues - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM) through a live virtual after school program. These 75 mins. sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members for all five sessions
Earth Science Week - The Life and Times of Dinosaurs - LivestreamCelebrate Earth Science Week with the HSU Natural History Museum (NHM). These sessions are geared towards children 8-12 years old. The weekly program includes a student packet including copies of materials and samples to use during the program and for independent activities at home. For more information or to enroll online go ...
Where: Cost: Free
Past, Present, and Future Indigenous Land Stewardship in the Tolay Valley - LivestreamThe focus of Dr. Peter Nelson’s talk will be on his work with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and Sonoma County Regional Parks Department to reconstruct the precontact environment and gather evidence for Indigenous stewardship practices employed in this area, primarily at Tolay Lake Regional Park. He will share ...
Where: Cost: $15 General, $10 Members
Agar Art - Painting with Bacteria!Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.In this hands-on workshop, participants will be able to create their own works on provided Petri plates. Feel free to bring some designs for inspiration - simple line drawings that fit ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15
Observe the Moon NightThe Foothill College Astronomy Department and the Peninsula Astronomical Society will be hosting a contact-less observing event on October 16, 2021, as part of NASA's International Observe the Moon night. We will livestream the view from Foothill Observatory, including discussion with NASA solar system experts, and we will have telescopes with cameras ...
Our Local Group of galaxies is composed of our Milky Way; its twin galaxy, Andromeda (M31); and the dozens of small “satellite†galaxies orbiting around each of them. Satellite galaxies are thought to be the building blocks of more massive galaxies, therefore tracking the orbital histories of satellite galaxies in ...
Globular star clusters are among the oldest objects in the Universe. Accordingly, they can provide valuable information about the early evolution of the galaxies they inhabit. This presentation, focusing on the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, will show what globular clusters reveal about their host galaxies' chemical composition. We will ...
Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!International Observe the Moon Night is an annual worldwide public event that encourages observation, appreciation, and understanding of our Moon and its connection to NASA planetary science and exploration.The annual event connects scientists, educators ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 10/17/21
The Pumpkin: Botany and Crafts - LivestreamPick up a special "Pumpkin Kit" from the Garden, and join us from your home online for a fun-filled morning celebrating everyone's favorite October plant--the pumpkin! We'll explore the botanical side of this lovely orange fruit, learn about its life cycle, flowers and pollinators, even how it's related to ...
Where: Cost: $12 General, $10 members
You Are What You Eat: Investigating Diet and Vulnerability in Bottlenose Dolphins - LivestreamHow do we study what cetaceans eat, and why should we care in the first place? Cetaceans increasingly face disturbances - including harmful algal blooms, commercial and recreational fishing, and climate change - that disrupt their access to prey, with consequences ranging from changes in prey choice and feeding behaviors ...
Where: Cost: $10 General per household, Free for members
Late Afternoon Hike at Mindego HillOn this 5-mile excursion, you’ll hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill and back. We advise that you bring snacks to enjoy at the top of the hill for 10-15 minutes before heading back to the parking lot.See weblink for additional ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Monday, 10/18/21
Dynamics of Topological Defects in Active Nematics - LivestreamTopological defects-singular tears of the order parameter field that cannot be removed by smooth deformations-are often formed in quenches from the disordered state or when order is frustrated by curvature, external fields or boundary conditions. In equilibrium two-dimensional systems, such as thin films of superfluids, crystals, liquid crystals and magnets, ...
Join us for a conversation with Roddy Lindsay, a 2007 graduate of the Symbolic Systems Program. Roddy was a software engineer at Facebook from 2007 to 2013, and more recently has co-founded Hustle (where he currently serves as Chief Evangelist) and Envelop (for which he currently serves on the Board). ...
Where: Cost: Free
Pursuing Blue Skies for the Golden State - LivestreamThe California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the state agency primarily responsible for protecting the public health of all Californians against harmful air quality that results from both climate change and human-caused air pollution. As a result of innovative leadership and the policies and strategies that it has implemented since ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
Destination Health: The Private Sector’s Role in Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic - LivestreamAs the devastating effects and tragic loss of life from COVID-19 persist 18 months after the global pandemic began, the world is desperate to end this public health crisis.As businesses across industries are rolling out varying degrees of vaccine, testing, and masking mandates, President Biden announced the requirement for federal ...
As California continues to experience the impacts of climate change, utilities are taking action to build a more climate-resilient energy network. Utilities in California face an increasing amount of risk due to extreme weather events driven by climate change including heat waves, more frequent and extreme storms and wildfires, drought, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Challenges in phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 - LivestreamSpeaker: Dr. Julia Palacios is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Sciences at Stanford University. Professor Palacios completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington followed by a joint postdoc at Harvard University and Brown University before joining Stanford. In her research, Professor ...
Can a solid-state quantum simulator help us understand materials? - LivestreamWhen Feynman suggested quantum-based computers in the '80s, he wasn't primarily thinking of the general-purpose quantum computers intensely pursued today at Berkeley and worldwide. Rather he imagined using quantum mechanical objects to simulate aspects of our quantum world. Effective model Hamiltonians are central to condensed matter physics, as they can capture ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 10/19/21
Tech for Humanity ChangemakersMeet the first-ever CHM Patrick J. McGovern Tech For Humanity Prize Changemakers and learn about what they’re doing to make the world a better place.Growing up in Ghana, Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu became increasingly aware of gaps in the health system due to limited technology for early diagnosis and treatment, and ...
The hardest part about breaking into the data science industry is landing your first gig. This session is an opportunity to hear from someone on the other side about what attracts them to prospective hires, how to market yourself before and during the hiring process, and how to make the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures - LivestreamDelafossite oxides are layered compounds, which can be thought of as natural heterostructures oftriangularly coordinated metallic sheetsand transition metal oxide blocks. A fascinating range of electronic statescan be found both in theirbulk andon their surfaces, includingextremely high conductivity1,2in PtCoO2and PdCoO2, maximal Rashba-like spin-splitting3on the transition metal terminated surfaces of PtCoO2, ...
Speaker: Andrea Dutton, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - LivestreamCSI: Supernova, the Death of a StarStars live for millions upon millions of years in a (for the most part) calm and steady fashion. Yet, when a star’s life ends, it escalates to outshining its entire galaxy (a collection of trillions of stars) by many thousands of times in a ...
Chef Zachary Mazi presents an organic, foraged, local, & imaginative experience in both global cuisine & dining. Igniting others with his contagious zest for life, he creates lasting inspiration with delicious recipes and lectures. Zachary is classically trained in the art of French cuisine, with ventures into the ...
In this seminar, Heather Ludemann and Mark Michelin (director at CEA Consulting) will lead a discussion with MBARI scientists, staff at Monterey Bay Aquarium, and other participants about the potential for ocean-climate solutions, including offshore wind, blue carbon, improved fisheries and aquaculture management, and others, as well as strategies for ...
Where: Cost: Free
October LASER event - LivestreamHeather Barnett (University of the Arts London) on "Many-headed: Co-creating with the Collective"Clare Stanton (Harvard Law School) on "Linkrot and Content Drift: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Silent speech that converts lip movements into text can mitigate many challenges of speech and traditional input methods. Yet, existing silent speech recognition models are error-prone or use impractical extremal devices or implants. In this talk, I will present the findings of three projects involving silent speech input. First, a ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Cost of Convenience: Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Pollution Crisis - LivestreamDuring the October webinar, we will be focusing on the connection between the plastic pollution crisis and environmental injustice around the world, where economically disadvantaged nations take in a larger share of the world’s trash, and manufacturing chemicals threaten predominantly Black and low-income communities.We will be joined by journalist Erica ...
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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Ocean Conservation, Fisheries, and Poverty Alleviation - LivestreamSmall-scale nearshore fisheries provide an important source of protein and sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. Yet, for a number of reasons, small-scale fisheries pose particular challenges for marine conservation efforts. Past and current efforts at reforming fishery management have focused narrowly on the fishing sector and on fishing households. However, ...
Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, as well as the author of the forthcoming book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think). Saujani has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for ...
Fantastical though they may seem, black holes are real, not just science fiction or ideas from the imaginations of theorists. Scientists are now able to study black holes, in detail, throughout our Universe.Researchers are gaining different, complementary views of black holes using multiple techniques, but we are still a long ...
As humanity expands its presence on the Moon and Mars, we venture outside of our Earth’s protective magnetic bubble and into the dynamic space weather system driven by the sun. On Earth, we feel the effects of space weather during extreme solar storms, which can produce intense x-ray flares and ...
A bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer that discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that got shot. The science of astronomy is filled with true stories (and tall tales) of the adventures and misadventures that accompany our exploration of the universe. Dr. Levesque will take us on a behind-the-scenes tour of life as a professional astronomer. We'll learn about some of the most powerful telescopes in the world and their cutting-edge discoveries, meet the people behind the science, and explore the crucial role ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #121: Jazz, Psychological Mythbusting, & a Rotten City Join us as we think and drink together for our last show of 2021. Thanks to all who have come out and supported us through this especially weird time in event planning. Special thanks to the SF Public Library for supplementing each of our shows this year with library swag ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 Advance, $15 at door
Thursday, 10/21/21
When and How Will Nature Provide Urban Solutions? - LivestreamCities must manage multiple, interacting challenges such as climate change, air and water pollution, flooding, heatwaves, affordable housing, public health, and socio-economic and environmental inequities. Nature-based solutions can help cities address many of these challenges. By reducing the risk of flooding, attenuating water, noise, and air pollution, mitigating the urban ...
Where: Cost: Free
Youth Rising: The Next Generation of Climate Leaders and How We Can Help - LivestreamJoin Josephine Becker, climate justice activist and organizer; Kevin J. Patel, Founder and Executive Director of OneUpAction; and Leslie Davenport, climate psychology consultant and psychotherapist for a conversation about how young activists are stepping up to tackle the climate emergency, what would-be activists can meaningfully do in their own lives, ...
Where: Cost: Donations encouraged
Changing climates, changing landscapes: What does this mean for the future? - LivestreamIn this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we’ll speak to scientists who ask one of the most pressing questions in climate change: How does climate change alter landscapes and what are the downstream effects of these changes? First, we’ll hear from Dr. Erica Siirila-Woodburn, a Research Scientist at Berkeley Lab who ...
Where: Cost: Free
Water for a Growing Bay Area - LivestreamThe Bay Area is projected to add 2.1 million people, 1.1 million jobs and 660,000 homes by the year 2040. Subsequently, the region’s water use could increase 50% by 2070, which would be catastrophic for the environment and the affordability of water bills. A new study, jointly produced by SPUR ...
The COVID pandemic has necessitated unprecedented change and thus stress at all levels - individual, societal, and global. Themes of grief have never been as relevant as they are now. With the COVID pandemic and resultant innumerable profound losses, our world is grieving collectively. Healthcare systems are the stage upon ...
Unearth the expired ideas, outdated facts, and incorrect assumptions that litter the canon of scientific knowledge. Inspired by our annual Cemetery of Dead Science, tonight's program will dig deeper into scientific theories that have been overturned by new discoveries and correction of bias, some of which still haunt us today!Â
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
From Wayback to Way Forward: The Internet Archive turns 25 - LivestreamThis year, the Internet Archive is turning 25.On October 21, come on a virtual journey with us through time. First, we'll go way back with Brewster Kahle to the early days of the Internet, when computers promised to put the published works of humankind at our fingertips.Then author Cory Doctorow ...
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.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
Drawing on my over 50 years in the woods hunting mushrooms and over 40 years on the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Toxicology committee, I describe the common identification mistakes that people have made when out mushrooming. This talk features the most dangerous mushrooms and what happens when you eat ...
Where: Cost: Free
Avenging the Dinosaurs: Radar Observations for Planetary Defense - LivestreamOn a nearly daily basis, Earth is impacted by dust, meteoroids, and even small asteroids, which typically burn up in the atmosphere producing what we call “shooting starsâ€. We also know that Earth has been hit by much larger and more devastating objects. In fact, a large impact is thought ...
Once thriving in the East Bay, the Burrowing Owl has been forced to move inland and the consequences for many have been fatal. Conducting long-term research on these colonies, Shawn Smallwood and Doug Bell have observed the rate of mortality for Burrowing Owls living within the Altamont Pass Wind Resource ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
In its 11th year, SkeptiCal 2021 brings stimulating and entertaining speakers to a nation-wide audience of science fans, critical thinkers, and, in the words of Carl Sagan, questioners of “extraordinary claimsâ€. Join us for two stimulating days of speakers, interviews, and discussions. And - test your wits on a round ...
The event will be held in the meadow at Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserve and will feature a live bat presentation by Northern California Bats and a live owl and opossum presentation by the Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation Center.Join Saved By Nature for a family-friendly evening outdoors with ...
Where: Morgan HillCost: $5 - $20 advance, $30 at gate
Exotic Solar Systems on the Path to Earth-Like Planets - LivestreamHumans have long wondered about other planetary systems and if potentially Earth-like worlds exist around other stars. NASA's Kepler mission was designed to answer these questions. The Kepler telescope operated from[masked] and discovered over 3,000 confirmed exoplanets and several thousand additional candidates. We now know that while most planetary systems ...
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 10/24/21
SkeptiCal 2021 - LivestreamIn its 11th year, SkeptiCal 2021 brings stimulating and entertaining speakers to a nation-wide audience of science fans, critical thinkers, and, in the words of Carl Sagan, questioners of “extraordinary claimsâ€. Join us for two stimulating days of speakers, interviews, and discussions. Test your wits on a round of Skeptical ...
Where: Cost: $20
Morning Hike at La Honda Open Space Preserve - CanceledExperience the sweeping views and gorgeous rolling grasslands of Lower La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve. This moderately strenuous 6-mile hike takes you through POST-protected land, featuring a still-active cattle operation! The meandering trail provides nice views of the surrounding ridgelines and in January, after some rain, the hills will ...
The widespread use of machine learning techniques in social settings remains controversial, with a variety of recent examples in education, healthcare, and criminal justice. In response, the machine learning community has produced a wide range of fairness measures that theoretically address different forms of algorithmic bias, but applying these measures ...
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) reservoirs are known to be multiscale in nature, with pores ranging from ~2 nm up to millimeters in propped hydraulic fractures. This wide pore-size distribution poses a challenge because the continuum fluid assumptions are not applicable below ~10 nm. Although molecular simulations are appropriate at ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Hubble Tension: Is There Evidence for New Physics? - LivestreamAn important and unresolved question in cosmology today is whether there is new physics that is missing from our current standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model. Recent measurements of the Hubble constant, Ho -- based on Cepheids and Type Ia supernovae (SNe) -- are discrepant at the 4-5-sigma level with ...
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. This particle plays a unique role in fundamental physics. It gives all of the known elementary particles, including itself, their masses. While ...
Where: Cost: Free
A tale of tails: the genetic basis of morphological and behavioral adaptation - LivestreamHopi E. Hoekstra is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and the Molecular & Cellular Biology at Harvard University. She is the Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research ...
As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of trillions of dollars, are lining-up for the UN Race to Zero. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Testing Einstein with Lasers and the Moon - LivestreamLunar Laser Ranging has enabled comprehensive, precision tests of gravity for over 50 years. I will discuss my work on the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), which achieves millimeter-precision measurements of the lunar orbit. Such high-precision measurements provide exquisite constraints on gravitational physics including the strong equivalence principle, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Many-body physics with arrays of individual atoms and optical dipoles - LivestreamThis talk will present our effort to control and use the dipole-dipole interactions between cold atoms in order to implement spin Hamiltonians useful for quantum simulation of condensed matter or quantum optics situations. We trap individual atoms in arrays of optical tweezers separated by a few micrometers. We create almost ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lightning-fast SQL Queries + Transactions directly on the Data Lake - LivestreamData Lakes have been built with a desire to democratize data - to allow more and more people, tools, and applications to make use of more and more data. A key capability needed to enable more users is the ability to hide the complexity of underlying data structures and physical ...
Humans have grown food for over 10,000 years. As Earth's climate changes and the global population seeks fresh and healthy nutrition, advances in robotics gradually transform agriculture: robots assist in precise irrigation, drones fine-tune fertilizer delivery, and mobile robots optimize plant breeding. Robots even help combine research and art. In ...
The Point San Pedro - Devil’s Slide area of the San Mateo coast preserves a rich 100 m.y. history of plate tectonic interactions that affected the California margin. The coastal area is well-preserved, accessible, and a featured hike in GeolSci 5 - Living on the Edge. The ca. 105 Ma ...
First Results - and afterthoughts - from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment - LivestreamThe 2004 Brookhaven measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic anomaly was more than 3 standard deviations greater than the recently updated Standard Model theory. Is this a sign of new physics? To answer this, we built an even more sensitive experiment at Fermilab and have completed four data-taking campaigns. I ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification - LivestreamMarine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification by T. A. Jefferson, M. A. Webber, and R. L. Pitman, with illustrations by Uko Gorter, is a complete guide to all of the marine mammals. It was first published in 2008 with a second edition in 2015, and ...
The cement & concrete industries provide a material fundamental to civilization. Cement is ubiquitous, extremely low-cost, robust, easy to use, and embedded in regulations worldwide which are meant to protect public safety. At the same time, the production of cement is responsible for around 7% of global CO2 emissions and ...
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 ...
Creepy, Crawly Night with 'Deep Look'"Deep Look" is a PBS and KQED YouTube wildlife and nature series that explores big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. They've captured the inside of a Mexican jumping bean in motion, a bee lining her nest with leaves, a flower releasing pollen, and much more. But we aren't going ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 - In Person, Free - Livestream.
James Webb Space Telescope - LivestreamCelebrate the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope with a virtual talk by Dr. Thomas Greene, an astrophysicist in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. The Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful and most complex space telescope ever built and ...
Face your fears and set your spirit free at tonight’s celebratory spectacle. Learn about what triggers our fear response and explore familiar superstitions that leave us with an eerie feeling. This evening will feature a specialty spooky cocktail and DJ set to send shivers down your spine. And don’t forget ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Hardcore Natural History: Maritime habitat at Fort OrdThe museum will host ecologist Thor Anderson of Burleson Consulting, an expert in habitat restoration, wildlife, and landscape ecology, for a lecture entitled, “A Monumental Task: Restoring Maritime Chaparral Habitat on Fort Ord National Monument.â€Anderson’s presentation will cover the challenges of restoring more than 60 acres of rare Central Coast ...
Get into costume and come ready to enjoy creepy science specimens, a costume contest, and Halloween drag show with the Rice Rockettes, hosted by drag queen extraordinaire Heklina!
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $16.50 depending on entrance time
Dangerous DemosDon’t flinch! Exploratorium educator Zeke Kossover performs a trio of demonstrations with real science and real danger. Will you volunteer to put your face in the path of a gigantic, spiked mace? Nap on a bed of nails? Stand in a shower of sparks reaching 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit? With fearlessness ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 in person, free online
The National Climate Adaptation Science Center works on research to help avoid some scary scenarios for fish and wildlife.Learn how warming weather and shorter winters trap moose in a never-ending creepy crawly season.For fish, higher water temperatures can make long distance migrations even more of a haunted maze.While there is ...
Coyote Point Movie NightsGather friends and family, pack a picnic and join CuriOdyssey for a fun-filled summer evening during Coyote Point Movie Nights in July, August, September and October at Coyote Point Park in San Mateo. Watch your favorite movies, experiment with fun CuriOdyssey science experiments, play creatively with San Mateo County Libraries, ...
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 Lindsay Wildlife staff online as we introduce you to several animals that go bump in the night! Get a close-up look at some often misunderstood California native creatures and learn why we can't live without them, not to mention what makes them so unique and cool. This program will ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Botanical Garden Members.
