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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
