Targeting the Immune Exoproteome - LivestreamDr. Aaron Ring, Yale University, will present his lab’s efforts to engineer cytokine pathways for cancer immunotherapy and novel approaches in systems immunology to profile functional autoantibody responses.Register at weblink to attend.
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
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Processes Regulating Estuarine Fouling Communities - LivestreamEstuarine invertebrates experience high interannual variability in abiotic conditions. Additionally, estuaries are hotspots for biological invasions, and increased stress-tolerance among introduced species could change invertebrate species interactions. Using sessile invertebrates, I investigated how processes influencing communities change spatially and temporally in Tomales Bay, CA. Over the summers of 2018 - ...
At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein changed the way we think about Time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of Time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Artificial Intelligence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - LivestreamArtificial Intelligence (AI) is a remarkable technology that has profoundly impacted our lives. It now beats humans at some of their own games. How did we get here? In this lecture, Abu-Mostafa will describe the scientific journey of AI since the 1980s, as well as Caltech's foundational role in its ...
The more we learn about other worlds, the better we understand our own. Astronomers today ask: what makes a world habitable? What creates and sustains an environment friendly to life? NASA has several new missions ready to address this topic, from the Parker Solar Probe, studying our Sun’s wind; to new ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 02/10/22
Cold Air Rises: Profound Effects of Vapor Buoyancy on Earth's Climate - Livestream The molar mass of water vapor is less than that of dry air, making humid air lighter than dry air at the same temperature and pressure. This effect is known as vapor buoyancy and has been considered negligibly small in large-scale climate dynamics. Here we use theory, reanalysis data, and ...
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Distribution System Planning: DERs and the Smart Grid - LivestreamAndy Eiden and Angela Long will discuss Portland General Electric's (PGE) efforts to address Oregon's aggressive electricity decarbonization legislation. They will discuss PGE's distribution resource planning and distributed energy resources forecasting methods.Register at weblink to attend online.
The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins during the French Revolution. The nature of this revolution is that all of the base units of the SI are now defined by fixing values of natural constants. Our ...
Looking for a hot night out on the town? Slip into something comfortable and take an intimate look at sex - you know, the transfer of genetic information through sperm and eggs, which has resulted in evolution and specialization among species over time. From the lengths we’ll go to for ...
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: $17.75 - $15.25
Where is the Wild After Wildfire? - LivestreamForests that have experienced fire are vibrant, dazzling, full of life, and rapidly regenerating. Wildflowers and thousands of tree seedlings are bursting from the earth; the air is full of birdsong. The flowers attract insects, which attract birds and smaller mammals, which in turn attract the raptors and larger mammals. ...
Everyone has experienced the call. “This is Alex from the credit card company. We have a refund we want to give you that has to be deposited directly into your bank account. What is your bank account number?†or words to that effect. Or maybe “Alex†(or “Vickiâ€, or “Joshâ€) ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Telescope Viewing - CanceledJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube 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 available ...
Despite their high theoretical specific energy of 2,600 Wh kg-1, the commercialization of Li-S devices is hindered by irreversible capacity loss from the dissolution of polysulfide intermediates in the electrolyte solution. We report novel strategies to design reactive sites for polysulfide adsorption in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to improve capacity retention ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
VIPER - A Next Great Leap in Mapping Water on the Moon - LivestreamNASA is sending a mobile robot to the surface of the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of ice and other resources. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is the first resource-mapping mission on another celestial body. VIPER will ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 02/12/22
Turtle Observer Program on Mt. Tam Marin Water is enlisting the help of community scientists to protect the western pond turtle by monitoring habitat conditions, recording their behavior, and educating the public during the spring when they are most visible. The Turtle Observer program is great for individuals, small groups or whole families. Kids typically make ...
A Child's Botanical Valentine Tea - LivestreamOur annual Botanical Valentine's Day Tea Family Program tradition returns as an at-home tea party and Zoom program. Enjoy a celebration of herbs and flowers as we use all of our senses to explore these fragrant edibles (kit included) and talk about their many uses. Finish the fun by making ...
Where: Cost: $25 General, $20 Members
Afternoon Hike at Mindego Hill - FULLJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
As the oil and gas industry comes under increasing pressure to decarbonize, companies are responding in several ways. A common denominator underlying most of them―reducing emissions from core operations, exploiting existing oil and gas assets for decarbonization purposes, launching new low-carbon business lines―is the technology and broader forms of innovation ...
Like many areas of AI, present-day NLP is data-driven. As a result, the available benchmark datasets are the primary factor in shaping the field itself. This has wide-ranging consequences for research, technology, and increasingly for society. How do we conceptualize different tasks, and which tasks receive the most attention from ...
Where: Cost: Free
Quantum Nanophotonics Hardware: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping - LivestreamPhotonic systems are the leading candidates for deterministic quantum sources, quantum repeaters, and other key devices for quantum information processing. Scalability of this technology depends on the stability, homogeneity and coherence properties of quantum emitters. Here, color centers in wide band gap materials offer favorable properties for applications in quantum ...
The theory describing dark matter remains completely unknown, and requires new search ideas to resolve its identity. It turns out that stars and planets can be ideal playgrounds to discover dark matter. In this talk, I will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including neutron stars, ...
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Bridging the process-pattern divide in ecology and evolution - LivestreamDr. James T. Stroud is an evolutionary ecologist that explores the processes responsible for the generation and maintenance of large-scale patterns of biological diversity, primarily using lizards as a model system. Specifically, his research focuses on bridging this process-pattern divide by studying how ecological and microevolutionary processes - those able ...
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Energy, Engineering, Education, and Everything - LivestreamDrawing on Dr. Swisher's two decades of teaching clean energy and climate solutions at Stanford and state universities, we'll explore new models for teaching and learning with a mission to avert climate change and achieve sustainability, which are also the charge of Stanford's new School.Speaker: Joel Swisher, Western Washington UniversitySee ...
Slugs & Steins : What is the Dark Matter? - LivestreamFour fifths of the matter in the universe is made of something completely different from the "ordinary matter" we know and love. I will explain why this "dark matter" is an unavoidable ingredient to explain the universe as we observe it, and I will describe what the fundamental, particle nature ...
Where: Cost: Free
Tuesday, 02/15/22
Weekday Morning Hike at Rancho Cañada del Oro - FULLJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an excursion where you’ll explore the Mayfair Ranch - Longwall Canyon trails of Rancho Cañada del Oro! You will be guided by POST Ambassadors who will share with you the history of the preserve, the region, and the importance of conservation in the area. The ...
 Cellular proteins continuously undergo non-enzymatic covalent modifications (NECMs), which alter protein structure, function, stability and binding-partner affinity. These chemical modifications accumulate under normal physiological conditions but can also be stimulated by various changes in the cellular environment, such as redox state and metabolite concentration. The half-life of histones is among ...
Whales have been on this planet for longer than humans have walked upright. Are they intelligent? Linguists contend that even the most intelligent non-human animals lack a communication system that could be called language. But could whales prove an exception?Biologists have studied whales for decades and quickly realized that they ...
Topological insulators and superconductors host exotic boundary states with unique properties such as Dirac dispersion and chiral spin texture. The helical and chiral edge modes of a two-dimensional TI can carry dissipationless currents while similar modes in topological superconductors are expected to be (the elusive) Majorana fermions which are thought ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - LivestreamGood Viruses: Powerful Tools Deliver a Next Generation of Life-Saving MedicinesViruses are conventionally known as the bad guys: societal antagonists that can cause destruction in our bodies, sicknesses, birth defects, and even death. Adam introduces a whole different class of viruses - those that are being programmed as research tools ...
Chad Hyatt has made a name for himself in Northern California and beyond by sharing his delicious spin on wild mushroom cookery at public and private events. Both an expert forager and classically trained chef, he has cooked in a variety of restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco ...
