Redesigning Our Communities for Life After Fossil Fuels - LivestreamBiodiversity for a Livable Climate is partnering with the Post Carbon Institute and many local community groups to bring you a series of events on transitioning our communities to manage our ecological crises. These events will take place virtually on Zoom and in-person at community events in 6 locations throughout ...
TinyFest California is a weekend festival celebrating tiny living! Come tour a variety of tiny houses, including tiny houses on wheels, van & school bus conversions, shipping container homes, ADUs/ backyard cottages, and more! This two day festival is a chance to gain insight and information from speaker presentations and ...
Where: PleasantonCost: $20 both days, $15 single day
Moving the Needle: How key interventions can increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMAlthough African Americans make up approximately 13% of the US population, they are severely underrepresented in advanced degrees awarded in STEM disciplines. Currently, they hold ~2% of tenure/tenure track positions in research institutions in the US. Despite the overwhelming statistics, Dr. Jeffries-EL pursued and completed a doctorate in chemistry, obtained ...
Where: Cost: Free
Science at Cal - An Inside Look: UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of PsychedelicsExactly two years ago, before the new Netflix documentary series, “How to Change your Mind†premiered, the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) was founded to provide research, training, and public education on a long-standing taboo in our society: psychedelic drugs. BCSP brings together researchers from across ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
50th Anniversary Coastside Community CelebrationCome celebrate Midpen’s 50th Anniversary of public open space preservation, protection, restoration, access and education. This free-admission community celebration at the historical Johnston House in Half Moon Bay promises fun for nature lovers of all ages.Get your free tickets today!Event entertainment and activities include:Wildlife and conservation presentationsAgricultural talks and demonstrationsHistorical ...
On April 19, 2021, for the first time, humanity flew an aircraft on another planet. The vehicle was the Ingenuity helicopter. This 1.8 kg drone lifted up 3 m above the surface of Mars and flew for 39 seconds. Since then, it has flown 29 more times, flying for as ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/11/22
Blue Innovation 2022 Enjoy a day with 35+ companies exhibiting solutions for sea level rise and water ocean preservation. Food trucks, live bands, and speakers. Â Outdoors at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center of UC Santa Cruz. Â Free to attend!
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Solano Avenue StrollMeet & greet Cal scientists, participate in hands-on science activities, and enjoy over a mile of FREE family fun at the 46th annual Solano Avenue Stroll with Science at Cal and The Lawrence On-The-Go team! Create your own engineering project, learn more about current research at Berkeley, ask questions to real ...
TinyFest California is a weekend festival celebrating tiny living! Come tour a variety of tiny houses, including tiny houses on wheels, van & school bus conversions, shipping container homes, ADUs/ backyard cottages, and more! This two day festival is a chance to gain insight and information from speaker presentations and ...
Where: PleasantonCost: $20 both days, $15 single day
Hike at Calero County ParkJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) at Calero County Park, one of the region’s most beautiful oak woodlands just south of San Jose on the westside of Santa Clara Valley. You will be led by POST ambassadors who will share about the natural history of the area and about POST’s ...
Uncovering the spin-valley order of correlated phases in magic-angle graphene - LivestreamThe twist angle between adjacent two-dimensional layers provides a powerful tuning knob to tailor electronic properties. One archetypal example is magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), whose flat low-energy bands host a variety of broken-symmetry ground states. However, despite intensive effort, the spin and valley order of these phases and their ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
How to Decide Which Medical and Health Information You Should TrustFake news? Alternative facts? Overly hyped "breakthroughs"? Irreproducible scientific research results? Preprints? Gaslighting the medical literature? What to do?Finding and trusting the best published primary medical literature is the answer. Our speakers for the 12th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture at The Commonwealth Club, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
UC Berkeley Physics ColloquiaSpeaker: Andrea Young, UC Santa BarbaraSee weblink for Zoom information. In person attendance TBD.
Where: Cost: Free
Slugs and Steins: How Conversational AI Virtual Assistants Learn to Work with Humans - LivestreamConversational AI virtual assistants (e.g., Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, chatbots for business etc.) are becoming popular in different channels (social media, text messages, voice, phone, email, in car, physical robots, etc.). They communicate with humans through natural language dialogs to achieve social, informational or task oriented goals. Drawing from her ...
Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E) was founded in 2019 to empower and mobilize the global astronomical community to take action on the climate crisis. The network now includes more than 1500 astronomy students, researchers, amateurs, educators, and Nobel laureates from 70 countries. Members of this all-volunteer organization are united by ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has finished the first truly complete 3.055 billion base pair (bp) sequence of a human genome, representing the largest improvement to the human reference genome since its initial release. The new T2T-CHM13 reference includes gapless assemblies for all 22 autosomes, plus chromosomes X and Y, corrects ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Vision for the EU’s Digital Decade - LivestreamIn this special presentation, guest speaker Roberto Viola, Director-General of the European Commission’s department for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) will discuss how the EU is positioning itself in the face of fast digitalisation of our societies and our economies. How is Europe promoting strategic digital technologies and digital sovereignty in ...
It is critical to improve our understanding of the impacts of the ocean/atmosphere system on climate as Earth undergoes unprecedented change. Current models are limited in their treatment of marine aerosols, atmospheric chemistry, and clouds. A particularly challenging area involves determining the impact of ocean microbial emissions on the atmosphere. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power GridAuthor Katherine Blunt provides what is being called a "revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications," exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failurePacific Gas and Electric was ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General live, Free for students; $10 Online
Becca Fenwick will present on her work with the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the first UC undergraduate drone training program. CIDER offers training and research support for the use of drone technology across academic disciplines and industry sectors. Students ...
Reverse osmosis modules comprised of composite polymermembranes represent a leading technology in desalination and purification of brackish water. Nanoporous polymeric membranes are key for prefiltering of such reverse osmosis systems, as well as for purification of biopharmaceutical products, such as monoclonal antibodies. The field has relied on intricate contro lof ...
Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses data analytics and behavioral science to mobilize environmentalists to vote. Named one of five global “climate visionaries†by The New York Times in 2018, and dubbed “The Voting Guru†by Grist magazine, ...
On this special 2nd Wednesday edition of Nerd Nite SF, we will learn about sand and sustenance. Is sand sustenance? Well no, but it is important to life on earth!Thanks, Sand! The miraculous story of how the sediment cycle enables life on earthSpeaker: Jeremy Snyder, Lawrence Berkeley National LabsSand is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 advance, $12 at door
Thursday, 09/15/22
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for an afternoon walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by a POST representative who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve that hosts tide ...
Where: Moss BeachCost: Free
Science at Cal - Outer Space’s Hottest and Brightest Objects - LivestreamAt this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we’ll take a star-studded intergalactic journey to see some of the universe’s hottest and brightest objects. First stop: quasars. Berkeley Lab’s Dr. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho will explain how quasars - the most luminous astronomical objects in the universe - are used as “lighthouses†...
Where: Cost: Free
JWST Directly Images First ExoplanetsThe JWST's Early Release Science program is making a variety of observations during the first five months of science operations that will allow scientists to quickly learn how to use the instruments and produce scientific results. As a part of this program, a team is making high contrast images of ...
International Observe the Moon Night is an annual public outreach event sponsored by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA and astronomical organizations that encourages observation, appreciation, and understanding of our Moon and its connection to planetary science ...
Intel® FPGAs enable real-time, low-latency, and low-power deep learning inference combined with the following advantages:I/O flexibilityReconfigurationEase of integration into custom platformsLong lifetimeIntel® FPGA AI Suite was developed with the vision of ease-of-use of artificial intelligence (AI) inference on Intel® FPGAs. The suite enables FPGA designers, machine learning engineers, and software ...
Where: Cost: Free
Nighty NightLifeEven us night owls could use a little more sleep. Hit the snooze button on life’s stressors and chill with us at our dreamiest NightLife yet.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSDream On African HallAt 7:30 PM, Learn what different animals find comfy (from sleeping upside down to floating) in an intimate chat and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18.75
After Dark: See for YourselfThe Exploratorium is your playground after dark! Wander the galleries, sip a cocktail, and let a DJ from Hip Hop for Change set the vibe. New exhibits are constantly being developed at the museum, but can you spot some classics from decades past? For a hint, check out the 1974 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Algae, Genetics, and iNaturalist - LivestreamAlgea Bloom updates, Genetic Sequencing updates, and a presentation on how to make observations in iNaturalist.Speaker: Damon TigheSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Fungi for BioremediationBioremediation refers to cost-effective and environment-friendly method for converting the toxic, recalcitrant pollutants into environmentally benign products through the action of various biological treatments. Fungi play a major role in bioremediation owing to their robust morphology and diverse metabolic capacity.Speaker: TBDAttend in person or online
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Hardcore Natural History - Pollinator ConservationOur popular Hardcore Natural History Panel series returns in September with a focus on pollination. Pollinators like bumblebees, wild bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, wasps, and beetles all fill vital niches in our ecosystems. All are also facing significant challenges from habitat loss, pesticides, disease, and stresses from climate change. What is ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15 General, $10 Members, $5 Students
NightSchool: Swamp Party - LivestreamClaude, our beloved American alligator, is celebrating his 27th hatchday, so we’re throwing a party dedicated to the crocodilian icon himself and his swampy home. Tune in to learn about the plants and animals that live in Claude's native habitat, the swamps of the Southeastern United States.
Dr. Monika Fischer is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Matt Traxler's at UC Berkeley. She collaborates with Prof. Tom Bruns and started exploring burned ecosystems after the 2013 Rim Fire burned through Bruns Lab field sites in Stanislaus National Forest. The Rim Fire was the first fire of its kind, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 09/16/22
Einstein!One-man show about the life of Albert Einstein.At the end of the play, you will have the chance to engage the playwright/actor and a UC Davis astronomer in a Q&A session.Â
Where: DavisCost: $50 General, $20 Student
The Evolution from Missing to DarkA century ago, the hot topic of the 1920's was the structure of the universe. Was the universe a single Galaxy or was the Milky Way just one of many galaxies? This was resolved by the late 20's and the general expansion was discovered. With the recognition that the galaxies ...
