This student-run monthly series spotlights the latest research from Stanford, presented by PhD candidates and postdocs. Registration is required (see weblink)Speaker: Luqi Li, Stanford University
Where: Cost: Free
Advancing Wildfire-Resilient Architecture in a Post-Climate Change CaliforniaAs wildfires increasingly threaten communities in California and beyond, innovative approaches in architectural design and technology are essential for enhancing resilience. Wildfire-resilient architecture, defined as the capacity of structures to withstand and recover from wildfire impacts, is crucial in mitigating risks to individuals, homes, and communities.To bolster wildfire resilience, building ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $15 students
Ecological genomics in NZ: human-induced evolution of insect color and wing phenotypesRapid adaptation is thought critical for the survival of species under global change, but our understanding of human-induced evolution in the wild remains limited. In New Zealand, widespread deforestation has underpinned repeated color and wing-phenotype shifts in wild insect populations. Loss of forest has led to color changes across Zelandoperla ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Reduced Order Modeling and Inverse Design of Flexible Structures by Machine LearningRecent advances in highly deformable structures necessitate simulation tools that can capture nonlinear geometry and nonlinear material. We propose machine learning, neural networks (NN) in particular, to capture this nonlinearity and solve highly nonlinear inverse problems in structural mechanics. Two representative problems will be discussed in this talk.In the first ...
When learning to program, students are often most focused on how to write code that functions correctly??"yet many different code structures can have the same functionality while differing in how easy they are to understand or extend. Thus, helping students to understand how to write well-structured code is an important ...
Expect the unusual as art and nature collide at this NightLife providing an exclusive sneak preview of the new BigPicture: Natural World Photography exhibition. Check out special programming like screen printing with Haight Street Art Center, enjoy special talks, and more.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
After Dark: Land UseExplore the relationship between humans and the environment at this After Dark, which features the second session of our conversation series Open Question. Hear from UC Davis researchers on climate response, and stop by our Observatory to take in stunning views of the San Francisco Bay, a part of our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95, free for members
Do Galaxies Breathe, Too?Galaxies are more than just hundreds of billions of stars; the gas that fills the space between the stars plays a crucial role in determining the fate of a galaxy. In this presentation, Dr. Du will discuss how we use spectra to study the physical properties of gas in distant ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Friday, 09/27/24
Land x Good Fire: Sonoma ValleyJoin fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Cybersecurity and the Clean Energy TransitionThe ability of the US and other countries to meet their clean energy and climate commitments will depend partly on how well we can design secure new, distributed renewable energy infrastructure and train a workforce to manage it - and how well the climate and clean energy and cybersecurity communities ...
Educator Resource Giveaway Days at the Astronomy Society of the PacificFREE SCIENCE MATERIALS, GAMES, POSTERS, BOOKS, and MORE!The ASP is opening its doors to Bay Area educators looking for FREE materials for their classrooms or other educational settings.We have a lot of games, classroom materials, posters, books, and more all available to take away. Bring your own vehicle to transport ...
Porous materials shape the world around us: many of the chemicals we use in our daily lives have, at some point, been purified or chemically transformed within subnano- to nano-sized pores. In this talk, I will discuss my group’s efforts to enhance the catalytic activity and physical properties of porous ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
In Town Star PartyCome join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) for an evening of stargazing.Event details:Events are held at the parking lot of our headquarters, Houge Park San Jose. The event duration is 2 hours. SJAA volunteers will share night sky views from their telescopes.Please refrain from bringing your own telescopes (Binoculars are ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 09/28/24
Educator Resource Giveaway Days at the Astronomy Society of the PacificFREE SCIENCE MATERIALS, GAMES, POSTERS, BOOKS, and MORE!The ASP is opening its doors to Bay Area educators looking for FREE materials for their classrooms or other educational settings.We have a lot of games, classroom materials, posters, books, and more all available to take away. Bring your own vehicle to transport ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Land x Good Fire: Bodega BayJoin fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch's Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about Good Fire.Join fellows from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward fellowship program for Sonoma County residents to learn about good fire. Land x Good Fire is part of the Resilient Forests and Watersheds Workshops ...
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
Stewardship Saturday: Valuing Seaweed for Humans and Marine LifeJoin Kelpful and The Marine Mammal Center as we explore the many values of the macroalgae, seaweed, for humans, marine mammals, and the ocean! Through this event you will have the opportunity to eat and touch seaweed, learn more about foraging for it, create consumable products out if it, and ...
Where: Avila BeachCost: Free
Life's Better Electric: Electrification FairLife is better electric! Most San Francisco homes use natural gas for heating, water heating, clothes drying and/or cooking, which creates indoor air pollution and contributes to climate change. That‘s why the Bay Area is starting to phase out gas appliances in favor of electric alternatives starting in 2027. Luckily, modern ...
Did you know that California has a holiday just to celebrate biodiversity? Let’s celebrate by having a month long BioBlitz through iNaturalist to help scientists document our local plants, animals. insects, fungi, and more. Come learn about local species and how you and your family can contribute to scientific research ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Access to Adventure Day 2024Join Support for Families for a family fun day at the Crissy Field Center on Presidio Tunnel Tops! Learn about inclusive recreation, after-school and summer programs available in San Francisco, and explore one of San Francisco’s newest accessible parks.?Connect with other families and staff from Support for Families and San Francisco Recreation and Park’s Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion ...
The United States has set a goal to decarbonize energy production by 2035 and the entire economy by 2050. Multiple analyses estimated that to do so requires significant investment in energy storage technologies to time shift when the energy is produced by sources such as wind and solar to when ...
Where: FremontCost: $25 in person members, Free online
CSM's Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace brings the wonders of science to our community! Future scientists-in-the-making are welcomed to campus to participate in fun makerspace activities, watch Chef Ed make comets, visit fascinating biology, chemistry, geology, math, and physics stations for hands-on demos hosted by CSM instructors and ...
Through demonstration of the latest computer vision technologies in Google colab, Claire will introduce her AI co-pilot socio-emotional training system for autistic children. 1 in 36 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Some key symptoms and supporting neuroscience are: lack of emotion interpretation (amygdala theory), not showing sign of ...
Where: SunnyvalleCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is a FREE monthly public stargazing event! Occurring on the Saturday nearest the 1st quarter moon (check our Events Page), join us in building 36 on the 4th floor observatory for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Latinx+ Engineering DayJoin us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), where we welcome visitors from all ages and backgrounds to connect with engineers and STEM educators.Our annual Latinx+ Engineering Day - now in its 25th year - offers a chance to engage with ...
RedoxBlox, a silicon valley funded high temperature battery startup, has invented a new class of energy storage - thermochemical energy storage (TCES). Much like electrochemical solutions, RedoxBlox uses a chemical reaction to store energy to achieve Li-Ion levels of energy density, but without the need for any rare earth or ...
Future role of wearables in precision medicine and mental healthThis talk will explore the progress made in the integration of wearable devices into precision medicine and mental health, highlighting key milestones and challenges. Over the past decade, wearable technology has advanced from basic step counters to sophisticated devices capable of ...
In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent efforts to derive effective descriptions of the collective dynamics of active fluids, a broad class of systems for which local energy injection is converted into directed motion. Such systems evolve far from equilibrium, which precludes the standard formulation of hydrodynamic ...
Speaker: Mark Lipsitch, Harvard UniversityRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Physics of MicromachinesMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) is a highly interdisciplinary field that produces devices integral to modern daily life such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. Daniel Contreras went from physics in undergrad to graduate school in electrical engineering to study MEMS and now works as a professional engineer in radio frequency (RF) semiconductors.This talk ...
Anyons, particles with quantum statistics that go beyond that of bosons and fermions, rapidly transitioned from theoretical possibility to reality in the quantum Hall effect. However, the extreme conditions required for those realizations, including strong magnetic fields, have posed limitations. Recently, significant advances have led to the observation of anyons ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Stargazing with the SETI InstituteJoin us for a night of outdoor stargazing at the Library and a celebration of 40 years of the SETI Institute! We'll kick things off in the Library Program Room at 7 p.m. with a 40th anniversary party, followed by a short talk from Simon Steel of the SETI Institute ...
In this presentation I will highlight recent work from my group focused on the use of photochemistry and photocatalysis to aid the synthesis of high-value molecules. The presentation will focus on: Boryl radical reactivity. Amine-ligated boryl radicals are highly reactive open-shell intermediates with significant potential for the synthesis of ...
I will present our experiments leveraging electron and nuclear spins out of equilibrium to build highly sensitive, deployable, chemical sensors. These sensors utilize solid-state systems, such as semiconductors, where nuclear spins can be optically “hyperpolarized” to levels thousands of times greater than thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, these nuclei also exhibit extended ...
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to ...
Despite implications of the prefix "uni," many scientists now think that there might be more than a single universe! Our universe may be just one example in a far larger "multiverse," but an unusually complex one that is conducive to the existence of life. Come learn - and inquire - ...
Born in California, OceanWell is developing a planet-friendly technology to harvest water molecules from the ocean using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a new way. Unlike the heavy industrial RO process typically conducted on land, OceanWell passively extracts freshwater from the deep sea without harming marine life. Its LifeSafe circulation ...
Over the last decade, competition has intensified between gas and electric utilities to meet all building energy needs for homes and businesses, including sectors like heating and cooking. Policy incentives to transition from gas to electric appliances as part of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies and improvements in electric technologies ...
This presentation will analyse how digital capitalism renews wealth inequalities and urban segregation through the transformation of urban housing markets by real estate platforms. Focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, I examine how housing, a foundational site of racial capitalism, has been re-coded financially, algorithmically and legally into an asset class ...
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that ...
Despite ominous foretelling of a slowdown, the computational throughput has increased by orders of magnitude over the last decade. Energy efficiency is critical not only to maintain this incessant advancement, but also to ensure that electronics does not become a drag on the finite energy resources of the world. This ...
We are at the beginning of one of the most significant industrial transitions in history, moving from an economy based almost exclusively on carbon-producing fossil energy - coal, oil and gas - to one eventually fueled by renewable energy - sun, wind, steam, and innovative technologies that generate and enable ...
In 2023, Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. This year, she has been placing Osprey eggs (from USDA) into active nests, and working with a local utility company to get chicks ...
