First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseyCelebrate Lunar New Year with us at CuriOdyssey. Enjoy a festive evening filled with delicious bites from local favorites - Dumpling King and Kabob Trolley. Feel the rhythm at our lively dance party, marvel at an exhilarating Lion Dance performance, and embrace the spirit of the season by crafting your ...
Where: San MateoCost: $27.95 General, $23.95 Seniors, Students, Child
First Friday: AFROFUTURISMThis First Friday, celebrate Black History Month and Black Futures at the Chabot Space and Science Center. Tinker with hands-on robotics designed by youth engineers at the Hidden Genius Project, try your hand at coding with Black Girls Code, and discover the groundbreaking achievements Black scientists and engineers have been ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 General, $5 kids/seniors, free for members
Astro 101: Sights of the Cosmos, Intro to Astronomy - LivestreamDuring this hour, you'll gain an appreciation for the size and scale of the cosmos and our place within it. You'll see many examples of the beautiful objects visible in the night sky, learn something about how we see them through our telescopes and what we can deduce about them ...
The Sun, our nearest star, is more than just a blazing ball of fire. Its atmosphere, hotter than its already scorching surface, presents a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for years. How does the Sun’s magnetic field drive the heating of its 10,000-degree chromosphere and million-degree corona? This enigma holds ...
Extracellular DNA (eDNA) in the environment degrades rapidly unless adsorbed onto minerals, which enhances its stability. Currently there are vast amounts of DNA molecules preserved in our sediments. This mineral-bound DNA, although widely used to study past ecosystems, also poses significant implications for bacterial gene acquisition. By utilizing interfacial geochemistry, ...
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Foothills Family Nature WalkEnvironmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help community members get to know our local open space areas. Small groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based activities, and a ...
Head to Natural Bridges State Beach for the 38th Annual Migration Festival. Many organizations from the community will be there with family-friendly, hands-on activities and booths highlighting the migration of whales, butterflies, birds and the many creatures that travel to and through this fascinating area. Celebrate migration of all kinds ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
CuriOdyssey Weekend Workshop: Stop MotionFan of Coraline or other stop-motion movies? We will take a look back at some of the earliest animation techniques. At the end, participants will put it all together to make their very own stop-motion movie.Ages 5 to 10 years old
Where: San MateoCost: $45-$55
City Public Star PartyCome join the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers for free public stargazing of the Moon, planets, globular clusters and more!The event will take place in Tunnel Tops National Park, parking is located adjacent to Picnic Place (210 Lincoln Blvd for GPS) with the telescopes setup in the East Meadow.Dress warmly as conditions ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is a FREE monthly public stargazing event! Occurring on the Saturday nearest the 1st quarter moon, join us for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to ...
What is the BAS SkeptiCamp? A SkeptiCamp is an informal in-person, free conference where you can learn about science/skepticism, meet fellow skeptics, and enjoy the company of friends old and new. To quote our friends at the Manchester Skeptic Society, “you don’t need to be a published author, famous podcaster or professional ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
SEA Adventures Mammalian Reproduction LectureThis month’s guest lecturers: Maddie McNelis is a current PhD Candidate at UCSC studying parental care in wildlife in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Anthropology from UC Berkeley.Mia Reynolds is a Master’s student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. ...
It’s there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it’s time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we’ll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly ...
Speaker: Brad Balukjian, California Academy of Sciences
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays?Cosmic rays with energies << TeV affect galaxy evolution on all scales, from ionizing protoplanetary disks and molecular clouds to driving galactic outflows that alter the gas phase hundreds of kiloparsecs from the galactic disk. All models of cosmic-ray physics on "marco" scales (> pc) are sensitive to the assumed ...
The question of fluctuation and population growth at the local level and how that influences global properties has been studied extensively in physical, biological and social sciences. In liquids and colloidal solutions, fluctuations are ubiquitous. In quantum material interplay of fluctuation and phase transitions is an important topic of research.In ...
Most queueing models assume that each job runs on a single server. But this one-server-per-job model is not a good representation of today’s compute jobs, particularly Machine Learning jobs. A typical data center job today occupies multiple cores concurrently, often thousands of cores. We refer to a job that ...
Speaker: Selmann Chettih, Columbia UniversityRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nucleic acid-driven self-assemblies: from viral RNA sensors to transcription factorsMy laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms of self vs. non-self discrimination by the immune system. Our research has uncovered several protein polymerization processes - distinct from phase separation - that are triggered by nucleic acids in various immune functions. Our earlier work centered on the molecular mechanisms of a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
What are quantum computers good for?Quantum computers - computers which exploit quantum mechanics - are poised to reshape the landscape of computation. But understanding when ‘quantum’ can help speed up algorithmic tasks is tricky, particularly for those tasks which have the greatest potential for real-world impact. In this talk, I will survey my work in ...
Most magnetic materials, phenomena and devices are well described in terms of the magnetic dipoles arising from the spin of their constituent electrons. There is mounting evidence, however, of intriguing magnetic behaviors that can’t be explained in terms of electron spin dipole moments; these behaviors are often attributed to “hidden ...
Award-winning investigative journalist Charles Piller joins us in San Francisco for an in-depth look at what he says is a world of fraud, corruption, deceit, and greed that have set back important work on treating Alzheimer’s disease.Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer’s, a tragedy that is projected to grow ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General in person, $10 online, member discount
Tuesday, 02/11/25
Radical pairing: an enabling platform for practical metal-free grid scale energy storage To achieve Net Zero by 2050, the power sector will need to be decarbonised fully over the next decade. This is critical not just as a direct means of reducing emissions, but of ensuring a smooth transition in other related sectors including heavy industry, heating, and chemical production. To ...
In this talk, Fletcher will discuss how energy flexibility can help reduce Scope 2 emissions of wastewater treatment facilities. Using a facility from the Bay Area as a case study, he investigates three load shifting mechanisms: a raw wastewater storage tank, a low-pressure biogas holder, and a Li-ion battery. Simulating ...
The development of tandem mass spectrometers equipped with collision cells has enabled online interference removal for ICP-MS, with special attention paid to beta decay systems used for geochronology (e.g., Rb-Sr, Lu-Hf). Looking toward the future, novel applications of LA-MC-ICP-MS/MS will expand many fields that utilize high precision isotope geochemistry, including ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Bill Gates and Partick Collison, In Conversation - LivestreamJoin us for an extraordinary CHM Live event as we welcome Bill Gates to discuss his deeply personal new memoir, Source Code, in conversation with Patrick Collison, cofounder and CEO of Stripe.The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a ...
The detection of high energy astrophysical neutrinos is an important step toward understanding the most energetic cosmic accelerators. IceCube, an observatory at the South Pole, has observed the first astrophysical neutrinos and identified potential sources. However, the best sensitivity at the highest energies comes from detectors that look for coherent radio Cherenkov emission from neutrino ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is envisioned to open up exciting new opportunities to gather and use data - from insights about our environment and food supply, to monitoring our health, and beyond. However, most current IoT deployments are rather uninspiring: nobody cares about a new smart toaster, for example. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Ultrafast Quantum Photonics: Beating Decoherence with LightUltrafast optical pulses - femtoseconds to picoseconds in duration - are gaining interest for quantum processing due to their potential to encode information in brief time-bins, especially in scenarios with rapid decoherence.The development of two essential components for optical quantum technologies are discussed: an optical Kerr effect switch in single-mode ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
'Legion 44'You are invited to a screening of Legion 44, a documentary film about the rise of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).Join film director Leila Conners and Stanford Energy Club, Stanford Founders Club, and the Bay Area sustainability community in an opportunity to learn and engage with the innovators and thought leaders ...
Peru has the second highest bird diversity of all countries on the globe, with 1877 species of bird reported there. The topography of Peru is very complex, resulting in a delightful variety of habitats and bird species. Jenn will cover birding in the Peruvian jungle and mountain highlands, an area ...
Join us for a conversation with Yoav Shoham, a leading AI expert who has received multiple awards for his significant contributions to the field. Shoham is the founder of several successful AI companies, the most recent being AI21 Labs. He is also a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford ...
As a newly appointed engineer in Todd Martz’s lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I have been working with Dr. Martz as well as Andrew Dickson and Ralph Keeling on modernizing how we make the highest quality marine inorganic CO2 system measurements with the intention of renovating the presently used ...
Love and poison are in the water! The peaceful waters of the Japanese Pool - a haven for amphibian mating season - also house a deadly surprise: the cute newts that live there have a powerful neurotoxin in their skin. Thankfully, the only way to be poisoned by a newt ...
The legislative history of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the most significant climate and clean energy legislation in U.S. history, has been widely covered by the political press. Since President Biden signed the bill into law - and particularly since Donald Trump won re-election in November - reporters have continued ...
The polar ice sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise. In Greenland the reason for this is relatively straightforward: the air is getting warmer, melting the ice from above. In Antarctica, the ice is melting from below, from ocean heat delivery to the underside of floating ice ...
The Nature of AdolescenceHumans have a multi-year life stage that begins with pubertal onset and ends with a shift into full adulthood. This period is rife with behavioral and emotional vulnerabilities that include rejection, injury, and the onset of lasting mental health problems. To illuminate the evolution of this life stage, my research ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Architecting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers for Today and TomorrowQuantum computers represent a new computing paradigm and have the potential to serve as a disruptive tool for scientific discovery and practical applications. However, they face the fundamental challenges of errors and decoherence. Quantum error correction (QEC) and fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) are therefore crucial for realizing the promise of ...
If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology similar to ours, would they be able to detect Earth and evidence of humanity? If so, what signals would they detect, and from how far away? Researchers used a theoretical, modeling-based method, and this study is the first to analyze multiple types of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Human-AI Systems for Accessible Visual CommunicationCommunication dictates our ability to learn, connect, and act in the world. Visual media such as images, videos, and presentations are now central to communication across education, work, and personal life. While such media is engaging and informative, current interfaces make it difficult for millions of people with disabilities or ...
How does the brain generate internal representations of emotions? Driven by this fundamental question, Amit has developed innovative approaches to uncover how neural circuits encode and regulate affective states. By combining cutting-edge experimental tools with advanced computational modeling, Amit provided the first causal demonstration of line attractor dynamics encoding an affective ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
After Dark: SexplorationsSlip into something comfortable and learn about all the ways the natural world gets it on.Ages 18+
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
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 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
While some people choose to learn about evolution through coursework, a large number of people could be interested in the subject if brought to them wrapped in another subject in which they are already engaged. In this talk, Prof. Noor introduces evolutionary concepts, thinking, and approaches framed using depictions from ...
Where: Cost: Free
Bay Area Wildlife Guide - LivestreamJeff Miller will discuss his book Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide, a quirky and entertaining wildlife guide to the greater San Francisco Bay Area, which invites readers to connect with and conserve local species. Featuring over 100 native creatures, from mammals to invertebrates, this informative primer is a treasure ...
