As the data center industry increasingly focuses on sustainability, understanding the environmental trade-offs of siting, design, and operational decisions is more important than ever. In this session, we will explore the Cloud LCA Tool, an open-source life cycle assessment platform published by Microsoft and WSP in Nature. This tool enables ...
The ability to study proteins in a cellular context is crucial to our understanding of biology. In this presentation, I will discuss our recent technology development projects to empower the biomedical research community. First, I will describe a new technology for “intracellular protein editing”, drawing from intein-mediated protein splicing, genetic ...
During former President Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address, he remarked on the potential for additive manufacturing - or colloquially, “three-dimensional (3D) printing” - “to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” Despite this potential, progress has been impeded by broad challenges associated with 3D printing technologies at ...
Earth is unique among the rocky planets of the solar system in having compositionally evolved continental crust - the reason for life as we know it. Many differentiation processes have been proposed to explain its existence. Starting with mafic, mantle-derived basalt, differentiation produces a diverse range of more evolved compositions ...
For centuries, formulas for mathematical constants such as pi and e appeared sporadically, discovered by figures like Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Ramanujan. Inspired by experimental physics, the Ramanujan Machine collaboration was established - a program of experimental mathematics that discovers formulas at scale, including new identities for pi and for ...
Over the past decade, atmospheric chemistry has been experiencing a “Molecular Revolution,” thanks to advances in mass spectrometry and chromatography. In this talk, I provide three broadly relevant examples from my group’s work advancing and deploying chemical ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (CI-ToF-MS) for studying atmospheric chemistry. I will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Greta and Grandpa: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Climate SolutionsA few years ago, when a group of youth climate activists urged Senator Dianne Feinstein to sign the Green New Deal, the octogenarian responded, “You come in here and say, 'It has to be my way or the highway' and I don't respond to that … I’ve been doing this ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $15 Members
Nature’s Hardware Store: Building the Future with BiologyWhat if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges - on Earth and beyond - have already been invented by nature? In this forward-looking talk, evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist Dr. Lynn Rothschild explores how life’s patterns, materials, and mechanisms, refined over billions of years, can serve as a blueprint for building ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General (+ fees)
Skeptics in a PubEnjoy an evening of socializing and feasting with fellow Bay Area science-forward folk in an Irish Pub on the Peninsula with great food. < Menu >Please join us. This event is brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap East BayThis month, we have two very exciting and wildly different talks lined up: Eliza Diggins (UCB) will tell us all about the mysteries of dark matter. Then stick around for a talk by Prof. Courtney Dressing (UCB), who will talk about nearby planetary systems!Two Pitchers is all ages and pet ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Wild Farm AllianceRecognizing that our food system is tightly linked to landscape health and habitats, the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) has a vision to support farmers to deliver a diverse food supply while simultaneously enhancing ecosystem health and complexity. It can be done! Established in 2001 in Watsonville, CA, the WFA is ...
