This seminar will present an innovative approach to co-design fundamental biogeochemical science that aligns with policy and community priorities. The framework will be explored through case studies on ocean-climate stressors, mitigation, and solutions. This presentation will focus on the fundamental research of reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as superoxide and ...
Glaciology is driven by two fundamental goals: to understand how ice sheets will evolve in a warming climate and contribute to future sea-level rise, and to understand how ice sheets behaved in the past, providing insight into Earth’s possible climate states. Both goals require observing how ice flows and deforms??"ideally ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Book Talk: 'Rebooting Tech Culture'Join us to hear Telle Whitney speak about her book, Rebooting Tech Culture, in conversation with John Wawrzynek and the Berkeley Society of Women Engineers. Reception and book signing will follow.Telle Whitney is a senior executive leader, an entrepreneur, an author, and a recognized advocate and expert on women and ...
China looms large in US conversations about AI policy. But often the stories that spread about Chinese AI are oversimplified - “China is poised to overtake the US in the AI race,” “DeepSeek proved that chip export controls have failed,” “AI is one area where the US and China should ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: Wondrous FungusCalling all fungi fans! Join us for an evening of spores, stalks, and species galore.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
NightLifeThursdays hit different at NightLife. The museum comes alive after hours - wilder, more curious, and full of exciting creatures. Grab your friends, grab a hand-crafted drink, and let yourself wander into whatever weird or wonderful corner calls you. You never know what you’ll stumble into next, and that’s the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Friday, 03/06/26
Computer Vision for Sustainability ResearchThis session will cover:Core computer vision methods and emerging approaches (e.g., image segmentation, object detection, foundation models)Applications across climate adaptation, energy systems, agriculture, urban resilience, conservation, and moreOpportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborationMany sustainability challenges depend on extracting insights from visual data at scale??"from monitoring ecosystem change to assessing climate risk. This ...
Design mediates the relationship between humans and nature. In the built environment, engineering decisions about form, structure, and material shape how people inhabit space and how natural systems are engaged, preserved, or transformed. Today, the environmental impact of construction is one of the defining challenges of our time. Buildings account ...
Thermal radiation plays a central role in energy conversion, yet it is rarely treated as a designable resource in solid-state systems. In this talk, I will discuss how controlling radiative energy exchange with materials and optical structures enables new routes for power generation beyond conventional photovoltaics. I will first describe ...
The El Niño??"Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major source of interannual climate variability, shaping rainfall, drought, and weather extremes. Yet even state-of-the-art climate models show substantial biases in reproducing ENSO amplitude, spectral behavior, and the frequency of extreme events. Pinpointing which processes are misrepresented is difficult in comprehensive models because ...
Macrocyclic arene compounds have played a fundamental role in the development of supramolecular chemistry. Research on these systems have laid the foundations to explore and establish non-covalent interactions, e.g., hydrogen bonding, pi···pi stacking, C-H···pi interactions. My research group has taken the basic principles of macrocyclic arenes to design architectures enforcing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseySwing into the weekend with science, animals, music, food trucks, and fun! On the first Friday of every month, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Dance to some of your favorite hits, while enjoying animal presentations and science activities. Activities and programs are different each time, so make it a ...
Tucker Jones will talk about early galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope,andEmily Silich will speak about what happens when clusters of galaxies collide.
Where: DavisCost: Free
Climate-Resilient Bay Area - LivestreamWe welcome Charlie Onorati of SaveSFBay giving us a status update on the Bay Area’s climate resilience, with a focus on sea level rise.Charlie will share key resources to help attendees understand the Bay’s preparedness for sea level rise, explore regional biodiversity, and examine nature-based infrastructure projects that reduce flooding ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a high mountaintop in Chile, is equipped with an 8.4-meter primary mirror and the largest digital camera in the world, the LSST Camera. Rubin Observatory will soon begin an unprecedented 10-year survey that will repeatedly scan the entire Southern sky every three to ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 03/07/26
Life’s Six Great Ways of BeingUnderstanding how all of life is organized and interrelated remains fundamental to biology and evolution. Advances and applications of molecular phylogenetics and other tools continue to fascinate, inspire questions about common ancestry, and invite reexamination of traditional classification systems and the Kingdoms of life. Please join us to hear from ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free, donations encouraged
Butterfly Garden Volunteer Workday at the EECJoin us in this volunteer opportunity to help the educational native plant gardens and trails at the EEC!Help us with maintain and improve the habitat and trails at the Environmental Education Center at the Don Edwards SF Bay NWR! Activities may include removing invasive plants, picking up litter, or maintaining ...
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve which hosts tide pools ...
The North Bay Science Discovery Day is a one-day, free community science festival to spark curiosity and wonder in children and families. The festival brings together 100+ organizations and 10,000 attendees - supported by 70 sponsors and 150 volunteers - for youth to talk with scientists and engineers while exploring ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Wolves Weekend at The Tech Interactive - March 7 & 8The wolves are back (in Yellowstone National Park), and they’re taking over The Tech. Wolf ears will be provided for the first 500 visitors by Great Wolf Lodge! Please note, no live wolves will be in attendance. We are keeping them wild, just the way they belong.Visit The Tech Interactive ...
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Sunday, 03/08/26
Wolves Weekend at The Tech Interactive - March 7 & 8The wolves are back (in Yellowstone National Park), and they’re taking over The Tech. Wolf ears will be provided for the first 500 visitors by Great Wolf Lodge! Please note, no live wolves will be in attendance. We are keeping them wild, just the way they belong.Visit The Tech Interactive ...
Where: San JoseCost: $38.00
Marine Science Sunday: Amazing MigrationsWe're celebrating the animals that love to travel! Marine mammals like gray whales and northern elephant seals are famous for their epic migrations along the California coast. During this Marine Science Sunday, you'll learn about some of the ocean's best swimmers.Talks at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:00 PMSpace is ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with advance registration
Cool Insect DefensesLearn about the amazing tricks insects use to protect themselves from predators.Insects are important food sources for so many animals, sustaining much of the wildlife we know and love! Join us in the Visitor Center for a presentation to learn about many of the amazing ways that insects protect themselves!This ...
I am using optogenetic tools in cells to manipulate hedgehog signaling and look at pathway dynamics in different developmental systems.Speaker: Lorenzo Del Castillo, UC San Francisco
Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We approach this question theoretically and empirically, modeling a user who chooses whether to complete a task herself, ask the chatbot for information that reduces decision noise, or delegate execution to the chatbot.The model-a rational ...
Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) have emerged as a key technology for harnessing high-temperature energy from hot dry rock (HDR) at depths of ~3-10 km. Rapid progress in horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has enabled creation of large stimulated reservoir volumes, yet major challenges remain - fracture-flow short-circuiting, limited ability ...
Ask anyone what matters most to them and the answer is likely to be other people: partners, parents, children, friends. We know so much about the people we are close to: how they like their coffee, if they dance well, how they look when they’re angry, whether they tend to ...
More than five decades ago, President Kennedy exhorted the nation to rise up and meet the biggest challenges of that period, amongst them being the Race to the Moon, that led to the “Moonshot”, and the establishment of the Apollo program. It is quite likely that we, as a nation ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Charlottesville: The Power of Radio AstronomyA Cosmic Broadcast: Massive Stars on Every ChannelSpeaker: Anna Dignan, University of VirginiaWhat is the Radio Spectrum and Why Does it Neet Protection?Speaker: Chris De Pree, National Radio Astronomy ObservatorySee weblink for streaming information
Neutrino rest mass and oscillations, dark matter and dark energy and, just possibly, the existence of supermassive black holes early in the history of the universe point to our standard model of particle physics being incomplete. We will discuss how the weak interaction drives stellar evolution and how neutrinos steal ...
This session will provide an overview of different ways that a climate technology startup can raise capital and obtain other support at the pre-seed and seed/series a stage of its development.Speaker: Craig Tighe, DLA Piper
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'The Problem with Plastic' - LivestreamA powerful look at plastic’s impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back by putting people and the planet over plasticsPlastic is everywhere - wrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has ...
Where: Cost: Free
Conversations on AI: The Power Grid - Past, Present, and FutureFeaturing Rick Wilmer ’84, CEO of ChargePoint, and Dr. Roman Dudenhausen, CEO of Con Energy, and moderated by Dr. Napoleon Paxton, the conversation will also look ahead to emerging technologies and innovations that may transform how power is generated, distributed, and managed in the years to come.Register at weblink to ...
The Ancient Art of Voyaging: A Night with Traditional Master Navigators of MicronesiaFeaturing Sesario Sewralur, Cecilio Raiukiulipiy, Mario Benito, and Milton Coleman Jr. (aka “Jun”)Experience a glimpse into the realm of Traditional Master Navigators of Micronesia, as they humbly share stories of stars, voyages, navigation, and the enduring quest to keep their ancient knowledge, practices, and legacy alive. Witness the Planetarium transformed into an immersive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members/youth/Seniors
In the course of my group’s efforts to discover new asymmetric catalytic reactions, we have had occasion to perform deep mechanistic analyses of the catalysts we have discovered. In this lecture, I will relate different stories where seemingly minor “misbehaviors” in our experimental data were examined closely and found to ...
With ~30 high-silica rhyolite domes and flows and a total eruptive volume of ~5-8.5 km3(DRE), the Mono Craters volcanic chain is one of the youngest and most active silicic systems in North America. Effusive products range in age from ~42 ka to 0.7 ka and exhibit changes in mineralogy (biotite-, orthopyroxene-, or fayalite-bearing) and crystallinity through time. Ion microprobe 238U-230Th dating of allanite and zircon surfaces ...
Strongly interacting electrons exhibit a rich variety of striking phenomena in quantum materials, from the fractional quantum Hall effect to chiral superconductivity. Yet our understanding remains limited by the difficulty of solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation in a vast Hilbert space. In this talk, a “first-principles AI” framework is introduced ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
There’s Plenty of Diffusion at the Bottom The formulation of quantum mechanics in the late 1920s forever changed physics. More recently, quantum materials have emerged, offering fascinating opportunities in physical chemistry. Elementary interactions mediated by the diffusion of electrons, protons, atoms, molecules, and other quasiparticles in quantum materials give rise to intriguing phases and enable advanced technologies. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Skeptics in a Real 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 >Join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.
Stanford physicist Maya Beleznay on Weighing Black Widow Pulsars - What would Robert Oppenheimer and a modern physicist have in common? Neither could tell you how many particles can fit in a city-size ball before collapsing into a black hole! Some neutron stars in our galaxy teeter on the edge of this maximum ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap East Bay - Two TalksThis month, we have two excellent talks lined up: First, Natasha Abrams (UC Berkeley) will discuss the variety of techniques astronomers use to observe and study black holes. Then we’ll hear from Mahlet Shiferaw (Stanford) about the “cosmic web” of dark matter that shapes the Universe!
?Join John as he shares photos and videos from an expedition cruise to the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia as a True Young Explorer with Heritage Expeditions. These regions are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites and are home to the highest diversity of breeding penguin and albatross ...
Generative AI is entering classrooms at a breathtaking pace, often presented as a solution for efficiency by automating tasks such as writing, grading, feedback, and even classroom management. While convenient, these uses risk promoting a shallow, transmission-oriented model of education, one where teachers become content moderators, students become prompt engineers, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
AI and DemocracyThe UC Berkeley AI and Society Initiative welcomes Larry Norden (NYU Brennan Center for Justice), David Evan Harris (Haas), and Ashish Goel (Stanford) to discuss AI and democracy. Professors Norden and Harris will talk about the way in which AI may amplify election misinformation this year, and why that is ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking DifferentOn April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in history - shaping not only products, but culture, design, and how billions of people interact with technology every ...
Are We Alone? The Hunt for Alien LifeSpeaker: Sanjoy Som, NASA AMESMeasuring the Universe with Gravitational LensingSydney Ericson, Stanford University
Space is no longer just the final frontier - it’s the next arena of global power.What was once dominated by a handful of national space agencies is now a crowded and competitive domain of commercial companies, militaries, intelligence agencies, and scientific missions - all operating in orbits that shape global ...
In the past three decades, more than 6000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars beyond our own Solar System. However, we still don’t know if our Solar System is rare or unique - the powerful techniques that detect extrasolar planets have discovered systems very different than our own. In ...
The lives of marine animals play vital roles in influencing policy decisions ranging from conservation to food security and global health. Yet, many species behaviors’ remain elusive to science as we have little to no direct observations of them. I propose the use of vision-guided autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) as ...
Smart grids are evolving into highly distributed, data-rich cyber-physical systems where conventional cybersecurity approaches are increasingly insufficient. Most machine-learning??"based defenses remain fundamentally predictive: they detect anomalies, estimate risks, and issue alerts. While valuable, these systems stop short of supporting the rapid, context-aware decisions required during active cyber-physical events.Large Language Models (LLMs) ...
Recent advances in neuroengineering enable large-scale neural recording in animals and humans, which, when combined with AI, have produced brain - computer interfaces (BCIs) that decode motor intent or internal speech (“reading”). In contrast, precisely “writing” complex, behaviorally relevant information into the brain remains in its early days due to ...
Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of TruthFacts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics into the mainstream, from conspiracy theories like QAnon, to sex panics and assaults on public health measures, to election denialism and the rise of vigilante militias. Paranoid Publics analyzes these phenomena as psychosocial realities ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: Crafty and CalculatingWeaving together math, computing, and fiber arts, you’ll never look at the intersection of women and math the same way after tonight.
Today, as it nears its 50th anniversary, Apple is a global behemoth, one of the most valuable companies on the planet. But it’s been a rough and wild ride from scrappy startup to market leader. On April Fool’s Day in 1976, two twentysomethings named Steve founded a little company with the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 in person/$10 online, member discounts
NightLife: Level UpAchievement unlocked: an epic night of gaming and cosplay collide for the return of this fan favorite event
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Around the World in 80 BirdsIf you want to see a wide variety of birds, you’ll want to see representative species from different families of birds. That’s been a long-term goal of birder and photographer Bob Lewis who has set a goal of photographing a representative species from every bird family (Birds of the World ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Bluebirds in the 21st Century - LivestreamThroughout history, the bluebird has been iconic in many cultures, inspiring art, music, poetry, songs and mythology. Tonight, we invite you to learn about bluebirds and how they are an indicator of ecosystem health, as well as their important place in the ecosystem, where they are incredibly effective at controlling ...
Tennessee has a rich history of opposition to evolutionary concepts. Wesley H. Roberts has been on the front lines of evolution education advocacy for most of his 38 years of teaching in public schools. Beginning with his earliest exposure to evolutionary concepts via a Christian fundamentalist upbringing, Roberts will share ...
As semiconductor design and manufacturing evolve into a data-intensive domain, the complexity of devices and variability in processes are driving significant computational demands. This talk introduces a new class of Agentic AI architectures tailored to tackle the challenges of scale, latency, and decision-making in contemporary EDA and fabrication workflows. We ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Belonging to the Earth: An Evening with Robin Wall KimmererExplore how scientific inquiry can be enriched by Indigenous ecological knowledge.The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is honored to present a special lecture featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer - mother, scientist, distinguished professor of environmental biology, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and best-selling author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 03/14/26
Baylands ExplorationsJoin expert EV docents for an exploration of the science and nature of the Palo Alto Baylands. What makes this habitat so special? How do the plants and animals survive the salty conditions? Why is it so different at different times of day or times of the year? How can ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Stewardship Saturday: Craft for ConservationJoin Ciclo and The Marine Mammal Center for hands-on, creativity driven event exploring how sustainability and conservation are deeply connected. Together, we'll learn about how reducing waste and reusing materials can support a healthier planet and protect marine life. During the event, participants will transform upcycled materials into jewelry, patches, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Family Nature Adventures: InsectsUncover the fascinating lives of nature’s insects and get the buzz about bees during this month’s adventure!Interactive Workshop: Engage in exciting activities, experiments, and crafts to learn about the incredible characteristics of native insects and pollinators. Discover how these creatures play a vital role in populating your favorite flowers.Nature Exploration ...
Where: OaklandCost: $25 Adult, $35 Youth 3 - 8, Members 15% off
Pi DayCelebrate Pi Day at its birthplace! This irrational and transcendent holiday was founded in 1988 at the Exploratorium, and has since grown into an international phenomenon. Join in our annual procession around the Pi Shrine, enjoy slices of delicious pie, and think beyond circles and spheres with surprising exhibits about ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
There’s Nothing Common about the Common Crow!Learn about the fascinating world of crows!Join us in the Visitor Center at the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge for a 50-minute presentation about crows, some of the most intelligent birds you can encounter! This program is led by USFWS volunteer Judi Nechols.
Where: FremontCost: Free
Starry Nights Star PartyJoin the San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) and Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (OSA) for an unforgettable night of exploring the night sky. Our knowledgeable docents, members of SJAA, will be your guides to providing valuable insights into the wonders of our universe. The viewing site, Rancho Canada del ...
Ornithologists often study breeding birds and as a result the winter ecology and social behavior of migratory birds is relatively under studied. My students and I conducted a 22-year study of a population of golden-crowned sparrows that winter in the Arboretum of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Each sparrow ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Junior Rangers at the Refuge: Track DetectivesLove learning about new habitats? Curious about wildlife? Our Junior Rangers at the Refuge program is perfect for your family! Join us each month as we explore the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge through fun, educational activities.This March, we'll discover who's roaming the Refuge by becoming track detectives! We'll become ...
Where: AlvisoCost: 0
Salt Marsh WalkJoin us for a short walk through the La Riviere Marsh!Join us for a leisurely hike along the La Riviere Trail. You'll learn about the ways that salt marshes benefit wetland ecosystems and us!Meet at the Visitor Center. Bring warm layers, sun protection, sturdy walking shoes, and binoculars if you ...
Speaker: Joseph Jackson, Environmental Compliance Inspector, Contra Costa CountyEditor's Note: Lauren Ashlock, UC Davis, was originally scheduled to speak today
AI coding agents now complete multi-hour coding benchmarks with roughly 50% reliability, yet a randomized trial found experienced open-source developers took about 19% longer when allowed frontier AI tools than when tools were disallowed.This talk presents the evidence on the productivity paradox in AI coding, shows the bottlenecks in deployment, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rethinking Materials for a Resource-Constrained World: Pathways to Sustainable and Equitable InfrastructureMaterials - particularly infrastructure materials - account for a substantial share of global energy use, mineral extraction, and anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Yet they remain essential for the built environment that underpins meeting quality of life needs, and demand for them is expected to grow. Addressing their climate impacts therefore requires ...
The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding question in physics, driving searches across a vast range of scales, from microscopic interactions to the cosmos. In this talk, I will explore two exciting avenues for probing dark matter: direct interactions with materials and its influence on stellar streams. At sub-GeV ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Results from the JUNO Experiment Neutrinos are elusive particles with unique properties that offer key insights into the fundamental structure of matter and the cosmic sources that produce them. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation, 20-kiloton liquid scintillator detector, the largest of its kind in the world, located in China and recently ...
Why do you immediately click with some people while others just as inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious? Kate Murphy, author of the international bestseller You’re Not Listening, answers these and other fascinating questions in Why We Click, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 Online, discount for members
Dopamine is everywhere - on podcasts, in productivity hacks, in conversations about addiction, motivation, and “dopamine detox.” But what does neuroscience actually say?In this lecture, Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, cuts through the hype to separate fact from fiction about the brain’s most ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Think Different: Apple, the Counterculture, and Digital Culture, 1976-2026Join us for this talk on the counterculture's significant influence on Apple's origin story as the company turns 50 on April 1st.As we approach the 50th anniversary of Apple Inc. on April 1, 2026, the counterculture's influence on the company's origins and brand continues to draw significant attention. This program ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 in person, $9 online
Understanding the structure of the Earth’s subsurface is fundamentally an inverse problem with sparse direct observations and abundant indirect measurements. Drillholes provide precise but extremely limited information, while geophysical signals such as gravity, magnetics, and seismic data provide broader but indirect constraints on the underlying geology.In this talk, I introduce ...
Pyridines and diazines are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, yet there are limits in the synthetic methods that can directly transform these structures. We will present three distinct strategies for manipulating these heterocycles into more valuable derivatives. First, we will show that they can be converted into phosphonium salts with ...
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to rise, yet uncertainty in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) remains large, with implications for future warming projections. In this talk, I use simulations of past climate states to assess Earth system model performance and to diagnose sources of model bias. By comparing multiple generations of the Community Earth ...
Spatial light modulators (SLMs) enable dynamic optical patterning through pixel-level control of coherent light, facilitating emerging applications such as optical neural interfaces, deep tissue optical imaging, and near-eye displays for augmented and virtual reality. However, the advancement of many of these applications is constrained by the limitations of commercial SLMs, ...
The solvated electron (es-) is one of nature’s most powerful transient reactants, with thousands of reactions identified in water. What happens when these electrons are born near the surface of water instead of deep in the bulk? We create near-surface electrons by exposing a water microjet in vacuum to sodium ...
Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs?AI will transform the nature of work - but how quickly, which sectors first, and with what consequences? This event brings together leading technologists, economists and policymakers to assess what’s happening and what needs to be done. Join us for a timely and thought-provoking discussion about how AI is reshaping the workplace and what leaders need ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Popping the Science Bubble - Two TalksSneaking into cells: How plants are helping rewrite their own DNASpeaker: Kylee Hillman, UC BerkeleyThe 3-billion year war: How bacteria-virus conflict shapes our worldSpeaker: Emily Kibby, UC BerkeleyAttend in person or via zoom
Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms, based in Rochester, NY returns to her ancestral home to interact, learn and connect deeper to the mycelial communities, and the people still practicing traditional ways of life or those creating a new. Greece is typically pictured by blue bird skies and matching crystalline seascapes, ...
This conversation with environmental humanities scholar and author Solvejg Nitzke will explore intriguing questions that are raised in her recent book Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care such as: Is it ok for scientists to be, or to admit to be, tree huggers? What does referring ...
The ocean plays an important role in the global carbon and oxygen cycles, but monitoring these processes using traditional ship-based methods is often challenging due to the vast size and dynamic nature of our oceans. Thankfully, autonomous assets, like Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), have revolutionized ocean ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
UC Santa Cruz Whole Earth SeminarSpeaker:Andrew Fisher, UC Santa CruzEditor's Note: Matt Savoca, Hopkins Marine Station was originally scheduled to talk today.
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
'Time's Second Arrow' - LivestreamJoin Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time" - a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be. They will explain how the natural process of ...
Where: Cost: Free
GTC 2026 After Hours: From Models to Agents to InfraThe AI stack is shifting fast - frontier models, agentic architectures, and the infrastructure underneath are all evolving in real time. But what's actually working in production vs. what's still hype?Novita AI, together with FounderCoho, is hosting a high-energy after-hours event during NVIDIA GTC 2026, featuring speakers from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
The Future of K-12 is Here: How AI is Shaping the Future of EducationJoin leading experts Sunanna Chand, Alex Kotran, and Dr. Victor Lee in discussion on how K-12 schooling needs to adapt and meld with AI now.Education has long been rooted in producing workers that fit the needs of the workforce in that day and age. But as AI takes root in ...
Melody Jue is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and writings center the ocean humanities, science fiction, media studies, science & technology studies, and the environmental humanities.Professor Jue is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater, which won the Speculative Fictions and ...
Join Julie Amato and Carolyn Knight for an evening discussing the 6 species of owls most common to Santa Clara County. We're digging into the who's who of our nocturnal raptors, where you can encounter them, and all of the amazing adaptations that make them best at what they do.We're ...
On tap this month, we have Planetary Sciences graduate student Searra Foote searching for life on other planets and LPL Postdoc Peter Stephenson showing us aurora across the solar system!Click here to watch.
Daniel Andrews is the Director of Engineering at NASA’s Ames Research Center. He was also most recently the Project Manager of the VIPER lunar rover mission, following on the heels of his leadership of the groundbreaking LCROSS lunar impactor mission, which confirmed the presence of billions of gallons of water-ice ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marsh Hike at Coyote PointStep into the baylands and explore the vibrant marsh ecosystem right outside our doors. Join CuriOdyssey educators for a guided hike through Coyote Point’s wetlands, where we’ll look for native plants, local wildlife, and signs of seasonal change.
Radiation detectors form the critical interface between physical phenomena and measurable data, yet their performance is fundamentally shaped by complex interactions between materials, electronics, and device physics. In this seminar, I will present a broad overview of the principles that guide modern detector development, with an emphasis on how signals ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
'Return to the Sky: The Reintroduction of the Bald Eagle' - LivestreamIn 1976, as the bald eagle faced extinction in the continental U.S., Tina Morris began her graduate work at Cornell University. By chance, she was chosen to reintroduce the species to New York State, hoping to repopulate eastern North America. Young, female, and inexperienced, she navigated the challenges of saving ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: LightscapesCome closer, look deeper, and refresh your senses with activities and artworks on light and shadow.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeThursdays hit different at NightLife. The museum comes alive after hours - wilder, more curious, and full of exciting creatures. Grab your friends, grab a hand-crafted drink, and let yourself wander into whatever weird or wonderful corner calls you. You never know what you’ll stumble into next, and that’s the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Retro Tech Night: cntrl+art+delightDisrupt your evening programming with Retro Tech Night: Ctrl+Art+Delight at SJMA. Join us for an evening to reset and refresh, featuring hands-on artmaking activities, live music by Character Select, vintage video games, partner demonstrations, and art & technology-themed tours of the Museum's collection galleries.See weblink for collaborators and additional information.
Mycota Lab's “MycoMap California Network” is an engaged network of volunteer fungi collectors who are documenting biodiversity across California. This community-driven effort, fueled by collective expertise and grassroots engagement, has uncovered numerous unique and important species. This presentation will highlight some of the most interesting, rare, and remarkable fungi discovered ...
Drought has reduced food and water security and caused migration and conflict internationally. How can we change this trajectory by improving water resilience in a changing climate? With variable rain and only two years of storage capacity, Marin's vulnerable water supply offers a case study for understanding infrastructure choices locally, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, member discounts, free for Students
Tales of Animal Sex, Murder and MayhemJoin naturalist and conservationist Jeff Miller for a talk about his book Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide, to learn about the ecology and antics of the Bay Area’s most charismatic wildlife species. Learn about conservation and recovery of iconic Bay Area critters such as tule elk, elephant seals, river ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Starfront Observatories - All About Remote ObservingThis talk will cover everything you need to know to feel comfortable with remote imaging, whether it is from your bedroom to your back yard, or all the way at Starfront Observatories!Located in Rockwood, Texas, in a Class 1 Bortle-scale dark site, the Starfront facility offers 11 climate-controlled buildings with ...
You’ve heard of sewage as an environmental health problem, but have you ever thought of it as a health solution? This seminar will explore the world of wastewater-based surveillance and how we can harness it for public health. I will start by describing work performed at UC Berkeley during the ...
Art without an Artist: Can AI be Considered an ArtistArtificial intelligence has become part of almost everything we do, especially in creating art. The speed of making art has increased tremendously. In this talk, I want to explore: can we think of artificial intelligence as an artist? I’m not talking about artists using AI as a tool to create ...
Where: San MateoCost: 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 ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Saturday, 03/21/26
Open Community Hike Day at Martin Griffin PreserveCome out to the Martin Griffin Preserve along the Bolinas Lagoon, where we invite you to an open recreational day!Join us for the rare opportunity to explore the 1,000-acre preserve of mixed evergreen forests and open hillsides overlooking the Bolinas Lagoon. The preserve is home to more than twenty-five species ...
Where: Stinson BeachCost: Free
Light Play SaturdayDiscover the playful side of color, light, and shadow! Remix colors in a hands-workshop about the CMYK spectrum, enjoy a shadow puppet show with music, and delight in short films that capture the wonder of tinkering. Don’t forget to step inside Light Play Studio, our limited-time spring experience, and get ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Family Bird WalkJoin us on a fun, family, feathered Family Bird Walk! This program is especially recommended for families with children ages 5-10.Let family walks become a shared time of nature learning! We’ll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Twilight Marsh Walk for the First Day of SpringTake a relaxing walk in an area that often has striking sunsets while learning about the Don Edwards SF Bay Refuge.Experience the salt marsh at twilight on an easy stroll along refuge trails (about .6 miles). You will learn about the habitats at the refuge, the wildlife it protects, why ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is a FREE monthly public stargazing event! Usually 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 ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Sunday, 03/22/26
Hike at Windy HillJoin POST on a guided hike on one of the first open spaces we protected as an organization! A POST Representative will share a few words about POST’s decades of conservation success before hiking groups leave to explore a strenuous but rewarding 7 mile hike with 1,500 feet of elevation ...
Where: Portola ValleyCost: Free
Marine Science Sunday: Amazing MigrationsWe're celebrating the animals that love to travel! Marine mammals like gray whales and northern elephant seals are famous for their epic migrations along the California coast. During this Marine Science Sunday, you'll learn about some of the ocean's best swimmers.Talks at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:00 PMSpace is ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with advance registration
Amazing Animal JourneysLearn about animal migration and what animals pass through the San Francisco Bay area!Join us to learn about the amazing feat of migration! Learn about animals large and small, from whales to butterflies, and what kind of wildlife pass through the Bay Area.This program is led by USFWS volunteer Judi ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Monday, 03/23/26
Neanderthals: Our Misunderstood CousinsOur species, Homo sapiens, is the last human standing, but it wasn’t always so. A couple hundred thousand years ago, we shared the planet ??" and possibly even the same caves ??" as several other species and subspecies of humans. This includes our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals. After more ...
Where: SebastapolCost: $7 Advance, $10 at door
Giving LLMs a Map: Building Smarter GenAI with GraphRAGGenerative AI is powerful, but without the right data and retrieval strategies, results can quickly break down. This session will explore how GraphRAG combines knowledge graphs with retrieval-augmented generation to deliver more accurate, context-rich AI applications. Through live demos and code, we will walk through building a GenAI solution end ...
Russ Bartlett is a Senior Environmental Scientist with the California Department of Public Health, where he leads the state’s Toxicological Outbreak Program. With extensive expertise in environmental health, risk assessment, and community outreach, Russ oversees investigations that protect vulnerable communities from exposure to environmental toxins and guides the state’s response ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tuesday, 03/24/26
World Water Day: Follow That Drop! A Journey to the Ocean - LivestreamEver wonder where a single drop of water travels? Join us on an exciting adventure as we follow a drop from your faucet all the way to the vast ocean! Along the way, discover the secrets of the water cycle, explore how humans use water every day, and learn why ...
Where: Cost: Free
Imaging the Invisible: How PUNCH and Eclipses Reveal the Solar Wind in 3DDuring a total solar eclipse, the hidden solar corona becomes visible, but only for a few fleeting minutes. NASA’s PUNCH mission builds on this natural experiment, using polarized imaging to reconstruct the 3D structure of the solar wind as it expands from the Sun to Earth and beyond. Join us ...
In an age of all-in energy portfolios, increasing fossil fuel production and use in the U.S., and an energy transition happening internationally, energy security has a significant role in global geopolitics and security. Within this context, this presentation will explore the intersection of energy security, sustainability, and resilience, with a ...
What’s the safest way to give birth-and who gets to decide?Conversations about childbirth often center on risk, safety, and medical technology. While interventions have saved lives, they’ve also reshaped birth-and how we understand it. In this lecture, medical and cultural sociologist Meghan Warner of Stanford explores the history of childbirth ...
The search for life in the universe invites deep exploration of our own world’s 4-billion-year habitability. We begin to see the cosmos as a vast and seamlesss network of relationships - a web that envelops our own Earth and the human heart. In this age of ecological disruption and social ...
The Explore and More precollege program connects high school students with Oregon State University student mentors to co-develop creative research projects that address community needs using both Western and Indigenous sciences. This presentation will describe the formation of the program’s community partnerships and culturally responsive science education framework. It will ...
Jane Goodall, the legendary primatologist known as “the chimp whisperer,” died in 2025 at the age of 91. Looking back at her life and scientific contributions - she studied the social lives of wild chimpanzees for over six decades and tirelessly advocated for their protection - experts at CUNY discuss ...
Where: Cost: Free
Alzheimer's Disease: A New Direction - LivestreamWhat if Alzheimer’s disease is driven not only by harmful proteins, but by the loss of a natural element the brain needs to protect itself? Lithium is widely known as a psychiatric medication - but what if the brain naturally depends on lithium to stay resilient as we age? In this ...
Where: Cost: Free
From Peppers to Peppermints: how spices helped unlock the secrets of pain sensationPlease join us for the next session of The Science Scoop, a quarterly public lecture series hosted by UCSF Basic Sciences. Discovery for ALL!We invite you to learn about how curiosity-driven research is leading to critical medical advances. Through engaging lectures geared towards a lay audience, premier researchers at the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Virtual Skeptics on the PubThis is a casual night of socializing with fellow science-forward skeptics and with others inhabiting our oblate spheroidal planet.Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.Click here to join.
The Story of Your Nervous SystemJoin us for a session to reset your nervous system, turn stress into resilience, and feel empowered, restored, and deeply connected.Join in this conversation and practice emotional regulation and resilience in a safe, fun, and intuitive workshop. Human beings are meant to wobble but NOT break! Too much stress will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 General
Thursday, 03/26/26
Ecological Puzzles & Passion: Tales of Cyanos, Sensors, & Community ScienceFreshwater ecosystems have long inspired human interest, passion, and investment. They are essential to our economic, environmental, and personal wellbeing. Freshwater lakes around the globe, however, are degrading. Especially concerning are the toxic cyanobacterial blooms that are on the rise worldwide. Until recently, cyanobacterial blooms were thought to be prevalent ...
Where: Cost: Free
SETI Live: From Moon to Mars: What Aretmis II Means for the FutureAs NASA prepares to return humans to the Moon with Artemis II, what does it really take to live and work on the lunar surface?Join host Simon Steel and planetary scientist Pascal Lee as they explore the science and strategy behind humanity’s next giant leap. From cutting-edge spacesuit design and testing to the challenge of choosing where ...
Where: Cost: Free
PARC Forum: The future of defense technologiesJoin us at SRI’s PARC Forum as we explore the future of national and global security and defense technologies. California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis will be joined by Christopher Kirchhoff (head of AI strategy and global security at Scale AI and Defense Innovation Unit advisor) and Raj M. Shah (managing partner ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
After Dark: Unplug and PlaySurprising experiences and memorable interactions - what more can you ask for on a Thursday night?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95
NightLife: Colors of IndiaNon Stop Bhangra is taking over with an explosion of vibrant color, big sound, and all-night movement. Experience the beauty, sounds, and flavors of India right here in the Bay through a one-of-a-kind night for the senses. From live music and dance performances to food, drinks, and an Indian Bazaar, ...
Most every page of Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi novel, Project Hail Mary, glows with the promise of science and technology. In Weir’s first novel, 2011’s The Martian, the protagonist endures interplanetary travel, and struggles to survive on a harsh new world. However, in Project Hail Mary, the hero faces a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General in person, $10 online
Alone in the Algorithm: Human Connection in the Age of AIJoin California magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Jodi Halpern and renowned technologist Jaron Lanier to explore the seductions and dangers of artificial intelligence against the backdrop of America’s deepening loneliness epidemic.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40
Reinventing the way we break down plastic wasteFrom our kitchens to our clothes to the delivery of medicines, plastics play an indispensable role in our daily lives. But, the end-life of these plastics is not always taken into account. Few types of plastics can be readily recycled, and durable plastics take centuries to break down in landfills ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Friday, 03/27/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
Where: San JoseCost: $38.00
Saturday, 03/28/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
The Garden is thrilled to host plantsman extraordinaire Daniel Hinkley for a colorful globe-trotting botanical adventure. For forty years, Dan has been an advocate for the diversity of plant life as a traveler, lecturer, nurseryman, designer, and naturalist. He has authored four books, including The Explorer’s Garden: Rare and Unusual ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $20 members
Robo Expo @ ChabotMartian rovers. Driverless cars. Huggable food delivery bots. Whether assisting in data collection on faraway planets, zooming through city streets, or vacuuming kitchen floors, autonomous robotics have become a regular part of life here in our part of the galaxy.Join Chabot for a fun, hands-on exploration of robotics, featuring OUSD’s ...
Where: OaklandCost: $24 General, $19 Kids, Free for members
Science Saturday: Celebrating Women in ScienceJoin us for Science Saturday celebrating the achievements of women in science, past and present! We’ll learn about botany through the lens of the Museum’s founder, Mary B Norton. We’ll dive into marine biology with the famous mayor of Pacific Grove, Dr. Julia Platt, plus special guests, crafts, and games. This family-friendly ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Science Saturdays: Hands-on Exploration for KidsJoin the EV each month on the last Saturday from 10-11:30am for a hands-on exploration of nature and science.From how snow forms, to how erosion impacts the earth, to how we can read the clues that animals leave behind, we’ll explore topics that will both engage, fascinate and help us ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20 per child
TechFestCHM’s all-day TechFest events offer special activities and experiences for all ages included in the price of Museum admission. We're celebrating Apple's 50th Birthday! Come get hands-on with vintage Apple computers from Retro Roadshow, create Apple-themed party hats, dance to 50 years of hits, play "Pin the iPod," and more!
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free with admission
Foothills Family Nature WalkJoin us at Foothills Nature Preserve for a family-friendly nature walk, guided by EV docents. Good for ages 6 and up; all children must be accompanied by an adult.Please click the link to register via EventBrite. Space is limited.
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Whale Entanglement: Risks, Responses, and PreventionExplore the operations of the Whale Entanglement Team (WET)®, including the detailed process of a whale rescue, the challenges faced, and technological advancements in the field. This work is conducted under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, through a permit issued to the Marine Mammal Health ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Secrets of the SunThough we rely on the Sun every single day, there are still many things we don’t know about it. Researchers around the world use telescopes, satellites, and computer models to try and solve some of the Sun’s greatest mysteries. Join Dr. Becca Robinson as she tells the story of how ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 03/29/26
AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech InteractiveCurious about artificial intelligence? You are not alone. AI is shaping the world around us, and during AI Literacy Weekend at The Tech Interactive, visitors can explore how it works through playful challenges, surprising experiments, and hands on activities for all ages.From spotting AI generated images to seeing how machines ...
Where: San JoseCost: $38.00
Family-friendly and Bilingual Bird Walk at the UCSC ArboretumJoin the Bird School Project as they help kick-off the celebrations for Hummingbird Month in the beautiful gardens of the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden. This bird walk is beginner and family-friendly. Bring binoculars if you have them, if not, binoculars or a monocular will be provided for you during ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, $8 Seniors, $5 Age 4 -17
Bair Island Sunset StrollJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a walking tour at the Bair Island Unit of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge! You’ll be guided by POST ambassadors who will share the history of this beautiful protected space, information about the species that live there, and what you ...
Dr. David Ensminger is an alumnus of the SSU Biology Graduate program, specifically the Crocker Lab. From Dr. Ensminger's Bio: "...I am a broadly trained biologist and my interests are in how challenges in the environment can alter the traits, phenotypes, and behaviors of organisms across vertebrate taxa. My goal ...
Adam is an economist at UC Berkeley who studies consumer behavior in health insurance, retirement saving, and other social insurance programs. His research focuses on generating policy insights that improve economic security and welfare.
Probing vibrations at single-molecule level is essential for achieving bond-specific chemical control in realistic heterogeneous environments. Here, we introduce a new measurement scheme integrating frequency-tunable infrared excitation with scanning tunneling microscopy to characterize vibration-mediated nuclear motions of single molecules. We first validated the technique by monitoring the infrared-induced rotation of ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in part to climate scientist Syukuro Manabe, largely due to his early and accurate estimate of Earth’s climate sensitivity to increasing CO2. This estimate relied on a proper coupling of radiation and convection - the two avenues by which energy flows through ...
Europe’s energy system is changing fast - but in a very different way than in the U.S. While the U.S. is expanding nuclear capacity as a cornerstone of its future energy mix, several European countries have chosen a different route and rely more strongly on renewables, system innovation, and sector ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Plastics Proliferation - Impacts of Plastics PollutionContinued plastics proliferation generates more pollution impacts of macroplastics and microplastics on human&animal health and biodiversityDuring this conference organized by UFE San Francisco Bay Area in collaboration with FACC California Sustainability Committee, four exceptional speakers will share an update on impacts of plastics pollution (macroplastics, microplastics, nanoplastics) on human & ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members, Students Free
The Bahamonde group is interested in the development and mechanistic understanding of Ni-catalyzed processes that involve light-mediated steps - either to generate radicals that can be trapped enantioselectively or to promote C - heteroatom reductive eliminations at room temperature. Like other first-row transition metals, Ni participates in both one- and ...
The Great Valley forearc (GVF) basin preserves >13 km of stratigraphy deposited during latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous to Miocene time, preserving one of the most complete sedimentary archives of the North American Cordillera. This research investigates the mechanisms driving forearc basin development through integration of sedimentology, sandstone petrography, and geochronology. In turn, I compare the evolution of ...
Endless Learning and Wonder - 40 Years Observing Killer Whales - LivestreamPlease join us as we hear from marine biologist and killer whale expert Nancy Black. Nancy started Monterey Bay Whale Watch 34 years ago guaranteeing her regular on-the-seas observations and study of marine life in what is known as the "Serengeti of the Oceans". She has been photo-identifying Monterey Bay killer ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 04/01/26
In Science We Trust? Understanding Americans’ Confidence In Science, Scientists, And Scientific Institutions - LivestreamThe Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions webinar series features speakers who are developing innovative ideas, conducting groundbreaking research, and taking important actions to improve trust and efficacy in American institutions. Speaker expertise and topics span governmental institutions, civic organizations and practice, and the role of public opinion and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Earth on a chip: AI-based autoregressive models of the Earth systemRecent advances in machine learning offer transformative potential for Earth system modeling, yet purely data-driven climate and weather emulators face critical challenges of instability and unphysical behavior when integrated over long timescales. This talk presents a unified framework for AI-based autoregressive Earth-system models that are stable, physically consistent, and computationally ...
Planetary-scale outflow channels were carved by catastrophic floods flowing into Mars’ northern lowlands, inspiring the hypothesis that they may have fed oceans. However, the sizes and durations of these catastrophic events remain highly debated. To estimate flood discharge, previous studies have typically assumed that canyons were filled to the brim ...
Offering a snapshot of Andrea Pollio’s recent book, Silicon Elsewhere, this talk explores the concept of arbitrage as a central logic shaping Digital China’s presence in Kenya’s Silicon Savannah.Beyond geopolitical and geoeconomic narratives, Pollio demonstrate how discourses of arbitrage identify and capitalize on perceived temporal and developmental lags between these ...
This talk will review recent work adapting tools from causal inference, including tools for estimating decompositions, average treatment effects, and heterogeneous treatment effects, to problems involving sequence data, such as sequences of words in text, sequences of jobs in worker careers, and sequences of measured behaviors and actions in customer ...
Across oceans, rivers, and murky streams, many fish have evolved the remarkable ability to generate and detect electricity. While the famous electric eel often steals the spotlight, it’s far from the only aquatic electrician. From stealthy sharks detecting faint signals from hidden prey to lesser-known species quietly scanning dark waters ...
Mark Chung is the co-founder and CEO of Verdigris, a Silicon Valley based technology company empowering carbon-intensive enterprises with high-precision, AI-driven scalable electrical intelligence. Verdigris delivers real-time global monitoring with granular diagnostics and analysis, focusing on reducing stranded electrical capacity, CO2 emissions, and ensuring regulatory compliance for Mission-critical buildings.
Modern electrical infrastructure was built around industrial and building loads that are fundamentally different from the high-density silicon and IT environments now driving AI. As compute power density rises, facilities face new challenges in capacity visibility, fault detection, event diagnosis, and reliability. This talk explores the mismatch between legacy electrical ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SETI Live: Evidence of Planet Collision - LivestreamAstronomers may have just witnessed the aftermath of a massive planetary collision in another star system - offering a rare glimpse into how worlds are destroyed… and possibly reborn. Join host Dr. Moiya McTier and guest Anastasios Tzanidakis (University of Washington) as they break down new evidence suggesting that two ...
Superconducting circuits support quantum degrees of freedom that can be used to encode quantum bits. These superconducting qubits are a leading quantum information technology, but they are plagued by errors when performing multi-qubit conditional operations. One alternative is to make multi-mode circuits where multi-qubit operations are natural. I will introduce ...
This talk is focused on new techniques for the inverse design of large-scale structures in engineering that incorporate many design parameters based on combining mathematically rigorous gradient-based approaches like topological optimization with artificial-intelligence (AI) techniques for reducing the dimensionality of the design problem by several orders of magnitude. Despite the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
What Science Says about Astrology - LivestreamToday, astrology is a multibillion-dollar business, encompassing newspaper and magazine horoscopes, digital apps with millions of subscribers, and a growing number of professionals offering services ranging from financial advice to psychotherapy. Yet its tenets are demonstrably false.Join us for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with science journalist Carlos Orsi. Astrology is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95, Free for members
Astronomy on Tap Davis - Cosmic Rays and Dark MatterDaniel Cebra (UC Davis) will talk about “Galactic Cosmic Rays and Their Impact on Space Exploration”andSukanya Chakrabarti (University of Alabama) will speak about “Dark matter - in real time”
Where: DavisCost: Free
NightLifeThursdays hit different at NightLife. The museum comes alive after hours - wilder, more curious, and full of exciting creatures. Grab your friends, grab a hand-crafted drink, and let yourself wander into whatever weird or wonderful corner calls you. You never know what you’ll stumble into next, and that’s the ...
Architecture isn’t just about style or aesthetics - it’s about navigating a complex web of constraints, from budgets and regulations to human needs and lived experience. So how do architects turn all of that into something real?In this lecture, Howard Blecher, principal of Blecher Building + Urban Design in San ...
Join us for an inspiring afternoon as we welcome Jose Hernandez, the visionary CEO of Tierra Luna Engineering, to our campus! His journey from a migrant farmworker to a NASA astronaut is a remarkable story of perseverance and technical excellence, brought to life in the movie “A Million Miles Away.” ...
Understanding actinide-ligand covalency is at the center of efforts to design new separations schemes for spent nuclear fuel, and thus features considerable practical importance. NMR spectroscopy is a widely available means of measuring 5f covalency that is complementary to more established methods, such optical spectroscopy and XANES. However, its use ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Friday Nights at CuriOdysseySwing into the weekend with science, animals, music, food trucks, and fun! On the first Friday of every month, parents and kids celebrate together at CuriOdyssey.Dance to some of your favorite hits, while enjoying animal presentations and science activities. Activities and programs are different each time, so make it a ...
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Micro FestJoin us for a celebration of seeing small through a variety of tools, from simple hand lenses to powerful microscopes. Uncover textures, patterns, and ecosystems that are normally invisible to the naked eye. Meet drifting plankton, explore immune cells, identify parasites, and dive into hands-on activities that invite you to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Are There Gray Foxes in Your Backyard?Learn all about our local gray foxes and how to identify evidence of their presence!On a walk/talk from the Visitor’s Center out into the refuge, Bill "The Fox Guy" Leikam will show you how to identify indications of the presence of foxes, and tell stories about gray foxes that he’s ...
