The Search for another Earth - LivestreamDr Ravi Kopparapu, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, on how scientists search for Earth-like planets and for life beyond our Solar System. He covers how such planets are found, what makes a world potentially habitable, and how telescopes now let us look for signs of biology and ...
Speaker: Brian Gregory, University of Pennsylvania
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Activity-Based Assays for Monitoring Treatment and Prevention of Infectious DiseasesFor many infectious and chronic diseases, effective medications already exist, and prevention or treatment succeeds or fails on whether those drugs are dosed and taken correctly. Concentrations that are too low lead to new infection or treatment failure, and concentrations that are too high cause adverse reactions. Current methods for ...
The dual quests - to understand intelligence as it arises in biology and to build it in machines of our own making - have been with us for nearly a century. While neuroscience and psychology seek to characterize intelligence in terms of underlying neural mechanisms and emergent behavior, we still ...
The geologically young surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa shows multiple lines of evidence for both divergent and convergent tectonic activity: dilation bands, where fresh ice has been emplaced, and regions interpreted as “subduction” zones, where ice appears to have descended under the surface. These motions are likely driven by ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Walk with a NaturalistJoin Shelby Hendricks, group tour and family programs manager, for an observation-based exploration of works currently on view through the lenses of art and science.These cross-disciplinary tours invite visitors to engage with artworks in unexpected ways, bringing a more-than-human dimension to scientific ideas while deepening our emotional connection to the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with admission
All that is compute transforms into concrete: Monopoly rent and the fixity of AI’s infrastructureIn the capitalist imaginary, artificial intelligence is narrated on dematerialization. In this telling, capital has escaped the weight of human labor via the frictionless circulation of data. This paper argues the opposite: the AI economy is a geography of fixity, where training large language models requires warehouse-scale data centers anchored ...
A free night for anyone curious about the brain: students, professionals, career changers and the just-plain-curious. Meet new people, play brain games, grab free food and catch two short, fun Mini Keynotes on where neuroscience is heading. Speakers: Jun Axup Penman, E11 Bio; Narayan Sankaran, UC San FranciscoNeuroscience reaches far beyond ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
SLAC on Tap: Night of the Dark MatterSomething is lurking in the dark. Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet it continues to slip through our grasp. But could scientists be closing in? The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment recently made headlines after researchers spotted a mysterious particle interaction that they can’t easily explain ...
Join the Association of International Lawyers in the Bay Area (AILBA) for an engaging discussion at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and law, hosted by Orrick in San Francisco.As AI evolves from systems that generate content to autonomous agents capable of taking actions, accessing sensitive information, and making decisions, ...
Local astronomers talking about stars, planets, and the universe at your neighborhood bar. No PhD required.Tickets here.Astronomy on Tap is is a free public lecture series where astronomers give short, laid-back talks over drinks at local bars. No background in science required - our scientists share cool stuff about space ...
We talk to people every day, but research reveals surprising blindspots in our conversational awareness. We don't realize that we're quietly calculating the end of another person's sentence, actively building a shared sense of reality, or leaning on well-worn paths to make others laugh.In this talk, Zachary Reese, professor at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27
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.
