Time Shifting with the SciSchmooze

3.13.23

Mar 13

Welcome Time Science Jumpers,

Depending on how you look at it, is it the same time or are we now living in a different time? If you are tired of the rain you got to skip an hour of it last night! I have mentioned in the past the question about what time is it on the moon. You may have seen more about it recently. Time was measured much differently in 1969! This might be another way to manage time also.

Something very timely this week is 𝛑 Day. Here’s the 𝛑 Day Challenge Did you know that 𝛑 has been memorized out to more than 70K digits but NASA only uses 𝛑 out to 15 decimal places? Historically the best place to celebrate 𝛑 Day is in San Francisco at the explOratorium where 𝛑 Day was first celebrated.

Of course there are many cool things coming this week. May I point out a few?

A Fireside Chat with President Biden’s National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi and Steven Chu Mon @ 4:30

Pi (π) Day Tue 11 to 3

The Birth of the Science Communicator - Livestream Thu @ 4

Conversations About Landscape Thu @ 6

I have always wanted to hear more about the ‘nuts and bolts’ of how science works and is done. Check out Unlocking the Sun: Spectroscopy in the 1800's Fri @ 7:30 if your interested too.

New research on Octopus Paxarbolis is bringing up some new lessons about science or information literacy. We really do need to push for teaching critical thinking when confronted with so much bad science or the misrepresentation of science. (And then there’s Fox not-the-news!)

The history of science is filled with many stories of how scientists overcame ignorance and opposition to their research and work. Recently I was reminded of the story of Nikolai Vavilov. Seed banks like the one in Svalbard aren’t a new thing. Here’s another interesting take on science and the good of humanity. One part of the discussion was when doing research that will have direct impact on people or animals some may pay a very high price for being in the control group. There were many mentions of the angst of the researcher committing some people to have to endure pay the price. The other side of this though is that if the research and development wasn’t done, many in the test group and the rest of the population would never have the benefit. I really recommend a listen to The Great Vaccinator. Here’s another take on research on humans… Lack of diversity in clinical trials

Here’s one more article about how some famous people continued to make science after their public identity faded from the news… Tuskegee Airmen Left a Lasting Legacy in Service and Science

I haven’t seen it yet, but everything I have heard makes me hopeful for an Oscar for All That Breathes. If you have seen it, let us know what you think. I’m hoping to see it soon.

One last thing. I know of two science education organizations/museum/zoos that have taken a big hit in the storms of the last few months. Of course every science teaching institution could use some extra help but if you are so inclined, take out a membership and visit CuriOdyssey and Oakland Zoo. I’m sure that many more could use the help. Give it now.

Have another damp week loving science and if appropriate, the one you’re with!

herb masters

“Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not the commonplace of schoolbooks, we shall not exist…And I am deeply saddened to find myself surrounded in the West by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge into---into what? Into Zen Buddhism; into falsely profound questions about “Are we not just animals at bottom”; into extra-sensory perception and [pseudo] mysteries.” They do not lie along the line of what we are now able to know if we devote ourselves to it: and understanding of man himself. We are nature’s unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.” Pseudoscience's Constant Appeal in the Shadow of Beautiful Science

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Monday, 03/13/2023

Neurostimulation of Brain Networks and Cardiovascular Systems - Livestream - 03/13/2023 10:40 AM
UC Santa Cruz

Neurophysiological and mental ailments such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease affect millions of lives and cost the US economy more than $100 billion yearly in lost productivity. Efforts to understand the biophysical cause of these disorders have revealed the two extreme spectra of excessive (pathological) synchronization of neural activity across multiple brain regions, namely, a continuous regime of synchronized activity (e.g., in Parkinson's disease) and episodes of synchronized activity (e.g., in epileptic seizures). While the existing stimulation therapies effectively suppress disease-specific pathological synchronization of neural activity when they occur, they fail to prevent the re-emergence of pathological synchronized neural activity once the stimulation is turned off.

Speaker: Gautam Kumar, San Jose State University

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Genomics (Plus Field Ecology) to Enhance California Biodiversity Conservation - 03/13/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park

Speaker: Dr. Brad Shaffer, UC Los Angeles

Advancing ocean protection in the US and bridging the science-policy gap - 03/13/2023 12:00 PM
Hopkins Marine Station Pacific Grove

In 2021, the United States established a national goal to protect at least 30% of lands and waters by 2030 (also known as “30x30”). The Biden Administration’s sweeping vision for achieving this goal - titled Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful - is centered around tackling three pressing challenges in America: climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequitable access to nature. In this talk, Erin will share an overview of this America the Beautiful initiative, the current status of U.S. ocean protection, and the progress, challenges, and opportunities ahead for advancing effective, lasting, equitable, and inclusive marine protections - ultimately achieving a healthier future for both people and planet. She’ll also share her perspectives on bridging the science-policy gap, and how scientists can help inform ocean policy and management in the U.S.

Speaker: Erin Eastwood, National Ocean Protection Coalition

Attend in person or online.

A Heartbreak Star - 03/13/2023 12:10 PM
Campbell Hall, Rm 131 A Berkeley

In this talk, I will describe tidal wave breaking on the surface of a massive "heartbeat" star. Each periapse passage in this eccentric binary system, tides with amplitudes so large that they lose phase coherence and break are raised. The chance to view this process in action gives us a window into the physics and consequences of nonlinear tidal dissipation. I will describe modeling and simulations of this system, in which we see that tidal wave breaking drives the system's orbit to decay observably, and spins the stellar surface to the breakup limit.

Speaker: Morgan MacLeod, UC Berkeley

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth - Livestream - 03/13/2023 12:30 PM
Stanford University

The Holter monitor, a portable box that has broadcasted the electrical activity of human hearts for nearly 75 years, has become such a common object in clinical medicine that few pause to consider its origins. Indeed, as a succession of newer Wi-Fi - and Cloud-enabled devices, smartphone apps, and other “wearables” now claim to revolutionize healthcare, it is easy to overlook older instruments of medical surveillance. But in 1949, when Norman Holter first fitted a wearable FM-radio to track and record the functioning of patients’ hearts in their domestic worlds, he envisioned “a more general project of broadcasting physiological data” from homes and workplaces and transmitting it to analytic systems to be interpreted. The early history of physiological surveillance, I argue, had more impact on who was newly granted expertise to receive and interpret health data as it did the data itself.

Speaker: Jeremy Greene, Johns Hopkins University

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Investigating the summer 2022 harmful algal bloom in San Francisco Bay: impacts and contributing factors - 03/13/2023 12:30 PM
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) Stanford

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose growing threats worldwide to biological resources, human health, and regional economies, and over the last decade HABs have emerged as a high priority water quality management issue in San Francisco Bay (SFB). Despite SFB being highly-enriched in nitrogen and phosphorus, monitoring over several decades indicated the system was relatively resistant to the severe water quality impacts that commonly afflict other nutrient-enriched estuaries (e.g. low dissolved oxygen, HABs). However, there has been growing evidence in recent years suggesting that SFB’s resistance to nutrient impacts is weakening, including increases in phytoplankton production and biomass and frequent detections of multiple HAB-taxa and phycotoxins. In August 2022, SFB experienced its first severe HAB event, with excessive growth of the dinoflagellate Heterosigma akashiwo leading to widespread oxygen-depletion and fish kills. After early reports in late-July of discolored water in channels around Alameda, the bloom’s spread to South Bay was initially detected by remote-sensed imagery in early August, and was thereafter intensively monitored by regional scientists over the subsequent month through field surveys, water quality moorings, and remote sensing. This seminar will describe the HAB event’s progression and biogeochemical/water-quality impacts, and the application of observational data and numerical models to explore potential factors that contributed to the bloom’s initiation, spread, and eventual termination.

Speaker: David Senn, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Programmable adiabatic demagnetization: preparing low energy states by simulated cooling - 03/13/2023 02:30 PM
Physics North Berkeley

The ability to prepare ground states of many-body Hamiltonians on quantum devices is of central importance for a variety of tasks and applications in quantum computation and quantum simulation. In this talk I will describe a simple, flexible, and robust protocol to prepare low-energy states of arbitrary Hamiltonians on either digital or analog quantum hardware. The protocol is inspired by the “adiabatic demagnetization” technique, used to cool solid state systems to extremely low temperatures. A constant fraction of the available qubits serve as a renewable bath, enabling the cooling process to be run in a cyclic fashion. Measurements of the bath spins at the end of each cycle provide information on the progress of cooling. Importantly, we find that the performance of the algorithm in the presence of a finite error rate depends on the nature of the excitations of the system: the greater difficulty of cooling systems with topological excitations (which cannot be created or destroyed individually) is manifested in characteristic dependencies of cooling performance on error rate and system size, which can serve as signatures of the underlying ground state order. Finally, I will discuss prospects for beating this scaling through fermionization.

Speaker: Mark Ruder, University of Washington

Diving Deep Uncovers Deep Knowledge - 03/13/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park

Speaker: Russell Lego, Adobe

Live Cell Force Dynamics - Do Cell Membranes Support or Resist Tension Propagation? - 03/13/2023 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford

Dr. Shannon Yan received her B.S. in Chemistry from National Taiwan University. She then pursued her Ph.D. in Chemistry at UC Berkeley with Prof. Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. and studied ribosome translation dynamics using mass spectrometry and force spectroscopy with optical tweezers. During postdoc with Prof. Carlos Bustamante, also at UC Berkeley, Dr. Yan expanded the scope of her research in single-molecule biophysics, from co-transcriptional RNA folding to membrane remodeling during vesicle budding. Through collaboration with the Weiner lab at UCSF, Dr. Yan advanced to investigate live cell force dynamics, where she adapted optical tweezers to monitor membrane tension during optogenetic-induced actin-driven cell protrusion/contraction in neutrophils. The outcome of this work settles a long-standing dispute in the field by revealing that membrane tension rapidly propagates across the cell and could act as an integrator of physiological signals, critical for regulating cell shape/movement. This work serves as the basis for Dr. Yan to further study membrane tension dynamics during cell division. In parallel, she is developing new molecular probes and instrumentations for the visualization of forces and tension within the cellular machinery, with the aim to apply these sensors to study spindle/microtubule dynamics during mitosis (CASI Award, BWF). Dr. Yan was also granted an NIH K99 award to study the mechanistic aspects of mitotic checkpoint proteins (MAD2), whose dynamic fold switching safeguards the mechanical progression of chromosome segregation, thus expanding our understanding on factors involved in cell division. Her overarching goal is to directly measure and broadly explore the mechanical aspects inside and around cells, thereby revealing force fields characteristic of living processes. Ultimately, Dr. Yan aims to unravel the long-missing narratives in the mechanical dimension and integrate them with the finely resolved 3D cell atlases, animating living cells at work as well as in disease as a 4D Physiological ‘movie.’

Speaker: Shannon Yan, UC Berkeley

Illuminating Dark Matter with Accelerators - 03/13/2023 04:15 PM
Physics North Berkeley

Nearly a century after discovering Dark Matter, we have an impressive understanding of its astronomical and cosmological properties but remarkably little knowledge of its fundamental nature. One leading paradigm postulates new fundamental particles that were in thermal equilibrium with ordinary matter in the early universe - thermal relics - where the most familiar example is a new particle that interacts through the weak nuclear force, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). As searches for WIMPs approach fundamental sensitivity limits, interest in the more general class of thermal relics has emerged, where these dark matter candidates give rise to clearly testable predictions in small, accelerator-based experiments. In this talk, I will review the fundamental ideas and motivations for these searches, describe how the experiments work, and discuss their ability to explore thermal dark matter, with a particular focus on two experiments, the Heavy Photon Search (HPS) at JLab, and the Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX), proposed to operate at SLAC.

Speaker: Tim Nelson, Stanford University

A Fireside Chat with President Biden’s National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi and Steven Chu - 03/13/2023 04:30 PM
Stanford Energy Seminar

Ali Zaidi serves as Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor. In this role, he leads the White House Climate Policy Office, which coordinates policy development and President Biden’s all-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis, create good-paying, union jobs, and advance environmental justice. Zaidi is a longtime advisor to President Biden, having provided counsel and leadership on climate policy development, legislation, and executive action from day one of the Administration and on the Biden presidential transition and campaign. Before his current role, he served as Deputy National Climate Advisor.

During his time in the Biden-Harris Administration, Zaidi has led on efforts to re-establish U.S. climate leadership, set a national target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent by 2030; deliver robust executive actions, including regulatory, investment, and procurement-based initiatives; and secure the largest legislative wins on climate in U.S. history, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. Together these efforts have advanced the largest annual deployment of solar, wind, and batteries; brought together the U.S. auto sector around an all-electric future; tackled super-pollutants like methane and HFCs; bolstered domestic adaptation and resilience; and centered U.S. climate action around workers and communities, prioritizing good-paying union jobs and the critical work of environmental justice.

Attend in person or online. See weblink

Tuesday, 03/14/2023

NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework & Trustworthy AI - Livestream - 03/14/2023 10:00 AM
UC Berkeley

In this one-hour Berkeley Boosts webinar hosted by Berkeley Law Executive Education, Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will join Brandie Nonnecke and Tejas Narechania, co-directors of the Project on Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, along with Jessica Newman, Research Fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and Director, Artificial Intelligence Security Initiative, to discuss the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF). Together they’ll explore ways to effectively implement the NIST AI RMF, highlight NIST’s next steps, and discuss whether the AI RMF is in alignment with AI risk mitigation strategies outlined in the EU AI Act. Don’t miss this timely and important conversation.

Pi (π) Day - 03/14/2023 11:00 AM
ExplOratorium San Francisco

Join the 36th annual celebration of our own homegrown holiday! March 14th (3/14) commemorates the irrational, transcendent, and never-ending ratio that helps describe circles of all sizes. Explore math-inspired activities and presentations, then join our pi parade and eat a free piece of pie. Come for the STEAM and stay for the slice!

Pi Procession 1:59 p.m. Moore Gallery 4

Grab your digit and get in line for the annual Pi Procession! A high-spirited crowd parades through the museum and circles the Pi Shrine 3.14 times, waving the digits of pi and dancing along to a brass band. All participants will enjoy a free slice of pie following the parade.

Ironing out Life’s First Breaths - 03/14/2023 03:30 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz

Every cell contains a biochemical record of four billion years of Earth-life coevolution. Our mitochondria were once free-living bacteria. Each unit of the electron transport chain that we use to breathe oxygen was borrowed from older microbial machinery. Aerobic respiration is a medley of pieces of older anaerobic respiratory pathways such as methanogenesis, anoxygenic photosynthesis, and iron oxidation. Yet we have barely begun to chart the vast landscape of myriad microbial metabolisms. In this talk, I will describe how dissecting the molecular machines of modern microbes can give us glimpses of the early Earth environments that supported life’s first breaths.

Speaker: Jennifer Glass, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Physics of the Cult Movie Interstellar - 03/14/2023 03:30 PM
Hewlett Teaching Center Stanford

Christopher Nolan’s cult science fiction film Interstellar (2014) sprang from a treatment co-authored by physicist Kip Thorne, and so had real science - both firm and speculative - embedded in it from the outset. The film’s venue is what Thorne calls “The Warped Side of our Universe”: objects and phenomena made, at least in part, from warped spacetime, such as black holes, wormholes, spacetime singularities, time travel, gravitational waves, gravitational lensing, gravitational slingshots, solitary ocean waves driven by tidal gravitational forces, and braneworlds (general relativity in five macroscopic spacetime dimensions). In this colloquium, Thorne (who was Interstellar’s executive producer and science advisor) will discuss the science and scientific speculations underlying the movie, its visual effects, and connections to contemporary physics issues.

Speaker: Kip Thorne, Caltech

Stanford Symbolic Systems Forum: Bruce McCandliss - 03/14/2023 04:30 PM
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460) Stanford

Speaker: Bruce McCandliss, Stanford University

Room 126

Astronomy Beginner's Forum - Livestream - 03/14/2023 07:00 PM
San Jose Astronomical Society

If you're new to astronomy and are perhaps considering getting your own telescope but are not sure where to start, maybe we can help!

This event is an on-line meeting where you can chat with representatives of SJAA as well as other new astronomy enthusiasts. We'll share general tips and answer specific questions. Our goal is to give you information, so that you can make good choices for yourself and get started in a way that leads to success and joy.

You can ask any astronomy or astronomy equipment-related question, but please understand that some questions may be beyond the scope of this session. For example, we will not be able to walk through complex telescope setup procedures. If you're having specific trouble with a telescope, we'll do our best to give you tips, but we may have to refer you to further resources.

Also, if you're looking to buy binoculars or a telescope, we will not be able to give you a specific recommendation for what to get, as there is no single right answer. We will, however, give you criteria and guidelines to consider, so you can focus your own research and make an informed choice.

We will start the session by collecting the questions you want to ask. Other than that, just bring your enthusiasm for astronomy!

Wednesday, 03/15/2023

Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made - 03/15/2023 09:15 AM
Gates Computer Science Building Stanford

Policymakers and the public often find algorithms to be complex, opaque and intimidating and it can be tempting to pretend that hard moral questions have simple technological answers. But that approach leaves technical experts holding the moral microphone, and it stops people who lack technical expertise from making their voices heard. Today, policymakers and scholars are seeking better ways to share the moral decision making within high stakes software exploring ideas like public participation, transparency, forecasting, and algorithmic audits. But there are few real examples of those techniques in use.

In Voices in the Code, scholar David G. Robinson tells the story of how one community built a life-and-death algorithm in an inclusive, accountable way. Between 2004 and 2014, a diverse group of patients, surgeons, clinicians, data scientists, public officials and advocates collaborated and compromised to build a new transplant matching algorithm a system to offer donated kidneys to particular patients from the U.S. national waiting list. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders, unpublished archives, and a wide scholarly literature, Robinson shows how this new Kidney Allocation System emerged and evolved over time, as participants gradually built a shared understanding both of what was possible, and of what would be fair. Robinson finds much to criticize, but also much to admire, in this story. It ultimately illustrates both the promise and the limits of participation, transparency, forecasting and auditing of high stakes software. The book’s final chapter draws out lessons for the broader struggle to build technology in a democratic and accountable way.

Breakfast with the speaker begins at 9:15, the lecture at 10:00

Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima Trail - 03/15/2023 10:00 AM
Cowell Purisima Coastal Trailhead Half Moon Bay

Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter season.

You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about POST’s work with farmers on the coast, and to create recreational opportunities along one of the most scenic stretches of our state’s coastline!

The walk is moderate at about 5 miles round trip with about 400 feet of gradual elevation gain. It is mostly flat throughout, however, it is quite a long walk.

What I Did On My Fall Vacations - Submersible Research on the Fishes of Southern California Oil/Gas Platforms - Rescheduled - 03/15/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing

Most of us lead drab and colorless lives as drones and cogs in faceless organizations. With his tales of research around southern California oil and gas platforms, Milton (only his wife calls him Dr. Love) will enter your world like a bright and fanciful rainbow, or a swatch of William Morris wallpaper, or perhaps one of those Baratza espresso makers that look like something out of a caffeine-induced fantasy.

Speaker: Milton Love, UC Santa Barbara

Attend in person, or register at weblink to attend online.

This event has been rescheduled for March 29, 2023

Succulent Plants of South Africa’s Western Cape - Livestream - 03/15/2023 12:00 PM
UC Botanical Garden

Join Fred Dortort, author of The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World, on a photographic virtual tour of his many trips to South Africa documenting unusual, spectacular, and increasingly, endangered succulent plants. Over the past twenty-plus years, Fred has had the opportunity to visit some rarely travelled regions, in the company of highly knowledgeable people, and is looking forward to sharing some of the sights and plants he’s seen with more succulent enthusiasts. For this online presentation, he’ll be focusing on plants from the Western Cape regions of South Africa, covering the Little (Klein) Karoo, the Tankwa Karoo, parts of Namakwaland and the Knerverslakte quartzfields, along with some other adjacent, succulent-rich areas. Many of the succulents that grow here specialize in very odd habitats, some of which extend for miles and others for only a few square feet. This program will also feature a number of photos from earlier trips, made in the South African winter and early spring, when some of the same plants are at their growing peak. The contrast may be quite enlightening for those of us who strive to grow some of these choice, often dwarf, species.

Marine Invertebrate Responses to Changing Environments - 03/15/2023 03:30 PM
Estuary & Ocean Science Center Tiburon

Marine environments are not uniform or constant, and animals have a variety of responses to such change. Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes, and local adaptation, differences among populations under different conditions, are important responses for a variety of animals that live in changing conditions. But, at present, we do not know which of these is more likely when animals are faced with new anthropogenically induced changes, like species introductions or ocean acidification, and whether past experience with variable environments affects responses to new change. I will present work we have done with molluscs regarding environmental change, including responses to different food environments and the presence or absence of predators. We have also been exploring plasticity and the potential for local adaptation in response to introduced predators for gastropods and in response to ocean acidification for bivalves.

Speaker: Dianna Padilla, Stony Brook University

Attend in person or online.

Editor's Note: As we list this, the web page for the event has conflicting information as to time and date. It is listed as Wednesday, March 15 in one place, and Wednesday March 16 in another. The 15th is Wednesday. Start time is listed as 3:30 in one place and 3:40 in another. This weekly seminar is usually held on Wednesdays at 3:30, so that's what we are listing.

Gendered surplus people, food security, and maladaptation to climate change - 03/15/2023 04:00 PM
Giannini Hall Berkeley

In this presentation, I explain why along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border, floodplain farming remains popular when it manifestly causes more problems. I draw upon Karl Marx’s theory of relative surplus population and interviews with farmers. I argue that the creation of relative surplus people through mining-induced land displacement compels farmers to engage in floodplain agriculture. For landless women, an additional pressure is gendered subjectivities linked to norms of being good wives. To reduce vulnerability to flooding, farmers often raise artificial levees or alter fields to drain water more quickly. I assess the maladaptive outcomes of these practices. Ultimately, I show how climate change maladaptation scholarship could be advanced to focus more critically on political-economic dynamics, gender, and intersectionality.

Speaker: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver

Editor's Note: This seminar is usually given from 4:00 to 5:30. This particular one does not have a time listed on UC Berkeley's calendar. We've listed it for the regular time, but that may not be accurate.

The Brussels Effect? A practical outlook on global convergence and divergence in digital platform regulation after the EU’s Digital Markets Act - 03/15/2023 05:00 PM
Paul Brest Hall Stanford

An informal panel debate and audience discussion on the future of digital platform regulation in Europe, the U.S. and China followed by a social hour for further discussion. The panel will explore the status of ex-ante global platform regulation globally, the degree to which different drivers and philosophies may result in regulatory divergence across the world’s major economic blocs, and what such divergence is likely to mean in practice for how platforms and their users do business in the future.

The panel will feature:

Kevin Kehoe, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation Will Leslie, Global Co-Head Linklaters's Tech Sector, BrusselsIan Simmons, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP Joanna Smolinka, Counsellor for Digital and Deputy Head of the EU Office in San Francisco CEPA Fay Zhou, Partner and Head of Linklaters's Antitrust Practices in Asia, Beijing Prof. Doug Melamed (Moderator), Scholar in Residence, formerly, Professor of the Practice of Law, Stanford Law School

Beyond ChatGPT: Stuart Russell on the Risks and Rewards of A.I. - Rescheduled - 03/15/2023 05:30 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco

OpenAI’s question-and-answer chatbot Chat GPT has shaken up Silicon Valley and is already disrupting a wide range of fields and industries, including education. But the potential risks of this new era of artificial intelligence go far beyond students cheating on their term papers. Even OpenAI’s founder warns that “the question of whose values we align these systems to will be one of the most important debates society ever has."

How will artificial intelligence impact your job and life? And is society ready? We talk with UC Berkeley computer science professor and A.I. expert Stuart Russell about those questions and more.

This talk has been rescheduled for April 3, 2023

White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi - 03/15/2023 06:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco

Energy and infrastructure are taking center stage as President Biden’s team fans across the country touting his accomplishments and the benefits they bring to American families. Biden’s policy wins have secured vast amounts of funding, and that money is just beginning to flow, with new programs becoming available to everyday Americans. With hundreds of billions tagged for chip and battery plants, climate-smart agriculture, rail, modernizing the electric grid and tax incentives for citizens to run their homes and cars on electricity, ensuring these dollars and programs have real impact is now the name of the game.

White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi plays a leading role in coordinating the implementation of the biggest investments in clean energy the United States has ever made. Join Climate One Host Greg Dalton in person with Ali Zaidi as we navigate the complicated maze of industrial policy intended to grow the economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaker: Ali Zaidi, White House national Climate Advisor; Greg Dalton, Host, Climate One

$5 online general, free for members

Cell Phone Astrophotography - Livestream - 03/15/2023 06:00 PM
San Francisco Amateur Astronomers

If you would like to be able to capture images of celestial objects using a telescope and don’t have special astrophotography equipment, or do have equipment but would also like to have the option of being able to capture images quickly and easily on the fly, SFAA has you covered. Please join us on Zoom to welcome Michael Weasner for a fascinating deep dive into the amazing capabilities of ordinary cell phones for inexpensive, ultra-portable, and surprisingly realistic astrophotography. A long time amateur astronomer and prominent dark-sky advocate, Michael not only has extensive personal experience with smart phone astrophotography but has also written and lectured widely on the subject. The lecture will be presented via an interactive Zoom meeting with opportunities for questions and answers.

Watch the talk here.

Human-Centered Design for VR Training - Livestream - 03/15/2023 07:00 PM
SF Bay Association of Computing Machinery

Design for impactful VR training is an incredibly complex challenge. When done well, VR training can result in more efficient workers, decreased injuries, and cost savings. However, if done badly, VR training can result in confused workers, wasted funds, and negative training effects causing more harm than benefit. Whereas limitations of technology can cause bad VR execution, problems are oftentimes caused by a lack of understanding your target audience, illy defined goals, and insufficient feedback.

This talk focuses on designing for training results where VR can add the most value. It discusses the importance of communicating with your target audience, challenges of different types of training, using Kirkpatrick’s model to define and evaluate training, building simple prototypes, gathering feedback, and iterating towards successful training programs. The tutorial is for VR creators and stakeholders that are seeking insight on how to define, design, and evaluate impactful training.

Speaker: Jason Jerald, NextGen Interactions

Nerd Nite SF #130: Card Math See Shanties! (& Rum!) - 03/15/2023 07:00 PM
Rickshaw Stop San Francisco

Mathematics and the Card Game SET with Dr. Catherine HsuCome play SET, a fun game of pattern recognition universally loved by mathematicians! Although this game was invented as part of a research project on epilepsy in German Shepherds, SET is closely related to many interesting areas in mathematics. Tonight, we’ll (briefly) introduce some of these math ideas and then explore some variations of the game, including Super Set, Pokemon set, and many more. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of this card game… we’ll explain the rules of gameplay at the start!

Secrets of Sea Shanties with Preston Thomas What *do* you do with a drunken sailor, anyway? If you know what to listen for, sea chanteys are a linguistic time capsule into life aboard ship at the end of the Age of Sail. Let’s crack a few open, see how they worked, and learn why big burly dangerous dudes were singing on the job. From the captain’s daughter to the dreaded ‘stuncil bones,’ we’ll explore how chanteys have survived down to the present day - or not - and how their hidden history is more inclusive than you might think.

Wonderfest: Spider Love and Dark Matter - Livestream - 03/15/2023 08:00 PM
Wonderfest

Wonderfest Science Envoys are early-career researchers with special communication skills and aspirations. Following short talks on provocative modern science topics, these two Science Envoys will answer questions with insight and enthusiasm:

UC Berkeley entomologist Trinity Walls on Creepy or Captivating: A Spider Scientist's Perspective - How have recent discoveries about spiders changed beliefs that have been passed down for generations? Can we see that the study of spiders is beneficial to society? One person's life-long journey - from curious child to rigorous researcher - reveals spider science to be an avenue of creative self-expression that offers rich insights into nature. Stanford astrophysicist Jyotirmai "Joe" Singh on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe - Deeply mysterious dark matter constitutes a staggering 85% of the material universe. What is the evidence for dark matter's ubiquitous existence, yet why has it been so difficult to detect in the laboratory? Cutting-edge theories and experiments within modern physics do give us hope that we can understand dark matter, unlocking key mysteries of the cosmos.

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Thursday, 03/16/2023

Lunch Break Science: 3.5 Million-Year-Old Human Ancestors Found in Outskirts of Nairobi - Livestream - 03/16/2023 11:00 AM
Leaky Foundation

Meet East Africa’s first woman paleoanthropologist Dr. Emma Mbua, learn about the surprising discovery of Australopithecus afarensis fossils at Kantis Fossil Site on the outskirts of Nairobi, and hear Emma’s story in this special Women’s History Month episode. Dr. Mbua is also a Leakey Foundation grantee and Baldwin Scholar.

Watch this new episode of Lunch Break Science live on on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or Leakey Foundation Live to participate in the live Q&A session.

Key Technologies for Upgrading Cable Television Networks - Livestream - 03/16/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State Engineering Colloquium

The movement towards a remote workforce brought on by the COVID pandemic have combined with competition to place strong pressure on Cable Television operators to increase their network performance. Recent industry initiatives are touting up to 10 GBps using the existing coaxial cables with upgraded repeater amplifiers. A new DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) standard has been approved with significant trials slated for later this year. The new specification, DOCSIS 4.0, supports two divergent architectures each with strengths and weaknesses.

In this presentation, physical-layer technologies that enable DOCSIS 4.0 systems to reach their goals are discussed. Achieving higher levels of signal output to overcome losses in cables without adding distortion is essential to transmit more complex signal modulation that improve spectral efficiency. Improved amplifier linearity continues to be a key enabler for many communication networks. It can be achieved through a combination of newer device technologies such as GaN (Gallium-Nitride) and careful design with an array of linearization circuit techniques.

Speaker: Chris Day, Analog Devices

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Exposing Muybridge: A Special Documentary Screening and Presentation on the Life and Work of a Technological Disruptor - First screening - 03/16/2023 04:00 PM
The Guild Theater Menlo Park

On a balmy June morning in 1878, photographer Eadweard Muybridge famously captured the airborne gait of a prized trotting horse at Leland Stanford’s stock farm in Palo Alto, California. Muybridge’s long and complicated history with Stanford, including experiments documenting animals in motion that set the stage for the motion picture a decade later, are only part of the story of this fascinating man, one filled with ambition, betrayal, deception, and even murder. Director Marc Shaffer’s Exposing Muybridge presents the first full documentary treatment of Muybridge’s life, one that has been hailed as “one of the best films on photography ever made” (TechRadar). While Muybridge’s motion images indeed opened our eyes to invisible worlds, they also harbor secrets that provoke an enduring question: Can we believe what we see in a photograph?

Colorful interviews with scholars, photographers, and experts - including Stanford historian emeritus Richard White and Muybridge collector Gary Oldman - bring Muybridge to life while featuring hundreds of his landscape and motion photographs, many from Cantor Arts Center and Stanford Libraries collections.

There will be two screenings of the film followed by conversations with director Marc Shaffer and other scholars to discuss Muybridge’s legacy as a technological disruptor in the arts and sciences. The first session will feature Corey Keller, former photography curator at SFMOMA and an advisor to the film, and Scott Delp, Stanford professor of bioengineering and the 2021 recipient of the Muybridge Award. The second session will feature Corey Keller and Ryan Coffee, senior staff scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Tickets are limited

The Birth of the Science Communicator - Livestream - 03/16/2023 04:00 PM
Skeptical Inquirer

What is a science communicator? The era of once-a-decade outliers like Carl Sagan is long gone. In the present day of internet-borne disinformation and science denial, science communication has emerged as a vibrant and painfully necessary field, with an army of scholars focusing their expertise exclusively on informing the public.

Dave Farina of the popular YouTube channel “Professor Dave Explains” will discuss the current state of science communication. Charlatans and anti-science propaganda have never been more prevalent, and the stakes have never been higher. The existential challenge of the 21st century is here: How do we help people know what is true? Farina will help clarify the issue and the players involved, as well as highlight important strategies that can help us win this war with ourselves.

Nightlife - 03/16/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco

Calling 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 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.

Step inside the iconic Shake House and our four-story Osher Rainforest, where you can explore the Amazon’s treetops surrounded by free-flying birds and butterflies. Reservations for these exhibits are no longer required. However, please note that the last entry into the rainforest is 7:30 pm - our animals need their sleep.

Venture into our latest aquarium exhibit Venom to encounter live venomous animals and learn the power of venom to both harm and heal.

Visit the Big Picture exhibit in the Piazza to marvel at the most recent winners of the BigPicture Natural World Photography competition.

Bask in the glow of one of the largest living indoor coral reef displays in the world: our 212,000-gallon Philippine Coral Reef habitat.

Take in the interstellar views from the Living Roof, then grab a bite from the Academy Café and head to the West Garden outdoor bar to drink and dine under the stars. For adults 21+.

After Dark: Conversations About Landscape - 03/16/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco

In 1992 a groundbreaking new map transformed the way we think about San Francisco’s history. Wild in the City captured the transformation of the ecological landscape over the course of more than 200 years. In doing so, it ushered in an urgent awareness of San Francisco’s Indigenous Ohlone heritage and provided a blueprint for how to reintegrate natural ecology into the everyday fabric of the city. Tonight, dive into stories of community and culturally based restoration efforts - and celebrate the impact people can have on place, policy, and planning for the future.

Conversations About Landscape explores environmental change in the Bay Area and beyond.

Wild in the City 7:30 p.m. Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery 6

Come celebrate 30 years of community-based, grassroots ecological restoration and stewardship in San Francisco! Co-hosted with the San Francisco Department of the Environment, Nature in the City, and the California Academy of Sciences. More details to come.

1.5 C - Methane: the 100x threat - 03/16/2023 06:00 PM
Manny's San Francisco

Climate Tech Action Network (CTAN) presents 1.5°C, an ongoing climate technology panel event that will focus on the engineering and scientific challenges facing different verticals of the climate crisis. We are bringing together some of the hottest startups in the field to explore the complex trade-offs in cost, feasibility, scalability, and carbon reduction that each of these approaches brings.

Methane is the primary component of natural gas, and is a highly potent greenhouse gas, up to 100x more powerful at heat trapping than CO2. Finding ways to prevent methane from leaking into the atmosphere is one of the most important near-term climate actions we can take. Join us for an evening of networking and discussion about new advances in methane detection and mitigation with three of the top Bay Area climate tech startups.

Panel:

Erin Wetherley, Ph.D. - Director of Research and Development at Kairos Aerospace

Julien Klein - Senior Director of Product Management at Picarro, Inc

Olya Irzak - CEO and Cofounder at Frost Methane

Matthew Gordon, Ph.D. - CTAN Executive Director, Lead Software Engineer at Toyota Research, Moderator

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World - Livestream - 03/16/2023 06:00 PM
UC Botanical Garden

The Garden is pleased to honor Women’s History Month with a special online talk by New York Times best-selling author Kathryn Aalto, featuring her book Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World (Timber Press, 2020). Her book Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of 25 diverse and extraordinary women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of science, ecology, and the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work distinct and universal. Find inspiration as we view women’s history in the natural world through a new lens at this engaging online celebration.

Birding while Disabled - Livestream - 03/16/2023 07:00 PM
Golden Gate Audubon Society

Bonnie Lewkowicz and Judith Smith will share their experiences as wheelchair-using birders and will be joined by Tiffany Taylor, a birder who is blind. Hear what they need from the birding community and birding locations to feel welcome and included.

Attend on Zoom by clicking here.

Exposing Muybridge: A Special Documentary Screening and Presentation on the Life and Work of a Technological Disruptor - Second screening - 03/16/2023 07:00 PM
The Guild Theater Menlo Park

There will be two screenings of the film followed by conversations with director Marc Shaffer and other scholars to discuss Muybridge’s legacy as a technological disruptor in the arts and sciences. The first session will feature Corey Keller,former photography curator at SFMOMA and an advisor to the film, and Scott Delp, Stanford professor of bioengineering and the 2021 recipient of the Muybridge Award.The second session will feature Corey Keller and Ryan Coffee, senior staff scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Tickets are limited

NightSchool: Number 2 - Livestream - 03/16/2023 07:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences

This NightSchool, our number one priority is something everyone does: number two. From conservation clues in scat to fecal breeding grounds, we’re talking all about poop.

Ages 21+

See weblink for links to the stream

Friday, 03/17/2023

Upper and lower plate controls on megathrust slip behavior in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone - 03/17/2023 12:00 PM
Earth and Marine Sciences Building Santa Cruz

Speaker: Donna Shillington, Northern Arizona University

Molecular manipulations in skeletal muscle alter the ability to recover from sleep loss - Livestream - 03/17/2023 12:00 PM
ChEM-H/Neuroscience Building, Gunn Rotunda (E241)

Speaker: Ketema Paul, UC Los Angeles

Attend in person or online.

Unlocking the Sun: Spectroscopy in the 1800's - 03/17/2023 07:30 PM
Tri-Valley Stargazers Livermore

Unlocking the Sun: Spectroscopy in the 1800's" Have you ever wondered how we figured out what the Sun is made of? The story of how we determined the chemical makeup of our own star combines chemistry, physics, and astronomy in a tale of mystery, far-flung expeditions, and unexpected discoveries. After a brief overview of what spectroscopy is and a discussion of some of the key pieces of physics that laid the foundations for these revelations, Dr. Lauren Woolsey will take us through the secrets of the Sun during this turning point in science history.

Speaker: Lauren Woollsey, Grand Rapids Community College

Attend in person or online. See weblink for instructions to obtain web access.

Saturday, 03/18/2023

BioBlitz at Kelley Park with Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society - 03/18/2023 09:00 AM
Kelley Park San Jose

Join us in exploring Kelley Park with Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful! We’ll be looking for birds, bugs, and anything else we come across, using iNaturalist to document our findings. After a winter of rain we’re excited to see what we find, and hope you’ll join us in exploring this large urban park.

Ages 4 and up

FAMILY PROGRAM: Magical Mini Moss Gardens - 03/18/2023 10:00 AM
UC Botanical Garden Berkeley

In honor of St. Paddy’s day, join our moss and lichen hunt, learn a little botany, and make a "magical" mini moss garden to take home. Children must be accompanied by a registered adult.

Family Nature Walks - Baylands Nature Preserve - 03/18/2023 10:30 AM
Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve Palo Alto

Environmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help students and their families get to know our local open space areas. Small family 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 chance to learn more about the plants and animals all around us. Join us for some fun, outdoor learning!

The nature walks are intended for children aged 6 to 11.

Guided nature walk at Bouverie Preserve - 03/18/2023 11:30 AM
Bouverie Preserve Glen Ellen

Experience the beauty and rich natural history of Bouverie Preserve by signing up for a Guided Nature Walk Participants are paired with a trained volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral.

Visitors of all ages are welcome. Minors MUST be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. Reservations are required. (see weblink)

Sunday, 03/19/2023

Presidio: Changes Through Time - 03/19/2023 11:00 AM
The Presidio San Francisco

Join the National Park Service and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the GGNRA!

This half-mile, level walk shows the historical changes to the Presidio, from the Spanish fort all the way to the new Tunnel Tops. Who benefitted from these changes, and who did not?

Learn about the people who lived here, and who now occupy these buildings, and how the landscape has been transformed over the years. Afterward take advantage of the food trucks nearby and the stunning views of the Golden Gate.

Women in Archaeology: A Conversation with Members of the Society for California Archaeology - 03/19/2023 01:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re delighted to host Gregg Castro (T'rowt'raahl Salinan, Rumsen, and Ramaytush Ohlone), the Native American Programs Committee Chair for the Society for California Archaeology (SCA) and the Culture Director of The Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO). He is gathering together a special panel to conclude the annual SCA conference in the Bay Area. This panel will have an in-depth discussion about the experiences of women with varied careers in the field of archaeology.

Panel:

Shelly Davis-King, Past President of SCA and Principal, Davis-King & Associates Anmarie Medin, Immediate Past President of SCA and Principal Investigator, Pacific Legacy Shannon Tushingham, Past President of SCA and Associate Professor, Washington State University Kari Jones, Archaeologist, Presidio Trust, San Francisco Georgiana DeAntoni, Archaeologist, Presidio Trust, San Francisco, Moderator

Monday, 03/20/2023

Life and Science in an Absolute Monarchy - 03/20/2023 03:30 PM
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Colloquium Series Menlo Park

What is the day-to-day life like in the Vatican? And how does that compare to the ways that such places are depicted in some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) fantasy novels? What is it really like to live in a five hundred year old palace, to work in an absolute monarchy, to do science in a structure far older than NASA?

Speaker: Dr Guy Consolmagno, Director, Vatican Observatory

Attend in person or online here.

Principles of cellular behavior: integrating cellular structure, dynamics, and decision making - 03/20/2023 04:00 PM
James H. Clark Center (Bldg 340) Stanford

Speaker: Ben Larson, UC San Francisco

Improving Detection of Gravitational Waves using Condensed Matter Physics: Understanding Entropy and Defects in Amorphous Materials - 03/20/2023 04:15 PM
Physics North Berkeley

Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that produce a time-dependent strain, in which distances are compressed in one direction and stretched in the perpendicular direction. Their detection relies on extraordinary precision measurements of distances, specifically displacements on the order of 10-19m, 10000 times smaller than the diameter of a proton, accomplished through laser interferometry between large mirrors 4 km apart from each other. The absorption of a metallic mirror is far too large, necessitating the use of Bragg reflecting mirrors which are ¼ λ high index/low index insulating amorphous (non-crystalline) materials. The present limit on detection is due to thermal noise associated with mirror surface fluctuations, due to poorly understood motions of atoms in the amorphous structure which dissipate energy, causing mechanical loss and thermal noise. At cryogenic temperature, these losses are associated with tunneling of many atoms between states of similar energy, known as tunneling level states (TLS), which are ubiquitous in amorphous materials. Amorphous materials lack structural order, making them difficult to describe and making it difficult to calculate and predict their properties compared to crystalline materials which consist of spatially repeated atoms. This difficulty, however, does not preclude their importance to both applications and scientific impact. The properties of an amorphous material depend strongly on how it was produced, and there are some well-defined known defects, but it is not clear how to describe the different amorphous structures produced by different methods. Intriguingly, there exists evidence for an "ideal glass", which while remaining disordered, lacks imperfections in that disorder and thus approaches the uniqueness and low entropy and energy of a crystal. Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is to date the single material where the mechanical loss and thermal noise can be nearly eliminated; TLS can be tuned via preparation conditions over several decades, from below detectable limits to high in the range commonly seen in amorphous systems. A strong correlation with atomic density is seen, as well as with other structural parameters, but TLS vary by orders of magnitude while other measures of disorder vary by less than a factor of two. The lowest loss a-Si is grown in thin film form at temperatures slightly below the theoretical glass transition temperature Tg of Si, similar to results on polymer films and suggestive that high surface mobility during growth produces materials close to an ideal glass, with low entropy and energy, high density, and low losses due to few nearby configurations with similarly low energy.

Speaker: Frances Hellman, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, 03/21/2023

Expanding Our View with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Livestream - 03/21/2023 06:00 PM
Astronomical Society of the Pacific

There Isn't Mush Room for Toxic Pesticides - Livestream - 03/21/2023 07:30 PM
Mycological Society of San Francisco

Wednesday, 03/22/2023

Blue-Green Action Platform (BlueGAP): Stories, data & nitrogen management - 03/22/2023 11:00 AM
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing

SETI Talks: The Origin of Water on Earth: Alien Meteors, Icy Comets, or Solar Wind? - Livestream - 03/22/2023 12:00 PM
SETI Institute

An Energizing Case for Hope About the Climate - 03/22/2023 05:30 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco

2023 Spring Birdathon Kickoff - Livestream - 03/22/2023 07:00 PM
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

Thursday, 03/23/2023

Searching for Cosmic Dawn and Beyond with Radio Observations - 03/23/2023 11:00 AM
Kavli Institute Astrophysics Colloquium Stanford

NightLife: Level 2 - 03/23/2023 06:00 PM
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco

After Dark: ¡Plantásticas! Opening Night | Noche de apertura - 03/23/2023 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium San Francisco

Saturday, 03/25/2023

Stewardship Saturday: Restoring Wetlands for Ocean Health - 03/25/2023 09:00 AM
Watsonville Wetlands Watch Watsonville

Science Saturday: Sneaky Natural Tricksters! - 03/25/2023 10:00 AM
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Pacific Grove

Exoplanet Watch: Inviting Citizen Scientists to Observe Transiting Exoplanets - Livestream - 03/25/2023 07:00 PM
East Bay Astronomical Society

Jazz Under the Stars - Rescheduled - 03/25/2023 08:00 PM
College of San Mateo Bldg 36 San Mateo

Sunday, 03/26/2023

How to Speak Whale, A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication - Livestream - 03/26/2023 11:30 AM
American Cetacean Society

Wonderfest: Wallace, Darwin, and the Discovery of Evolution by Natural Selection - Livestream - 03/26/2023 01:00 PM
San Francisco Public Library

Monday, 03/27/2023

Ocean Acidification and Sensor Development - Canceled - 03/27/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park

Social Interactions Determining Breeding Likelihood in Captive Southern White Rhinos: A Case Study - 03/27/2023 12:00 PM
Sonoma State University - Biology Colloquium Rohnert Park

First Images from JWST - 03/27/2023 04:00 PM
Sonoma State University - What Physicists Do Rohnert Park

Our Fusion Future: Lawrence Livermore Director Kim Budil - 03/27/2023 06:00 PM
Commonwealth Club San Francisco

Smaller not bigger data: securing an interconnected world - Livestream - 03/27/2023 07:00 PM
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Consumer Technology

Wonderfest: Ask a Science Envoy: Biodiversity & Cosmic Maps - Livestream - 03/27/2023 08:00 PM
Wonderfest