Molecular oxygen represents the ideal oxidant to use in chemical oxidations. It is abundantly available, inexpensive (particularly if used without separation from air) and environmentally benign. However, in homogeneous metal-catalyzed organic oxidations, more expensive and/or hazardous oxidants are often employed. A limiting factor in the development of homogeneous catalytic systems ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 10/31/26
Science Saturday: Spooky ScienceJoin us on Halloween for a spine-chilling Science Saturday dedicated to exploring the spooky and creepy aspects of nature. Discover the eerie world of nocturnal creatures as we delve into the lives of bats, owls, and other mysterious animals that thrive in the darkness. Learn about the fascinating adaptations of ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Spooky ScienceTrick or Treat across the universe and enjoy some ooey gooey spooky science.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission, and for members
Halloween Spooky Slime Workshop at The Tech InteractiveCome for the slime, stay for the treats!Stir up some spooky science at The Tech Interactive's Spooky Slime Workshop, happening during our Tech-or-Treat Halloween celebration!Unleash your inner mad scientist as you mix up your own delightfully ghoulish slime and discover the cool chemistry that makes it stretch, squish, and ooze. ...
Where: San JoseCost: $15.00 General, $10 Members
Sunday, 11/01/26
Corn and Bean Mosaic ArtJoin us at Emma Prusch and learn how to create colorful mosaics using colorful corn kernels and beans. Participants will learn about corn and beans, two of the Three Sisters crops, and its importance to indigenous peoples of North America and later American agriculture while creating a colorful corn and ...
Where: San JoseCost: $16 SJ Residents, $20 non-residents
You Can’t Prove a Negative, Can You?A common assertion when discussing religious labels is that one can’t prove a negative, and therefore one can’t prove 100% that no gods exists. Of course, one can’t look in every corner of the universe to be sure no gods are lurking there, so one can never be completely sure, ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Solar ObservingIt’s there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it’s time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we’ll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly ...
Professor Luengen's research at USF focuses on the cycling and bioavailability of trace metals. She frequently works in the San Francisco Bay and Delta, an estuary where there are elevated concentrations of many metals, including mercury. Mercury, in the form of methylmercury, biomagnifies up food chains, reaching concentrations in fish ...
Lithium-bearing brines offer the United States an opportunity to co-produce critical minerals and geothermal energy. Realizing this potential requires a better understanding of brine chemistry, reservoir dynamics, and the long-term sustainability of lithium extraction.The Salton Sea geothermal field in California is a distinctive setting for lithium - geothermal co-production. Since ...
Excitations in quantum systems govern their responses to intrinsic and extrinsic perturbations. Emergent excitations from the interplay between topology and correlation can drive new phase instabilities and enable novel device concepts. While a plethora of intriguing ground states are reported in two-dimensional flatband systems, it has been challenging to directly ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Accurate Decision Making during Protein BiogenesisProper protein biogenesis is a pre-requisite for the generation and maintenance of a functional proteome. Accumulating data show that this process begins early, when nascent proteins emerge from the ribosome. Within seconds, the nascent polypeptide must engage the correct set of biogenesis factors and commit to the proper biogenesis pathway. ...
Black holes are spectacular end products of the fatal attraction of gravity. Residing at the centers of galaxies, supermassive black holes have masses up to 20 billion suns and directly impact the evolution of their host galaxies.I will highlight recent progress in studying black holes in the giant elliptical galaxy ...
Phil Deutch is one the most experienced energy technology investors in the United States having begun investing in the space in 1997. This seminar will examine what drivers are the same in energy technology; what drivers are new; and what the future might hold.Speaker: Philip Deutch, NGP Energy Technology PartnersAttend ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
More than the Sum of Its Parts: “Emergence” in Physics and Mathematics - LivestreamIn science, a fascinating phenomenon occurs across disciplines when a system gains new properties that its individual parts do not have on their own. This occurrence is known as emergence, and it has implications in many areas from quantum materials to mathematics to biology. Come hear from experts about this ...
The 16th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture focuses on artificial intelligence and how it is changing the way families seek answers and the way physicians care for children. But what will it mean for the relationship between them? Pediatrician Alan Greene is a pioneer in digital health, having started his medical website ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General in person, $4 online, students free
Disease is a pervasive and omnipresent process impacting humans, animals, and even plants! The fields of plant disease ecology and plant pathology are essential for solving problems in ecosystem conservation and food security. In this talk, I will share how plant diseases are studied from an evolutionary ecology perspective and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Expert Talk: Living with Lions in MarinThe Sausalito Women’s Club will host Dr. Quinton Martins for a fascinating update on local mountain lions. Since 2016, Dr. Martins has studied the movement of mountain lions fitted with GPS collars in the North Bay to better understand mountain lion ecology, connectivity and challenges these enigmatic animals face in ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Tuesday, 11/03/26
'Saving the Hidden Coral of the Mediterranean' - LivestreamBeneath the sparkling surface of the Mediterranean lies a hidden world most people never encounter - ancient coral habitats that shelter more than 1,800 species. These fragile underwater gardens took centuries to form, yet destructive bottom trawling can flatten them in a matter of minutes. Join marine biologist Anastasia Miliou ...
Chiral organoboronic esters are versatile intermediates for chemical synthesis. Not only are these compounds stable under a variety of reaction conditions, they are generally non-toxic and can be transformed with minimal generation of hazardous waste. An important feature of aliphatic organoboronic esters is that the boron atom may be replaced ...
The beginning of the Phanerozoic saw two major diversification events in the history of life on our planet: the Cambrian Explosion (~530 to 510 Ma) and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (~471 to 458 Ma), or GOBE. These two events are separated by a plateau diversity that spanned from the ...
Stars, planets, minerals, and living organisms can become increasingly diverse and complex over vast spans of time. Yet no existing law of nature fully describes or predicts how these complex systems evolve. In this talk, Robert Hazen will introduce a proposed new natural law that applies to nonliving, living, and ...
A wormhole is a geometry which connects two widely separated regions of space-time. Wormholes are ubiquitous in many theories of gravity, but remain poorly understood. However, we can study them using the "AdS/CFT correspondence," which relates theories of quantum gravity to conformal field theories (CFTs) in one less dimension. These CFTs ...
As wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity across North America, their emissions have become a driver of regional air quality degradation. Biomass burning is a large source of ozone precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as well as particulate matter that impacts air quality directly and ...
A few shark species are, indeed, dangerous wildlife. However, the public portrayal of these animals as villains and killers is overblown. What is the real life of a large shark like? How do they eat? How long do they live, and where do they migrate? Knowing about sharks in this ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Wednesday, 11/04/26
CITRIS Tech Policy Conversation: A Year in Review with Asm. Rebecca Bauer-KahanJoin us for a public forum reviewing the major tech policy developments of the past legislative session. Featuring California State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan - Chair of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee - this event highlights key legislative achievements that are reshaping tech governance.Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan and an expert panel ...
Nature’s most prolific carbon-fixing enzyme, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is slow and poorly discriminates between CO2 and its competitive inhibitor O2. These catalytic limitations of Rubisco often restrict plant growth. Across the tree of life, organisms mitigate poor Rubisco performance through adaptation and/or acclimation strategies. Dr. Gunn will present three research ...
UC Santa Cruz Earth and Planetary Sciences SeminarSpeaker:Tamara Heitzenrater, California Department of Fish and WildlifeEditor's Note: Xi Zhang, UC Santa Cruz, was originally scheduled to speak today.
Wildfires and the smoke they produce are the fastest growing environmental threat in the US and many other parts of the world. I review recent advances in the measurement of smoke and its constituents, and recent advances in the quantification of both short- and long-term health impacts from smoke exposure ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Ocean Encounters: Seafood Security: Ensuring the future of food from the ocean - LivestreamIn the U.S. alone, an estimated one million people depend on commercial fishing, aquaculture, and the seafood supply chain for their livelihoods, and billions worldwide rely on food from the ocean. But in a rapidly changing world, how can we sustain marine life and the people that depend on it? ...
Roughly one in fifty Americans lives with some form of paralysis, most often caused by stroke or spinal cord injury. In these cases, the pathway between brain and body has been interrupted, but the neural signals that would normally drive movement are still very much alive at the source.Brain-computer interfaces ...
The presence or absence of a planetary atmosphere is the outcome of a multi-billion-year-long struggle between the planet’s surface gravity, its outgassing rate, its magnetic field, and the stellar XUV and particle flux incident upon the world. The orbs found to transit nearby M-stars are more observationally accessible owing to ...
The field of quantum computing studies futuristic computers which harness the weird properties of quantum mechanics to speed up computations. In theory, quantum computers give us the ability to break classical cryptosystems, simulate chemistry, and more, but in practice it remains a massive engineering challenge to actually construct them. In ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
The Science of Learning: From Myths and Misinformation to Better Practices - LivestreamWhy do unsupported ideas about teaching and learning often outlast the evidence against them? The truth is that beliefs and practices in education are often shaped as much by intuition, anecdote, and misinformation as they are by research. This is true of everything from enduring educational myths to current debates ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Digest ThisFrom the first taste to the final flush, trace the history and science behind how we consume food.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22.95 General, Free for members
Cecilia Steele will give a talk titled “Born Elsewhere? The Sun’s Mysterious Origins in the Milky Way”. Dylon Fleming will give a talk titled “Beyond Light: Exploring the Universe with Neutrinos”
Where: DavisCost: Free
Data Are Made, Not FoundWhere does the data that shapes our democracy actually come from? In her new book, Data Are Made, Not Found, danah boyd takes readers inside the U.S. Census Bureau during one of the most challenging periods in its history: the 2020 Census. Drawing on rare access to the agency and ...
