We subscribe to a newsletter called Science Smooze. Here is part of their current message as well as the video:

 "When I see weird behavior [from male colleagues], my first inclination is not to think, 'What's wrong with me. It's, 'What the heck is wrong with these guys?'" -Lene Vestergaard Hau (physicist, known for her work with cold atoms and light), right in her Harvard lab.  

"And as I had my father’s kind of mind — which was also his mother’s — I learned that the mind is not sex-typed."  — Margaret Mead

12 More Quotes From Incredible Female Scientists That Will Inspire You To Reach Higher

Science-related Events ... a few ... in the San Francisco Bay Area:

Upcoming Events - Note that the few we included don't highlight any women leading the events but this is just a small sample of what is offered: 
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Monday, 05/13/2019

Large-scale structure cosmology from low to high redshift - 05/13/2019 11:00 AM
Varian Physics Building, Stanford

Close to a decade in the making, the imminent DESI experiment promises to revolutionise our understanding of Dark Energy and extend large-scale structure studies to z~2.  But what comes next?  The unprecedented depth of LSST will enable 'dropout' selection of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3 and 4 that prove ideal for studies of the primordial Universe and horizon-scale gravity.   Based on recent work, I'll discuss the potential of this science case for future surveys, in particular with respect to the synergy with CMB lensing and DESI itself.  

Speaker: Mike Wilson, UC Berkeley

Fundamental Physics with Antihydrogen Atoms - Rescheduled - 05/13/2019 03:30 PM
SLAC Colloquium Series, Menlo Park

The ALPHA Collaboration at CERN has combined antiprotons and positrons to create and probe antihydrogen atoms. ALPHA can now store over 1000 antihydrogen atoms at a time for thousands of seconds.  We have developed techniques to conduct precision physics using minimal numbers of antiatoms. The comparison of antihydrogen and hydrogen spectra are sensitive probes of Charge-Parity-Time (CPT) Symmetry. We have conducted the first precision physics experiments on antihydrogen, measuring the 1S-2S and the hyperfine transition bandwidths to the 10kHz level. The charge of antihydrogen has been limited to less than 0.7ppb of the magnitude of the electron charge, and the Lyman-alpha transition, critical for laser cooling, has been excited. A gravity experiment designed to measure antihydrogen acceleration in the Earth’s field to 1% accuracy is being constructed. In this talk I will describe ALPHAs techniques, physics results, and our plans for the future.

Speaker: Johathan Wurtele, UC Berkeley

This event was originally scheduled for April 15.

People and Robots Seminar - 05/13/2019 04:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley

Speaker: Jeff C Jensen, Creator

On the application of machine learning algorithms in hydrodynamic simulations - 05/13/2019 04:00 PM
Green Earth Sciences Building, Stanford

In this talk, I will first discuss the state of the art high order methods for hydrodynamic simulations. The numerical approximation of the Euler equations of gas dynamics in a moving frame is a common approach for solving many multiphysics problems involving e.g. large deformations, strong shocks and interactions of multiple materials. In Lagrangian methods, the mesh is moving with the fluid velocity, therefore they are well-suited for accurate resolution of material interfaces. On the other hand, multidimensional Lagrangian meshes tend to tangle so that the mesh elements become invalid, and in general cannot represent large deformation. This problem can be partially resolved by high order method s, such as high order finite volume (WENO, ADER), discontinuous Galerkin, high order finite elements, residual distribution methods, because they allow the mesh to deform longer before the remeshing phase.Next, I will focus on the applications of machine learning algorithms for improving the speed and accuracy of hydrodynamic simulations. Artificial neural networks can be trained to determine the socalled troubled cells in regions of the flow near shocks where some scheme modification is needed in order to ensure stability. This approach is sometimes superior to commonly used shock indicators as it provides better localization of the troubled cells.Finally, I will present our results on using artificial neural networks for the solution of the Riemann problem for the Euler equations of fluid dynamics. The solution of the Riemann problem is the building block for many numerical algorithms in CFD, such as finite volume or discontinuous Galerkin methods. Therefore, fast approximation of the solution of the Riemann problem and construction of the associated numerical fluxes is of crucial importance. We discuss the implementation of our machine learning algorithm using neural networks and potential benefits of this approach over direct numerical approximation.

Speaker: Svetlana Tokareva, Los Alamos National Labs

Gigaton Challenges in Climate-Tech Innovation - 05/13/2019 04:30 PM
Stanford University Energy Seminar, Stanford

David Danielson, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, will put forward grand challenges to the Stanford community in energy & food/agriculture technology that represent opportunities to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by more than 0.5 Gtons/year CO2-equivalent, from 1,000 hours grid batteries to zero-emissions cows and everything in between. He will also discuss a new set of approaches that today’s climate-tech entrepreneurs are taking (a new “playbook to significantly increase their probability of success versus what happened in the cleantech venture capital boom and bust of the late 2000’s.

What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics - 05/13/2019 06:00 PM
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco

Monday Night Philosophy and almost all physicists agree that quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a not-so-scientific brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the reality underlying quantum physics as meaningless. That is why, even though it is a mishmash of solipsism and poor reasoning, the Copenhagen interpretation has endured, with Bohr's students vigorously protecting his legacy, and the physics community favoring practical experiments over philosophical arguments. As a result, questioning the status quo has almost always meant professional ruin. And yet, from the 1920s to today, physicists such as John Bell, David Bohm and Hugh Everett persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. Join us - first for the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for seeking truth, and then for reexamining the littered trail of half-understood research results in the never-discarded quest for answering the fundamental questions that can be summed up as: “What is real?” 

Speaker: Adam Becker, Author

Conversations About Landscape: Deal or No (Green New) Deal? - 05/13/2019 06:00 PM
ExplOratorium, San Francisco

The Green New Deal calls for eliminating fossil fuels and switching to renewable energy sources within a decade a large-scale investment in jobs, infrastructure, and technology. Is this plan ambitious and achievable…or not economically or technically feasible? Are there precedents in American history that can shed light on this debate? What will it take to decarbonize our energy economy and address climate change? Join us in a discussion about how the United States has confronted grand challenges both past and present.

Speakers: Dr. Gray Brechin, UC Berkeley; Mark Jacobson, Stanford

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