***Thank you for your interest in Bay Biotech Professionals. This Meetup is under new management and is not currently accepting new members. During the next few weeks I shall continue to work on ways to rekindle interest and participation in the group. Once the process is complete, the group will be opened for new members. Thank you in advance for your patience during this time of transition.*** Meet other local Biotech experts. Find more about local opportunities (companies, research, position …

Need a reason to get off your butt and write? Come join our group! Look for upcoming workshop nights, critique nights, and just plain getting down to business nights! Be inspired! Your first assignment is to write a short biography of yourself, as though you were living in 2150 and writing a report on the famous novelist that was you! Include fictitious events as well as real events, and bring it to your first East Bay Fiction Writers' Meet-Up so we can learn more about you! (If you have questio …

We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone. We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to experiment with friends. Welcome to BioCurious Visit the BioCurious homepage http://www.BioCurious.org BioCurious Community Lab Opened in Sunnyvale, CA; Fall 2011! Join the discussion at Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/biocurious Our successful Kickstarter campaign (http://biocu …

This is the Amtgard group for the South Bay San Francisco area. Amtgard is a LARP game dedicated to not only medieval fighting, but also to the arts and sciences that existed then and now. We meet every Sunday at Bowers Park in Santa Clara at 1:30 pm. We have loaner gear for anyone who comes out and it is 100% free to play. No special gear is needed to play and we use padded weapons with a light touch so everyone can enjoy the game. Come out and have a great time with us. Everyone is welcome. Th …

Silicon Valley Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics The group will start as a mashup or compendium of other events and groups in the area that relate to the above broad topic area. The meetups will spotlight groups and series which you can subscribe to individually. Suggestions for getting together before or after events to discuss the topic of the day are encouraged. Meetups might also include discussion of books or on-line lectures. SVSTEM is centered around Silicon Valley in the S …

The Geek Club South Bay was created so that geeks of all kinds could meet to make friends and participate in fun activities.  We host events of all kinds, including board game nights, movie marathons, Sci Fi book clubs, and video game parties.  We're pretty sure we've got something for every geek out there!

Where else but the Bay Area could you start a moms group full of engineers, programmers and techies of all stripes? This won't be your typical mommies group! We will promote family friendly tech events and other ideas for sharing technology with your kids or getting away for a while with other tech oriented women. Events we promote may be all over the Bay Area, but many of them will be worth the drive.

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

We are a group promoting the Pranashakti Reiki Healing Meditation as taught by Guruji Arun Kumar Ji from Infiite Charitable Trust, India. Every Full Moon Night we meet at different locations and do meditation to heal our Universe and Ourselves using this ancient cosmic energy healing based on Pranashakti Mahavidya (The Great Science of Cosmic Healing. We do gentle Yoga and Pranayama and Chakra Balancing as guided by Yoga Master, Reiki Grand Master and Pranashakti Healer and Teacher Manoj Joshi J …

Spirituality is a science not a religion.

This is a group for all Big Data professionals to include programmers, architects, platform specialists like Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc. We welcome Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Data Scientists, Analytics Experts, Sales and Marketing Professionals, Entereneurs. We will be holding lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all professionals. We will feayure local, regional and international conferences with world famous …

Learning from the Early Church The early church was an ENGAGED church. They were studying and dissecting FOR THE FIRST TIME what was called the New Testament. They had to reconcile whether or not Jesus was the Son of God and HOW He was the Son of God, as well as reconcile how Mary was the mother of Jesus - who is 100% God and was 100% Man. There are many, many more big and important questions answered in the Bible that are not a part of mainstream discussions. Engage your mind. Engage your work. …

TechXploration is PayPal's free, tech-focused speaker series that occurs monthly in San Jose. Hear from Valley-based tech luminaries while sampling the finest craft beer and local eats! All are welcome. Join us!

I am starting this group in the hope that there are others out there like me. I am a science affirming, environmentalist, marriage equality advocate, and also a follower of Jesus. The purpose of this group is simply to get together and connect and celebrate that liberal Christians do exist!

This is a spin-off of the Bay Area Software Quality Group which has stagnated over the past several months. The purpose of this group is to discuss all things regarding software quality engineering. This includes automation, unit testing, exploratory testing, load/performance testing and any other type of testing strategy that comes up. Although this group is centered on test engineers, there should be plenty of valuable data for others within the software development ecosystem.

SHIV YOG – The Science Beyond Science Shivyog is a way of everyday life where we  become aware of the self. And with this increased self-awareness, we purify ourselves thereby raising our consciousness, thus marching towards the awakening of our Infinite potential. Shiv Yog, as Babaji explains is the process of uniting with the Infinite Consciousness. Shiv is the Infinity, as also the Infinite Consciousness. The Yog in Shiv Yog is the process of awakening the infinite potential of a human bein …

This for anyone and everyone interested in the Lecture Series at The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose to band together and attend as a group. The lectures focus on the many different intersections science and technology make with culture, arts, politics, math, and our entire world. If you're an expert or enthusiast in any of these fields or subjects, and have been to one or more of these lectures or wish to attend in the future, this is the place to discuss the presented subjects a …

Do you enjoy socializing in an interesting and innovative environment? Whether you are new to the area or a long-time local, want to add to an already active social calendar or make an effort to get out of the house more, The Tech Museum After Hours is a pretty interesting event. The goal of this group is to gather a bunch of people who want to go but also want to know more than just one or two people there. After Hours is a monthly evening event where adults 21 and older can enjoy science, tec …

This is a Bayesian Statistics interest group for the San Francisco Bay Area. We will have a mix of talks, training sessions, and other events based on member interest. We also have message boards for discussions and job postings (http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Bayesians/messages/boards/).

We offer mobile application development workshops (most are FREE) for the iOS and Android platforms. The workshops are designed to train new and experienced app developers on the latest technologies and programming techniques. Basic classes in Java and Objective-C programming are also offered. We take suggestions for new workshop topics as well. Attend a workshop, learn something new, make new friends and improve your overall app development skills. Newbies are encouraged to join since we offer …

Beginners pl. take initiation at any of these centers. www.skybayarea.org Vethathiri Maharishi's profound revelations enabled him to synthesize a complete science of living for the betterment of humanity through: Simplified Kundalini Yoga (SKY) meditation , Simplified Physical Exercises , Introspection and Kaya Kalpa Yoga. His writings add new dimensions to current philosophy, science and literature, and provide deep insights into how self, society and nature are interconnected. Vethathiri†…

So who are we and why should you come to one of our workshops? By combining the art and science of real world communication, Social Fluency has developed a fun, skills-based  curriculum that is built on peer-reviewed research in cognitive behavioral psychology, neuroscience and other cutting-edge disciplines. Our effectiveness has been proven by both scientific studies and real-world results. Our unique teaching techniques and highly skilled instructors blend interesting content and interactive …

The Bay Area meetup group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association gets together about once a month to talk about Mormonism, Transhumanism, technology, spirituality, science, religion, and just about anything else you can imagine. Most of us are Mormons or have a Mormon background or interests, and similarly most of us identify to some extent or another as Transhumanists, but you don't have to be a Mormon or a Transhumanist to participate. The Mormon Transhumanist Association is an international …

This is a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence study group. To kick off - We are going to go through online lectures in the "Intro to Robotics" course taught by Oussama Khatib at Stanford and try to solve assignments. (Prerequisite - Matrix Algebra). It is a graduate level course. We are hoping to go through two lectures per week with assignment discussion on weekend mornings. Hopefully later work on real world projects etc.

Welcome to the South Bay Star Wars Fan Club's Meetup page. The SBSWFC is your destination for meeting and interacting with other Star Wars fans from throughout the Bay Area. Though the SBSWFC is headquartered in the South Bay/Silicon Valley, our events extend throughout the Bay Area. This meetup is for our monthly meeting, if you are interested in interacting with our members or attending other events please see our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/sbswfc

BASPIG is a systems-programming interest group for folks in the Silicon Valley area. If you're into programming that maxes out machine perf, works against the bare metal, self-modifies, hypervises, takes in a language, compiles, blits, message passes, saturates available bandwidth, routes, scales, replicates, reaches consensus, dispatches kernels to cores, interprets, JITs, or self-hosts, this is the group for you. We intend to have regularly scheduled talks on prodigious systems-programming top …

Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving cloud computing now. Computation virtualization is not enough for big data, both data virtualization and communication virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on algorithmic innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.