Yesterday I gave a talk to the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit – a local group of astronomy enthusiasts who meet at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I don’t do astronomy or astrophysics but it was a nice group of people curious about physics in general. I told them about Quantum Materials, giving a number of relations to astrophysics.
The group does a lot of outreach and if you want to learn about the sky and how to observe it, and live in the area, check them out at http://sbau.org/.