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Wonderfest 2008
 The 10th ANNIVERSARY
San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science

will take place at Stanford and UC Berkeley on the weekend of November 1-2, 2008.  Details are on their way.

Wonderfest 2007 took place at Stanford and Cal in late October. The sessions are available for viewing online.
 

Wonderfest 2007 Online Videos

Wonderfest 2007 Online Videos

    Is Cultural Diversity Like Biological Diversity?
    Michael Ghiselin, Senior Research Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
    Peter Richerson, Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis

    Will New Drugs Help or Hurt Patients?
    Gibert Chu, Professor of Medicine & of Biochemistry, Stanford
    Tom Wandless, Asst. Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford

    DNA Music - David Deamer, Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz

    Humans vs. Microbes: Who Will Win?
    David Schneider, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford
    Bob Siegel, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford

    Einstein, Nanoscience, & Superconductivity
    Marvin Cohen, University Professor, UC Berkeley

    BASIC WonderCup Challenge Championship
    The Bay Area’s two top high school science quiz teams face off in an innovation challenge

    The Promise of 21st-Century Science, a panel discussion
    Marvin Cohen, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley   
    Deborah Gordon, Professor of Biological Science, Stanford
    Richard Zare, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford
    Also:  Presentation of the 2007 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
    And The Mind Duel: Intrepid professors vs. WonderCup student champs
    Master of Ceremonies: Richard Hart, science/technology journalist & Emmy award-winning comedian

    Have We Passed the Tipping Point on Climate Change?
    Dian Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
    Dan Kammen, Professor in the Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley

    Will the Universe Have a Happy Ending?
    Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
    Greg Laughlin, Associate Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz

    Are We Wired To Be Kind?
    Lynne Isbell, Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis
    Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

       

     

Praise from our past attendees:

“Very lively discussion! ... Fascinating!”

“I attended presentations at both Cal and Stanford ...
all excellent!”

“Bravo! for your outstanding accomplishment...”

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Mind Duel

Emmy Award winner Richard Hart emceed Wonderfest's Saturday Evening gala on October 27.  How would YOU have done in the "Mind Duel" if you had been up against the top high school science quiz team AND a team of university researchers? Wonderfest 2007 Online Videos
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Carl Sagan Prize

Carl Sagan Prize for Science PopularizationCarl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
Wonderfest and Annual Reviews honored a San Francisco Bay Area researcher for exceptional contributions to the public understanding of science. (more...)

And the 2007 award goes to...

 

 The BASIC WonderCup Challenge

The WonderCup AwardFind out about the exciting competition for teams of high school science students,


WonderCup Challenge.

This Klein bottle trophy, the WonderCup, goes to the Bay Area's best science challenge team. It's a closed 2-dimensional surface with no inside or outside!

 

Wonderfest Advisory Board

Nobel Laureate, Chancellor, University of California at San Francisco

J. Michael Bishop

Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University

Richard Zare

M.D., ABC/KGO Television and Radio, San Francisco

Dean Edell

Science Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

David Perlman

Emeritus Professor of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley

Timothy Ferris

Science Journalist, San Rafael

Eugenie Scott

Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Charles Marcus

Executive Director, National Center for Science Education, El Cerrito

Dan Werthimer

Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley

Christopher McKee

Director of Project SERENDIP, University of California at Berkeley, and Wonderfest Advisory Board President

 Jacob Needleman

Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley

Barbara Tversky

In memory of Philip Morrison.

SETI Pioneer, MIT Professor, Wonderfest Advisory Board Member.

 

Supporting Institutions

Stanford University Chemistry Department

The Branson School

Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory

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Wonderfest is endorsed by the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California.
It is  directed by Tucker Hiatt.
It receives generous administrative support from The Branson School.
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