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Wonderfest Archives
Wonderfest 2007
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
Wonderfest 2006
Is Biodiversity Important and Is It Radically Changing?
Brent Mishler, Professor of Integrative Biology (Botany), UC Berkeley
Kevin Padian, Professor of Integrative Biology (Paleontology), UC Berkeley
Can We Arrest Human Aging?
Judith Campisi, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Thomas Rando, Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford
Is the World Made of Strings?
Raphael Bousso, Associate Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Leonard Susskind, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Do We Understand Love?
Thomas Lewis, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
David Watts, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Was the Origin of Life Inevitable?
David Deamer, Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz
Andrew Pohorille, Principal Investigator, NASA-Ames Research Center
Can We Uncover the True Nature of Black Holes?
Eliot Quataert, Associate Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Eva Silverstein, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Wonderfest 2005
When Can We Trust the Claims of Medical Research?
David Freedman, Prof of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley
Diana Petitti, Vice Chair, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Is Free Will an Illusion?
William Newsome, Prof of Neurobiology, Stanford
John Searle, Prof of Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley
Can We Expect New Einsteinian Revolutions?
Shamit Kachru, Assoc Prof of Physics, Stanford & SLAC
Hitoshi Murayama, Prof of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
How Does Thinking Depend On Language?
Lera Boroditsky, Assistant Prof of Psychology, Stanford
Geoffrey Nunberg, Prof of Linguistics, Stanford
Does Quantum Mechanics Make Sense?
Michael Fayer, Prof of Chemistry, Stanford
Leonard Susskind, Prof of Physics, Stanford
Should We Ever Set Foot On Mars?
Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
Margaret Race, Principal Investigator, SETI Institute
Wonderfest 2004
IS THE BIOSPHERE IN JEOPARDY?
Jennifer Dungan, Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Terry Root, Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford
ARE WE ALONE IN THE COSMOS?
Chris Chyba, Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute
Dan Werthimer, Chief Scientist, SETI@home, U.C. Berkeley
WILL NANOTECHNOLOGY CHANGE THE WORLD?
Steven Block, Professor of Applied Physics and Biological Sciences, Stanford
Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
IS THERE A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH FOR THE BRAIN?
Dale Bredesen, President & CEO, Buck Institute
Meredith Halks-Miller, Head of Pharmacopathology, Berlex Biosciences
HAVE HUMANS STOPPED EVOLVING?
Terrence Deacon, Professor of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley
Eugenie Scott, President, National Center for Science Education
DO WE UNDERSTAND TIME?
Raphael Bousso, Assistant Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley
Wonderfest 2003
IS THE UNIVERSE INFINITE?
Andreas Albrecht, Professor of Physics, U.C. Davis
Greg Laughlin, Asst. Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz
WILL WE EVER GO TO THE STARS?
James Benford, President, Microwave Sciences, Inc.
Gerald Nordley, Science Columnist, Speculations magazine
DO WE UNDERSTAND HUMAN EMOTION?
Paul Ekman, Professor of Psychology, U.C. San Francisco
Maureen O'Sullivan, Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco
HAVE WE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM EXPERIMENTS IN ESP?
Lee Ross, Professor of Psychology, Stanford
Paul Switzer, Professor of Statistics, Stanford
ARE YOU (REALLY) WHAT YOU EAT?
Bruce Ames, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.C. Berkeley
James Collman, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford
HAS EARTH REACHED ITS HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY?
Anne Ehrlich, Senior Research Biologist, Stanford
Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy & Society, U.C. Berkeley
Wonderfest 2002
Is Matter Still a Mystery?
John Brauman, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford
Martin Perl, Professor of Physics & Nobel Laureate, Stanford
Can Conservation Be Profitable?
William Coleman, Director of Eco-Solutions, EPRI
Gretchen Daily, Bing Research Scientist, Stanford
Where Did the Universe Come From?
Savas Dimopoulos, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Andrei Linde, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Do We Know How Human Intelligence Evolved?
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Klein, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford
Are There Natural Limits to the Power of Computers?
John McCarthy, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Kenneth Taylor, Philosophy Department Chair, Stanford
Do Men and Women Think Differently?
Campbell Leaper, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Melissa Adams, Research Psychologist, UC Berkeley
Wonderfest 2001
SHOULD THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTINUE?
Jill Tarter, Director of Project Phoenix, SETI Institute
Ben Zuckerman, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
WHAT IS LIFE?
Jere Lipps, Professor of Integrative Biology, U.C. Berkeley
Lynn Rothschild, Research Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
WAS THE UNIVERSE FINELY TUNED FOR THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE?
Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley
Frank Shu, University Professor (Astronomy), U.C. Berkeley
CAN WE CHANGE HUMAN NATURE?
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Biology, Stanford
Marcus Feldman, Professor of Biology, Stanford
HAS SCIENCE SOLVED THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM?
John Kihlstrom, Professor of Psychology, U.C. Berkeley
John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley
CAN WE AVOID CLIMATIC CALAMITY?
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
Stephen Schneider, Professor of Biology, Stanford
Wonderfest 2000 Sessions
Are life-supporting worlds common in the cosmos?
Douglas Lin, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Geoffrey Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Is intelligence likely to evolve elsewhere in the Universe?
Christopher McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
Seth Shostak, Public Programs Scientist, SETI Institute
Do we know how best to search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
Frank Drake, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Werthimer, Director of Project SERENDIP, UC Berkeley
Can machines think?
Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Nils Nilsson, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Do We Understand the Depth of Animal Awareness?
Francine Patterson, Director of Research, The Gorilla Foundation
Walter Freeman, Professor of Neurobiology, UC Berkeley
Do we understand the origin of cosmic structure?
George Blumenthal, Prof of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Jeff Willick, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford U.
Is the fountain of youth in our genes?
Elizabeth Blackburn, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF
Cynthia Kenyon, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF
Can we control new epidemic diseases?
Donald Ganem, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF
Ann Arvin, Professor of Medicine, Stanford U.
Do parents matter?
Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Eleanor Maccoby, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Stanford U.
Do We Know How to Sleep?
William C. Dement, Director of the Stanford Sleep Disorder Center and Professor of
Psychiatry, Stanford University
Sharon Keenan, Founder & Director of the School of Sleep Medicine, Palo Alto
Will Earth's oceans survive the next century?
Ed Ueber, Director, Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Terry Gosliner, Director of Research, Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences
Can Darwin unravel sex, personality, & the family?
Lucia Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Frank Sulloway, Miller Research Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Does biology determine morality?
George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
George Barlow, Professor of Integrative Biology, Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Is the weirdness of quantum physics manifested in the everyday world?
Charles Marcus, Professor of Physics, Harvard U.
Paul McEuen, Associate Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Is the Universe 11-Dimensional
Hirosi Ooguri, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Stephen Shenker, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Have we already discovered all the mathematics worth knowing?
Keith Devlin, Dean of Science and Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary¹s College
Robert Osserman, Assistant Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Wonderfest 98
Fred Adams,Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Do we understand how the evolution of the cosmos will end?
Nima Arkani-Hamed, a post-doctoral fellow in theoretical physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Will Einstein's dream of a unified theory of everything be realized in our time?
Neal Benowitz, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of California, San Francisco: Is addiction in our genes?
Judith Campisi, Head of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Berkeley National Laboratory (BNL, formerly the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory): Can human longevity be markedly increased?
Sherwood Chang, Planetary Biology Branch Chief and Exobiology Program Principle Investigator at NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View: Do we understand the origin of life on Earth?
David Deamer, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz: Would life on other worlds be like life on Earth?
Hubert Dreyfus, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley: How is the quest for artificial intelligence progressing?
Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley: Does more than one universe exist?
Walter J. Freeman, is Professor of the Graduate School, Division of Neurobiology, at the University of California, Berkeley: Do we understand consciousness?
John Gabrieli, Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford University: Do we understand the fallibility of memory?
Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley: Do genes largely determine human behavior?
Calvin B. Harley, Chief Scientific Officer at Geron Corporation in Menlo Park, California: Can Human longevity be markedly increased?
Albert A. Harrison, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis: Is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence dangerous?
David Israel, Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International: How is the quest for artificial intelligence progressing?
Greg Laughlin, post-doctoral astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley: Do we understand how the evolution of the cosmos will end?
Andrei Linde, Professor of Physics at Stanford University: Is there more to the universe than we observe?
John McCarthey, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University: How is the quest for artificial intelligence progressing?
Dean Orinish, President and Director of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, which he founded in 1984: Is alternative medicine worthy of further research?
Andrew Pohorille. Principle Investigator in NASA's Exobiology Program at Ames Research Center: Do we understand the origin of life on Earth?
Joel Primack, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz: Is there more to the universe than we observe?
Helen R. Quinn, Staff Physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Will Einstein's dream of a unified theory of everything be realized in our time?
Roger W. Romani, Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University: Does more than one universe exist?
Stuart Russel, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley: How is the quest for artificial intelligence progressing?
Wallace Sampson, graduate of the University of California School of Medicine: Does alternative medicine deserve further research?
John R. Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley: Do we understand consciousness?
Seth Shostak, Public Programs Scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California: Is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) dangerous?
Richard Strohman, Emeritus Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley: Do genes largely determine human behavior?
Jill C. Tarter, Director of Project Phoenix at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California: Is the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence likely?
Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University: Do we understand the fallibility of memory?
Dan Werthimer, Director of the SERENDIP SETI program at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley: Is the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence likely?
Kirk Wilhelmsen, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco: Is addiction in our genes?
Lotfi A. Zadeh, Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley: How is the quest for artificial intelligence progressing?
Richard Zare, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University: Would life on other worlds be like life on Earth?
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