Wonderfest 2008

Flirting with the truth for 10 years.

San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science

will take place at Stanford on Saturday, Nov. 1, and at UC Berkeley on Sunday, Nov. 2.

Thanks to generous individual contributions and institutional support, Wonderfest is FREE.
Seating is “first come, first served.”
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SATURDAY, NOV. 1 ~ STANFORD

1:00 pm Does Anything Happen at Random?
Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics, Stanford
Daniel Fisher, Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford

2:30 pm Will Genetics Allow Us to Revive Extinct Species?
Ronald Davis, Professor of Biochemistry & Genetics, Stanford
David Haussler, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

4:00 - 7:00 pm Bay Area Science Expo — Science art, books, crafts, & music

4:30 pm Science Laughs — Norm Goldblatt, Merle Kessler, Tim Lee, & Brian Malow

5:30 pm WonderCup Challenge Championship
The Bay Area’s two top high school science quiz teams face off.

8:00 pm Does Civilization Have a Promising Energy Future?
Steven Chu (moderator), Nobel Laureate & Director, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Dan Kammen (conservation), Professor of Energy Resources, UC Berkeley
Mike McGehee (solar), Assoc. Prof. of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford
Lynn Orr (carbon capture), Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford
Per Peterson (fission), Professor of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley

Also: Presentation of the 2008 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization to

Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology & Biology, Stanford

And The Mind Duel — Intrepid professors vs. Wondercup Student champs!
Master of Ceremonies: Richard Hart, Emmy Award-winning sci/tech/comedy journalist

SUNDAY, NOV. 2 ~ BERKELEY

10:00 am Why Do We Seem So Alone In the Cosmos?
Geoff Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Dan Werthimer, SETI@home Chief Scientist, UC Berkeley

11:30 am - 2:30 pm Bay Area Science Expo — Science art, books, crafts, & music

1:30 pm Science Laughs — Norm Goldblatt, Merle Kessler, Tim Lee, & Brian Malow

2:30 pm Are Dreams Psychologically Significant?
William Dement, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford
Sharon Keenan, Founder, School of Sleep Medicine, Palo Alto

4:00 pm What Science Must Our Leaders Understand?
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Robert Siegel, Assoc. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford

Wonderfest 2007 took place at Stanford and Cal in late October.

(see Wonderfest 2007 videos…)


 
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