Fwd: Nov 6-7 WONDERFEST

[Bryan Bishop]

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From: Eri Gentry <sap.v...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Subject: Nov 6-7 WONDERFEST
To: biocu...@googlegroups.com


I'm so excited for this :)

Check out WONDERFEST, the 12th annual bay area festival of science http://wonderfest.org/schedule/

Schedule

REGISTER DIRECTIONS

Saturday, Nov. 6, at Stanford’s Hewlett Teach Center
1:00pm	Does 10,000 Hours of Videogaming Have Side Effects? Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research, Institute for the Future Philip Zimbardo, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Stanford
2:45pm	Is Mathematics More Art than Science? Keith Devlin, H-STAR Institute Executive Director, Stanford Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Physics, San Jose State
4:00-7:00pm	AMATEUR SCIENCE FORUM — groups & individuals share their explorations
4:30pm	Science Laughs, with Norm Goldblatt
5:00pm	Neuromagic, with Luigi Anzivino
5:30pm	Bechtel WonderCup “Innovation Challenge” Championship
8:00pm	Presentation of the 2010 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization to Donald Kennedy, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford Will Synthetic Biology Make Industrial Chemistry Obsolete? Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate & Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford Richard Zare, Priestley Medalist & Chemistry Department Chair, Stanford
Sunday, Nov. 7, at UC Berkeley’s Stanley Hall
10:10am	Emmy Noether: Mistress of Nature’s Laws, with Ransom Stephens
10:30am	Dare We Try to Engineer Earth’s Climate? Julio Friedmann, Carbon Management Program Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Jane C.S. Long, Associate Director at Large, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
12:00-4:00pm	BAY AREA SCIENCE EXPO — art, books, crafts, & music for science lovers
1:30pm	How Did Evolution Shape Human Behavior? David DeGusta, Research Paleontologist, Paleoanthropology Institute Henry Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, CSU East Bay
3:00pm	Science Laughs, with Brian Malow
3:30pm	This Week In Science – LIVE podcast, with Dr. Kiki & Justin
4:15pm	Do We Understand the Structure of the Universe? Lloyd Knox, Professor of Physics, UC Davis Chung-Pei Ma, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley

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