Saturday, Nov. 6, at Stanford’s Hewlett Teach Center |
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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 Will Synthetic Biology Make Industrial Chemistry Obsolete? |
Sunday, Nov. 7, at UC Berkeley’s Stanley Hall |
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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 |