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.

Wonderfest Intro with Tucker Hiatt, Director

Nobel physicist, LBNL Director, and energy expert Steven Chu will moderate a panel discussion entitled:

Does Civilization Have a Promising Energy Future?

The panel includes:

• Daniel Kammen, energy conservation, UC Berkeley
• Michael McGehee, solar energy, Stanford
  
• Franklin Orr, carbon capture, Stanford
  
• Per Peterson, nuclear energy, UC Berkeley
  

As always, Wonderfest will feature special dialogues between accomplished and articulate researchers:

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

Are Dreams Psychologically Significant?
William Dement, Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford
Sharon Keenan, Director of the School of Sleep Medicine, Palo Alto

What Science Must Our Leaders Understand?
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Bob Siegel, Assoc. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford

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

Will Genetics Allow Us to Revive Extinct Species?
Ronald Davis, Professor of Biochemistry and of Genetics, Stanford
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Wonderfest 2007 took place at Stanford and Cal in late October.

(see Wonderfest 2007 videos…)

Got that Wonderfest urge off-season? Try the monthly “Ask a Scientist” gatherings in San Francisco.