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WONDERFEST: Bay Area Festival of Science – Day One | Stanford
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Event Details
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The Schedule of Events (which are all FREE):
- 1:00 pm 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, Executive Director of H-STAR Institute, Stanford & Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Physics, San Jose State University
- 4:00-7:00pm AMATEUR SCIENCE FORUM — Groups & individuals share their explorations
- 4:30pm SCIENCE LAUGHS — Physicist Norm Goldblatt studies lasers and their ophtalmic uses but in his free time he does stand-up comedy. This, you gotta see.
- 5:00pm NEUROMAGIC — Luigi Anzivino
- 5:30pm BECHTEL WONDERCUP CHALLENGE CHAMPIONSHIP — Top high school science teams square off
- 8:00pm WILL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY MAKE INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY OBSOLETE?Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate & Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford & Richard Zare, Priestley Medalist & Chemistry Department Chair, Stanford
- Also: Presentation of the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization to:DONALD KENNEDY, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford
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Cost: FREE
Tags: biology, Competition, exploration, innovation, math, media, physics, Science, video games
Categories: *Top Pick*, Geek Event, Lectures & Workshops, South Bay