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WONDERFEST: Bay Area Festival of Science – Day One | Stanford

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Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE

Event Details

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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