From: The Lahrs (JohnJan@lahr.org)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 05:46:20 PST
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000209064525.00b36570@netmail.home.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 06:46:20 -0700 From: The Lahrs <JohnJan@lahr.org> Subject: Fwd: Wonderfest 2000: Internet Festival of Science (fwd)
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 16:04:35 -0800
>From: Tucker Hiatt <hiattu00@USFCA.EDU>
>Reply-To: "phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics Educators"
> <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
>Subject: Wonderfest 2000: Internet Festival of Science
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I'd like to alert all Phys-L regulars to the Internet presence of
>Wonderfest 2000, The San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science.
>Wonderfest takes place SIMULTANEOUSLY at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF
>on the weekend of February 12-13.
>
>The heart of Wonderfest is a series of public dialogues between articulate
>researchers in discussion of provocative scientific questions. More
>information about the festival is available at http://www.wonderfest.org.
>But please allow me to tell you about the Wonderfest dialogues accessible
>over the Internet.
>
>All six of Stanford's Wonderfest sessions will be transmitted at 56K. They
>are:
>
>Are Life-Supporting Worlds Common in the Cosmos?
> Doug Lin, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
> Geoff Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
>Saturday, February 12, 10:00-11:30am
>
>Is Intelligence Likely to Evolve Elsewhere in the Universe?
> Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
> Seth Shostak, Public Programs Scientist, SETI Institute
>Saturday, February 12, 1:00-2:30pm
>
>Do We Know How Best to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
> Frank Drake, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
> Dan Werthimer, Director of Project SERENDIP, UC Berkeley
>Saturday, February 12, 3:30-5:00pm
>
>Can Machines Think?
> Nils Nilsson, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
> Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
>Sunday, February 13, 10:00-11:30am
>
>Do We Understand the Depth of Animal Awareness?
> Walter Freeman, Professor of Neurobiology, UC Berkeley
> Penny Patterson, Director of Research, The Gorilla Foundation
>Sunday, February 13, 1:00-2:30pm
>
>Do We Understand the Origin of Cosmic Structure?
> George Blumenthal, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
> Jeff Willick, Asst. Professor of Physics, Stanford
>Sunday, February 13, 3:30-5:00pm
>
>These are great scientists and great speakers, so if you can't get to the
>Bay Area on February 12-13, just log-on to wonderfest.org. If you haven't
>experienced netcasting before, you're probably in for a bit of
>disappointment (the picture quality is nothing like television). But
>perhaps the quality of content will compensate; it's also nothing like
>television. Turn up the sound, and think of your computer as a glorified
>radio.
>
>By the way, if your academic institution is part of Internet2 (the high
>bandwidth network linking hundreds of American universities), then you CAN
>receive high quality video. You can also receive any of the sixteen
>Wonderfest sessions from any of the three Wonderfest campuses, not just the
>six sessions from Stanford. The physics-related sessions available over
>Internet2 are:
>
>Is the Weirdness of Quantum Physics Manifested in the Everyday World?
> Charles Marcus, Professor of Physics, Harvard
> Paul McEuen, Assoc. Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
>Sunday, February 13, 10:00-11:30am
>
>Is the Universe 11-Dimensional?
> Hirosi Ooguri, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
> Stephen Shenker, Professor of Physics, Stanford
>Sunday, February 13, 1:00-2:30pm
>
>Have We Already Discovered All the Mathematics Worth Knowing?
> Keith Devlin, Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary's College
> Robert Osserman, Asst. Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
>Sunday, February 13, 3:30-5:00pm
>
>Again, for more information, please visit http://www.wonderfest.org.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tucker
>
>P.S. If you can help me to get the word out about Wonderfest, I'd sure
>appreciate it. Please tell your students and your colleagues. If you're
>at an Internet2 institution, please notify your network administrator that
>you'd like to be able to receive Wonderfest events. Thanks, again.
>
>**************************************************
>Tucker Hiatt, Director
>Wonderfest 2000
>P.O. Box 887
>(39 Fernhill Avenue)
>Ross, CA 94957
>hiattu00@usfca.edu
>415-713-5895 (voice)
>415-454-2535 (fax)
> http://www.wonderfest.org
>
> "Truth is a great flirt." - Franz Liszt
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