From: Tucker Hiatt (thiatt@usfca.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 20:53:55 PDT
Message-Id: <a0510036eb9d292b5609b@[12.236.121.220]> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:53:55 -0700 From: Tucker Hiatt <thiatt@usfca.edu> Subject: Wonderfest 2002 at Stanford, Nov.2-3
CONTENTS of this message:
1) Wonderfest 2002 dialogues
2) First-ever evening dialogue
3) $5000 Carl Sagan Prize
4) WonderCup Challenge high school science team competition
5) "Dialogue Guides"
6) Voltaire's donation invitation!
Dear Friends of Wonderfest,
1) Wonderfest 2002 is coming. The Bay Area Festival of Science
happens on the weekend of November 2-3 at Stanford University. This
year's dialogues promise to be as exciting and enlightening as ever.
Topics include the evolution of human intelligence, the limits of
computer power, and sex differences in cognition. Please peruse the
beautifully refurbished Wonderfest website
<http://www.wonderfest.org> for full details, including directions
and ticket information. [Thanks to Eric Yao for his graceful website
design!].
2) For the first time since its creation, Wonderfest will feature an
EVENING dialogue. Stanford cosmologists Savas Dimopolous and Andrei
Linde will tackle "Where Did the Universe Come From?" at 8:00pm on
Saturday, November 2.
3) In another first for Wonderfest, that Saturday evening dialogue
will begin with a presentation of the Carl Sagan Prize for Science
Popularization. This new $5000 annual award goes to a Bay Area
researcher who has contributed significantly to public scientific
enlightenment. The Sagan Prize is underwritten by Annual Reviews
<http://www.annualreviews.org/> as a tribute to their President and
Editor-in-Chief, Samuel Gubins.
4) Wonderfest 2002 has already begun for many Bay Area high school
students. Round 1 of the WonderCup Challenge science contest took
place last week *online* at
<http://www.wonderfest.org/wf2002/html/wondercup2.html>. As a
consequence, the top 25 age- and gender-balanced teams of Bay Area
science students will meet at Stanford to compete in Round 2 on
Saturday morning, November 2. From those teams, just two will
advance to the WonderCup Challenge Championship later that same day.
Each member of the victorious team will win a laptop computer, and
each 2nd place team member will win a $250 cash scholarship. All 100
participants in Round 2 will receive Wonderfest day-passes -- along
with their now-augmented enthusiasm for science.
5) To prepare for the 2002 dialogues, students and non-students alike
may want to investigate Wonderfest's "Dialogue Guides"
<http://www.wonderfest.org/html/dialogue_subject_guides.html>. Each
Guide offers an introduction to a dialogue topic as well as a set of
thoughtful book and weblink recommendations.
Wonderfest is less than three weeks away. Please don't miss it!
Sincerely,
Tucker
-- *********************************** Tucker Hiatt, Director Wonderfest P.O. Box 887 (39 Fernhill Avenue) Ross, CA 94957 thiatt@usfca.edu 415-577-1126 (voice) 415-454-2535 (fax) http://www.wonderfest.orgTruth is a great flirt. - Franz Liszt ***********************************
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