Thanks for a Great Festival!Explore the wonders of science with free events for all ages at UC Berkeley and throughout the East Bay during the first-ever Bay Area Science Festival!
All festival
events presented by Science@Cal are free and open to the public (see listing below). Many more festival events are listed on the Bay Area Science Festival website.
Festival events and activities are subject to change without notice.
Explore What You Eat: Hands-On Science at Local Farmers' Markets Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for cool, food-related investigations at East Bay farmers' markets. Read more.
Art in Science: The Intersection of Image and Research View beautiful and intruiging images captured during the process of scientific research at this unique event, presented at First Love Gallery during Oakland's First Friday Art Murmur on November 4. Read more.Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for cool, food-related investigations at these East Bay farmers' markets:
This program is jointly supported by Science@Cal, Community Resources for Science, and the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
Join Cal astronomers to explore the wonders of the sky—from afternoon solar viewing till the stars come out at night—at this free community star party. The lineup includes…
If skies are cloudy, the event will offer fun, family activities and astronomer talks and informal discussions indoors.
Saturday, November 5 • 3:00–9:00p
San Leandro High School • 2200 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro
Program jointly sponsored by San Leandro High School, the East Bay Astronomical Society, and UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department and Space Sciences Laboratory.
Modern science offers us a startling and highly detailed account of cosmology—the origin of everything. This same issue—and its significance—have occupied religious thinkers for thousands of years. Their insights are very different from those of science, but can also be beautifully complementary. In this evening's unique Wonder Dialogue, an astrophysicist, a Jewish scholar, and a Buddhist monk bring their own perspectives to these vast, yet highly personal questions.
Tuesday, November 1 • 7:00p
Sutardja Dai Hall • University of California, Berkeley
Doors open at 6:45p
Featured speakers:
Dr. Steven Stahler, research astronomer, UC Berkeley. Steven Stahler is an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Raised in Maryland, he attended graduate school at Berkeley in physics. He was a professor at MIT before returning to the Bay Area in 1992. His research centers on the problem of star formation, which he has attacked from many different perspectives. He is the author, along with Francesco Palla, of The Formation of Stars (Wiley, 2004), the first comprehensive text in this field. Steve especially enjoys the aesthetic aspect of his research, which he tries to convey in his public talks and articles. Not coincidentally, he is also an accomplished artist. For more information, and a sampling of recent sketches, see his website.
Dr. Daniel Matt, former Professor of Jewish Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union. Daniel Matt is one of the
world’s leading authorities on Kabbalah. He has published more than ten
books, including God and the Big Bang: Discovering
Harmony between Science and Spirituality; The Essential
Kabbalah (translated into seven languages); and Zohar: Annotated and Explained. Daniel is currently
engaged in an immense project of translating and annotating the
Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. So far, he has completed
six volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
(Stanford University Press), covering approximately half of the
Zohar. For this work, Daniel has been honored with a National
Jewish Book Award and a Koret Jewish Book Award. The Koret award
called his translation “a monumental contribution to the history of
Jewish thought.” Dr. Matt has been
featured in Time Magazine, and has appeared on National Public Radio
and the History Channel. For twenty years, he served as professor at
the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has also
taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Daniel lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Hana.
Rev. Heng Sure, PhD, Director, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. Rev.
Heng Sure, a native of Toledo, Ohio, became a Buddhist Bhikshu (monk)
at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Talmage, California, in 1976,
after finishing his M.A. in Oriental Languages at the University of
California, Berkeley. He ordained in the Mahayana tradition of
Chinese Buddhism with his teacher in religion, the late Chan Master
Hsuan Hua. In 1977 Heng Sure commenced a “Three Steps, One Bow”
pilgrimage for World Peace, traveling up the California coast from
South Pasadena to Ukiah. He and his monk companion covered a distance
of eight hundred miles in two years and six months, during which time
and for three years following Heng Sure observed a vow of
complete silence. Rev.
Sure currently serves as Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery
and holds a Doctorate in Religion from the Graduate Theological
Union, Berkeley, California, where he co-teaches a class on
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. He has represented Buddhism on the
Global Council of the United Religions Initiative and has served on
the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. Rev.
Heng Sure is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French and Japanese. He
speaks around the world on topics as diverse as human values in the
hi-tech world, eating a harmless, plant-based diet, and translating
Buddhist music into the West. An accomplished folk musician and
storyteller, Rev. Sure interprets traditional insights for
contemporary seekers of the path to liberation.
Kelp forests are found throughout the world; however, their histories in the northern and southern hemispheres are dramatically different - from the timing of their formation to the origin of the key species that inhabit them. For example, in the North Pacific, the sea otter is the youngest component in the forests and the spiny lobsters the oldest. Kelp forests in the North Atlantic show patterns similar to the North Pacific, probably due to the role of recent migration of numerous kelp forest species from the North Pacific into the Atlantic. In addition to deep time differences, humans have differentially affected kelp forests. Constructing the story of kelp forests from paleontological, archaeological, and historical sources all demonstrate that kelp forest ecosystems are highly dynamic systems, and understanding their modern ecology is difficult, if not impossible, without a diversity of perspectives.
David R. Lindberg is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and three books on the evolutionary history of marine organisms and their habitats. He has conducted research and field work for more than 30 years around much of the Pacific Rim, and has served as Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology. In addition to his research work, Professor LIndberg is actively involved in K–12 outreach projects at the UCMP, focusing on the use of technology to increase access to scientific resources, and the training of teachers in principles of evolutionary biology.
Wednesday, November 2 • 7:00–9:00p
Café Valparaiso at La Peña • 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
View beautiful and intriguing images captured during the process of scientific research at this unique event, presented at First Love Gallery during Oakland's First Friday Art Murmur on November 4. Hosted by gallery owner/artist/astronomer Nia Imara, the Art in Science show will feature a continuous screening of these images, while UC Berkeley scientists will be on hand to explain their scientific significance. Your imagination can provide its own interpretation.
Science@Cal warmly thanks Nia Imara for welcoming our Bay Area Science Festival event to her gallery. Nia's artwork consists primarily of oil painting. In 2010, Nia graduated with her PhD in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Friday, November 4 • 6:00–9:00p
First Love Gallery • 2440 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612-2405
Science@Cal informs and engages the public about the diversity and depth of science research at UC Berkeley. The Science@Cal website features profiles of Cal scientists and their research. Science@Cal is supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
The 2011 Bay Area Science Festival was a 10-day, Bay-Area-wide celebration of the unique science and technology of the region. Scientists from local universities, companies, and museums shared their science in venues throughout the Bay Area.
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