The Science@Cal Lecture Series

Science@Cal is proud to present a series of free, public science lectures on the third Saturday of every month. These talks are given by renowned UC Berkeley scientists and aimed at general audiences.

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Talk Details

Talks take place on the UC Berkeley campus at 11am. Doors open thirty minutes before the talk and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Each talk is planned to last an hour, plus time for at least a few questions at the end. We would like to start the talks on time, and avoid disruption from people entering the auditorium during the talks, so please try to arrive at least 10 minutes before the start. Most talks take place in the Genetics and Plant Biology Building, Room 100, on the north-west corner of the UC Berkeley campus (see map or images below), but some do not - please check the calendar below. Limited hourly pay parking is available on weekends on and nearby campus — please check the signs. We encourage you to take public transport — BART and bus lines are within walking distance. We also record the talks and post them on this site (click on the speaker names for previous months below). If you're nearby though we encourage you to come to the talks in person!

Left: Genetics and Plant Biology Building
Right: Lecture Theater Entrance

2013 Talk Calendar

Previous Talks

You can watch the videos of previous talks in the series by clicking on the talk titles below:

Posted	Title
May 21, 2013 - 8:16pm	A Deep View of the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers and Overweight Galaxies
April 29, 2013 - 10:53am	Connecting Infinitesimal to Infinity: The Search for Dark Matter
March 18, 2013 - 1:10pm	Cal Day Open House
February 18, 2013 - 1:58pm	Cloudspotting at Saturn and Titan: Learning About Weather from a Billion Miles Away
January 23, 2013 - 2:42pm	Synthetic Biology: Engineering Living Cells with New Capabilities
December 16, 2012 - 8:18pm	The Shape of Our Thoughts (Visual Perception of Geometric Shape)
November 25, 2012 - 3:49pm	Everyday Life and Everyday Science in the Precolumbian Maya World
October 22, 2012 - 11:03am	Vagrants and Variability: Evolution on Remote Islands
September 16, 2012 - 4:35am	A Few Sure Ways to Lose Your Money
September 4, 2012 - 1:34pm	Black Holes - What Do They Look Like?

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Other Talk Videos

You can also check out the video of "The Great Debate: Are We Alone?" with Geoff Marcy and Dan Werthimer discussing the existence of intelligent life in our Galaxy, and a lecture by Geoff Marcy on the "Discovery of the First Earth-Size Planets and Prospects for Life in the Universe". Thanks to Chris Klein, Andrew Siemion, and James Anderson for producing these videos.

Cal Day 2013 Videos

Videos from UC Berkeley's Cal Day open house are also available. You can see Raphael Bousso talk about "Black Holes, Information, and the Quest for a Unified Theory of Nature", or Adrian Lee talk about "The Microwave Background: A Cosmic Time Machine".

Archives of 2009 International Year of Astronomy Talks

The Science@Cal lecture series was preceded by a 2009 lecture series presented by the Department of Astronomy as part of the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. To see videos of these talks, visit the astronomy lecture series website.

Questions?

Contact Steve Croft at scroft@astro.berkeley.edu.