Mobile Millennium: The System That Keeps Traffic Moving
10-11 am, Sibley Auditorium
This traffic-monitoring system collects data and sends it to your cell phone to help you take the best routes. Be an early adopter of this developing technology; learn how following the lecture or from 1:30 to 3 pm outside McCone Hall.
Are We Wired for Good?
11 am-noon, 145 Dwinelle Hall
Is the capacity for compassion, gratitude, and other positive emotions built into our nervous systems? Are such emotions the path to happiness? The founder of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center has some answers.
What Is the Large Hadron Collider?
11 am-noon, 4 LeConte Hall
It's the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Hear how it works and discover the exciting things it might reveal about our amazing universe.
Will Water Be the Oil of the 21st Century? A Quest for Sustainable Water Management
11 am-noon, 502 Davis Hall
Water is a limited natural resource, and its importance can be compared to that of oil. Examine the parallels between these two resources, and the future of water sustainability.
How Global Climate Change Will Affect the Oceans
Noon-1 pm, 141 McCone Hall
Warmer surface waters, rising sea levels, more storms, and increased carbon dioxide - all will have an impact on marine ecosystems, coasts, islands, estuaries, and wetlands.
The Dark Side of the Universe
Noon-1 pm, 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
The universe is mostly made up of "dark matter" - what evidence do we have that it exists? Hear how we're searching for this mysterious component of the universe.
Genes in a Bottle
Noon-2 pm, Latimer Hall
Learn how DNA is chemically extracted from organisms for research applications. Then extract DNA from your own cheek cells, and take it home in a fashionable necklace!
How Do Cars Fit Into a Clean-Energy Future?
1-2 pm, 105 Stanley Hall
Can car lovers also be planet lovers? How will our favorite vehicle evolve as the need to manage global warming intensifies? Energy and Resources Group Professor Dan Kammen
Is Anybody Out There?
1-2 pm, 3 LeConte Hall
Hear about Berkeley's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program at the world's largest telescope, the Allen array. Volunteers have a small but captivating chance that their computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
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