The Molecular Foundry at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) invites you and your students to Nano*High, a series of free Saturday morning lectures by UC Berkeley professors and LBNL senior scientists conducting research on the cutting edge across the breadth of science and technology–from nanoscience to molecular medicine, and climate change to astrophysics. 2009-2010 will be our seventh year of Nano*High. Last year over 900 students and their teachers attended at least one talk.

Nano*High talks are aimed at all high school students, from those already committed to careers in science to those committed to poetry, history, philosophy or to figuring out what they want to be committed to.  Nano*High attendees meet and talk with (and can have their pictures taken with) world-renowned Berkeley scientists. A small group of student attendees are invited to stay for lunch after the talk with members of the speaker's research group. Here they can discuss the day-to-day  life and work of undergraduate and graduate students performing the research presented in the talk. Teachers are invited to join the speaker in a separate lunch. Invitations to lunch will be sent to all registered students and teachers—we will try to accommodate as many who are interested.

*Nano*High gratefully acknowledges QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosystems for providing the lecture hall on the Berkeley campus.

All talks begin at 10AM. (No one will be admitted after 10:20.) The talks last for approximately one hour with time for questions.

2008-2009 Dates and speakers

November 15, 2008
Paul Alivisatos
The Helios Project: From Photon to Fuel

 

December 13, 2008
Roger Falcone
X-rays, Lasers, and Molecular Movies
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January 10, 2009
Mark Levine
Energy, Climate Change, and China: Is there Hope for Averting Environmental Crises?
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February 21, 2009
Carolyn Bertozzi
Nature's Nasty Nanomachines: How Viruses Work, and How We Can Stop Them

March 28, 2009
Mike Crommie
Convenient or Inconvenient? The Truth about Carbon and Nanoscientists


April 25, 2008
Larry Bock
The Art of the Start: Moving Science from the Lab to the Marketplace