Welcome to
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, from climate change to astrophysics. This is our sixth year of Nano*High. Last year over 600 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.
All talks begin at 10AM and are held in the Building 66 Auditorium (see directions, left). The talks last for approximately one hour with time for questions.
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
January 10, 2009
Mark Levine
Energy, Climate Change, and China: Is there
Hope for Averting Environmental Crises?
February 21, 2009
Carolyn Bertozzi
A 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
