Wonderfest: Next Scientist #2 - Spider Love & Cosmic Maps

 

Next Scientist is a new Wonderfest series of online presentations. Every Next Scientist Zoom consists of two 30-minute presentations (including 10 minutes of Q&A), each featuring a young researcher describing next-level science:

Creepy or Captivating: A Spider Scientist's Perspective

How have recent discoveries about spiders changed beliefs that have been passed down for generations? Can we see that the study of spiders is beneficial to society? One person's life-long journey - from curious child to rigorous researcher - reveals spider science to be an avenue of creative self-expression that offers rich insights into nature.

Speaker: Trinity Walls, UC Berkeley

Creating the Largest-Ever Maps of the Universe

New datasets from the James Webb Space Telescope have begun to reveal some of the oldest known galaxies in the universe. But what lies beyond these extremely remote objects, and what more can we learn by going deeper? Next-generation experiments are working to map the most distant regions of the universe to help explain the origins of the first galaxies.

Speaker: Tyler Cox, UC Berkeley

Attend via Zoom.