The public will be welcome to peer and sometimes poke at wonderful scientific gadgets, meet the people who use them to investigate nature, and learn about the latest scientific research at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Open House on Saturday, October 18, from 10 am to 4 pm.
Complete details are available in the online program of the day's events and activities.
At Family Science Tents, kids 6 through 12 can learn the science of ice cream, wiggle like an electron, or hear from high-school students what it was like for them to work alongside researchers on real scientific investigations. All day long there'll be live music, food, and souvenirs available on the Lab's scenic grounds in the hills above the UC Berkeley campus. In a special noontime ceremony, Glenn Seaborg, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director at Large and a 1951 Nobel Prize laureate, will be honored for his contributions to science, notably his discoveries and investigations of elements heavier than uranium. Recently element 106 on the periodic table was officially named seaborgium in his honor, the only element to be named after a living person. The Lab is dedicated to performing nonclassified research in biological, physical, materials, chemical, energy, environmental, and earth sciences.