The Hillside Club

Our new July-August calendar features concerts, films, lectures, and other events.

Thursday 6/21 7:30 PM

Screening of Ripe for Change and discussion with the filmakers.

This documentary film looks at the intersection of agriculture and politics in California over the past 30 years, examining the increasing interest in sustainable agriculture, better food for school lunch programs (featuring Berkeley’s own Edible Schoolyard), community-supported agriculture, and farmer’s markets. The film was featured in the 4-part PBS series California and the American Dream, and the Ripe for Change trailer can be seen on YouTube.

Filmmakers Emiko Omori and Jed Riffe will be present for discussion after the screening.

$5. The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar at Arch, Berkeley. (510) 843-8724.

IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?:
The Search for ET with Five Million SETI@home Volunteers
7.30 PM at the Berkeley Hillside Club
Dan Werthimer, University of California, Berkeley

Dan Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe and the search for radio and optical signals from other civilizations.

SETI@home analyzes data from the world’s largest radio telescope using desktop computers from several million volunteers in 226 countries.

SETI@home participants have contributed two million years of computer time and have formed Earth’s most powerful supercomputer. Users have the small but captivating possibility their computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.

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Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of SETI@home and several radio and optical SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley.

Werthimer was associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University of St. Charles in Marseille, and Eotvos University in Budapest.

He has taught at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. Werthimer has published numerous papers in the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education; he is co-author of “SETI 2020″ and editor of “Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe”.