700 Scientists Meet This Week in S.F.
More than 700 scientists and researchers will share their latest findings in many scientific fields at the 1994 annual meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science Friday through Wednesday in San Francisco.
The group is the world’s largest federation of scientists, embracing more than 137,000 members worldwide. It group also publishes the weekly journal Science.
Speakers at the meeting will discuss research in such fields as health and medicine, the environmental sciences, evolution, psychology, astronomy, technology and education.
The meeting will be at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers. Call (202) 326-6450.
ASTRONOMY
* Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History telescopes will be trained on Orion on Friday at 8 p.m. One of the best-known group of stars in the sky, Orion’s belt points to the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, and to Sirius the Dog Star, one of the brightest and nearest stars. Telescopes will reveal brightly illuminated gas, black dusty areas and recently formed stars. Call (805) 682-3224.
* “E.T.--The Real Search” will explore the question of what alien life may be like and where it might exist in the universe, in the planetarium show presented by the Los Angeles Valley College Astronomy Club at 8 p.m. Friday. Call (818) 781-1200, Ext. 335.
METEOROLOGY
* Warren Blier of UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences will discuss California tornadoes at the American Meteorological Society at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Room 7124 of the Math-Science Building. Call (213) 343-2222.
SCIENCE FOR KIDS
* Children ages 5 and older can join archeologist Claudia B. Ocello in uncovering the past by digging for cultural artifacts and displaying them in a mini-museum in workshops offered at Kidspace Museum in Pasadena at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Call (818) 449-9144.
* Preschoolers ages 3 and 4 can learn how animals stay warm when the weather turns cold, in programs offered by the Los Angeles Zoo today and Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Call (213) 666-4090.
SCIENCE POLICY
* Author Ray Bradbury will discuss his career and offer glimpses into the future at a lecture and book signing marking the 40th anniversary of “Fahrenheit 451” at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Jean Delacour Auditorium at 2 p.m. Sunday. Call (213) 744-3534.
ORNITHOLOGY
* The wading birds of Florida will be the topic of a program by Charles and Helen Righter at the monthly meeting of the Whittier Audubon Society at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Whittier Community Center. Call (310) 699-2021.
* Audubon regional representative Dan Taylor will discuss the “Ecosystems and Habitats of the Ancient Forests,” and how indicator species such as the spotted owl can reveal the health of the ecosystem at the meeting of the Pasadena Audubon Society at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia. Call (818) 798-5522.
COMPUTING
* Ruzena Bacjsy, professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss “Cooperative Agents: Machines and Humans” in a lecture sponsored by the USC computer science department at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the auditorium of the USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. Call (213) 740-4498.
