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FYE: Regular Science Events Throughout The City
Caryn Shechtman
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 01:03 UTC
They are many sci-friendly and sci-cultural event that are happening all the time throughout the city. Here are a few of my favorites.
Cafe Science is a discussion (theme is different each session) led by a Columbia professor on their area of study. This event is held several times throughout the semester. There is a small fee ($10), but it comes with a complimentary glass of wine.
The Secret Science Club meets monthly at the Bell House in Brooklyn. This event offers free science and art lectures.
Finally, the NYAS runs Science and the City, which offers a wide array of lectures on all sciences. Often advertised as “the public gateway to science” — S&C events are a great way to learn about a new field of scientific research.
Please use this forum to add any events you like to attend throughout the city!
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Tonight there is a meeting of the Secret Science Club in Brooklyn at 8:00PM.
Check out the blurb from their listserve email: Recent unmanned missions have revolutionized our thinking about Mars. The Red Planet is no longer known as just a dry dusty desert—but the repository for 2 to 3 million cubic kilometers of ice. Surprisingly, it turns out Mars may have a lot in common with the environment at Earth’s South Pole.
Mars expert James Head recently spent his “holidays” in Antarctica, studying the bone-chilling landscape for clues that might help explain the mysterious Martian terrain. Dr. Head asks: Could frigid water below the surface of Mars contain evidence of life—like the microscopic extremophiles surviving under such conditions in Antarctica? What’s the latest news from recent Mars missions such as the Mars Express and Phoenix. Will Earthlings send a manned mission to the Red Planet?
Professor of Geological Sciences in the Planetary Geosciences Group at Brown University, Dr. James Head spent his early career at NASA, training Apollo astronauts and planning lunar landing sites. As a geological explorer, he has traveled around the world (and to the bottom of the ocean in deep-sea submersibles) to study volcanism and tectonism. He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers on topics ranging from glaciation on Mars to Venusian impact craters. Currently, he is a co-investigator for the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Mission, the NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury and the NASA Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3).
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Café Science tonight, 5/11/09!
EAT. DRINK. TALK SCIENCE WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS
Café Science is a place where anyone can come to explore the most up-to-date ideas in
science and technology.Café Science conversations occur on the second Monday of each month
Summer 2009 Series
May 11, 2009
6:00 -7:00PMCivil Engineer Patricia Culligan will discuss
Urban Sustainability: Can We Engineer It?
At the beginning of the last century, 15% of the World?s population lived in urban areas. Today that number is over 50%. As a result, some of the most pressing needs for sustainable design and management of the natural and built environments are located within urban contexts. As the world?s population dramatically increases so will urbanization, concentrating more people on less land. Within a decade, over 35 mega-cities across the world will be catering to populations in excess of 10 million. New York will be among these cities. Indeed, New York might be the only city left among a top-ten list of mega-cities that is located in Northern America or Europe. So what are
the urbanization challenges that New York City faces? Are they serious? Can we overcome them? Might we even lead in the development of strategies for sustainable urbanization? Come hear the perspective of an engineer.Location:
Picnic Café, 2665 Broadway (Btwn 101st & 102nd)
Take #1 subway to 103rd Street and BroadwayFor further information:
cafescience@columbia.edu
212-851-7809
www.cafescience.columbia.eduFirst Come, First Served. No Reservations, No Saving Seats.
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Secret Science Club, tomorrow 5/12/09!
Tuesday, May 12 @ 7:30 pm FREE!
Neuroscientist Ottavio Arancio lectures on the Brain and Memory Loss
The arithmetic of the brain is staggering. In just 3 lbs. of gray matter, there are 100 billion brain cells—each with branches connecting at 100 trillion synapses. Dozens of chemical neurotransmitters travel through this neural network, creating, storing, and accessing memories—the sum total of our sensations, thoughts, experiences, and knowledge. Currently, the brain’s total capacity for memory-making is beyond calculation.
But what happens when the brain loses its ability to remember new things? In his lab at Columbia University, neuroscientist Ottavio Arancio explores the molecular mechanisms of memory formation. He asks:
—Why do some people stop remembering?
—How does disruption of the brain’s pathways affect our ability to learn?
—Can new drugs slow, stop, or even reverse the process of memory-impairing diseases such as Alzheimer’s?
—What can we learn from forgetful lab mice?
—Can memory be enhanced? Will future medications act as brain boosters?
Dr. Arancio is a cellular neurobiologist at Columbia University’s Department of Pathology and Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain.
Don’t miss this dopamine-spiked evening . . .
Before & After
— Groove to brain-bending tunes and video
—Enjoy the Cocktail of the Night—the “Brain Scan”
—Stick around for the mind-altering Q&A
The “Secret Science Club” meets Tuesday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn, p: 718.643.6510 w: http://thebellhouseny.com Subway: F to 4th Ave; R to 9th St; F or G to Smith/9th
No cover charge. Just bring your smart self! Please bring ID: 21+.
For information: contact secretscienceclub@gmail.com or Dorian Devins at gal9000@verizon.net Or visit us on the Web at http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com
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Special Cafe Science Tomorrow:
There is a special event discussing Angels & Demons featuring experimental particle physicist, Michael Tuts. For more information see the event featured in Time Out New York.
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Next Secret Science Club:
The Secret Science Club presents the Undersea World of Jack Costello
Tuesday, June 9, 8:00 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn
FREE!Dive into summer with marine biologist Jack Costello as he lectures on the spineless wonders of the world’s oceans. Cavort with gelatinous and ghostly creatures such as jellyfish (cnidarians) and their comb jelly brethren (ctenophores). Feel the motion of the ocean, and ride the waves with copepods and zooplankton.
Professor of biology at Providence College and featured scientist in the PBS documentary “The Shape of Life,” Dr. Costello asks:
—Why do sea jellies have such creepy-seeming body forms?
—How do cnidarians and ctenophores kill their prey?
—What causes jellyfish invasions and how do gelatinous sea creatures get around?
— Why is so little known about undersea invertebrates when they make up such an enormous part of Earth’s biomass?
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There is another Cafe Science tonight!
EAT. DRINK. TALK SCIENCE WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS.
Café Science is a place where anyone can come to explore the most up-to-date ideas in science and technology.
First Come, First Served- No Reservations, No Saving Seats
$10 cover (cash only) includes one drink
Café Science conversations occur on the second Monday of each month
Summer 2009 Series
June 8, 2009
6:00 -7:00PMAstrophysicist Janna Levin will discuss
Black Holes Sing*Black Holes are the ultimate death state of very massive stars. Collapsing under their own weight, the dead cores will curve spacetime so strongly that not even light can escape. Black holes emit no light and reflect no light. They are dark against a dark sky and effectively invisible. When two black holes move in orbit around each other, they churn up the spacetime around them, emanating waves in the fabric of space itself. These waves are like the waves on a drum and are closest in analogy to sound waves: the black holes are singing. Gravitational waves move through the universe, and us, all the time squeezing and stretching space but so weakly that we don?t notice. Monumental experiments built on Earth and planned for space aim to record the extraordinary sounds of black hole orbits.
*Title inspired by Dennis Overbye of the New York Times.
Location:
Picnic Café, 2665 Broadway (Btwn 101st & 102nd)
Take #1 subway to 103rd Street and BroadwayFor further information:
cafescience@columbia.edu
212-851-7809
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Another Secret Science Club tonight!
The Secret Science Club presents the Undersea World of Jack Costello
Tuesday, June 9 @ 8 pm FREE!
Dive into summer with marine biologist Jack Costello as he lectures on the spineless wonders of the world’s oceans. Cavort with gelatinous and ghostly creatures such as jellyfish (cnidarians) and their comb jelly brethren (ctenophores). Feel the motion of the ocean, and ride the waves with copepods and zooplankton.
Professor of biology at Providence College and featured scientist in the PBS documentary “The Shape of Life,” Dr. Costello asks:
—Why do sea jellies have such creepy-seeming body forms?
—How do cnidarians and ctenophores kill their prey?
—What causes jellyfish invasions and how do gelatinous sea creatures get around?
— Why is so little known about undersea invertebrates when they make up such an enormous part of Earth’s biomass?
Before & After
— Groove to sea-salty tunes and video from Davey Jones’ locker
— Try our aquatic cocktail, the Alien Stinger. Looks like liquid… feels like fire!
— Stick around for the utra-buoyant Q&A
The “Secret Science Club” meets Tuesday, June 9 at 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn, p: 718.643.6510 W: http://thebellhouseny.com Subway: F to 4th Ave; R to 9th St; F or G to Smith/9th
FREE! Just bring your smart self. Please bring ID: 21+. Doors open at 7:30 PM.
For more information: contact secretscienceclub@gmail.com Or visit us on the Web at http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com
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Café Science
July 13th, 2009
6:00 -7:00PMEnvironmental Steward Nilda Mesa will discuss
Greening an Urban University: Oxymorons, Windmills and Carbon FootprintsRiddle: What university gives out 24 different environmental degrees while being located in a concrete metropolis? Would putting up windmills on Columbia’s campus reduce its carbon footprint, or would it be a quixotic effort? Columbia University, with its three campuses and 44,000 faculty, staff and students, has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2017. The University’s proposed Manhattanville campus is in the LEED-ND pilot program, and other ambitious sustainability initiatives have been launched in the last few years. Join us for a discussion of Columbia’s approach to reducing its environmental footprint, and how students, faculty and staff are deeply engaged in this vital work-in-progress in the largest urban center in the U.S.
Location:
Picnic Café, 2665 Broadway (Btwn 101st & 102nd)
Take #1 subway to 103rd Street and BroadwayFirst Come, First Served- No Reservations, No Saving Seats
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There is another Secret Science Club on 8/11/09):
Inside a converted warehouse . . .
Cloaked in mysterious perfumes . . .
Soaked in fruity cocktails . . .The Secret Science Club returns with more flower-powered lectures, equatorial libations, and photosynthesizing sounds!
Jungle Love! The Secret Science Club presents botanical explorer Susan Pell on Tuesday, August 11 @ 8 pm @ the Bell House, FREE!
Surrounded by the Coral Sea, the Louisiade Archipelago is a volcanic island chain off Papua New Guinea’s southeastern mainland. Earlier this year, Dr. Susan Pell led a five-person botanical expedition to the islands’ remote mountains, rain forests, and wet savannahs. The team’s goal? To locate rare and endemic plants and identify endangered ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth.
A molecular plant scientist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Dr. Pell chronicles her team’s search as they boat from island to island; hike across swollen rivers teeming with freshwater crocodiles; and encounter creatures such as giant spiders, walking “stick” insects the size of small branches, boa constrictors, and flying foxes.
So grab your boots and backpack . . . and don’t miss one nanosecond of this hot and steamy, flower-powered adventure!
Before & After
- Groove to tunes inspired by pistils and stamensTry our cocktail cooler, the Tropic-tini! It’ll knock you from Cancer to Capricorn . . .
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— Stick around for the blooming Q&AThe “Secret Science Club” meets Tuesday, August 11 at 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn, p: 718.643.6510 W: http://thebellhouseny.com Subway: F to 4th Ave; R to 9th St; F or G to Smith/9th.
FREE! Just bring your smart self.
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