Particle Colliders—The Science & The Fiction
with CERN Physicist Shulamit Moed!
Monday, June 29, 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square (top floor)
96 Winthrop Street
Cambridge, MA
If you’ve heard the black hole scares surrounding the LHC or seen the movie Angels & Demons and wondered if any bit of it had basis in reality, you’re in for a treat.
Shulamit Moed is a post-doc who splits her time between Fermilab (where she measures the production of the charm quark), CERN (where she prepares for the first LHC collisions), and Harvard (where she gives talks in pubs to people like you).
Boston Skeptics in the Pub is an informal lecture series where everyone is invited to hang out, socialize, drink, eat, and maybe even learn something. Each lecture is followed by a rousing Q&A session and then several hours of drinking and socializing that sometimes evolves into Harvard Square bar-hopping.
The lecture begins around 7pm, but show up anytime after 6:30 to get good seats!
Hi folks, sorry for the silence. Please note that there will not be a May Skeptics in the Pub, as it turns out that that’s Memorial Day and I (Rebecca) won’t even be in town. So instead, let’s have brunch!
Boston Skeptics Nerd Brunch
Saturday, May 30
11am Asgard (in Central Square)
Please RSVP here or on Facebook so we can warn them about the numbers!
UPDATE! Jon Rosenberg, writer and illustrator of the wonderful and geeky webcomic Goats, will now be joining Jeffrey. That’s two artists for one low low price (free)!
I’m pleased to announce that our next guest at Boston Skeptics in the Pub will be artist Jeffrey Rowland, who draws the hilarious and very skeptical comics Overcompensating and Wigu. The night will be a fun mix of heresy, art, ridiculous t-shirts, and beer.
We’ll be back in our usual space this time: the top floor of Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Be there at or before 7pm and bring your friends cuz it’s totally free!
We already had a fantastic speaker this month, but I think it might be fun just to get together to drink and socialize. If enough people show up and are interested, I (Rebecca) will host another Skeptical Trivia Night! We did this twice last summer and it was a lot of fun, and an easy way to meet new people and possibly even win a prize or two.
Thanks to everyone who came out for the First Boston Cream Pi Fight! It was so successful, we’ll do another on Pi Approximation Day, July 22. Stay tuned for details! Here’s video of the event for those who missed it. Thanks to Maggie for filming, editing, and doing everything except embedding it here, which took about 30 seconds:
PS: Monday’s Skeptics in the Pub with William Lobdell was also a giant success! We’ll be back in our larger space in Tommy Doyle’s Harvard Square on Monday, March 30. More info on that coming soon!
Here’s your last-minute warning! William Lobdell will join us at Tommy Doyle’s in Kendall Square (note! not our usual location!) at 7pm. Come a little early to get good seats – we have the function room from 6:30pm on.
Tickets are now on sale for Harvard’s Humanist of the Year ceremony with Joss Whedon! They’re only $10 and sure to be well worth it – I attended last year’s event with Greg Graffin of Bad Religion, and it (literally) rocked.
