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Science Pub Eugene: Neuroscience of Nematodes
Neuroeconomics, Marijuana, and Microscopic Worms: The Neurobiology of Choice and Drugs.
With Shawn Lockery, PhD, Professor at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon and Co-founder & CTO of NemaMetrix, Inc.
January 10, 2019 | 6:30-8:30PM; Doors open @ 5PM | $5 Suggested Donation
Details coming soon!
Science Pub Eugene is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone. No RSVP or scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Corvallis: Running Shoes
Biomechanics of Running Shoes: Is There an Ideal Shoe?
With Christine Pollard, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Oregon State University
January 14, 2019 | 6-8PM; Doors open @ 5PM | FREE, RSVP Required
Running shoes prevent injury and improve performance. Recent trends in running footwear include the dramatically different minimal and maximal shoes. Minimal running shoes provide little cushioning. Maximal shoes have a highly cushioned midsole. Join OSU-Cascades researcher Christine Pollard when she shares the latest on the influence of shoe styles on our legs, knees, and ankles. Her work may help you better choose your ideal running shoe.
Christine Pollard, the director of the Functional Orthopedic Research Center of Excellence (FORCE) Laboratory at Oregon State University-Cascades will be presenting on the peculiar findings the FORCE Lab team unearthed as regards HOKA ONE ONE maximal running shoes. The FORCE Lab has now twice found that maximal shoes actually provide less functional cushioning than traditional running shoes. Could too much of a good thing be bad for runners? If runners love their HOKAs, then the answer might be a resounding no, but if they hate them, the FORCE Lab’s next study might show why.
The Science Pub presentation is free and open to the public.
Due to the continuing popularity of Science Pub, we are implementing a ticketing/RSVP process. Please read the specifics below.
- Limit of two free tickets per person.
- Registration opens three weeks prior to each Science Pub and is limited to the first 100 tickets.
- Available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the link above or by calling 541-737-4717.
- Advanced registration recommended to guarantee a ticket/seat.
- Only register if you plan on attending please.
- If plans change, please cancel your reservation via your initial confirmation email or by calling 541-737-4717.
- Walk-ins welcome, but seating will not be guaranteed and is based on availability.
- Register for the Science Pub listserv by emailing events@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4717.
Sponsors of Science Pub include Terra magazine at OSU, the Downtown Corvallis Association and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
You can also listen to their podcasts at http://communications.oregonstate.edu/podcast.
Science Pub Portland: Queens of Egypt
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
With Kara Cooney, PhD, Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at the University of California
January 16, 2019 | Doors Open @ 5PM - Please note this event is on a Wednesday, not our regular Tuesday.
Following the lecture Dr. Cooney will be signing copies of her newest book, When Women Ruled the World. The Science Store will have a limited number of copies available.
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets will be available online or at the OMSI front desk until 2pm the day of the event; see below for details.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positions of power were more often used as political pawns in a male-dominated society. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example?
Celebrated Egyptologist Kara Cooney delivers a fascinating tale of female power, exploring the reasons why it has seldom been allowed through the ages, and why we should care.
Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptology at UCLA. Her academic work focuses on death preparations, afterlife beliefs, and gender studies. She is currently investigating coffin reuse during the Bronze Age Collapse, allowing her to examine funerary objects in dozens of museums around the world, including the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Louvre in Paris, British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She appeared as lead expert in the popular Discovery Channel special The Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen, and is the creator and host of Discovery’s Out of Egypt. Her book, The Woman Who Would be Queen, was published in 2014. In 2018 her book, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, will be published by National Geographic Books. She lives in Los Angeles.
OMSI Science Pub at the Empirical Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 2:00pm the day of the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub OMSI is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Pizza and salads will be available in our restaurant, Theory, and sandwichs and snacks from the Empirical Café. Guests can check-in at the theater entrance and find a seat before grabbing dinner and drinks. Food and drink are welcome in the theater. Parking is free for the event. Doors open at 5pm.
For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Portland: Supercomputer Modeling of Earthquakes
Supercomputer Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motions 150 Years After the 1868 Hayward Fault Rupture
With Arthur Rodgers, PhD, Seismologist in the Atmospheric, Earth & Energy Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
February 7, 2019 | 7-9PM; Doors Open @ 5PM | All Ages
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets available online or at the OMSI front desk until midnight the day prior to the event; see below for details.
The last major earthquake on the Hayward Fault, with magnitude 6.5-7.0, occurred on October 21, 1868. This earthquake caused significant damage to structures for the few thousands of people living in the “East Bay” at that time. Geologic evidence strongly suggests major earthquakes on the Hayward Fault occur about every 140-160 years. 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of this event, and 2.5 million people live near the Hayward Fault today. Consequently, the Hayward Fault contributes significantly to seismic hazard and risk in the San Francisco Bay Area. This lecture will describe supercomputer modeling of earthquake ground motions with a focus on large Hayward Fault ruptures. Computer simulations of earthquakes can be performed to understand the expected level and character of shaking for possible future events. Advances in numerical methods and the ever growing power of parallel processing supercomputers enable ever more realistic modeling of earthquake shaking, including geology and topography. I’ll describe how computer simulations are enabled by world-class supercomputers and how these simulations are generating ever more realistic motions for hazard and risk studies.
Arthur Rodgers joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a seismologist in 1997. He has worked on high-performance computing and computational seismology since 2004. This worked involved modeling of seismic waves from earthquakes and explosions. Dr. Rodgers has worked with teams on modeling earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as educational outreach with the California Academy of Sciences (2012), LLNL’s Science on Saturday (2015) and the American Museum of Natural History (2018). He obtained a B.S. in Physics from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1993. He was a postdoctoral scholar at New Mexico State University (1994) and the University of California Santa Cruz (1994-1996). In 2010, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Grenoble France. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley Seismology Laboratory.
This lecture is presented by The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (https://www.iris.edu) and the Seismological Society of America (https://www.seismosoc.org).
OMSI Science Pub at the Mission Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 11:59pm on the day prior to the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub Mission is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Dinner and drinks will be available throughout the presentation. Please visit the McMenamins Mission Theater website for a dinner menu and venue information.
Science Pub Eugene: Geophysics
Geophysics
With Dean Livelybrooks, PhD, Associate Department Head and Tenured Senior Instructor of Physics at the University of Oregon
February 14, 2019 | 6:30-8:30PM; Doors open @ 5PM | $5 Suggested Donation
Details coming soon!
Science Pub Eugene is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone. No RSVP or scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Portland: Robot City or Natural City
Robot City or Natural City: Plans and Speculations about the Urban City
With Carl Abbott, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University
February 19, 2019 | Doors Open @ 5PM
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets will be available online or at the OMSI front desk until 2pm the day of the event; see below for details.
The Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects that the world will add another 2.5 billion city dwellers by mid-century, mostly in Africa and Asia. Observers have worried about the impacts of urbanization since the acceleration of industrial development in the nineteenth century, but the scale of change is especially daunting today. How will we provide services and integrate new residents into urban society, especially in the face of rising environmental stress? How will we build and protect the physical systems that keep cities living and livable communities?
In this talk, Carl Abbott will contrast two of the strongest themes in current city planning. One planning vision is Robot City, the city planned around the ability to gather and process vast amounts of real time information for both centralized control systems and dispersed systems that make dumb objects smarter, like automated trains to self-driving vehicles. The second vision is Natural City, the city planned at human scale and with environmental resilience in mind. This is a planning vision that emphasizes nature and neighborhoods. These two approaches may seem diametrically opposed, but the talk draws on the history of city planning ideas, current trends in urban development and planning, and ideas from speculative fiction to argue that we can seek to blend the best of both approaches.
Carl Abbott is recently retired from teaching Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University in five decades (not fifty years!) and has also held endowed visiting professorships at George Washington University and the University of Oregon. He has written several books about Portland, city and regional planning, the history of American cities, and science fiction. His shorter articles have appeared in online publication such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Smithsonian.com, Atlantic CityLab, and Clarkesworld Magazine. His most recent book is Imaging Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them. The Chinese translation was launched by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in November. His favorite SF films are Forbidden Planet, Alien, and Serenity.
OMSI Science Pub at the Empirical Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 2:00pm the day of the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub OMSI is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Pizza and salads will be available in our restaurant, Theory, and sandwichs and snacks from the Empirical Café. Guests can check-in at the theater entrance and find a seat before grabbing dinner and drinks. Food and drink are welcome in the theater. Parking is free for the event. Doors open at 5pm.
For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Portland: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
With Barton Christopher Massey, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University
March 7, 2019 | 7-9PM; Doors Open @ 5PM | All Ages
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets available online or at the OMSI front desk until midnight the day prior to the event; see below for details.
Details coming soon!
OMSI Science Pub at the Mission Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 11:59pm on the day prior to the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub Mission is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Dinner and drinks will be available throughout the presentation. Please visit the McMenamins Mission Theater website for a dinner menu and venue information.
Science Pub Eugene: Bones
Ancient America: Bones and Artifacts Under Our Feet
With Loren Davis, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University
March 14, 2019 | 6:30-8:30PM; Doors open @ 5PM | $5 Suggested Donation
Details coming soon!
Science Pub Eugene is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone. No RSVP or scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Portland: Exploring Ocean Worlds
Exploring Ocean Worlds
With Jenny Woodman, Executive Director at Proteus Science Communication, and Science Communication Fellow for Oceanographer Robert Ballard's Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus
March 19, 2019 | Doors Open @ 5PM
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets will be available online or at the OMSI front desk until 2pm the day of the event; see below for details.
Every day at sea, a small number of scientific explorers unearth remarkable underwater ecosystems that change our understanding of biodiversity in places we once thought void of life. Until living organisms were discovered at hydrothermal vents, we thought nothing could live where the sun’s rays couldn’t penetrate. Today, studies of chemosynthetic communities are shaping plans for future space missions. Ocean exploration here on Earth will eventually take humans to distant ocean worlds.
Jenny Woodman served as the lead science communication fellow on a recent joint mission with NASA, NOAA, and the Ocean Exploration Trust to explore the Lōihi Seamount. This active underwater volcano off the coast of Hawai`i served as an analog for conditions scientists expect to find on Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa. If the scientists are right, these icy moons are home to hydrothermal vents and microbial mats – to processes and tiny lifeforms that could prove, once and for all, we are not the only living organisms in the universe.
In this talk, Woodman will introduce attendees to the people working to know our ocean and instill a sense of wonder about deep sea exploration, perhaps helping people to care a little bit more about our ocean world.
Jenny Woodman is a Portland-based writer and educator who has spent the last two summers at sea, observing a wildlife survey in National Marine Sanctuaries on the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and supporting robotic exploration of the deep sea aboard Robert Ballard’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus. When she’s not trying to get back on ships, she keeps busy serving as executive director of Proteus Science Communication, a nonprofit dedicated to building science literacy through storytelling and informal education.
OMSI Science Pub at the Empirical Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 2:00pm the day of the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub OMSI is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Pizza and salads will be available in our restaurant, Theory, and sandwichs and snacks from the Empirical Café. Guests can check-in at the theater entrance and find a seat before grabbing dinner and drinks. Food and drink are welcome in the theater. Parking is free for the event. Doors open at 5pm.
For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Portland: Climate Change
Stories from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
With lead authors from the IPCC report; details coming soon
April 4, 2019 | 7-9PM; Doors Open @ 5PM | All Ages
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets available online or at the OMSI front desk until midnight the day prior to the event; see below for details.
Details coming soon!
OMSI Science Pub at the Mission Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 11:59pm on the day prior to the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub Mission is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Dinner and drinks will be available throughout the presentation. Please visit the McMenamins Mission Theater website for a dinner menu and venue information.
Science Pub Portland: Fernhill Wetlands
Fernhill Wetlands
With Joe Liebezeit, Avian Conservation Program Manager at the Audubon Society of Portland
April 16, 2019 | Doors Open @ 5PM
$5 advance purchase for guaranteed seats; $5 suggested donation at the door. Tickets will be available online or at the OMSI front desk until 2pm the day of the event; see below for details.
Details coming soon!
OMSI Science Pub at the Empirical Theater is a ticketed event. To guarantee a seat at this event, please buy tickets online or at the OMSI front desk. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase until 2:00pm the day of the event. Please show your ticket at the theater entrance upon arrival.
If the event sells out, we will update the website and Facebook listings accordingly. If the event does not sell out in advance, attendance will be first-come, first-served at the door and at-the-door admission will remain a suggested donation.
Science Pub OMSI is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Pizza and salads will be available in our restaurant, Theory, and sandwichs and snacks from the Empirical Café. Guests can check-in at the theater entrance and find a seat before grabbing dinner and drinks. Food and drink are welcome in the theater. Parking is free for the event. Doors open at 5pm.
For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.
Science Pub Eugene: Microbiome
Microbiome
With Hannah Tavalire, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon
May 9, 2019 | 6:30-8:30PM; Doors open @ 5PM | $5 Suggested Donation
Details coming soon!
Science Pub Eugene is a monthly event that is open to anyone and everyone. No RSVP or scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge! For more information or to sign up for our mailing list, email: sciencepub@omsi.edu.