Tickets are on sale for our epic nerd-show on Thursday, May 14th!
When: Thursday, May 14, 2015 @ 7pm
Where: The Wild Rose Brewery Taproom
Tickets: $10 online
This is an 18+ event.
Speakers
EZ Robotics
DJ Sures, CEO, EZ-Robot
DJ Sures, CEO, EZ Robot
Learn about the current state of the robotics industry and how average people are changing the field of robotics from CEO of Calgary-based EZ-Robot. DJ Sures will share the story of how he became a robotics inventor, and how accessible robots are becoming. Watch exciting demos of humanoid and custom robot builds, and learn how robots are learning how to have conversations, track colors and objects, recognize faces and more. There will be a live, hands-on demonstration to accompany this talk.
Steampunk
Monica Willard, ZoltanGal
Monica Willard, ZoltanGal.com (Photo credit: thirdeyearts)
What is Steampunk? Why has it become so popular in recent years? Why is Steampunk relevant and important today? And, how can one get into Steampunk? Monica Willard will share with us the answers to these questions as she sees them. Monica has been a Steampunk aficionado for the past six years, and is also the admin of the Calgary Steampunk Facebook page. Together with her husband, she owns a webstore called ZoltanGal that sells Steampunk clothing, corsets, and collectables.
Thinking (too) Simply about Science:
Snowball Earth, the Cambrian Explosion, and a Missing Banjo
Adrian Currie, PhD & Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Adrian Currie, PhD
When most people—and this includes philosophers and scientists—think about what science is and how it works, they tend to think in simplistic terms. Scientists only falsify hypotheses, scientific claims are testable, the only legitimate science is experimental, and so forth. While post-doctoral fellow Adrian Currie is all for simplification, he shows why this can go too far. Adrian gives an example of simple thinking about science outrunning its usefulness.