Nerd Nite Mu Nov. 19 – SOLD OUT

Tickets are now on sale SOLD OUT for Nerd Nite Mu, Thursday Nov 19 at Wild Rose Brewery.  See fascinating speakers on child language development, research balloons for space science and antibacterial Nano-chemistry.

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When: Thursday, November 19, 2015 @ 7pm (doors at 6:30 PM)
Where: The *Wild Rose Brewery Taproom*
Tickets: SOLD OUT $10 online$15 at the doorWe have a waitlist on Eventbrite in case any tickets become available.
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SPEAKERS

Don’t just take my words for it: How children learn to interpret language in conversation
Valerie San Juan, PhD – University of Calgary
Susan Geffen, PhD – University of Calgary

Dr. Valerie San Juan & Dr. Susan Geffen

Dr. Valerie San Juan & Dr. Susan Geffen

Interpreting language can be challenging because meaning is not only conveyed through the words we use but also through the way we use them. In this talk, we explore how children learn to use different sources of information to interpret conversational language. For example, how infants learn to distinguish sentence types (e.g., statements and questions) and, later, how preschoolers use information about a speaker’s desire to infer the intended meaning of a sentence.

What’s hiding in the “vacuum” of outer space?
Christopher Cully, PhD – University of Calgary

Dr. Christopher Cully

Dr. Christopher Cully

The “vacuum” of outer space is teeming with particles. Charged particles (plasma) from the sun, heated to 100 000 C, slam into our planet at a million km/h. Earth’s protective magnetic field deflects the particles away from us, but at a price: the electromagnetic forces continually rip off part of our atmosphere (about a tonne each day). In Canada, we have a front seat to the action. The northern lights are the visible consequence of this battle, and some of the most energetic particles rain down into our skies. I’ll talk about the world of space plasma physics, and how we observe it from the ground, from balloons, and from satellites.

Mickey Mouse on caffeine, a solution to the antibiotic crisis?
Belinda Heyne, PhD – University of Calgary

An antibiotic apocalypse is imminent! This sounds certainly like a bad prophecy, but WHO (the world health organization, not the UK rock band) recognizes that antibiotic resistance endangers populations everywhere in the world. With 1 in 9 hospitalized Canadian contracting a nosocomial infection, it is critical to find effective substitutes to prevent bacterial infection. What if destroying bacteria was easy as turning the light on?

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