In this UW Science Now double-header, Laura Newcomb discusses the challenges of intertidal mussels, and Kirsten Feifel addresses harmful algal blooms and climate change.
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UW Science Now: Laura Newcomb: Hang on, Battered Mussels! AND Kirsten Feifel: Harmful Algal Blooms & Climate Change
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
UW Science Now: Ethan Ahler: What Cancer Eats & Why it Matters
Friday, June 7, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
Understanding how cancerous cells differ from normal cells is key to improving our ability to design smarter drugs, says UW researcher Ethan Ahler. One such difference is their diet, and by understanding such differences, Ahler says, we can potentially develop therapies to exploit them.
UW Science Now: Makrand Sinha: P vs. NP: The Limits of Computers AND Jingda Wu: NCQD: Print Your Own Solar Cells
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD could let us print our own solar cells.
UW Science Now: Megan F. Gambs: Water, Rocks, & the Tropics: Did the Missoula Floods Impact Climate? AND Adam Campbell: How Did Life Survive the Snowball?
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this UW Science Now double bill, Megan F. Gambs investigates how massive flooding of freshwater from Glacial Lake Missoula disrupted the ocean and atmosphere, and Adam Campbell searches for refuges that sustained life when the Earth’s land was frozen and barren.
UW Science Now: Natalie Footen: How Parasitic Plants Help Promote Biodiversity in Washington Prairies
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 9:00 – 10:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
Natalie Footen, a Ph.D. student in UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, says some parasitic plants actually can help us as we work to restore prairies in the Pacific Northwest.
UW Science Now: Patti Carroll: The New Age of Radio Astronomy & the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence AND Meg Smith: Tracking Down Mars’ Strange Salt
Monday, May 13, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this double bill, UW graduate students cover a lot of space: UW Astronomy Ph.D. candidate Patti Carroll explains new developments (and possibilities) in radio astronomy, and Meg Smith, a Ph.D. student in UW’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, explores the origins of Mars’ mysterious salts.
UW Science Now: Alan Jamison: Cooling Atoms with Blinding Hot Light AND Jared Kofron: A Massive Problem: A Brief History of the Tiny Neutrino
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this double bill, UW graduate students cover teeny-tiny topics: UW researcher Alan Jamison explores cooling atoms with intense laser beams, and Jared Kofron examines the mysterious nature of the neutrino.
UW Science Now: Sara Bender: Exploring the Appetites of Marine Microbes
Monday, April 8, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
The Pub at Town Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5. Double feature!
Sara Bender, a Ph.D. candidate in UW’s School of Oceanography, explores the success of diatoms in the marine environment and discusses the role of evolution in enabling these “hungry” microbes to beat out other phytoplankton for precious fleeting nutrients.
UW Science Now: Shaz Vijlee: Synthetic Fuels as Alternative Jet Fuels AND Erik Budsberg: Biojet Fuel from Poplar Trees
Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 9:00 – 9:45pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Triple feature!
In this double-header, UW researchers explore fuel alternatives and sustainability: Shaz Vijlee discusses synthetic fuels as alternative jet fuels, and Erik Budsberg explores biojet fuel from poplar trees.
***CANCELLED*** UW Science Now: Liz Burton: A Rapid & Inexpensive Method of Poliovirus Detection
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
***CANCELLED***