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BrainWave: The Neuroscience of The Groove
What is the explanation for our love of music, rhythm and dance? In this evening of erudition and performance, Columbia University neuroscientists Dave Sulzer (a.k.a. composer Dave Soldier) and John Krakauer will discuss the brain activity that makes us groove to the beat of music. Krakauer co-directs the Motor Performance Laboratory and Soldier investigates synaptic connections that underlie memory, learning and behavior. Featuring the premiere of Soldier’s "Quartet for percussion and brain waves," a live performance/experiment with drummers and electroencephalographs
7533 - Monday, March 24 6:30-8:00pm Free
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Bubbles in Beijing: Architecture, Physics, and the Olympics
The Olympic aquatics pavilion in Beijing resembles a box of bubbles. This extraordinary feat of engineering will be discussed by Denis Weaire, physics professor at Trinity College Dublin, who first observed the efficiency of bubble structures, and a representative from the engineering firm Arup, famous for their design contributions to some of the greatest buildings of our times.
7534 - Tuesday, April 1 6:30-8:00pm Free
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Manhattan / Farm Hall
A play reading about the moral dilemma surrounding the building of The Bomb. This new play was written by French actor Olivier Treiner and his father, physicist Jacques Treiner, who will be present at the performance.
The American development of the atomic bomb was, in part, the work of renowned European physicists who fled the Nazi regime. How did they wrestle with their concerns about the use of atomic weaponry? Late in the war, the Allies captured ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Germany's nuclear weapons program and placed them in a wiretapped manor house called Farm Hall. How did they react to the bomb that leveled Hiroshima? The play, based in part on actual transcripts of conversations, delves into these complex issues. Reading by Break a Leg productions.
7567 - Thursday, April 24 6:30-8:00pm Free
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Oxygen
Who deserves a Nobel Prize for the discovery of oxygen? Three scientists; Lavoisier, Priestley and Scheele lay claim to the prize in this play written by two renowned chemists; Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann. Break A Leg Productions.
7568 - Thursday, May 29 6:30-8:00pm Free
This event is on a first come, first seated basis. No pre-registration is being accepted.
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