Nerdnite Dec 6: Fly like a large hadron, sting like a mosquito

[Nerdnite]

Dearest Nerdnite fans,
The next Nerdnite will take place Sunday December 6, 8pm at the
Middlesex Lounge in Central Square (full logistics at the bottom of
the message). DJ Claude Money will provide nerd-appropriate tunes
before, between, and after the talks, so be sure to stick around for a
drink or two when the talks are done.

Here is the lineup:
Talk 1 by Asim Ahmed:
Eastern Equine Encephalitis: the story of a highly pathogenic, often
fatal, mosquito-borne virus in New England

Asim A. Ahmed M.D. is an instructor at Children's Hospital Boston and
Harvard Medical School. After medical training at Baylor College of
Medicine and UCSF, he completed a pediatric residency at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia followed by subspecialty training
here in Boston at Children's/HMS. His subspecialty is pediatric
infectious diseases. With those credentials, I have no doubt that he
plans to scare the crap out of all of us.

Talk 2 by Victor Parkinson
Quantum Weirdness: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes

Victor is the self-proclaimed Pontiff of Puns, Maven of Multiple
Meanings, and Archduke of Alliteration; he enjoys science fiction,
video games, and refining what it means to be 15 degrees off normal.
In his spare time he moonlights as a graduate student in physics at
Tufts University, heading in the direction of a PhD in quantum
cosmology.

Be There And Be Square
8pm Sunday December 6, 2009
Middlesex Lounge
315 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA
$5
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