Classical Concert
2024-02-18 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-02-25 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-03-03 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-03-10 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-03-17 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-03-24 07:00 - 08:00, 2024-04-07 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Lighthouse Café

Moon Base Meeting
2024-02-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Moon base

Mathematics Club
2024-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Auditorium

Mass Immigration, part 2
2024-02-24 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
We continue our conversation about mass immigration. Why is it unsustainable? What are possible solutions?

Mathematics Club
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-07 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-14 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Maths Club

Do not try this at home!
2024-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Join us for a multimedia livestream into Second Life of Chemistry demonstrations and explanations from Mike Shaw’s RL laboratory.
Presentation by Dr. Mike Shaw

Ethics & Artificial Intelligence
2024-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
The recent hype about Artificial Intelligence tools which are becoming ubiquitous in all sorts of applications, hides under the carpet many problems which are far from finding a proper answer from the society and the governmental bodies who should regulate them. In the talk I shall shortly describe some of the most relevant implications and risks which need to be urgently addressed.
By Professor Giuseppe Longo

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
2024-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | VWBPE
VWBPE-website
QUADRIVIUM 3: Essential Digital Skills for Living and Learning in the Age of Fake News and Unfettered Speech

Facilitator: Linda Sautereau/Peggy Daniels-Lee
Assistant: Wisdomseeker
Transcriptionist: TBD
With the polarization of ideas posted in social media and personal blogs, it has become more difficult to use the Internet for teaching and learning. The International Society for Technology in Education has for years proposed dedicated curricula that focus on the digital citizen: skills that include being safe online, securing your digital footprint, and how to critically evaluate the content we read online. This discussion will focus on the skills and practical strategies that both students and educators can employ to engage in positive and productive discourse that moves beyond what is fake and what is polarizing.
VWBPE Program

Who is Emmy Noether & Why Have You Never Heard of Her?
2024-03-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
WHO IS EMMY NOETHER & WHY HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF HER?
Trail Guide: Tagline – a.k.a. Robert Hendrix

Did you know that Saturday March 23rd, 2024 is World Maths Day? A tradition since 2007, millions of students from 240 countries and territories around the world are participating.
Quite appropriately, that date also happens to be the birthday of one of the greatest mathematicians in human history, Amalie Emmy Noether, PhD (pronounced NOY-ter). Furthermore, Dr. Noether is widely considered to be the number one, greatest female mathematician in the history of mathematics.
So why do you not know about her already?
Emmy Noether was the “go to” person for other scientific geniuses for her depth of understanding of INVARIANCE, and is known for having “put it all together” with her deep, encompassing concepts in modern ABSTRACT ALGEBRA, particularly with regard to Noether Rings and Modules, as well as
NON-COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRAS, in which ORDER MATTERS IN MULTIPLICATION OF PAIRS OF ELEMENTS, i.e.,
A x C ≠ C x A
Aside from her seminal, creative work in the foundations of modern mathematics, Dr. Noether also developed FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIRST and SECOND NOETHER THEOREMS of MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS in which she shared her deep insights into the natural universe by proving the equivalence of CONSERVATION LAWS with inherent SYMMETRY in Space and / or Time. This has provided a powerful tool to physics right up to quantum dynamics and current work on SUPERSYMMETRY.
We will discuss these intellectual achievements by a general, heuristic approach. And we will explore her life to better understand where such extraordinarily creative humans come from and how they are sometimes capable of pervasive impacts on the world, even in the worst of circumstances.
Finally, we will discuss the first great woman ever of mathematical history, Hypatia. As one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria, Hypatia studied and taught mathematics, astronomy, and
Neoplatonist philosophy. Hypatia is credited with the invention of the Astrolabe as an astronomical instrument.
In 380 CE, Christianity was proclaimed the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Though Hypatia was very popular among the people of Alexandria, she was regarded as a heretical pagan by zealots of the early church. In March 415 CE, a mob of Christian monks under direction of Bishop Cyrus of Alexandria attacked Hypatia, dragged her into a church and brutally tortured and murdered her.

Hypatia was the last of the Alexandria school of philosophy. Her death was an ominous setback for progress in civilization. Subsequently, the decaying western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, and the stagnation of Dark Ages began in Europe.
WORLD MATHS DAY Saturday 23. March 2024

Inventions
2024-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lighthouse Café
Discussion: Which invention do you appreciate most?

Hypatia
2024-03-31 09:45 - 12:00 | Auditorium
Following Robert Hendrix’s presentation about Emmy Noether on March 23, today we will look together at Hypatia’s life story. Log in 15 minutes early because you need to download something. The film is 2 hours long and is on Blu-ray. Grab your popcorn, cup of tea or whatever you like… let’s enjoy and dive into a dark part of the history of science.
Members Only event!

Swimming with the (pep)tides
2024-04-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Auditorium
Swimming with the (pep)tides
Stephen L. Gasior, Ph.D
You have probably heard of the type 2 diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic, Mounjaro, Rybelsus, Wegovy, and Saxenda. These are a recent entry into the drug market and are expected to be billion dollar blockbusters. But, they also represent a whole new class of drugs with even more potential for human therapy. This drug class is called peptides. Peptides are like little stubs of proteins made up of only several amino acids but are common signaling molecules in the body. But only recently has the chemistry come about to make them useful and stable drugs. This presentation will cover peptides in general then talk about the first 3 to market drugs including Bremelanotide and Afamelanotide.

Science and Zeitgeist
2024-04-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Auditorium
Everyone knows one or more life stories of, for example, Socrates, Hypatia, Galileo Galilei or Nikola Tesla.
Lives that were heavily influenced by the political winds of the time, several even ruined.
2024 and history repeats itself. Today we are going to watch a documentary together, which we will discuss next week. The documentary lasts 2 hours, halfway through we take a 10-minute break so everyone can grab a snack.
