Smarty Pints is a celebration of science and beer!

Usually the third Monday of every month, 630PM
Clever people tell us about their work. Sometimes scientists, sometimes engineers, sometimes artists!

Are you a clever person who would like to present a 30 minute talk on what you do? Reach out at smartypints@burkegilmanbrewing.com

 

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August 17 - Smarty Pints!

🌌 Meg Wynne
PhD Candidate, UW Physics
“Probing the origins of the universe: Neutrino mass measurements”

13.7 billion years ago the universe began with a bang. The Big Bang created almost equal parts of matter and antimatter, but this asymmetry, which allows for our existence, is one of the deepest questions of physics. The early hot primordial soup of the universe also generated the elusive neutrinos - the most abundant massive particle. Could finding the mass of the neutrino help us understand why matter dominates anti matter?

 

🔎 Roberta Kwok @roberta.kwok
Freelance science journalist and author
“Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown” (released July 21!)

The real story of science isn’t a triumphant breakthrough. It’s messy, mysterious, and deeply human. In her new book Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.

Chronicling researchers’ struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending off relentless snowfall on a remote Greenland glacier, desperately searching for an elusive frog in the rainforests of Borneo, and scrambling to capture fleeting signals of a faraway moon outside our solar system. Through vivid reporting and moments of unexpected emotion, Kwok reveals the inner lives of researchers who care profoundly about understanding our world and saving what’s left of it. From enigmatic fossils and mind-bending physics to the puzzling behavior of wild animals, Lost in Curiosity is a journey through the questions that keep scientists up at night—and the sometimes strange, always illuminating paths they take to answer them.

September 21

🇲🇽 Mary Fontana
Author, "Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border"
“How We Broke the Border”

🥜 Prof. Jakob von Moltke
UW Immunology
“How is a worm like a peanut?”

October 19

🚰 Prof. Karen Levy
UW Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Water and sanitation

🤖 Ellen Kuwana
Principal Science Writer/Editor, Kuwana Consulting, LLC
AI environmental concerns and ethical considerations

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