The Nerd Nites of yore, compiled here for posterity. For more, see our videos and past events on Facebook.
Nerd Nite Tokyo #54: United Federation of Planetoids [LIVE VIDEO]
November 17, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photo gallery on Smugmug | Photo gallery on Facebook
- Elizabeth Tasker (Mastodon) (Twitter) — Asteroid smuggling for beginners
- Christian Horn (Mastodon) — Mastodon: join the Federation!
Nerd Nite Tokyo #53: More Than Words [LIVE VIDEO]
October 20, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photo gallery on Smugmug | Photo gallery on Facebook
- Nithin Coca (Mastodon) (Linkedin) — Real Time Censorship and Digital Authoritarianism in Chinese-occupied Tibet
- Michael Pronko (Jazz in Japan) (Facebook) (Instagram) (Twitter) (Mastodon) — The Impossibility of Writing Tokyo
Nerd Nite Tokyo #52: Shaken and Stirred
September 15, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photo gallery on Smugmug | Photo gallery on Facebook
- Christine Houser (Twitter) — Lessons from the Great Kanto Earthquake: expect the unexpected
- Fabio Lisi (Linkedin) (Twitter) — Sexually Transmitted Infections: Making the invisible visible
- Films of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Disaster Prevention Information
- WaNavi help cards
- NHK World On-Demand: Disaster Preparedness
Nerd Nite Tokyo #51: Flying Car Blues [LIVE VIDEO]
July 21, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event
- Adrian Lee and Cody Clements (teTra Aviation) — Plane Meets Helicopter: The Electrifying Rise of eVTOL Aircraft
- Rambling Steve Gardner (Facebook) — MIZ SALLY’S YELLOW CAT SONG BOOK: music and dementia drawings
Nerd Nite Tokyo #50: Quantifiably Experienced
June 16, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Kitty Z. Xu (Quant UX Con) — From brain science to quantitative UX
- Harald Kümmerle (Twitter) — ‘Heretic dataism’ and Japan’s cluster-focused approach to COVID-19
Nerd Nite Tokyo #49: Fully Charged
May 19, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Akram Al-Wahabi (Spotify) — Science Podcasting: Giving Scientists their Flowers
- Hirokuni Kim (Twitter) (Swallow Scooters) — Anatomy of an E-Scooter’s Lithium Ion Battery
- Eli K.P. William (Twitter) — How Not to Write a Dystopian Sci-fi Trilogy: Lessons from a Decade Lost in a Dark Future
Nerd Nite Tokyo #48: A Few Things, Somewhere, One at a Time
April 21, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Thomas Hitchcock (Twitter)(Mastodon) — Sex Education: Reproductive Diversity Across the Tree of Life
- Paul Cohen — From Flight Sim to Digital Twin: The Evolution of MSFS
- Sherif Adel (Twitter) (Instagram) — Cross-cultural humor, is it even possible?
(Canceled) Nerd Nite Tokyo #47: Multiplying and Mobilizing
Nerd Nite Tokyo #47 was canceled due to a water outage at our venue! The speakers below presented in April and May instead. We will remember 47 as the Nerd Nite that wasn’t.
March 17, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event
- Thomas Hitchcock (Twitter)(Mastodon) — Sex Education: Reproductive Diversity Across the Tree of Life
- Hirokuni Kim (Twitter) (Swallow Scooters) — Anatomy of an E-Scooter’s Lithium Ion Battery
Nerd Nite Tokyo #46: (N)ever You Mind
February 17, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Darryl Wharton-Rigby (Twitter) (Instagram) — Guerrilla Filmmaking in Tokyo: Seeking Forgiveness, Not Permission
- Masataka Watanabe — Mind Uploading in 20 Years through Consciousness Research
Nerd Nite Tokyo #45: From the Gutter to the Stars
December 16, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- James Gibbs — Cleaning Up Tokyo Rivers
- CJ Hostetter (Twitter) and Matt Kaemmerer (Twitter) — Interface Drama: A New Way of Telling Stories Through Software
- Rod van Meter (Twitter) (Mastodon) — Forty Years as a Beginning Astrophotographer
Nerd Nite Tokyo #44: Effective Cat Privacy [LIVE VIDEO]
November 18, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Luis Costigan — Uncertain by default: How Effective Altruism does good better
- Lee Atkin — Cat Rescue, the Full (Litter) Scoop
- Andrew Todd — The End of End to End: Point to Point Privacy on the World Wide Web (and 1980s novelty phones)
Nerd Nite Tokyo #43: Perception and Reception
October 21, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- Tuukka Takala — Virtual Reality Avatars: Tips and Tricks on Reinventing Yourself as Somebody Else
- Jens Wilkinson — Designing Synthetic Sounds
- Makoto Mizukami — Home Sweet Phone: The World of Worldwide Mobile SIMs
Nerd Nite Tokyo #42: The Infinitely Improbable Return
September 30, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos
- BJ Fox — Crossing the Cultural Comedy Divide
- Nithin Coca — Palm Oil, Coconuts, and Why Sustainable Sourcing is so Challenging
- Melvin Charles DY — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (in Search Ads)
Nerd Nite Tokyo: STAYIN’ ALIVE [live video]
January 15, 2021 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Andy Houwen — Ezra Pound and the Last Samurai [video]
- Sarah Crites — In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Narrow Escapes & Miraculous Saves in Space Exploration (April 2018) [video]
- Ryosuke Iritani — Economics of the Sexes in Nature: How Organisms Play Games [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo: STAR POWER [live video]
December 4, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Kathryn Elmer — Species Recovery After Collapse [video]
- Saida Caballero-Nieves — Arecibo: The Telescope of Enchantment [video]
- Don Warren — Wherever You Go, There You Are: From the Scilly Seas to GPS [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo: HIVE MINDS [live video]
November 13, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Karamoon — Only Deep Hypertext Can Save The World [video]
- Johanna Rotko — Colorful Microbial Images with Yeasts and Fungi [video]
- Kyogo Kawaguchi — Chirality and Topology in Your Hands [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo: DAGGERS & DROPPINGS [live video]
October 16, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Alex Watson — The Footnote: A Defense [video]
- Hiroyuki Tajima — Projectiles, Pressure and the Stinky Math of Penguin Poo [video]
- Rumpa Pal — Sigma Meets Pi: How Molecules Interact in Quantum Crystallography [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo: EVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION? [live video]
September 25, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Yuri Kimura — YOKOSO! Tour of the National Museum of Nature and Science [video]
- Emi Do — De-commodifying Real Estate: the Co-op Dream that Doesn’t Require Roommates [video]
- Robert Smith? — What can Zombies and Mathematics Teach Us about COVID-19? [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo: BELLY OF THE BEAST [live video]
July 17, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Christine Houser — Fuji-san: The Forces Driving Japan’s Most Iconic Volcano [video]
- Fahrettin Haczeyni — Foie Gras: Protecting the Liver from a Silent Disease (October 2019) [video]
- Martin Skrodzki — Seeing and Recognizing: Two Very Different Animals for Robots [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo 4th Birthday: WATCHWORDS [live video]
June 26, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- John A. Baumlin Jr. — Digital Tools for Democracy [video]
- Steve Marshall — The Psychology of Magic (September 2016) [video]
- Joan Chen — Password Protected? Myths and Risks in Cybersecurity [video]
Nerd Nite ALL-JAPAN EDITION [live video]
May 22, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Otis Brunner — Mining the Deep Sea: A Literal Race to the Bottom [video]
- Chrissie Shears-Ozeki — Solving Mysteries from Traces of Ancient Life [video]
- Catherine Beauchemin — What is a Virophysicist and What Do They Do During a Pandemic? [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #41.5.1b: THE BUG FIX [live video]
April 22, 2020 (Wednesday) on YouTube
▶️ Facebook event
- Don Warren — First Stars, Furthest Stars: The End of the Cosmic Dark Age [video]
- Miriam Stadje — The Missing Link: Why Humans Talk and Apes Do Not (February 2019) [video]
- Matt Richardson — Rocket Science: A Risk-Free, Earth-Based, Libation-Fueled Crash Course (September 2019) [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #41.5: RERUN [video]
March 27, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube
- Yuri Kimura — The Dinosaur Hunter under a Lucky Star (June 2019) [video]
- Chelsea Hostetter — A Journey Into the Uncanny Valley of Dolls (March 2019) [video]
- Corey Myers — CO2 Removal: Pumping the Earth’s Stomach (December 2019) [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #41: PIE IN THE SKY
February 7, 2020 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Stefano Di Carlo — After Rescue: the Next Steps in the Life of a Migrant
- Harriet Ocharo — Cloud Computing: You Can’t Live Without It
- Judith Pascoe — On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights in Japan
Nerd Nite Tokyo #40: 20+20
January 10, 2020 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Syrielle Montariol — Neural Networks: Deep Versus Green
- Xiaochen Su — Seeing Sino-Russian Relations at the Grassroots Level
- Anna Murray — “You Mean it’s Just Sounds?”: Randomness and Live Music
Nerd Nite Tokyo #39: FEEDBACK
December 5, 2019 (Thursday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Kristiina Jokinen — Boundary Crossing Robots
- Bektur Ryskeldiev — Everywhere but Here: How Extended Reality is Changing the Ways We Communicate Online and Offline
- Corey Myers — CO2 Removal: Pumping the Earth’s Stomach [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #38: RISK & REWARD
November 8, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Deron Marquez — Casinos Are Coming: What Japan Can Learn from American Tribal Gaming
- Julia Marino — Kumano Kodo for a Cure: A Journey of Hope and Healing in Japan
- Don Warren — Interstellar Memes
Nerd Nite Tokyo #37: COSMIC COUPLING
October 11, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Evan Fallenberg — Sex on the Page: How Writers Deal with Writing the Sex Scene
- Fahrettin Haczeyni — Foie Gras: Protecting the Liver from a Silent Disease [video]
- Sarah Naimi — We Are Stardust: A Nuclear Physicist Explains What It Really Means
Nerd Nite Tokyo #36: CYBER⚡️SPACE
September 6, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
- Michah Dowbak — Mad Dog Jones: All Dreams Simultaneously
- Chris Gerpheide — Models All the Way Down: Making a Programming Language
- Matt Richardson — Rocket Science: A Risk-Free, Earth-Based, Libation-Fueled Crash Course [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo x Stand Up Tokyo: Test Tube
July 20, 2019 (Saturday), The Millennials Shibuya, doors open 19:00, start 19:30. ¥2000 incl. 1 drink
▶️ Facebook event | Photos
Nerd Nite Tokyo #35: EXPRESS YOURSELF
July 12, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Margo Brennan — VDay Osaka: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
- Tom Kelly — Single Cells: A Revolution in Biology, Medicine and Beyond
- Matt Kaemmerer — Modes and Moods: How Musical Scales Create Emotion [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #34: DRONES N’ BONES
June 14, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Yuri Kimura — The Dinosaur Hunter under a Lucky Star [video]
- Jan Jaap van Assen — Seeing Goop
- James Reynolds — Disasters and Drones: Capturing Nature’s Exceptional Events
Nerd Nite Tokyo #33: GENERATION FLY
May 10, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Ryo Kawamoto — Grubs Love Garbage: Flies are the Future of Food Recycling
- Kumi Yokoe — Trending: The Millennial Generation and Global Change
- John Livingston — Discovering Planets is, Like, so 2018
Nerd Nite Tokyo #32: LOOSE SCREWS
April 12, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Emilie Kristine Bagge — Mitochondria in the Depressive Mind
- Yasutomo Takano — Paper Digest: Summarizing Science using AI
- Kipp Cannon — E-Mottainai: Breathing Life into Scrap Electronics in Tokyo [video]
Nerd Nite Tokyo #31: BIG IN JAPAN
March 8, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Jonathan McDonald — Being a Gaijin “Talent” in Japan
- Chelsea Hostetter — A Journey Into the Uncanny Valley of Dolls [video]
- Max Frenzel — Next-Level Art: Becoming More Creative with AI
Nerd Nite Tokyo #30: TALKING TRASH [live video]
February 8, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Shinya Fujii — Whiplash: the Secret of the World’s Fastest Drumming
- Miriam Stadje — The Missing Link: Why Humans Talk and Apes Do Not [video]
- Tim Hornyak — Swimming in Tokyo Bay and Other Environmental Reporting Tales
Nerd Nite Tokyo #29: LEARNING TO FLY [live video]
January 11, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Peter Mears — Falling into Shadows
- Katie Mack — Everything You Wanted to Know About Dark Matter but Were Afraid to Ask
- Jens Wilkinson — Conlanging Across the Universe
Nerd Nite Tokyo #28: EYE CANDY [live video]
December 7, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Anne McKnight — Butterflies and Smog: A Short History of the Japanese Science Film (科学映画)
- Tsubasa Kondo — Dapps: Distributed, Decentralized, and Dank
- James Welker — “Boys Love” in Japan: Manga and So Much More
Nerd Nite Tokyo #27: GREEN ZETA BOSON [live video]
November 9, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Daniel Jeans — The Next Frontier of Physics with the International Linear Collider
- Thomas Chater — Lights, Camera, Calcium: Watching Neurons Communicate
- Ade Irma Suriajaya — When Infinity Becomes Finite
Nerd Nite Tokyo #26: SNAPS, BURSTS & SLAMS [live video]
October 12, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Jordan A. Y. Smith — Tokyo Poetics: Ads, Mags, Slams, Jams & Ciphers
- Don Warren — Fast Radio Bursts
- Nadia Boudjella — North Korea in Pantone®: The Color Chart of a Hidden Country
Nerd Nite #25: GLOW
September 20, 2018 (Thursday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Louis Consoletti — Traditional Japanese Animation: A Close Look at a Dying Art
- Shayna Magnuson — Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): What It Is and What It Isn’t [video]
- Marc Abrahams — Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
Nerd Nite #24: TO THE EXTREME
July 13, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Farnaz Khatibi — The Science of Death
- Yusuke Murakami — Everyday Life on Mars
- Alisa Freedman — Emoji and Cultural Literacy [video]
Nerd Nite #23: (nerd nite)² [live video]
June 8, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Chiaki — How the Recession Changed Japan’s Sex Industry
- Jean-Pierre Bellier — How Does an Octopus Arm Think?
- Nick Friedman — Island Song: Monitoring Okinawa’s Soundscape to Understand its Biodiversity
Nerd Nite #22: REMEMBER THE SINE [live video]
May 11, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Catherine Beauchemin — Lack of Math: Side Effects Include Dizziness and Distrust
- Patrick Savage — The Science of the World’s Music
- Roland Haller — Memory: Through the Looking Glass of the Hippocampus
Nerd Nite #21: SIR FIX-A-LOT [live video]
April 13, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Logan Fulcher — Visual DJing and the Gestalt Artwork: Collage
- Albéric Derible — Are Honorifics Always About Being Polite?
- Sarah Crites — In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Narrow Escapes & Miraculous Saves in Space Exploration [video]
Nerd Nite #20: IN WITH THE NEW?
March 9, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Emi Do — Platform Co-operatives: Democratization of our Digital Economy
- Ken Wong — Measuring the Expansion of the Universe with Gravitational Lensing
- Michael Penn — Facebook and the Impoverishment of the News Media Industry
Nerd Nite #19: ANALOG [live video]
February 9, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Ayako Ono — Space Art and Space Tourism: Sights and Sounds Inspired by the Cosmos
- Mark Holmes — Hot Dots: Controlling Light at the Quantum Level
- Danielle DeLatte — Space Analogs: Blasting Off Without Leaving Earth
Nerd Nite #18: CRYPTO [live video]
January 12, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Rod Van Meter — #QuantumNative: Online Quantum Computing for the Algorithmically Uneducated
- Morgane Rosendale — How Jellyfish, Corals and Algae Help us Break the Neural Code
- Eli K.P. William — Narrative Frames and Technological Discovery: Or How Trapping My Protagonist in an Elevator Gave Birth to a Crypto-Privacy Protection Agency
Nerd Nite #17: HEAVENLY BODIES [live video]
December 15, 2017 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Olaf Witkowski — Befriending the Alien: the Expansion of Intelligence in the Universe
- tarinainanika — How Bodies Think and Thoughts Act: the Art of Corporeal Mime
- Aurora Simionescu — Chasing Shadows: Photos from the Great American Eclipse
Nerd Nite #16: LIVING ON THE EDGE [live video]
November 17, 2017 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Sakyasingha Dasgupta — Smart Things Everywhere: Learning Deep and Winning Big with Coin-Sized Compute Power
- Rafaela Libano — Becoming a Cyborg Through Disability: Building Prosthetic Limbs
- Will Donovan — Bubble Baths and the Bendiness of Spacetime
Nerd Nite #15: CROWDMAPPING, CORES & CHIRPS [live video]
October 20, 2017 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Sean Bonner — Open Data & Monitoring: Better Than A Bag Of Bricks
- Marine Lasbleis — Journey to the Center of the Earth: What’s Up with the Planet Core?
- Kipp Cannon — Gravitational Radiation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Black Hole Collisions
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)
Nerd Nite #14: THINKING OUT LOUD
September 22, 2017 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- E. McCready — Understanding Expressive Adjectives: the Meaning of “Fucking”
- Maggi Brisbin — Oki Coral Watchers: Citizen Science in Okinawa
- Sadhvi Saxena — The Unspeakable Brain
Nerd Nite #13: PEERING INTO THE UNKNOWN
July 14, 2017 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Bryan Tran — Tsunami Evacuations: What Does Transportation Planning Have To Do With It?
- Helen Petrakou — Behind the Scenes at the LHC: From Collisions to Discovery
- Elizabeth Tasker — Earth 2.0: Have We Really Found A Planet Like Our Own?
Nerd Nite #12: COSMIC QUANTUM BIRTHDAY
June 16, 2017 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Amanda Alvarez — Nerd Nite Retrospective: Data & Video of the Year’s Best Moments
- Nathan Shammah — Quantum Technologies: A Revolution Under Construction
- Don Warren — Cosmic Rays: Microscopic Particles, Macroscopic Energies
Nerd Nite #11: RACE IN JAPAN, CANCER+MATHS, SUMO
May 12, 2017 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Baye McNeil — Alien Activist: Writing about Race Issues in Japan [video]
- Dave duVerle — Bioinformatics and Modern Genomics: Cancer is a Maths Problem! [video]
- Verena Hopp — Nerd Sumo with special appearance by Hakuba Takeshi [video]
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)
Nerd Nite #10: OPEN SCIENCE IN JAPAN
April 21, 2017 (Friday), Accenture Digital Hub, Akasaka
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Kazuhiro Hayashi — Opening scholarly communication: a vision and current challenges for open science [video]
- Nobuko Miyairi — ORCID: get the only flower in the world for you [video]
- Kazutsuna Yamaji — Does open science require a national-level infrastructure? [video]
- Live drawing by Chiyun Yeh (Yo)
Nerd Nite #9: science x theatre
March 11-12, 2017 (3-show weekend), World Peace Theatre, Kawasaki
▶️ Facebook event | Photos on FB
- Sai Maddala & Mochinosha Puppet Company explore the hidden world of nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, and millenia-old Egyptian inks [video]
- Stefania Soldini & 1740g recount the story of Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe and its dangerous journey to and from the Ryugu asteroid [video]
- Lana Sinapayen & Taran Nibakins puzzle over why it’s hard to decide if an artificial intelligence is actually intelligent or not [video]
Nerd Nite #8: RUMBLES UNDERGROUND, ALL AROUND AND IN THE CLOUDS
February 10, 2017 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Christine Houser — Earthquakes: the Pulse of a Living Planet
- Sarajean Rossitto — Non-profits in Japan: Where Do They Stand?
- Don Warren — Astrophysical Big Bangs: Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts, and the People Who Love Them
Nerd Nite #7: ADVENTURES IN SPACE, MIND & JAPAN
January 27, 2017 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Anupreeta More — Space Warps: Real Science Powered by Citizen Scientists
- Sean Aubin — Debugging your Thoughts with Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Michael Gakuran — Haikyo: Urban Exploration in Japan [video]
Nerd Nite #6:THE MOLECULAR AND THE POLITICAL
December 16, 2016 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Sai Maddala — A History of Nanotech from Ancient Alchemy to Modern Materials
- Ana San Gabriel — Yum or Yuck? Interacting with Food Through all our Senses
- Donna Weeks — Opinion Poll Overdose: More Politics, Less Science
- Live drawing by Mariya Suzuki
Nerd Nite #5: BAD FILMS, BRAINWAVES, BUSINESS IN SPACE
November 25, 2016 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
- Ken Kaba — Just the Worst: Why Do We Love Bad Movies?
- Danielle DeLatte — Emerging Space Businesses
- Tomasz Rutkowski — Decoding the Mind in Realtime
NERD NITE #4: CURIOSITY, GAME ART, HUMANS
ROBOTS?
October 21, 2016 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
Speakers:
- Matt Escobar — The Science of Curiosity
- Ceren Gunes — From Canvas to Console: The Game Art Pipeline
- Sarah Cosentino — Humans and Robots: A Complicated Love Story
NERD NITE #3: MAGIC, MACBETH & THE MIRACLE MATH BEHIND GAMING
September 23, 2016 (Friday), Bar Gari Gari at Ikeno-Ue station, doors open 19:30, talks start at 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
Speakers:
- Magician Steve Marshall — The Psychology of Magic [video]
- Daniel Robson, chief editor of IGN Japan — Gaming: The Math, The Mystery, The Miracle
- Graig Russell, director of The Tragedy of Macbeth — Bard Prattle: Walking Shadows in Shakespeare
NERD NITE #2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
July 15, 2016 (Friday), Impact Hub Tokyo, Meguro, doors open 19:30, start 19:45
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
Speakers:
- Sakyasingha Dasgupta, IBM Research Tokyo — Get Ready, the Smart Machines Are Rising!
- Mitch Altman — The Importance of Failure
NERD NITE #1
June 3, 2016 (Friday), Bar Gari Gari at Ikeno-Ue station, doors open 19:30, talks start at 20:00
▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up
Speakers:
- Jay Noyes — Making Your Way in Tokyo with Sword and Axe
- Mikael Reponen — Laser Quest: One Man’s Journey Around the World to Eat Sushi and Discover the True Nature of Atoms
- Lana Sinapayen — From AI to Artificial Life and Back Again