The Nerd Nites of yore, compiled here for posterity. For more, see our videos and past events on Facebook.

Nerd Nite Tokyo #61: Monster Machine Learning [LIVE VIDEO]

September 20, 2024 (Friday), Ryozan Park Lounge / Cafe Port Glasgow, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photo gallery on Smugmug | Photo gallery on Facebook


Nerd Nite Tokyo #60: New Place, Same Nerds [LIVE VIDEO]

July 19, 2024 (Friday), Ryozan Park Lounge / Cafe Port Glasgow, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photo gallery on Smugmug | Photo gallery on Facebook

  • Lia Camargo (fermata) (LinkedIn) — Rethinking ‘Healthy’ through the Lens of Gender
  • Lena Morita (Twitter) — Your typing sucks: A pianist’s approach to the (computer) keyboard

Nerd Nite Tokyo #59: Language and Longevity [LIVE VIDEO]

June 21, 2024 (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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #58: Taking Care of Business [LIVE VIDEO]

May 24, 2024 (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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #57: Going Underground [LIVE VIDEO]

April 19, 2024 (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

  • Ryuichi Nishiyama (ResearchGate) (ResearchMap) — Muography and Gravity: A New Frontier in Volcanic Exploration
  • Emma Dangerfield (ResearchGate) — Burrowed beneath: All about badgers!

Speaker resources


Nerd Nite Tokyo #56: The Slides of March [LIVE VIDEO]

March 15, 2024 (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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #55: Bad Science, Good Times [LIVE VIDEO]

December 8, 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


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


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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #52: Shaken and Stirred [LIVE VIDEO]

September 15, 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

  • Christine Houser (Twitter) — Lessons from the Great Kanto Earthquake: expect the unexpected
  • Fabio Lisi (Linkedin) (Twitter) — Sexually Transmitted Infections: Making the invisible visible

Speaker resources


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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #50: Quantifiably Experienced [LIVE VIDEO]

June 16, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos


Nerd Nite Tokyo #49: Fully Charged [LIVE VIDEO]

May 19, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos


Nerd Nite Tokyo #48: A Few Things, Somewhere, One at a Time [LIVE VIDEO]

April 21, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos


(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


Nerd Nite Tokyo #46: (N)ever You Mind [LIVE VIDEO]

February 17, 2023 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos


Nerd Nite Tokyo #45: From the Gutter to the Stars [LIVE VIDEO]

December 16, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | Facebook event | Meetup event | Photos


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 [LIVE VIDEO]

October 21, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

Livestream | 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 [LIVE VIDEO]

September 30, 2022 (Friday), World Peace Theatre, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

▶️ Livestream | 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  
Nerd Nite Tokyo: HIVE MINDS [live video] November 13, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube ▶️ Facebook event  
Nerd Nite Tokyo: DAGGERS & DROPPINGS [live video] October 16, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube ▶️ Facebook event
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  
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]
   
NN41_bannerNerd 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
   
NN40_bannerNerd 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
     
NN39_bannerNerd Nite Tokyo #39: FEEDBACK December 5, 2019 (Thursday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000 ▶️ Facebook event | Photos

NN38_bannerNerd 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

NN37_bannerNerd 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

NN36_bannerNerd 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]
 
NerdNiteTokyo-TestTubeNerd 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        
NN35_bannerNerd 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]
 
NN34_bannerNerd 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  

NN33_bannerNerd 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
 
NN32_bannerNerd 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]
 
NN31_bannerNerd 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
 
NN30_bannerNerd 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
 
NN29_bannerNerd 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

NN28_bannerNerd 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

NN27_bannerNerd 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

NN26_bannerNerd 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

NN25_bannerNerd 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

NN24_bannerNerd Nite #24: TO THE EXTREME July 13, 2018 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000 ▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up  
NN23_bannerNerd 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
 
NN22_bannerNerd 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
NN21_bannerNerd 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]

NN20_bannerNerd 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

NN19_bannerNerd 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

NN18_bannerNerd 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

NN17_bannerNerd 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

NN16_flyerNerd 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

flyer1Nerd 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)

flyer1Nerd 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

flyer1Nerd 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?
Price: 1500 yen on the door, includes 1 drink
NN012_flyerNerd 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
Price: 1500 yen on the door, includes 1 drink
名称未設定-1Nerd 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 Price: 1500 yen on the door, includes 1 drink
NN010_flyerNerd Nite #10: OPEN SCIENCE IN JAPAN April 21, 2017 (Friday), Accenture Digital Hub, Akasaka ▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up Price: 1000 yen on the door
programmeNerd 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]

NerdNite008_flyerNerd 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
Price: 1500 yen on the door, includes 1 drink
NerdNIte007Nerd 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 Price: 1500 yen on the door, includes 1 drink
NerdNite006_Flyer 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 How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink
flyerNerd 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 How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink
NERD NITE #4: CURIOSITY, GAME ART, HUMANSROBOTS? October 21, 2016 (Friday), Good Heavens bar, Shimokitazawa, doors open 19:30, start 20:00 ▶️ Facebook event | FB wrap-up Speakers: How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink
NerdNite003_Flyer 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: How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink Why > A triple M lineup of nerdy topics to celebrate the autumn equinox!
NerdNite002_Flyer 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: How much > 2000 yen on the door, includes two drinks
NerdNite001_Flyer 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 NoyesMaking Your Way in Tokyo with Sword and Axe
  • Mikael ReponenLaser Quest: One Man’s Journey Around the World to Eat Sushi and Discover the True Nature of Atoms
  • Lana SinapayenFrom AI to Artificial Life and Back Again
How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink