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


Nerd Nite Tokyo: STAYIN’ ALIVE [live video]

January 15, 2021 (Friday) on YouTube

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  • 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

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Nerd Nite Tokyo: HIVE MINDS [live video]

November 13, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube

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Nerd Nite Tokyo: DAGGERS & DROPPINGS [live video]

October 16, 2020 (Friday) on YouTube

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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

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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

 

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  • 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

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NN38_bannerNerd Nite Tokyo #38: RISK & REWARD

November 8, 2019 (Friday), Nagatacho GRID, doors open 19:30, start 20:00. ¥1000

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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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


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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

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How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink


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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

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How much > 1500 yen on the door, includes one drink
Why > A triple M lineup of nerdy topics to celebrate the autumn equinox!


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NERD NITE #2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
July 15, 2016 (Friday), Impact Hub Tokyo, Meguro, doors open 19:30, start 19:45

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Speakers:

How much > 2000 yen on the door, includes two drinks


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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