{"id":22056,"date":"2013-03-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=22056"},"modified":"2013-03-03T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T01:50:31","slug":"nerd-nite-44-nxsa-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/nerd-nite-44-nxsa-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Nite 44: NxSA &#8211; Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nerd Nite 44: NxSA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DATE: Wednesday March 13, 2013<br \/>\nTIME: 7pm-9:30pm<\/p>\n<p>WEBSITE: <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.nerdnite.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/austin.nerdnite.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ASL interpreter will be provided]<\/p>\n<p>Nerd Nite 44: NxSA!<\/p>\n<p>Where: Central Market- North Lamar<\/p>\n<p>ADDRESS:<br \/>\n4001 N Lamar Blvd<br \/>\nAustin, Texas<\/p>\n<p>Dating : March speed dating tickets are on sale!<\/p>\n<p>Chiptunes\u00a0by: Datafix<\/p>\n<p>You read that right (or wrong), NASA is coming to Austin! And they want to meet us nerds.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and they are bringing a GIGANTIC telescope.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE1: Our friends at North Door need to make some real money during SXSW, so we\u2019re doing our thing at Central Market North!<\/p>\n<p>NOTE2: ASL interpreter will be provided!<\/p>\n<p>The talks:<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing the Awesome: NASA\u2019s Next Huge Space Telescope\u201d<br \/>\nBy Amber Straughn<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought that we couldn\u2019t get any better than Hubble, NASA goes and builds a telescope 100 times more powerful. Amber will talk about the development and science we\u2019ll do with the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble, which is currently being built and planned to launch in 2018. Some highlights: the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang and atmospheres of exoplanets. And why being an astronomer is the best job on this planet (or any other?).<\/p>\n<p>Amber Straughn is an Astrophysicist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. When she\u2019s not gazing longingly at the heavens (or throwing things at her computer in attempts to get code to run), Amber enjoys cooking, yoga, and flying airplanes\u2026.though not all three at once.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Giant telescope not included. However, a life-size replica will be at the Long Center March 8-10!<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe\u201d<br \/>\nby Jeffrey Silverman<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most powerful objects in the Universe are exploding stars known as supernovae. These violent stellar deaths are so bright that they can outshine the entire galaxy in which they are found. Observations of very distant supernovae provided the first evidence that our Universe is accelerating in its expansion, likely due to a repulsive and mysterious \u201cdark energy.\u201d Jeff will talk about how we find and study supernovae and why you should care about them (aside from the simple fact that big explosions are awesome!).<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Silverman uses some of the biggest telescopes in the world to observe supernovae. During his life he has bounced between CA and TX, being born and raised in Anaheim, CA (just down the street from Disneyland), going to college at Rice University in Houston, TX, receiving his PhD from UC Berkeley, and now working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Austin. In addition to staying up all night to look through telescopes, Dr. Jeff likes to stay up all night to watch movies, go to concerts (both punk rock and classical), and play darts.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssembling Alien Worlds from Scratch,\u201d by Joel Green<\/p>\n<p>Planets are (figuratively) falling from the sky thanks to the success of the Kepler telescope, but would we want to live there? Watching Star Trek, one gets the impression that the universe is teeming with life, and habitable planets are as common as barbeque joints. But when we glance around our own Solar System we see a treasure trove of incredibly hostile environments \u2014 frozen, boiling, erupting with lava, covered in acid rain, or immutable. So what is the true variety of planets found in stellar systems in the universe? Only seventeen years after the first planet outside our solar system was discovered, we know of over 2000 planets and planet candidates, discovered with an inventive variety of techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Joel D. Green is a research scientist at UT Austin, although he is hoping to start an internship with Slartibartfast. He grew up in the suburbs of New York City, and bounced between upstate New York and NYC itself for many years, but in Austin he has become addicted to sun, cowboy boots, and dry rub barbecue. He eagerly awaits the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, for which he has grand plans.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>Plus!<\/p>\n<p>Music from Corpus Christi chiptuner\u00a0Datafix:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/datafixmusic\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/datafixmusic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>Double plus!<\/p>\n<p>Want to get a jump on your nerdery?<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for nerd speed-dating before the main event:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/buytickets.at\/nnatx\/7606\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/buytickets.at\/nnatx\/7606<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>Doors at 7, talks at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>As always, Nerd Nite is FREE. Buy yourself a beer to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>ADDITIONAL EXCITING NASA ANNOUCEMENTS FORTHCOMING HUZZAH<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT PERSON NAME: Lewis Weil<br \/>\nCONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: lewis.weil@gmail.com<br \/>\nCONTACT TELEPHONE #: 5125772177 voice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerd Nite 44: NxSA DATE: Wednesday March 13, 2013 TIME: 7pm-9:30pm WEBSITE: http:\/\/austin.nerdnite.com [ASL interpreter will be provided] Nerd Nite 44: NxSA! Where: Central Market- North Lamar ADDRESS: 4001 N Lamar Blvd Austin, Texas Dating : March speed dating tickets&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/nerd-nite-44-nxsa-austin\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[17565,1629,17574,11296,17572,17570,15246,17569,17560,17561,17562,17568,17571,15283,17567,17566,17575,17576,17577,16166,2025,5377,17559,10931,17563,17579,8082,17580,17578,12947,9343,17573,8582,17564,2073,595],"class_list":["post-22056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-amber-straughn","tag-american-sign-language","tag-anaheim-california","tag-asl-interpreter","tag-astronomer","tag-astrophysics","tag-austin-texas","tag-big-bang","tag-central-market","tag-chiptunes","tag-datafix","tag-exoplanets","tag-goddard-space-flight-center","tag-houston-texas","tag-hubble-telescope","tag-james-webb-space-telescope","tag-jeffrey-silverman","tag-joel-green","tag-kepler-telescope","tag-lewis-weil","tag-maryland","tag-nasa","tag-nerd-nite-44-nxsa","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-door","tag-research-scientist","tag-rice-university","tag-slartibartfast","tag-solar-system","tag-south-by-southwest","tag-star-trek","tag-supernova","tag-sxsw","tag-telescope","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-ut-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-5JK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21817,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/nerd-nite-21313-austin\/","url_meta":{"origin":22056,"position":0},"title":"Nerd Nite 2\/13\/13 &#8211; Austin","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"February 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Nerd Nite 2\/13\/13 - Austin DATE: February 13, 2013 TIME: 7pm-10pm ADDRESS: 502 Brushy Street Austin, Texas WEBSITE: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/381816745250317\/ Nerd Nite 43: Black History Month [ASL interpreter will be provided] When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 doors at 7pm. 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