Nerd Nite Amsterdam

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Nerd Nite 46 is live on zoom!!

Born in France, Julien moved to the Netherlands to help us with the installation of the OV-Chipkaart.
Nowadays he is working as a Lecturer and Researcher in Text Analytics applied to Legal Documents at the UVA. Tomorrow at 20:00 he will be the second speaker of our second digital nerd nite event.
Be there and be square!

Our first speaker of the night, Caitlin Meyer lectures in (Dutch) Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, and is program director for the BSc Cognition, Language and Communication. She’s fascinated by how language works, how cognitive domains interact, and how we learn stuff. Her most recent research focuses on language and (numerical) cognition in kids and sometimes adults.

Don't miss making history: the next launch attempt this Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT!

Making History: NASA and SpaceX Launch Astronauts to Space! Watch history unfold on Wednesday, May 27, as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mi...

Hi all,

There is a last minute change in the Youtube live-stream link for our Nerd Nite 45.

Please go to this link https://youtu.be/Y0MQRdVef4k for our event at 20:00

See you soon! Be there and be square!

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Meet our first speaker of our online Nerd Nite 45 - Gaurav Singhal.

Gaurav Singhal is Co-Founder & CEO of Arboreum - a company developing the first AI-enabled blockchains to create completely decentralized credit systems, without banks or other financial intermediaries. Formerly he was Lead Data Scientist at the United Nations World Food Programme. In his spare time he enjoys the art of making the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, balcony gardening, and saying snarky things on political twitter. You can find him in Oost either running towards or away from something in an attempt to learn something new that may or may not have ended in abject failure.

For NN 45, he will talk about the application of Machine-Learning not only to “learn” a more accurate depiction of the world from real-time survey data but also to tell surveyors who, when and where to take samples.

Find out more about the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/228820578199452

Meet our second speaker of Nerd Nite 44 - Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt.

Bastiaan is a biologist who tries to understand the great complexity of life safely in front of a computer screen. Every now and then though this bioinformatician does venture into the field, to see what all the fuzz is about. Preferably on a ship as his favorite environment is the ocean. When there's wind he's gone kite-surfing.

For NN 44, he will talk about the vast unknown microbial world. Interested? Find out more about the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/2357563127904520/

Meet our first speaker for the upcoming Valentine Nerd Nite 44 - Ulrika Klomp.

She has been intrigued by sign languages for about 12 years. She’s a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and a freelance teacher of Sign Language of the Netherlands. She also enjoys music a lot and sings in a choir.

This Friday - the 14th of February, she will explain why sign language isn’t universal (and has little chance of becoming it).

Find out more about the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/2357563127904520/

Did you already start with your new year's resolution(s)? Do you long for love 🥰, to finally find the nerd fitting under your blanket, watching together all extended editions of Lord of the Rings?
Then try your luck at our Nerd Nite Speed dating event! Sign up here http://tiny.cc/nn44-speeddate and join us on the 14th of February for an unforgettable Valentine's Day!

Happy new year!

Let's start our 2020 with a small puzzle:

HAPPY + NEW - YEAR = 2020
where each letter represents a different digit

Can you solve the above equation? Let us know your answer in the comments

The whole Nerd Nite Amsterdam team wishes you a Merry Nerdy Christmas!
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Former Nerd Nite speaker in London and Brighton, NY-raised, London-based comedian Mike Capozzola will delight superheroes and sci-fi fans at his Nerd comedy show in den Haag on Sunday January 26th. Mike also played an MiB Agent in "Men in Black International" so don't forget to bring protection glasses!

More about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/740255193121406

Meet the second speaker of the last Nerd Nite of the year, Vincenzo Mascoli! Vincenzo is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the group Biophysics of Photosynthesis. He is currently working on spectroscopy and modeling of light-harvesting processes in natural photosynthesis. He was born and raised in Italy, where he completed his University studies, and moved to the Netherlands for his PhD. Besides science, he likes to play tennis, play music and read. What exactly? Ask him at the Nerd Nite 43!

This Friday, he will talk about one of the mysteries of life: how photosynthesis works and how it is regulated.
More about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/376767252980458/

Meet Valentijn Stienen, our first speaker of this Friday's Nerd Nite! He is a PhD student at Tilburg University, where he works on (mathematical) optimization in the humanitarian sector. His interests are very diverse, ranging from trying to use mathematics to solve any kind of problem to discovering the field of astronomy. Other hobbies include playing tennis and winning with board games.

Curious about how he uses mathematics to save lives? Come on Friday evening to CREA and grab a beer with a friend!
More about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/376767252980458/

After Roel's talk at the last Nerd Nite, do you want to hear more about the universe and the research done at Nikhef? Visit Nikhef this Saturday for its open day with the short talks starting at 13:00!
https://www.nikhef.nl/en/public/visit-nikhef/open-dag/

Open dag - Nikhef De Open Dag 2019 is gepland op zaterdag 5 oktober. De Open Dag van Amsterdam Science Park is een samenwerking van AMOLF, ARCNL, AUC, CWI, Netherlands eScience Center,...

Meet the second of this Friday's Nerd Nite, Bülent Kaplan. He is now working as Quasset’s technology and business consultant, focusing on innovation projects for inspection robotics. Bülent has more than 15 years of experience in industrial robotics, machine vision and software development. He is 42 years old, happily married and has two great sons.
He likes drawing graphic novels and he has black belt in Aikido so careful!

Discover what else we have prepared for you for Nerd Nite 42, in honour of the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" :
https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

Meet the first speaker of Nerd Nite 42 on the 20th of September, Roel Aaij! After a Ph.D. (at the Nikhef and the VU) and a 3 year post-doc (at Cern) with the LHCb experiment, Roel Aaij is now back at Nikhef as a staff scientist in the data processing group, where he works on better software for high-energy physics research. In his free time he loves to eat good food, (try to) cook it, and dance salsa and samba de gafiera.

More info about our event: https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

With the raise of AI and robots, which jobs will stay in the future job market? Which skills you or your children need to have to survive and adapt? Yuval Noah Harari - famous for his books "Homo Deus", " Sapiens" and "21 Lesson for the 21st Century", gives us some insights in his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ_8n4Dl9vc

Do you want to learn more? For Nerd Nite 42 - (special edition), our speaker Bülent Kaplan will talk more about the incoming wave of robots. Check out our event: https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

3. 'Advice for today's young children?' - Yuval Noah Harari on 21 Lessons for the 21st Century In his book '21 Lessons for the 21 Century' (published autumn 2018), Prof. Yuval Noah Harari explores what is really happening in our world right now. In thi...

Did you know that spinning black holes have an efficiency of 42!% for the mass to energy conversion? Watch and learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-O-Qdh7VvQ

Do you know what else is 42 (except the obvious)? The edition of our next Nerd Nite on the 20th of September!
You will be able to listen to fascinating facts about our universe and robotics, so stay tuned!
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes Thanks to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! Check out their black hole course at http://brilliant.org/minutephysicsblackhole Sup...

Thank you Rémy Dhaene for the poster of the 42nd edition of Nerd Nite!
For the start of this season of Nerd Nite, we begin with a night dedicated to the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". We will travel into space, debate about robots before we start celebrating life, the universe and everything!

More to our event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

Enjoying holidays? But there is nothing to do? Then what about designing your own intergalactic costume for Nerd Nite 42, the 20th of September?
Participate in the costume contest and steal the show at our party themed after the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

More about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/474266993352293/

Thank you Maisie for a look-back to last Nerd Nite!

Meet the second speaker of this Friday's Nerd Nite, Joris Vlasblom. After he finished his Bsc in Aerospace engineering he decided to take a year to get some experience in industry and transition to the field of sustainable technology. He did this by joining TU Delft's D:Dreamteam Forze Hydrogen Electric Racing! Forze is a race-team comprised solely of unpaid student who build a hydrogen electric race car to show what hydrogen is capable of in the field of renewable energy. In the little free time Joris has left he can often be found on a surfboard, snowboard or any other kind of board.