Nerd Nite Orlando: World Space Party 2018

Nerd Nite is an evening of entertaining and educational presentations. Speakers present for 15 minutes, followed by a brief Q&A with the audience.Nerd Nite operates in over a hundred cities around the world and launched in Orlando on Thursday, March 14, 2013.Nerd Nite is a great way to connect with an engaged audience. Contact Ricardo, ricardo.williams@nerdnite.com for 2019 sponsorship details and special event opportunities.If you are interested in being a speaker at a Nerd Nite Orlando event, go to bit.ly/nnospeakerform

Nerd Nite Orlando

Join us on Thursday, April 12th for an evening of thinking and drinking with 3 brand new guest speakers. We'll be celebrating Yuri's Night (aka the World Space Party) in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the 1st human in space on April 12, 1961. We'll also be having a "space cosplay" contest.
Doors open at 7pm. Program begins at 7:30.
This is a FREE event. We only accept donations. Make a contribution here. 
Guest speakers include: James Cooney Caley Burke Joshua Colwell
Hosted by Ricardo Williams
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PRESENTATION #1 "Black Hole Diaries" by Dr. James Cooney Dr. James Cooney is an astrophysicist at the University of Central Florida. He spends much of his time teaching astronomy and physics to hungry young minds. He also enjoys competitive Scrabble, stamp collecting, and a number of other nerdy pastimes. PRESENTATION #2 "The Secret of Great Liftoff Timing" by Caley Burke Caley Burke is a rocket scientist with NASA's Launch Services Program, with degrees in aeronautical & astronautical engineering from Purdue University and MIT. She works as a trajectory analyst for spacecraft orbiting Earth, landing on Mars, and other destinations around the solar system. Caley's day job consists of making sure that the rocket drops the spacecraft at the right place & right time. In her innovation time she works on the NASA's annual global hackathon, the International Space Apps Challenge. PRESENTATION #3 "Who Cares That In Space No One Can Hear You Scream?" by Dr. Josh Colwell Dr. Josh Colwell is a Planetary Scientist and Professor of Physics at the University of Central Florida. His research interests are in the origin and evolution of the solar system with a particular emphasis on planet formation, asteroids, planetary rings, comets, and interplanetary dust. He is a Co-Investigator on the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on the Cassini mission, a spacecraft orbiting and exploring Saturn from 2004-2017. Josh studies the structure and dynamics of Saturn’s rings with data from Cassini. His experiments have flown on the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, suborbital rockets, parabolic airplane flights, and he is developing a CubeSat for launch in 2018.

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