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Sunday, November 26
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
The Geek Out Summit is an event where individuals
who are obsessively fascinated by specific areas of knowledge
share their passion with others. It provides a context for like
minded people to get together, network, invite coincidences, and
discuss the things they geek out about. In this quarter’s
installation, we will cover the following interesting & evoking
topics:
Silvio – Aging
Agents and how to slow them down
Over the past three generations life expectancy in the US has
grown a stunning 25%. Will this keep rising? Will our grandchildren
live to be 100+ on average? Silvio will discuss efforts &
research in the academic medical industry that are identifying
aging agents (say that fast three times) and how to slow them
down.
Jonathan - Online
Identity Aggregation , Misdirection & Sleight of Hand
Internet users increasingly collect 'identities': online accounts,
social network / forum profiles, blogs, email addresses and the
like... On their own, these identities are disparate entities-
but when cross-referenced against one another, multi-dimensioned
personalities and complex webs of chained friendships emerge.
The talk is planned to compare and contrast the new project FindMeOn
( which was originally developed to link indie rock band websites
together ) with open source and commercial identity management
/ aggregation tools-- stressing the importance of Open Standards
, Identity Abstraction / Privacy , and Verifiability / Reputation.
Matt – HIV Immunology
& Medications
Think you know HIV and AIDS? Where did HIV came from, and how
does it actually work? We'll take a look at the immunology of
HIV, and what programs are out there currently (and why they work
and don't work). Come find out more!
Greg – A tour
of the Universe
Greg will give us a guided tour of the cosmos using some very
cool astronomy software. During this presentation, we will plunge
deeply into our seats and use Monkey Town’s amazing projection
capabilities to take a tour of the cosmos. Greg will guide us
though the tour giving us interesting tidbits along the way.
Each presentation will be 15 minutes long and followed by an informal
10 minute Q&A discussion.
Andrew G. to provide some beats after the presentations
for some catching up and a bit of Red Velvet Bday Cake (made by
the Cake Man Raven in Brooklyn, cakemaker for the stars).
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