TSRC and Pinhead Institute are proud to bring the Town Talk science lecture series to the regional community for our sixth season.

• Every Tuesday Evening, 6:00 – 7:15 pm, June through August
• Free admission
• Held at Conference Center in Mountain Village (except the Sept 23 talk is held at the Sheridan Opera House)
  

Thanks to the continuing sponsorship of Mountain Village Homeowner's Association (TMVOA), the Town Talk series is free of charge. Mountain Village is contributing significantly to underwrite the cost of bringing this acclaimed lecture series to the community.

February 5
“When Things Get Small: The Magical World of Nanoscience”
Dr. Ivan K. Schuller, PhD, physicist, playwright, actor, producer, and University of California, San Diego professor
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

March 25
“Molecular Spaghetti: From DNA to PVC”
Arun Yethiraj, PhD, University of Wisconsin Chemistry Professor
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

June 24
“Science and the Presidential Election”
Franz M. Geiger, PhD, Northwestern University Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Alfred Sloan Fellow, National Science Foundation Career Awardee, and Searle Teaching Scholar
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

July 1
“Flood Club: Chasing Down the Uncanny Dynamics of Flash Floods”
Craig Childs, author, adventurer, naturalist, researcher of desert floods, NPR contributor, and University of Montana visiting writing professor
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

July 8
“Energy and Nanoscience: A Marriage of Convenience,”
Mark Ratner, PhD, Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, Feynman Award in Nanotechnology, Member of the National Academy of Science, 2008 R. Stephen Berry Lecturer
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

July 15
“HIV/AIDS and Bird Flu: Saving thousands of lives through computer-aided drug discovery”
J. Andrew McCammon, PhD, Joseph E. Mayer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at University of California, San Diego
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

July 22
“The Science of Recreational Drugs”
Thomas Cheatham III, PhD, University of Utah Assistant Professor in
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar, sorry no smoking

July 29
“Pathogens and Poisons: A Water Crisis of More than a Billion People”
Scott Fendorf, PhD, Stanford University Professor of Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

August 5
“Fire in the Ice: The environmental impact and potential energy resource of methane"
Keith Hester, PhD, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
and Werner Kuhs, University of Göttingen, Germany
6:00 – 7:15 pm

Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

August 12
“Lightning”
George Ewing, PhD, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Guggenheim Fellow, science writer, and Pinhead Scholar
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

August 19
"Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues"
Ellen Suckiel, PhD, Ellen Suckiel, Professor of Philosophy and Provost of Adlai E. Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar

Call Nana Naisbitt at 970-708-0004 for more information.

The Pinhead Town Talks are supported by a generous grant from the
Mountain Village Owners Association.