SECOND SUMMER AT THE PALM THEATRE IN THE TOWN OF TELLURIDE

Stimulating Science

The Town Talk science lecture series is now in its 9th season.

• Every Tuesday Evening (except July 19 when no talk is scheduled)
  
• June 21 - August 2      
• 6:00 – 7:15 pm
  
• Palm Theatre in the Telluride Intermediate/High School, 721 W. Colorado
  
• Free admission
• Donations needed

2011 SUMMER SCHEDULE

Tuesday June 21st, 6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"In the Footsteps of Shackleton: A natural history of Antarctic sea ice"

By Ted Maksym, British Antarctic Survey

Tuesday June 28th,  6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"Directing Traffic on Tiny Highways: Strategies for emerging biomedical nano devices"

Sherwin Singer, Professor of Chemistry at Ohio State University

Tuesday July 5th, 6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"The Physics of Synchrony: Heartbeats, wobbly bridges, and the God Particle" 

By Peter Littlewood, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge and University of Chicago, and Associate Laboratory Director of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois

Tuesday July 12th, 6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"The BP Oil Spill and Deepwater Drilling: Lessons from the Gulf"

By Sambhav N. Sankar, Deputy Chief Counsel, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and Department of Justice Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division

Tuesday July 19th

NO TOWN TALK 

Tuesday July 26th,  6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"Green Chemistry . . . For Real"

By Eric J. Beckman, University of Pittsburgh George M. Bevier Professor of Engineering and Co-Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, 2011 Stephen Berry Lecturer

Tuesday August 2, 6:00 - 7:15 pm, Palm Theatre

"The Evolution of Diversity"

By Paul Rainey, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Auckland & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

 AND

By Forest Rohwer, Professor of Biology at San Diego State University