Lectures on Tap-"Spaghetti Science: What Pasta Tells Us About The Universe"

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🧠 Lecture: "Spaghetti Science: What Pasta Tells Us About The Universe"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Joseph Howlett

Join us for a delightful evening with Dr. Joseph Howlett as he uncovers the surprising connections between everyone’s favorite carbohydrate—pasta—and the universe’s deepest secrets. For over a century, physicists have been fascinated by spaghetti, using it as a playful yet powerful tool to explore profound scientific concepts.

In this engaging lecture, Dr. Howlett will guide us through the peculiar world of pasta science, revealing how studies of this everyday food have shed light on everything from undersea cables to the fundamental building blocks of matter. Blending humor with cutting-edge science, he will show how our daily lives intersect with the grand mysteries of the cosmos.

Dr. Joseph Howlett is a staff reporter at Scientific American, with work appearing in The New York Times, the BBC, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many others. Before becoming a journalist, he spent a decade studying particle physics at Columbia and Stanford Universities, focusing on some of the universe’s biggest questions.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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