Nerd night - 23 Feb - Duplex

Name: Nerd night - 23 Feb - Duplex
Start: 2026-02-23T20:00:00+07:00
Location: Duplex Belgian Tavern

Schedule

Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+07:00

Location

Duplex Belgian Tavern | Phnom Penh, PP

5 speakers give talks about their nerdy passions, the catch? Each gets 20 slides exactly and each slide moves after 20 seconds. Topics:
Adolfo Perez-Gascon:
“A” is for Adolfo — and for Acceptance:
Following up on my talk 10 years ago, I will be describing how I used Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to change the complicated relationship with my name. I will also talk about the stigma associate with my name and its decrease in popularity over the decades.
Pearl Whitfield:
“Why is a map?”:
When is a map more than a map? Are all maps created equal? Pearl is genetically programmed to love maps. Her grandfather saved every National Geographic map for 60 years, and she wall-papered her house with maps.
Anthony Mcgonigle:
When did time become a thing:
Watchmaker Anthony goes back through the ages to when and why humans started to organize their lives around the counting system we call time and why the same origins are as relevant today.
Sakaya:
Balding but not yet doomed:
24 years-old with a receding hairline (and a cap) presents every thing he found interesting, from the history of hair loss and its consequences in society to statistics and the science behind both the loss and the cures, to deal with his existential fear of losing his glorious hair.
Ben Bolton:
The Banach-Tarski Paradox in maths:
As both a graduate and teacher of mathematics, Ben discusses one of the field's strangest results in the modern day: the Banach-Tarski Paradox. This counter-intuitive result has some potential consequences that could reshape our understanding of reality and the world around us.