Nerd Nite

Name: Nerd Nite
Start: 2025-10-24T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-24T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Le Shadok

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Le Shadok | Strasbourg, AL

Nerd Nite is a free monthly event that invites participants to give short, fun, and informative presentations on all kinds of topics while the audience enjoys a drink. Our passionate speakers will share their expertise and ideas on a variety of topics.
Each presentation will last between 15 and 20 minutes, followed by questions. A break between each presentation allows participants to refill their drinks and chat about the presented topics... or about something else entirely. Come meet new nerdy people !
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⛵🌴The winds of Change: From Olympic sailing to rebuilding remote jungle - By Joshua Taylor
A talk about the odd and far-reaching technical connections between Olympic Sailing, Levitation and large-scale forest restoration.
About the presenter : I’m a conservation and data scientist, researcher and filmmaker with over 15 years of experience. I help startups, researchers, and organisations solve technical problems and tell their story. I have travelled large parts of Europe and SE Asia by bicycle and love music.
Bio link: joshctaylor.info / linkedin.com/in/joshctaylor
🇨🇵🥐 This isn’t Emily in Paris! Accent perception in the university French classroom - By Olivia Dunn
Before someone speaks, we form assumptions about how the person will sound based on their appearance. While these assumptions may be unconscious, they can lead to miscommunication and misunderstanding when expectations are not met. In this presentation, you’ll have the opportunity to see how this phenomenon plays out in a university French classroom in the United States. We’ll explore how students’ expectations regarding the “idealized French instructor” interacts with their ability to process and recall spoken French. Essentially, what happens when these students realize that the francophone world is a lot larger than what’s the featured in the hit Netflix series Emily in Paris?
About the presenter : Olivia Dunn graduated with her MA in linguistics from the University of Iowa (US) in 2023. She currently works as an English instructor at the University of Strasbourg—a job she mostly enjoys, except for that one time when a student told her that she has vocal fry.

🎰🧱How can casinos help me design better materials? - By Carlos Tadeo Aguilar Mondelo
Gotta give it to the weird uncle, ever since Stanislaw Ulam partook in the development of a statistical computational algorithm and named it after his uncle with gambling problems, molecular
modelling of porous materials has come a long way. From around 1944 onwards, this method has heavily influenced how we perform statistical physics, in this case, thermodynamics. Using this
method, we can characterize how good does a porous material adsorb gases, and applying modern techniques, such as machine learning, helps (real) experimentalists save time designing innovative functional materials.
About the presenter : Hello dear reader, my name is Carlos Tadeo Aguilar Mondelo, a Complex Systems Chemistry master student that comes from Mexico. I did my bachelors in sustainable chemical engineering at the Universidad de Guanajuato with a focus on molecular modelling and simulations, so for the past year and a half, I have been learning from this area.

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The event takes place on the 1st floor (one level above ground), go up the stair or take the elevator !
Drinks and snacks will be available at the Association's bar.
Do you wish to present ? Contact us !