November 3, 2012

Nerdnite again

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It’s Nerdnite time again, Tuesday night, 6:30pm, at Nectar (470 New North Rd, above the Kingslander).

The speakers this time:

  •  Cather Simpson, director of the Photon Factory, on lasers
  • Matthew Dentith, epistemologist, on conspiracy theories
  • Mike Dickison, giant flightless bird fancier, on why birds aren’t larger.

Incidentally, if you aren’t one of the 58273 people who have seen Mike Dickison’s hilarious presentation “Paedomorphic flightlessness and taxonomic affinities of an enormous Recent bird”, what are you waiting for?

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »