Pinhead Town Talks
Pinhead science isn’t just for kids. We’ve teamed up with the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC) to bring science-based presentations to the general public.
TSRC's scientists are some of the top minds in science today. They come to Telluride to share research and discuss new directions with their colleagues. Pinhead's close partnership with TSRC enables us offer a lecture series for the general public with these scientific luminaries. The Pinhead Town Talk lecture series takes place every Tuesday evening during the summer, from 6-7:10pm in the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village.
Here's what's coming up:
June 24
“Science and the Presidential Election”
Franz M. Geiger, PhD, Northwestern University Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Alfred Sloan Fellow, National Science Foundation Career Awardee, and Searle Teaching Scholar
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
July 1
“Flood Club: Chasing Down the Uncanny Dynamics of Flash Floods”
Craig Childs, author, adventurer, naturalist, researcher of desert floods, NPR contributor, and University of Montana visiting writing professor
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
July 8
“Energy and Nanoscience: A Marriage of Convenience,”
Mark Ratner, PhD, Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, Feynman Award in Nanotechnology, Member of the National Academy of Science, 2008 R. Stephen Berry Lecturer
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
July 15
“HIV/AIDS and Bird Flu: Saving thousands of lives through computer-aided drug discovery”
J. Andrew McCammon, PhD, Joseph E. Mayer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at University of California, San Diego
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
July 22
“The Science of Recreational Drugs”
Thomas Cheatham III, PhD, University of Utah Assistant Professor in
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar, sorry no smoking
July 29
“Pathogens and Poisons: A Water Crisis of More than a Billion People”
Scott Fendorf, PhD, Stanford University Professor of Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
August 5
“Fire in the Ice: The environmental impact and potential energy resource of methane trapped in naturally occurring ice cages"
Keith Hester, PhD, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
and Werner Kuhs, University of Göttingen, Germany
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Opera House
Free admission, cash bar
August 12
“Lightning”
George Ewing, PhD, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Guggenheim Fellow, science writer, and Pinhead Scholar
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
August 19
"Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues"
Ellen Suckiel, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Provost of Adlai E. Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Free admission, cash bar
Sept 23
“The Relationship between Scent, Emotion, and Memory”
Rachel Herz, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor in The Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School
6:00 – 7:15 pm
Telluride Opera House
Free admission
The Pinhead Town Talks are supported by a generous grant from the
Mountain Village Owners Association.
