Join us on June 10th, as we host a free screening of The Andromeda Strain!

Greetings once again fellow science nerds!! It is that time of year where we return to the back room of the Sugar Maple for a viewing of a movie both scientific and fictional - Sci-Fi night!!! Last year things even turned a bit MST3K, and it was AWESOME!!! This even is BYOP (Bring Your Own Popcorn!) and heckling of the film is strongly encouraged!! Hope to see you there!!

Join us on May 13th as Sergio Pierluissi presents: Maintaining Monarchs & Other Powerful Pollinators

Greetings once again!! Please come help us welcome Spring and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's very own Sergio Pierluissi, who comes to speak on the delicate miracle of monarch butterfly migration!!

From the incredible journey monarch butterflies make every year, to the thousands of species of pollinators and the services they provide every day, these phenomena and species are declining on the landscape. We will explore the biology of some of these fascinating species, what is at stake with their decline, and explore the opportunities we all have to make a difference in their conservation.

So, please tell your family and friends!! This talk will not be live streamed on Facebook, so we really hope to see you in person!!

Sergio Pierluissi has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 14 years in six states, mostly in our private lands program, both as a biologist and as a regional coordinator for the program. In that capacity, he has restored hundreds of acres of native grassland and wetlands in different parts of the country, and now pulls broader partnerships together to continue that work throughout the midwest region.

Join us on April 8th as Casey McGrath presents: An Update from New Horizons: Beyond Pluto

Come one and all yet again to the back room of the Sugar Maple as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Coffeeshop Astrophysics' very own Casey McGrath brings us updates from the depths of space!!

Back in 2015 the world got its very first image of the surface of Pluto, taken from the New Horizons spacecraft. but since then it has continued its epic journey out further, pushing back the horizon of our solar system even more. Three and a half years later, this New Year's day 2019, New Horizons made its latest fly-by encounter with a rocky world beyond Pluto, names Ultima Thule. This strange new world is not quite like any we have ever seen before, and has been likened to a "snowman" because of its peculiar shape. So come to learn some of the latest updates from New Horizons - what have we learned over the years in the time it made its closest approach to Pluto, and what are we continuing to learn about some of the outer-most reaches of our solar system.

Casey McGrath is currently a physics graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. There he is a member of the Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics. He is working on his PhD in gravitational wave physics, studying how we can use pulsars (a type of start that "flashes" like a lighthouse) to try and detect gravitational waves coming from objects like supermassive black holes orbiting each other at the centers of merging galaxies.

So tell your family!! Tell your Friends!! Bring Your Neighbors!! Come to the Sugar Maple, drink delicious beer and learn some SPACE SCIENCE!!! Hope to see you there!!

Join us on March 11th as Dr. Vincent Smith presents: Einstein's revolutionary ideas of 1905.

Greetings once again fellow nerdlings!!! And boy do we have a nerdy treat for you!!! For the month of March, our guest speaker is traveling all the way across an ocean to visit Milwaukee and bestow scientific nerdiness upon us.

Please join us to hear Dr. Vincent Smith, particle physicist from the University of Bristol, as he describes the world and our knowledge of Physics, at the time of Einstein's birth, and then looks in some detail at Einstein's three famous contributions in 1905 (the explanation of Brownian Motion, of the Photo-electric effect, and Special Relativity), which laid the foundations for 20th Century Physics.

Dr. Smith's research is in Elementary Particle Physics. He has taken part in experiments at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) and Fermilab (Illinois, USA). His particular interest is in Weak Interactions, especially the properties of short-lived strange particles known as Hyperons. He is currently a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

This is going to be a pretty epic talk, so be sure to mark your calendars, and tell your family and friends!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Join us on February 11th as Tom Kroeger presents: Dirty Milwaukee - Our City's Industrial Past & Present

Come One & All!!! Return and gather once again with your fellow nerds in the cozy back room of the Sugar Maple to hear Milwaukee's very own Tom Kroeger speak on the sources and locations of the environmental impacts to soil and groundwater that we are still addressing today in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area. Tom will also briefly cover the evolution of the remedial approaches following the Clean Water Act and its amendments.

Prior to being the Lakeshore State Park Manager for the last 10 years, Tom worked for a local engineering firm for 25 years. He was a Principal Hydrogeologist and Wetland Biologist as well as co-department manager for the firm's environmental group. His specialties included Brownfield remediation, environmental permitting and urban degraded wetlands. His projects include the Milwaukee Road Yard facility, Allis Chalmers, Potawatomi Casino and Department of WI Transportation work in south eastern Wisconsin.

Tell your family, friends and fellow nerds!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Join us on January 14th, as Paul Nurczyk presents: Learning from our mistakes: Engineering for Safety

Greetings fellow science nerdlings!!! It's that time once again to gather in the cozy back room of the Sugar Maple and absorb some SCIENCE!!! This time come join our January speaker, Paul Nurczyk, as we enter a world of danger... and learn how engineers think up all kinds of ways to keep us safe!! Planes! Trains!! Automobiles!!! Tell your family! Tell your friends!! Tell your neighbors!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Join us on December 10th, as we host a free movie screening of Particle Fever!!

Greetings once again to all the nerds out there!! Hope you feasted well over Thanksgiving!! And now it's almost time to feast once again, but this time feast your brain on SCIENCE!!! Bring your family and friends once again to the back room of the Sugar Maple as we screen (for FREE!!) Particle Fever - a documentary on physics and the launch of the Large Hadron Collider. Grab a beer and come learn some stuff!!

Hope to see you there!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385956/