About us
Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in Profs and Pints.
Regards,
Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and Pints
Upcoming events
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Profs & Pints Denver: NASA’s Search for Life Out There
Woodie Fisher Kitchen & Bar, 1999 Chestnut Pl #100, Denver, CO, USProfs and Pints Denver presents: “NASA’s Search for Life Out There,” on efforts to find habitable worlds beyond our Solar System, with Kevin France, professor in the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and expert on space instruments for the study of extrasolar planets.
[Doors open at 5 pm and the talk begins at 6:30. Advance tickets $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/denver-life-out-there]
Our knowledge of exoplanets has exploded over the past three decades, to the point where we now know that on average every star in the Milky Way hosts one planetary system. With so many planets now discovered, the question might not be whether life exists elsewhere, but when we might find it.
Learn about the search for other habitable planets with Professor Kevin France, who
is deeply involved in efforts by the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) to prepare NASA’s upcoming flagship exoplanet mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.Dr. France will discuss recent exoplanet discoveries. He’ll also describe how astronomers have begun studying the atmospheres of other planets to assess their potential for habitability and to search for signs of biological activity. You’ll learn how spectroscopy is used to take the “chemical fingerprint” of other planets’ atmospheres.
We’ll look at how Colorado’s LASP is developing the science and hardware for the Habitable Worlds Observatory and training new generations of scientists and engineers to be involved with it and other missions in the 2030s and 2040s. You’ll gain an understanding of how the observatory will operate and how smaller satellite and rocket missions are being undertaken to prepare for it.
Listening to Dr. France, who has led rocket and small satellite missions at LASP and works extensively with the Hubble Space Telescope, will leave you looking up at the night sky not just with wonder, but newfound excitement as well. (Doors: $17, or $15 with student ID.)
Image: From an artist’s concept of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (NASA).
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