Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

Carolina Skies
2023-04-22 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-21 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-16 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-15 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-14 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-09 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-04-08 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | GSK Fulldome Theater

Mars: The Ultimate Voyage
2023-04-22 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-15 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Mysteries of Your Brain
2023-04-22 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-04-15 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-04-08 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

From Earth to the Universe
2023-04-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Magic Tree House Space Mission
2023-04-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-04-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-04-08 10:30 - 11:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Teen Science Cafe | Decoding the Structure of Birdsong
2023-04-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Science Stage, 250 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, United States
Teen Science Cafe is for you! This program is just for young adults, ages 13-18, and it’s free!

Birdsong is a unique form of animal communication, as it faces evolutionary pressures from mate selection and social learning, and it possesses a vast amount of diversity. There is still much left to understand about how this variation arises and its relevance in interactions between individuals of the same species.

This talk will examine an element of birdsong that has remained relatively enigmatic to researchers: syntax, or the sequence of notes within a song. By exposing wild male songbirds to songs with familiar and scrambled syntax, we can continue to decipher how information is conveyed in animal communication systems.

About The Speaker:

Emma Reinhardt is a graduate student in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined Dr. Keith Sockman’s lab after graduating with a BS in biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020. Emma has worked with a variety of organisms, ranging from yeast to lizards to crabs, before landing on songbirds. She is interested in understanding which elements of birdsong are most relevant in reproductive interactions. In pursuit of this, Emma spends her summers in the mountains of southwest Colorado to collect data on a population of Lincoln’s sparrows, a small, brown bird with a wildly complex song.

Schedule

5:30 pm – Arrive and check in. We will gather inside the west, main entrance of Morehead.

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Pizza social. Pizza social will take place in our classrooms, located on the 2nd floor.

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Discussion & activities. Presentations will take place at the Science LIVE! Stage.

*Please Note: Depending on scheduled activities, the program may end between 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Solar System Odyssey
2023-04-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-14 15:00 - 16:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Symphony Under The Stars
2023-04-16 19:30 - 20:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Astronaut
2023-04-16 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-04-09 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Star Families: Spring Skies
2023-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Science for All Summit
2023-04-06 08:30 - 14:00, 2023-04-05 08:30 - 20:30 | Friday Conference Center, 100 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, United States
On April 5-6, 2023, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will host the inaugural Science for All Summit at the Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The Summit is a community convening to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The theme of this year’s Summit is From IDEA to Action.

The purpose of the Summit is to engage educators, practitioners, researchers, thought leaders, and other change agents in conversation and knowledge building around emerging issues and innovative strategies related to advancing IDEA in STEM.

Register here.

Learn more here.

Carolina Science Cafe | Let's Chat about ChatGPT
2023-04-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Gizmo Brew Works, 157 E Franklin St #100, Chapel Hill, 27514
Finally returning after a 3-year hiatus, the Carolina Science Café returns to Franklin Street on a new day and a new location as Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program.

ChatGPT is an advanced language model from OpenAI, which has been making headlines as one of the most powerful AI models to date. Such AI models are being seen by some (including the) challenging human conceits about language and creativity on the one hand, and criticized as being glorified talking parrots on the other. In this talk, we will briefly delve into what ChatGPT and other language models are, how they work, and their potential impacts on public life, science, and the future of work and the creative arts. We will also discuss the ethical and societal implications of data-driven AI, such as issues of privacy and bias.

We will be joined by Shashank Srivastava, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill who studies natural language processing, with special interests in grounding language in perception, neuro-symbolic methods, and interactive machine learning. Earlier this year he sat on a panel for ChatGPT in Context, a discussion of this new technology and its real and imagined impacts on the campus community — and beyond.

Designed for adults, this program explores science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines. The Carolina Science Café will be hosted at Gizmo Brew Works on Tuesday, April 4, starting at 6:00 p.m.

You do not need to register…just show up!
