[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 19:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2017-04-06 at 19:00

Location:  UBC Woodward Theatre

Speaker:   Tim Blais (A Capella Science)

Title:     This Is Not A Lecture - an evening with A Capella Science's Tim Blais

Abstract: UBC Physics & Astronomy and the TRIUMF/UBC IsoSiM Program present "This Is Not A Lecture - an evening with A Capella Science's Tim Blais." Tim will perform several songs from his popular YouTube channel A Capella Science, both solo and with the aide of his old Vancouver A Capella group ("Acapocalypse"). He will also share his own experience as both a science graduate student and an independent new media artist, and offer some observations about science culture.

About the performer/speaker

Tim completed his Master's degree in Theoretical Physics at McGill University. Starting out as a side project because of his love for music, his first YouTube video "Rolling in Higgs" now has almost 800K views;  Scientific American blog suggested the video as possibly being "the single most comprehensively nerdy endeavour ever conceived." This experience prompted him to continue his venture, creating more science-themed YouTube videos. Merging a capella, science, and pop songs, Tim became a YouTube sensation - his most popular video, A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity!, has almost 3 million views to date. 

Tim's science-parody creations are 100% originally recorded and made out of unaltered sounds from his mouth, throat and vocal cords. Tim's unique combination of music, physics and humour will be higlighted in this one-off performance at UBC.



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