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Fuel up your flying saucer . . . the Secret Science Club is blasting off with astrophysicist Ben Oppenheimer , the principal investigator of the Lyot Project , an ambitious mission to discover and record images of planets outside our solar system. He’ll discuss the challenges scientists face in probing for exoplanets and reveal some of the Lyot team’s latest results. An astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, Ben Oppenheimer was the subject of a recent New York Times article “ Star’s Dust May Hold Clue to New Planet ,” documenting the observation that a gap in dust circling a young star in the constellation Auriga may be a planet in the making. Dr. Oppenheimer also studies brown dwarfs , white dwarfs and galactic structure. He served on NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder Science and Technology Definition Team, and has been appointed to several National Research Council Panels, as well as numerous NASA and NSF committees. Before and After --Groove to space-age tunes...

Check out this cerebral event: The Neuroscience of the Groove! Neuroscientists Dave Sulzer (a.k.a. composer Dave Soldier) and John Krakauer discuss the brain activity that makes us groove to music. Krakauer co-directs Columbia University's Motor Performance Laboratory and Sulzer/Soldier investigates synaptic connections that underlie memory, learning, and behavior. This event features the premiere of Soldier's "Quartet for percussion and brain waves," a live performance/experiment with drummers and electroencephalographs. (And its sponsored by our pals at CUNY’s Science & the Arts program.) When: Monday, March 24 at 6:30 pm Where: CUNY Grad Center , 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), NYC FREE! Pre-registering holds your seat until 15 minutes before curtain; then seating is first come, first served. Pre-register by phone or email: 212-817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu