Eureka! Science Comedy

Eureka! is an interactive science comedy show that demystifies science in a way that is relatable, educational, and hilarious. While our guest speakers lecture, comedians riff and banter with them on stage. The audience can also win fun, silly prizes by correctly answering the guest scientist's questions.

On October 4th get your Nuclear Fusion on! We'll have Lorin Benedict, an applied theoretical and computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discuss the science of nuclear fusion. Joining him will be comedians Katie Rubin (My Spiritual Death, a Comedy Show!) and Matt Gubser (San Francisco International Comedy Competition), as well as hosts Kevin Whittinghill and Allen Saakyan.

Lorin Benedict has studied topics ranging from nanoscience to magnetism to nuclear fusion; his primary interest is in predicting the properties of matter at extreme pressures and temperatures. He obtained his PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1996, where he studied various properties of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. He then moved to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD for a postdoctoral fellowship, where he helped to develop more accurate numerical methods for predicting the absorption of visible and ultraviolet light by solid matter. He joined Lawrence Livermore at the end of 1998.