Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa: Regional Gathering 2011

StaRGazing 2011 Schedule

(Please note that this Regional Gathering has concluded!)

Friday, February 18

3:00-10:00pm:	Registration Open

4:00pm:	Games Open	*Beverly Hills Room*
	Hospitality Open	*Calabasas Room*

5:00-6:00pm:	Meet the Mensa Regional Vice Chair	*Hollywood Room*

6:00-7:00pm:	Dinner served	*Calabasas Room*

7:00-8:00pm:	Gene Schneider, Adult ADD Adventure: Concept, Criteria, Cause, Coping, Capabilities	*Ventura II/III Room*
	Quixote, a film by master puppeteer Steven Ritz-Barr	*Hollywood Room*

7:30pm:	Generation X/Y Meet & Greet	*Warner Center Room*

8:00pm:	Stratton Lindenmeyer, Joke-Off	*Ventura I Room*
	Pub Crawl Departs	*Lobby*

8:30-10:30pm:	Ed You, Werewolves and Villagers	*Warner Center Room*

9:00pm:	Coffeehouse	*Ventura I Room*

9:30pm:	BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle) Wine Tasting	*StaRGazers Lounge*

Saturday, February 19

8:00-9:00am:	Breakfast served	*Calabasas Room*

9:00am-Noon:	Registration Open

9:00am:	Karen Hudson, How Clothing Reveals Character	*Ventura II/III Room*
	Orv Beach, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: How Isaac Newton Would Have Done It With Software	*Hollywood Room*

10:30am:	Linda Kime and Heidi Stromburg, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Day of the Dead and Milagros	*Ventura II/III Room*
10:30-11:30am:	Jessica Klein, The Price of Perfection: A Look at Cheating in School and Life	*Hollywood Room*
10:30-11:45am:	Jay Friedlander, Boggle	*Warner Center Room*

Noon-1:00pm:	Lunch served	*Calabasas Room*

1:00-5:30pm:	Registration Open

1:00pm:	Tim Callahan, The Universal Myth: Why We Die	*Ventura II/III Room*
1:00-2:15pm:	Matthew Des Lauriers, Island of Fogs: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations of Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico	*Hollywood Room*
1:00-2:00pm:	Stratton Lindenmeyer, Dr. IQ Trivia	*Warner Center Room*
1:00-2:15pm:	Wine Tasting	*Woodland Hills Room*

2:15-4:15pm:	Ed You, Werewolves and Villagers	*Warner Center Room*

2:30pm:	Dennis Lynch, Hershey: The Man, the Town, the Chocolate	*Ventura II/III Room*
	David Plotner, More Than Just Carrots: A Look at Ocular Anatomy, Eye Disease, and Nutrition	*Hollywood Room*
	New Member Reception	*Woodland Hills Room*

4:00pm:	David Kennedy, The Health and Social Impacts of Ingested Fluoride	*Ventura II/III Room*
	Benjamin Zycher, Hot Topics in Economics: The Mirage of Renewable Energy	*Hollywood Room*
4:00-5:00pm:	Singles Mingle!	*Woodland Hills Room*

4:15-5:30pm	Jay Friedlander, Carnelli	*Warner Center Room*

5:30-6:30pm:	Dinner served	*Calabasas Room*

6:45-7:30pm:	Rum Tasting	*Hollywood Room*

7:30-9:00pm:	Roger Steffens, Multimedia Celebration of the Life of Bob Marley	*Ventura II/III Room*
7:30-9:30pm:	Murder Mystery Game	*Hollywood Room*

9:00-10:30pm:	Comedians Vanda Mikoloski, Andrea Cavanaugh, and Erik Passoja	*Ventura Room*

9:30-10:30pm:	Alan Stillson, Name That Tune	*Warner Center Room*

Sunday, February 20

8:00-9:00am:	Breakfast served	*Calabasas Room*

8:30am-Noon:	Registration Open

8:30-11:00am:	Mensa Testing	*Woodland Hills Room*

9:00-10:00am:	Kat Meredith, American Red Cross in Action: Disasters and Preparedness	*Ventura I Room*

9:30-10:30am:	Angela Madsen, Should You Have Exotic Animals as Pets?	*Ventura II/III Room*
9:30am-Noon:	Jonathan Elliott, Chess Tournament	*Warner Center Room*

10:30am-Noon:	Larry Martinek, Mental Math: the Gateway to Understanding Math and Making It Fun for Everyone	*Ventura II/III Room*
	Michael Wong, Cheese Tasting	*Ventura I Room*

11:00am-Noon:	Gina Crittenden, Reinventing Yourself for Success	*Hollywood Room*
	The Planetary Society, Seeing Light: Prisms, Lightwaves, and the Sky	*Woodland Hills Room*

11:00am-2:00pm:	Sunday brunch available at the hotel restaurant (separate charge)

Noon-1:00pm:	Lunch served	*Calabasas Room*
	Triple Nine Society/International Society for Philosophical Enquiry Meet & Greet	*Hollywood Room*

1:00-2:30pm:	Scott C. Miller, A Star Trek Search in a Seinfeld Way: An Overview of Current Astrophysics Research into the Dark Nature of the Universe	*Ventura II/III Room*
1:00-2:00pm:	Robert A. Grossman, The Oldest Federal Law Enforcement Agency: Up to Speed with the U.S. Marshals Service	*Hollywood Room*
1:00-2:15pm:	Jay Friedlander, Carnelli	*Warner Center Room*
1:00-1:45pm:	Madeline Walker, Charades 101 for Beginners	*Woodland Hills Room*

1:45-2:00pm:	Madeline Walker, Kids Rock-Paper-Scissors	*Woodland Hills Room*

2:00-3:30pm:	Ed You, Lawyer Games	*Woodland Hills Room*

2:15-3:15pm:	Halle K., Let's Know Our Brain Better!	*Hollywood Room*
	Epiphanies, Epistemology and Ample Eats meeting, World Economic Crisis	*Warner Center Room*

2:30-4:00pm:	Linda Dorfmont, Darfur, Genocide and Survival	*Ventura II/III Room*

3:15-4:15pm:	Danila Oder, Chocolate Tasting	*Ventura I Room*

3:30-5:30pm:	Audrey Wilson, Kids' Werewolves and Villagers – open to children 9 and up, and adults	*Woodland Hills Room*

4:15pm:	Randolph Dobbs, Life After Death	*Ventura II/III Room*
	Robert Berend, Ask the Sexologist	*Hollywood Room*
	Jay Friedlander, Time's Up and Colander	*Warner Center Room*

5:30-6:30pm:	Dinner served	*Calabasas Room*

6:30-7:45pm:	Desiree Sagray, Liqueur Tasting	*Woodland Hills Room*

6:45-7:45pm:	Viki Kind, Dance Lesson	*Ventura Room*

7:15-8:15pm:	Alan Stillson, Sing-Along	*Warner Center Room*

8:00-9:30pm:	Stacy Robin, Music & Science: Left Brain & Right Brain in Harmony	*Ventura II/III Room*

8:15-9:15pm:	Alan Stillson, Original Interactive Word Games	*Warner Center Room*

9:15-11:15pm:	Danila Oder, Werewolves and Villagers	*Woodland Hills Room*

9:30-11:00pm:	Red Snapper, Conceal & Reveal: The Art & History of Burlesque	*Ventura II/III Room*

Monday, February 21

8:00-9:00am:	Breakfast served	*Calabasas Room*

9:00-9:30am:	GLAAM Annual Business Meeting	*Ventura I Room*
9:00-10:45am	Murder Mystery Game	*Hollywood Room*

9:30-10:30am:	Johanna Polzin, Intuitive Science: Science Education from Kindergarten to Old Age	*Woodland Hills Room*

10:30am-Noon:	Linda Dorfmont, Changes in the Income Tax Laws and How They Affect You	*Woodland Hills Room*

11:00am:	Food Sale	*Calabasas Room*