Café Scientifique 2013-14

Café Scientifique is a monthly public discussion series sponsored by the U. Victoria Faculty of Science. Talks are on the second Tuesday of the month from September to April. For more information contact Chris Pritchet (pritchet at uvic.ca) or Azi Fattahi (azadehf at uvic.ca). See http://www.uvic.ca/cafesci for more info on other Café Scientifique series sponsored by U Victoria.

Views expressed by speakers do not necessarily reflect policy of the Faculty of Science or University of Victoria.

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Note: We ask that you reserve your seats. A link to the reservation website will be visible about 2 weeks before the event.
Past Events:
Tue Sep 10th
6:30pm		 "New geometric patterns which lie between boredom and confusion."
Dr. Ian Putnam
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
U. Victoria
Description 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Oct 8th
6:30pm		 "Cancer research in history and modern times: one cure at a time"
Dr. Fraser Hof
Dept. of Chemistry
U. Victoria 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Nov 12th
6:30pm		 "Enquiries - judicious or judicial - into disappearing Fraser River sockeye"
Dr. Robie MacDonald
IOS/School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
U. Victoria 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Dec 10th
6:30pm		 "When is a cancer clinical trial not a clinical trial; what the heck has it got to do with physics?"
Dr. Wayne Beckham
BCCA-VIC/Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
U. Victoria
Description 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Jan 14th
6:30pm		 Black Holes: More than Meets the Eye
Dr.Laura Ferrarese
NRC/HIA and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
U. Victoria
Description 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Feb 11th
6:30pm		 Ocean pollution in Canada's Oceans: A Whale of a Tale
Dr. Peter Ross
UVic/formerly DFO
Talk Description
Bio 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Mar 11th
6:30pm		 The Challenges of Bringing Molecular Diagnostics to the Developing World
Dr. Paul Romaniuk
Dept. of Biochemistry & Microbiology
Talk Description 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Mon Apr 14th
6:30pm		 Rolling the Weather Dice: Order out of Randomness in Weather and Climate
Dr. Adam Monahan
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
U. Victoria
Talk Description 		Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Link to 2011-12 Events
Link to 2012-13 Events