Café Scientifique 2014-15

Café Scientifique is a monthly public discussion series sponsored by the U. Victoria Faculty of Science (FoS) and the Centre for Biomedical Research (CBR). Talks are on the second and third Tuesdays of the month from September to April. For more information contact
        
Faculty of Science talks:    2nd Tue of    
the month 		Susan Gnucci (sgnucci at uvic.ca)
Azi Fattahi (azadehf at uvic.ca)
Chris Pritchet (pritchet at uvic.ca)
Centre for Biomedical
Research talks: 		3rd Tue of
the month 		Marj Wilder (cfbr 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 are their own, do not necessarily reflect policy of the Faculty of Science or the University of Victoria.

Date         Event Sponsor Place Poster
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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 9
6:30pm		 The Thirty Metre Telescope
Dr. Luc Simard
NRC/Herzberg and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Oct 14
6:30pm		 Carbon, iron, gold - where and how are the elements made?
Dr. Falk Herwig
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Nov 11
6:30pm		 The Big Heat: a Thermal Maximum 55 Million Years Ago and What it Tells Us About Global Warming
Dr. Kate Moran
Ocean Networks Canada and SEOS
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Dec 9
6:30pm		 The Chemistry and Biology of Beer
Drs. Jeremy Wulff and Peter Constabel
Dept. of Chemistry/Dept. of Biology
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Jan 13
6:30pm		 The Digits of Pi (or "Mathematics: True? Good?
        Useful? Beautiful?")
Dr. Reinhard Illner
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Feb 10
6:30pm		 How Brains Work
Dr. Kerry Delaney
Dept. of Biology
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Mar 17
6:30pm		 Hydrogen Fuel Cells - without the Hot Air
Drs. Ned Djilali and Andrew Rowe
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and
Institute for Integrated Energy Systems
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Apr 14
6:30pm		 Your World in a Drop of Blood: Personalized monitoring of biomarkers in health and disease
Dr. Terry Pearson
Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Link to 2011-12 Events
Link to 2012-13 Events
Link to 2013-14 Events