Café Scientifique 2015-16

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, anddo not necessarily reflect policy of the Faculty of Science or the University of Victoria.

Date         Event Sponsor Place Poster
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Next Events:

Note: We ask that you reserve your seats. A link to the reservation website will be visible about 2 weeks before the event.
Tue Apr 12, 2016
6:30pm		 A New Spin on Solar Cells: Can we operate close to the theoretical limit?
Dr. Natia Frank
Dept. of Chemistry
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		coming soon
Past Events:
Tue Sep 8, 2015
6:30pm		 Neutrinos: the Ghost Particles
Dr. Dean Karlen
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		   hi-res pdf
Tue Oct 13, 2015
6pm and 8pm 		The five questions astronomers get asked most often in bars
Dr. Roberto Abraham
Dept. of Astronomy
U. Toronto
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats - 6pm
Reserve seats - 8pm 		   hi-res pdf
Wed, Nov 10, 2015
6:30pm 		cancelled
Dept. of
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats
Tue Dec 8, 2015
6:30pm		 Mass spectrometric protein quantitation in clinical samples: from biomarker validation to clinical assays and companion diagnostics
Dr. Christoph Borchers
Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		coming soon
Tue Jan 12, 2016
6:30pm		 A Global Super-Predator
Dr. Tom Reimchen
Dept. of Biology
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		coming soon
Tue Feb 16, 2016
6:30pm
[note date change]		 The Quest for a Habitable Exoplanet
Dr. Christian Marois
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, and
NRC Herzberg
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		coming soon
Tue Mar 8, 2016
6:30pm		 Carbon in the Oceans
Dr. Roberta Hamme
SEOS
U. Victoria
Description 		Faculty of Science Hermann's Jazz Club

753 View St
Reserve seats 		coming soon
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