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    Jun

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    June Café Scientifique with John Walker

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    Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday June 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be John Walker, Rover Development Lead of the Hakuto Google Lunar X-Prize Team.  The title of his talk is:

    Lunar Spelunking

    Lava tubes, or caves likely exist on the surface of the moon. Based on recent images and laser distance measurements from the surface of the moon, scientists have selected candidates for further study.

    Governmental space agencies and private institutions now have plans to visit these potential caves and investigate them as potential lunar habitat sites, as early as 2015.

    I will present some of these candidates and my PhD research, which is supporting a Google Lunar X-Prize team’s attempt to survey one of these caves using robots.

    May

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    May Café Scientifique with Nicholas White

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    Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday May 27th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Nicholas White.  The title of his talk is:

    The world’s smallest machines

    In the last 50 years, chemists have developed the ability to produce increasingly intricate and complex molecules. One example of this is the synthesis of “interlocked molecules”: two or more separate molecules that are mechanically threaded through one another (like links of a chain). These interlocked molecules offer potential use for a range of different applications. In particular they have been developed for use as molecular machines: devices that are only a few nanometers in size, but can perform physical work in response to a stimulus (e.g. light, heat). This talk will describe the development of interlocked molecules, and explore their potential applications as nano-devices.

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