Jun
15
June Café Scientifique with John Walker
Posted by: susanvickers | June 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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 […]
May
12
May Café Scientifique with Nicholas White
Posted by: susanvickers | May 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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 […]
Apr
14
April Café Scientifique with Chris Waltham
Posted by: jdewitt | April 14, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday April 29th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Chris Waltham. The title of his talk is: Musical Acoustics: What do soundboxes do and how do they work? Nearly all string instruments have soundboxes to radiate the vibrational energy of the […]
Mar
13
March Café Scientifique with Elizabeth Simpson
Posted by: jdewitt | March 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday March 25th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Elizabeth Simpson. The title of her talk is: “Fierce Mice” and “Good Viruses” are Impacting Brain Disorders Mental illness accounts for over 15 percent of the burden of disease in the developed world, […]
Jan
8
January Café Scientifique with Eric Taylor
Posted by: jdewitt | January 8, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday January 28th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Eric Taylor, a zoology professor at UBC and director of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. The title of his talk is: Fluviatili Pisces Diversi (The Diversity of Freshwater Fishes): Underappreciated and Under Threat The term fish […]
Jan
6
CIHR IWIS Café Sci Event – Jan 16
Posted by: jdewitt | January 6, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Posted on behalf of CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) IWIS (Immigrant Women in Science) UNDERSTANDING THE NUTS AND BONES OF OSTEOPOROSIS Thursday, Jan 16, 2014; 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wicklow Pub, 610 Stamps Landing, Vancouver, BC RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/ksgmhb2
Nov
16
November Café Scientifique with Andrea Damascelli
Posted by: jdewitt | November 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday November 26th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Prof. Andrea Damascelli. The title of his talk is: From Light Quanta to Quantum Materials The photoelectric effect – the ejection of electrons from a solid consequent to the absorption of light […]
Sep
28
October Café Scientifique with Bud Homsy
Posted by: jdewitt | September 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday October 29th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Prof. Bud Homsy. The title of his talk is: Fluid mechanics – What do the Red Spot of Jupiter and the flagellar motion of e.coli have in common? Fluid mechanics – the […]
Sep
9
September Café Scientifique with Ian Cromwell
Posted by: jdewitt | September 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday September 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Ian Cromwell, a health economics researcher at the BC Cancer Agency. The title of his talk is: The HPV Vaccine and You: What You Need to Know to Make an Informed Choice […]
Jul
25
July Café Scientifique with Robin Coope
Posted by: jdewitt | July 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday July 30th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Robin Coope. The title of his talk is: Explain what it is you do again? Engineering in the life sciences After studiously avoiding biology from high school on, Robin Coope wound […]