Sep
18
September Café Scientifique with Isabel Trigger
Posted by: jdewitt | September 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday September 25th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Isabel Trigger, TRIUMF research scientist. Details of her talk are as follows: Higgs for the Masses: A Peek Under the Hood of the Universe This summer experiments at the world’s […]
Jul
19
Café Scientifique event on July 31st
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | July 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers,Our next café will happen on Tuesday July 31st, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Michael Wolf, from UBC Chemistry. Details below: How nanomaterials can be used to change the way we collect and store energy in the future Growing global energy demands and the potential for […]
Jun
11
SCWIST IWIS event – June 12th
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | June 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Posted on behalf of IWIS (Immigrant Women in Science) “TRUE BLOOD” VS REAL BLOOD VS SYNTHETIC BLOOD – “Dare to find out!” An overview of what vampires want, what transfusionists want, what blood is available in the blood supply and also what may be in the pipeline June 12, 2012, 6pm to 9pm. The Wicklow […]
May
25
SCWIST IWIS Cafe Scientifique event on May 31st, 2012
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | May 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Posted on behalf of SCWIST IWIS Are Stem Cells the Future of Modern Medicine? Speakers: Dr. Fabio Rossi and Dr. Jackie Damen Ever wondered what stem cells really are? Why are they important in biomedical research? Which diseases could stem cell really cure? How close is this research to treating patients? Patients on organ transplant lists, as well […]
May
8
Upcoming Event: Seeing is Believing Part 3, May 29th
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
May
7
May Café Scientifique
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, Our May café will happen on Tuesday May 22th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Andrew Holding, a research scientist who is currently employed by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. He has worked on many Science outreach […]
Apr
18
April Café Scientifique event with Dr. Rosie Redfield
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, Our next café will happen next Tuesday April 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Rosie Redfield, the biologist from UBC who was recently named one of the “Ten People Who Mattered” in 2011 by Nature magazine. (http://www.nature.com/news/365-days-nature-s-10-1.9678 ). The title and abstract […]
Apr
17
FYI: ScienceOnline Vancouver
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Posted on behalf of Sarah Chow ScienceOnlineVancouver is a monthly discussion series exploring how online communication and social media impact current scientific research and how the general public learns about it. ScienceOnlineVancouver is an ongoing discussion about online science, including science communication and available research tools, not a lecture series where scientists talk about their […]
Mar
19
Café Scientifique Event March 27th, 2012
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | March 19, 2012 | 2 Comments
Dear Café Scientifiquers, Our next café will happen next Tuesday March 27th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist from Simon Fraser University. His café will be: How are global patterns of biodiversity affected by climate? The view from a fossil fly’s eye. […]
Feb
21
February Café Scientifique
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, Our next café will happen on Tuesday February 28th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Janis McKenna, Physics professor at the University of British Columbia. “Something’s the Matter with Anti-Matter: There’s not enough of it” About 13.7 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a […]