2002-2003 Activities Monthly Monday meetings commence with a Members' Reception in the Ruttan
Room (the Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor) in the Chemistry Department at 5.30 pm
for cheese, wine and conviviality, and for members to meet the invited speaker.
Then either in this lounge, or in the basement lecture theatre, room 10,
the Lecture is given at 6PM. Members and their guests
then retire to the Faculty Club for dinner with the speaker. Click on the links below to view the poster & abstract of the event. Use the back button on your browser to return to this index. | |
| 23 September | Joe Schwarcz Department of Chemistry, McGill University "Hey! There are Cockroaches in my Chocolate Ice Cream" Lecture: 6pm-8pm in Room 10 |
| 28 October | Panel Discussion: Frontal Cortex Connections Murder, Suicide, Indoctrination, Terrorism, the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Amygdaloid Nucleus. Chair of the Panel Discussion: Dr William Feindel Panelists: Dr Tomas Paus, Dr Peter Roper, Dr Jorge Armony. |
| 21 and 22 November | Occasional Lecture on Science and Religion * And God Created Robots ...? * Robots, Humans and the Community of Persons * Theology and Robots, Q&A Dr Anne Foerst Visiting Professor Theology and Computer Science St. Bonaventure University Olean, NY |
| 25 November | Donald Smith Department of Plant Science, McGill University Capturing sunlight - carefully: Manipulating homeostatic controls on plant growth |
| 29 November | Autumn Field Trip: Canadian Space Agency Directions to the Canadian Space Agency |
| 27 January | Glenn F. Cartwright Faculty of Education, McGill University Symbionics: Linking human brains to computers |
| 11 February (TUESDAY) |
Occasional Lecture on Science and Religion George F.R. Ellis, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Cape Town The Cosmos and its Origins |
| 24 February | David Burns Department of Chemistry, McGill University Shedding New Light in Medicine: Metabolic Biospectroscopy for Health Assessment |
| 24 March | Pedro Verdugo Departement of Bioengineering University of Washington Dynamics of Biopolymer Networks: From Material Storage and Release in Cell Secretion to Marine Polymer Assembly in the Ocean |
| 4 April CHANGE OF DATE |
Annual Banquet Lecture: Ken Laws Emeritus Professor Department of Physics Dickinson College, Pa. "Physics and Dance - in the Same Breath?" |
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