Monthly Monday meetings commence with a Members' Reception in the Ruttan
Room, the Faculty Lounge, in the Chemistry Department at 5.30PM
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. | |
| 22 Sep 97 | Professor Peter Grutter, Physics, McGill Nanotechnology: assembling matter atom by atom with scanning tunneling spectroscopy |
| 17 Oct 97 | Field trip to Parc Marie-Victorin An indigenous plant park and waterland, and Cascades Inc. a Research-dedicated, environmentally-friendly and socially-aware pulp and paper company. |
| 27 Oct 97 | Dr. Emile Skamene, Montreal General Hospital Molecular Medicine: The revolution in medical paradigms |
| 17 Nov 97 | Dr. Christianne Ayote, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique Analysis for Drugs in Athletes: The Olympic Games Dilemma |
| 15 Dec 97 | Chapter Discussion The future of Sigma Xi at the Chapter and US headoffice |
| 19 Jan 98 | Cancelled because of Ice Storm '98 and 14 day blackout! Only the second time a lecture has been cancelled in our 76 years |
| 16 Feb 98 | Professeure Louise Paradis, Université de Montréal The Olmec: a people, an artistic style, a civilisation |
| 16 Mar 98 | Professor Heather Goad, Linguistics, McGill Aspirants and non-aspirants in the understanding of a foreigner speaking a native's language: Thai and English |
| 17 Apr 98 | Annual Meeting Banquet and Member Initiation (5:30PM) Professor David Bird, Avian Centre, Macdonald College (8:30PM) Technology: A Double Edged Sword for Birds of Prey |
