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Programme for the 2009-2010
21st September : Dr. Pierre Savard
Entin Lecture: Tasers
26th October : Dr. Tom Baker
Hydrogen storage in molecular compounds
23rd November : Dr. Thomas Szkopek
Electrons going massless : the optical and electronic properties of graphene
4th December : Fall Field Trip
Redpath Museum tour
14th December, Christmas Talk and Party : Dr. Van de Ven
Why does paper get stronger as it dries?
Additionally, Dr. Jerry Baker, Executive Director of Sigma Xi, will present Dr. Peter Roper with the first Evan Ferguson Award for Services to the Society
2010
25th January : Dr. Tony Whitehead
The History of the Sigma Xi Society at McGill.
Joint Meeting with the James McGill Society
15th February : Dr. Don Francis
In search of the Earth's earliest crust
22nd March : Dr. Tony Mittermaier
Calorimetry and Protein Folding
16th April Annual Banquet and Lecture:Dr. Howard Ceri (President of Sigma Xi)
Changing the Paradigm: What Biofilms Are Doing to Microbiolog