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Programme for the 2006-07 year

Monthly Monday meetings commence with a Member's Reception in the Ruttan Room, The Faculty Lounge, in the Chemistry Department at 5:30 P.M. for cheese, wine and conviviality, and for members to meet the invited speaker. Then either in the lounge, or in the basement lecture theatre, room 10. The lecture is at 6:00 P.M. Members and their guests then retire to Le Caveau for dinner with the speaker.

25 September : Dr. David R. Colman
Evolution, Stucture and Assembly of the Myelin Sheath
month's recent news

23 October : Dr. Hans Larsson
Hunting Dinosaurs and other fossils in the Canadian high Artic:
what ancient climate change may tell us

month's recent news

27 November : Prof. Ronald Stewart
Our Winter Storms: The Science Of Their Precipitation
month's recent news

11 December : Dr. Chris Williams
Molecular Modeling and Computer-Aided Drug Design:
An overview of methods with application to tyrosine kinase inhibitors

22 January : Prof. Chandra Madramootoo
Water, Water Everywh ere, But not a drop to drink!
month's recent news

26 February : Prof. Reghan Hill
NANOCOMPOSITES:
how novel macroscale properties can emerge from classical microscale physics
month's recent news

2 April : Prof. Micheal Smith
The Welfare State and its Consequences: The case of unemployment insurance
month's recent news

20 April: Banquet: Prof. Nigel Rouet
Peatland ecosystems and climate change

Banquet report with pictures


4May: FIELD TRIP at the Montreal Botanical Gardens

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