SCIENCE CAFE SCHEDULES

Science Cafe | Junior Cafe at BooCoo | Junior Cafe at Library

SCIENCE CAFE EVANSTON at Firehouse Grill 
Wednesday evenings 6:15 - 7:30pm

09.23.09 Modern Plagues: Pigs, Birds, and People Dr. Daniel Johnson, University of Chicago Medical Center
10.21.09 Untwinkling the Stars: Using anti-missile technology to improve the views of telescopes Professor Mike Smutko, Dept of Physics & Astronomy
11.18.09 The Design of Everyday Things Professor Don Norman, co-director of Northwestern University’s MMM program, the dual degree MBA + Engineering program, McCormick School of Engineering
01.20.10 Evanston History: Conserving the Oldest Printed Map ... and the Story It Tells Kevin Leonard and Susan Messick, NU Library Archives
02.17.10 Traffic Jams, Crowds, and Human Behavior: What Can Technology Do? Professor Hani Mahmassani, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
03.17.10 From Plants to Consciousness Professor Malcolm MacIver, Assistant Professor Dept of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Professor Dept of Neurobiology and Physiology
04.21.10 Nanotechnology? Can You Translate this for Me? Professor Shad Thaxton, Assistant Professor Dept of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine
05.19.10 TBD  
06.16.10 TBD  

 

JUNIOR SCIENCE CAFE 1 at BOOCOO
Satruday mornings 11am -12:30pm

08.26.09 Nanotech: Big Ideas from Small Ideas Professor Mike Davis
10.24.09 Optical Illusions and Your Brain Professor Steve Franconeri
11.21.09 The Amazing Central Region of the Milky Way Dr. Doug Roberts, Adler Planetarium
01.16.10 Black Holes, Gravity, and Blobs Dr Geza Gyuk
02.20.10 Seeing is Believing: Diagnostics of the 21st Century Professor Tom Meade
03.20.10 Permafrost Could be Climate's Ticking Time Bomb Professor Andy Jacobson

 

JUNIOR SCIENCE CAFE 2 at the Library Loft
Friday afternoons 4 - 5:15 pm

09.25.09 Alien Visitors: fact or fiction? Dr Mark Hammergren
10.23.09 AI: how to make an artificial person walk across the screeen Professor Ian Horswill
11.20.09 Using ESP to Talk with Molecules Professor Josh Kurutz
01.15.10 Catch a Gravitational Wave Professor Vicky Kalogera
02.19.10 Facts and Fiction: get the scoop on genetically modified (GM) foods Professor Nyree Zerega
03.19.10 Optical Illusions and Your Brain Professor Steve Franconeri
04.16.09 Physics Demonstrations in Sound and Music Art Schmidt and Tom Senior