SCIENCE CAFE SCHEDULES
Science Cafe | Junior Cafe at BooCoo | Junior Cafe at Library
SCIENCE CAFE EVANSTON at Firehouse Grill |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
