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2001-2002 Activities

Monthly Monday meetings commence with a Members' Reception in the Ruttan Room (the Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor) in the Chemistry Department at 5.30 pm 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.

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17 September William A. Adams
ESTCO Battery Management Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
"Realizing the Dream: Clean Transportation Through the Application of Electrochemical Technology"


29 September POSTPONED Autumn Field Trip:
La Pocatière tidal flats.



15 October M.A. Whitehead
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry,
McGill University

"Frederick Soddy, Ernest Rutherford, and New Zealand: different lives, different ideas, and different opportunities; colleagues but never friends"
(Joint lecture with the James McGill Society)


5 November Cameron Skinner
Dept. of Chemistry, Concordia University
"The Difficulty of Microscale Immunoassays"

10 December Martin Buehler
Centre for Intelligent Machines,
Dept. of Engineering, McGill University

"Legged Robots"

21 January Nicole Paquet
McGill Physical and Occupational Therapy
"Vertigo and Dizziness: Interventions and Rehabilitation Research"

18 February Freda Miller
Centre for Neuronal Survival,
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

"New Sources of Stem Cells"

18 March Serge Rossignol
Directeur, Centre de Recherche en Sciences
Neurologiques, Faculté de Médecine,
Université de Montréal
"Control of Walking by the Nervous System"

5 April Spring Field Trip
Montreal Neurological Institute.

19 April Annual Banquet
Lecture: Melvyn Goodale
CIHR Group on Action and Perception,
University of Western Ontario

“Sight Unseen: Action without Perception in Human Vision”