2003-2004 Activities

2003-2004 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 Le Caveau for dinner with the speaker. Click on the links below to view the poster & abstract of the event. Use the back button on your browser to return to this index. The McGill-Montreal Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, an Honour Society which has been dedicated to encouraging Interdisciplinary Research for over 125 years presents the 2003-2004 lecture series: Macroscopic to Microscopic: Size and Function
22 September	Dr. Vicky Kaspi Department of Physics, McGill University Diversity in Young Neutron Stars
27 October	Dr. Sheila Laverty Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Université de Montréal Horsing Around
24 November	Dr. Fred Habashi Director, CFD Lab, Mcgill University NSERC-J. Armand Bombardier Industrial Research Chair of Multidisciplinary CFD Science, Simulation and Supercomputers: The Role of Computers in Aerospace Design
15 December (special lectuue with support from the Beattty Memorial Lecture Committee)	Dr. John Campbell Physics Department, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand The Search for the Real Earnest Rutherford
19 January	Dr. Patrick Desjardins Département de Génie Physique École Polytechnique Extending Moore's Law Forever: From Microelectronics to Nanoelectronics
9 February	Dr. Paul Lasko Department of Biology McGill University Which End is Up? How the Spatial Information of the Body Plan is First Determined in the Egg
15 March	Dr. Bruce Lennox Department of Chemistry McGill University The Big Deal about Such Little Things: A Look at Nanoscience
2 April	SPRING TRIP Douglas Hospital Brain Bank
16 April	ANNUAL BANQUET Soddy Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921 A Talk by Professor M.A. Whitehead Emiritus Professor Department of Chemistry, McGill University Director, Canadian and International Constituency Group, Sigma Xi