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Sigma Xi HeadquartersMcGill-Montréal Chapter (1921)

 
 
1999-2000 Activities

Monthly Monday meetings commence with a Members' Reception in the Ruttan Room, the Faculty Lounge, in the Chemistry Department at 5.30PM 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.

   
13 Sep 99    Dr. George Dobrowolski
NRC, Ottawa

"Usual and Unusual Applications of Optical Coatings"
 
18 Oct 99    Dr. Pierre Laneuville
Royal Victoria Hospital

"Transfusion Problems in Transit from Old Hospitals to the New"
22 Oct 99 Visit to Boehringer-Ingelheim (CAN)
Bio-Omega Research Division, 2100 Cunard St. Laval, QC, H7S 2G5

Cost $ 5.
Leaves Roddick Gates at 12:30
Offer or request lifts when registering to:
Dr. M.A. Whitehead - 398-6239
22 Nov 99    Dr. Igor Mel'Cuk,
Linguistique, Universite de Montreal 

"Formal Modeling of Natural Language: Meaning-Text Model"
 13 Dec 99    Professor Isztar Zawadski
Director Radar Laboratory, Atmospheric and Atmospheric Sciences, McGill.

"Stormy Weather"
17 Jan 00 Jana S. Lamboy
Ornamentals IPM Specialist, Cornell University

"Microbial Products to Suppress Plant Disease"
21 Feb 00 Dr. Patricia McKinley
Physical and Occupational Health, McGill University

"Why is Hopscotch Relevant to Motor Control?"
26 Feb 00 Ice-Breaking Expedition
Using Hovercrafts to Break Ice
Lac St. Pierre, Trois Rivieres, Quebec
20 Mar 00 Dr. Robert C. Myers
Physics, McGill University

"Black Hole Thermodynamics and Beyond"
14 Apr 00

Banquet

Dr. Guy R. Narbonne
Geological Sciences, Queens University

"Origin of Ecosystems: A Pre-Cambrian Perspective"
 
 

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