Coming Attractions

November 20th, 2012, speaker Kenneth J. Shea, Ph.D., Regents Faculty Fellow and Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UCI; Synthetic Plastic Antibodies. A startlingly promising field with incredible potential!

September 18th, 2012, Donald G. Saari, Ph.D., UCI Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics; Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science; Director of the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Science. "We Vote, but do we Elect Whom We Want?" It's voting season, and mathematics points out some serious problems with our "group decision" method. You will leave this lecture with new perspective ... and worries.

July 2012: Vacation month - no meeting.

May 15th, 2012, Daniel Whiteson, Ph.D., Associate Professor,Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine: “Exploring the Unknown Universe with the Large Hadron Collider.”.

"Whiteson has put together some material on dark matter (and why it matters), and how CERN might help clear up some of the 95% of the stuff in the Universe that we know nothing about. You can read about it in Dark Matters - A Tales from the Road Comic.