Past Cafes, Boulder Cafe Scientifique

2005

Oct 25th - Dr. Dennis VanGerven, CU Boulder, Anthropology

The Mummies of Ancient Nubia

Nov 15th - Dr. Dobroslav Znidarcic, CU Boulder, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering

Levees of New Orleans - engineering or politics

Dec 13th - Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. –State Climatologist and Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University

Insights into Climate Change and Policy

2006

January 24^th – Dr. David O. Norris, Integrative Physiology, CU Boulder

Environmental Estrogens: Sex, Lies, and Water Supplies

February 7^th – Dr. Marc Bekoff, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder

Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

March 14^th – Dr. Harvey Nichols, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder

Title TBA; general topic Rocky Flats

April 11^{th –} John Pape, epidemiologist; CO Dept of Health and Environment; Whatπs Waiting in the Woods – flu pandemics and avian flu

May 9^th – Dr. Matt Young, School of Mines; Why (and how) Intelligent Design Fails

June 13^th – Dr. Darin Toohey; Keeping an Eye on the Space Shuttle: what a little foam can do

July 11^th – Dr. Richard Warner, Professor of Psychiatry, (CU and Director of Colorado Recovery, Boulder); Recovery from Scizophrenia: beyond medications

August 8^th – Dr. Kristine Larson, Aerospace Engineering, CU Boulder. The Global Positioning System: How the DoD inadvertently built a 50 billion dollar constellation to measure plate tectonics.

Sept. 12^th – Dr. Gene Abrams, Mathematics, CU Colorado Springs, PRODUCED BY BEAUTIFUL MINDS?ñ Mathematics research: what is it, what's the Next Big Thing, and why you should .

Oct. 10 – Dr. Douglas S. Robertson (NOAA and Geological Sciences, CU) The Computer Revolution I: Why the Invention of the Computer Marks the Beginning of Civilization.

Nov. 14^th – Dr. Fran Bagenal, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, CU Boulder; Exploring Planets Big and Small; NASA missions to Jupiter and Pluto

Dec. 11^th - Dr. Kathryn V. Holmes, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, UCHSC. will speak on Viral Pandemics .

2007

January 16^th – Dr. Jeffry Mitton, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU; Trout Jump Over the Divide

February 13^th—Dr. Shelley Miller, Mechanical Engineering, CU; Why buy ozone generators?

March 13^th—Dr. Andy Jacobson, NOAA/CIRES; Boulderπs Role in the Carbon Dioxide Story

April 10 ^th—Dr. Dr. R. Kent GOodrich, Mathematics, CU Boulder; A Short History of Wind Sheer

May 15^th—Dr. Jeffrey Zax, Economics, CU Boulder. The Economics of Happiness.

June 2007.Dr. Greg Holland-NCAR, Boulder-Global warming and hurricanes

July 2007. Tom Theobald, Boulder Beekeepers Association. "Silent Sting - the collapse of the honeybees"

August 2007. Tom Yulsman, CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Telling Inconvenient Truths: the interface of science and journalism in the global warming debate.

September 2007. Dr. Russ Monson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU. Climate Change and Forests in the Colorado Front Range

October 2007. Dr. William (Ned) Friedman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU. topic Evolution before Darwin - Title TBA

November 2007. Mona Newton, Regional Representative forGovernor Ritter's Energy Office.

December 2007. Dr. Pieter Johnson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder. Deformed Frogs: parasites, pesticides or propaganda?