Our new website

Our new website is finally ready! Check it out at http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RSC/. We'll be updating it this summer with photos, videos, and more!

May Cafe next week; June Talk added

After a one-month hiatus, the Rochester Science Cafe returns next week at our regularly scheduled time for a talk by Dr. Thomas Trabold of RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability and the New York State Pollution Prevention Insititute:

“Sustainable Mobility: Path to Energy Security and Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions”

Dr. Thomas Trabold,
Research Associate Professor, Golisano Institute for Sustainability
Rochester Institute of Technology

May 24, 7:00pm, Pittsford Plaza Barnes and Noble

Personal mobility presently accounts for about 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in New York State, and represents enormous wealth transfer outside of the State. Despite our century-old dependence on a single fuel feedstock (petroleum) coupled with a single propulsion technology (internal combustion), we are now witnessing the convergence of major societal trends that will permanently change the transportation industry. These trends include executive orders to achieve 80% reduction in 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels by 2050, and implementation of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), which mandates use of 36 billion gallons of renewable transportation fuel per year by 2022. Sustainable mobility technologies that are undergoing rapid development on a global scale include bio-fuels, fuel cells and batteries. The implementation of these technologies within New York State is explored in the context of our local energy resources and economic conditions.

On June 28th, we will be having a talk and book signing by Dr. John Adam of Old Dominion University about "Mathematics in nature: Modeling patterns in the natural world".

February Science Cafe: 2/22/2011: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Why Size Matters?

On February 22, 2011, the Rochester Science cafe will be happy to present the February Cafe talk:

"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Why Size Matters?"

Dr. Todd Krauss
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Institute of Optics
Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology Program
Director, Materials Science Program
University of Rochester

The talk will be at 7pm at the Pittsford Plaza Barnes and Noble. Refreshments will be served, and ASL interpretation will be provided for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

We look forward to seeing everyone there.

January Science Cafe: 1/25/2011: Personalized medicine: Tailoring health care in the information age

The Rochester Science cafe is happy to announce our January Science Cafe, which will lead of our Spring 2011 series:

"Personalized medicine: Tailoring health care in the information age"
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
7pm, Pittsford Plaza Barnes and Noble


Robert W. West, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Dr. Robert West, Ph.D., a geneticist and molecular biologist, teaches an
innovative course in personalized medicine to medical students at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Personalized medicine is a revolutionary approach to medical care emphasizing a wealth of information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's healthcare. Two paradigm-shifting technologies have helped create the opportunity for personalized medicine and, in doing so have altered healthcare forever. The internet has given rise to the empowered patient or “e-Patient”, and the human genome project is revealing genetic factors and providing tests that provide highly-individualized medical care. These technological advances are transforming physician training and are increasing the extent to which consumer patients can and should participate in their own healthcare. Appropriate catchphrases for healthcare in the 21st century are “right medication, right dose, right patient, right time”, and “P4 medicine”, for Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory.

November Cafe this Tuesday

Hi everyone,
Our final cafe for 2010 will be this coming Tuesday. We'll be announcing the 2011 winter/spring lineup soon, so keep an eye out for it. Meanwhile, please come to hear about:

November 30: “Action video games as exemplary learning tools”

Dr. Daphne Bavelier
Professor Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Imaging Sciences
Associate Director Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
University of Rochester

Cafes will continue to take place at 7:00pm at the Pittsford Plaza
Barnes and Noble on Monroe Ave., in the Community room upstairs.
Meetings will be the fourth (or fifth) Thursday of the month, unless clearly
noted otherwise. We'll continue to provide refreshments thanks to an
outreach grant from NASA, as well as interpretation services for the
deaf and hard-of-hearing.

If you know someone who would like to be on the mailing list,
encourage them to send an e-mail to me, and we'll put them on the
list, or subscribe to the following public Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rochester-science-cafe

Revised October Cafe

Hi everyone, our scheduled October speaker is ill, so Dr. Zack Butler, Associate Professor of Computer Science at RIT, has graciously agreed to move up his talk by a month. Our October Cafe will be in 2 days, 7:00pm, Tuesday October 26, at the Pittsford Plaza Barned and Noble, on the topic:

"Robots: What can we expect from them?"
Dr. Zack Butler
Associate Professor of Computer Science
RIT

We look forward to seeing you there.

October Cafe in a week; November Cafe announced

Hi everyone,
The Rochester Science Cafe is happy to announce the next two cafe
topics. They will be:

October 26: “Action video games as exemplary learning tools”

Dr. Daphne Bavelier
Professor Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Imaging Sciences
Associate Director Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
University of Rochester

and on November 30 (the FIFTH Tuesday in November, after Thanksgiving):

"Robots: What can we expect from them?"
Dr. Zack Butler
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, RIT
13-time participant and 9-time champion member of the US National Puzzle Team

Cafes will continue to take place at 7:00pm at the Pittsford Plaza
Barnes and Noble on Monroe Ave., in the Community room upstairs.
Meetings will be the fourth (or fifth) Thursday of the month, unless clearly
noted otherwise. We'll continue to provide refreshments thanks to an
outreach grant from NASA, as well as interpretation services for the
deaf and hearing-impaired.

If you know someone who would like to be on the mailing list,
encourage them to send an e-mail to me, and we'll put them on the
list, or subscribe to the following public Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rochester-science-cafe