Café Science Finds New Home at Solea

The Brandeis Café Science page tell us:

**Café Science will Resume in February!**
Food for thought. And a Drink.

Café Science has found its new home:

SOLEA
Restaurant and Tapas Bar
388 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453

We are thrilled to kick-off Café Science’s Spring Talks with Geometry for Grown-Ups! Presented by Ruth Charney.

Please join us at Solea on February 3rd at 6PM as Professor Charney helps us explore the exotic side of geometric structures, bringing us both the useful and fun side of Geometry!

$10.00 admission includes 1 drink per person.

Brandeis Café Science (Season 3)

The lineup for the 2013-14 edition of Brandeis Café Science has been released.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Division of Science, Brandeis Café Science features informal talks by science professors at Elephant Walk, a local restaurant on Main St in Waltham. It’s a great opportunity to enjoy a beverage and engage in conversation about science-related topics of interest.

The first talk, on October 7 at 6 pm, will feature Brandeis alum Greg Bearman PhD ’76 (Snapshot Spectra, USC Keck School of Medicine and the Israeli Antiquities Authority) discussing “Imaging and Conservation of Cultural Heritage: The Dead Sea Scrolls”.

Brandeis University and the Museum of Science, Boston, are collaborating on programming around a major exhibition of Dead Sea scrolls and artifacts from ancient Israel that will be at the museum from May 19 until Oct. 20.

Brandeis Café Science held this Monday, June 3 with Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty

Strolling on the beach we notice that our feet create dry spots around them.  The sand around the leopard’s feet flows while it speeds along the desert.  Close to the ocean, we often notice dark striations on the sand.  These phenomena are so familiar to us that we hardly ever pause to wonder their origin.  The surprising fact is that we do not really understand why sand behaves the way it does.

Join us THIS Monday, June 3, at 6:00pm at the Elephant Walk in Waltham for our next Brandeis Café Science! Professor of Physics Bulbul Chakraborty will take you on a journey through the world of granular matter: matter made out of large objects for which gravity is important and temperature is not.  This is stuff that we see around all around us but know very little about.

For the last five years Prof. Chakraborty has been working on developing a theory of granular materials that can predict their collective behavior. How do sand grains assemble into sand dunes and what causes them to avalanche?  Her research has led to a new paradigm for the emergence of solid-like properties.  Prof. Chakraborty will take you along on her journey to the discovery of this new paradigm as she asks you the questions that she asked herself.

 

Brandeis Café Science Opens Tonight

Brandeis scientists have started a Science Cafe, to discuss contemporary research in the life sciences, physics, chemistry and related fields.  The Cafe provides a way for non-scientists at Brandeis, and for residents of Waltham and surrounding communities, to learn about science from Brandeis’ accomplished scientists.  It is also a way for life scientists to learn something about physics and vice versa!

The Cafe will be held 6-7 PM the first Monday of every month at the Elephant Walk in Waltham at 663 Main St  (with parking nearby at the Common St garage).  The first speaker is Greg Petsko (Biochemistry) who will speak about “Drugs for Neurologic Disorders”  on April 2 (tonight).  $10 admission gets you a drink and a talk.

See story at boston.com.