The "Interdisciplinary Coffee Talk Society" is an informal society of researchers at UW. Our seminars are open to all at UW.

• We hold talks about once a month in the Grad House. Speakers are professors, postdocs, and graduate students from all fields. Ideally, the talks present insight into some important or fascinating topic in terms understandable to those from other fields and yet on a high level.
  
• If you wish your email address to be added to the emailing list, please send an email to Achim: The email address is akempf at the usual uwaterloo.ca Please send suggestions for topics and speakers to the same address.
  
  
• Upcoming seminar:
  
  

none scheduled at present

Tue, Nov. 1st, 2005: L. Fatibene (U. of Torino, Italy), J. Shallit (UW), Is "intelligent design" a scientific discipline?

                              Tue., April 12th, 2005:  Jennifer Quinn (Univ. of Toronto),
                                                                        Stem cells: where do they come from and what do they do?

                              Tue., March 15th, 2005:  Adrian Kent (Cambridge Univ., UK),
                                                                        "What is an acceptable risk (e.g. for destroying the earth)?"

                              Tue., February 22nd, 2005:  Eric Poisson,"Our strange Universe"

                              Tue., October 5th, 2004:  Gunter Scholz,"Zero-Emission Vehicles"
                            
                              Tue., May 2004:  Robert Brandenberger,"Was there a Big Bang?"

Thu., March 18, 2004:  Konstantin Savvidis,"Ptolemy of Alexandria"

Thu., February 26, 2004:  Carlos Perez,   "Quantum Information"

Thu., January 15, 2004:  Ali Ghodsi,   "Machine learning"

Thu., December 4th, 2003:  Luis Kauffman, "Knots and Paradoxes"

Thu., November 6th, 2003:  Marilyn Griffith,   "How Plants Survive Winter"

Thu., October 30th, 2003:  Mike Ross,   "Memory and Aging"

Thu., September 25th, 2003:  Scott Kline,   "Evil and International Affairs"

Thu., June 6th, 2003:  Ming Li,"Chain Letters & Evolutionary Histories"

Thu., April 24th, 2003: Jinbo Xu, "How to decode DNA: Protein structure prediction"

Thu., March 20th, 2003: Brian Ingalls,"Systems Biology: Analogies between man-made and biochemical feedback mechanisms"

Thu., February 20th, 2003: Masha Brown,"Developmental Biology and Pattern Formation"

Thu., January 23rd, 2003: Chris Eliasmith,"Computational Neuroscience: From single neurons to cognitive systems"

Thu., December 12th, 2002: Leonid Brown,"How biological systems use light"

Thu., November 21st, 2002:   Jan Narveson, "Why and how is Music meaningful?"

Thu., October 24th, 2002:   Mu Zhu,"Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Evolution and Majority Vote"

Tue., September 24th, 2002: Larissa Fast:"Conflict Resolution Strategies"

Sat., August 3rd, 2002: Holiday,"BBQ"

Thu., July 25th, 2002:  Onita Basu and Sarah Dorner, "Water Quality"

Thu., June 20th, 2002:     Alastair Farrugia, "Measuring Complexity"

Thu., May 30th, 2002:   Achim Kempf,"Big Bang, Genetic Code and Quantum Computers"
 

PS: Some years ago, I started a similar society at Cambridge University  which is still active. Click here.