SFU’s Café Scientifique will be presenting three events this coming Fall (from an August 31, 2022 announcement received via email and from SFU’s Community page), Note 1: Tickets are free; Note 2: SFU is in Vancouver, Canada,
Welcome to our fall term and a brand new series of SFU Cafe Scientifique. We are hosting this on Zoom this Fall and hope that you will be able to join us.
Visit this page for all our event details and topics this fall.
https://www.sfu.ca/science/community.html
Below are the Eventbrite pages to register:
September 13, 2022
Biologists are not Philosophers: Hidden Values in Ecology Research
In our changing natural world, many ecologists are becoming conservation biologists. Join Dr. [Arne] Mooers as he discusses some seemingly simple questions that aren’t so simple after all: How do we measure biodiversity? What is a foreign species? A hybrid species?
Tuesday September 13, 2022
5:00-6:30pm via ZoomOctober 25, 2022
Going Viral: The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases
Mathematical biologist Dr. Ben Ashby gives us a look into the world of epidemiology and evolution to learn how mathematical models can help us understand infectious diseases.
Tuesday October 25, 2022
5:00-6:30PM PST via ZoomNovember 22, 2022
Astrostatistics; Or, Everything Old is New Again
Dr. David Stenning of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences will speak on how new, interdisciplinary research is advancing both astronomy and statistics. These advancements apply to areas such as discovering Earth-like exoplanets, characterizing alien solar systems, predicting solar activity and space weather.
Tuesday November 22, 2022
5:00-6:30PM via ZoomAstrostatistics; Or, Everything Old is New Again Tickets, Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
We look forward to seeing you then!
You can find out more about the first speaker, Dr. Arne Mooers on his faculty profile page and his website. Plus, he has written essays for The Conversation, you can find links to the essays here.
I wasn’t going to do this but this is the best representation of a Dodo bird I’ve seen (they were native to Mauritius, which was where my father was born),
Dodos have been extinct for centuries, but it’s not a simple matter to definitively designate a species as extinct. (Shutterstock)
The image is used to illustrate Arne Mooers’s May 23, 2022 essay “When is a species really extinct?” (and co-authored by Tom Martin and Gareth Bennett) on The Conversation.