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Café Scientifique
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What is Café Scientifique? |
| Café Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings have taken place in cafes, bars, restaurants & even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. Café Scientifique is a forum for debating science issues, not a shop window for science. We are committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accessible.
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| Some aspects of science receive a bad press, or inaccurate reporting. Many people have a poor understanding of the nature of science, yet must live in a world where science and technology are increasingly important in their everyday life. Café Scientifique was set up in Europe to let the public get first-hand information from, and interact with, the publicly-funded scientific community and has become extremely popular and successful in Europe, North America and Australia.
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| If you are approached as a specialist, please consider participating. Our intention is to offer evening sessions every couple of months on a range of science and technology topics at a pub in town. If you´re passionate about a topic, please come along and participate. Each session will kick off with a short general introduction to the chosen topic, and is then thrown open to questions from the floor and general discussion.
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| This endeavour is supported by the Dean of the School of Science and Engineering as part of a programme to raise public awareness of science in general and the activities of our School in particular.
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| For more information contact us at science@waikato.ac.nz or phone (07) 838 4625. |
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Dates for Hamilton 2010 |
| 16 February | 23 March | 27 April | 1 June | 20 July | 7 September | 19 October | 23 November |
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Dates for Tauranga 2010 |
| 22 February | 29 March | 3 May | 7 June | 19 July |30 August |11 October | 22 November |
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Programme for 2010 |
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Hot, dense and dusty – powerful pyroclastic flows from violent volcanoes |
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The Bank, Victoria St, Hamilton |
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Tuesday 16 February, 7.30pm |
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Dr Adrian Pittari from Waikato University |
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| Hot, dense ash clouds, or pyroclastic flows, that sweep across the landscape are some of the most destructive volcanic phenomena. Most that have been witnessed by humans have been small or moderate in size, but we know that catastrophic pyroclastic flows have ravaged the landscape in prehistoric times. New Zealand has not been immune. We will discuss how pyroclastic flows form, move and devastate the landscape, with insights from expeditions to the Canary Islands, Italy and in our own backyard, the central North Island. Come and join us at “The Bank” for our first Café Scientifique of 2010. |
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Hot, dense and dusty – powerful pyroclastic flows from violent volcanoes |
Venue: |
Chapel Cafe, Chapel St, Tauranga |
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Monday 22 February, 7.30pm |
Speaker: |
Dr Adrian Pittari from Waikato University |
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| Hot, dense ash clouds, or pyroclastic flows, that sweep across the landscape are some of the most destructive volcanic phenomena. Most that have been witnessed by humans have been small or moderate in size, but we know that catastrophic pyroclastic flows have ravaged the landscape in prehistoric times. New Zealand has not been immune. We will discuss how pyroclastic flows form, move and devastate the landscape, with insights from expeditions to the Canary Islands, Italy and in our own backyard, the central North Island. Come and join us at “The Bank” for our first Café Scientifique of 2010. |
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