The Penn Science Café
The Penn Science Café lecture series hauls science out of the lab and treats it to a night on the town. Free and open to the public, it's an opportunity to pitch questions to leading scientific experts.
7 p.m.
MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, 2nd floor of the Marathon Grill
Menu items available for purchase
RSVP to Jacquie Posey at jposey@upenn.edu, or 215-898-6460.
RSVP's are required.
The 2010-11 schedule features the following talks by School of Arts and Sciences faculty:
Sept. 22
“Do Genomes Compute?”
Junhyong Kim, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term-Endowed Professor of Biology
Nov. 17
“Gravitational Lensing: Einstein Rings and Dark Matter”
Bhuvnesh Jain, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dec 15
“Mathematics: Created or Discovered?”
Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Math & Electrical Systems and Engineering
March 16
“Stealing the Past: Collectors and Museums of the 21st Century”
Richard Leventhal, Professor of Anthropology and Curator, Penn Museum
May 18
“Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain”
Joe Kable, Associate Professor of Psychology
Click here for a full list of Penn Science Café talks and more information on the lectures.