Cafe Inquiry

Starts
Thursday, October 9th at 6:30 pm

Café Inquiry--Thursday, October 9 at 6:30 p.m.at Center for Inquiry Indiana, 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, Indianapolis.  Prof. Brian Murphy,Departmentof Physics and Astronomy at Butler University and Director of the Holcomb Observatory. Topic: Astronomical Phenomena.  For more information go to: www.centerforinquiry.net/indy email: or call 317-797-5892. 

You may bring your own food, and there will be some refreshments and snacks for a small donation to cover their costs.  Parking is free on New York, Senate and Indiana Ave. after 6:00 pm.

Come participate in Café Inquiry for the fifth in a series of convivial and stimulating evenings discussing leading edge, and sometimes controversial, ideas and methods in science and their implications for society.  Dr. Mihran Tuceryan will be leading the discussion on Monday, August 11 at 6:30 p.m.  His topic is “The Virtuality-reality Continuum: State of the Art.”

This will cover basic information on what Virtual Reality and Artificial Reality consists of, how they are created, how they are applied and their implications for science and society.  Prof. Tuceryan is a faculty member in the Department of Computer & Information Science at IUPUI.  Café Inquiry meets in the Center for Inquiry Indianapolis, located in Suite A, 350 Canal Walk.  This is between the Canal and West Street and between the Law and Informatics Schools’ buildings on the IUPUI campus just north of New York Street.  You may bring your own food, and there will be some refreshments and snacks for a small donation to cover their costs.  Parking is free on New York, Senate and Indiana Ave. after 6:00 pm.CFI Indiana’s Café Inquiry is a Café Scientifique.  Cafe 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 take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.

Cafe 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 accountable. http://www.cafescientifique.org/