(You normally shouldn't see this. Dang.) Cafe Scientifique Orlando is a gathering of scientifically-inclined people in Central Florida, who meet at a cafe, coffee house, pub, or nonacademic location to discuss events and ideas in the world of science. We enjoy beer and wine, and we use plain language to talk about extraordinary ideas.

Café Scientifique, or just Science Cafe, is a monthly gathering of scientific experts and interested lay community in a pub or other nonacademic setting. We explore the latest ideas in science and technology, using plain language. Admission is free, and you need no reservation—just come ready to listen and contribute. Please join us!

Let us keep you informed

The best way to keep track of us is to subscribe to our low-traffic announcements-only mailing list. We’ll send out a message about once per month with info about what’s coming up. Subscribe now! (Addresses are private. We will never spam you.)

Or, if you’re one of those crazy kids, follow “cafesciorl” on Twitter or point your calendaring program to our webcal feed.

General Schedule

2 April, 2008 - 11:45 — chadmiller

Every month in the same location, we meet to hear and talk about a specific topic in science or technology.

We meet at Taste, in the College Park part of Orlando at 7PM on the first Wednesday of each month. (This cafe previously met at Stardust Video and Coffee.)

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Future Café Scientifique Events

Our next scheduled topic is…

Computer Mediated Dialogues

Full Title: 
Computer Mediated Dialogues: Puppets, People and Props
Presenter: 
Hughes, Charles
When: 
Wednesday, 1 February 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where: 
Taste
Street:
717 W. Smith Street
City:
Orlando
,
Province:
Florida
Postal Code:
32804
Country:
United States

Charles E. Hughes, Ph.D. is a Pegasus Professor (the highest honor that UCF can bestow on a professor) and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, of Digital Media in the School of Visual Arts and Design, and Director of the Synthetic Reality Laboratory. He received his graduate degrees from Penn State University. He currently has 14 active grants totally more than $5.4 million that involve mixed and virtual reality, human-computer interaction and computer graphics. These include: the Gates-Foundation-funded student-teacher education project with reactive avatars, an NSF project on whole body engagement to learn physics concepts, an NSF-sponsored grant using digital puppetry to reduce alcohol use among students, and a National Institutes of Health grant using mixed reality to help Latina middle schoolers develop skills to resist peer influences. He is a prolific writer with 44 journal articles, 112 proceedings, 6 books, and 16 chapters authored or co-authored from 2005 to mid-2011. He has received many honors from professional organizations and recognition in public media.

Past Café Scientifique Events
Bioarcheology 4 January, 2012 - 19:00
Practical Starship Engineering 7 December, 2011 - 19:00
The Periodic Table of the Elements 2 November, 2011 - 19:00
Cryptography 5 October, 2011 - 19:00
Therapeutic Hypothermia 7 September, 2011 - 19:00
The Cambrian Explosion 3 August, 2011 - 19:00
Meteorite Stories 6 July, 2011 - 19:00
Common Misconceptions of Evolution 1 June, 2011 - 19:00
Islam and the Rise of Modern Science 4 May, 2011 - 19:00
synthesis talk: Physics, Climate and You 6 April, 2011 - 19:00
Cleaning Up the Mess 2 March, 2011 - 19:00
Deep Time and Shallow Thermodynamics 2 February, 2011 - 19:00

…and older topics all the way back to summer of 2008!

Topics We'd Love to See

What are some topics you’d like to have? Tell us in your comments below. See our full schedule to know what we’ve had and plan to have, before adding something new.

Additionally, if you are a scientific expert interested in presenting a topic, please email us.

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