SEMINARS

Pediatric Lecture
The 2003 Shokeir Lecture to be held May 8 at 10 am in the East Lecture Theatre, Royal University Hospital features Dr. Hugh O'Brodovich from the University of Toronto. A pediatrician and accomplished researching in pediatric pulmonology, his topic will be "Fluid Clearance from the Lungs' Airspaces".

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
The Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Assn. presents a lecture by Dr. Lawrence Mysak, McGill Univ. Prof. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, May 3 at the Faculty Club following a dinner. For advance tickets, call Evelyn at 966-7015 or 374-7976.

Public Lecture
The U of S Process Philosophy Research Unit presents a public lecture by Prof. John Cobb, founding director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont College, California May 29 at 8 p.m. in the Terrace Room, Delta Bessborough Hotel. His address is entitled "Whitehead's Theory of Knowledge as a Critique of the Modern University".

Foreign Policy Dialogue
Bill Graham, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, will be on campus April 24 in a dialogue moderated by Janice MacKinnon, former Saskatchewan Finance Minister. The event begins at 2:30 pm in the Georgia Goodspeed Theatre, College of Commerce. For more information, contact Rob Norris at 966-2428.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

• April 22 - Placebo Effects: Implications for Natural Healing
  Dr. Carl von Baeyer (Psychology) and Dr. Carroll Chubb (Physiology) will review current and emerging research on the placebo response and its significance for natural healing.
• May 6 - Ayurvedic Medicine

English - HRU
Author Myrna Kostash presents "Canada: Notes about a Country Not a War" April 24 at 2 pm in Rm. 100 Arts. The public talk is sponsored by the Humanities Research Unit.

Veterinary Microbiology Seminar Series
Dr. Manuel Chirino of the Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology will speak on 'Necrobacillosis in Deer on the Prairies: What we know and what we are doing to solve the problem', April 25 at 12:30 pm in Rm. 2105 WCVM.

Applied Microbiology & Food Science
Dr. Floyd McKeith of the University of Illinois will present "Meat Quality Issues and Advances" at 7 pm May 1 in the Agriculture Building Atrium.

Mathematical Sciences

• May 2, 3:30 pm, Room 208 Arts, Prof. Renate Scheidler from the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary will present "How to exchange secrets - communication of secret cryptographic keys".
• May 2, 4:30 pm, Room 208 Arts, Dr. Nicolas Galatos from Vanderbilt University in Nashville will give a presentation entitled "Decision problems on communtative distributive residuated lattices".
• May 16, 3:30 pm, Room 208 Arts, Prof. Melvin Henriksen of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, presentes "What we know and do not know about the space of minimal prime ideals of a ring of continuous functions".