Free Public Lectures, 2009

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Free Public Lectures Series, 2009–2010

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Forthcoming

Sat. April 10

The Magic of Canadian Medical Radioisotopes — Dr. Doug Boreham

Past

	Sat. March 13	The Rocky Road to Better Health — Dr. Brian Haynes
	Sat. February 6	What Can Now Be Revealed — Trevor Cole
	Sat. January 9	The 11th John Rae Lecture — Tracking the Thule Migration: The Arrival of Inuit in Arctic Canada — Dr. Max Friesen
	Sat. December 12	The Secret World of Bats — Dr. Paul Faure
	Sat. November 14	How 10 Plays Become a Season — Joanna Falck, Shaw Festival Theatre ( cancelled due to illness )
	Sat. October 17	Making a Canadian River [Alberta's Bow River] — Dr. H. V. Nelles
	Sat. September 12	The Art of Landscape Photography — Eleanore and Richard Kosydar

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Brochure

Download a printer-friendly copy of the Association's lecture series brochure — includes an abstract of each lecture and information about the Association and its awards program for young people.

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When and Where

WHEN

Each lecture will be held on a Saturday evening beginning at 8 p.m. and will usually conclude about 9:30 p.m. after a question-and-answer period.

WHERE

Each lecture will be held in room 1A1 of the Ewart Angus Centre (EAC).

The EAC is in the north-west corner (rear) of the huge, multi-storey McMaster University Medical Centre (MUMC), also known more formally as the McMaster Site of the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.

Signs will be posted in both Centres. Please note:

if you enter the Medical Centre via the rear doors on University Crescent, you are in the Ewart Angus Centre, which is part of the purple area of the Medical Centre. Room 1A1 is at the end of the short corridor on your left off the main lobby of the EAC, immediately before the staircase.
if you enter the Medical Centre via the front (main) doors, you are on the Hospital's second floor. Take the red elevators or the adjacent staircase to the first floor and walk to the purple area at the rear (north-west corner) of the building. Walk past the purple elevators into the open area beyond (the lobby of the Ewart Angus Centre). Walk to the left of and under the staircase and you'll see a short corridor. Room 1A1 is on your right at the end of that corridor. You can't miss it!

If approaching the Ewart Angus Centre from the McMaster campus enter via the doors that exit on to University Avenue.

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Buses and Parking

BUSES TO THE CAMPUS

There are on-campus HSR bus stops on University Avenue near the Ewart Angus Centre and off campus on Main Street near/opposite the Medical Centre. As noted above, the EA Centre is in the purple area (north-west corner/rear) of the Medical Centre.

For HSR route information, telephone the HSR at 905-527-4441 or click on this link to the City of Hamilton's website, which has links to the HSR's Bus Schedules page. One of the following routes may be what you need:

Westbound	stops on campus	5C West Hamilton, 51 University
	stops on Main St	5B Main West, 52 Main West
Eastbound	stops on campus	5A Delaware, 51 University
	stops on Main St	5 Delaware, 5E Delaware

For bus stop details see our campus map and associated instructions.

PARKING ON CAMPUS

McMaster University currently provides no free campus parking, even on Saturday evenings.

However, the McMaster Divinity College has kindly agreed to permit anyone attending a HAALSA lecture this season to park in their lot, at least until such time as access gates have been installed. The Association very much appreciates the College's generosity in this regard. We strongly suggest that you display this season's annual brochure or our pre-lecture email reminder face-up in the front window of your vehicle, just in case a Security Officer should decide to inspect the Divinity College lot.

All other parking lots are gated. Visitors without a parking permit are required to pay a $5.00 entry fee to access these lots at all times, including Saturdays, Sundays and evenings. Note also that all parking lots are located farther from the Ewart Angus Centre than the two on-campus bus stops nearest the EAC. The latter are within comfortable walking distance of the main entrance to the EAC.

Ungated parking spots may be an option. Our understanding is that enforcement of the parking rules can be somewhat lax on Saturday evenings. That said, however, please understand that if you park in an ungated area you do so at your own risk. The Association can not be held responsible for any parking ticket issued by McMaster University Security.

There are additional ungated parking spots relatively near the EAC:

Parking behind the Phoenix Building, opposite the Divinity College, is by permit only, so you may be ticketed in this location.
Apart from the Divinity College lot, your best ungated, on-campus option is perhaps the on-street parking spots on, chiefly, the east side of College Crescent, next to the A. N. Bourns Science Building and the John Hodgins Engineering Annex. Note the permit dispensers at regular intervals along the sidewalk. You may be ticketed in these locations if you do not display a valid parking permit for the evening.

For vehicle access details see our campus map and associated instructions.

Off-Campus Parking

There are many off-campus parking spots on Stirling Street and on some adjacent streets, including streets south of Stirling to, but excluding, Main Street West.

Spots are usually unrestricted on Saturday evenings along most streets in the area near McMaster campus. Nonetheless, you should check carefully the city's signs regarding weekend on-street parking before leaving your vehicle. You wouldn't want to find a nasty surprise on your windshield upon your return.

Finally, we do not suggest parking in the Hospital's/MUMC's underground lot or any above-ground Hospital lot. Hospital parking rates are not reduced for Saturday evenings. You can expect to pay at least $15.00 for the period during which you would be attending our evening's lecture.

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