Monday, May 10^th, 2010.
8:30 am – 2:30 pm
“Synaptic Failure and the Cognitive Deficits of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Faculty Club, 50 Memorial Drive, Building E52 – 6th Floor Cambridge, MA.
More information or to RSVP: Contact Pat Kearney at 561-213-3700 or Ashley Hart at 540-797-5438.

Monday, May 10^th 2010.
10am
“How Changes in Atmospheric Particles Can Affect Clouds and Climate”
Dr. Daniel J. Cziczo, Pacific Northwest National Labortory
Location: MIT Building 54-915
http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/special.html

Monday, May 10^th 2010.
2pm
“Secluded dark matter and dark forces”
Maxim Pospelov, Perimeter Institute
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
http://ilp-www.mit.edu/display_event.a4dkey=P4&fromKey=P4&eventId=5978

Monday, May 10^th 2010.
3pm
“Looking Ahead to the Future of NASA”
Charles F. Bolden, Jr., NASA Administrator
Location: MIT Building 32-123
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11611732&date=2010/05/10

Monday May 10^th, 2010.
7pm
“Sea Level Rising: The Chatham Story”
William Sargent, Author and consultant for Nova
Location: New England Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston MA
Register at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/854720890?view=Detail&id=102541

Tuesday, May 11^th 2010
3pm
“Dark Matter is from Cygnus: in search of a wind of Dark Matter in the Milky Way”
Gabriella Sciolla of MIT
Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series — Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/events/departmentcolloquia.html
Tuesday, May 11^th, 2010.
4pm
“Why humans cook—the basis of human culture”
Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology at Harvard University
Location: MIT Building E19-623
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html
Tuesday, May 11^th 2010.
4pm
Biology Colloquium: Holt Lecture
Jeffrey Settleman, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine
Location: MIT Building 32-123 (Stata Center Kirsch Auditorium)
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11603785&date=2010/05/10

Tuesday May 11^th, 2010.
6pm
“How can engineers contribute to the fight against malaria?”
Subra Suresh
Location: MIT Museum, MIT Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138
http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html

Tuesday May 11^th, 2010.
7pm
“Life and Colony Size Among the Ants”
Mark Moffett
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php

Wednesday May 12^th, 2010.
4pm
“Three Clues to the Origin of Life: the Genetic Code, Metabolism and Meteorites”
Hyman Hartman, MIT
Location: Room 102, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/calendar/gazette-calendar/#/?i=2

Wednesday May 12^th, 2010.
6.30pm
“Understanding Darwin”
Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, Andrew Berry, lectural on organismic and evolutionary biology and associate of population genetics in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Location: Harvard Allston Education Portal, 175 North Harvard Street, Allston MA (at the corner of North Harvard St and Western Avenue).
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/calendar/gazette-calendar/#/?i=2

Thursday, May 13, 2010.
3pm
“Dark Matter-Motivated Searches for Exotic 4th Generation Mirror Quarks in Tevatron and Early LHC Data”
Shufang Su, University of Arizona
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=11611765&location=http://web.mit.edu/physics/calendar/&groupid=357,1932,1962,2953,2002,1982,4855,235,1503,12044,10633,8696,11824,12564,452
Thursday, May 13, 2010
4:15 pm
“A Theorist’s Perspective on the The Large Hadron Collider”
Matthew Strassler
Rutgers University
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 10, Room 250
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

Thursday May 13^th, 2010.
7pm
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast>
Peter del Tredici
Location: Arnold Arboretum  Hunnewell Bldg, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain MA
http://bostonparks.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=41&Itemid=63&year=2010&month=05&day=13&uid=48e39c0582249005191292d8344fc6e8
Friday, May 14, 2010
12:45 pm
“Gravity as the Square of Gauge Theory”
Michael Kiermaier, Princeton
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics
6-310 Ayasli Conference Room
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars/seminars-special.html