Monday August 2^nd, 2010.
10.30am
PHD Thesis Defense “Exploration of Nucleon structure in Lattice QCD with Chiral Quarks”
Sergey Syritsin
Location: MIT Building 26-414, Kolker Room
http://web.mit.edu/physics/current/graduate/thesis_defense.html

Monday August 2^nd, 2010
1pm
PHD Thesis Defense “Open Issues in the Search for Gravitational Wave Transients”
Lindy Blackburn
Location: MIT Building NW22-268
http://web.mit.edu/physics/current/graduate/thesis_defense.html

Tuesday August 3^rd, 2010.
12.30pm
“Art of noise: Mobile social media and attention”
Katie Crawford, University of New South Wales
Location: Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor, Cambridge MA.
RSVP at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/08/crawford

Tuesday August 3^rd, 2010.
3pm
“Three Dimensional Architecture of Genomes.”
Job Dekker, University of Massachusetts  Medical School
Location: Harvard Medical School, Immune Disease Institute, Fred S. Rosen Conference Room, Center for Life Sciences – 3rd Floor, Room 3069, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston MA
http://www.hsci.harvard.edu/node/3424

Tuesday August 3^rd, 2010.
7pm
“Empires of Food”
Andrew Rimas
Location: Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge MA.
http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/andrew-rimas-empires-food-feast-famine-and-rise-and-fall-civilization

Wednesday August 4^th, 2010.
6pm
“Midsummer Nights’ Science: Keeping Your Brain Plastic”
Steve Haggerty, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Location: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA
http://www.broadinstitute.org/outreach/midsummer/schedule.html

Thursday August 5^th, 2010.
7pm
“Hamlet’s Blackberry”
William Powers
Location: Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge MA.
http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/william-powers-hamlet%E2%80%99s-blackberry

Friday August 6^th, 2010
7pm
“Packing for Mars”
Mary Roach
Location: Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge MA.
http://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/mary-roach-packing-mars