Monday September 6th, 2010.
7pm
Science on Screen Presents “The Man in the White Suit”
With Marc Abraham, Annals of Improbable Research, and Daniel Rosenberg, chemist at Harvard
Cost $9.75 general admission
Location: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline MA
http://www.coolidge.org/showtimes
Tuesday September 7th, 2010.
4pm
“Scandal in Physics: The Affair of Jan Hendrik Schon at Bell Labs”
Eugenie Samuel Reich, science reporter
Location: Brandeis University Abelson 131
http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mhonarc/bapc/msg01412.html
Tuesday September 7th, 2010.
7pm
Science and Cooking: A Dialogue
Harold McGee, Ferran Adria (elBulli), José Andrés (minibar by josé andrés, Jaleo, The Bazaar) with commentary/moderation from Professors David Weitz and Michael Brenner (Harvard)
Location: Loeb Drama Center, corner of Hilliard and Brattle St, Cambridge MA
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Tuesday September 7th, 2010.
2.30pm
“Universal Inequalities for CFT and Quantum Gravity.”
Simeon Hellerman ( IPMU-U Tokyo)
Location: Brown University Barus & Holley Building: Room 555
http://www.physics.brown.edu/EventCalendar.html
Thursday September 9th, 2010.
4pm
“The New Worlds Observer Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Earth-like Planets”
Webster Cash, University of Colorado
Location: Room 502 (5th floor) 725 Commonwealth Avenue
http://www.bu.edu/dbin/csp/?q=CSP_sked
Thursday September 9th, 2010.
4pm
“The neural mechanisms of speech: From computational modeling to neural prosthesis”
Frank Guenther, Boston University
Location: MIT Building 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/colloquia.html
Thursday September 9th, 2010.
4pm
“Minds for Sale”
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Computer Science
Location: Harvard, Mawell Dworkin G-126
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/computer_science/jonathan-zittrain-harvard-law-school-seas/view
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
4.15pm
“Universal Inequalities for CFT and Quantum Gravity”
Simeon Hellerman of IAS
Location: Jefferson 453, Harvard University
http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mhonarc/bapc/msg01414.html
Thursday September 9th, 2010.
4.15pm
“Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks”
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
Location: MIT Building 10-250
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
Thursday September 9th, 2010.
8pm
“Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars”
Anna Frebel
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge MA.
http://www.atmob.org/events/clubmeetings.php?id=405