Monday, October 15

• 10:00 AM Stephanie Coontz "For Better AND Worse: The Historical Transformation of Marriage"
• 12:00 PM Notes From the Field: Haiti in the Aftermath
•   The Least Bad Death: Who Decides? The 9th Annual Pike Lecture on Health Law, Featuring Keynote Speaker Marcia Angell, MD
•   ASC Walter Rodney Seminar: "Ways of Seeing: The Okpella Viewpoint"
• 4:00 PM Notes From The Field: Haiti in the Aftermath
•   Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Ken Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 7:00 PM Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
•   In the Bible: Ezekiel and His Vision of Our Time

Tuesday, October 16

• 11:00 AM Creating the One Essential Asset that Underwrites Long-Term Success
• 12:00 PM External Evaluation of the President’s Malaria Initiative: Challenges Amidst Success
• 3:00 PM Genome Science Institute Seminar
• 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
• 5:00 PM "The Remarkable, Unfinished Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews: Visiting Israel and Ethiopia"

Wednesday, October 17

• 10:00 AM Physics Dissertation Defense of Justin D. Phillips
• 12:00 PM “Spy Dust and Ghost Surveillance: How the KGB Spooked the CIA and Hid Aldrich Ames in Plain Sight”
• 2:00 PM Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
•   Condensed Matter Theory
• 4:00 PM Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Nicolai Lehnert, Univ of Michigan
•   Building Your On-Line Personal Brand
• 5:00 PM Evolution, Personalism, and Art: A.F. Losev's Aesthetics
•   Michael Birenbaum Quintero: Music, Loudness, Excess, and the Experience of Trauma
• 6:00 PM Super PACS & Social Media: A New Era for Presidential Campaigns

Thursday, October 18

• 12:00 PM Center for Church and Prison 2012 Strategic National Conference on Mass Incarceration
• 12:15 PM "What Increases the Probability of Cyber War? Bringing International Relations Theory Back In"
• 12:30 PM BU's Road to Washington: An Election Year Series