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 Michael Birenbaum Quintero: Music, Loudness, Excess, and the Experience of Trauma
•   Evolution, Personalism, and Art: A.F. Losev's Aesthetics
• 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
• 4:00 PM Pricing Regulation and Imperfect Competition on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange
• 5:00 PM Lectures in Criticism: David Harvey
• 6:00 PM Debate: Obama vs. Romney
•   Covert Ops & Spies
• 6:30 PM Contemporary Perspectives Lecture: Dona Nelson
• 7:00 PM The War on Drugs is a War on Everyone
•   Your Major in the Real World: Computer Science
•   Your Major in the Real World: Psychology
•   The War on Drugs is a War on Everyone

Friday, October 19

• 11:00 AM An Engineer's Journey to the Red Planet: Entry Descent and Landing the Mars Science Laboratory
• 12:00 PM NATO’s European Allies and the Burden Sharing within the Alliance – A luncheon discussion with Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson
•   Center for Church and Prison 2012 Strategic National Conference on Mass Incarceration
• 12:15 PM East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture