Calendar
Lectures (February 9 through February 13)
Saturday, February 9
Sunday, February 10
- 9:45 AM Bach Cantata 77: Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben
- 6:00 PM Rabbi Shlomo Katz at BU Hillel
Monday, February 11
- 12:00 PM The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
- 4:00 PM Philosophy with Rabbi Beyo
- ECE Seminar with Prateek Mittal
- 5:00 PM SE PhD Final Oral Defense of Yanfeng Geng
- 6:00 PM Nuba Mountain Crisis Symposium
Tuesday, February 12
- 3:00 PM Computational Biomedicine Seminar
- 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
- 4:00 PM Statistics and Probability Seminar Series: Modeling dependence in multivariate time series
- Have More Money $$$ "Financial Rules of Thumb Workshop"
- 6:00 PM Teaching the Body: Seeing the Unseen: An Evening Conversation with Artists, Anatomists, & Instructors, with Douglass Starr, Edward Stitt, Lisa Nilsson, & Ann Zumwalt
- 7:00 PM Four Talks with Christopher Ricks – Bob Dylan: The New Dylan Alongside Some Older/ Younger Ones – Part 3
- Discussion Chinese Medicine and Healing Practices
- 50th Anniversary of the Feminine Mystique - Discoveries Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 13
- 12:00 PM School of Public Health Forum: Screening for HIV Infection: A Tale of Two Realities
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Contact Sports and Its Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- 2:30 PM MSE Seminar: Yanguang Li, Stanford University
- 3:00 PM Hariri Institute for Computing Distinguished Lecture: Ayse Coskun
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Alessandra Babuscia
- Rabbi Eli Deutsch
- 6:00 PM Understanding and Enhancing the Flavor of Food
- The Contemporary History of Africa and the Current Events in Mali.
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