Calendar
Lectures (April 5 through April 8)
Friday, April 5
- 11:00 AM Genome Science Institute Seminar
- 12:00 PM “Enlightenment”: Patents and Embedded Knowledge in a Taiwanese LED Company
- 1:00 PM ECE Seminar with Jakub Szefer
- Literary Translation Lecture Series
- Thesis Defense John Brothers
- 2:00 PM Chemistry Dissertation Defense of Liang Han
- Particle and Fields Seminar
- 3:00 PM Anthropology Dissertation Defense of Lara Durgavich
- Joint CCS/MSE Seminar - Towards computational design of correlated functional materials from first-principles
- CISE Seminar: Yue Lu, Harvard University
- 4:00 PM American & New England Studies Dissertation Defense of Eric Jarvis
- 5:00 PM Classical Studies Dissertation Defense of Viviane Sophie Klein
- 5:30 PM Money and Medicine screening and panel discussion with Shannon Brownlee
Saturday, April 6
- All Day YogaCHA Day of Wellness Event
- 10:30 AM Be the Hero!
- 2:00 PM Local Grassroots Organizing Workshop
Monday, April 8
- 10:00 AM Mathematics & Statistics Dissertation Defense of Ross Sweet
- 10:30 AM Roundtable Series
- 12:00 PM FDD Seminar: Identifying the Struggling Resident and Remediating Successfully
- The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- 1:00 PM Economics Dissertaion Defense of Jiawen Xu
- Bioinformatics Dissertation Defense of Lisa Pham
- PhD Final Defense of Nenad Bozinovic
- Leveraging the Computational Perspective: Interactive Text Visualization for Humanists
- 1:30 PM Mathematics & Statistics Dissertation Defense of Ikemefuna Agbanusi
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