Tuesday, October 30

• 2:00 PM American & New England Studies Dissertation Defense of Michael Civille
• 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
• 5:00 PM "The 'Real People:' Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Politics of Preservation in Gentrifying Neighborhoods"

Wednesday, October 31

• 12:00 PM Advancing the Study of Human Origins: New data from Wonderwerk Cave and Bestwood Farm, South Africa
•   Conversations in History: Bill Keylor
• 1:00 PM Optimal Accumulation of Evidence for Decision-Making in Rats and Humans
•   Relations between Nations: U.S. and Pakistan
• 2:00 PM Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
• 4:00 PM ECE Colloquium with James W. Davis
• 5:00 PM On Some Relations Between Religious Art and the Contemporary Art World

Thursday, November 1

• 12:30 PM Lunch and Discussion with Neil Lazarus
• 5:00 PM Comparative Premodern Studies Workshop: Courts as Contact Zones
• 6:00 PM A Character Compass Book Talk
•   The Power of Philosophy

Friday, November 2

• 11:00 AM ECE Seminar with Vasileios Pavlidis
• 12:00 PM Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
• 12:15 PM East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture
• 1:45 PM "Bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9/GDF2) as a differentiating and trophic factor for cholinergic neurons."
• 2:00 PM Particle and Fields Seminar
• 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University
•   Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
•   MSE Colloquium: Jeff Tsao, Sandia Labs

Saturday, November 3

• 11:00 AM Meeting of the Minds

Monday, November 5

• 12:00 PM ASC Walter Rodney Seminar:"The Peasant Movement's Struggle to Influence Land Tenure Policy in Senegal"
• 4:00 PM Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Richard Armstrong, Vanderbilt University