Events: Mar. 1 - Mar. 8

(12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.) Welcome MIT’s new chancellor, W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 — Lobby 7

(4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) “Integration of mechanical and chemical signals in cell motility” talk given by Dr. Gaudenz Danuser of Harvard Medical School — 32-123

(8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) Latke-Hamantashen Debate — 26-100

(5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) Legatum Lecture: The Long Tail of Expertise presented by Dr. Alpheus Bingham of InnoCentive, Inc. — 32-155 (Stata lecture hall)

(4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.) Dr. Azad Bonni of Harvard Medical School speaks at the MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition — 47-3002

(7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) An Evening with Jennine Capó Crucet, author of How to Leave Hialeah — E51-115 (Wong Auditorium)

(4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Dedication of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research — Koch Institute, Bldg. 76.

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00p.m.) Festival Jazz Ensemble concert — Kresge Auditorium

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) Radius Ensemble: MIT Alumni Ensemble in Residence performs — Killian Hall

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) Lontano Ensemble from the U.K. performs a concert of music by MIT composers — Kresge Auditorium

(3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Dr. Robert Jaffe presents “More Precious than Gold: Critical Elements for New Energy Technologies” — 26-414

(4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) Dr. Hans Joachim Freund (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) presents “Models for catalysts: Is there anything new?” — 6-120