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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Day

Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Council warmly invites you and your guests to return to campus for Alumni Day 2012! We hope you'll join us in Cambridge for a festive and stimulating gathering with some of Harvard's most intriguing faculty.

Registration

Online registration is closed. On-site registration with payment via cash or check only will be available.

Registration deadline: April 10, 2012.

Please note that space is limited and reservations are made on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please contact 617‐495‐5591 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with questions.

Locations

Emerson Hall
Harvard Yard, 25 Quincy Street

and

Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street

Featuring a keynote address by climate change expert Daniel P. Schrag

Schedule

9:15-10 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast Emerson Hall Lobby
10 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address Emerson Hall 105   Richard Tarrant Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature and Margot N. Gill Administrative Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Question of Nature: A Geological Perspective on Human-Induced Climate Change Daniel P. Schrag Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment
noon to 1:15 p.m.	Luncheon Harvard Faculty Club Main Dining Room, first floor
1:15-2:45 p.m.	Symposia I Who Gets What: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design Alvin Roth George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emerson 205 From the Fireside to Nooks and Kindles: Fairy Tales in an Age of Electronic Entertainments Maria Tatar John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Emerson 105 Ultraconservation: Mystery and Politics in the Genome Ting Wu, AB ’76, PhD ’85 Professor of Genetics Emerson 101
3:15-4:45 p.m.	Symposia II Unfair: The Growth of Social Inequality in America Robert Putnam Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Emerson 105 The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth David Malan, AB ’99, PhD ’07 Senior Lecturer on Computer Science Emerson 205 Comparing Notes with Thoreau: Climate Change at Walden Pond Charles Davis, PhD '02, organismic and evolutionary biology Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Emerson 101
4:45-5:30 p.m.	Reception Harvard Faculty Club Reading Room

A block of rooms for Alumni Weekend has been reserved at the Sheraton Commander Hotel. For more information, please call 888-627-7121. Parking is available on Alumni Day at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.

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