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Events
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4:00 PM
Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Internationally acclaimed juggler Jacob D’Eustacio and Harvard theoretical chemist Dr. Paul J. Robinson will teach advanced concepts in quantum mechanics through a show blending juggling performance and scientific lecture. They use juggling to build intuition about important chemical physics phenomena like electronic excited states and electron-phonon coupling: concepts that are key to understanding everything from microchips to solar panels and are essential to efforts in designing new more efficient materials.
6:00 PM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Nature’s rock cycle captures carbon from the atmosphere and stores it permanently in the ocean over thousands of years. New research shows that bioengineered bacteria can help speed up this process. Could this approach contribute to addressing climate change?
6:00 PM
Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Clara Bingham—award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill—for a discussion of her new book The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973. She will be in conversation with Judy Norsigian, Joan Ditzion, Jane Pincus, and Norma Swenson—co-authors of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Registration is required.