BU change of date

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Change of date for Colloquium below.  Originally scheduled for April 12.



Tuesday, March 29th,  2005, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
590 Commonwealth Ave.
Metcalf Science Building, Rm SCI 107
"Enlightening Larry and other adventures in diversity "
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

Abstract: The issue of women in science has been much in the news 
recently because of the comments of Harvard President Lawrence Summers. 
I have been very involved with these issues for over ten years, but 
never more intensively than since Larry's remarks. I will talk about my 
experiences as an activist for women in physics. I will argue that there 
is much that the physics community can and must do to increase 
participation of women. This will require that more physicists (men and 
women) understand that the dearth of women in physics results from a 
complicated cocktail of discrimination and societal pressures.  But it 
is also a symptom of a deeper problem that we must solve if physics is 
to remain a vital flagship science in a changing world.