Word: symposia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposia are held at five time periods over three days, approximately 20 at a time. Alumni and students can receive one free ticket for each time period...
...Harvard's 10 faculties have helped organize the symposia over the past two or three years, said Assistant Dean Marlyn M. Lewis, but at least half of them involve the Faculty ofArts and Sciences...
...faculty committee consisting of Dean of theFaculty A. Michael Spence and professors from avariety of departments met last summer to chooseco-ordinators for the symposia in various areas,said Lewis. The co-ordinators discussed thepossibilities for symposia with their colleaguesand decided who would monitor or participate ineach of the panels...
...purpose of the symposia is to givevisitors a sense of the range of things that arelive issues in this faculty, and give people aliving sense of state of the art thinking," saidLewis...
...symposia are aimed at informed laypeoplewho are aware of developments in a certain area,organizers said. "They're for the proverbialScientific American reader," said Paul C. Martin'52, Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics,who co-ordinated the science section of thesymposia. "We have tried to choose topics ofcurrent or future general interest to give a tasteof the type of science done at Harvard," he said...