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Thursday, April 20

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

The Public Service Center
The PSC will host Involve 2006, an event which showcases graduate student public service projects from universities throughout the greater Boston area. For more information about this conference, visit the Web site.

Friday, April 21

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Graduate Student Career Symposium at the Sidney & Pacific Residence Hall (sponsored by the MIT Careers Office)
11:30 - 5:00 p.m.	Registration Lobby 10
12:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Departmental Activities (lectures, events, open labs, tours, etc.)
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Student poster session highlighting the ways MIT impacts the world. Presented in partnership with the MIT Leadership Center.
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.	Student/Alumni Reception the featuring current graduate students presenting the diverse student-driven projects being funded by Graduate Student Life Grants. (Ray and Maria Stata Center -- R&D Common, Building 32)

Saturday, April 22

8:00 - noon	Registration in the Ray and Maria Stata Center, Student Street, Building 32
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Remarks by President Susan Hockfield and Dean Ike Colbert (32-123)
10:00 a.m. - Noon	Interdisciplinary Research Panel - MIT Center for Cancer Research and MIT Age Lab (32-123)
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.	Keynote Lunch featuring Pawan Sinha EE '92 (Walker Hall, Building 50)
2:15 - 3:45 p.m.	Breakout sessions • Academia (4-257) • Biotech I (4-261) • Corporate Leadership (4-231) • Entrepreneurship/Venture Capital (4-237) • Nonprofit (4-265)
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Breakout sessions • Biotech II (4-257) • City Planning (4-261) • Finance (4-231) • Medicine (4-237) • Philanthropy (4-265) • Technology (4-270)
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.	Closing Reception hosted by Chancellor Philip Clay CP '75 (generously sponsored by Spencer Stuart Walker Hall, Building 50)
6:30 - 10:00 p.m.	Dinner at Ashdown House (separately ticketed on registration form)
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.	ASO Arab-American Science and Technology Awards Banquet Join keynote speaker Dr. Charles Elachi, Director of the Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA, at the Omni Parker House Hotel.
7:00 p.m.	AMITA Post-Convocation Dinner After the concluding reception, relax with other attendees, AMITA members, and local graduate alums over dinner at Bertucci's Restaurant. Register online.

Please note that events and times are subject to change.

Questions? Email gradalumni@mit.edu