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Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below, and the full list is after the jump. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or a correction, please leave them in the comments.

Recommended

• “Argentina: Graduating from Populism after One Too Many Spring Breaks” Monday, 10:00-11:00 AM, 1501 IAB. Minister (of Finance) Alfonso Prat Gay, Guillermo Calvo, David Marsh (RSVP).
• “Brian Deese, Senior Advisor to President Obama, White House” Tuesday, 9:45-11:00 AM, Faculty House. Brian Deese (RSVP).
• “The Long Poem Conference” Thursday, 4:00-6:30 PM, Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center. Michael Golston, Craig Dworkin, Uri Cohen, Serge Gavronsky.
• “United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz” Thursday, 6:45-8:00 PM, Earl Hall Auditorium. Dr. Ernest J. Moniz (RSVP).

Monday, October 10th

• “Argentina: Graduating from Populism after One Too Many Spring Breaks” 10:00-11:00 AM, 1501 IAB. Minister (of Finance) Alfonso Prat Gay, Guillermo Calvo, David Marsh (RSVP).
• “New Challenges for Central Banking: A European Perspective” 1:00-2:00 PM, 1501 IAB. Ignazio Visco (Governor, Bank of Italy), Patrick Bolton, David Marsh (RSVP).
• “A Land Beyond the Stars: Waldseemuller’s 1507 ‘Cosmographia'” 5:30-7:00 PM, Library, Italian Academy. Paolo Galluzzi (Director, Museo Galileo) (RSVP).

Tuesday, October 11th

• “Brian Deese, Senior Advisor to President Obama, White House” 9:45-11:00 AM, Faculty House. Brian Deese (RSVP).
• “Confrontation in Kashmir: India and Pakistan After the Line of Control Clashes” 12:15-2:00 PM, 1302 IAB. Christopher Clary, Vipin Narang, Rajan Menon (RSVP).
• “Pulitzer Winners: Exposing injustices around the world” 6:00-7:00 PM, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall. Alissa Rubin, Yannis Behrakis.

Wednesday, October 12th

• “Explorations of time and space in the human microbiome” 12:00-1:00 PM, Hammer Health Sciences Center (701 W. 168th St.). Dr. David A. Relman.

Thursday, October 13th

• “The Long Poem Conference” Thursday, 4:00-6:30 PM, Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center. Michael Golston, Craig Dworkin, Uri Cohen, Serge Gavronsky.
• “United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz” 6:45-8:00 PM, Earl Hall Auditorium. Dr. Ernest J. Moniz (RSVP).
• “Queer Disruptions: A Conference on Gender and Sexuality” Thursday, 4:30-6:00 PM, Friday, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM, Low Library. Rachel Adams, Christopher Baswell, Walter Bockting, Suzanne Bost, Wendy Bostwick, Aaron Breslow (RSVP).

Friday, October 14th

• “The Future of the Energy Grid” 9:30-11:00 AM, Faculty House. Nick Akins, Jason Bordoff (RSVP).
• “Design and Testing of a New Low-Resource, Multi-Point Diagnostic for In-Situ Measurement of Thermal Ionospheric Plasma” 2:00-3:00 PM, 214 Mudd. Max Roberts.

Thanking Obama via Pete Souza / Public Domaina