This week, MIT women are holding a leadership conference, Nancy Hopkins will speak at BU and physicist Lisa Randall discusses her new book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World.

Also, a USDA rep will be in town to defend the food plate/nutrition recommendations, which have been roundly dissed by Walter Willett at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Find all these events and more on on our calendar: