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Speakers: Harold McGee, Ferran Adria (elBulli), José Andrés (minibar by josé andrés, Jaleo, The Bazaar) with commentary/moderation from Professors David Weitz and Michael Brenner (Harvard)

With his "Hack the Casebook" project, Jonathan Zittrain is working to revolutionize the way law students relate to the cases they analyze. By putting cases online, Professor Zittrain not only reduces the cost of law school casebooks, he opens up new possibilities for teaching and learning, both inside the classroom and beyond. Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, and a professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He co-founded the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Zittrain's research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the roles played by private intermediaries in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom. He serves on the boards of directors of the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Interviews with Thomas Kelly, composer Matt Aucoin, and violinist Hillary Ditmars frame the first performance of "Music for Mike," the piece which marked the end of the semester, and offered students an opportunity to experience the sort of "real time, immediate experience" similar to those they had studied all term. Thomas Kelly has been a Professor of Music at Harvard University since 1994 and served as the chair of the Department of Music from 1999 to 2005. Professor Kelly teaches the popular undergraduate course First Nights: Five Performance Premiers, which examines five musical premieres as significant moments of cultural history. His main research interest is in medieval chant, where he has identified and published an important repertory of early chant from southern Italy.

In late 2011, Lisa Randall curated "Measure for Measure," an exhibition at Harvard's Carpenter Center containing a number of artistic explorations of scale that echo and harmonize with Professor Randall's own reflections on the role scale plays in physics and in our understandings of the world around us. Lisa Randall is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Physics. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of fundamental particles as well as cosmology. She has developed new conceptual frameworks and models that explore extra dimensions of space, supersymmetry, dark matter, baryogenesis, and the Standard Model of particle physics. Randall's research also involves finding new ways to experimentally test and verify ideas, with a current focus on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

To register for the 2015 course, visit PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white. PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a fa

Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)