http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag-inv.gif http://tech.mit.edu/ Recent photos and graphics from The Tech /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-4.html Eric D. Schmiedl—The Tech Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-6.html Eric D. Schmiedl­­—The Tech Hackers put a Dark Mark on top of the Student Center on the morning of the July 21, the release date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. /V127/N30/graphics/eppinger.html Eric D. Schmiedl­—The Tech Steven D. Eppinger ’83 has been appointed as the interim dean for MIT’s Sloan School of Management. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-3.html Eric D. Schmiedl—The Tech Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. /V127/N30/graphics/lobby7doors.html Omari Stephens—The Tech The main doors to Lobby 7 are covered while Facilities installs a new automatic opening mechanism. Once complete, the doors will appear unchanged, but should operate faster. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-2.html Eric D. Schmiedl­—The Tech Hackers installed a broomstick parking spot, complete with brooms, in the Stata Center’s Student Street July 20, the day before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-1.html Ricardo Ramirez—The Tech Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment in the epic Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, was finally released to eager fans at 12:01 a.m. on July 21. Deathly Hallows has broken several records including a 12 million copy first printing with 8.3 million sold in the first 24 hours in the United States, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic Inc. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter5.html Warner Brothers Pictures Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, and friends gather to take on Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” opened in theatres on July 11, 2007. /V127/N30/graphics/harrypotter7-5.html Eric D. Schmiedl—The Tech Fans dressed as characters from Harry Potter swarm Harvard Square the night of the release of the seventh and final book of the series. The woman on the left is dressed as the Fat Lady, a talking painting that guards the entrance to Gryffindor Tower, complete with a frame to reside in. /V127/N30/graphics/chemfire.html Eric D. Schmiedl­—The Tech An explosion in a Building 18 chemistry lab on the evening of July 23 drew a large response from the Cambridge Fire Department. According to bystanders, the explosion was caused by acids improperly stored behind a fume hood and no personal injury resulted from the accident. /V127/N30/graphics/mitfcu.html Mindy Eng—The Tech Final touch-ups are made to the new MIT Federal Credit Union branch on the first floor of the Student Center. For more information, see the news brief on page 8. /V127/N30/graphics/gjs.html Omari Stephens—The Tech Gerald J. Sussman ’68, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, gives the closing keynote presentation on July 11 for the first Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference, held in the Stata Center. /V127/N30/graphics/rodbrooks.html Omari Stephens—The Tech Rodney A. Brooks gets dessert at an ice cream social held in his honor on Friday, June 29. Brooks stepped down as the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, after serving as director for CSAIL and one of its predecessors for a total of 10 years. In a short speech during the event, Brooks urged the CSAIL community to “go for the big problems … we should be leading.” /V127/N30/graphics/proofoffalse.html