Earlier this week Harvard University announced which chefs and food science types will be heading to Cambridge, MA to participate in the annual Science & Cooking public lecture series. Like last year, food geeks Dave Arnold and Harold McGee will kick off the series with a presentation together on September 9. The public lectures will be every Monday night at 7 p.m. ET through December 9th (except September 23). The notable list of speakers this year includes chefs Jordi Roca (whose restaurant El Celler de Can Roca is currently ranked #1 in the world), José Andrés, Joanne Chang, Wylie Dufresne, Ferran Adrià, and David Chang. As in years past, the lectures will be posted to iTunes and YouTube and, for the first time ever, Harvard will be offering a modified version of its Science & Cooking course as a massively open online course (MOOC) through HarvardX. Below, the schedule of speakers:

Harvard's 2013 Cooking & Science Lecture Series Schedule

· Monday, September 9, 2013 — Dave Arnold (Cooking Issues), Harold McGee (Curious Cook)

· Monday, September 16, 2013 — Jordi Roca (El Celler de Can Roca)

· Tuesday, September 24, 2013 — Bill Yosses (White House Pastry Chef)

· Monday, September 30, 2013 — José Andrés (ThinkFood Group, minibar, Jaleo)

· Monday, October 7, 2013 — Carme Ruscadella (Sant Pau, Sant Pau de Tòquio)

· Monday, October 14, 2013 — Carles Tejedor (Via Veneto)

· Monday, October 21, 2013 — Enric Rovira (Master Chocolatier), Ruben Alvarez (Master Chocolatier)

· Monday, October 28, 2013 — Nandu Jubany (Can Jubany)

· Monday, November 4, 2013 — Joanne Chang (Flour)

· Monday, November 11, 2013 — Wylie Dufresne (wd~50), Ted Russin (The Culinary Institute of America)

· Monday, November 18, 2013 — David Chang (Momofuku)

· Monday, November 25, 2013 — Nathan Myhrvold (former Microsoft CTO; co-founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures; and author of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking)

· Monday, December 2, 2013 — Ferran Adrià (elBulli Foundation)

· Monday, December 9, 2013 — Jack Bishop (Editorial Director at Cook's Illustrated and an Editor on The Science of Good Cooking), Dan Souza (Senior Editor of Cook's Illustrated)

· Science and Cooking 2013 Lecture Series [Harvard]

· All Ivy League Chefs Coverage on Eater [-E-]