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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Tuesday, February 18
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Abine, Gradeable, InsideTracker, 1sqbox, HubEngage
10am The temperature dependence of moist convection: changes in updrafts and precipitation statistics in radiative-convective equilibrium
12pm Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University
12pm Democratic Innovation in India — Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander in Dialogue
12pm “The times they are a-changin’: What can we learn about the seasonality of plants functioning using remote sensing”
12:10pm "Community Assembly and Dis-assembly with Global Change"
12:30pm Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media
1pm Crowdfunding for Nonprofits with Razoo
1:15pm "Geology Rules: Unconventional Development of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations"
2:30pm Corruption, Intimidation and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
4pm The Impact of the U.S. Drawdown on India-Pakistan Relations
6pm Boston New Technology February 2014 Product Showcase #BNT38
6:30pm The Speculations of Max Tegmark: Mathematics and Multiverses
6:30pm Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements
6:30pm February Event: Advances in Adaptive Technology
7pm GreenPort Forum: KindThread – Resource Sharing for Cambridgeport
7pm Wildness in Our Midst: The Middlesex Fells -- A talk by Bryan Hamlin
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Wednesday, February 19
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10am Nuclear 101: Technologies and Institutions for Nuclear Security
12pm How Social Movements Succeed: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
12pm Between Hot War and Cold Peace: The Post-CW Order and the Arab Spring in a Comparative Perspective
2:30pm How Natural Disasters Affect Political Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistani Floods
4pm "Science and Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production"
4pm A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation and Altruism in an Age of Strangers
4:10pm "The Economics of Attribute Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel Economy Standards."
5:15pm Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World
6pm Cambridge Briefing on the Affordable Care Act
7pm Jhumpa Lahiri at BU: The 2014 Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer
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Thursday, February 20
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12:30pm Antibiotic Resistance in a Box
1:30pm "Perceiving Action in Space-Time: Computational and Human Perspectives"
2pm Re-thinking the Urban freeway
3pm Women in Energy
3:30pm "Challenges of Balancing the Chinese Power System with Large-Scale Renewable Penetration"
4pm Aerosol Forcing: Last Century's Problem
4pm ‘‘Cruising Through Uncertainty: Cell Phones, Cement and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique’’
4pm The Cyberspace Battle for Information: Combating Internet Censorship
4pm Knowledge Driven Semantic Interactions at Web Scale
4:15pm A Sustainable Qing Periphery
4:30pm "BenMAP-CE: A new open source tool for estimating air quality benefits"
5pm "Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency"
5pm Geoengineering's Brave New World
6pm Beyond Smart Cities: Design of new urban systems
6pm Visual Effects: Looking at Seeing
6pm #LocalFoodBiz Culinary Entrepreneur Happy Hour
6pm The SciEx Meetup
6pm YES Boston 2014: Innovation in Education Technology
6:30pm Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums
6:30pm Shell Energy Forum
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Friday, February 21
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2014 MIT Energy Conference
8:30am New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
11am Science Series, Ruben Juanes
12pm Ozone Depletion: An Enduring Challenge
3pm Digital Technology for Bio-intelligence
6pm "Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey" Performance by Elizabeth Liang
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Saturday, February 22
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
1pm Ideastorm - Free Event for High School Students
2pm "Wild Animal Neighbors" Author Talk and Book Signing
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Sunday, February 23
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2pm The Trans Pacific Partnership Affects You: Find out How Public
4pm Pecha Kucha Mamak @ MIT
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Monday, February 24
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8:30am PACE + Resiliency Forum
9am "Sonar Inside Your Body - Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks"
12pm "Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
2pm “Into the Wild: Exploring host-gut microbe dynamics in wild, nonhuman primates”
4pm The Psychology of Scarcity
5:30pm Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
6pm Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, February 25
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12pm “BuzzFeed: The New Newsroom...Is It the Future?”
12pm Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
2:30pm Mission Coherence and Contestation in Organizations
3pm Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
4pm Race, Politics, and the Constitution of Difference
4:15pm Kosovo and the Politics of Human Rights
4:30pm Anne Gearan, Diplomatic Correspondent at The Washington Post
7pm It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Tuesday, February 18
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Abine, Gradeable, InsideTracker, 1sqbox, HubEngage
10am The temperature dependence of moist convection: changes in updrafts and precipitation statistics in radiative-convective equilibrium
12pm Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University
12pm Democratic Innovation in India — Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander in Dialogue
12pm “The times they are a-changin’: What can we learn about the seasonality of plants functioning using remote sensing”
12:10pm "Community Assembly and Dis-assembly with Global Change"
12:30pm Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media
1pm Crowdfunding for Nonprofits with Razoo
1:15pm "Geology Rules: Unconventional Development of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations"
2:30pm Corruption, Intimidation and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
4pm The Impact of the U.S. Drawdown on India-Pakistan Relations
6pm Boston New Technology February 2014 Product Showcase #BNT38
6:30pm The Speculations of Max Tegmark: Mathematics and Multiverses
6:30pm Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements
6:30pm February Event: Advances in Adaptive Technology
7pm GreenPort Forum: KindThread – Resource Sharing for Cambridgeport
7pm Wildness in Our Midst: The Middlesex Fells -- A talk by Bryan Hamlin
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Wednesday, February 19
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10am Nuclear 101: Technologies and Institutions for Nuclear Security
12pm How Social Movements Succeed: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
12pm Between Hot War and Cold Peace: The Post-CW Order and the Arab Spring in a Comparative Perspective
2:30pm How Natural Disasters Affect Political Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistani Floods
4pm "Science and Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production"
4pm A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation and Altruism in an Age of Strangers
4:10pm "The Economics of Attribute Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel Economy Standards."
5:15pm Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World
6pm Cambridge Briefing on the Affordable Care Act
7pm Jhumpa Lahiri at BU: The 2014 Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer
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Thursday, February 20
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12:30pm Antibiotic Resistance in a Box
1:30pm "Perceiving Action in Space-Time: Computational and Human Perspectives"
2pm Re-thinking the Urban freeway
3pm Women in Energy
3:30pm "Challenges of Balancing the Chinese Power System with Large-Scale Renewable Penetration"
4pm Aerosol Forcing: Last Century's Problem
4pm ‘‘Cruising Through Uncertainty: Cell Phones, Cement and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique’’
4pm The Cyberspace Battle for Information: Combating Internet Censorship
4pm Knowledge Driven Semantic Interactions at Web Scale
4:15pm A Sustainable Qing Periphery
4:30pm "BenMAP-CE: A new open source tool for estimating air quality benefits"
5pm "Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency"
5pm Geoengineering's Brave New World
6pm Beyond Smart Cities: Design of new urban systems
6pm Visual Effects: Looking at Seeing
6pm #LocalFoodBiz Culinary Entrepreneur Happy Hour
6pm The SciEx Meetup
6pm YES Boston 2014: Innovation in Education Technology
6:30pm Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums
6:30pm Shell Energy Forum
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Friday, February 21
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2014 MIT Energy Conference
8:30am New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
11am Science Series, Ruben Juanes
12pm Ozone Depletion: An Enduring Challenge
3pm Digital Technology for Bio-intelligence
6pm "Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey" Performance by Elizabeth Liang
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Saturday, February 22
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
1pm Ideastorm - Free Event for High School Students
2pm "Wild Animal Neighbors" Author Talk and Book Signing
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Sunday, February 23
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2pm The Trans Pacific Partnership Affects You: Find out How Public
4pm Pecha Kucha Mamak @ MIT
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Monday, February 24
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8:30am PACE + Resiliency Forum
9am "Sonar Inside Your Body - Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks"
12pm "Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
2pm “Into the Wild: Exploring host-gut microbe dynamics in wild, nonhuman primates”
4pm The Psychology of Scarcity
5:30pm Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
6pm Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, February 25
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12pm “BuzzFeed: The New Newsroom...Is It the Future?”
12pm Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
2:30pm Mission Coherence and Contestation in Organizations
3pm Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
4pm Race, Politics, and the Constitution of Difference
4:15pm Kosovo and the Politics of Human Rights
4:30pm Anne Gearan, Diplomatic Correspondent at The Washington Post
7pm It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
MA Governor Candidates Forum on Energy
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/governor-candidates-forum-on-energy.html
Cows Save the Planet
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/cows-save-planet.html
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Tuesday, February 18
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Boston TechBreakfast: Abine, Gradeable, InsideTracker, 1sqbox, HubEngage
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD Center, Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155722462/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for February 2014:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Abine - Zach Rachins
Gradeable - Kattie Lam
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": JOBS
InsideTracker - Gil Blander
1sqbox - Alexis Coates
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": EVENTS
HubEngage - Chris Requena
9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Xi Yang
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series
with Lizzie Wolkovich, Assistant Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Arnold Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum Research Talk
Contact Name: Amie Evans
amieevans@fas.harvard.edu
Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
For more info on the Wolkovich Lab: http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~wolkovich/
Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media
February 18, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/wang#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
with Tricia Wang, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
When we read about the Chinese internet in the Western press, we usually hear stories about censorship, political repression, and instability. But there's a lot more to be learned about life on the other side of “The Great Firewall.”
Based on over 10 years of ethnographic research, Tricia Wang's fieldwork reveals that social media is creating spaces in China that are shifting norms and behaviors in unexpected ways. Most surprisingly, Chinese youth are sharing information and socializing with strangers. She argues that they are finding ways to semi-anonymously connect to each other and establish a web of casual trust that extends beyond particularistic guanxi ties and authoritarian institutions.
Chinese youth are discovering their social world and seeking emotional connection—not political change. Tricia argues that this reflects a new form of sociality among Chinese youth: an Elastic Self. Evidence of this new self is unfolding in three ways: from self-restraint to self-expression, from comradeship to friendship, and from a “moral me” to a “moral we.” This new sociality is lying the groundwork for a public sphere to emerge from ties primarily based on friendship and interactions founded on a causal web of public trust. The changes Tricia has documented have potentially transformative power for Chinese society as a whole because they are radically altering the way that people perceive and engage with each other.
About Tricia
Tricia is a global tech ethnographer transforming businesses into people-centered organizations. Utilizing Digital Age design research methods, Tricia specializes in balancing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for institutions to fulfill their strategic goals. She advises organizations (large and small) on how to understand their "users" or "consumers" as people, not just datasets. She’s passionate about her work as a people champion in companies, start-ups, and non-profits. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Nokia and GE and numerous institutions from the UN to NASA.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology and culture—the investigation of how social media and the internet affect identity-making, trust formation, and collective action. Through extensive fieldwork in China and Latin America, she has developed expertise on digital communities in emerging economies, leading to the formulation of an innovative sociological framework for understanding user interactions online.
Tricia relishes on-the-ground, hyper-immersive ethnographic fieldwork, which has provided her with a unique understanding of the experiences of edge communities. During her projects she has pioneered ethnographic techniques such as live fieldnoting, which uses social media tools to share real-time fieldwork data. She is a thought leader on integrative approaches of combining Big Data and what she terms, Thick Data.
A Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow, Tricia has been recognized as a leading authority by journalists, investors, and ethnographic and sociological researchers. Her research has been featured in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Makeshift, and Wired. She has presented at the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, Lift, and South by Southwest. She is also proud to have co-founded the first national hip-hop education initiative, which turned into the Hip Hop Education Center at New York University and to have built after-school technology and arts programs for low-income youth at New York City public schools and the Queens Museum of Arts.
She is a visiting scholar at New York University's Interactive Telecommunication Program and Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet Studies. She received her PhD in Sociology at UC San Diego. She is also an advisory board member of Rev Arts in New York City. She is currently writing a book, tentatively titled, Tales from the Chinese Internet, which is about the Chinese Internet as an expressive space in which people uniquely shape their identities in an otherwise rigid society, a phenomenon she calls "the Elastic Self.” Her research philosophy is that you have to go to the edges to discover what's really happening. She is the proud owner of an internet famous dog who balances stuff on her head, #ellethedog.
Links
@triciawang
Tricia Wang's website
Tricia's blog: Ethnography Matters
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Crowdfunding for Nonprofits with Razoo
HandsOn Tech Boston
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/crowdfunding-for-nonprofits-with-razoo-tickets-10277812213
HandsOn Tech Boston is excited to offer our first training on crowdfunding for nonprofits brought to you by Razoo. If you are unfamiliar with crowdfunding, first know that it will change the way you view fundraising forever. Second, crowdfunding is harnessing the power of the internet and the individual to network and pool money together in support of an organization, project, or cause. This is where Razoo steps in…
Razoo is a crowdfunding website for causes. Through revolutionary products and services that inspire and motivate generosity, they are out to create a new generation of “everyday” philanthropists for whom generosity is part of an ongoing lifestyle. There are 28,000+ active nonprofits using Razoo, with $194 million raised together. Razoo hosts 84,000+ fundraiser pages and 1.4 million donations have been made so far.
This training will consist of two parts to get you acclimated with both crowdfunding and the Razoo platform. The first hour will be a general crowdfunding overview, followed by a second hour on using Razoo as your crowdfunding platform and how to set up your nonprofit’s account. There will be a time for Q&A, so don’t fret if you are new to this concept.
Note: In order for full participation in the second half of the session, please do the following:
1. Claim Access to your NPO HERE to gain access to your page before the event. Razoo is FREE to use so there are no set up fees, monthly or annual charges!
2. Make sure to bring your lab top or tablet to the event so you can follow along once you have admin access to your page on Razoo.
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"Geology Rules: Unconventional Development of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations"
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
1:15pm
Harvard, EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Anthony R. Ingraffea, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Abstract: We will explore some myths and realities concerning large-scale development of the unconventional natural gas/oil resource in shale deposits. On a local scale, these concern geological aspects of the plays, and the resulting development and use of directional drilling, high-volume, slickwater, hydraulic fracturing, multi-well clustered pad arrangements, and the impacts of these technologies on waste production and disposal, and possible contamination of water supplies. On a global scale, we will also explore the cumulative impact of unconventional gas on greenhouse gas loading of the atmosphere.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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Corruption, Intimidation and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sylvain Chassang (Princeton)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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Speaker: Prof. Vipin Narang
After 2014: What Next for Central and South Asia
How will the American drawdown in Afghanistan affect regional powers such as Pakistan and India? Narang argues that the vacuum left by the United States will intensify the security competition between India and Pakistan, with significant consequences for regional security.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Boston New Technology February 2014 Product Showcase #BNT38
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:00 PM
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/162436462/
Show your ID and sign in at the security desk in the lobby, then take an elevator to the first floor. The Horace Mann room is the first room on the left, after the kitchen.
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT38 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Products & Presenters:
1. Evibe.com / @Evibe - Less organized and more spontaneous meetups! (Alexis Lewalle / @Lewalle) Tech: Symfony 2, Ember JS, Redis, Twitter bootstrap, Node.js, Pusher, MongoDb, MySql, Socket.ui. www.Evibe.com
2. YesGraph / @YesGraph - Referrals are the best hires. YesGraph is the best way to find them! (Luke Thomas /@LukeThomas14) Tech: Python, Django. www.YesGraph.com
3. Jisto Inc. / @JistoInc - Transforms idle computation cycles in organizations into a powerful virtual private cloud computing platform! (Aleksandr (Sasha) Biberman & Andrey Turovsky)www.Jisto.com
4. Sourceful / @Sourceful - Sourceful helps journalism and PR pros find, vet, and manage contact with people. (Dan Siegel /@realmandan) Tech: Python, Flask, MongoDB.www.Sourceful.io
5. Priori Legal / @PrioriLegal - Connects businesses with trusted, vetted lawyers at below-market, fixed rates! (Basha Rubin / @BashaRubin) Tech: RoR. www.PrioriLegal.com
6. Sqrrl / @Sqrrl_Inc - Secure, scalable NoSQL database for Hadoop powers real-time web applications. (Ely Kahn /@ElyKahn) Tech: Hadoop, Accumulo, D3, Java,Ruby.www.Sqrrl.com
7. HubEngage / @HubEngage - Grows traffic, engagement & sales for businesses and rewards customers, employees and app/web users for things they do every day! (Tushneem Dharmagadda / @Tushneem & Chris Requena / @CERequena) Tech: Microsoft .NET, Java, iOS, Android, Javascript, SDK's. www.HubEngage.com
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with beverages and pizza outside the Horace Mann room
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 - Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 - More Networking
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The Speculations of Max Tegmark: Mathematics and Multiverses
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Max Tegmark, PhD Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Max Tegmark has a proud reputation as a fearless and unconventional thinker.
In this discussion Dr. Tegmark talks about his new book, which presents fundamental reality as a mathematical entity, his well-known concept of multiple universes, and also how his concepts have developed and what it takes to think outside the box at a time when many scientists are fearful of the risk.
In addition to his own ideas, he describes how many of the conceptual leaps in science --certainly in physics and cosmology-- were initially ignored or rejected.
Dr. Tegmark is making several Boston-area appearances for his book tour. The SftPublic discussion will be a bit broader, covering the book, his work in general, his efforts to break new ground in science.
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Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements
WHEN Tue., Feb. 18, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Manuel Castells
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, will speak on a theme related to his recent book Networks of Outrage and Hope; Social Movements in the Internet Age (Polity Press), with further elaboration in relation to the recent movements in Brazil and Turkey.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/lecture-manuel-castells.html
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Tuesday, February 18
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Boston TechBreakfast: Abine, Gradeable, InsideTracker, 1sqbox, HubEngage
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD Center, Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155722462/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for February 2014:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Abine - Zach Rachins
Gradeable - Kattie Lam
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": JOBS
InsideTracker - Gil Blander
1sqbox - Alexis Coates
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": EVENTS
HubEngage - Chris Requena
9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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The temperature dependence of moist convection: changes in updrafts and precipitation statistics in radiative-convective equilibrium
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-517 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Martin Singh
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-517 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Martin Singh
MASS Seminar
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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What is an Inflector Window Insulator?
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Webinar
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Webinar
RSVP at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/715824592
Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry. We will examine the growth of the energy efficiency, conservation, energy independence, and carbon emmission industries and explain opportunities to represent or purchase our Insulator products.
Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry. We will examine the growth of the energy efficiency, conservation, energy independence, and carbon emmission industries and explain opportunities to represent or purchase our Insulator products.
More at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21DiKS5mt4k
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Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University
Tuesday, February 18
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University, blogger on media and politics, commentator on Women’s e-news; and Rosalind Barnett, senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center and executive director of Community, Families & Work Program, Brandeis University. Rivers and Barnett are co-authors of The Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance is Hurting Women, Men and our Economy. Co-sponsored with the Women and Public Policy Program.
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Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University
Tuesday, February 18
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism, Boston University, blogger on media and politics, commentator on Women’s e-news; and Rosalind Barnett, senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center and executive director of Community, Families & Work Program, Brandeis University. Rivers and Barnett are co-authors of The Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance is Hurting Women, Men and our Economy. Co-sponsored with the Women and Public Policy Program.
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Democratic Innovation in India — Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander in Dialogue
WHEN Tue., Feb. 18, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Aruno Roy and Harsh Mander, founding members of the National Campaign for the People's Right to Information
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE During this seminar, HKS Lecturer Ken Winston will join two of India’s leading advocates for citizens’ rights, Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander, in a discussion of democratizing and empowerment efforts in the world’s most populous democracy. Their topics will include efforts to strengthen participatory democratic processes and to aid minorities in overcoming the citizenship denials that routinely make up their difficult lives. Ms. Roy and Mr. Mander are founding members of the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Democratic-Innovation-in-India-Aruna-Roy-and-Harsh-Mander-in-Dialogue
WHEN Tue., Feb. 18, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Ash Center, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Aruno Roy and Harsh Mander, founding members of the National Campaign for the People's Right to Information
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE During this seminar, HKS Lecturer Ken Winston will join two of India’s leading advocates for citizens’ rights, Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander, in a discussion of democratizing and empowerment efforts in the world’s most populous democracy. Their topics will include efforts to strengthen participatory democratic processes and to aid minorities in overcoming the citizenship denials that routinely make up their difficult lives. Ms. Roy and Mr. Mander are founding members of the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Democratic-Innovation-in-India-Aruna-Roy-and-Harsh-Mander-in-Dialogue
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“The times they are a-changin’: What can we learn about the seasonality of plants functioning using remote sensing”
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Harvard University Herbaria, Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard University Herbaria, Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Xi Yang
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series
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"Community Assembly and Dis-assembly with Global Change"
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
12:10pm
Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston
with Lizzie Wolkovich, Assistant Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Arnold Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum Research Talk
Contact Name: Amie Evans
amieevans@fas.harvard.edu
Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
For more info on the Wolkovich Lab: http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~wolkovich/
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Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media
February 18, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/wang#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
with Tricia Wang, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
When we read about the Chinese internet in the Western press, we usually hear stories about censorship, political repression, and instability. But there's a lot more to be learned about life on the other side of “The Great Firewall.”
Based on over 10 years of ethnographic research, Tricia Wang's fieldwork reveals that social media is creating spaces in China that are shifting norms and behaviors in unexpected ways. Most surprisingly, Chinese youth are sharing information and socializing with strangers. She argues that they are finding ways to semi-anonymously connect to each other and establish a web of casual trust that extends beyond particularistic guanxi ties and authoritarian institutions.
Chinese youth are discovering their social world and seeking emotional connection—not political change. Tricia argues that this reflects a new form of sociality among Chinese youth: an Elastic Self. Evidence of this new self is unfolding in three ways: from self-restraint to self-expression, from comradeship to friendship, and from a “moral me” to a “moral we.” This new sociality is lying the groundwork for a public sphere to emerge from ties primarily based on friendship and interactions founded on a causal web of public trust. The changes Tricia has documented have potentially transformative power for Chinese society as a whole because they are radically altering the way that people perceive and engage with each other.
About Tricia
Tricia is a global tech ethnographer transforming businesses into people-centered organizations. Utilizing Digital Age design research methods, Tricia specializes in balancing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for institutions to fulfill their strategic goals. She advises organizations (large and small) on how to understand their "users" or "consumers" as people, not just datasets. She’s passionate about her work as a people champion in companies, start-ups, and non-profits. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Nokia and GE and numerous institutions from the UN to NASA.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology and culture—the investigation of how social media and the internet affect identity-making, trust formation, and collective action. Through extensive fieldwork in China and Latin America, she has developed expertise on digital communities in emerging economies, leading to the formulation of an innovative sociological framework for understanding user interactions online.
Tricia relishes on-the-ground, hyper-immersive ethnographic fieldwork, which has provided her with a unique understanding of the experiences of edge communities. During her projects she has pioneered ethnographic techniques such as live fieldnoting, which uses social media tools to share real-time fieldwork data. She is a thought leader on integrative approaches of combining Big Data and what she terms, Thick Data.
A Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow, Tricia has been recognized as a leading authority by journalists, investors, and ethnographic and sociological researchers. Her research has been featured in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Makeshift, and Wired. She has presented at the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, Lift, and South by Southwest. She is also proud to have co-founded the first national hip-hop education initiative, which turned into the Hip Hop Education Center at New York University and to have built after-school technology and arts programs for low-income youth at New York City public schools and the Queens Museum of Arts.
She is a visiting scholar at New York University's Interactive Telecommunication Program and Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet Studies. She received her PhD in Sociology at UC San Diego. She is also an advisory board member of Rev Arts in New York City. She is currently writing a book, tentatively titled, Tales from the Chinese Internet, which is about the Chinese Internet as an expressive space in which people uniquely shape their identities in an otherwise rigid society, a phenomenon she calls "the Elastic Self.” Her research philosophy is that you have to go to the edges to discover what's really happening. She is the proud owner of an internet famous dog who balances stuff on her head, #ellethedog.
Links
@triciawang
Tricia Wang's website
Tricia's blog: Ethnography Matters
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Crowdfunding for Nonprofits with Razoo
HandsOn Tech Boston
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/crowdfunding-for-nonprofits-with-razoo-tickets-10277812213
HandsOn Tech Boston is excited to offer our first training on crowdfunding for nonprofits brought to you by Razoo. If you are unfamiliar with crowdfunding, first know that it will change the way you view fundraising forever. Second, crowdfunding is harnessing the power of the internet and the individual to network and pool money together in support of an organization, project, or cause. This is where Razoo steps in…
Razoo is a crowdfunding website for causes. Through revolutionary products and services that inspire and motivate generosity, they are out to create a new generation of “everyday” philanthropists for whom generosity is part of an ongoing lifestyle. There are 28,000+ active nonprofits using Razoo, with $194 million raised together. Razoo hosts 84,000+ fundraiser pages and 1.4 million donations have been made so far.
This training will consist of two parts to get you acclimated with both crowdfunding and the Razoo platform. The first hour will be a general crowdfunding overview, followed by a second hour on using Razoo as your crowdfunding platform and how to set up your nonprofit’s account. There will be a time for Q&A, so don’t fret if you are new to this concept.
Note: In order for full participation in the second half of the session, please do the following:
1. Claim Access to your NPO HERE to gain access to your page before the event. Razoo is FREE to use so there are no set up fees, monthly or annual charges!
2. Make sure to bring your lab top or tablet to the event so you can follow along once you have admin access to your page on Razoo.
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"Geology Rules: Unconventional Development of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations"
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
1:15pm
Harvard, EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Anthony R. Ingraffea, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Abstract: We will explore some myths and realities concerning large-scale development of the unconventional natural gas/oil resource in shale deposits. On a local scale, these concern geological aspects of the plays, and the resulting development and use of directional drilling, high-volume, slickwater, hydraulic fracturing, multi-well clustered pad arrangements, and the impacts of these technologies on waste production and disposal, and possible contamination of water supplies. On a global scale, we will also explore the cumulative impact of unconventional gas on greenhouse gas loading of the atmosphere.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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Corruption, Intimidation and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sylvain Chassang (Princeton)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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The Impact of the U.S. Drawdown on India-Pakistan Relations
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Vipin Narang
After 2014: What Next for Central and South Asia
How will the American drawdown in Afghanistan affect regional powers such as Pakistan and India? Narang argues that the vacuum left by the United States will intensify the security competition between India and Pakistan, with significant consequences for regional security.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Boston New Technology February 2014 Product Showcase #BNT38
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:00 PM
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/162436462/
Show your ID and sign in at the security desk in the lobby, then take an elevator to the first floor. The Horace Mann room is the first room on the left, after the kitchen.
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT38 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Products & Presenters:
1. Evibe.com / @Evibe - Less organized and more spontaneous meetups! (Alexis Lewalle / @Lewalle) Tech: Symfony 2, Ember JS, Redis, Twitter bootstrap, Node.js, Pusher, MongoDb, MySql, Socket.ui. www.Evibe.com
2. YesGraph / @YesGraph - Referrals are the best hires. YesGraph is the best way to find them! (Luke Thomas /@LukeThomas14) Tech: Python, Django. www.YesGraph.com
3. Jisto Inc. / @JistoInc - Transforms idle computation cycles in organizations into a powerful virtual private cloud computing platform! (Aleksandr (Sasha) Biberman & Andrey Turovsky)www.Jisto.com
4. Sourceful / @Sourceful - Sourceful helps journalism and PR pros find, vet, and manage contact with people. (Dan Siegel /@realmandan) Tech: Python, Flask, MongoDB.www.Sourceful.io
5. Priori Legal / @PrioriLegal - Connects businesses with trusted, vetted lawyers at below-market, fixed rates! (Basha Rubin / @BashaRubin) Tech: RoR. www.PrioriLegal.com
6. Sqrrl / @Sqrrl_Inc - Secure, scalable NoSQL database for Hadoop powers real-time web applications. (Ely Kahn /@ElyKahn) Tech: Hadoop, Accumulo, D3, Java,Ruby.www.Sqrrl.com
7. HubEngage / @HubEngage - Grows traffic, engagement & sales for businesses and rewards customers, employees and app/web users for things they do every day! (Tushneem Dharmagadda / @Tushneem & Chris Requena / @CERequena) Tech: Microsoft .NET, Java, iOS, Android, Javascript, SDK's. www.HubEngage.com
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with beverages and pizza outside the Horace Mann room
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 - Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 - More Networking
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The Speculations of Max Tegmark: Mathematics and Multiverses
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Max Tegmark, PhD Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Max Tegmark has a proud reputation as a fearless and unconventional thinker.
In this discussion Dr. Tegmark talks about his new book, which presents fundamental reality as a mathematical entity, his well-known concept of multiple universes, and also how his concepts have developed and what it takes to think outside the box at a time when many scientists are fearful of the risk.
In addition to his own ideas, he describes how many of the conceptual leaps in science --certainly in physics and cosmology-- were initially ignored or rejected.
Dr. Tegmark is making several Boston-area appearances for his book tour. The SftPublic discussion will be a bit broader, covering the book, his work in general, his efforts to break new ground in science.
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Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements
WHEN Tue., Feb. 18, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Manuel Castells
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, will speak on a theme related to his recent book Networks of Outrage and Hope; Social Movements in the Internet Age (Polity Press), with further elaboration in relation to the recent movements in Brazil and Turkey.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/lecture-manuel-castells.html
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February Event: Advances in Adaptive Technology
Rukmini Giridharadas and Vlad Leytus will present their vision and describe how it can support GreenPort’s work on neighborhood resilience in Cambridgeport.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
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If you need to learn how to apply for healthcare or have had trouble applying for healthcare via the ACA or otherwise accessing healthcare, please come learn from the experts and advocates of Healthcare for All, who will be on hand to demystify the process, share opportunities, and also to explain the ACA's broader policy implications. Leaders from throughout our Cambridge care community, including representatives ofCambridge Health Alliance, Mount Auburn Hospital, and the Cambridge Equal Opportunity Commission, will be available to answer your questions and share insights and opportunities for access.
Jhumpa Lahiri at BU: The 2014 Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer
February 19, 2014
This event is free and open to the public. While this event is complimentary, advanced registration is requested, and we suggest arriving early to secure a seat, as registration does not guarantee seating. Limited metered parking is available on Bay State Road and Commonwealth Avenue. The BU Granby Street lot on the corner of GranbyStreet and Commonwealth provides public parking. Via MBTA, take the Green Line "B" to Blandford Street or any Green Line train to Kenmore.
Visit www.bu.edu/creativewriting for more information about this event and the Boston University Creative Writing Program. If you have questions, please write to crwr@bu.edu or call 617-353-2510.
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Thursday, February 20
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a talk by Julie Soleil Archambault, Ph.D. (Lecturer in African Anthropology, University of Oxford)
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The Cyberspace Battle for Information: Combating Internet Censorship
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00 pm
BU, Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 339, Boston
Refreshments will be served outside Room 339 at 3:45 p.m.
ECE Seminar with Amir Houmansadr, Postdoctoral Scholar University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: The Internet has become ubiquitous, bringing many benefits to people across the globe. Unfortunately, Internet users face threats to their security and privacy: repressive regimes deprive them of freedom of speech and open access to information, governments and corporations monitor their online behavior, advertisers collect and sell their private data, and cybercriminals hurt them financially through security breaches.My research aims to make Internet communications more secure and privacy-preserving. In this talk, I will focus on the design, implementation, and analysis of tools that help users bypass Internet censorship. I will discuss the major challenges in building robust censorship circumvention tools, introduce two novel classes of systems that we have developed to overcome these challenges, and conclude with several directions for future research.
About the Speaker: Amir Houmansadr is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2012. Amir’s research revolves around various network security and privacy problems, including Internet censorship circumvention, network traffic analysis, and anonymous communications. He has received several awards for his research, including the Best Practical Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2013.
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Speaker: Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Geoengineering: Science & Governance Series
This seminar series will explore the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering. In bringing together international experts, participants will learn some of the greatest challenges and hear opinions on how this technology could and should be managed.
An MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Harvard University Center for the Environment initiative.
Scott Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation. He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the Academic Panel to the Department of Environment in the UK.
Barrett previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale. Barrett is a research fellow with the Beijer Institute (Stockholm), CESifo (Munich), and the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
This seminar series, held jointly by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, explores the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering.
Web site: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news-events/featured-events/event_id/554
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Harvard Center for the Environment
For more information, contact: Alli Roberts
617-253-6017
alligold@mit.edu
Speaker: Prof. Ruben Juanes, CEE
Join us for our next Spain@MIT Science Seminar Series!
In this seminar, Professor Ruben Juanes from the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will talk about his research on simultaneous flow of two or more fluids through rocks and other porous materials, both experimentally and computationally, and its application in Carbon Capture and Storage. The seminar will be preceded by a continental breakfast.
Spain@MIT Science Series
The Spain@MIT Science Series is a seminar series that the club started two years ago with the objective of promoting the work of Spanish scientists among MIT students.
Susan Solomon, MIT
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
Host: Jessica Smith
Email: jxsmith@huarp.harvard.edu
In cities and suburbs around the world, wild creatures such as coyotes, alligators, and mountain lions are showing up where least expected. How can they survive in the contemporary world of concrete, steel, and glass? At the Harvard Museum of Natural History event, "Wild Animal Neighbors," author Ann Downer will discuss the factors that bring these creatures to our backyards and ways to create spaces for people and animals to live side by side.
Regular museum admission rates apply.
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Sunday, February 23
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Pecha Kucha Mamak @ MIT
Sunday, February 23, 2014
4:00p–5:15p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Coyin Oh, Han Hsien, David Feliciano, Nick Sazdanoff, Gabriel Yong, Kelvin Chong
Pecha Kucha Mamak
An evening of informal fun and educational/professional development in the art of concise and on-the-feet presentation skills using the Pecha Kucha 20x20 presentation format. Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and speakers present along with the images. We will have five to six speakers per session where MIT and non-MIT graduate and undergraduate students get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts, background, anything interesting, in the Pecha Kucha 20x20 format.
Join us for an evening of fun informal presentations in the 20 slides, 20 seconds format of Pecha Kucha. 6 talented speakers from different schools will be sharing their passions, stories and interests with the audience. Mamak-style drinks and snacks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. We would love to know in advance if you're coming, so do sign up at the events page! See you there!
Web site: http://masamit.scripts.mit.edu/blog/events/pecha-kucha-mamak-mit/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MITMASA, Graduate Student Council, ASUS
For more information, contact: Weng Hong
wenghong@mit.edu
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Monday, February 24
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Dr. Katherine Amato (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder)
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/9520
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
Speaker: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Founders of Art Reoriented New York and Munich
Aga Khan Lecture Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
For more information, contact: Jose Luis Arguello
253-1400
akpiarch@mit.edu
Speaker Series with Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
"In explaining the networked realm of teens, boyd has the insights of a sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and the savvy of a technologist. For parents puzzled about what their kids are doing online, this is an indispensable book."—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs
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Speaker: Charles Teague (LoseIt!), Nick Patel (Wellable) and Neal Lesh (Dimagi), moderated by Lisa Gualteri (TUSM)
Contact: Charlene Stevens
charlene.stevens@tufts.edu
Sophia Roosth
During the fellowship year, Sophia Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Speaker Bio:
Sophia Roosth is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the 20th- and 21st-century life sciences, examining how biology is changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works.
During the fellowship year, Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Roosth was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She received her doctorate from the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. Roosth’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her recent publications have appeared in journals including American Anthropologist, Critical Inquiry, Differences, Representations, and Science in Context.
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact: Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
Linda Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution
How do planets form, and what makes them habitable? Where might life be found beyond our solar system? Linda Elkins-Tanton, an expert in planet formation and evolution, will discuss how the violent impacts that are the “final act” of a planet’s creation may not always wipe out water and carbon from the early growth period. Enough of these all-important elements may have existed to make many rocky planets and exoplanets habitable, increasing the likelihood that life might exist elsewhere among the Milky Way’s 17 billion Earth-sized planets.
Explore the magical world of soil in this insightful and timely film. Following the history and current state of the living organic matter, “Dirt! The Movie” takes a humorous and substantial look at the glorious and often unappreciated material beneath our feet. Join Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, associate professor at Boston University School of Public Health, and others for a panel discussion following the screening.
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), MIT; and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica (IIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
EPA’s Gina McCarthy To Give Remarks At BE14.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the original postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Host: Rachel Chang
Email: rchang@seas.harvard.edu
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2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
Saturday, March 8, 2014
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Northeastern University Student Center, Curry Center, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-massachusetts-urban-farming-conference-tickets-7547919029
The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance urban farming issues ranging from farming techniques and
business models to climate change adaptation and food security. The UFC contributes to short-term and long-term state-wide strategic planning for a sustainable food system in Massachusetts.
Network with Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this dynamic event that looks at current issues, emerging practices and programs, and markets that
can contribute to Massachusetts' urban farming sector resiliency.
For vendor or general information, contact Rose Arruda at MDAR; Rose.Arruda@state.ma.us
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Crystal Johnson at Crystal@isesplanning.com
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Are you ready for Mass Innovation Nights #60? We promise it will be an event not to be missed! We're back in Kendall Square at the Microsoft NERD center (Microsoft New England R & D Center). A great collection of new products await you.
See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-min60#sthash.A41V5o1w.dpuf
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
MIT Room E51-315, Tang Center corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/advances-in-adaptive-technology-tickets-10283222395
Cost: $10 until 5:30 pm on February 18th, $15 after then. MIT students are free with ID.
Join others from the Health Innovators in exploring how advances in adaptive technology helps out those with disabilities. This event will display and explain technology advancing devices and systems that are available for the hearing and speech disabled.
About the Speakers
Jennifer Bartecchi is a Speech-Language Pathologist who services children and young adults with severe-to-profound cognitive and medical needs within educational and medical settings. She currently works full-time in an early education preschool setting within the Randolph Public School district, while maintaining her role as an Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) specialist at the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, Massachusetts. Jennifer received her Master’s Degree in speech pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions, followed by a Master’s Degree in education through the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Through her work in Assistive Technology and AAC within both educational and medical settings, Jennifer has been able to connect underserved, low-incidence, and low SES families with their communities, and has effectively empowered her clients with the knowledge and skills they need to self-advocate for their family and individual needs.
Julie Merritt is the vice president of sales and partnerships for Verbal Applications, a new company in patient communication advancement. Verbal's first offering is software that bypasses the call bell, and uses tablets for patients to communication with their clinical staff through messages being sent to an iPod Touch. Patients of all ages select pictures for their requests. The software can present various languages, has recorded messages, and if there are dexterity issues, patients can use their eyes to move between requests. Julie is dedicated to improving communication in health care for all patients.
About the Organizer:
Health Innovators is a nonprofit organization that accelerates health innovation through collaboration and education. We have monthly meetings in Greater Boston that focus on topics pertinent to health innovation, such as mobile technology in healthcare, meaningful use, and healthcare marketing, changing doctor patient relationships, and more. Please see more information about Health Innovators here and find more information about the organizers who work to organize Health Innovators events here.
Evening Agenda:
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Networking
7:00 pm to 7:10 pm - Welcome and Announcements
7:10 pm to 8:30 pm - Speaker Presentations (Q&A to follow)
After 8:30 pm - Networking
Light refreshments will be available, and preprinted name tags will be available for those who have preregistered through Eventbrite.
About the Speakers
Jennifer Bartecchi is a Speech-Language Pathologist who services children and young adults with severe-to-profound cognitive and medical needs within educational and medical settings. She currently works full-time in an early education preschool setting within the Randolph Public School district, while maintaining her role as an Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) specialist at the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, Massachusetts. Jennifer received her Master’s Degree in speech pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions, followed by a Master’s Degree in education through the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Through her work in Assistive Technology and AAC within both educational and medical settings, Jennifer has been able to connect underserved, low-incidence, and low SES families with their communities, and has effectively empowered her clients with the knowledge and skills they need to self-advocate for their family and individual needs.
Julie Merritt is the vice president of sales and partnerships for Verbal Applications, a new company in patient communication advancement. Verbal's first offering is software that bypasses the call bell, and uses tablets for patients to communication with their clinical staff through messages being sent to an iPod Touch. Patients of all ages select pictures for their requests. The software can present various languages, has recorded messages, and if there are dexterity issues, patients can use their eyes to move between requests. Julie is dedicated to improving communication in health care for all patients.
About the Organizer:
Health Innovators is a nonprofit organization that accelerates health innovation through collaboration and education. We have monthly meetings in Greater Boston that focus on topics pertinent to health innovation, such as mobile technology in healthcare, meaningful use, and healthcare marketing, changing doctor patient relationships, and more. Please see more information about Health Innovators here and find more information about the organizers who work to organize Health Innovators events here.
Evening Agenda:
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Networking
7:00 pm to 7:10 pm - Welcome and Announcements
7:10 pm to 8:30 pm - Speaker Presentations (Q&A to follow)
After 8:30 pm - Networking
Light refreshments will be available, and preprinted name tags will be available for those who have preregistered through Eventbrite.
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GreenPort Forum: KindThread – Resource Sharing for Cambridgeport
Tuesday, February 18
Tuesday, February 18
7:00pm
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Avenue, (corner of Magazine Street and Putnam Avenue), Cambridge
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Avenue, (corner of Magazine Street and Putnam Avenue), Cambridge
A discussion with its founders
Join us for a presentation and dialogue with the founders of KindThread, a new startup now launching in Cambridgeport. KindThread is an online pay-it-forward platform, designed to help bounded communities share their resources -- their time, skills, and goods. With KindThread, you can either post an "offer" (something you are willing to do for someone in the community) or a "request" (something you need help with). If someone offers to help you out, you pay it forward and offer to help someone else, creating threads of kindness running through your community.
Join us for a presentation and dialogue with the founders of KindThread, a new startup now launching in Cambridgeport. KindThread is an online pay-it-forward platform, designed to help bounded communities share their resources -- their time, skills, and goods. With KindThread, you can either post an "offer" (something you are willing to do for someone in the community) or a "request" (something you need help with). If someone offers to help you out, you pay it forward and offer to help someone else, creating threads of kindness running through your community.
Rukmini Giridharadas and Vlad Leytus will present their vision and describe how it can support GreenPort’s work on neighborhood resilience in Cambridgeport.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
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Wildness in Our Midst: The Middlesex Fells -- A talk by Bryan Hamlin
For more information: http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Main Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
A free lecture presented by Grow Native Massachusetts:
The Middlesex Fells Reservation has an impressive diversity of 30 different habitat types that spring from its unique geology, topography, hydrology, soil, and climate. These habitats support a rich biodiversity that is unusual for a metropolitan setting. Learn about the flora and how these local plant communities can enlighten the design of our own gardens. Dr. Bryan Hamlin is the lead author of a nine-year study of the Fells’ flora, and is President of the New England Botanical Club.
The Middlesex Fells Reservation has an impressive diversity of 30 different habitat types that spring from its unique geology, topography, hydrology, soil, and climate. These habitats support a rich biodiversity that is unusual for a metropolitan setting. Learn about the flora and how these local plant communities can enlighten the design of our own gardens. Dr. Bryan Hamlin is the lead author of a nine-year study of the Fells’ flora, and is President of the New England Botanical Club.
For more information: http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts
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Wednesday, February 19
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Nuclear 101: Technologies and Institutions for Nuclear Security
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Bunn, professor of practice, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Bunn's research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6241/nuclear_101.html
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How Social Movements Succeed: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Fl. Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ethan Kapstein, University of Oxford and Arizona State University
CONTACT INFO RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Between Hot War and Cold Peace: The Post-CW Order and the Arab Spring in a Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Benjamin MIller, University of Haifa
Security Studies Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: 617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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How Natural Disasters Affect Political Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistani Floods
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jake Shapiro (Princeton University)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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"Science and Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production"
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall (near McKay Library entry), 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Robert L. Kleinberg, Schlumberger
Abstract: The advent of fossil fuel production from gas shale and tight oil resources has revolutionized the energy economy of the United States. The effects have been widespread, and have included a shift from coal to natural gas in electric power generation, the return of the petrochemical industry from overseas, and a marked improvement in U.S. energy security. However, production techniques such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have raised questions about whether these new sources of energy can be exploited in a manner consistent with environmental protection. The scientific and technological foundations of unconventional fossil fuel production will be discussed, and applied to a selection of topics of public concern.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation and Altruism in an Age of Strangers
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nicolas Whitfield, McGill University
STS Special Seminar
Special Seminar dealing with topics within the study of Science, Technology, and Society.
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn@mit.edu
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"The Economics of Attribute Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel Economy Standards."
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Room L-382, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Koichiro Ito, Boston University, and James M. Sallee, University of Chicago.
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
Support from the Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics and the Department of Economics is Gratefully Acknowledged
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Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) was founded by 45 clergy and community members in 1996 who came together across religious differences to address community needs. This organization is part of a national network of faith-based communities that organize for social justice. How effective is this grassroots model at creating social change? What role does religion play in the politics of power? Join Harvard Kennedy School's Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall Ganz and Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center's Executive Director Yusufi Vali as they lead a panel conversation on the impact of faith-based community organizing.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement. RSVP to cswr@hds.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, February 19
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Nuclear 101: Technologies and Institutions for Nuclear Security
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Bunn, professor of practice, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Bunn's research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6241/nuclear_101.html
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How Social Movements Succeed: Lessons from HIV/AIDS
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Fl. Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Ethan Kapstein, University of Oxford and Arizona State University
CONTACT INFO RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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Between Hot War and Cold Peace: The Post-CW Order and the Arab Spring in a Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Benjamin MIller, University of Haifa
Security Studies Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: 617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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How Natural Disasters Affect Political Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistani Floods
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jake Shapiro (Princeton University)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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"Science and Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production"
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall (near McKay Library entry), 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Robert L. Kleinberg, Schlumberger
Abstract: The advent of fossil fuel production from gas shale and tight oil resources has revolutionized the energy economy of the United States. The effects have been widespread, and have included a shift from coal to natural gas in electric power generation, the return of the petrochemical industry from overseas, and a marked improvement in U.S. energy security. However, production techniques such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have raised questions about whether these new sources of energy can be exploited in a manner consistent with environmental protection. The scientific and technological foundations of unconventional fossil fuel production will be discussed, and applied to a selection of topics of public concern.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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A Genealogy of the Gift: Blood Donation and Altruism in an Age of Strangers
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nicolas Whitfield, McGill University
STS Special Seminar
Special Seminar dealing with topics within the study of Science, Technology, and Society.
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn@mit.edu
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"The Economics of Attribute Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel Economy Standards."
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Room L-382, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Koichiro Ito, Boston University, and James M. Sallee, University of Chicago.
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
Support from the Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics and the Department of Economics is Gratefully Acknowledged
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Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World
WHEN Wed., Feb. 19, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) was founded by 45 clergy and community members in 1996 who came together across religious differences to address community needs. This organization is part of a national network of faith-based communities that organize for social justice. How effective is this grassroots model at creating social change? What role does religion play in the politics of power? Join Harvard Kennedy School's Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall Ganz and Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center's Executive Director Yusufi Vali as they lead a panel conversation on the impact of faith-based community organizing.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement. RSVP to cswr@hds.harvard.edu.
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Cambridge Briefing on the Affordable Care Act
Wednesday, February 19
6-7:30 p.m.
Citywide Senior Center at 802 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
If you need to learn how to apply for healthcare or have had trouble applying for healthcare via the ACA or otherwise accessing healthcare, please come learn from the experts and advocates of Healthcare for All, who will be on hand to demystify the process, share opportunities, and also to explain the ACA's broader policy implications. Leaders from throughout our Cambridge care community, including representatives ofCambridge Health Alliance, Mount Auburn Hospital, and the Cambridge Equal Opportunity Commission, will be available to answer your questions and share insights and opportunities for access.
Hosted by State Representative Marjorie Decker
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Jhumpa Lahiri at BU: The 2014 Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer
February 19, 2014
7:00 PM ET
BU, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Please join us to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Boston University alumna Jhumpa Lahiri (GRS '93) read from her novel The Lowland, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award. Lahiri will be joined onstage for a conversation with fellow BU alumna Daphne Kalotay(GRS '94), award-winning author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading. After the reading, the authors will sign books.
BU, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Please join us to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Boston University alumna Jhumpa Lahiri (GRS '93) read from her novel The Lowland, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award. Lahiri will be joined onstage for a conversation with fellow BU alumna Daphne Kalotay(GRS '94), award-winning author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading. After the reading, the authors will sign books.
This event is free and open to the public. While this event is complimentary, advanced registration is requested, and we suggest arriving early to secure a seat, as registration does not guarantee seating. Limited metered parking is available on Bay State Road and Commonwealth Avenue. The BU Granby Street lot on the corner of GranbyStreet and Commonwealth provides public parking. Via MBTA, take the Green Line "B" to Blandford Street or any Green Line train to Kenmore.
Visit www.bu.edu/creativewriting for more information about this event and the Boston University Creative Writing Program. If you have questions, please write to crwr@bu.edu or call 617-353-2510.
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Thursday, February 20
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Antibiotic Resistance in a Box
WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health: FXB, Room G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Infectious Disease Epidemiology and The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
SPEAKER(S) Michael Baym
CONTACT INFO skipp@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/Events/Upcoming
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WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Public Health: FXB, Room G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Infectious Disease Epidemiology and The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
SPEAKER(S) Michael Baym
CONTACT INFO skipp@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/Events/Upcoming
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"Perceiving Action in Space-Time: Computational and Human Perspectives"
Thursday, February 20
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Northeastern University, Dana Research Center, 442 120 Forsyth Street, Cambridge
Prof. Jason Corso, Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
Humans are highly articulated, which leads to complex and idiosyncratic actions in space-time.
This complexity has challenged computational models of human action for some time now, and yet humans themselves are highly adept at parsing action. In this talk, I will motivate the challenge of interpreting human action from spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal points of view. Then, I will present both computational and human perspectives on modeling action. First, I will describe how video can be decomposed into a multilevel semantic scale-space using a two-part Markov approximation framework. Within this semantic scale-space, we have conducted a visual psychophysical study of how humans perceive action, and I will report our findings in that study.
Second, I will present a pair of computational models for human action. The first method, called Action Bank, creates a high-level action space that is spanned by individual space-time actions. Query videos are projected into this action space and non-linear classifiers are learned for recognition. The second method proposes a ranking conditional random field model for category-independent action inference. The model seeks a differentiation between motion and action by incorporating both local action evidence and a neighborhood ordering criteria. Experiments demonstrate how space-time, action-specific modeling can outperform motion background subtraction
and human detection, as well as other models of ranking. Time-permitting, I will relate these
findings to other work in my group in computational neuroscience and cognitive robotics.
Bio:
Jason Corso is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at SUNY Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 2006 (from the Computational Interaction with Physical Systems Lab), the M.S.E Degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 2002 and the B.S. Degree with honors from Loyola College In Maryland. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles affiliated with Medical Imaging Informatics, the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and the Center for Image and Vision Science. He is the recipient of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award 2010 (robotics), NSF CAREER award 2009 (computer vision), SUNY Buffalo Young Investigator Award 2011, a member of the 2009 DARPA Computer Science Study Group (data mining), and a recipient of the Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training (physically-grounded vision). Corso has authored more than ninety peer-reviewed papers on topics of his research interest including computer vision, robotics, data science, and medical imaging. He is a member of the AAAI, IEEE and the ACM. He is PI on more than $5 million in research funding from major federal agencies, including NSF, NIH, DARPA, ARO, and IARPA.
More information at http://ece.neu.edu
Northeastern University, Dana Research Center, 442 120 Forsyth Street, Cambridge
Prof. Jason Corso, Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
Humans are highly articulated, which leads to complex and idiosyncratic actions in space-time.
This complexity has challenged computational models of human action for some time now, and yet humans themselves are highly adept at parsing action. In this talk, I will motivate the challenge of interpreting human action from spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal points of view. Then, I will present both computational and human perspectives on modeling action. First, I will describe how video can be decomposed into a multilevel semantic scale-space using a two-part Markov approximation framework. Within this semantic scale-space, we have conducted a visual psychophysical study of how humans perceive action, and I will report our findings in that study.
Second, I will present a pair of computational models for human action. The first method, called Action Bank, creates a high-level action space that is spanned by individual space-time actions. Query videos are projected into this action space and non-linear classifiers are learned for recognition. The second method proposes a ranking conditional random field model for category-independent action inference. The model seeks a differentiation between motion and action by incorporating both local action evidence and a neighborhood ordering criteria. Experiments demonstrate how space-time, action-specific modeling can outperform motion background subtraction
and human detection, as well as other models of ranking. Time-permitting, I will relate these
findings to other work in my group in computational neuroscience and cognitive robotics.
Bio:
Jason Corso is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at SUNY Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 2006 (from the Computational Interaction with Physical Systems Lab), the M.S.E Degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 2002 and the B.S. Degree with honors from Loyola College In Maryland. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles affiliated with Medical Imaging Informatics, the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and the Center for Image and Vision Science. He is the recipient of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award 2010 (robotics), NSF CAREER award 2009 (computer vision), SUNY Buffalo Young Investigator Award 2011, a member of the 2009 DARPA Computer Science Study Group (data mining), and a recipient of the Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training (physically-grounded vision). Corso has authored more than ninety peer-reviewed papers on topics of his research interest including computer vision, robotics, data science, and medical imaging. He is a member of the AAAI, IEEE and the ACM. He is PI on more than $5 million in research funding from major federal agencies, including NSF, NIH, DARPA, ARO, and IARPA.
More information at http://ece.neu.edu
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Re-thinking the Urban freeway
Thursday, Feb 20, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Webinar Registration at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/698597710
Across the country, urban freeways are at the end of their design lives, and communities are wrestling with the question of how to deal with them. States and cities have the opportunity to re-think, remove, or re-purpose urban freeway space, which can address environmental and social justice harm and result in significant local economic and social benefits. This webinar considers best practices and solutions for aging freeways that states and cities can look towards to help mitigate freeway impacts and secure a healthy and more prosperous future for the communities these roadways travel through.
Panelists: Joan McDonald, Commissioner, New York State DOT, and Billy Fields, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
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Re-thinking the Urban freeway
Thursday, Feb 20, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Webinar Registration at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/698597710
Across the country, urban freeways are at the end of their design lives, and communities are wrestling with the question of how to deal with them. States and cities have the opportunity to re-think, remove, or re-purpose urban freeway space, which can address environmental and social justice harm and result in significant local economic and social benefits. This webinar considers best practices and solutions for aging freeways that states and cities can look towards to help mitigate freeway impacts and secure a healthy and more prosperous future for the communities these roadways travel through.
Panelists: Joan McDonald, Commissioner, New York State DOT, and Billy Fields, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
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Women in Energy
Thursday, February 20, 2014
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building E14, Silverman Skyline Room, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Women in Energy Discussion Series
Panel Discussion 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Networking Event 4:00 - 4:30pm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Bessma Aljarbou
bessma@mit.edu
3:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building E14, Silverman Skyline Room, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Women in Energy Discussion Series
Panel Discussion 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Networking Event 4:00 - 4:30pm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Bessma Aljarbou
bessma@mit.edu
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"Challenges of Balancing the Chinese Power System with Large-Scale Renewable Penetration"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
3:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Zhang Ning, Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard China Project
China Project Seminar
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen
nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu
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Aerosol Forcing: Last Century's Problem
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology
Since its inception, modern climate science has accepted the fact that the aerosol is one of the most important and uncertain forcings of the climate systems. In the 1970s it was argued that the aerosol radiative effects of the aerosol might portend a new ice age; in the 1980s massive climate change aerosol effects was linked to aerosol production during nuclear wars; in the 1990s it was proposed that aerosols masked a much larger sensitivity of global temperatures to rising concentrations of CO2, and in the last decade aerosol effects on the hydrological cycle and weather extremes have received substantial attention. I will argue that the role of aerosol forcing has been exaggerated, but, to the extent the aerosol is responsible for a substantial forcing of the climate system, this forcing was realized in the middle of the last century and has ceased to be important for present or future changes in the global climate.
Houghton Lectures
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
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"Challenges of Balancing the Chinese Power System with Large-Scale Renewable Penetration"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
3:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Zhang Ning, Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard China Project
China Project Seminar
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen
nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu
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Aerosol Forcing: Last Century's Problem
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology
Since its inception, modern climate science has accepted the fact that the aerosol is one of the most important and uncertain forcings of the climate systems. In the 1970s it was argued that the aerosol radiative effects of the aerosol might portend a new ice age; in the 1980s massive climate change aerosol effects was linked to aerosol production during nuclear wars; in the 1990s it was proposed that aerosols masked a much larger sensitivity of global temperatures to rising concentrations of CO2, and in the last decade aerosol effects on the hydrological cycle and weather extremes have received substantial attention. I will argue that the role of aerosol forcing has been exaggerated, but, to the extent the aerosol is responsible for a substantial forcing of the climate system, this forcing was realized in the middle of the last century and has ceased to be important for present or future changes in the global climate.
Houghton Lectures
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
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‘‘Cruising Through Uncertainty: Cell Phones, Cement and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique’’
Thursday, February 20th
Thursday, February 20th
4:00 p.m.
Harvard, William James Hall 1550, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Harvard, William James Hall 1550, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
a talk by Julie Soleil Archambault, Ph.D. (Lecturer in African Anthropology, University of Oxford)
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The Cyberspace Battle for Information: Combating Internet Censorship
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00 pm
BU, Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 339, Boston
Refreshments will be served outside Room 339 at 3:45 p.m.
ECE Seminar with Amir Houmansadr, Postdoctoral Scholar University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: The Internet has become ubiquitous, bringing many benefits to people across the globe. Unfortunately, Internet users face threats to their security and privacy: repressive regimes deprive them of freedom of speech and open access to information, governments and corporations monitor their online behavior, advertisers collect and sell their private data, and cybercriminals hurt them financially through security breaches.My research aims to make Internet communications more secure and privacy-preserving. In this talk, I will focus on the design, implementation, and analysis of tools that help users bypass Internet censorship. I will discuss the major challenges in building robust censorship circumvention tools, introduce two novel classes of systems that we have developed to overcome these challenges, and conclude with several directions for future research.
About the Speaker: Amir Houmansadr is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2012. Amir’s research revolves around various network security and privacy problems, including Internet censorship circumvention, network traffic analysis, and anonymous communications. He has received several awards for his research, including the Best Practical Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2013.
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Knowledge Driven Semantic Interactions at Web Scale
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-D463 (Stata Center - Star Conference Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Kuansan Wang , Microsoft Research
We are witnessing web search industry undergoing dramatic changes at a pace unprecedented since the first search engine went online in 1993. As the world grows more dynamically connected and our life styles become more mobile, modern search engines can no longer just reactively match keywords in queries to keywords in web documents to produce “ten blue links”. In this talk, we describe a joint effort between Bing and Microsoft Research to fundamentally change the gut and face of a search engine since 2008. The initiative, called Bing Dialog Model, aims at matching user’s search intents to the knowledge harvested from the web at the semantic level. In addition to reactively answer questions, Bing Dialog Model introduces additional dialog acts, such as confirmation, disambiguation, refinement and digression, that the search engine can execute proactively. We will describe the language understanding and dialog inference aspects of the model in detail and demonstrate them in action.
Kuansan Wang is a Principal Researcher and manager of the Internet Service Research Center (ISRC) at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. He joined MSR Speech Technology Group in 1998, conducting research in the areas of speech recognition, spoken language understanding and multimodal dialog. From 2004 to 2007, he was a software architect at speech product and business incubation groups, helping create and commercialize a wide range of award winning speech products for Microsoft. Since 2007, he has been with MSR ISRC conducting research on web search and machine learning. Dr. Wang is an active member in both academic and industrial communities. He has published more than 50 peered review articles and 140 patents. He is also the author of 6 ISO and 3 W3C standards in the area of speech processing and voice communications.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-D463 (Stata Center - Star Conference Room), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Kuansan Wang , Microsoft Research
We are witnessing web search industry undergoing dramatic changes at a pace unprecedented since the first search engine went online in 1993. As the world grows more dynamically connected and our life styles become more mobile, modern search engines can no longer just reactively match keywords in queries to keywords in web documents to produce “ten blue links”. In this talk, we describe a joint effort between Bing and Microsoft Research to fundamentally change the gut and face of a search engine since 2008. The initiative, called Bing Dialog Model, aims at matching user’s search intents to the knowledge harvested from the web at the semantic level. In addition to reactively answer questions, Bing Dialog Model introduces additional dialog acts, such as confirmation, disambiguation, refinement and digression, that the search engine can execute proactively. We will describe the language understanding and dialog inference aspects of the model in detail and demonstrate them in action.
Kuansan Wang is a Principal Researcher and manager of the Internet Service Research Center (ISRC) at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. He joined MSR Speech Technology Group in 1998, conducting research in the areas of speech recognition, spoken language understanding and multimodal dialog. From 2004 to 2007, he was a software architect at speech product and business incubation groups, helping create and commercialize a wide range of award winning speech products for Microsoft. Since 2007, he has been with MSR ISRC conducting research on web search and machine learning. Dr. Wang is an active member in both academic and industrial communities. He has published more than 50 peered review articles and 140 patents. He is also the author of 6 ISO and 3 W3C standards in the area of speech processing and voice communications.
Contact: Marcia G. Davidson, 617-253-3049, marcia@csail.mit.edu
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A Sustainable Qing Periphery
WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Environment in Asia
SPEAKER(S) David Bello, sssociate professor, East Asian History, Washington and Lee University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The multicultural Qing is reconsidered in “multi-ecological” terms of three borderland case studies from Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan. Human pursuit of game, tending of livestock, and susceptibility to disease vectors required imperial adaptation beyond the cultural constructs of banners or chieftainships in order to maintain a “sustainable Qing periphery” based on these environmental relations between people and animals.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/david-bello
WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Environment in Asia
SPEAKER(S) David Bello, sssociate professor, East Asian History, Washington and Lee University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The multicultural Qing is reconsidered in “multi-ecological” terms of three borderland case studies from Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan. Human pursuit of game, tending of livestock, and susceptibility to disease vectors required imperial adaptation beyond the cultural constructs of banners or chieftainships in order to maintain a “sustainable Qing periphery” based on these environmental relations between people and animals.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/david-bello
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"BenMAP-CE: A new open source tool for estimating air quality benefits"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:30pm - 6:15pm
Harvard School of Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building, Room FXB-G11, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
4:30 Refreshments, 5:00-6:15 Presentation and Discussion
with Neal Fann, USEPA, Office of Air Quality and Standard
The environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program-Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) is a new open source PC-based tool that estimates the number, and economic value, of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. The U.S. EPA released version 1.0 of the tool in November, and over the next year will develop new features that enable users to more easily perform Environmental Justice, life table and multi-pollutant analyses.
Society for Risk Analysis Seminar
http://www.sra-ne.org/seminar.htm
Contact Name: Margarita Shablya
mshablya@healtheffects.org
RSVP by February 19 to Margarita Shablya.
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"Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Sterne
Auto-tune is a ubiquitous vocal effect in popular music and the best-selling software plug-in in the short history of commercial digital audio software. When used with subtlety, auto-tune fixes slight errors or variances in pitch (usually of singers); when used more drastically, it produces a very recognizable vocal effect, "locking" a voice to a scale, or drastically altering it.
Auto-tune was developed out of reflection seismology technology. In this paper, Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies. Auto-tune effects a resource management of the voice. The obvious artifice in its most extreme forms points us back to a centuries-long project to technologize human voices through standards and tuning. While journalists and music fans may argue over auto-tune's relationship to the authenticity of the voice, Sterne shows that it is embedded in a much broader politics of frequency.
Jonathan Sterne is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and for January-May 2014 a visiting researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003); and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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"BenMAP-CE: A new open source tool for estimating air quality benefits"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
4:30pm - 6:15pm
Harvard School of Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building, Room FXB-G11, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
4:30 Refreshments, 5:00-6:15 Presentation and Discussion
with Neal Fann, USEPA, Office of Air Quality and Standard
The environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program-Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) is a new open source PC-based tool that estimates the number, and economic value, of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. The U.S. EPA released version 1.0 of the tool in November, and over the next year will develop new features that enable users to more easily perform Environmental Justice, life table and multi-pollutant analyses.
Society for Risk Analysis Seminar
http://www.sra-ne.org/seminar.htm
Contact Name: Margarita Shablya
mshablya@healtheffects.org
RSVP by February 19 to Margarita Shablya.
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"Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency"
Thursday, February 20, 2014
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Sterne
Auto-tune is a ubiquitous vocal effect in popular music and the best-selling software plug-in in the short history of commercial digital audio software. When used with subtlety, auto-tune fixes slight errors or variances in pitch (usually of singers); when used more drastically, it produces a very recognizable vocal effect, "locking" a voice to a scale, or drastically altering it.
Auto-tune was developed out of reflection seismology technology. In this paper, Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies. Auto-tune effects a resource management of the voice. The obvious artifice in its most extreme forms points us back to a centuries-long project to technologize human voices through standards and tuning. While journalists and music fans may argue over auto-tune's relationship to the authenticity of the voice, Sterne shows that it is embedded in a much broader politics of frequency.
Jonathan Sterne is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and for January-May 2014 a visiting researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003); and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Geoengineering's Brave New World
Thursday, February 20, 2014
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Geoengineering: Science & Governance Series
This seminar series will explore the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering. In bringing together international experts, participants will learn some of the greatest challenges and hear opinions on how this technology could and should be managed.
An MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Harvard University Center for the Environment initiative.
Scott Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation. He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the Academic Panel to the Department of Environment in the UK.
Barrett previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale. Barrett is a research fellow with the Beijer Institute (Stockholm), CESifo (Munich), and the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
This seminar series, held jointly by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, explores the science, technology, governance and ethics of solar geoengineering.
Web site: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news-events/featured-events/event_id/554
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Harvard Center for the Environment
For more information, contact: Alli Roberts
617-253-6017
alligold@mit.edu
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Beyond Smart Cities: Design of new urban systems
Thursday, February 20
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Ryan Chin, managing director for the City Science Initiative at MIT Media Lab, who has developed numerous technologies, strategies, and designs to address congestion, energy inefficiency, and pollution, outlines new urban vehicle systems while highlighting possibilities for Greater Boston’s space-constrained streets. The talk will also explore innovations in the areas of energy, housing, and food-production systems that may close the gap between what we have and what we need. For example, what if we lived in high-density live/work neighborhoods where 80% of what most people need are within a 20-minute walk?
To attend, email rsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 2/20" in the subject line.
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City on exhibit at the BSA until May 26, 2014
http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/rights-of-way-mobility-and-the-city/
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Visual Effects: Looking at Seeing
February 20
6:00pm-7:00pm
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Margaret Livingstone and Dana Clancy
Margaret Livingstone and Dana Clancy will discuss what is known about visual illusions from the point of view of both science and art. Livingstone has recently been investigating the role that depth perception and its lack might play in the work of various artists. She and her team have collected evidence that a number of well known artists, including Rembrandt, might have been stereoblind, and will discuss what this means from the point of view of neuroscience. Clancy will discuss the way that her work “cultivat[es] the viewer’s awareness of shifting points of view in relation to both the paintings and how one experiences real space.” Together, these two thinkers and practitioners will discuss what art and science can tell us about some of the ways in which we experience and process the visual world.
Margaret Livingstone is a neuroscientist working in the field of vision. Her lab in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School studies the relationship between individual neurons and visual processing at a higher level. She has published widely in the field of vision, and is also the author of the book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. A side interest of her lab is applying what is known about vision to gain insight into discoveries artists have made about the ways we see.
Dana Clancy is an Assistant Professor of Art at Boston University. Her paintings have been shown in many group shows and in a number of solo shows, including Viewing Space at the Danforth Museum of Art and Points of View at Babson College. Her work focuses on the act of looking and on exploring how one constructs a viewing experience.
Catalyst Conversations @ Broad Institute in collaboration with Kendall Square Association Third Thursday
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#LocalFoodBiz Culinary Entrepreneur Happy Hour
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
CropCircle Kitchen, Inc., 31 Germania Street, Building I & J, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/localfoodbiz/events/163564202/
Come to our Third Thursday #LocalFoodBiz Happy Hour -- the place for food entrepreneurs to chat, and learn from one another, and warm up with a cold brew. In addition to talking with one another, on February 20th we will have the chance to hear from two different sides of food start-ups, training and financing:
We have the opportunity to chat and learn from Manassah Bradley. He is the senior business advisor at MSBDC and a parter at Loupe Consulting. He is teaching the upcoming business training course specialized for food entrepreneurs.
The Bentley Microfinance Group will also be joining us! They are a non-profit group that gives out microloans to small businesses and hold small business expos at Bentley to help small businesses network.
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The SciEx Meetup
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building N-51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Team up with fellow students from the Boston area to enter the cool science video competition (http://sciex.mit.edu). Come to network with science, engineering and art students, eat free food, and find out about the video competition. Can you join forces to create a short video about science or engineering that is as exciting (to the general public) as a video about extreme sports?
free food and drinks!
tutorial on making videos
networking opportunity
Web site: https://www.facebook.com/events/1420979798142112/?fref=ts
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Tickets: RSVP on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/1420979798142112/)
Sponsor(s): SCIEX, Office of the Dean for Graduate Education, Office of Digital Learning, Graduate Student Life Grants
For more information, contact: SCIEX
sciex@mit.edu
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Beyond Smart Cities: Design of new urban systems
Thursday, February 20
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Ryan Chin, managing director for the City Science Initiative at MIT Media Lab, who has developed numerous technologies, strategies, and designs to address congestion, energy inefficiency, and pollution, outlines new urban vehicle systems while highlighting possibilities for Greater Boston’s space-constrained streets. The talk will also explore innovations in the areas of energy, housing, and food-production systems that may close the gap between what we have and what we need. For example, what if we lived in high-density live/work neighborhoods where 80% of what most people need are within a 20-minute walk?
To attend, email rsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 2/20" in the subject line.
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City on exhibit at the BSA until May 26, 2014
http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/rights-of-way-mobility-and-the-city/
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Visual Effects: Looking at Seeing
February 20
6:00pm-7:00pm
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Margaret Livingstone and Dana Clancy
Margaret Livingstone and Dana Clancy will discuss what is known about visual illusions from the point of view of both science and art. Livingstone has recently been investigating the role that depth perception and its lack might play in the work of various artists. She and her team have collected evidence that a number of well known artists, including Rembrandt, might have been stereoblind, and will discuss what this means from the point of view of neuroscience. Clancy will discuss the way that her work “cultivat[es] the viewer’s awareness of shifting points of view in relation to both the paintings and how one experiences real space.” Together, these two thinkers and practitioners will discuss what art and science can tell us about some of the ways in which we experience and process the visual world.
Margaret Livingstone is a neuroscientist working in the field of vision. Her lab in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School studies the relationship between individual neurons and visual processing at a higher level. She has published widely in the field of vision, and is also the author of the book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. A side interest of her lab is applying what is known about vision to gain insight into discoveries artists have made about the ways we see.
Dana Clancy is an Assistant Professor of Art at Boston University. Her paintings have been shown in many group shows and in a number of solo shows, including Viewing Space at the Danforth Museum of Art and Points of View at Babson College. Her work focuses on the act of looking and on exploring how one constructs a viewing experience.
Catalyst Conversations @ Broad Institute in collaboration with Kendall Square Association Third Thursday
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#LocalFoodBiz Culinary Entrepreneur Happy Hour
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
CropCircle Kitchen, Inc., 31 Germania Street, Building I & J, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/localfoodbiz/events/163564202/
Come to our Third Thursday #LocalFoodBiz Happy Hour -- the place for food entrepreneurs to chat, and learn from one another, and warm up with a cold brew. In addition to talking with one another, on February 20th we will have the chance to hear from two different sides of food start-ups, training and financing:
We have the opportunity to chat and learn from Manassah Bradley. He is the senior business advisor at MSBDC and a parter at Loupe Consulting. He is teaching the upcoming business training course specialized for food entrepreneurs.
The Bentley Microfinance Group will also be joining us! They are a non-profit group that gives out microloans to small businesses and hold small business expos at Bentley to help small businesses network.
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The SciEx Meetup
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building N-51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Team up with fellow students from the Boston area to enter the cool science video competition (http://sciex.mit.edu). Come to network with science, engineering and art students, eat free food, and find out about the video competition. Can you join forces to create a short video about science or engineering that is as exciting (to the general public) as a video about extreme sports?
free food and drinks!
tutorial on making videos
networking opportunity
Web site: https://www.facebook.com/events/1420979798142112/?fref=ts
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Tickets: RSVP on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/1420979798142112/)
Sponsor(s): SCIEX, Office of the Dean for Graduate Education, Office of Digital Learning, Graduate Student Life Grants
For more information, contact: SCIEX
sciex@mit.edu
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YES Boston 2014: Innovation in Education Technology
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Goodwin Procter Conference Center, 53 State Street, 2nd Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/yes-boston-2014-innovation-in-education-technology-tickets-10111605083
Join Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) and Goodwin Procter as they present YES Boston 2014: Education Technology. EdTech is a fast growing sector and one can benefit from learning from those who have helped pave the way. This panel will draw from their expertise to discuss the current developments, opportunities, and challenges in the emerging sector.
Panelists:
Aaron Feuer, Co-Founder/CEO of Panorama Education
Jean Hammond, Co-Founder of LearnLaunchX
Dana Lampert, Co-Founder/CEO of Wiggio (acquired by Desire2Learn)
Christopher Mirabile, Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group
Panos Panay, Founder of Sonicbids / Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship
Chris Vento, Founder/CEO of Intellify Learning
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Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums
WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Katherine Boo, New Yorker Staff Writer, author of "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity," senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO sainit@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/katherine-boo/
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Shell Energy Forum
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30p–9:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Shell invites you to join Christina Sistrunk, VP of Production Assets and Claudia Hackbarth, Manager of Unconventional Gas & Tight Oil, to learn more about how Shell is using advanced technologies to help build a sustainable energy future. Networking with Shell employees will begin at 6:30pm followed by a presentation at 7:30pm. Food and Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP at http://goo.gl/rIJ3cq.
Web site: http://goo.gl/rIJ3cq
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Friday, February 21
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2014 MIT Energy Conference
February 21-22, 2014
Join Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) and Goodwin Procter as they present YES Boston 2014: Education Technology. EdTech is a fast growing sector and one can benefit from learning from those who have helped pave the way. This panel will draw from their expertise to discuss the current developments, opportunities, and challenges in the emerging sector.
Panelists:
Aaron Feuer, Co-Founder/CEO of Panorama Education
Jean Hammond, Co-Founder of LearnLaunchX
Dana Lampert, Co-Founder/CEO of Wiggio (acquired by Desire2Learn)
Christopher Mirabile, Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group
Panos Panay, Founder of Sonicbids / Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship
Chris Vento, Founder/CEO of Intellify Learning
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Innovation, Exploitation, and Documentation in the 21st-Century Slums
WHEN Thu., Feb. 20, 2014, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Katherine Boo, New Yorker Staff Writer, author of "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity," senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO sainit@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/katherine-boo/
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Shell Energy Forum
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30p–9:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Shell invites you to join Christina Sistrunk, VP of Production Assets and Claudia Hackbarth, Manager of Unconventional Gas & Tight Oil, to learn more about how Shell is using advanced technologies to help build a sustainable energy future. Networking with Shell employees will begin at 6:30pm followed by a presentation at 7:30pm. Food and Drinks will be provided. Please RSVP at http://goo.gl/rIJ3cq.
Web site: http://goo.gl/rIJ3cq
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Friday, February 21
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2014 MIT Energy Conference
February 21-22, 2014
8:00am - 8:00pm
MIT Stratton Student Center and Kresge Auditorium, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
http://mitenergyconference.com
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http://mitenergyconference.com
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New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
WHEN Fri., Feb. 21, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food Law Society; with support from the Top University Strategic Alliance and the Dean's Office at Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-directions-for-food-safety
WHEN Fri., Feb. 21, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food Law Society; with support from the Top University Strategic Alliance and the Dean's Office at Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/new-directions-for-food-safety
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Science Series, Ruben Juanes
Friday, February 21, 2014
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Ruben Juanes, CEE
Join us for our next Spain@MIT Science Seminar Series!
In this seminar, Professor Ruben Juanes from the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will talk about his research on simultaneous flow of two or more fluids through rocks and other porous materials, both experimentally and computationally, and its application in Carbon Capture and Storage. The seminar will be preceded by a continental breakfast.
Spain@MIT Science Series
The Spain@MIT Science Series is a seminar series that the club started two years ago with the objective of promoting the work of Spanish scientists among MIT students.
Web site: http://spain.mit.edu/category/science/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Spain@MIT, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact: Enrique Lizarraga
spaniards-request@mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Spain@MIT, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact: Enrique Lizarraga
spaniards-request@mit.edu
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Ozone Depletion: An Enduring Challenge
Friday, February 21, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Susan Solomon, MIT
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
Host: Jessica Smith
Email: jxsmith@huarp.harvard.edu
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Digital Technology for Bio-intelligence
Friday, February 21, 2014
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
BU, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 210, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45.
Yong-Jun Shin, University of Connecticut
Although biological or living systems show unique features, they are fundamentally governed by the same physical laws that rule non-living systems. For example, molecular dynamics (statistical mechanics) and density functional theory (quantum mechanics) can be used to model not only carbon nanotubes but also DNA molecules. However, what is often neglected is that some engineering tools, especially digital signal processing and control techniques, can complement conventional physics-based approaches when modeling unique biological features, such as adaptation or robustness, that exhibit intelligence. In this talk, I suggest that various digital techniques, including adaptive filtering (e.g., the Kalman filter) and digital feedback control, can model intelligent features of biological systems. Considering biological complexity, computational models should always be validated using relevant experiments. In that respect, digital modeling approaches can benefit our research efforts as they nicely integrate with experimental data, which are mostly digital these days. Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a relatively new technology that involves the manipulation of discrete and independently controllable micro/nano liter droplets and its suitability as a true lab-on-a-chip platform has been recently proposed. In this talk, I present DMF as an innovative platform for studying the intelligent features of biological systems digitally modeled.
Dr. Yong-Jun Shin is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UCONN). His current research interests include biological applications of estimation/control theory, multi-scale modeling of biological tissues, and digital microfluidics/bioMEMS. Prior to joining UCONN, he was a postdoctoral associate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received his M.D. from the Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea. He was a research associate at the Samsung Biomedical Research Institute (Seoul, Korea) before joining the Micro/Nano Devices and Systems (MiNDS) Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for his graduate work. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UTD, specializing in computational biology and digital microfluidics.
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"Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey" Performance by Elizabeth Liang
Friday, February 21, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang
Who are you when you're from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England.
Elizabeth Liang, like President Obama, is a Third Culture Kid or a TCK. Third Culture Kids are the children of international business people, global educators, diplomats, missionaries, and the military-anyone whose family has relocated overseas because of a job placement. Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms...Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women's college in the USA, Alien Citizen reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. She realizes that girls across the world are growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA). How does a young girl cope as a border/culture/language/religion straddler in country after country that feels "other" to her when she is the "other" Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?
Web site: web.mit.edu/wgs
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Women's and Gender Studies, DeFlorez Fund
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
3-8844
wgs@mit.edu
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Saturday, February 22
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
Saturday, February 22
St. Paul's Episcopal Churchm 39 E. Central Street, Natick
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=s4blzzbab&oeidk=a07e8rs0p9v554b139a
Sign up for a Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop to be eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan and reduce energy costs!
Would you like to save money for your parish? Did you know that the average parish in the diocese spends over $20,000 on energy costs annually but that savings of 20-30% are possible? Do you know Diocesan grant and loan funds are available to assist with energy efficiency improvements that can help achieve these savings? As importantly, reducing your energy use also cares for God’s creation by reducing the greenhouse gases your parish produces.
The Diocese’s Creation Care Initiative can help your parish learn how to reduce its energy use and cost, evaluate potential energy savings projects then purchase needed supplies and equipment.
The harvest has been plentiful! Since the grant program launched in 2011, we have granted nearly $600,000 in Green Grants to 69 congregations, and all have representatives that attended SHOWs to learn the whys and hows of sustainability and reducing carbon footprints. In 2014, we will have another round as we use the resources our diocese’s Together Now campaign has raised.
Consider this: whether you intend to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan or not, determining the size of your carbon footprint is the first step in energy savings and caring for creation. One of the first steps to being eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan is to attend a SHOW workshop.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Registration begins at 8:30 and the program starts at 9.
When you register, you will receive an easy-to-use spreadsheet to calculate your parish’s energy use and cost; you are encourage to fill it out and bring it to the workshop. You may also download the spreadsheet here: http://www.mipandl.org/MIPL_resources/MIPL_HOWUtiUseCost.xls
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 20TH
Contact Esther Powell
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
617.482.4826 x421
epowell@diomass.org
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Ideastorm - Free Event for High School Students
Saturday, February 22, 2014
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Cost: FREE
RSVP at http://youngentrepreneurchallenge.com/ideastorm/
What is IdeaStorm?
IdeaStorm is a mini-version of the Young Entrepreneur Challenge for high school students. Come into Cambridge, MA to work with the YEC mentor team to develop a new business idea.
When you're here, you'll join other high school students in a down and dirty brainstorming and business pitch event. Complete with coaching from our mentors and lots of prizes to win, IdeaStorm is the perfect exploration of entrepreneurship!
The Run Down
When is IdeaStorm?
The next IdeaStorm will take place on February 22nd, 2014 from 1.00PM to 5.00PM. Registration is now open!
Where is IdeaStorm?
IdeaStorm takes place at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Cambridge, MA at Kendall Square.
Do I have to do anything before IdeaStorm?
Nope! Simply show up and we'll take over from there!
Do I have to register?
We have limited spots so we'd appreciate if you could use the EventBrite registration form below to officially reserve your spot at IdeaStorm. You may also show up at the event and see if there's extra spots.
Digital Technology for Bio-intelligence
Friday, February 21, 2014
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
BU, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 210, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45.
Yong-Jun Shin, University of Connecticut
Although biological or living systems show unique features, they are fundamentally governed by the same physical laws that rule non-living systems. For example, molecular dynamics (statistical mechanics) and density functional theory (quantum mechanics) can be used to model not only carbon nanotubes but also DNA molecules. However, what is often neglected is that some engineering tools, especially digital signal processing and control techniques, can complement conventional physics-based approaches when modeling unique biological features, such as adaptation or robustness, that exhibit intelligence. In this talk, I suggest that various digital techniques, including adaptive filtering (e.g., the Kalman filter) and digital feedback control, can model intelligent features of biological systems. Considering biological complexity, computational models should always be validated using relevant experiments. In that respect, digital modeling approaches can benefit our research efforts as they nicely integrate with experimental data, which are mostly digital these days. Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a relatively new technology that involves the manipulation of discrete and independently controllable micro/nano liter droplets and its suitability as a true lab-on-a-chip platform has been recently proposed. In this talk, I present DMF as an innovative platform for studying the intelligent features of biological systems digitally modeled.
Dr. Yong-Jun Shin is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UCONN). His current research interests include biological applications of estimation/control theory, multi-scale modeling of biological tissues, and digital microfluidics/bioMEMS. Prior to joining UCONN, he was a postdoctoral associate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received his M.D. from the Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea. He was a research associate at the Samsung Biomedical Research Institute (Seoul, Korea) before joining the Micro/Nano Devices and Systems (MiNDS) Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for his graduate work. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UTD, specializing in computational biology and digital microfluidics.
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"Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey" Performance by Elizabeth Liang
Friday, February 21, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang
Who are you when you're from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England.
Elizabeth Liang, like President Obama, is a Third Culture Kid or a TCK. Third Culture Kids are the children of international business people, global educators, diplomats, missionaries, and the military-anyone whose family has relocated overseas because of a job placement. Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms...Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women's college in the USA, Alien Citizen reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. She realizes that girls across the world are growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA). How does a young girl cope as a border/culture/language/religion straddler in country after country that feels "other" to her when she is the "other" Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?
Web site: web.mit.edu/wgs
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Women's and Gender Studies, DeFlorez Fund
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
3-8844
wgs@mit.edu
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Saturday, February 22
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
Saturday, February 22
St. Paul's Episcopal Churchm 39 E. Central Street, Natick
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=s4blzzbab&oeidk=a07e8rs0p9v554b139a
Sign up for a Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop to be eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan and reduce energy costs!
Would you like to save money for your parish? Did you know that the average parish in the diocese spends over $20,000 on energy costs annually but that savings of 20-30% are possible? Do you know Diocesan grant and loan funds are available to assist with energy efficiency improvements that can help achieve these savings? As importantly, reducing your energy use also cares for God’s creation by reducing the greenhouse gases your parish produces.
The Diocese’s Creation Care Initiative can help your parish learn how to reduce its energy use and cost, evaluate potential energy savings projects then purchase needed supplies and equipment.
The harvest has been plentiful! Since the grant program launched in 2011, we have granted nearly $600,000 in Green Grants to 69 congregations, and all have representatives that attended SHOWs to learn the whys and hows of sustainability and reducing carbon footprints. In 2014, we will have another round as we use the resources our diocese’s Together Now campaign has raised.
Consider this: whether you intend to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan or not, determining the size of your carbon footprint is the first step in energy savings and caring for creation. One of the first steps to being eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan is to attend a SHOW workshop.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Registration begins at 8:30 and the program starts at 9.
When you register, you will receive an easy-to-use spreadsheet to calculate your parish’s energy use and cost; you are encourage to fill it out and bring it to the workshop. You may also download the spreadsheet here: http://www.mipandl.org/MIPL_resources/MIPL_HOWUtiUseCost.xls
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 20TH
Contact Esther Powell
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
617.482.4826 x421
epowell@diomass.org
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Ideastorm - Free Event for High School Students
Saturday, February 22, 2014
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Cost: FREE
RSVP at http://youngentrepreneurchallenge.com/ideastorm/
What is IdeaStorm?
IdeaStorm is a mini-version of the Young Entrepreneur Challenge for high school students. Come into Cambridge, MA to work with the YEC mentor team to develop a new business idea.
When you're here, you'll join other high school students in a down and dirty brainstorming and business pitch event. Complete with coaching from our mentors and lots of prizes to win, IdeaStorm is the perfect exploration of entrepreneurship!
The Run Down
When is IdeaStorm?
The next IdeaStorm will take place on February 22nd, 2014 from 1.00PM to 5.00PM. Registration is now open!
Where is IdeaStorm?
IdeaStorm takes place at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Cambridge, MA at Kendall Square.
Do I have to do anything before IdeaStorm?
Nope! Simply show up and we'll take over from there!
Do I have to register?
We have limited spots so we'd appreciate if you could use the EventBrite registration form below to officially reserve your spot at IdeaStorm. You may also show up at the event and see if there's extra spots.
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"Wild Animal Neighbors" Author Talk and Book Signing
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
2:00pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
In cities and suburbs around the world, wild creatures such as coyotes, alligators, and mountain lions are showing up where least expected. How can they survive in the contemporary world of concrete, steel, and glass? At the Harvard Museum of Natural History event, "Wild Animal Neighbors," author Ann Downer will discuss the factors that bring these creatures to our backyards and ways to create spaces for people and animals to live side by side.
Regular museum admission rates apply.
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Sunday, February 23
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The Trans Pacific Partnership Affects You: Find out How Public
Sunday, February 23
2:00pm until 4:00pm
SEIU Local 32BJ District 615, 26 West Street, Boston
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens internet freedom, labor rights, food safety, and national law. Our panel will focus on how the TPP will affect us all.
Speakers:
Kyle Debeausset, MoveOn.org, 20 years after NAFTA
John Ratliff, Jobs with Justice
Nisha Swinton, Food and Water Watch
Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee, Military Pivot to Asia
Sponsored by MoveOn Boston
Event endorsed by the American Friends Service Committee, Massachusetts Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace, Jobs with Justice (Mass.), and Alliance for Democracy
Speakers:
Kyle Debeausset, MoveOn.org, 20 years after NAFTA
John Ratliff, Jobs with Justice
Nisha Swinton, Food and Water Watch
Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee, Military Pivot to Asia
Sponsored by MoveOn Boston
Event endorsed by the American Friends Service Committee, Massachusetts Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace, Jobs with Justice (Mass.), and Alliance for Democracy
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Pecha Kucha Mamak @ MIT
Sunday, February 23, 2014
4:00p–5:15p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Coyin Oh, Han Hsien, David Feliciano, Nick Sazdanoff, Gabriel Yong, Kelvin Chong
Pecha Kucha Mamak
An evening of informal fun and educational/professional development in the art of concise and on-the-feet presentation skills using the Pecha Kucha 20x20 presentation format. Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and speakers present along with the images. We will have five to six speakers per session where MIT and non-MIT graduate and undergraduate students get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts, background, anything interesting, in the Pecha Kucha 20x20 format.
Join us for an evening of fun informal presentations in the 20 slides, 20 seconds format of Pecha Kucha. 6 talented speakers from different schools will be sharing their passions, stories and interests with the audience. Mamak-style drinks and snacks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. We would love to know in advance if you're coming, so do sign up at the events page! See you there!
Web site: http://masamit.scripts.mit.edu/blog/events/pecha-kucha-mamak-mit/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MITMASA, Graduate Student Council, ASUS
For more information, contact: Weng Hong
wenghong@mit.edu
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Monday, February 24
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PACE + Resiliency Forum
Monday, February 24th
Monday, February 24th
8:30-11:00am
Atlantic Wharf's Fort Point Room, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.usgbcma.org/civicrm/event/register?id=568&reset=1
Coffee & snacks will be provided.
How can Massachusetts be a leader in the financing of efficiency, renewables, and disaster resiliency?
Join us for an informative program on PACE financing legislation being introduced at the State House which will include a resiliency component. This will be a forum full of stakeholders looking at how state policy can unleash funds to strengthen our communities.
State Senator Brian Joyce will present his legislation to enhance the ability of entities - municipalities, institutions, and building owners - to access money for efficiency, renewables and resiliency improvements.
Final details of the program are being determined. Speakers include Dave Carey of Harcourt Brown & Carey (who drafted the initial PACE legislation in MA) and Laura Canter of MassDevelopment (among others) who will address:
The USGBC MA Chapter is proud to support this initiative and we call upon all green building and sustainable communities stakeholders to join us in advocating for this important policy development. Thank you to our co-sponsors Energi, Inc. and Boston Properties.
Contact Grey Lee greylee@usgbcma.org if you are interested in supporting this advocacy work. Join us for an exciting morning program & discussion of PACE + Resiliency!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Join us for an informative program on PACE financing legislation being introduced at the State House which will include a resiliency component. This will be a forum full of stakeholders looking at how state policy can unleash funds to strengthen our communities.
State Senator Brian Joyce will present his legislation to enhance the ability of entities - municipalities, institutions, and building owners - to access money for efficiency, renewables and resiliency improvements.
Final details of the program are being determined. Speakers include Dave Carey of Harcourt Brown & Carey (who drafted the initial PACE legislation in MA) and Laura Canter of MassDevelopment (among others) who will address:
Protecting property from disasters
Enhancing building energy efficiency
Stimulating renewable energy deployment in MA
The USGBC MA Chapter is proud to support this initiative and we call upon all green building and sustainable communities stakeholders to join us in advocating for this important policy development. Thank you to our co-sponsors Energi, Inc. and Boston Properties.
Contact Grey Lee greylee@usgbcma.org if you are interested in supporting this advocacy work. Join us for an exciting morning program & discussion of PACE + Resiliency!
We look forward to seeing you there.
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"Sonar Inside Your Body - Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks"
Monday, February 24
9:00AM - 10:30AM
442 Dana Research Center, 442 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Prof. Tommaso Melodia, EE, SUNY Buffalo
Abstract:
Wirelessly networked systems of implantable sensors and actuators could enable revolutionary new applications with a potential to advance the medical treatment of major diseases of our times. Yet, most "body area networks" research to date has focused on communications among devices interconnected through traditional electromagnetic radio-frequency (RF) waves (often along the body surface); while the key challenge of enabling networked intra-body miniaturized sensors and actuators that communicate through body tissues is largely unaddressed. The main obstacle is posed by thephysical nature of propagation in the human body, which is composed primarily of water - a medium through which RF electromagnetic waves do not propagate well.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our ongoing work exploring a different approach, i.e., establishing wireless networks through human
tissues by means of acoustic waves at ultrasonic frequencies. We will start off by discussing fundamental aspects of ultrasonic propagation in human tissues and their impact on wireless protocol design at different layers of the protocol stack. We will then discuss our research on designing and prototyping ultrasonic
networking protocols through a closed-loop combination of mathematical modeling, simulation, and experimental evaluation. Specifically, we will discuss three intertwined research activities, i.e, (i) ultrasonic propagation and channel modeling in human tissues; (ii) prototyping on software-defined radios of distributed physical/medium access control layer solutions for impulse-based ultrasonic networks; (iii) distributed and asynchronous cross-layer control and resource allocation algorithms based on stochastic modeling of ultrasonic interference.
Bio:
Tommaso Melodia is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and coauthored a paper that was recognized as the ISI Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Computer Science for February 2009 and of an ACM WUWNet 2013 Best Paper Award. He was the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for IEEE Globecom 2013 and the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for Information Systems for IEEE INFOCOM 2013. He serves in the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Computer Networks (Elsevier). His current research interests are in modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of networked communication systems, with applications to ultrasonic intra-body networks, cognitive and cooperative networks, multimedia sensor networks, and underwater networks.
Website: http://ece.neu.edu
442 Dana Research Center, 442 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Prof. Tommaso Melodia, EE, SUNY Buffalo
Abstract:
Wirelessly networked systems of implantable sensors and actuators could enable revolutionary new applications with a potential to advance the medical treatment of major diseases of our times. Yet, most "body area networks" research to date has focused on communications among devices interconnected through traditional electromagnetic radio-frequency (RF) waves (often along the body surface); while the key challenge of enabling networked intra-body miniaturized sensors and actuators that communicate through body tissues is largely unaddressed. The main obstacle is posed by thephysical nature of propagation in the human body, which is composed primarily of water - a medium through which RF electromagnetic waves do not propagate well.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our ongoing work exploring a different approach, i.e., establishing wireless networks through human
tissues by means of acoustic waves at ultrasonic frequencies. We will start off by discussing fundamental aspects of ultrasonic propagation in human tissues and their impact on wireless protocol design at different layers of the protocol stack. We will then discuss our research on designing and prototyping ultrasonic
networking protocols through a closed-loop combination of mathematical modeling, simulation, and experimental evaluation. Specifically, we will discuss three intertwined research activities, i.e, (i) ultrasonic propagation and channel modeling in human tissues; (ii) prototyping on software-defined radios of distributed physical/medium access control layer solutions for impulse-based ultrasonic networks; (iii) distributed and asynchronous cross-layer control and resource allocation algorithms based on stochastic modeling of ultrasonic interference.
Bio:
Tommaso Melodia is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and coauthored a paper that was recognized as the ISI Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Computer Science for February 2009 and of an ACM WUWNet 2013 Best Paper Award. He was the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for IEEE Globecom 2013 and the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for Information Systems for IEEE INFOCOM 2013. He serves in the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Computer Networks (Elsevier). His current research interests are in modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of networked communication systems, with applications to ultrasonic intra-body networks, cognitive and cooperative networks, multimedia sensor networks, and underwater networks.
Website: http://ece.neu.edu
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"Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
Monday, February 24, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Joern Huenteler, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
"Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
Monday, February 24, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Joern Huenteler, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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“Into the Wild: Exploring host-gut microbe dynamics in wild, nonhuman primates”
Monday, February 24, 2014
2:00pm
Geological Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Geological Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Katherine Amato (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder)
HEB Colloquium Series
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The Psychology of Scarcity
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sendhil Mullainathan, professor of economics, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sendhil Mullainathan, professor of economics, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Monday, February 24, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-M15, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
5:30p–7:00p
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-M15, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/9520
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture
Monday, February 24, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Founders of Art Reoriented New York and Munich
Aga Khan Lecture Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
For more information, contact: Jose Luis Arguello
253-1400
akpiarch@mit.edu
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Nerd Nite
Monday, February 24, 2014
Middlesex Lounge, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Presentations from MIT Water Club (http://waterclub.mit.edu/wp/)
It’s like the Discovery Channel with beer.
Nerds gather, drink, and listen to presentations on subjects that are ostensibly of great interest to nerds everywhere. Our esteemed volunteer presenters give 20-30 minute talks on a variety of nerdy topics. Our beloved DJ Claude Money of Soulelujah fame shows his nerdy side by selecting rare and not so rare 45s from his vast record collection to spin before, between, and after talks. Be there and be square!
Nerds gather, drink, and listen to presentations on subjects that are ostensibly of great interest to nerds everywhere. Our esteemed volunteer presenters give 20-30 minute talks on a variety of nerdy topics. Our beloved DJ Claude Money of Soulelujah fame shows his nerdy side by selecting rare and not so rare 45s from his vast record collection to spin before, between, and after talks. Be there and be square!
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Tuesday, February 25
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“BuzzFeed: The New Newsroom...Is It the Future?”
Tuesday, February 25
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mission Coherence and Contestation in Organizations
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Suraj Prasad (Sydney)
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Suraj Prasad (Sydney)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 24-121,
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Sponsor: MIT Energy Club
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 24-121,
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Sponsor: MIT Energy Club
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Race, Politics, and the Constitution of Difference
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
Tuesday, 2/25 - Between Society and Polity: Race as a Filter in Modern Politics
Wednesday, 2/26 - The Spectre of Race in the Comparative Method
Thursday, 2/27 - The Nation-State and Marginalized Populations: A New Research Agenda for African-American Studies
Wednesday, 2/26 - The Spectre of Race in the Comparative Method
Thursday, 2/27 - The Nation-State and Marginalized Populations: A New Research Agenda for African-American Studies
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Kosovo and the Politics of Human Rights
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Southeastern Europe Study Group
SPEAKER(S) John Cerone, Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
COST free
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Prodromou, elizabethprodromou@gmail.com
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1867
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Southeastern Europe Study Group
SPEAKER(S) John Cerone, Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
COST free
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Prodromou, elizabethprodromou@gmail.com
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1867
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Anne Gearan, Diplomatic Correspondent at The Washington Post
Tuesday, February 25
4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 102, Cason Seminar Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Women and Public Policy Program.
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
7:00 PMHarvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
danah boyd
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome social media scholar and youth advocate DANAHBOYD for a discussion of her latest book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boydfinds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity.
Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome social media scholar and youth advocate DANAHBOYD for a discussion of her latest book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boydfinds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity.
Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
"In explaining the networked realm of teens, boyd has the insights of a sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and the savvy of a technologist. For parents puzzled about what their kids are doing online, this is an indispensable book."—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs
General Info: (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
info@harvard.com
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Wednesday, February 26
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Small Screens, Big Changes: Frontiers in Mobile Technology for Nutrition and Health (Wednesday Seminar Series)
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Tufts, Jaharis, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Tufts, Jaharis, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Charles Teague (LoseIt!), Nick Patel (Wellable) and Neal Lesh (Dimagi), moderated by Lisa Gualteri (TUSM)
Contact: Charlene Stevens
charlene.stevens@tufts.edu
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Artist Talk + Panel on Fukushima Activism, Postwar Pop, Intermedia Art and Global Hip-Hop
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
3:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events (Feb. 26-27) including live music and panel discussions
Artist Talk with Zeebra (Japanese hip-hop emcee) and MIT Professor Ian Condry, followed by presentations:
Marie Abe (BU) "Sounding Against Nuclear Power in Post-Fukushima Japan"
Miki Kaneda (Harvard) "Sonic Encounters Between Art and the Everyday in 1960s Japan"
Hiromu Nagahara (MIT) "The Politics of Pop Music Before J-Pop"
Murray Forman (NEU) "Move the Planet: Post-National Hip-Hop Diaspora"
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
3:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events (Feb. 26-27) including live music and panel discussions
Artist Talk with Zeebra (Japanese hip-hop emcee) and MIT Professor Ian Condry, followed by presentations:
Marie Abe (BU) "Sounding Against Nuclear Power in Post-Fukushima Japan"
Miki Kaneda (Harvard) "Sonic Encounters Between Art and the Everyday in 1960s Japan"
Hiromu Nagahara (MIT) "The Politics of Pop Music Before J-Pop"
Murray Forman (NEU) "Move the Planet: Post-National Hip-Hop Diaspora"
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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Synthetic: How Life Got Made
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:00pm
Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Sophia Roosth
During the fellowship year, Sophia Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Speaker Bio:
Sophia Roosth is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the 20th- and 21st-century life sciences, examining how biology is changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works.
During the fellowship year, Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Roosth was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She received her doctorate from the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. Roosth’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her recent publications have appeared in journals including American Anthropologist, Critical Inquiry, Differences, Representations, and Science in Context.
Part of the 2013–2014 Fellows Presentation Series
Host: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Contact: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/contact
Phone: (617) 496-8239
Email: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Host: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Contact: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/contact
Phone: (617) 496-8239
Email: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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"Gas-driven Fracturing – Influence of Gas Composition and State"
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:00pm
301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Derek Elsworth, Penn State University
Abstract: Gaseous stimulants offer some advantages in the “hydraulic” fracturing of low permeability reservoirs over traditional water-based fluids. These include conserving water as a resource, avoiding the activation of clays with added water and in potentially sequestering greenhouse gases and in utilizing competitive sorption for the improved recovery of the hydrocarbon reserve. In addition, the energetics of the gas stimulant may be advantageous in developing networks of increased complexity. Experimental observations are presented of the influence of gas composition and state on the breakdown pressures and evolving fracture complexity of fractures driven by gas – as an analog to hydraulic fracturing in situ for hydrocarbon recovery – for example in gas shales. Gas-fracturing experiments on finitelength boreholes indicate that the breakdown pressure is a strong function of fracturing fluid composition and state – converse to the principle of effective stress. Breakdown stress is shown to correlate with fluid exclusion or invasion into the borehole wall as a function of interfacial characteristics. Interfacial tension, in turn, is modulated by fluid state, as sub- or supercritical, and thus gas type and state influence the breakdown pressure. We explore linkages in the resulting fracture complexity that is indexed by breakdown pressure.
Abstract: Gaseous stimulants offer some advantages in the “hydraulic” fracturing of low permeability reservoirs over traditional water-based fluids. These include conserving water as a resource, avoiding the activation of clays with added water and in potentially sequestering greenhouse gases and in utilizing competitive sorption for the improved recovery of the hydrocarbon reserve. In addition, the energetics of the gas stimulant may be advantageous in developing networks of increased complexity. Experimental observations are presented of the influence of gas composition and state on the breakdown pressures and evolving fracture complexity of fractures driven by gas – as an analog to hydraulic fracturing in situ for hydrocarbon recovery – for example in gas shales. Gas-fracturing experiments on finitelength boreholes indicate that the breakdown pressure is a strong function of fracturing fluid composition and state – converse to the principle of effective stress. Breakdown stress is shown to correlate with fluid exclusion or invasion into the borehole wall as a function of interfacial characteristics. Interfacial tension, in turn, is modulated by fluid state, as sub- or supercritical, and thus gas type and state influence the breakdown pressure. We explore linkages in the resulting fracture complexity that is indexed by breakdown pressure.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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SSRC Seminar: Enterprise Evaluation of the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Andrea Ippolito, SSRC Research Assistant
Please join us for our next spring seminar. Andrea Ippolito will discuss the student-lead enterprise evaluation of the MA HIway using the enterprise strategic analysis for transformation (ESAT) and enterprise architecting (EA) methodologies. Light refreshments will be served.
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Andrea Ippolito, SSRC Research Assistant
Please join us for our next spring seminar. Andrea Ippolito will discuss the student-lead enterprise evaluation of the MA HIway using the enterprise strategic analysis for transformation (ESAT) and enterprise architecting (EA) methodologies. Light refreshments will be served.
Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact: Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
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Building Earth-like Planets: From Gas to Dust to Ocean Worlds
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:00pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Linda Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution
How do planets form, and what makes them habitable? Where might life be found beyond our solar system? Linda Elkins-Tanton, an expert in planet formation and evolution, will discuss how the violent impacts that are the “final act” of a planet’s creation may not always wipe out water and carbon from the early growth period. Enough of these all-important elements may have existed to make many rocky planets and exoplanets habitable, increasing the likelihood that life might exist elsewhere among the Milky Way’s 17 billion Earth-sized planets.
A Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
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Dirt! The Movie
Wednesday, February 26
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, 2nd Floor, Downtown Crossing, Boston
Registration required by contacting 617-542- 7696 or email dana@bostonnatural.org
Wednesday, February 26
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, 2nd Floor, Downtown Crossing, Boston
Registration required by contacting 617-542- 7696 or email dana@bostonnatural.org
All programs are free and open to the public.
A panel discussion with soil specialists will immediately follow the film with special guests:
Bruce Fulford, President, City Soil and Greenhouse, LLC
Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Associated Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Dan Kittredge, Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association
Bruce Fulford, President, City Soil and Greenhouse, LLC
Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Associated Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Dan Kittredge, Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association
Explore the magical world of soil in this insightful and timely film. Following the history and current state of the living organic matter, “Dirt! The Movie” takes a humorous and substantial look at the glorious and often unappreciated material beneath our feet. Join Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, associate professor at Boston University School of Public Health, and others for a panel discussion following the screening.
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Post-Sustainability: Thinking Big
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
MFA, Remis Auditorium, 161
Tickets http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/post-sustainability-thinking-big
Cost: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students), $18 Nonmembers
Esther Steinberg Memorial Architecture Lecture
Mitchell Joachim, architect and designer; TED Fellow; co-president Terreform ONE
In 2008, Wired magazine selected Mitchell Joachim as one of the 15 people "the next president should listen to," and Rolling Stone honored him as among the 100 people who are changing America. Joachim is inspiring and creating the next generation of cities by answering the question: What are the most stimulating solutions to global climate change? His extraordinary projects have included homes grown from native trees, structural elements made out of fungi, and soft “self-healing” cars. As he told theHuffington Post, "Don't swallow the pill that someone else gave you. We can create a better city."
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
Ticket policies
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
MFA, Remis Auditorium, 161
Tickets http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/post-sustainability-thinking-big
Cost: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students), $18 Nonmembers
Esther Steinberg Memorial Architecture Lecture
Mitchell Joachim, architect and designer; TED Fellow; co-president Terreform ONE
In 2008, Wired magazine selected Mitchell Joachim as one of the 15 people "the next president should listen to," and Rolling Stone honored him as among the 100 people who are changing America. Joachim is inspiring and creating the next generation of cities by answering the question: What are the most stimulating solutions to global climate change? His extraordinary projects have included homes grown from native trees, structural elements made out of fungi, and soft “self-healing” cars. As he told theHuffington Post, "Don't swallow the pill that someone else gave you. We can create a better city."
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
Ticket policies
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Environment, and Plasticity lecture
The brain is an astonishing organ. It enables us to speak, solve problems, create new ideas, and consider abstract thoughts. Scientists have identified critical periods for brain development when we are young. A recent surprise, though, is the finding that the brain has remarkable plasticity, even in our golden years. Join us for a journey into the brain to discover how our parents and life experiences influence its growth, and how we can nurture its healthful development. Explore what is possible when we apply our boundless ingenuity to bolster ourselves, restore our reserves, and improve our future.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Boston's Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healthy-brains-genes-environment-and-plasticity-registration-9882994302
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healthy-brains-genes-environment-and-plasticity-registration-9882994302
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
The brain is an astonishing organ. It enables us to speak, solve problems, create new ideas, and consider abstract thoughts. Scientists have identified critical periods for brain development when we are young. A recent surprise, though, is the finding that the brain has remarkable plasticity, even in our golden years. Join us for a journey into the brain to discover how our parents and life experiences influence its growth, and how we can nurture its healthful development. Explore what is possible when we apply our boundless ingenuity to bolster ourselves, restore our reserves, and improve our future.
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LIVE HIP-HOP from Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
8:00p–1:00a
Middlesex Lounge, Central Square, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events Feb. 26-27
Live Hip-Hop from Tokyo featuring Zeebra & Miss Monday, plus local faves WTF
8pm WTF (Wallys Tuesday Funk, local funk jazz band)
9pm Miss Monday (hip-hop emcee and reggae legend from Tokyo)
10pm Guest DJ set by Zeebra (Tokyo-based emcee and international recording artist)
11p - 1a international dance party with DJ Ian C. and more . . .
Please note: 18+ event, 18-20 year-olds - please RSVP to Kevin McLellan (poet@mit.edu)
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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Thursday, February 27
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8:00p–1:00a
Middlesex Lounge, Central Square, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events Feb. 26-27
Live Hip-Hop from Tokyo featuring Zeebra & Miss Monday, plus local faves WTF
8pm WTF (Wallys Tuesday Funk, local funk jazz band)
9pm Miss Monday (hip-hop emcee and reggae legend from Tokyo)
10pm Guest DJ set by Zeebra (Tokyo-based emcee and international recording artist)
11p - 1a international dance party with DJ Ian C. and more . . .
Please note: 18+ event, 18-20 year-olds - please RSVP to Kevin McLellan (poet@mit.edu)
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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Thursday, February 27
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Greenovate Boston Meet-up for Small Businesses: Greening your Bottom Line
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects Space, 290 Congress Street, 2nd Floor, Pearl Room, Boston
Join us for a small business meet-up to learn how many small businesses across the city are taking advantage of programs and incentives to improve their bottom line, meet new customer demands for more environmentally-friendly products and services, and help Boston reach its climate action goals. You'll also have the opportunity to provide feedback for small business programs and services that will help shape the 2014 Climate Action Plan Update.
Climate Action Liaison Coalition (CALC) is a pilot program designed for environmentally concerned business owners. It helps them to take direct, targeted action to end the climate crisis. We enable local small business leaders to implement initiatives within their businesses to increase preparedness and resilience to climate change, enhance their long term sustainability, and advocate more efficiently for robust environmental policy.
http://www.climateactioncoalition.org
Greenovate Boston is a community-driven movement to get all Bostonians involved in reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, as outlined in the City’s Climate Action Plan. By laying out the necessary steps to reduce the causes of and to prepare for climate change, the Climate Action Plan gives Greenovate Boston a framework for building a greener, healthier, and more prosperous city.
http://www.greenovateboston.org
Boston Society of Architects Space, 290 Congress Street, 2nd Floor, Pearl Room, Boston
Climate Action Liaison Coalition (CALC) is a pilot program designed for environmentally concerned business owners. It helps them to take direct, targeted action to end the climate crisis. We enable local small business leaders to implement initiatives within their businesses to increase preparedness and resilience to climate change, enhance their long term sustainability, and advocate more efficiently for robust environmental policy.
http://www.climateactioncoalition.org
Greenovate Boston is a community-driven movement to get all Bostonians involved in reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, as outlined in the City’s Climate Action Plan. By laying out the necessary steps to reduce the causes of and to prepare for climate change, the Climate Action Plan gives Greenovate Boston a framework for building a greener, healthier, and more prosperous city.
http://www.greenovateboston.org
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Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
Thursday, February 27, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 3-333
Speaker: Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Energy Lectures Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Aziz Abdellahi
aziz_a@mit.edu
Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
Thursday, February 27, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 3-333
Speaker: Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Energy Lectures Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Aziz Abdellahi
aziz_a@mit.edu
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Herbie Hancock: "The Ethics of Jazz - Cultural Diplomacy"
Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College
Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/docketevents.html
The first MIT BIG DATA CHALLENGE ended on January 20th, 2014 and now its time to announce the WINNERS for the prediction and visualization challenges. Prizes totaling $10K.
Hear from the winning teams on what they did and lessons learned.
Invited Guest Speaker: NIGEL JACOB from the City of Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Visualization Judging Panel will provide feedback and announce the winners:
Vineet Gupta, Transportation Planning Director, City of Boston
Haris Koutsopoulos, Research Associate and Professor of Transport Science, MIT
Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab, MIT
Mona Vernon, Emerging Technology, Thomson Reuters
Martin Wattenberg, Google, Cambridge Lab
This event is open to the community.
For more information About the Challenge: http://bigdatachallenge.csail.mit.edu/
For more information MIT Big Data Initiative: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
Questions about the Event please contact: Susana Kevorkova, skevorkova@csail.mit.edu
Co-sponsored by: Bigdata@CSAIL and Transportation@MIT
Challenge Partner: City of Boston
Data Partners: Creative CMT, GNIP, MBTA, Telenav, Twitter
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Friday, February 28
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents: Evolution of Capacity (and Energy) Market Design in New England
Friday, February 28, 2014
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
Dr. Sam Newell, Principal, The Brattle Group
Bill Mohl, President, Entergy Wholesale Commodities
Julien Dumoulin-Smith, Exec. Director, U.S. Electric Utility/IPP Group, UBS Investment Bank
Don Sipe, Partner, PretiFlaherty
Come hear about the competing proposals filed last Friday at FERC by ISO New England and NEPOOL for changes to New England's capacity market design. Dr. Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development at ISO New England, will describe ISO's proposed market rule changes developed through its strategic planning initiative to address resource performance in the wholesale market and to implement Pay for Performance in the Forward Capacity Market. Peter Fuller, Director of Regulatory Affairs at
NRG Energy/GenOn, will then describe an alternate proposal supported by NEPOOL. The ISO submitted both proposals together, in what is known as a "jump ball" filing, for FERC to decide.
To provide a broader context for these proposals, we will begin with a panel to discuss the evolution of both capacity and energy market design in New England, including a comparison with other regions. This panel will explore the intended role of capacity markets vis-a-vis energy markets, including where things stand now, and what types of improvements may (or may not) be warranted. We have assembled an excellent panel with deep and broad expertise and experience on this topic.
Free and open to the public with no advanced
registration!
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:00 PM
Sanders Theater/Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy, Cambridge
Sanders Theater/Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy, Cambridge
The 2014 Norton Lectures - Presented by Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Series of Six Lectures: February 3 - March 31, 2014
Set 3 - CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE VOICE OF FREEDOM
Upcoming Lectures
March 10, 2014 Set 4 - INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
March 24, 2014 Set 5 - BUDDHISM AND CREATIVITY
March 31, 2014 Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C.C. Stillman (Harvard 1898). Incumbents are in residence through their tenure of the Chair, and deliver six lectures.
The term "poetry" is interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts. Previous holders of the Chair include Gilbert Murray (1926-27), T.S. Eliot (1932-33), Igor Stravinsky (1939-40), Paul Hindemith (1949-50), Ben Shahn (1956-57), Leonard Bernstein (1972-73), Frank Stella (1982-84), John Cage (1988-89), and Luciano Berio (1992-93).
Event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available at Sanders Theatre starting at noon on the day of each lecture.
Tickets also available online starting at noon on the day of each lecture at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu (handling fee applies). Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid only until 3:45 pm.
Series of Six Lectures: February 3 - March 31, 2014
Set 3 - CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE VOICE OF FREEDOM
Upcoming Lectures
March 10, 2014 Set 4 - INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
March 24, 2014 Set 5 - BUDDHISM AND CREATIVITY
March 31, 2014 Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C.C. Stillman (Harvard 1898). Incumbents are in residence through their tenure of the Chair, and deliver six lectures.
The term "poetry" is interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts. Previous holders of the Chair include Gilbert Murray (1926-27), T.S. Eliot (1932-33), Igor Stravinsky (1939-40), Paul Hindemith (1949-50), Ben Shahn (1956-57), Leonard Bernstein (1972-73), Frank Stella (1982-84), John Cage (1988-89), and Luciano Berio (1992-93).
Event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available at Sanders Theatre starting at noon on the day of each lecture.
Tickets also available online starting at noon on the day of each lecture at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu (handling fee applies). Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid only until 3:45 pm.
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"Following Images to Environmental History: Oil Spectacles and New Deal Home Gardens, Two Case Studies"
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College
Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/docketevents.html
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MIT Big Data Challenge - Transportation in the City of Boston
Thursday, February 27, 2014
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Join us at 5:15pm to view screening of the visualization submissions!
MIT, Stata Center, Building 32, Room: 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP (and see who is coming) at https://bdchallengeevent.eventbrite.com
Thursday, February 27, 2014
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Join us at 5:15pm to view screening of the visualization submissions!
MIT, Stata Center, Building 32, Room: 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP (and see who is coming) at https://bdchallengeevent.eventbrite.com
The first MIT BIG DATA CHALLENGE ended on January 20th, 2014 and now its time to announce the WINNERS for the prediction and visualization challenges. Prizes totaling $10K.
Hear from the winning teams on what they did and lessons learned.
Invited Guest Speaker: NIGEL JACOB from the City of Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Visualization Judging Panel will provide feedback and announce the winners:
Vineet Gupta, Transportation Planning Director, City of Boston
Haris Koutsopoulos, Research Associate and Professor of Transport Science, MIT
Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab, MIT
Mona Vernon, Emerging Technology, Thomson Reuters
Martin Wattenberg, Google, Cambridge Lab
This event is open to the community.
For more information About the Challenge: http://bigdatachallenge.csail.mit.edu/
For more information MIT Big Data Initiative: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
Questions about the Event please contact: Susana Kevorkova, skevorkova@csail.mit.edu
Co-sponsored by: Bigdata@CSAIL and Transportation@MIT
Challenge Partner: City of Boston
Data Partners: Creative CMT, GNIP, MBTA, Telenav, Twitter
Susana Kevorkova, Assistant to Elizabeth Bruce & Big Data Initiative at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
w. 617.324.8424
c. 323.528.6013
http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/ Friday, February 28
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents: Evolution of Capacity (and Energy) Market Design in New England
Friday, February 28, 2014
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
Dr. Sam Newell, Principal, The Brattle Group
Bill Mohl, President, Entergy Wholesale Commodities
Julien Dumoulin-Smith, Exec. Director, U.S. Electric Utility/IPP Group, UBS Investment Bank
Don Sipe, Partner, PretiFlaherty
Come hear about the competing proposals filed last Friday at FERC by ISO New England and NEPOOL for changes to New England's capacity market design. Dr. Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development at ISO New England, will describe ISO's proposed market rule changes developed through its strategic planning initiative to address resource performance in the wholesale market and to implement Pay for Performance in the Forward Capacity Market. Peter Fuller, Director of Regulatory Affairs at
NRG Energy/GenOn, will then describe an alternate proposal supported by NEPOOL. The ISO submitted both proposals together, in what is known as a "jump ball" filing, for FERC to decide.
To provide a broader context for these proposals, we will begin with a panel to discuss the evolution of both capacity and energy market design in New England, including a comparison with other regions. This panel will explore the intended role of capacity markets vis-a-vis energy markets, including where things stand now, and what types of improvements may (or may not) be warranted. We have assembled an excellent panel with deep and broad expertise and experience on this topic.
Free and open to the public with no advanced
registration!
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Aircraft-based Measurements of Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Operations in the Bakken, the Barnett, and the Marcellus Formations
Friday, February 28, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Paul Shepson, Purdue
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
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Saturday, March 1
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
Saturday, March 1
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 River Road, Topsfield
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=s4blzzbab&oeidk=a07e8sp7hkpc2a4f02a
Sign up for a Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop to be eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan and reduce energy costs!
Would you like to save money for your parish? Did you know that the average parish in the diocese spends over $20,000 on energy costs annually but that savings of 20-30% are possible? Do you know Diocesan grant and loan funds are available to assist with energy efficiency improvements that can help achieve these savings? As importantly, reducing your energy use also cares for God’s creation by reducing the greenhouse gases your parish produces.
The Diocese’s Creation Care Initiative can help your parish learn how to reduce its energy use and cost, evaluate potential energy savings projects then purchase needed supplies and equipment.
The harvest has been plentiful! Since the grant program launched in 2011, we have granted nearly $600,000 in Green Grants to 69 congregations, and all have representatives that attended SHOWs to learn the whys and hows of sustainability and reducing carbon footprints. In 2014, we will have another round as we use the resources our diocese’s Together Now campaign has raised.
Consider this: whether you intend to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan or not, determining the size of your carbon footprint is the first step in energy savings and caring for creation. One of the first steps to being eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan is to attend a SHOW workshop.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Registration begins at 8:30 and the program starts at 9.
When you register, you will receive an easy-to-use spreadsheet to calculate your parish’s energy use and cost; you are encourage to fill it out and bring it to the workshop. You may also download the spreadsheet here: http://www.mipandl.org/MIPL_resources/MIPL_HOWUtiUseCost.xls
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
Location Information: Trinity Church is located just off I-95 at 124 River Road in Topsfield. Click here for directions. The workshop will take place in the Vestry Room/Worship Room space, which is in the office wing. There will be signs to direct you! The space is completely handicap-accessible.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 27TH
Contact Esther Powell
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
617.482.4826 x421
epowell@diomass.org
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Countersurveillance Hackathon Cambridge
Center For Civic Media
Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EAT)
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/countersurveillance-hackathon-cambridge-tickets-10302010591
The MIT Media Lab Codesign Studio team is organizing, hosting, participating in, and supporting several countersurveillance DiscoTechs (short for “Discovering Technology”) during the spring of 2014, mostly on March 1st and 2nd.
Cool! What’s a DiscoTech?
Our DiscoTechs follow the model developed by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition:
A DiscoTech is a community-based, community-organized, multimedia workshop and fair. At a DiscoTech, participants learn more about the impacts and possibilities of technology, and take part in fun, interactive and media-based workshops. Discotech workshops are designed to demystify technology and create a space where we can inform and engage our community [...] A Discotech utilizes the unique skills and expertise within each community, and morphs to adapt to changing needs. [Seehttp://detroitdjc.org/zines]
Our countersurveillance DiscoTechs are free, open, multi-site events, with confirmed locations in Boston, San Francisco, Palestine, and additional locations TBA (as well as online). This registration page is for the Cambridge event.
What will happen at the Countersurveillance DiscoTechs?
At the countersurveillance DiscoTechs, we’ll focus on creating welcoming spaces where a wide range of people (not just techies and activists!) will feel welcome exploring, learning about, and sharing each others’ experiences with surveillance. At the same time, we’re inviting community organizations, technologists, developers, and designers to come to the DiscoTechs to sprint/hack on projects together. There will be speakers and workshops. We’ll dive in deep to understand surveillance tools, systems, and histories. We’ll also get hands-on with tools and approaches that can strengthen our communities’ privacy, safety, and security. We’ll break down structural inequality in surveillance regimes that disproportionately target people of color, working people, immigrants, and activists. Our goals will be to understand surveillance in everyday life, and to work hands-on with community-based organizations to strengthen countersurveillance strategies and tools.
Awesome! How can I participate?
In Cambridge? We'd love to see you at the event. Just register above. A full list of locations can be found at the DiscoTech page of the Codesign website. If you don't see a place near you, we'd love to support you in starting one where you are!
Projects to be Hacked:
TBD, based on project partners and the codesign studio.
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Concert for the Silver Maple Forest
Saturday, March 1, 2014
7:30pm
The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist, 404 Concord Avenue, Belmont
Tickets: http://www.belmontcoalition.org
Donation $25 or $27 at the door
Featuring: The Loomers
with food baby opening
Contact Save the Silver Maple Forest
https://www.facebook.com/savethesilvermapleforest
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
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Saturday, March 1
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
Saturday, March 1
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 River Road, Topsfield
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=s4blzzbab&oeidk=a07e8sp7hkpc2a4f02a
Sign up for a Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop to be eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan and reduce energy costs!
Would you like to save money for your parish? Did you know that the average parish in the diocese spends over $20,000 on energy costs annually but that savings of 20-30% are possible? Do you know Diocesan grant and loan funds are available to assist with energy efficiency improvements that can help achieve these savings? As importantly, reducing your energy use also cares for God’s creation by reducing the greenhouse gases your parish produces.
The Diocese’s Creation Care Initiative can help your parish learn how to reduce its energy use and cost, evaluate potential energy savings projects then purchase needed supplies and equipment.
The harvest has been plentiful! Since the grant program launched in 2011, we have granted nearly $600,000 in Green Grants to 69 congregations, and all have representatives that attended SHOWs to learn the whys and hows of sustainability and reducing carbon footprints. In 2014, we will have another round as we use the resources our diocese’s Together Now campaign has raised.
Consider this: whether you intend to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan or not, determining the size of your carbon footprint is the first step in energy savings and caring for creation. One of the first steps to being eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan is to attend a SHOW workshop.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Registration begins at 8:30 and the program starts at 9.
When you register, you will receive an easy-to-use spreadsheet to calculate your parish’s energy use and cost; you are encourage to fill it out and bring it to the workshop. You may also download the spreadsheet here: http://www.mipandl.org/MIPL_resources/MIPL_HOWUtiUseCost.xls
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
Location Information: Trinity Church is located just off I-95 at 124 River Road in Topsfield. Click here for directions. The workshop will take place in the Vestry Room/Worship Room space, which is in the office wing. There will be signs to direct you! The space is completely handicap-accessible.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 27TH
Contact Esther Powell
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
617.482.4826 x421
epowell@diomass.org
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Countersurveillance Hackathon Cambridge
Center For Civic Media
Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EAT)
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/countersurveillance-hackathon-cambridge-tickets-10302010591
The MIT Media Lab Codesign Studio team is organizing, hosting, participating in, and supporting several countersurveillance DiscoTechs (short for “Discovering Technology”) during the spring of 2014, mostly on March 1st and 2nd.
Cool! What’s a DiscoTech?
Our DiscoTechs follow the model developed by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition:
A DiscoTech is a community-based, community-organized, multimedia workshop and fair. At a DiscoTech, participants learn more about the impacts and possibilities of technology, and take part in fun, interactive and media-based workshops. Discotech workshops are designed to demystify technology and create a space where we can inform and engage our community [...] A Discotech utilizes the unique skills and expertise within each community, and morphs to adapt to changing needs. [Seehttp://detroitdjc.org/zines]
Our countersurveillance DiscoTechs are free, open, multi-site events, with confirmed locations in Boston, San Francisco, Palestine, and additional locations TBA (as well as online). This registration page is for the Cambridge event.
What will happen at the Countersurveillance DiscoTechs?
At the countersurveillance DiscoTechs, we’ll focus on creating welcoming spaces where a wide range of people (not just techies and activists!) will feel welcome exploring, learning about, and sharing each others’ experiences with surveillance. At the same time, we’re inviting community organizations, technologists, developers, and designers to come to the DiscoTechs to sprint/hack on projects together. There will be speakers and workshops. We’ll dive in deep to understand surveillance tools, systems, and histories. We’ll also get hands-on with tools and approaches that can strengthen our communities’ privacy, safety, and security. We’ll break down structural inequality in surveillance regimes that disproportionately target people of color, working people, immigrants, and activists. Our goals will be to understand surveillance in everyday life, and to work hands-on with community-based organizations to strengthen countersurveillance strategies and tools.
Awesome! How can I participate?
In Cambridge? We'd love to see you at the event. Just register above. A full list of locations can be found at the DiscoTech page of the Codesign website. If you don't see a place near you, we'd love to support you in starting one where you are!
Projects to be Hacked:
TBD, based on project partners and the codesign studio.
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Concert for the Silver Maple Forest
Saturday, March 1, 2014
7:30pm
The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist, 404 Concord Avenue, Belmont
Tickets: http://www.belmontcoalition.org
Donation $25 or $27 at the door
Featuring: The Loomers
with food baby opening
Contact Save the Silver Maple Forest
https://www.facebook.com/savethesilvermapleforest
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ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Monday, March 3, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), MIT; and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica (IIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
EPA’s Gina McCarthy To Give Remarks At BE14.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
March 4, 2014
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Registration Fees:
FREE for Massachusetts and New England Specialty Crop Producers (See USDA definition here)
$100 for All Other Exhibitors (Local Food Aggregators, Distributors, and Non-Specialty Local Food Producers)
$25 for Attendees (Buyers and Others)
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is excited to announce its third Local Food Trade Show. This event is sponsored by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event are Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Health Care Without Harm.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate trade between local buyers and producers of specialty crop food products and includes expert panels on overcoming barriers to selling and buying local products, as well as open floor trading.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show will attract:
Massachusetts and New England-based specialty and non-specialty crop growers, fishermen, and value-added producers who are looking to connect to interested wholesale buyers
Massachusetts and New England-based buyers, including college and healthcare institutions, restaurants, retail grocers and more
Other organizations that support or do business with food growers, producers or buyers
Event Itinerary:
7:30am - 9:45am Set-up for Exhibitors
7:30am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:45am Seminar #1 (Buyer Seminar)
9:45am - 12:00pm Open Floor Trading
12:15pm - 1:30pm Seminar #2 (Producer Seminar)
Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for $11.00 and will be available to pick up from 11:30am until 1:30pm
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How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
March 4, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/lakhani#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems, however, is whether disclosures take place only after final innovations are completed or whether disclosures relate to intermediate solutions and advances. Karim Lakhani will present experimental evidence showing that implementing intermediate versus final disclosures does not just create quantitative tradeoffs in shaping the rate of innovation. Rather, it qualitatively transforms the very nature of the innovation search process. Intermediate disclosures have the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solutions, but curtails experimentation and wider search. He will discuss comparative advantages of systems implementing intermediate versus final disclosures.
This talk is based on the paper "How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation."
About Karim
Karim R. Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be accessed through innovation contests. Currently Professor Lakhani is investigating incentives and behavior in contests and the mechanisms behind scientific team formation through field experiments on the TopCoder platform and the Harvard Medical School.
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March 4, 2014
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Registration Fees:
FREE for Massachusetts and New England Specialty Crop Producers (See USDA definition here)
$100 for All Other Exhibitors (Local Food Aggregators, Distributors, and Non-Specialty Local Food Producers)
$25 for Attendees (Buyers and Others)
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is excited to announce its third Local Food Trade Show. This event is sponsored by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event are Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Health Care Without Harm.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate trade between local buyers and producers of specialty crop food products and includes expert panels on overcoming barriers to selling and buying local products, as well as open floor trading.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show will attract:
Massachusetts and New England-based specialty and non-specialty crop growers, fishermen, and value-added producers who are looking to connect to interested wholesale buyers
Massachusetts and New England-based buyers, including college and healthcare institutions, restaurants, retail grocers and more
Other organizations that support or do business with food growers, producers or buyers
Event Itinerary:
7:30am - 9:45am Set-up for Exhibitors
7:30am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:45am Seminar #1 (Buyer Seminar)
9:45am - 12:00pm Open Floor Trading
12:15pm - 1:30pm Seminar #2 (Producer Seminar)
Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for $11.00 and will be available to pick up from 11:30am until 1:30pm
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How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
March 4, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/lakhani#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems, however, is whether disclosures take place only after final innovations are completed or whether disclosures relate to intermediate solutions and advances. Karim Lakhani will present experimental evidence showing that implementing intermediate versus final disclosures does not just create quantitative tradeoffs in shaping the rate of innovation. Rather, it qualitatively transforms the very nature of the innovation search process. Intermediate disclosures have the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solutions, but curtails experimentation and wider search. He will discuss comparative advantages of systems implementing intermediate versus final disclosures.
This talk is based on the paper "How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation."
About Karim
Karim R. Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be accessed through innovation contests. Currently Professor Lakhani is investigating incentives and behavior in contests and the mechanisms behind scientific team formation through field experiments on the TopCoder platform and the Harvard Medical School.
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Sustainable Food Fix
Tuesday, March 4th
6-9PM
Cambridge Innovation Center Venture Café, 5th Floor, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mar-4-basg-sustainable-food-fix-getting-the-food-system-we-want-we-need-tickets-10483896617
Cost: $10-$12
Our food system is extraordinarily complex with a myriad of stakeholders motivated by varying concerns of climate change, personal health, local economic development, social justice, financial returns, and other factors. What does the local landscape of food look like for us in New England and what does the future hold in terms of innovative partnerships and disruptive supply chain solutions?
Come hear from leaders, who will share a broad perspective of the food system.
Holly Fowler Co-founder & Managing Director, Northbound Ventures, LLC
Holly is a strategic advisor on sustainable agriculture, energy, water, waste, health, and stakeholder engagement to clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, national health care networks, public school districts, colleges and universities, city and state governments, and non-profit organizations. From 2008-2013, she was the Senior Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility for Sodexo North America, where she led training and innovation, identification and implementation of best practices, and deployment of a proprietary dashboard for measuring site-level impacts at over 500 locations.
Edith Murnane
Director of the Office of Food Initiatives, City of Boston
Edith will highlight recent successes of the City of Boston's food agenda to increase access to healthy and affordable food, to expand Boston's capacity to produce, distribute and consume local food through urban agriculture, and to build a strong local food economy through financing and supporting local food retail and distribution businesses.
Alex Linkow, Program Director, Fair Food Fun
Alex will share how the Fair Food Fund, an impact capital fund from Fair Food Network, is supporting food system enterprises that connect small and medium-sized, sustainable farms in the Northeast with the growing demand for local, sustainably-produced food.
Stacia Clinton, RD. LDN. Healthy Food in Health Care Program Regional Director, Health Care Without Harm
Stacia will discuss her experience using clinician advocacy, market-based strategies, and policy efforts to improve the food system through involvement with regionally-based and national organizations. She is a Regional Healthy Food in Health Care Program Director for the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm guiding local and sustainable institutional purchasing and program development for the six-state New England region.
Tim Griffin
Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Tim will present the future of agriculture in New England and the potential for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in creating a sustainable regional food system. Timothy Griffin received his Ph.D. in crop and soil science from Michigan State University. Dr. Griffin is a faculty steering committee member for the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts. His primary research interest is the intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems.
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Our food system is extraordinarily complex with a myriad of stakeholders motivated by varying concerns of climate change, personal health, local economic development, social justice, financial returns, and other factors. What does the local landscape of food look like for us in New England and what does the future hold in terms of innovative partnerships and disruptive supply chain solutions?
Come hear from leaders, who will share a broad perspective of the food system.
Holly Fowler Co-founder & Managing Director, Northbound Ventures, LLC
Holly is a strategic advisor on sustainable agriculture, energy, water, waste, health, and stakeholder engagement to clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, national health care networks, public school districts, colleges and universities, city and state governments, and non-profit organizations. From 2008-2013, she was the Senior Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility for Sodexo North America, where she led training and innovation, identification and implementation of best practices, and deployment of a proprietary dashboard for measuring site-level impacts at over 500 locations.
Edith Murnane
Director of the Office of Food Initiatives, City of Boston
Edith will highlight recent successes of the City of Boston's food agenda to increase access to healthy and affordable food, to expand Boston's capacity to produce, distribute and consume local food through urban agriculture, and to build a strong local food economy through financing and supporting local food retail and distribution businesses.
Alex Linkow, Program Director, Fair Food Fun
Alex will share how the Fair Food Fund, an impact capital fund from Fair Food Network, is supporting food system enterprises that connect small and medium-sized, sustainable farms in the Northeast with the growing demand for local, sustainably-produced food.
Stacia Clinton, RD. LDN. Healthy Food in Health Care Program Regional Director, Health Care Without Harm
Stacia will discuss her experience using clinician advocacy, market-based strategies, and policy efforts to improve the food system through involvement with regionally-based and national organizations. She is a Regional Healthy Food in Health Care Program Director for the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm guiding local and sustainable institutional purchasing and program development for the six-state New England region.
Tim Griffin
Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Tim will present the future of agriculture in New England and the potential for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in creating a sustainable regional food system. Timothy Griffin received his Ph.D. in crop and soil science from Michigan State University. Dr. Griffin is a faculty steering committee member for the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts. His primary research interest is the intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems.
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US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
March 5, 2014 at 6:30pm ET
Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/impossible#RSVP
Since September, the public has been experimenting with an app that relies on the goodness of humankind. Called *impossible*, it leverages the idea of a gift economy through social media to grant wishes. Users interact by posting wishes—such as a desire to learn Spanish or to find a jogging buddy—and other *impossible* users who can grant those wishes based on skills and proximity connect to grant the wish.
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social entrepreneur, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder and CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, Rosemary Leith, Berkman Center Fellow, Judith Donath, Berkman Center Fellow, Jonathan Zittrain, Director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor at Harvard Law School, and moderator Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In an interactive discussion, the group will discuss the feasibility of a social media platform that relies on themes related to human cooperation, reciprocity, and kindness. Read more about *impossible* and its origins in The Telegraph and Wired UKand of course, download it in the iTunes app store.
About the Participants
Lily Cole is a fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Rosemary Leith is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she works with Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, and acts as a Director of Herdict. She is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on health, education and democracy working with underserved countries and communities to make them full members of online society.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
March 5, 2014 at 6:30pm ET
Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/impossible#RSVP
Since September, the public has been experimenting with an app that relies on the goodness of humankind. Called *impossible*, it leverages the idea of a gift economy through social media to grant wishes. Users interact by posting wishes—such as a desire to learn Spanish or to find a jogging buddy—and other *impossible* users who can grant those wishes based on skills and proximity connect to grant the wish.
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social entrepreneur, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder and CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, Rosemary Leith, Berkman Center Fellow, Judith Donath, Berkman Center Fellow, Jonathan Zittrain, Director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor at Harvard Law School, and moderator Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In an interactive discussion, the group will discuss the feasibility of a social media platform that relies on themes related to human cooperation, reciprocity, and kindness. Read more about *impossible* and its origins in The Telegraph and Wired UKand of course, download it in the iTunes app store.
About the Participants
Lily Cole is a fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Rosemary Leith is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she works with Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, and acts as a Director of Herdict. She is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on health, education and democracy working with underserved countries and communities to make them full members of online society.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the original postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
Friday, March 7, 2014
Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
Friday, March 7, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sangeeta Sharma, Research Chemist, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&formid=D296...
Host: Rachel Chang
Email: rchang@seas.harvard.edu
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2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
Saturday, March 8, 2014
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Northeastern University Student Center, Curry Center, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-massachusetts-urban-farming-conference-tickets-7547919029
The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance urban farming issues ranging from farming techniques and
business models to climate change adaptation and food security. The UFC contributes to short-term and long-term state-wide strategic planning for a sustainable food system in Massachusetts.
Network with Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this dynamic event that looks at current issues, emerging practices and programs, and markets that
can contribute to Massachusetts' urban farming sector resiliency.
For vendor or general information, contact Rose Arruda at MDAR; Rose.Arruda@state.ma.us
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Crystal Johnson at Crystal@isesplanning.com
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Mass Innovation Nights MIN60
March 12, 2014
March 12, 2014
6pm-8:30pm
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Are you ready for Mass Innovation Nights #60? We promise it will be an event not to be missed! We're back in Kendall Square at the Microsoft NERD center (Microsoft New England R & D Center). A great collection of new products await you.
Check out the new PRODUCTS
VOTE for your favorite product launcher to present (VOTE HERE!)
RSVP to attend (it is free to attend)
See who else is planning on attending (click the ATTENDEES tab)
Help spread the word - blog, tweet (using the #MIN60 hashtag), Like, and post!
Support local innovation, network and have fun at the same time.
See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-min60#sthash.A41V5o1w.dpuf
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"Transit Equity"
Friday, March 21
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
John A. Powell, professor of law, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and executive director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak about transit equity's key role in Boston's upcoming transportation visioning. To attend this free event, emailrsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 3/21" in the subject line. Seats are extremely limited. Reserve yours today!
"Transit Equity"
Friday, March 21
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
John A. Powell, professor of law, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and executive director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak about transit equity's key role in Boston's upcoming transportation visioning. To attend this free event, emailrsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 3/21" in the subject line. Seats are extremely limited. Reserve yours today!
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The 2014 CF/LANR Colloquium will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday March 21-23, 2014 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA USA.
This event will mark the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of cold fusion by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989.
While mainstream science institutions have refused to acknowledge the field, the breakthrough energy science has developed in part through the International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) which has held eighteen events that bring scientists together from around the world to discuss their findings. The next ICCF-19 is scheduled for March 2015, which makes the 2014 LANR/CF Colloquium one of the year’s top cold fusion meetings.
Sponsored by JET Energy, Inc. and Nanortech, companies headed by Dr. Mitchell Swartz, the CF/LANR Colloquium is the sixth such event held since 2005 that discusses both the scientific and engineering aspects of cold fusion, also called lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), including theory, physics, electrochemistry, material science, metallurgy, physics, and electrical-engineering.
JET Energy and Nanortech produced theNANOR-device demonstrated at MIT during the 2012 Cold Fusion 101 course, which ran continuously for five months and was open-to-the-public. The NANOR is a tiny, dry, pre-loaded with hydrogen fuel, nano-material, two-terminal component that generate excess energy gain. Massachusetts State SenatorBruce Tarr witnessed the event, and is now a supporter of the pioneer technology.
2014 Colloquium speakers include Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz, Larry Forsley, Frank Gordon, Pamela Mosier-Boss, George Miley, Tom Claytor, Mel Miles, John Dash, Yiannis Hadjichristos, Yeong Kim, Brian Ahern, Robert Smith, John Fisher, Vladimir Vysotskii,Yasuhiro Iwamura, and Charles Beaudette.
This event will mark the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of cold fusion by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989.
While mainstream science institutions have refused to acknowledge the field, the breakthrough energy science has developed in part through the International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) which has held eighteen events that bring scientists together from around the world to discuss their findings. The next ICCF-19 is scheduled for March 2015, which makes the 2014 LANR/CF Colloquium one of the year’s top cold fusion meetings.
Sponsored by JET Energy, Inc. and Nanortech, companies headed by Dr. Mitchell Swartz, the CF/LANR Colloquium is the sixth such event held since 2005 that discusses both the scientific and engineering aspects of cold fusion, also called lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), including theory, physics, electrochemistry, material science, metallurgy, physics, and electrical-engineering.
JET Energy and Nanortech produced theNANOR-device demonstrated at MIT during the 2012 Cold Fusion 101 course, which ran continuously for five months and was open-to-the-public. The NANOR is a tiny, dry, pre-loaded with hydrogen fuel, nano-material, two-terminal component that generate excess energy gain. Massachusetts State SenatorBruce Tarr witnessed the event, and is now a supporter of the pioneer technology.
2014 Colloquium speakers include Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz, Larry Forsley, Frank Gordon, Pamela Mosier-Boss, George Miley, Tom Claytor, Mel Miles, John Dash, Yiannis Hadjichristos, Yeong Kim, Brian Ahern, Robert Smith, John Fisher, Vladimir Vysotskii,Yasuhiro Iwamura, and Charles Beaudette.
Contact: http://coldfusionnow.org/2014-lanrcf-colloquium-marks-25th-anniversary-of-new-energy-breakthrough/
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Opportunity
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events/calendar/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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Opportunity
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************
Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
---------------------
Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
*********
-----------
Resource
-----------
*********
Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
--------------------------------------------------
Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
---------------------------------------
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
----------------------
Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
********************************************
-----------------------------------------------------
Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events/calendar/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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