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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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Monday, March 31
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Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium: Waste
10am Back From The Hague Summit: The Next Steps for Nuclear Security
12pm The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking
12:15pm Sex, Lies and Technology: A Journalist's Encounters with Bioethics and Big Data
12:30pm Do pollinators matter for human nutrition?
2:30pm Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk
2:30pm How Your Medical Data Is Shockingly Vulnerable to Privacy Invasions
3pm Shifting Rains, Shifting People: Atlantic ITCZ changes over the last 20,000 years
4pm The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
4pm Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
4pm The Aha! Moment: From Data to Insight
5:30pm Fracking: Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus
6:30pm Waste
8pm Nerd Night
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Tuesday, April 1
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12pm Energy 101 Sessions: What is Fracking?
12pm "The Media and Israel's Public Diplomacy."
12:30pm Pop-Up Learning: The Future of MOOCs and Online Education
12:30pm "China's National Land Management Strategies to Address the Challenges of Rapid Urbanization”
12:30pm Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Constitutional Revision, Collective Self-Defense, and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
12:30pm Innovate: Ali Malkawi
2pm Symposium: Religion, Media, and Mediation
3:30pm Managing China's Oil Dependence
4pm How the Law Responds to Unique Catastrophes: Personal Reflections on Tragic Choices
4pm "Our Mathematical Universe: From Inflationary B-modes to Precision 3D Mapping of our Cosmos”
4pm An April Fools Evening of Kyogen
4:30pm One Love: HDS Harambee & Friends United Against Racial Violence and Discrimination
4:30pm Russian Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation
5:30pm Copyright and Copyleft
6pm Healthy People - Healthy Planet - Healthcare & Sustainability
6:30pm Climate change comes to Thoreau's Concord
6:30pm Waste
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Wednesday, April 2
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9am Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry
11:30am Boston University Cleantech Expo
12pm IBM: Leading the Next Era of Information Technology
1pm Women and Peace-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2:30pm Networks and Conflicts: Theory and Evidence from Fighting Groups in Africa
3pm Liquid metal batteries for grid scale energy storage
4pm "Political T’ai-chi at Work”
4pm Sirojiddin Juraev, Master of the Dutar and Tambur: A Demonstration
4pm "Geosciences Inspiring Engineering: What Dyke Swarms Teach us about Hydraulic Fracturing,”
4:10pm Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets
4:15pm SSRC Seminar: Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE): An MIT Study on the Current State and Future of Innovation and Manufacturing in the U.S.
4:30pm Turkish Politics, Energy Politics: Near and Long Term Perspectives
5pm Future of Energy: “CCS Decade: Technologies and Projects in the Industrial World”
5:30pm MIT e4Dev Special Event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group
5:30pm Our Collective Journey: Engaging the World in Building Climate Resilience
6pm EdTech Hack Night 1 - work and collaborate on EdTech projects
6:30pm Framed Acts: Designing Space in Creative Music
7pm Technology to Help Us Save Our Oceans
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9:30am Free Wearables Technology Seminar
12pm A Talk by His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
12pm Bioregional Urbanism: A Collaborative Framework for Scalable Sustainability
12:15pm Syria's Spillover: A View from Jordan
1pm Technology Driving Global Media and Finance
3pm Energy Lecture: Wall Street Journal Inside Fracking
3:30pm "Measurement of the 'Underlying Energy Efficiency' in Chinese Provinces”
4pm True Diversity: A Multiplier in Global STEM Innovation
4pm "Breaking Bad"'s Vince Gilligan in Conversation with Drew Faust
4:15pm The Future of Leader-Leadership and Character Development: What’s “I” Got To Do with It?
4:30pm The Logic Schism: What the Social Sciences Can tell us About the Public Debate Over Climate Change
4:30pm The Untold History of the United States
5:15pm Science in Fiction
6pm Elaine Scarry on Her New Book: "Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom”
6pm Religious Accommodations in the Age of Civil Rights
6pm Starr Forum: Brazil, 50 Years After the Coup
6pm Shocking findings in a high-profile Turkish case!: Computer Forensics Uncovers Evidence Tampering in Sledgehammer and Ergenekon Cases
6:30pm Creative Space
6:30pm Movie Screening: Wild Carpathia 3
7pm Jobs Not Jails: End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation
7pm Paradise Lot: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis
7:15pm Art as a Catalyst for Social Change
7:30pm The BICEP2 Results and What They Mean: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe
7:30pm From Harvard College to the Bestseller List: A Conversation with Ben Mezrich '91 and Scott Stossel ‘91
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Friday, April 4
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Hack for the Planet: Third Annual Boston CleanWeb Hackathon
9am Technological Visions and Revisions: An STS Workshop
12pm Cyber Inferno: Seven Circles
1pm The Meat We Eat: 2014 Forum on Industrial Animal Farming
2pm Design Thinking Tools for the Individual, Group and Community
3pm The future of fusion
4pm Bionic Nanomaterials
4pm Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
4:15pm "As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis”
5:30pm Does Drawing Have a Future?
8pm Barney Frank: Cultural Humanism Award
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Saturday, April 5th
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9am TransportationCamp New England '14
10am Climate Justice Teach-In
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Monday, April 7
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12pm Designing for Community - Part 11, Pocket Neighborhoods
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellows Presentation Series: Building New Materials, One Atom at a Time
5:15pm Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: How the Mobile Industry is Building Nations
5:30pm Israel Fuel Choices Initiative: Israel's Strategy in Reducing Global Dependence on Oil
6pm Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
6pm Shale: A Case for Innovation
6:30pm Sharing Spaces and Building Community Where We Live, Work and Eat
7pm Noble Lecture
7pm ACT Lecture: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics?
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Tuesday, April 8
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8am Boston Tech Breakfast: Authentik Time, The Edventure Builder, Layrs, PreApps, CookRadar
11am IAPril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you.
11:45am Killing a MidWest Generation
12pm "The Future of Newspapers.”
12pm Crowd Sourced Real Estate Development: Fundrise.com and the Fairhaired Dumbbell
12:30pm Anglo-America and the Dynamics of Globalization
4pm Moving Mexico Forward
4pm Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Rowan Williams, The Paradoxes of Empathy
6pm The Investment Crisis in Life Science
6pm 2014 Annual John R. Freeman Lecture: Capturing Domestic Wastewater's Resource Potentials
6:30pm Lecture: Grace La and James Dallman, "On Integration”
7pm How Environmental Pollutants Impair Brain Development
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285810/-Living-Building-Challenge
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Monday, March 31
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Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium: Waste
March 31 – April 1, 2014
Harvard GSD, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
More information to follow.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
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"The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking"
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Elizabeth Kopits, National Center for Environmental Economics, Office of Policy, U.S. EPA
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar SeriesContact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Sex, Lies and Technology: A Journalist's Encounters with Bioethics and Big Data”
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Rochelle Sharpe, Freelance Journalist
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
sts@hks.harvard.edu
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
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“Do pollinators matter for human nutrition?”
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:30pm - 1:30pm
HSPH, Kresge, Room 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Alicia Ellis, HSPH postdoc
The talk discusses the changes in micronutrient nutrition that would occur in populations from four countries in the context of severe pollinator declines. Professor Sam Myers, Instructor in Medicine (HMS) and Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health (HSPH), notes “To our knowledge, this is the first analysis that has attempted to model the impact of pollinator declines on human nutrition.”
HSPH Nutrition Seminar Series
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Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk
Monday, March 31, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Whinston (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Speaker: Professor Peter B. deMenocal, LDEO, Columbia University
Re-scheduled talk from the 2014 EAPS IAP Lecture Series: Monsoons: Past Changes, Present Impacts, Future Projections.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-3381
jtaylor@mit.edu
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Herbie Hancock
COST Free; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/
TICKET INFO Tickets will be available starting at noon on the day of each lecture. Tickets will be available at Sanders Theatre's box office and online (handling fee applies). Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid until 3:45 p.m. on the day of the event.
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The Norton Lecturer in 2014 is Herbie Hancock.
THE ETHICS OF JAZZ
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/norton-lectures
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Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
Monday, March 31, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Gabe Cohn , University of Washington
Although we have successfully created smaller, faster, and cheaper computer devices, several adoption barriers remain to realize the dream of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). By lowering these barriers, we can seamlessly embed human-computer interfaces into our home and work environments. My work focuses on developing highly integrated hardware/software sensing systems for Ubicomp applications using my expertise in embedded systems, low-energy hardware design, and sensing, in addition to integrating communications, signal processing, and machine learning. In thistalk, I will present my research on ultra-low-power indirect sensing approaches for both on- and off-body applications. First, I will discuss how the conductive properties of the human body can be leveraged to enable novel human-computer interactions. Next, I will discuss my work on using the existing infrastructure in buildings to reduce the number of sensors required and to reduce the power consumption for many Ubicomp applications. Finally, I will discuss my current work in on-body, non-invasive health sensing systems. By continually working on application-driven interdisciplinary research, we can lower the adoption barriers and enable many new high-impact application domains.
Gabe Cohn is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering in the Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Lab at the University of Washington, advised by Shwetak Patel. His research focuses on (1) designing and implementing ultra-low-power embedded sensing systems, (2) leveraging physical phenomena to enable new sensing modalities for human-computer interaction, and (3) developing sensor systems targeted at realizing immediate change in high-impact application domains. He was awarded the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010, and 6 Best Paper awards and nominations. He is the co-founder of SNUPI Technologies (www.wallyhome.com), a sensor and services company focused on home safety, security, and loss prevention. He received his B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2009, where he specialized in embedded systems, computer architectures, and digital VLSI.
Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, francisd@csail.mit.edu
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In this talk, I will describe two of my efforts to address this problem computationally:
The first project, Metro Maps of Information, aims to help people understand the underlying structure of complex topics, such as news stories or research areas. Metro Maps are structured summaries that can help us understand the information landscape, connect the dots between pieces of information, and uncover the big picture.
The second project proposes a framework for automatic discovery of insightful connections in data. In particular, we focus on identifying gaps in medical knowledge: our system recommends directions of research that are both novel and promising.
I will formulate both problems mathematically and provide efficient, scalable methods for solving them. User studies on real-world datasets demonstrate that our methods help users acquire insight efficiently across multiple domains.
Speaker Bio: Dafna Shahaf is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University; prior to that, she earned an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University. Dafna's research focuses on helping people make sense of massive amounts of data. She has won a best research paper award at KDD 2010, a Microsoft Research Fellowship, a Siebel Scholarship, and a Magic Grant for innovative ideas.
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
Fracking: Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus
March 31, 2014
5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, McCormack Hall, 3rd floor, Ryan Lounge, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
Fracking for natural gas is extremely controversial. It has dramatically reduced the price of gas in the US, displacing coal in power generation but also slowing investment in renewable energy. The environmental impacts of using high-pressure fluids to fracture shale rocks are highly contentious.
This event will feature a panel of experts who will discuss current challenges and opportunities at the water-energy nexus. Questions raised will include: What is the potential for technological innovation and ‘green chemistry’ to reduce risks? What are the business and investment opportunities in the clean-tech/clean energy sector? What business and policy innovations are needed?
Panelists
Jim Matheson is President and CEO of Oasys Water and a clean technology visionary and leader. As a General Partner at Flagship Ventures he spearheaded their sustainability practice, helping to build it into a leader in the venture capital industry. At Flagship, Jim started, financed and served on the Board of Directors of several new ventures. He also served as the Dept. of Energy’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Dr. Richard Liroff is founder and Executive Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network, a group of investment advisors and managers working to reduce business’ “toxic footprint”—the production and use of toxic chemicals. Dr. Liroff is author/editor of a half dozen books and numerous articles, reports and blogs on environmental policy, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University.
For more information, please contact Andrea.Reardon@umb.edu.
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"Waste"
Monday, March 31
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
Contact events@gsd.harvard.edu
Free and open to the public
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Nerd Night
31 March 2014
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Talk 1 – “How to Teach a Robot to Bake Cookies” by Mario Bollini
This talk will teach you how to teach a robot to bake cookies, or in academic speak, it will discuss “motion and task planning for a mobile manipulator in semi-structured human environments.” It will tell the heartwarming story of a robot that yearned to leave the lab and enter the kitchen, punctuated with every roadblock reality placed in its path.
Mario Bollini is a local entrepreneur who earned his Master’s degree from MIT by teaching a robot to autonomously bake. He currently is the Chief Technology officer of GRIT, a local social enterprise that designs off-road wheelchairs for developing countries. He is also the founder ofDemocratech, a local design collaborative that crowd-funded Sprout, a plantable pencil that can grow into flowers and herbs.
Talk 2 – “How We Complicate Things for Babies to Make Language Learning Easy” by Mohinish Shukla
What kind of learner is a human baby? We used to believe that the baby was a blank canvas that experience painstakingly painted on in incremental steps. While studying how infants pick up the structure of language spoken around them, we now know that this picture is wrong. Instead, babies arrive equipped with a Swiss-army-knife toolkit of cognitive capacities that help them rapidly impose structure on what they perceive. According to the old, incremental view, learning is a step-wise process, where babies learn simple stuff, then use that knowledge to learn harder stuff. In this talk, Mo will describe results that show 6-month-olds succeeding at a word-learning task that 9-month-olds typically fail!
Mo started studying microbiology and molecular genetics, switched to ecology, then neurophysiology, and somehow ended up studying how humans learn language. He received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy, and then spent four years in Rochester, NY, as a post-doctoral fellow. He currently is one of three principal investigators at the UMass Boston Baby Lab.
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com/2014/03/17/nerd-nite-march/
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Tuesday, April 1
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Energy 101 Sessions: What is Fracking?
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A comprehensive introduction to fracking.
Energy 101 Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Pop-Up Learning: The Future of MOOCs and Online Education
April 1, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/04/young#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on the Berkman webpage) at 12:30pm ET.
Berkman-Nieman Fellow, Jeff Young
After months of hype and hope about MOOCs, or massive open online courses, one thing is clear: they aren’t very good at teaching those most in need of education. Instead, they’re serving the education “haves”: About 80 percent of people taking MOOCs already have a college degree. But free online courses may still spark an education revolution, in ways that their biggest proponents hadn’t guessed. This talk will take a closer look at who is taking MOOCs and why, and examine how free courses fit into broader Internet trends.
About Jeff
Jeffrey R. Young is an editor and writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he leads the paper's coverage of technology and its impact on teaching, research, and student life. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, teaching a course on multimedia storytelling.
Young has written for national publications including The New York Times, New Scientist, and The Wall Street Journal. An article he wrote was selected for the anthology The Best of Technology Writing 2007.
At The Chronicle, Young leads a team of three reporters, and also writes a monthly news-analysis column called College 2.0 about how technology is changing campuses. He also contributes to and oversees content for the Wired Campus blog, and is co-host of the monthly Tech Therapy podcast. He joined The Chronicle in 1995, and has previously led the paper’s Students section, focusing on issues of college admissions and student life. In 2007, Young took a yearlong break from writing to become The Chronicle’s first Web editor, helping start blogs, podcasts, and multimedia features.
Young is a frequent speaker on issues of education and technology, having given talks at the South-by-Southwest Interactive conference, at education events, and on campuses. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University in 1995 and a master’s in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University in 2001.
He is also author of the e-book, Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education's High-Tech Disruption.
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Speaker: Dr. Bin Lu, Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Peking University, Beijing, China. Panelists: Prof. Chris Zegras and Jinhua Zhao, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Dr. Bin Lu is Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (PKU). His roles at PKU also include the university's Deputy Director of Office of Development and Planning, the Director of its Urban Planning and Design Center, the Deputy Director of its Center of County Economy and Local Finance at the Guanghua School of Management, and a senior fellow at the Center for Urban Development and Land Policy at Peking University-Lincoln Institute.
Dr. Lu also serves on the Expert Committee of Urban-Rural Planning under the PRC's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, where he advises on the nation's comprehensive land management strategy. In this talk, Dr. Lu shares how China's most recent historic rapid urbanization has spread to the interior of the country and presents an array of ecological and resource challenges. Informed by his role as advisor to the national Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, he outlines China's recent experience and latest strategies for controlling urban sprawl through green belts and urban growth boundaries, focusing on the case of Beijing and its surrounding region. He discusses China's particular institutional issues which complicate the management of rapid urban growth.
China Urban Development Discussion
Web site: http://dusp.mit.edu/event/china-urban-development-discussion-china%E2%80%99s-national-land-management-strategies-address
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, DUSP, China Urban Development, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Shan Jiang
shanjang@mit.edu
Managing China's Oil Dependence
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oystein Tunsjo, Associate Professor, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
Lecture/Book Talk
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Lynne Levine
617-253-0133
llevine@mit.edu
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How the Law Responds to Unique Catastrophes: Personal Reflections on Tragic Choices
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
4:00-6:00PM
Langdell Hall North 225, Vorenberg Classroom, Harvard Law School
Kenneth R. Feinberg, Feinberg Rozen, LLC
Abstract: Mr. Feinberg will offer personal reflections on how he became the expert in unique catastrophes and the principled ways in which he has learned to respond. He will tackle the difficult issue of achieving a sense of justice in the aftermath of tragedy through the administration of victims' funds.
Biography:
Kenneth R. Feinberg has been key to resolving many of our nation's most challenging and widely known disputes. He is best known for serving as the Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, in which he reached out to all who qualified to file a claim, evaluated applications, determined appropriate compensation, and disseminated awards. Mr. Feinberg shared his extraordinary experience in his book What Is Life Worth?, published in 2005 by Public Affairs Press. Just a few years later, Mr. Feinberg became Fund Administrator for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund following the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. In 2013, he was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas to oversee the One Fund Boston, which distributed payments to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Mr. Feinberg also has served as Special Master in Agent Orange, asbestos personal injury, wrongful death claims, Dalkon shield, and DES (pregnancy medication) cases. Mr. Feinberg founded Feinberg Rozen, LLP in 1992. He has been involved in resolving thousands of disputes involving a wide range of interests and clients. In the commercial sector, Mr. Feinberg designed, implemented and administered an ADR settlement Program involving Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Zurich N.A. Insurance Company and Hurricane Katrina and other Gulf hurricane claimants. He also has served as Distribution Agent for AIG Fair Fund claimants, and has been the Fund Administrator for a variety of claimant funds totaling more than $1 billion. In his capacity as an arbitrator, Mr. Feinberg helped determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, and legal fees in Holocaust slave labor litigation. Mr. Feinberg has been appointed to two presidential-level commissions because of his experience and expertise, and has had a distinguished teaching career as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Virginia, and Harvard Law School. In 2004, he was named "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal (2004), and has been named repeatedly as one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal. He received his J.D from New York University School of Law in 1970, where he served on the Law Review. He held a clerkship with Chief Judge Stanley H. Fuld, New York State Court of Appeals (1970-1972).
Co-sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
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"Our Mathematical Universe: From Inflationary B-modes to Precision 3D Mapping of our Cosmos”
I survey how we humans have repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also the power of our humans minds to understand it using mathematical equations. My examples include the recent discovery of B-modes in the cosmic microwave background, providing smoking-gun evidence for quantum gravity, Hawking radiation, and cosmological inflation. I also highlight mysteries such as the nature of dark matter, dark energy and our early universe, and how creating the largest-ever 3D maps of our universe can shed new light on them.
See more at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html#sthash.TV2svVUW.dpuf
An April Fools Evening of Kyogen
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Katsumi Yanagimoto
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO fraleigh@post.harvard.edu
NOTE Kyōgen is the name for a dramatic style and repertoire of short comic plays that form one of the oldest theatrical traditions in Japan. Though developed in the 14th century, kyōgen is still performed today: both as an independent form and as an interlude during the more serious Noh theater. The stories featured in the humorous plays of the kyōgen theater treat the daily lives of everyday people and remain highly accessible to viewers today. Katsumi Yanagimoto will introduce the tradition, discuss, and demonstrate its conventions, and perform two farcical plays with fellow Kyoto-based kyōgen actor Shin'ichi Yutani. The performance will be in Japanese with English subtitles.
LINK http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php
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Russian Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A public lecture featuring Professor McCarthy and Professor Puffer of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business of Northeastern University.
Entrepreneurship is relatively new in Russia, and although not totally flourishing, it has become increasingly important to the country's economy, with many entrepreneurs having built and continuing to build very successful companies. Many have developed an innovative and participative leadership style that stands in stark contrast to the traditional Soviet-era style. This seminar covers such subjects based on our research and publications that draw heavily upon data from the annual Ernst & Young Russian Entrepreneur of the Year competition, an event held in scores of countries around the world. The speakers will also briefly discuss their research investigating the historical circumstances affecting innovation in Russia and will discuss more fully the country's current initiatives to foster innovation and commercialization of technology.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
715-2159
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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Healthy People - Healthy Planet - Healthcare & Sustainability
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
The Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/apr-1-basg-healthy-people-healthy-planet-healthcare-sustainability-tickets-10789887845
Cost: $10-12
Boston Area Sustainability Group Presents: Healthy People – Healthy Planet: Healthcare & Sustainability
The health of the planet and human health are not separate concerns. Sustainability is a lens that brings our interdependence into focus. Come hear from leaders actively working to make healthcare more sustainable and driving sustainability for our bettered health:
Janet Bowen, Health Care Coordinator for EPA Region 1
Janet will present EPA New England's work with the health care sector as well as EPA's future focus.
Kyle Cahill, Senior Manager, Corporate Citizenship, BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS
Kyle will discuss the sustainability imperative for the healthcare industry: how healthy environments are critical to preventing illness and chronic disease.
Monica Nakielski , Project Manager, Sustainable Initiatives of Partners Healthcare
Monica will discuss how Partners is going about leading our community to a healthier future.
Hermine Levey Weston, Facility Engagement Manager at Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth drives sustainability within hospitals. Hermine will talk about healthcare sustainability being a public health initiative.
Kumkum Dilwali, Senior Director, Green Guide for Health Care
Federal agencies are mandated to "use less toxic materials,” and health care must design and operate facilities that "first, do no harm.“ Kumkum will talk about the tools and strategies that these sectors can share to accelerate transformation.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers will share their experiences and then open the discussion.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details).
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"Waste"
Tuesday, April 1
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
Contact events@gsd.harvard.edu
Free and open to the public
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Gustav Fridolin, the leader of the Green Party in Sweden
Tuesday, April 1
7 pm
The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Gustav Fridolin will discuss the rise of racism in Europe, and other international issues.
Gustav was the youngest MP in the history of Sweden, and one of the youngest in the world, when he won his first election. He is an egalitarian democrat: he continues to teach adult-education classes on the side of his
prestigious post in Parliament; has visited the Occupied Territories of Palestine; and writes books of memoir and social criticism on the side.
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public.
Democracy Center<https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Democracy-Center/110212969005483?ref=hl>
Email info@democracycenter.org for more info.
Speaker: Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
Liquid metal batteries for grid scale energy storage
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
David Bradwell, CEO of Ambri, will discuss liquid metal battery technologies for grid-scale energy storage.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Aziz Abdellahi
aziz_a@mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series: "Political T’ai-chi at Work”
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Hanchao Lu, 2013-2014 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Georgia Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE Hanchao Lu is a professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an honorary senior research professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include the socioeconomic and cultural history of modern China, Chinese urban history, and everyday life studies.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-hanchao-lu-fellow-presentation
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"Geosciences Inspiring Engineering: What Dyke Swarms Teach us about Hydraulic Fracturing,"
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andrew P. Bunger, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract: Hydraulic fracturing has an extensive history of successful applications including quarrying/mining (since the 1890s), gas and oil extraction (since 1949), and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (“EGS”, since the early 1970s). With perhaps only one notable exception, the Barnett Shale in Texas, this experience points to a mechanical system that tends to favor localization of fracture growth to one or two dominant hydraulic fractures rather than propagation of many simultaneous branches. This is in spite of 4 decades of attempts to generate complex networks of hydraulic fractures for EGS applications and more than a decade of efforts to generate Barnett-like networks of hydraulic fractures in other shale gas reservoirs. Man-made hydraulic fractures seem highly prone to localization. On the other hand, there are more than 400 known examples of giant dyke swarms on Earth, Venus, and Mars. These stunning features are comprised of hundreds to thousands of subparallel to radiating dykes that originate from a common source region and that appear to have grown concurrently. So, in contrast to man-made systems, these natural systems of fluid (magma)-driven cracks appear to favor swarming dynamics rather than localization.
In this presentation I will tell the story of a recent research effort aimed at finding the ingredients required for swarming behavior to occur in systems of fluid-driven cracks such as dykes and hydraulic fractures. I will show that the missing ingredient has been a basic understanding of the attractive force in these systems, that is, why fluid-driven cracks would have any mechanical impetus to grow near one another in the first place. By showing how this key element of the system depends on geometry and the relative importance of viscous energy dissipation in the context of the energy balance of the system, engineers are now able to draw inspiration from the naturally-occurring dyke swarms in order to design more effective hydraulic fracturing treatments.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Knittel, MIT
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
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Speaker: Olivier de Weck, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Please join us for our next spring seminar in the Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems series. Prof. Olivier de Weck will discuss the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) study that was conducted from January 2011 to September 2013 and identified key challenges in the U.S. innovation and manufacturing ecosystem. PIE led to two MIT Press books and has significantly influenced recent manufacturing initiatives at both federal and regional levels. Light refreshments will be served.
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
Turkish Politics, Energy Politics: Near and Long Term Perspectives
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE CGIS, Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The WCFIA/CMES Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
SPEAKER(S) Tuncay Babali, ambassador of Turkey to Canada; former WCFIA Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lgmartin@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3564
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Future of Energy: “CCS Decade: Technologies and Projects in the Industrial World”
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Laboratory Room B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) S. Julio Friedmann, deputy assistant secretary, Clean Coal Program, Office of Fossil Energy, US Department of Energy,
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-04-02/future-energy
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MIT e4Dev Special Event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group
Wednesday, April 2nd
5:30 pm
MIT Bldg 66, Room (66-110), 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13yfmJF2NCjVundVcn2yLyTO14yX4B7hY5LDEy0dD8qw/viewform
Space is limited!
e4Dev is pleased to announce a special event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group (AEG).
Daniel Murphy, AEG Senior Energy Specialist, Rhonda L. Jordan, PhD-MIT AEG Energy Specialist and Micah Melnyk, AEG Consultant will present AEG’s on-going and future energy work in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on solar-based technologies and strategies.
Refreshments will be served.
Direct questions to e4dev-request@mit.edu
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Our Collective Journey: Engaging the World in Building Climate Resilience
Tuesday, April 2
5:30PM-7:00PM
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
We are excited to be joined by Parker Liautaud for the fourth event of our Climate Change Speaker Series. Liautaud is currently studying Geology and Geophysics at Yale, but he is not your average teenager. He is a polar explorer and climate change campaigner who, since turning 15, has undertaken three expeditions to the North Pole. In December 2013, he led a 565 km unsupported trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, breaking the world-record for the fastest unsupported Coast-to-Pole ski expedition and earning him the title of “Youngest Male to Ski to the South Pole”. Liautaud’s expeditions aim to draw attention to the immediate need for action to address climate change, and, since 2011, he has also partnered with academic institutions to undertake climate research on each of his expeditions.
Liautaud is also an ambassador for One Young World, an organization that gathers together the world’s young leaders to create positive change. With One Young World, Parker has shared the same stage as Kofi Annan, Sir Bob Geldof, and Al Gore, and has addressed over 1200 delegates from 190 countries.
http://www.fossilfreemit.org/springspeakerseries2014/
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EdTech Hack Night 1 - work and collaborate on EdTech projects
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
LearnLaunch Campus, 31 St. James Avenue, 9th fl, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-EdTech-Hack-Night/events/166487822/
Join us at LearnLaunch Campus in Back Bay to work on existing projects or new ideas which focus on education technology. Plan to meet others working on interesting projects and spend the evening getting shit done. Food and refreshments will be served.
Schedule:
6:00 -6:20pm ~ Plan to arrive at LearnLaunch, eat, drink and get to know some people (don't worry we will help shy people make friends :) ).
6:20-6:30pm ~ Quick intros - Who are you? Do you have a project? Looking to help someone on a project?
6:30 - 9:45pm ~ Get hacking! This is your time to make some progress on your project. There should be a good mix of people with existing projects and people looking to help out on projects. (If you don't fall into either of these categories we will have break out rooms where people can flush out ideas).
9:45 -10pm ~ Group stand up. This is your time to show off what you accomplished or share something you learned.
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Thursday, April 3
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Free Wearables Technology Seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2014
9:30 AM to 3:15pm
Boston Marriott Cambridge, Two Cambridge Center,50 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/170532302/
Join Arrow and STMicroelectronics for a FREE seminar designed to get the Wearables Technology in Boston Meetup Group ready to create designs for Wearable devices.
In 2017, 170 million wearable electronic products will be shipped and will be part of in our everyday lives. From fitness, to healthcare, to anything and everything on or around the body, the wearable electronics segment is about to explode.
Will you be ready to address the wearable application space?
Will you have the expertise to design small form factor, ultra-low power designs?
Attend the free seminar to:
Learn about the main design blocks necessary for a cutting edge wearable design.
Understand how STMicroelectronics' system solution expertise will help to cut down on the learning curve and reduce design cycles.
Deep dive into Microcontrollers, Connectivity, Power Management and MEMs Sensors.
Enter for a chance to win one of ten STMicroelectronics development kits at each location.
More at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/
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Bioregional Urbanism: A Collaborative Framework for Scalable Sustainability
Thursday, April 3, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts University, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP: https://bioregionalism.eventbrite.com
Sarah Howard, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earthos Institute
"Further research is needed to better understand the linkages across food, water, and energy systems; our response to the resource conundrum must be long-term and integrated across sectors to address systemic risks and root causes." - From the Global Resource Security Experts' Workshop, 2009
This talk will explore Bioregional Urbanism, a practice methodology that helps cities and regions become more resilient and self-sufficient and measurably contribute to global sustainability. A team of designers, scientists, policy practitioners, and community partners at Earthos Institute are developing this cross-sector decision-making framework to help people work together to address the resource conundrum while contributing to vibrant places and improved well-being for all. This session introduces the underlying research, theoretical constructs, and practice methods of Bioregional Urbanism, along with preliminary applications in the Boston area and regions around the world.
Sarah Howard is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earthos Institute, and a faculty member at the Boston Architectural College. Howard's cross-sector work has focused on bringing people together to create inclusive, thriving communities with resilient environments. She began her professional career teaching environmental science and outdoor education in urban settings; then founded community-learning centers; worked for nonprofit organizations in community partnership building; worked to expand affordable housing in Massachusetts; and then studied and practiced just sustainable architecture/ urban design. Howard has also served on numerous community organization boards including Urban Edge (Roxbury, MA), Blackstone Academy Charter School (Pawtucket RI), Ashmont Hill Chamber Music (Dorchester, MA), Westport Housing Partnership and Westport Housing Authority (elected Commissioner). She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Policy degrees from Tufts University.
Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program
http://as.tufts.edu/environmentalStudies/events/lunchlearn.htm
Contact Name: Sarah Neville
saraheneville@gmail.com
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Syria's Spillover: A View from Jordan
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Marisa L. Porges, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6322/syrias_spillover.html
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Energy Lecture: Wall Street Journal Inside Fracking
Thursday, April 03, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 5-234, 55 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Greg Zuckerman
Greg Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal will share his insider perspective on the fracking industry and his journey while writing his book "The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution.”
Energy Lectures Series
The Energy Lectures Series brings experts from the industry, the public sector and academia to share their insights and visions on important energy topics.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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"Measurement of the 'Underlying Energy Efficiency' in Chinese Provinces"
Thursday, April 3, 2014
3:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Massimo Filippini, Professor, ETH Zurich and University of Lugano; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
China is one of the largest consumers of energy globally. The country also emits some of the highest levels of CO2 globally. In 2009, 18% of the world’s total energy was consumed in China and the growth rate of energy consumption in China is 6.4% per year. In recent years, the Chinese government decided to introduce several energy policy instruments to promote energy efficiency. For instance, reduction targets for the level of energy intensity have been defined for provinces in China. However, energy intensity is not an accurate proxy for energy efficiency because changes in energy intensity are a function of changes in several socioeconomic factors. For this reason, in this paper we present an empirical analysis on the measurement of the persistent and transient “underlying energy efficiency” of Chinese provinces. For this purpose, a log-log aggregate energy demand frontier model is estimated by employing data on 29 provinces observed over the period 1996 to 2008. Several econometric model specifications for panel data are used: the random effects model and the true random effects model along with other versions of these models. Our analysis shows that energy intensity cannot measure accurately the level of efficiency in the use of energy in Chinese provinces. Further, our empirical analysis shows that the average value of the persistent “underlying energy efficiency” is around 0.78 whereas the average value of the transient “underlying energy efficiency” is approximately 0.93.
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/Filippini140403
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen
nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu
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True Diversity: A Multiplier in Global STEM Innovation
Thursday, April 03, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambirdge
Speaker: Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush, former Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Please join us for a seminar by Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush. She will address the critical importance of holistic diversity in STEM education, leadership, and innovation. Dr. Bush will present statistics, best practices, and practical examples to validate the impact of incorporating diversity into organizations. She will offer implementable strategies for communities, organizations, and individuals to integrate diversity and achieve optimal outcomes for the next generation of global innovators.
Web site: http://ssrc.mit.edu/news-and-events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, The Technology and Policy Program at MIT
For more information, contact: Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
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The Untold History of the United States
Thursday, April 03, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
Sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, this event will include a viewing of Episode 3 (The Bomb) of Oliver Stone's newest Showtime mini-series followed by a panel discussion on the "Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Start of the Cold War" with the three time Academy Award winner as well as the co-author of the book by the same name, Peter Kuznick.
Nuclear Arms Control
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact: Subrata Ghoshroy
617-253-3846
ghoshroy@mit.edu
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Elaine Scarry on Her New Book: "Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom”
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, TSAI Auditorium, (S010); CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value; Harvard College Professor, and respondent Philip C. Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu; 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/elaine-scarry-her-new-book-ithermonuclear-monarchy-choosing-between-democracy-and-doomi
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Speaker: Camilo Tavares, Ben Schneider
Film screening of the documentary "The Day That Lasted 21 Years" Original title "O dia que durou 21 anos" (Brazil, 2013, 77 min.)
Film in Portuguese, with English subtitles
Discussion with:
Camilo Tavares, Pequi Filmes, director of the documentary.
Ben Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT-Brazil Program.
This event is free and open to the public. Light food and refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact: mit-brazil@mit.edu
Co-sponsored by MIT Center for International Studies and MIT-Brazil
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Brazil
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
Movie Screening: Wild Carpathia 3
Thursday, April 03, 2014
6:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 37-212, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us in watching a beautiful film showcasing the beauty that is Romania. A discussion with the film co-producer Charlie Ottley will follow the screening.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Romanian Students Association, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact: Cosmin, Gheorghe
617-642-8284
rsa-officers@mit.edu
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Jobs Not Jails: End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation
Thursday, April 3rd
7pm-8:30pm
First Church JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
The U.S. locks up a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world.* In Massachusetts, the prison population has tripled since the 1980s.* At this rate, Massachusetts will spend $2 billion in the next 7 years to build 10,000 new jails. Meanwhile, the state is shedding jobs and people are looking for work.
The *Jobs Not Jails campaign (http://act.ips-dc.org/site/R?i=uNhu9xVi6BAww4EvK35-LA), part of a national movement to end mass incarceration, is calling on the state to *stop construction of new prisons and redirect money saved into jobs programs. *The campaign will present Jobs Not Jails petitions to the legislature at a rally on the Boston Common on April 26. We need your help in collecting 10,000 signatures before then!
Learn more about mass incarceration, the Jobs Not Jails campaign, and how you can help from Josh Beardsley of EPOCA (*Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement*), Andrea James of *Families for Justice as Healing*, and a member of *Youth Against Mass Incarceration* at the JP Forum.
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Paradise Lot: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis
Thursday, April 3, 2014
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Baptist Church, 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Permaculture/events/171280452/
Paradise Lot food forest is coming to Boston! Join Jonathan Bates as he gives a presentation about his famous backyard food forest based in Holyoke, Mass. Jonathan’s talk will focus on perennial vegetables for our region, soil building, plant polycultures, and food gardening in small urban spaces. Get answers to your questions about working with poor soil, little sunlight, and New England’s growing season from his years of experience.
The Speaker
Jonathan Bates owns Food Forest Farm, and he and his wife and garden partners are best known for their backyard food forest “Paradise Lot” in Holyoke, Mass. Together, they turned a tenth-of-an-acre barren lot with bad soil into an inspiring “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a tiny city lot. Now the two families live there communally, gardening together, eating the food (over 400 pounds in 6 months!), and sharing what they have learned in this backyard experiment with the public. http://www.foodforestfarm.com/
http://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/
Hundreds of people tour Paradise Lot each year and there is even a New York Times article about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/garden/a-permaculture-love-story.html?_r=1&
Preorder Plants
Food Forest Farm sells very unusual perennial edible plants (way beyond asparagus) at their nursery and people who come to the event will be able to find out how to get some of these very-hard-to-find plants.
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Art as a Catalyst for Social Change
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 7:15 – 9:15 p.m.
WHERE Askwith Hall in Longfellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by QueerEd, with support from the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, the Dean's Diversity Innovation Fund at HGSE, the Arts in Education Program at HGSE, and the Harvard Kennedy School's Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center
SPEAKER(S) Brooklyn-based, internationally renown hip hop artists and educators Climbing PoeTree along with Moira E. Pirsch, Moana Uluave, and Kayla Dias
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ihm513@mail.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/466396373488503/
The 3rd Annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon is a two-day prize competition to demonstrate the impact of applying information technologies to energy and resource constraints, known as the cleanweb. Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and business professionals create web and mobile IT applications to solve some of our biggest energy and sustainability problems.
We’ll provide the food, some entertainment, and special guests. But we need you to provide the ideas, talent, and hard work.
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Technological Visions and Revisions: An STS Workshop
Friday, April 4, 2014
9:00am - 5:00pm
Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
This workshop draws together several strands of current research on sociotechnical imaginaries in the STS Program at Harvard. Through multiple engagements with new, emerging, and reemerging technologies, the workshop explores the material, discursive, and political resources with which societies create shared visions of what they want, or do not want, from advances in technology. Of primary interest throughout is the connection of remembered technoscientific pasts to the threats and promises of imagined futures.
Introduction: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School, STS Program)
Session I: Nuclear Imaginaries
Session II: Biotechnology’s Moral Materialities
Session III: New Solidarities: Humans, Machines, Environments
Keynote: Alfred Nordmann (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Discussion & Closing (Sheila Jasanoff)
Event organized by the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which is dedicated to enhancing the quality of research, education, and public debate on the role of science and technology in contemporary societies. Through integrated, cross-disciplinary initiatives in research, teaching, training, and public outreach the Program seeks to develop foundational, policy-relevant insights into the nature of science and technology, and the ways in which they both influence and are influenced by society, politics, and culture. Among the fields that significantly contribute to the STS Program’s core mission are science and technology studies, anthropology, comparative politics, history, government, law, and sociology.
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Cyber Inferno: Seven Circles
Friday, April 04, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab
If alive today Dante would no doubt be shocked at how today's seven circles are not those of Hell but seven circles of cyberthreats. As in Inferno, the modern-day cyberthreat circles relate to chronological stages. It all started in Limbo - the first circle - with researchers playing around with malicious code. The latest - seventh circle (curiously in Inferno - Violence) - is that of the deadly cyberthreat emerging out of militarization of the Internet and an escalation of a global cyber arms race: cyber terrorists, whose copying and customization of malicious code - probably developed by state-backed players - really could turn the world into an inferno.
In his presentation, Eugene Kaspersky will detail the evolution of cyberthreats - from the reasonably innocuous to the deadly serious that could cause world catastrophes. In parallel he will indicate the corresponding security measures that arose, are currently arising, and need to arise in the future: from the first preventive measure - formatting floppy discs, through simple antivirus and later Internet security suites, and on to today's Critical Infrastructure Protection and much-needed international cyberarms control negotiations.
Refreshments served.
RSVP to mit-russia@mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
715-2159
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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The Meat We Eat: 2014 Forum on Industrial Animal Farming
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 1 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Building, Austin North, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Food Law Society
SPEAKER(S) Speakers and ticket information will be announced on the conference webpage. Check back regularly for updates throughout March!
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-meat-we-eat-2014-forum-on-industrial-animal-farming-tickets-10726458125?utm_campaign
NOTE http://www3.law.harvard.edu/orgs/foodlaw/themeatweeatforum/
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-meat-we-eat-2014-forum-on-industrial-animal-farming-tickets-10726458125?utm_campaign
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The future of fusion
Friday, April 04, 2014
3:00p–4:39p
MIT, Building NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tim Luce, General Atomics
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
For more information, contact: Paul Rivenberg
617-253-8101
info@psfc.mit.edu
Contact: Miriam Brackett
Email: mbrackett@seas.harvard.edu
Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Michael Murphy, MArch ’11, and Alan Ricks, MArch ‘10, are cofounders of MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture firm based in Boston, working in Rwanda, Liberia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Haiti, and beyond. First celebrated for its Butaro District Hospital (2011)—designed for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda and the NGO Partners In Health—MASS Design is known for developing-world public health design projects that studiously involve local constituents in the entire design process, from planning and programming to construction. Recent projects include hospitals in Haiti with Les Centres GHESKIO and a center for Global Health Research in Uganda, with Massachusetts General Hospital. A finalist for the TED Prize, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program, and Buckminster Fuller Challenge, MASS Design has won awards from the Architectural League of New York, the Healthcare Design Changemaker Award, and the Curry Stone Design Prize; it has been featured in Architectural Record, MARK, Detail, Lotus, Fast Company, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.
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/open-house-lecture-michael-murphy-and-alan-ricks.html
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"As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis"
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE CGIS Knafel Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Environment in China Series
SPEAKER(S) Judith Shapiro, director of the masters program in natural resources and sustainable development for the School of International Service at American University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Judith Shapiro was one of the first Americans to live in China after US-China relations were normalized in 1979, and she taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha, China. Her research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy, the environmental politics of Asia, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of seven books, including China's Environmental Challenges (2012), Mao’s War against Nature (2001), Son of the Revolution with Liang Heng (1983), and After the Nightmare with Liang Heng (1987).
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/judith-shapiro
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Does Drawing Have a Future?
Friday, April 04, 2014
5:30
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: John May
Brief: Just as voice-recognition and "informational shorthand" systems (text messaging, gestural typing, etc.) have radically reshaped the technical relationship between thinking and writing, "real time" machinic processes and simulations have now completely restructured the representational space of architectural reasoning, which historically had been monopolized by orthographic drawing. If orthography has lost its hold, what has it been replaced by? What are the consequences of this replacement for practice and pedagogy? What will become of drawing? And what will become of architecture's relationship to its own history?
Organizer: John May (link: www.millionsofmovingparts.org)
Participants:
Andrew Atwood, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley (link: http://atwood-a.com/)
Vivian Lee, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan (link: http://lamas.us/)
Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD (link: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/kiel-moe.html)
William O'Brien Jr., Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT (link: http://www.wojr.org/)
Jason Payne, Associate Professor of Architecture, UCLA (link: http://www.hirsuta.com/)
with: Sylvia Lavin, Professor of Architecture, UCLA (link: http://www.aud.ucla.edu/faculty/sylvia_lavin_11.html)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
For more information, contact: Anne Deveau
617-258-8348
adeveau@mit.edu
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We are delighted to announce that former Congressmen Barney Frank will accept the 8th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism—an award presented each year by the Humanist Community at Harvard, the American Humanist Association, and the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics.
Mr. Frank was selected by a committee of undergraduates for his career in politics and superlative contribution to Humanism in the public sphere. He represented Massachusetts' 4th district from 1981 to 2013, for a total of sixteen terms, and in 1987 he became the first openly gay member of Congress. We are excited to honor his life's work in the promotion of values shared by our community.
Past recipients of the award include novelist Salman Rushdie, musician and biologist Greg Graffin, filmmaker Joss Whedon, TV 'Mythbusters' Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, writer and actor Stephen Fry, writer Mary Roach, and comedian Eddie Izzar
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Saturday, April 5th
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TransportationCamp New England '14
Saturday, April 5, 2014
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Cost: $10-20
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportationcamp-new-england-14-tickets-10281011783
The 1st Annual TransportationCamp New England will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2014. The “unconference” is designed to bring together transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in the intersection of urban transportation and technology.
We are excited to be hosted by MIT and the MIT Transportation Club at the Stata Center, Main Floor, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139.
The location is easy to get to. The Stata Center is located two blocks west of the Kendall/MIT T-Station (Red Line). Here is more information on the location, including map and directions.
Doors open at 8:30am for breakfast and the introductory session begins at 9:30am. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided. After wrapping up the day at 5:00pm, you are invited to join us for happy hour appetizers and drinks at Champions Sports Bar. The happy hour will be hosted by the Young Professionals in Transportation (Boston Chapter).
What's an "unconference?"
This is not a traditional conference. The organizers don't pick a set of panels and panelists ahead of time. Instead, you organize the panels! Anyone interested in talking about an issue can organize a session, and attendees just go to the sessions they're most interested in. For more information on how TransportationCamp works, read the Essential Guide.
TransportationCamp brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation and technology for learning, debating, connecting and creating.
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Climate Justice Teach-In
Saturday, April 5th
10:00am - 4:00pm
Northeastern University, Boston
See the event Facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/471885616266772/
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Designing for Community - Part 11, Pocket Neighborhoods
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Gund Hall Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhoods, and Eli Spevak, Loeb Fellow 14, and founder, Orange Splot LLC
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/upcoming-loeb-fellowship-events/
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Radcliffe Institute Fellows Presentation Series: Building New Materials, One Atom at a Time
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer E. Hoffman, 2013-2014 Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow, associate professor of physics, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE At Radcliffe, physicist Jennifer E. Hoffman is expanding her research program from imaging to the active creation of new materials, using molecular beam epitaxy, a process of controlled thermal evaporation of single elements that allows the growth of exotic hybrid materials, one atomic layer at a time. Combining material growth with the existing atomic-scale imaging capabilities in the Hoffman Lab allows rapid feedback to guide the discovery of materials with desired properties, such as higher-temperature superconductivity or more robust spin-momentum locking of electrons.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-jennifer-e-hoffman-fellow-presentation
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Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE One of the most controversial aspects of President George W. Bush's administration was the creation of state and federal offices that publicly and financially support faith-based organizations across the country. Although under President Obama this office has continued to issue public support for services offered by religious organizations, these faith-based partnerships raise big questions. What are the implications of state funding for religious organizations? Are faith-based services any more effective than nonreligious ones? Please join us as we explore these questions on the role of faith-based organizations as state sponsored social service providers with Harvard Kennedy School's Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life Fr. Bryan Hehir and Malika Rushdan, director of Islamic Relief Boston, and Dan Bush, Director of Development for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement.
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Legatum Lecture: How the Mobile Industry is Building Nations
Monday, April 07, 2014
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oddvar Hesjedal
Information technology in general and the mobile services industry in particular give tremendous opportunities in emerging countries, both on a personal, national and regional level. Based on personal experiences from Asia and Eastern Europe, Oddvar will give concrete examples of how nations benefit from this development in areas like democracy, transparency, liberation of women, education, health, etc.
In addition to addressing the positive impact on nations around the world, Oddvar will discuss how the technological revolution has allowed misuse in anti-democratic directions, and the consequent dilemmas.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/events/how-mobile-industry-building-nations
Open to: the general public
Cost: none
Sponsor(s): MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact: Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
legatum@mit.edu
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Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Tabuman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Susan Akram, director, International Human Rights Clinical Program, Boston University School of Law
NOTE Join us for a talk with Susan Akram as she discusses her research on the legal issues that are creating barriers to relief and protection for refugees fleeing Syria. Boston University graduate students Aaron Lang, Sarah Bidinger and Danielle Hites will join Professor Akram with country-specific presentations on Egypt, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, respectively.
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Shale: A Case for Innovation
April 7, 2014
6:00pm
UK Trade & Investment, 7th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/energy-circle-event-oil-gas/
Cost: $0 - $30
Shale energy has been the biggest innovation in the energy industry this century. Surprised? Surging production of US’s shale energy is igniting economic revival in the US while the world is watching America’s success . The global oil shale market is expected to be US$12 billion by 2015, with an estimated yearly growth of 8% from 2015 to 2030. It has moved the US market from a net importer a just few years ago to a potential exporter in the very near term.
Tapping into this new source of energy could not be possible without breakthrough technological innovation. Disruptive technology has and will continue to dramatically alter the practices — including business practices — in place today. For example, better reservoir characterization and shale production tracking will enhance well performance. Improved micro seismic monitoring, new sensor technologies, and nano-devices create greater production efficiencies with less environmental impact.
Join us to hear the players who are driving the cutting-edge research discuss the challenges facing the industry, as well as the latest developments in technology and innovation.
Our panelists come from all facets of the upstream business: from energy companies and service providers who are spending billions of dollars annually on research; to VCs and start-ups who are financing and bringing successful innovation to market.
In this candid conversation, you will learn:
Complex geology of shale compared to conventional
Tech advancements changing the fossil fuels game
Changing business models due to differences in exploration investments
New technological approaches to increase levels of hydrocarbon retrieval
How material science, chemistry and engineering are a bridge to the new frontier
Role of big data and the importance of data management
Speakers:
Daniel Codazzi, Research Director for Sensor Physics at Schlumberger-Doll Research
Dennis R. Costello, Managing Partner, Braemar Energy Ventures
John M. Gilmore, Jr, Director, Upstream Oil & Gas, Invensys Operations Management a unit of Schneider Electric
Jonathan Kane, Shell-MIT Liaison, Shell
Dr. Michael Pavia, Chief Technology Officer, Glori Energy
Moderator:
Henri Daher, Independent Oil & Gas Researcher
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Sharing Spaces and Building Community Where We Live, Work and Eat
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship
SPEAKER(S) Kevin Cavenaugh LF '08 from Guerilla Development, and Ross Chapin, architect, Pocket Neighborhoods
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
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Noble Lecture
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 7 p.m.
WHERE The Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Memorial Church
SPEAKER(S) Joshua Dubois, former special assistant to President Obama and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and author of "The President's Devotional"
COST FREE
TICKET INFO No tickets required
CONTACT INFO The Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
P: 617-495-5508
LINK http://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/william-belden-noble-lecture
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ACT Lecture: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics?
Monday, April 07, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yvonne Rainer
Full title: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics? or How I Became Interested in Impersonating, Approximating, and End Running Around My Selves and Others,' and Where Do I Look When You're Looking At Me?
Yvonne Rainer's lecture explores issues around self-expression, spectatorship, and the politics of both. Rainer is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker who in 1962 co-founded the Judson Dance Theater group. Following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer and dancer, she made a transition to filmmaking. After making seven experimental feature films including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996), she returned to dance in 2000 to work on the collaborative project After Many a Summer Dies the Swan with the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation. Her dances and films have been shown worldwide, and her work has been recognized with museum exhibitions, fellowships, and grants, most notably two Guggenheim Fellowships, two Rockefeller grants, a Wexner Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and retrospective exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Her memoir Feelings Are Facts: A Life was published by MIT Press in 2006 and in 2011 Badlands Unlimited published a selection of her poetry under the title Poems.
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Cinematic Migrations, as a conjoined designation, poses the notion of "migrations" in relation to "the cinematic" in an intentionally porous juxtaposition, conceived to allow a wide range of questions, interpretations and permutations to emerge. During this initial phase, the work of John Akomfrah, currently with Smoking Dogs Films and previously with Black Audio Film Collective, provides a focal point for examination, in conjunction with presentations of filmmakers, artists, and scholars participating in the related lecture series.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/projects/cinematic-migrations/
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Killing a MidWest Generation
Tuesday, April 8
11:45AM-12:45PM
MIT, Building E51-345, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
It is our pleasure to welcome from Chicago the fourth guest of our Climate Change Speaker Series, Kim Wasserman. Wasserman is a community organizer and Director of the Chicago-based Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. She was the North American recipient of the 2013 Goldman Prize – a highly prestigious award given to grassroots environmental heroes from six continents each year – for her involvement in shutting down the Fisk and Crawford Coal plants of southwest Chicago; two of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest power plants. She has been the Keynote Speaker at such events as Power Shift 2013 and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. Wasserman will be sharing with us the lessons that we can draw from her personal journey: from concerned single mother to internationally recognized environmental leader.
http://www.fossilfreemit.org/04-08-14-climate-change-speaker-series-kim-wasserman/
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Crowd Sourced Real Estate Development: Fundrise.com and the Fairhaired Dumbbell
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Gund Hall 124, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship
SPEAKER(S) Kevin Cavenaugh LF '08 from Guerilla Development
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/upcoming-loeb-fellowship-events/
Speaker: Dr. Luis Videgaray, MIT PhD '97, Finance Minister of Mexico
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Special Events
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
Speaker: Kevin Starr, Partner at Third Rock Ventures
Join a conversation with Kevin Starr, Partner at Third Rock Ventures, to learn about the challenges of funding new biotechnology ventures.
Speaker: Perry L. McCarty, Silas H. Palmer Professor, Stanford University
Today, wastewater can be looked upon more as a resource than as a waste, a resource not only for water, but also for energy and fertilizer nutrients. Using wastewater as a resource can help address the problems of population growth, consumption of finite resources, and climate change from use of fossil fuel. What emerging processes offer the most promise for capturing all of wastewater's resource potential?
Treated wastewater is widely used today in agriculture and industry. It can be treated additionally with modern membrane technology for indirect potable reuse and to meet stringent industrial requirements, though energy requirements for the latter can be quite high. Energy can be obtained from wastewater's organic content as well as from its thermal content. Microbial fuel cells offer potential for direct biological conversion of wastewater's organic content into electricity. However, significant improvements are needed for this process to be competitive with anaerobic biological conversion of wastewater organics into biogas, a renewable fuel that can be used for generation of electricity. Available physical and chemical processes can be used to capture phosphorus and nitrogen for reuse, and bio-solids can be applied to agricultural fields or used for landscaping and parks, helping offset the high-energy costs of synthetic fertilizers.
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Wednesday, April 9
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WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Terence Roehrig, research fellow - International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Terence Roehrig's research focuses on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea and extended deterrence. He is Professor of National Security Affairs and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the U.S. Naval War College. He is co-author with Uk Heo of a forthcoming book, "South Korea's Rise in the World: Power, Economic Development, and Foreign Policy" (Cambridge University Press), and is a past president of the Association of Korean Political Studies.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6235/japan_and_the_us_nuclear_umbrella.html
Speaker: Marko Loncar, Harvard
Dr. Loncar will review recent advances in nanotechnology that have enabled fabrication of nanoscale optical devices and chip-scale systems in diamond that can generate, manipulate, and store optical signals at the single-photon level. Examples include diamond nanowires, ring resonators and photonic crystal cavities. He will also discuss his work on diamond based on-chip frequency combs, as well as diamond nano-mechanics.
Speaker: Benjamin Valentino, Dartmouth College
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: 617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
Webinar: Local and Sustainable Food Procurement - Best Practices from Northeastern State Governments
Thursday, April 9th
2 pm - 3:30pm Eastern
Register today at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/587447112
Is your state government interested in expanding purchase of locally and sustainably farmed agricultural products? Creating markets for these products can contribute to the regional economy, preserve farmland and support a thriving, healthy food system.
Join the Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) for a webinar supported by the John Merck Fund that will highlight Best Practices developed in the New England region to foster state government procurement of local and sustainable food.
Hear first-hand about strategies to:
Structure contracts to best encourage local offerings;
Work with vendors over time to increase local purchasing;
Support distributors that source produce from the region; and
Use policy to build greater vendor accountability.
Speakers:
Mark Curran, Black River Produce, Vermont
Mark Izeman, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York
Jane Slupecki, Department of Agriculture, Connecticut
Moderator: Sarah Church, Responsible Purchasing Network
Space is limited.
For more information, email sarah@responsiblepurchasing.org
Want to learn more? RPN's recent report, Local and Sustainable Food Procurement by New England State Governments: Barriers and Recommendations is now available at http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/resources/local_food/index.php
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The Modern American Right's Thinking About Expertise: Taxonomy and Reflections
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
4:30-6:00PM
Wasserstein Hall, 2004 Classroom, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Ken I. Kersch, Boston College (Political Science)
Traditional understandings of conservative political thought emphasize its diverse premises and divergent theoretical commitments (e.g., libertarian versus traditionalist versus neoconservative), which, from the vantage point of ideas, render the movement’s strength and longevity a singular accomplishment and puzzle. In recent work, Kersch has sought to demonstrate the ways in which modern American conservatism’s cultivation of a core set of symbolic commitments (e.g., the U.S. Constitution) and historical narratives (e.g., about the meanings of the Founding, the Civil War, and the Progressive Era) bridge these divides, unifying and motivating the movement in ways missed by political theory’s standard analytic frames. In this talk, he considers the possibility that critiques of, and stories about, science and experts and their role in the modern regulatory/administrative/social welfare state – what others have variously called the “statutory,” “legislative,” or “policy” state – have been a critical component of this set of unifying narratives and symbols. He will survey contemporary conservative thinking from diverse theoretical starting points -- Neo-liberal (including Public Choice economics and Hayek), Traditionalist (including Evangelical Christian, the Catholic Right, and Straussian), and Neoconservative – about the nature and purpose of law, implicating fundamental questions of the role of science and expertise within U.S. constitutional government.
Ken I. Kersch is Associate Professor of Political Science, History, and Law at Boston College, where he teaches courses on American political and constitutional development and American political thought. He is the author, with Ronald Kahn, of The Supreme Court and American Political Development(Kansas, 2006), Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge, 2004), and Freedom of Speech (ABC-Clio, 2003) and many book chapters, articles, and reviews. Kersch’s work has won the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association, the J. David Greenstone Award from APSA’s Politics and History Section, and the Hughes-Gossett Prize from the Supreme Court Historical Society. He is working on a book entitled Conservatives and the Constitution: From Brown to Reagan (Cambridge University Press). He received his B.A. from Williams, his J.D. from Northwestern, and his Ph.D. (Government) from Cornell.
Co-sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Societyat the Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
Watson is IBM’s first-generation cognitive system – containing massive statistical algorithms running massively in parallel. It combines natural language processing, machine learning, and hypothesis generation and evaluation to give you direct, confidence-based responses. Cognitive systems like IBM Watson, transform how organizations think, act, and operate in the future with technologies which leverage natural language, hypothesis generation and evidence-based learning.
This panel will discuss the Watson Cognitive Computing technology on how its transforming industries and ushering in a whole new era of information communication across enterprises. It will also share perspectives on emergent business opportunities for entrepreneurs around Watson and like technologies.
Come join TiE Boston and IBM for an evening of networking and panel discussion. Meet your local ecosystem of entrepreneurs, VCs, academic leaders, accelerators, IBM executives and Business Partners. Your ecosystem is the most effective means of fostering the success of everyone in the business community. Working together, we can go further than we would on our own!
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Thursday, April 10
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A comprehensive introduction to solar technologies.
Energy 101 Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
Speaker: George Lan
ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
ORC Spring Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact: Swati Gupta, Nathan Kallus, Maokai Lin
617-253-6185
swatig@mit.edu, kallus@mit.edu, lmk@mit.edu
Social Physics: Beyond Economics and Org Charts
Thursday, April 10
6:00 to 7:30 PM
MIT Museum (N51)
Yaneer Bar-Yam and Sandy Pentland
From Google to the NSA, personal information has become the currency of our era. When big data meets social science, a new understanding of human society emerges which radically changes how we make decisions and respond to global challenges. Big data-driven research such as social physics and “crowdsourcing” collective intelligence offer the promise of better policy decisions. But is the cost too high? How can we leverage the enormous opportunities available through big data, while still protecting individual privacy?
Join Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute in discussion with Sandy Pentland of the MIT Media Lab about the convergence of big data with social science.
MIT Museum: TalkBack 360 Series
TalkBack 360 is a new program series at the MIT Museum where audiences and researchers come together to share their diverse perspectives on hot topics in science, technology, and the arts. Join the discussion in our MIT 360 arena and talk back about the research that keeps you thinking.
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“Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.”
Thursday, April 10
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time,
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Jerry Melillo, Distinguished Scientist and Director Emeritus, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents:
New England Governors' Energy Infrastructure Proposals; & ENE's EnergyVision(2050)
Friday, April 11, 2014
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
This past December, the New England Governors expressed their collective perspective on energy infrastructure diversification in a statement entitledNew England Governors' Commitment to Regional Cooperation on Energy Infrastructure Issues. In January, they followed up with a joint letter to ISO New England focusing on two specific areas of agreement:
New Electric Transmission Infrastructure-The New England States, through NESCOE, have agreed that one or more requests for proposals will be issued to advance the development of transmission infrastructure that would enable delivery of at least 1200 MW and as much as 3600 MW of clean energy into the New England electric system from no and/or low carbon emissions resources. [Costs to be recovered through an ISO tariff.]
Increased Natural Gas Capacity-Approval by FERC of a tariff for the recovery of the cost of firm natural gas pipeline capacity, in a manner that is effective to achieve the construction of new, or expansion of existing, pipelines capable of delivering in the amount of firm pipeline capacity into New England of 1000 mmcf/day above 2013 levels. [Cost proposed to be recovered in an ISO tariff.]
We expect to hear about additional developments on these matters from
the New England Governors by the time of the April 11th Roundtable. Meanwhile, ISO New England has begun its analysis of the Governors'
request to develop an unprecedented gas pipeline tariff. To discuss these developments, we will hear from two of the state leaders in these negotiations, Steven Clarke, Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy at Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, and Maine PUC Chairman Tom Welch. Ray Hepper, General Counsel and Vice President at ISO New England will then provide ISO's insights on these recent developments on energy infrastructure in New England and discuss how these requests by the Governors could be translated into tariffs.
Given that the transmission and gas pipeline infrastructure requested by the New England Governors are, by their nature, long-term investments, we have decided to pair this topic with another related longer-term horizon topic - meeting New England's 2050 75-80% greenhouse gas reduction targets. The February release by ENE (Environment Northeast) of its Energy Vision(2050): A Pathway to a Modern, Sustainable, Low Carbon Economic and Environmental Future analysis and report will provide a provocative perspective to the long-term energy infrastructure conversation. ENE's analysis and report concludes that the best way to
meet the 2050 GHG reduction targets is to continue with aggressive energy efficiency programs, electrify the light vehicle and thermal sectors, increase renewable energy generation, and modernize the electric grid. Dan Sosland, President of ENE, and Dr. Abigail Adams, Director, ENE's Utility of the Future and Grid Modernization Initiative, will present ENE'sstudy.
[Note: ENE's presentation of EnergyVision(2050) will precede the New England Governors Energy Infrastructure panel.]
Free and open to the public with no advanced registration!
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Hosted by the Sargent College Faculty Support Committee.
Contact Name Jessica Kramer
Contact Email kramerj@bu.edu
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Monday, March 31
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Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium: Waste
10am Back From The Hague Summit: The Next Steps for Nuclear Security
12pm The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking
12:15pm Sex, Lies and Technology: A Journalist's Encounters with Bioethics and Big Data
12:30pm Do pollinators matter for human nutrition?
2:30pm Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk
2:30pm How Your Medical Data Is Shockingly Vulnerable to Privacy Invasions
3pm Shifting Rains, Shifting People: Atlantic ITCZ changes over the last 20,000 years
4pm The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
4pm Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
4pm The Aha! Moment: From Data to Insight
5:30pm Fracking: Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus
6:30pm Waste
8pm Nerd Night
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Tuesday, April 1
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12pm Energy 101 Sessions: What is Fracking?
12pm "The Media and Israel's Public Diplomacy."
12:30pm Pop-Up Learning: The Future of MOOCs and Online Education
12:30pm "China's National Land Management Strategies to Address the Challenges of Rapid Urbanization”
12:30pm Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Constitutional Revision, Collective Self-Defense, and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
12:30pm Innovate: Ali Malkawi
2pm Symposium: Religion, Media, and Mediation
3:30pm Managing China's Oil Dependence
4pm How the Law Responds to Unique Catastrophes: Personal Reflections on Tragic Choices
4pm "Our Mathematical Universe: From Inflationary B-modes to Precision 3D Mapping of our Cosmos”
4pm An April Fools Evening of Kyogen
4:30pm One Love: HDS Harambee & Friends United Against Racial Violence and Discrimination
4:30pm Russian Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation
5:30pm Copyright and Copyleft
6pm Healthy People - Healthy Planet - Healthcare & Sustainability
6:30pm Climate change comes to Thoreau's Concord
6:30pm Waste
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Wednesday, April 2
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9am Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry
11:30am Boston University Cleantech Expo
12pm IBM: Leading the Next Era of Information Technology
1pm Women and Peace-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2:30pm Networks and Conflicts: Theory and Evidence from Fighting Groups in Africa
3pm Liquid metal batteries for grid scale energy storage
4pm "Political T’ai-chi at Work”
4pm Sirojiddin Juraev, Master of the Dutar and Tambur: A Demonstration
4pm "Geosciences Inspiring Engineering: What Dyke Swarms Teach us about Hydraulic Fracturing,”
4:10pm Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets
4:15pm SSRC Seminar: Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE): An MIT Study on the Current State and Future of Innovation and Manufacturing in the U.S.
4:30pm Turkish Politics, Energy Politics: Near and Long Term Perspectives
5pm Future of Energy: “CCS Decade: Technologies and Projects in the Industrial World”
5:30pm MIT e4Dev Special Event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group
5:30pm Our Collective Journey: Engaging the World in Building Climate Resilience
6pm EdTech Hack Night 1 - work and collaborate on EdTech projects
6:30pm Framed Acts: Designing Space in Creative Music
7pm Technology to Help Us Save Our Oceans
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9:30am Free Wearables Technology Seminar
12pm A Talk by His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
12pm Bioregional Urbanism: A Collaborative Framework for Scalable Sustainability
12:15pm Syria's Spillover: A View from Jordan
1pm Technology Driving Global Media and Finance
3pm Energy Lecture: Wall Street Journal Inside Fracking
3:30pm "Measurement of the 'Underlying Energy Efficiency' in Chinese Provinces”
4pm True Diversity: A Multiplier in Global STEM Innovation
4pm "Breaking Bad"'s Vince Gilligan in Conversation with Drew Faust
4:15pm The Future of Leader-Leadership and Character Development: What’s “I” Got To Do with It?
4:30pm The Logic Schism: What the Social Sciences Can tell us About the Public Debate Over Climate Change
4:30pm The Untold History of the United States
5:15pm Science in Fiction
6pm Elaine Scarry on Her New Book: "Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom”
6pm Religious Accommodations in the Age of Civil Rights
6pm Starr Forum: Brazil, 50 Years After the Coup
6pm Shocking findings in a high-profile Turkish case!: Computer Forensics Uncovers Evidence Tampering in Sledgehammer and Ergenekon Cases
6:30pm Creative Space
6:30pm Movie Screening: Wild Carpathia 3
7pm Jobs Not Jails: End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation
7pm Paradise Lot: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis
7:15pm Art as a Catalyst for Social Change
7:30pm The BICEP2 Results and What They Mean: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe
7:30pm From Harvard College to the Bestseller List: A Conversation with Ben Mezrich '91 and Scott Stossel ‘91
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Friday, April 4
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Hack for the Planet: Third Annual Boston CleanWeb Hackathon
9am Technological Visions and Revisions: An STS Workshop
12pm Cyber Inferno: Seven Circles
1pm The Meat We Eat: 2014 Forum on Industrial Animal Farming
2pm Design Thinking Tools for the Individual, Group and Community
3pm The future of fusion
4pm Bionic Nanomaterials
4pm Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
4:15pm "As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis”
5:30pm Does Drawing Have a Future?
8pm Barney Frank: Cultural Humanism Award
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Saturday, April 5th
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9am TransportationCamp New England '14
10am Climate Justice Teach-In
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Monday, April 7
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12pm Designing for Community - Part 11, Pocket Neighborhoods
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellows Presentation Series: Building New Materials, One Atom at a Time
5:15pm Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: How the Mobile Industry is Building Nations
5:30pm Israel Fuel Choices Initiative: Israel's Strategy in Reducing Global Dependence on Oil
6pm Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
6pm Shale: A Case for Innovation
6:30pm Sharing Spaces and Building Community Where We Live, Work and Eat
7pm Noble Lecture
7pm ACT Lecture: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics?
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Tuesday, April 8
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8am Boston Tech Breakfast: Authentik Time, The Edventure Builder, Layrs, PreApps, CookRadar
11am IAPril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you.
11:45am Killing a MidWest Generation
12pm "The Future of Newspapers.”
12pm Crowd Sourced Real Estate Development: Fundrise.com and the Fairhaired Dumbbell
12:30pm Anglo-America and the Dynamics of Globalization
4pm Moving Mexico Forward
4pm Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Rowan Williams, The Paradoxes of Empathy
6pm The Investment Crisis in Life Science
6pm 2014 Annual John R. Freeman Lecture: Capturing Domestic Wastewater's Resource Potentials
6:30pm Lecture: Grace La and James Dallman, "On Integration”
7pm How Environmental Pollutants Impair Brain Development
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285810/-Living-Building-Challenge
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Monday, March 31
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Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium: Waste
March 31 – April 1, 2014
Harvard GSD, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
More information to follow.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.
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Back From The Hague Summit: The Next Steps for Nuclear Security
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library (L-369), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Professor of Practice Matthew Bunn and Senior Fellow William H. Tobey
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE In this Managing the Atom Project Seminar, Executive Director for Research Gary Samore will moderate a discussion with Professor of Practice Matthew Bunn and Senior Fellow William H. Tobey on the the next steps for nuclear security after the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6335/back_from_the_hague_summit.html
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library (L-369), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Professor of Practice Matthew Bunn and Senior Fellow William H. Tobey
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE In this Managing the Atom Project Seminar, Executive Director for Research Gary Samore will moderate a discussion with Professor of Practice Matthew Bunn and Senior Fellow William H. Tobey on the the next steps for nuclear security after the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6335/back_from_the_hague_summit.html
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"The Social Cost of Carbon in Federal Rulemaking"
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Elizabeth Kopits, National Center for Environmental Economics, Office of Policy, U.S. EPA
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar SeriesContact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Sex, Lies and Technology: A Journalist's Encounters with Bioethics and Big Data”
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Rochelle Sharpe, Freelance Journalist
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
sts@hks.harvard.edu
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
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“Do pollinators matter for human nutrition?”
Monday, March 31, 2014
12:30pm - 1:30pm
HSPH, Kresge, Room 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Alicia Ellis, HSPH postdoc
The talk discusses the changes in micronutrient nutrition that would occur in populations from four countries in the context of severe pollinator declines. Professor Sam Myers, Instructor in Medicine (HMS) and Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health (HSPH), notes “To our knowledge, this is the first analysis that has attempted to model the impact of pollinator declines on human nutrition.”
HSPH Nutrition Seminar Series
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Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk
Monday, March 31, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Whinston (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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How Your Medical Data Is Shockingly Vulnerable to Privacy Invasions
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Building, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Data Privacy Lab
SPEAKER(S) Deborah Peele, Patient Privacy Rights
NOTE A Freudian psychoanalyst for the past 35 years, Deborah Peel has learned that a patient’s deepest secrets – his or her medical data – is not locked up in a deep vault safe from prying eyes. Rather, she says, such information is spread across many layers or providers and insurers, leaving especially weak and potentially vulnerabilities in the ever expanding world of personal data in the Internet age. Worried about the risk of discrimination, she founded Patient Privacy Rights in 2004 and has become the nation’s leading voice on the issue.
LINK http://dataprivacylab.org/TIP/index.html
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Building, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Data Privacy Lab
SPEAKER(S) Deborah Peele, Patient Privacy Rights
NOTE A Freudian psychoanalyst for the past 35 years, Deborah Peel has learned that a patient’s deepest secrets – his or her medical data – is not locked up in a deep vault safe from prying eyes. Rather, she says, such information is spread across many layers or providers and insurers, leaving especially weak and potentially vulnerabilities in the ever expanding world of personal data in the Internet age. Worried about the risk of discrimination, she founded Patient Privacy Rights in 2004 and has become the nation’s leading voice on the issue.
LINK http://dataprivacylab.org/TIP/index.html
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Shifting Rains, Shifting People: Atlantic ITCZ changes over the last 20,000 years
Monday, March 31, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Professor Peter B. deMenocal, LDEO, Columbia University
Re-scheduled talk from the 2014 EAPS IAP Lecture Series: Monsoons: Past Changes, Present Impacts, Future Projections.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jacqui Taylor
617-253-3381
jtaylor@mit.edu
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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
WHEN Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Herbie Hancock
COST Free; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/
TICKET INFO Tickets will be available starting at noon on the day of each lecture. Tickets will be available at Sanders Theatre's box office and online (handling fee applies). Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid until 3:45 p.m. on the day of the event.
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The Norton Lecturer in 2014 is Herbie Hancock.
THE ETHICS OF JAZZ
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/norton-lectures
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Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
Monday, March 31, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Gabe Cohn , University of Washington
Although we have successfully created smaller, faster, and cheaper computer devices, several adoption barriers remain to realize the dream of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). By lowering these barriers, we can seamlessly embed human-computer interfaces into our home and work environments. My work focuses on developing highly integrated hardware/software sensing systems for Ubicomp applications using my expertise in embedded systems, low-energy hardware design, and sensing, in addition to integrating communications, signal processing, and machine learning. In thistalk, I will present my research on ultra-low-power indirect sensing approaches for both on- and off-body applications. First, I will discuss how the conductive properties of the human body can be leveraged to enable novel human-computer interactions. Next, I will discuss my work on using the existing infrastructure in buildings to reduce the number of sensors required and to reduce the power consumption for many Ubicomp applications. Finally, I will discuss my current work in on-body, non-invasive health sensing systems. By continually working on application-driven interdisciplinary research, we can lower the adoption barriers and enable many new high-impact application domains.
Gabe Cohn is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering in the Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Lab at the University of Washington, advised by Shwetak Patel. His research focuses on (1) designing and implementing ultra-low-power embedded sensing systems, (2) leveraging physical phenomena to enable new sensing modalities for human-computer interaction, and (3) developing sensor systems targeted at realizing immediate change in high-impact application domains. He was awarded the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010, and 6 Best Paper awards and nominations. He is the co-founder of SNUPI Technologies (www.wallyhome.com), a sensor and services company focused on home safety, security, and loss prevention. He received his B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2009, where he specialized in embedded systems, computer architectures, and digital VLSI.
Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, francisd@csail.mit.edu
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The Aha! Moment: From Data to Insight
Monday, March 31
Monday, March 31
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dafna Shahaf, Stanford University
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dafna Shahaf, Stanford University
The amount of data in the world is increasing at incredible rates. Large-scale data has potential to transform almost every aspect of our world, from science to business; for this potential to be realized, we must turn data into insight.
In this talk, I will describe two of my efforts to address this problem computationally:
The first project, Metro Maps of Information, aims to help people understand the underlying structure of complex topics, such as news stories or research areas. Metro Maps are structured summaries that can help us understand the information landscape, connect the dots between pieces of information, and uncover the big picture.
The second project proposes a framework for automatic discovery of insightful connections in data. In particular, we focus on identifying gaps in medical knowledge: our system recommends directions of research that are both novel and promising.
I will formulate both problems mathematically and provide efficient, scalable methods for solving them. User studies on real-world datasets demonstrate that our methods help users acquire insight efficiently across multiple domains.
Speaker Bio: Dafna Shahaf is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University; prior to that, she earned an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University. Dafna's research focuses on helping people make sense of massive amounts of data. She has won a best research paper award at KDD 2010, a Microsoft Research Fellowship, a Siebel Scholarship, and a Magic Grant for innovative ideas.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Fracking: Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus
March 31, 2014
5:30 p.m.
UMass Boston, McCormack Hall, 3rd floor, Ryan Lounge, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
Fracking for natural gas is extremely controversial. It has dramatically reduced the price of gas in the US, displacing coal in power generation but also slowing investment in renewable energy. The environmental impacts of using high-pressure fluids to fracture shale rocks are highly contentious.
This event will feature a panel of experts who will discuss current challenges and opportunities at the water-energy nexus. Questions raised will include: What is the potential for technological innovation and ‘green chemistry’ to reduce risks? What are the business and investment opportunities in the clean-tech/clean energy sector? What business and policy innovations are needed?
Panelists
Jim Matheson is President and CEO of Oasys Water and a clean technology visionary and leader. As a General Partner at Flagship Ventures he spearheaded their sustainability practice, helping to build it into a leader in the venture capital industry. At Flagship, Jim started, financed and served on the Board of Directors of several new ventures. He also served as the Dept. of Energy’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Dr. Richard Liroff is founder and Executive Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network, a group of investment advisors and managers working to reduce business’ “toxic footprint”—the production and use of toxic chemicals. Dr. Liroff is author/editor of a half dozen books and numerous articles, reports and blogs on environmental policy, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University.
For more information, please contact Andrea.Reardon@umb.edu.
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"Waste"
Monday, March 31
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
Contact events@gsd.harvard.edu
Free and open to the public
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Nerd Night
31 March 2014
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Talk 1 – “How to Teach a Robot to Bake Cookies” by Mario Bollini
This talk will teach you how to teach a robot to bake cookies, or in academic speak, it will discuss “motion and task planning for a mobile manipulator in semi-structured human environments.” It will tell the heartwarming story of a robot that yearned to leave the lab and enter the kitchen, punctuated with every roadblock reality placed in its path.
Mario Bollini is a local entrepreneur who earned his Master’s degree from MIT by teaching a robot to autonomously bake. He currently is the Chief Technology officer of GRIT, a local social enterprise that designs off-road wheelchairs for developing countries. He is also the founder ofDemocratech, a local design collaborative that crowd-funded Sprout, a plantable pencil that can grow into flowers and herbs.
Talk 2 – “How We Complicate Things for Babies to Make Language Learning Easy” by Mohinish Shukla
What kind of learner is a human baby? We used to believe that the baby was a blank canvas that experience painstakingly painted on in incremental steps. While studying how infants pick up the structure of language spoken around them, we now know that this picture is wrong. Instead, babies arrive equipped with a Swiss-army-knife toolkit of cognitive capacities that help them rapidly impose structure on what they perceive. According to the old, incremental view, learning is a step-wise process, where babies learn simple stuff, then use that knowledge to learn harder stuff. In this talk, Mo will describe results that show 6-month-olds succeeding at a word-learning task that 9-month-olds typically fail!
Mo started studying microbiology and molecular genetics, switched to ecology, then neurophysiology, and somehow ended up studying how humans learn language. He received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy, and then spent four years in Rochester, NY, as a post-doctoral fellow. He currently is one of three principal investigators at the UMass Boston Baby Lab.
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com/2014/03/17/nerd-nite-march/
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Tuesday, April 1
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Energy 101 Sessions: What is Fracking?
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A comprehensive introduction to fracking.
Energy 101 Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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"The Media and Israel's Public Diplomacy."
Tuesday, April 1
12 p.m
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Nachman Shai, an Israeli journalist, a politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset, and a former Joan Shorenstein Fellow ’96.
Tuesday, April 1
12 p.m
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Nachman Shai, an Israeli journalist, a politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset, and a former Joan Shorenstein Fellow ’96.
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Pop-Up Learning: The Future of MOOCs and Online Education
April 1, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/04/young#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on the Berkman webpage) at 12:30pm ET.
Berkman-Nieman Fellow, Jeff Young
After months of hype and hope about MOOCs, or massive open online courses, one thing is clear: they aren’t very good at teaching those most in need of education. Instead, they’re serving the education “haves”: About 80 percent of people taking MOOCs already have a college degree. But free online courses may still spark an education revolution, in ways that their biggest proponents hadn’t guessed. This talk will take a closer look at who is taking MOOCs and why, and examine how free courses fit into broader Internet trends.
About Jeff
Jeffrey R. Young is an editor and writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he leads the paper's coverage of technology and its impact on teaching, research, and student life. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, teaching a course on multimedia storytelling.
Young has written for national publications including The New York Times, New Scientist, and The Wall Street Journal. An article he wrote was selected for the anthology The Best of Technology Writing 2007.
At The Chronicle, Young leads a team of three reporters, and also writes a monthly news-analysis column called College 2.0 about how technology is changing campuses. He also contributes to and oversees content for the Wired Campus blog, and is co-host of the monthly Tech Therapy podcast. He joined The Chronicle in 1995, and has previously led the paper’s Students section, focusing on issues of college admissions and student life. In 2007, Young took a yearlong break from writing to become The Chronicle’s first Web editor, helping start blogs, podcasts, and multimedia features.
Young is a frequent speaker on issues of education and technology, having given talks at the South-by-Southwest Interactive conference, at education events, and on campuses. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University in 1995 and a master’s in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University in 2001.
He is also author of the e-book, Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education's High-Tech Disruption.
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"China's National Land Management Strategies to Address the Challenges of Rapid Urbanization"
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Complimentary lunch will be served shortly before the talk.
RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RG26FF8
RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RG26FF8
Speaker: Dr. Bin Lu, Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Peking University, Beijing, China. Panelists: Prof. Chris Zegras and Jinhua Zhao, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Dr. Bin Lu is Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (PKU). His roles at PKU also include the university's Deputy Director of Office of Development and Planning, the Director of its Urban Planning and Design Center, the Deputy Director of its Center of County Economy and Local Finance at the Guanghua School of Management, and a senior fellow at the Center for Urban Development and Land Policy at Peking University-Lincoln Institute.
Dr. Lu also serves on the Expert Committee of Urban-Rural Planning under the PRC's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, where he advises on the nation's comprehensive land management strategy. In this talk, Dr. Lu shares how China's most recent historic rapid urbanization has spread to the interior of the country and presents an array of ecological and resource challenges. Informed by his role as advisor to the national Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, he outlines China's recent experience and latest strategies for controlling urban sprawl through green belts and urban growth boundaries, focusing on the case of Beijing and its surrounding region. He discusses China's particular institutional issues which complicate the management of rapid urban growth.
China Urban Development Discussion
Web site: http://dusp.mit.edu/event/china-urban-development-discussion-china%E2%80%99s-national-land-management-strategies-address
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, DUSP, China Urban Development, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Shan Jiang
shanjang@mit.edu
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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Constitutional Revision, Collective Self-Defense, and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, co-sponsored by the Constitutional Revision Research Project, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sheila Smith, senior fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, co-sponsored by the Constitutional Revision Research Project, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sheila Smith, senior fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Innovate: Ali Malkawi
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins (Room 112), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Ali Malkawi
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Innovation occurs on multiple scales, frequently crosses disciplines, and occasionally changes lives, cities, and culture. It is not a science, but requires design skills and must be informed by an eye for opportunity. “Innovate,” a noontime talk series, features 20-minute presentations followed by discussions with faculty and students. Moderated by Iñaki Abalos, chair of the Department of Architecture.
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/innovate-ali-malkawi.html
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WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins (Room 112), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Ali Malkawi
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Innovation occurs on multiple scales, frequently crosses disciplines, and occasionally changes lives, cities, and culture. It is not a science, but requires design skills and must be informed by an eye for opportunity. “Innovate,” a noontime talk series, features 20-minute presentations followed by discussions with faculty and students. Moderated by Iñaki Abalos, chair of the Department of Architecture.
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/innovate-ali-malkawi.html
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Symposium: Religion, Media, and Mediation
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 2 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School and the Committee on African Studies
CONTACT Alison Batty, 617.384.6598
NOTE Over the last decade, religious studies witnessed what has been defined as "the media turn" that brought to light the understanding of religion as a set of material forms and practices mediating between humans and supernatural powers. Media can be modern technologies, television, the Internet, blogs, radio, and various forms of cyber communication, but it can also be images, bodies, and material forms filling the gap between human beings and supernatural or divine powers and the religious community.
By bringing together scholars with expertise on African Religions and African Charismatic Christianity, this event will discuss the aesthetics, materiality, and power of religious media in contemporary Africa and beyond.
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 2 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School and the Committee on African Studies
CONTACT Alison Batty, 617.384.6598
NOTE Over the last decade, religious studies witnessed what has been defined as "the media turn" that brought to light the understanding of religion as a set of material forms and practices mediating between humans and supernatural powers. Media can be modern technologies, television, the Internet, blogs, radio, and various forms of cyber communication, but it can also be images, bodies, and material forms filling the gap between human beings and supernatural or divine powers and the religious community.
By bringing together scholars with expertise on African Religions and African Charismatic Christianity, this event will discuss the aesthetics, materiality, and power of religious media in contemporary Africa and beyond.
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Managing China's Oil Dependence
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oystein Tunsjo, Associate Professor, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
Lecture/Book Talk
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Lynne Levine
617-253-0133
llevine@mit.edu
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How the Law Responds to Unique Catastrophes: Personal Reflections on Tragic Choices
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
4:00-6:00PM
Langdell Hall North 225, Vorenberg Classroom, Harvard Law School
Kenneth R. Feinberg, Feinberg Rozen, LLC
Abstract: Mr. Feinberg will offer personal reflections on how he became the expert in unique catastrophes and the principled ways in which he has learned to respond. He will tackle the difficult issue of achieving a sense of justice in the aftermath of tragedy through the administration of victims' funds.
Biography:
Kenneth R. Feinberg has been key to resolving many of our nation's most challenging and widely known disputes. He is best known for serving as the Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, in which he reached out to all who qualified to file a claim, evaluated applications, determined appropriate compensation, and disseminated awards. Mr. Feinberg shared his extraordinary experience in his book What Is Life Worth?, published in 2005 by Public Affairs Press. Just a few years later, Mr. Feinberg became Fund Administrator for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund following the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. In 2013, he was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas to oversee the One Fund Boston, which distributed payments to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Mr. Feinberg also has served as Special Master in Agent Orange, asbestos personal injury, wrongful death claims, Dalkon shield, and DES (pregnancy medication) cases. Mr. Feinberg founded Feinberg Rozen, LLP in 1992. He has been involved in resolving thousands of disputes involving a wide range of interests and clients. In the commercial sector, Mr. Feinberg designed, implemented and administered an ADR settlement Program involving Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Zurich N.A. Insurance Company and Hurricane Katrina and other Gulf hurricane claimants. He also has served as Distribution Agent for AIG Fair Fund claimants, and has been the Fund Administrator for a variety of claimant funds totaling more than $1 billion. In his capacity as an arbitrator, Mr. Feinberg helped determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, and legal fees in Holocaust slave labor litigation. Mr. Feinberg has been appointed to two presidential-level commissions because of his experience and expertise, and has had a distinguished teaching career as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Virginia, and Harvard Law School. In 2004, he was named "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal (2004), and has been named repeatedly as one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal. He received his J.D from New York University School of Law in 1970, where he served on the Law Review. He held a clerkship with Chief Judge Stanley H. Fuld, New York State Court of Appeals (1970-1972).
Co-sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
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"Our Mathematical Universe: From Inflationary B-modes to Precision 3D Mapping of our Cosmos”
Tuesday, April 1
4:00 pm
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (The Pappalardo Community Room)
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (The Pappalardo Community Room)
I survey how we humans have repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also the power of our humans minds to understand it using mathematical equations. My examples include the recent discovery of B-modes in the cosmic microwave background, providing smoking-gun evidence for quantum gravity, Hawking radiation, and cosmological inflation. I also highlight mysteries such as the nature of dark matter, dark energy and our early universe, and how creating the largest-ever 3D maps of our universe can shed new light on them.
See more at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html#sthash.TV2svVUW.dpuf
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An April Fools Evening of Kyogen
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Katsumi Yanagimoto
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO fraleigh@post.harvard.edu
NOTE Kyōgen is the name for a dramatic style and repertoire of short comic plays that form one of the oldest theatrical traditions in Japan. Though developed in the 14th century, kyōgen is still performed today: both as an independent form and as an interlude during the more serious Noh theater. The stories featured in the humorous plays of the kyōgen theater treat the daily lives of everyday people and remain highly accessible to viewers today. Katsumi Yanagimoto will introduce the tradition, discuss, and demonstrate its conventions, and perform two farcical plays with fellow Kyoto-based kyōgen actor Shin'ichi Yutani. The performance will be in Japanese with English subtitles.
LINK http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php
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One Love: HDS Harambee & Friends United Against Racial Violence and Discrimination
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School Campus Green
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion, Special Events
SPONSOR Harambee at HDS
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE Please join us for a vigil as we stand together in song, silence, and in prayer in honor of the victims of racial violence and discrimination in our country, and in support of our country's ongoing need for racial reconciliation and healing. We will begin on the lawn outside of Andover Hall and then proceed to march to the steps of Memorial Church.
WHEN Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School Campus Green
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion, Special Events
SPONSOR Harambee at HDS
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE Please join us for a vigil as we stand together in song, silence, and in prayer in honor of the victims of racial violence and discrimination in our country, and in support of our country's ongoing need for racial reconciliation and healing. We will begin on the lawn outside of Andover Hall and then proceed to march to the steps of Memorial Church.
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Russian Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A public lecture featuring Professor McCarthy and Professor Puffer of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business of Northeastern University.
Entrepreneurship is relatively new in Russia, and although not totally flourishing, it has become increasingly important to the country's economy, with many entrepreneurs having built and continuing to build very successful companies. Many have developed an innovative and participative leadership style that stands in stark contrast to the traditional Soviet-era style. This seminar covers such subjects based on our research and publications that draw heavily upon data from the annual Ernst & Young Russian Entrepreneur of the Year competition, an event held in scores of countries around the world. The speakers will also briefly discuss their research investigating the historical circumstances affecting innovation in Russia and will discuss more fully the country's current initiatives to foster innovation and commercialization of technology.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
715-2159
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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Copyright and Copyleft
Tuesday, April 1
5:30pm - 7pm
Harvard Law School, Pound 101
RSVP at http://darthcrimson.org
Panel discussion with Peter Suber, Allan Ryan, Kyle Courtney, and Tim Kreider
Curious about copyrights? DARTH Crimson will host a lively discourse on intellectual property and its current predicaments as it plays catch up in the digital age. With panelists from four widely varying backgrounds, we aim to spark engaging and insightful discourse on where IP is coming from and where it is going.
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Healthy People - Healthy Planet - Healthcare & Sustainability
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
The Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/apr-1-basg-healthy-people-healthy-planet-healthcare-sustainability-tickets-10789887845
Cost: $10-12
Boston Area Sustainability Group Presents: Healthy People – Healthy Planet: Healthcare & Sustainability
The health of the planet and human health are not separate concerns. Sustainability is a lens that brings our interdependence into focus. Come hear from leaders actively working to make healthcare more sustainable and driving sustainability for our bettered health:
Janet Bowen, Health Care Coordinator for EPA Region 1
Janet will present EPA New England's work with the health care sector as well as EPA's future focus.
Kyle Cahill, Senior Manager, Corporate Citizenship, BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS
Kyle will discuss the sustainability imperative for the healthcare industry: how healthy environments are critical to preventing illness and chronic disease.
Monica Nakielski , Project Manager, Sustainable Initiatives of Partners Healthcare
Monica will discuss how Partners is going about leading our community to a healthier future.
Hermine Levey Weston, Facility Engagement Manager at Practice Greenhealth
Practice Greenhealth drives sustainability within hospitals. Hermine will talk about healthcare sustainability being a public health initiative.
Kumkum Dilwali, Senior Director, Green Guide for Health Care
Federal agencies are mandated to "use less toxic materials,” and health care must design and operate facilities that "first, do no harm.“ Kumkum will talk about the tools and strategies that these sectors can share to accelerate transformation.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers will share their experiences and then open the discussion.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details).
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Climate change comes to Thoreau's Concord
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
6:30 p.m.
Boston College, Fulton Hall, Room 511
Dr. Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology at Boston University and Editor-in-Chief of Biological Conservation
Thoreau was a climate change scientist! For the past 10 years, Professor Richard Primack and his colleagues have been using Thoreau’s records and other data sources to document the dramatically earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier ice out at Walden Pond, and the more variable response of migratory birds. And most noteworthy, plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to a warming climate. While primarily a scientific study, Primack’s talk will be supported by beautiful photos and numerous quotes from Thoreau.
This work has received exceptional wide attention in the popular media (http://people.bu.edu/primack/news.html), most recently in the New York Times, and demonstrates the relevance of Thoreau’s legacy to contemporary issues.
Contact's Email: envstudy@bc.edu
Dr. Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology at Boston University and Editor-in-Chief of Biological Conservation
Thoreau was a climate change scientist! For the past 10 years, Professor Richard Primack and his colleagues have been using Thoreau’s records and other data sources to document the dramatically earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier ice out at Walden Pond, and the more variable response of migratory birds. And most noteworthy, plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to a warming climate. While primarily a scientific study, Primack’s talk will be supported by beautiful photos and numerous quotes from Thoreau.
This work has received exceptional wide attention in the popular media (http://people.bu.edu/primack/news.html), most recently in the New York Times, and demonstrates the relevance of Thoreau’s legacy to contemporary issues.
Contact's Email: envstudy@bc.edu
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"Waste"
Tuesday, April 1
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This two part event explores the many ways in which design ingenuity can potentially confront the many facets of the topic of waste. Part I will present a diversity of approaches to the issue, from architecture to urbanism; from recycling to innovative solutions. Part II will feature a lecture by Frank O. Gehry on architecture's capacity and future responsibility to limit waste in the design and performance of buildings. Convened by Frank O. Gehry and Mohsen Mostafavi.
Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu
Contact events@gsd.harvard.edu
Free and open to the public
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Gustav Fridolin, the leader of the Green Party in Sweden
Tuesday, April 1
7 pm
The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Gustav Fridolin will discuss the rise of racism in Europe, and other international issues.
Gustav was the youngest MP in the history of Sweden, and one of the youngest in the world, when he won his first election. He is an egalitarian democrat: he continues to teach adult-education classes on the side of his
prestigious post in Parliament; has visited the Occupied Territories of Palestine; and writes books of memoir and social criticism on the side.
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public.
Democracy Center<https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Democracy-Center/110212969005483?ref=hl>
Email info@democracycenter.org for more info.
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Wednesday, April 2
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Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry
Tuesday, April 2nd , 2014
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/615043897
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.
What is an Inflector Window Insulator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21DiKS5mt4k
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Wednesday, April 2
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Energy Efficiency Done Right presents information on the In'Flector See Through Radiant Barrier Window and Skylight Insulator and the Energy Efficiency Industry
Tuesday, April 2nd , 2014
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/615043897
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.
What is an Inflector Window Insulator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21DiKS5mt4k
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Boston University Cleantech Expo
Wednesday, April 2
11:30am - 6pm
Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
ACTION and Boston University’s Feld Career Center are pleased to announce the Boston University Cleantech Expo, featuring two informative panel discussions, and a showcase of companies in the clean energy industry and related fields. The “Cleantech Careers Panel” will highlight how students can access internship opportunities at companies active in clean energy.
Cleantech Careers Panel: 11:30am-12:15pm
Learn about paid internships available through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Internship Program, which connects students with internship opportunities at clean energy companies. A former student who participated in the program and later found employment in the cleantech industry will share her perspective on the benefits of this program. A recruiter with Next Step Living will share an employer perspective.
Cleantech Showcase: 12:15pm-4:00pm
Meet clean energy companies from throughout the region exhibiting at this Showcase, to learn about the spectrum of technologies and energy services that are active in this industry. Meet company representatives that are interested in connecting with the BU community, learn about companies that interest you, and develop opportunities for follow up discussions.
If your organization would like to be an exhibitor, click thru to the next page and follow the link.
Incubator Success Story panel: Resolute Marine Energy and Newburyport
The “Incubator Success Story Panel” will spotlight the story of a startup company innovating technologies at the nexus of clean energy and clean water that partnered with a cleantech incubator and has successfully developed the company to implement their technology systems. Resolute Marine Energy, has created a unique technology that uses ocean wave energy to drive seawater desalinization and electricity generation plants. Their systems can provide fresh water and electricity in areas where there is a weak or non-existent electrical grid which enables water resource managers to quickly provide large quantities of clean fresh water wherever needed without the need for diesel-driven systems.
CleanTech Center: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Learn about the Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England – ACTION, New England’s network of cleantech incubators. An overview of how clean energy startup companies benefit from incubator resources and advisory services will be discussed. The Success Story panel will highlight Resolute Marine Energy, focusing on the progression of the company, the role of a cleantech incubator, and successes achieved.
Networking Reception : 5:00pm-6:00pm
If you have any questions, please contact Kristina Lamoreaux at klamorea@bu.edu
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IBM: Leading the Next Era of Information Technology
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Zachary J. Lemnios, IBM
Industries across the public and private sector are in the midst of major transformation. Today???s Information technology systems have become overwhelmed with the volume, velocity, variety and veracity of data and burdened with the costs for infrastructure scaleout. Industries are moving to a new data economy that will be characterized by predictive analytics, all-source understanding, seamless global connectivity, speed and agility
IBM is leading the next era of information technology by launching major initiatives to develop systems of insight, cognitive computing, secure micro cloud, and managed data services.
MTL Seminar Series
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2014.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Women and Peace-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Women's Studies in Religion Program
CONTACT Tracy Wall
NOTE Please join the WSRP for a presentation by Zilka Spahic Siljak, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Lunch will be served.
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Wednesday, April 2
11:30am - 6pm
Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
ACTION and Boston University’s Feld Career Center are pleased to announce the Boston University Cleantech Expo, featuring two informative panel discussions, and a showcase of companies in the clean energy industry and related fields. The “Cleantech Careers Panel” will highlight how students can access internship opportunities at companies active in clean energy.
Cleantech Careers Panel: 11:30am-12:15pm
Learn about paid internships available through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Internship Program, which connects students with internship opportunities at clean energy companies. A former student who participated in the program and later found employment in the cleantech industry will share her perspective on the benefits of this program. A recruiter with Next Step Living will share an employer perspective.
Cleantech Showcase: 12:15pm-4:00pm
Meet clean energy companies from throughout the region exhibiting at this Showcase, to learn about the spectrum of technologies and energy services that are active in this industry. Meet company representatives that are interested in connecting with the BU community, learn about companies that interest you, and develop opportunities for follow up discussions.
If your organization would like to be an exhibitor, click thru to the next page and follow the link.
Incubator Success Story panel: Resolute Marine Energy and Newburyport
The “Incubator Success Story Panel” will spotlight the story of a startup company innovating technologies at the nexus of clean energy and clean water that partnered with a cleantech incubator and has successfully developed the company to implement their technology systems. Resolute Marine Energy, has created a unique technology that uses ocean wave energy to drive seawater desalinization and electricity generation plants. Their systems can provide fresh water and electricity in areas where there is a weak or non-existent electrical grid which enables water resource managers to quickly provide large quantities of clean fresh water wherever needed without the need for diesel-driven systems.
CleanTech Center: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Learn about the Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England – ACTION, New England’s network of cleantech incubators. An overview of how clean energy startup companies benefit from incubator resources and advisory services will be discussed. The Success Story panel will highlight Resolute Marine Energy, focusing on the progression of the company, the role of a cleantech incubator, and successes achieved.
Networking Reception : 5:00pm-6:00pm
If you have any questions, please contact Kristina Lamoreaux at klamorea@bu.edu
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IBM: Leading the Next Era of Information Technology
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Zachary J. Lemnios, IBM
Industries across the public and private sector are in the midst of major transformation. Today???s Information technology systems have become overwhelmed with the volume, velocity, variety and veracity of data and burdened with the costs for infrastructure scaleout. Industries are moving to a new data economy that will be characterized by predictive analytics, all-source understanding, seamless global connectivity, speed and agility
IBM is leading the next era of information technology by launching major initiatives to develop systems of insight, cognitive computing, secure micro cloud, and managed data services.
MTL Seminar Series
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2014.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Women and Peace-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Women's Studies in Religion Program
CONTACT Tracy Wall
NOTE Please join the WSRP for a presentation by Zilka Spahic Siljak, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Lunch will be served.
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Networks and Conflicts: Theory and Evidence from Fighting Groups in Africa
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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Liquid metal batteries for grid scale energy storage
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
David Bradwell, CEO of Ambri, will discuss liquid metal battery technologies for grid-scale energy storage.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Aziz Abdellahi
aziz_a@mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series: "Political T’ai-chi at Work”
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Hanchao Lu, 2013-2014 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Georgia Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE Hanchao Lu is a professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an honorary senior research professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include the socioeconomic and cultural history of modern China, Chinese urban history, and everyday life studies.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-hanchao-lu-fellow-presentation
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Sirojiddin Juraev, Master of the Dutar and Tambur: A Demonstration
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS S-020 South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sirojiddin Juraev, National Conservatory of Music, Dushanbe Tajikistan
LINK http://iaas.fas.harvard.edu
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS S-020 South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sirojiddin Juraev, National Conservatory of Music, Dushanbe Tajikistan
LINK http://iaas.fas.harvard.edu
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"Geosciences Inspiring Engineering: What Dyke Swarms Teach us about Hydraulic Fracturing,"
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andrew P. Bunger, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract: Hydraulic fracturing has an extensive history of successful applications including quarrying/mining (since the 1890s), gas and oil extraction (since 1949), and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (“EGS”, since the early 1970s). With perhaps only one notable exception, the Barnett Shale in Texas, this experience points to a mechanical system that tends to favor localization of fracture growth to one or two dominant hydraulic fractures rather than propagation of many simultaneous branches. This is in spite of 4 decades of attempts to generate complex networks of hydraulic fractures for EGS applications and more than a decade of efforts to generate Barnett-like networks of hydraulic fractures in other shale gas reservoirs. Man-made hydraulic fractures seem highly prone to localization. On the other hand, there are more than 400 known examples of giant dyke swarms on Earth, Venus, and Mars. These stunning features are comprised of hundreds to thousands of subparallel to radiating dykes that originate from a common source region and that appear to have grown concurrently. So, in contrast to man-made systems, these natural systems of fluid (magma)-driven cracks appear to favor swarming dynamics rather than localization.
In this presentation I will tell the story of a recent research effort aimed at finding the ingredients required for swarming behavior to occur in systems of fluid-driven cracks such as dykes and hydraulic fractures. I will show that the missing ingredient has been a basic understanding of the attractive force in these systems, that is, why fluid-driven cracks would have any mechanical impetus to grow near one another in the first place. By showing how this key element of the system depends on geometry and the relative importance of viscous energy dissipation in the context of the energy balance of the system, engineers are now able to draw inspiration from the naturally-occurring dyke swarms in order to design more effective hydraulic fracturing treatments.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement: Evidence from Electricity Markets
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Knittel, MIT
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
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SSRC Seminar: Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE): An MIT Study on the Current State and Future of Innovation and Manufacturing in the U.S.
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Olivier de Weck, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Please join us for our next spring seminar in the Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems series. Prof. Olivier de Weck will discuss the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) study that was conducted from January 2011 to September 2013 and identified key challenges in the U.S. innovation and manufacturing ecosystem. PIE led to two MIT Press books and has significantly influenced recent manufacturing initiatives at both federal and regional levels. Light refreshments will be served.
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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Turkish Politics, Energy Politics: Near and Long Term Perspectives
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE CGIS, Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The WCFIA/CMES Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World
SPEAKER(S) Tuncay Babali, ambassador of Turkey to Canada; former WCFIA Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lgmartin@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3564
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Future of Energy: “CCS Decade: Technologies and Projects in the Industrial World”
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Laboratory Room B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) S. Julio Friedmann, deputy assistant secretary, Clean Coal Program, Office of Fossil Energy, US Department of Energy,
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-04-02/future-energy
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MIT e4Dev Special Event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group
Wednesday, April 2nd
5:30 pm
MIT Bldg 66, Room (66-110), 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13yfmJF2NCjVundVcn2yLyTO14yX4B7hY5LDEy0dD8qw/viewform
Space is limited!
e4Dev is pleased to announce a special event with the World Bank-Africa Energy Group (AEG).
Daniel Murphy, AEG Senior Energy Specialist, Rhonda L. Jordan, PhD-MIT AEG Energy Specialist and Micah Melnyk, AEG Consultant will present AEG’s on-going and future energy work in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on solar-based technologies and strategies.
Refreshments will be served.
Direct questions to e4dev-request@mit.edu
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Our Collective Journey: Engaging the World in Building Climate Resilience
Tuesday, April 2
5:30PM-7:00PM
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
We are excited to be joined by Parker Liautaud for the fourth event of our Climate Change Speaker Series. Liautaud is currently studying Geology and Geophysics at Yale, but he is not your average teenager. He is a polar explorer and climate change campaigner who, since turning 15, has undertaken three expeditions to the North Pole. In December 2013, he led a 565 km unsupported trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, breaking the world-record for the fastest unsupported Coast-to-Pole ski expedition and earning him the title of “Youngest Male to Ski to the South Pole”. Liautaud’s expeditions aim to draw attention to the immediate need for action to address climate change, and, since 2011, he has also partnered with academic institutions to undertake climate research on each of his expeditions.
Liautaud is also an ambassador for One Young World, an organization that gathers together the world’s young leaders to create positive change. With One Young World, Parker has shared the same stage as Kofi Annan, Sir Bob Geldof, and Al Gore, and has addressed over 1200 delegates from 190 countries.
http://www.fossilfreemit.org/springspeakerseries2014/
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EdTech Hack Night 1 - work and collaborate on EdTech projects
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
LearnLaunch Campus, 31 St. James Avenue, 9th fl, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-EdTech-Hack-Night/events/166487822/
Join us at LearnLaunch Campus in Back Bay to work on existing projects or new ideas which focus on education technology. Plan to meet others working on interesting projects and spend the evening getting shit done. Food and refreshments will be served.
Schedule:
6:00 -6:20pm ~ Plan to arrive at LearnLaunch, eat, drink and get to know some people (don't worry we will help shy people make friends :) ).
6:20-6:30pm ~ Quick intros - Who are you? Do you have a project? Looking to help someone on a project?
6:30 - 9:45pm ~ Get hacking! This is your time to make some progress on your project. There should be a good mix of people with existing projects and people looking to help out on projects. (If you don't fall into either of these categories we will have break out rooms where people can flush out ideas).
9:45 -10pm ~ Group stand up. This is your time to show off what you accomplished or share something you learned.
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Framed Acts: Designing Space in Creative Music
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Vijay Iyer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Vijay Iyer, who counts architecture as a “recurring point of reference, as a constructed (‘composed’) space that invites improvised acts,” will speak on this theme at the GSD, a few weeks after his performance at Sanders Theater in March with Robert Pinsky, the former US Poet Laureate, in a duet called POEMJAZZ. Composer, pianist, and producer—and a widely published writer on music and mathematics—Iyer holds an interdisciplinary PhD in the cognitive science of music. In 2012 he won in four categories of the JazzTimes Critics Poll, along with the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and Greenfield Prize, among other distinctions. Among his sixteen albums as a leader, Historicity was a 2010 Grammy Nominee for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, and he received an Echo Award for International Pianist of the Year in 2013. Iyer is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and as of 2014, he is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt professor of the arts in the Department of Music at Harvard University.
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-vijay-iyer-framed-acts-designing-space-in-creative-music.html
WHEN Wed., Apr. 2, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Vijay Iyer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Vijay Iyer, who counts architecture as a “recurring point of reference, as a constructed (‘composed’) space that invites improvised acts,” will speak on this theme at the GSD, a few weeks after his performance at Sanders Theater in March with Robert Pinsky, the former US Poet Laureate, in a duet called POEMJAZZ. Composer, pianist, and producer—and a widely published writer on music and mathematics—Iyer holds an interdisciplinary PhD in the cognitive science of music. In 2012 he won in four categories of the JazzTimes Critics Poll, along with the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and Greenfield Prize, among other distinctions. Among his sixteen albums as a leader, Historicity was a 2010 Grammy Nominee for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, and he received an Echo Award for International Pianist of the Year in 2013. Iyer is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and as of 2014, he is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt professor of the arts in the Department of Music at Harvard University.
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-vijay-iyer-framed-acts-designing-space-in-creative-music.html
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Technology to Help Us Save Our Oceans
Wednesday, April 2
7pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105282&view=Detail
Shah Selbe, engineer and conservation technologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and New England Aquarium Marine Conservation Action Fundgrantee
We have seen great strides in establishing marine reserves to allow the health of our oceans to rebound. However, these reserves risk being ineffective without smarter ways to protect them. The methods currently used tend to be expensive and rely almost entirely on the use of military resources (which tends to put it at a low priority). Shah Selbe is an engineer and National Geographic Explorer who works in identifying innovative approaches and technologies that can help. This includes the development of hardware (low-cost conservation drones, acoustic sensors, etc.) and data management solutions (smartphone apps, online databases, satellite imagery, etc.). He created MPA Guardian, a website and smartphone app to allow crowdsourced protection of California's marine protected area network. He is now working through a grant from National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions to create low-cost drones to monitor Marine Protected Areas. Join Selbe to hear about some of the most promising technologies and his work in the Caribbean on the Waitt Institute’s Barbuda Blue Halo initiative.
Shah Selbe, engineer and conservation technologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and New England Aquarium Marine Conservation Action Fundgrantee
We have seen great strides in establishing marine reserves to allow the health of our oceans to rebound. However, these reserves risk being ineffective without smarter ways to protect them. The methods currently used tend to be expensive and rely almost entirely on the use of military resources (which tends to put it at a low priority). Shah Selbe is an engineer and National Geographic Explorer who works in identifying innovative approaches and technologies that can help. This includes the development of hardware (low-cost conservation drones, acoustic sensors, etc.) and data management solutions (smartphone apps, online databases, satellite imagery, etc.). He created MPA Guardian, a website and smartphone app to allow crowdsourced protection of California's marine protected area network. He is now working through a grant from National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions to create low-cost drones to monitor Marine Protected Areas. Join Selbe to hear about some of the most promising technologies and his work in the Caribbean on the Waitt Institute’s Barbuda Blue Halo initiative.
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Free Wearables Technology Seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2014
9:30 AM to 3:15pm
Boston Marriott Cambridge, Two Cambridge Center,50 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/170532302/
Join Arrow and STMicroelectronics for a FREE seminar designed to get the Wearables Technology in Boston Meetup Group ready to create designs for Wearable devices.
In 2017, 170 million wearable electronic products will be shipped and will be part of in our everyday lives. From fitness, to healthcare, to anything and everything on or around the body, the wearable electronics segment is about to explode.
Will you be ready to address the wearable application space?
Will you have the expertise to design small form factor, ultra-low power designs?
Attend the free seminar to:
Learn about the main design blocks necessary for a cutting edge wearable design.
Understand how STMicroelectronics' system solution expertise will help to cut down on the learning curve and reduce design cycles.
Deep dive into Microcontrollers, Connectivity, Power Management and MEMs Sensors.
Enter for a chance to win one of ten STMicroelectronics development kits at each location.
More at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/
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A Talk by His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, WCC Milstein East, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Steven and Maureen Klinsky Professorship of Practice for Leadership and Progress and Dean Martha Minow
SPEAKER(S) Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, WCC Milstein East, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Steven and Maureen Klinsky Professorship of Practice for Leadership and Progress and Dean Martha Minow
SPEAKER(S) Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
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Bioregional Urbanism: A Collaborative Framework for Scalable Sustainability
Thursday, April 3, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts University, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP: https://bioregionalism.eventbrite.com
Sarah Howard, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earthos Institute
"Further research is needed to better understand the linkages across food, water, and energy systems; our response to the resource conundrum must be long-term and integrated across sectors to address systemic risks and root causes." - From the Global Resource Security Experts' Workshop, 2009
This talk will explore Bioregional Urbanism, a practice methodology that helps cities and regions become more resilient and self-sufficient and measurably contribute to global sustainability. A team of designers, scientists, policy practitioners, and community partners at Earthos Institute are developing this cross-sector decision-making framework to help people work together to address the resource conundrum while contributing to vibrant places and improved well-being for all. This session introduces the underlying research, theoretical constructs, and practice methods of Bioregional Urbanism, along with preliminary applications in the Boston area and regions around the world.
Sarah Howard is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earthos Institute, and a faculty member at the Boston Architectural College. Howard's cross-sector work has focused on bringing people together to create inclusive, thriving communities with resilient environments. She began her professional career teaching environmental science and outdoor education in urban settings; then founded community-learning centers; worked for nonprofit organizations in community partnership building; worked to expand affordable housing in Massachusetts; and then studied and practiced just sustainable architecture/ urban design. Howard has also served on numerous community organization boards including Urban Edge (Roxbury, MA), Blackstone Academy Charter School (Pawtucket RI), Ashmont Hill Chamber Music (Dorchester, MA), Westport Housing Partnership and Westport Housing Authority (elected Commissioner). She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Policy degrees from Tufts University.
Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program
http://as.tufts.edu/environmentalStudies/events/lunchlearn.htm
Contact Name: Sarah Neville
saraheneville@gmail.com
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Syria's Spillover: A View from Jordan
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Marisa L. Porges, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6322/syrias_spillover.html
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Technology Driving Global Media and Finance
Thursday, April 3
1:00pm - 2:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards in conversation with Andy Lippman and Ethan Zuckerman
Peter Grauer is chairman of Bloomberg L.P. He serves as lead director of Davita Health Care Partners, Inc., a healthcare services company based in Colorado. He is a member of the Business Council, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, and serves on its Media, Entertainment and Information Industry Board of Governors. He is also founding chairman of the Community of Chairmen at the World Economic Forum. Grauer is also an independent non-executive director of Glencore Xstrata PLC and a member of the McKinsey Advisory Council. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, president of the Board of Trustees of the Inner City Scholarship Fund in New York City, and a member of the Partnership for Inner City Education Board of Directors. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University, chairman of the Rockefeller Finance & Operations Committee, and a member of the Board of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Board of Directors of Room to Read, and the Board of the USA Cycling Development Foundation.
Vlad Kliatchko leads Bloomberg LP's global research and development department, a global team of more than 3,000 software developers and infrastructure engineers. The department is responsible for building and maintaining the Bloomberg Professional service, the world’s most trusted source for real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, research, estimates and analytics, as well as other financial, legal, government, energy and news applications. Kliatchko joined the R&D team in 2003 to focus on Bloomberg communications platforms. He then assumed a role leading software infrastructure development for the R&D group, focusing on maintaining and enhancing core systems, including Bloomberg's networking technology, databases, middleware, and application development tools. He was a leader in the architecting and development of Bloomberg's rapid application development and continuous deployment framework. In 2012 he became the head of global R&D, and today he is focused on leading a diverse team of programmers and networking experts who are solving extremely challenging technical problems and building advanced systems and applications that fuel markets. Kliatchko graduated with a degree in mathematics and computer science from the St. Petersburg State University (formally Leningrad State University), school of Mathematics and Mechanics.
Shawn Edwards is Bloomberg's Chief Technology Officer. He oversees the development and implementation of Bloomberg's global technology strategy, including functional enhancements to the company's core business, the Bloomberg Professional service. His team is responsible for outreach to and interaction with the Open Source community and the broader develop community in general. In his role, Edwards also furthers the company's ongoing commitment to market transparency by leading Bloomberg's Open Market Data Initiative (OMDI), which brings Bloomberg's Open Symbology (BSYM) catalog and market data interface into the public domain. Previously, Shawn ran Bloomberg's global R&D group where he helped streamline the product development process, bolster the Bloomberg network's technical infrastructure and create a user-experience design team, which now influences product development company-wide. Edwards received a bachelor's of science and a master's degree from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.
Peter Grauer is chairman of Bloomberg L.P. He serves as lead director of Davita Health Care Partners, Inc., a healthcare services company based in Colorado. He is a member of the Business Council, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, and serves on its Media, Entertainment and Information Industry Board of Governors. He is also founding chairman of the Community of Chairmen at the World Economic Forum. Grauer is also an independent non-executive director of Glencore Xstrata PLC and a member of the McKinsey Advisory Council. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, president of the Board of Trustees of the Inner City Scholarship Fund in New York City, and a member of the Partnership for Inner City Education Board of Directors. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University, chairman of the Rockefeller Finance & Operations Committee, and a member of the Board of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Board of Directors of Room to Read, and the Board of the USA Cycling Development Foundation.
Vlad Kliatchko leads Bloomberg LP's global research and development department, a global team of more than 3,000 software developers and infrastructure engineers. The department is responsible for building and maintaining the Bloomberg Professional service, the world’s most trusted source for real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, research, estimates and analytics, as well as other financial, legal, government, energy and news applications. Kliatchko joined the R&D team in 2003 to focus on Bloomberg communications platforms. He then assumed a role leading software infrastructure development for the R&D group, focusing on maintaining and enhancing core systems, including Bloomberg's networking technology, databases, middleware, and application development tools. He was a leader in the architecting and development of Bloomberg's rapid application development and continuous deployment framework. In 2012 he became the head of global R&D, and today he is focused on leading a diverse team of programmers and networking experts who are solving extremely challenging technical problems and building advanced systems and applications that fuel markets. Kliatchko graduated with a degree in mathematics and computer science from the St. Petersburg State University (formally Leningrad State University), school of Mathematics and Mechanics.
Shawn Edwards is Bloomberg's Chief Technology Officer. He oversees the development and implementation of Bloomberg's global technology strategy, including functional enhancements to the company's core business, the Bloomberg Professional service. His team is responsible for outreach to and interaction with the Open Source community and the broader develop community in general. In his role, Edwards also furthers the company's ongoing commitment to market transparency by leading Bloomberg's Open Market Data Initiative (OMDI), which brings Bloomberg's Open Symbology (BSYM) catalog and market data interface into the public domain. Previously, Shawn ran Bloomberg's global R&D group where he helped streamline the product development process, bolster the Bloomberg network's technical infrastructure and create a user-experience design team, which now influences product development company-wide. Edwards received a bachelor's of science and a master's degree from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.
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Energy Lecture: Wall Street Journal Inside Fracking
Thursday, April 03, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 5-234, 55 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Greg Zuckerman
Greg Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal will share his insider perspective on the fracking industry and his journey while writing his book "The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution.”
Energy Lectures Series
The Energy Lectures Series brings experts from the industry, the public sector and academia to share their insights and visions on important energy topics.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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"Measurement of the 'Underlying Energy Efficiency' in Chinese Provinces"
Thursday, April 3, 2014
3:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Massimo Filippini, Professor, ETH Zurich and University of Lugano; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
China is one of the largest consumers of energy globally. The country also emits some of the highest levels of CO2 globally. In 2009, 18% of the world’s total energy was consumed in China and the growth rate of energy consumption in China is 6.4% per year. In recent years, the Chinese government decided to introduce several energy policy instruments to promote energy efficiency. For instance, reduction targets for the level of energy intensity have been defined for provinces in China. However, energy intensity is not an accurate proxy for energy efficiency because changes in energy intensity are a function of changes in several socioeconomic factors. For this reason, in this paper we present an empirical analysis on the measurement of the persistent and transient “underlying energy efficiency” of Chinese provinces. For this purpose, a log-log aggregate energy demand frontier model is estimated by employing data on 29 provinces observed over the period 1996 to 2008. Several econometric model specifications for panel data are used: the random effects model and the true random effects model along with other versions of these models. Our analysis shows that energy intensity cannot measure accurately the level of efficiency in the use of energy in Chinese provinces. Further, our empirical analysis shows that the average value of the persistent “underlying energy efficiency” is around 0.78 whereas the average value of the transient “underlying energy efficiency” is approximately 0.93.
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/Filippini140403
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen
nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu
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True Diversity: A Multiplier in Global STEM Innovation
Thursday, April 03, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambirdge
Speaker: Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush, former Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Please join us for a seminar by Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush. She will address the critical importance of holistic diversity in STEM education, leadership, and innovation. Dr. Bush will present statistics, best practices, and practical examples to validate the impact of incorporating diversity into organizations. She will offer implementable strategies for communities, organizations, and individuals to integrate diversity and achieve optimal outcomes for the next generation of global innovators.
Web site: http://ssrc.mit.edu/news-and-events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, The Technology and Policy Program at MIT
For more information, contact: Jacqueline Paris
jparis@mit.edu
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"Breaking Bad"'s Vince Gilligan in Conversation with Drew Faust
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office of the President and Learning From Performers (Office for the Arts at Harvard)
SPEAKER(S) A conversation with scriptwriter, producer and director Vince Gilligan, creator of the landmark AMC series "Breaking Bad," moderated by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.
COST Admission free, open to the public; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity. Doors open at 3:30 pm.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=44575
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office of the President and Learning From Performers (Office for the Arts at Harvard)
SPEAKER(S) A conversation with scriptwriter, producer and director Vince Gilligan, creator of the landmark AMC series "Breaking Bad," moderated by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.
COST Admission free, open to the public; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity. Doors open at 3:30 pm.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=44575
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The Future of Leader-Leadership and Character Development: What’s “I” Got To Do with It?
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hauser Institute for Civil Society at the Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S) Dana Born, lecturer in public policy, HKS
NOTE Frontline with Faculty Series: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events/20140403
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hauser Institute for Civil Society at the Center for Public Leadership
SPEAKER(S) Dana Born, lecturer in public policy, HKS
NOTE Frontline with Faculty Series: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/upcoming-events/20140403
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The Logic Schism: What the Social Sciences Can tell us About the Public Debate Over Climate Change
Apr 3, 2014
4:30pm - 6pm
Apr 3, 2014
4:30pm - 6pm
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Andrew J. Hoffman, Director, Erb Institute/Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Univ. of Mich.
The social debate around climate change is no longer about carbon dioxide and climate models. It is about values, culture, worldviews and ideology. As physical scientists explore the mechanics and implications of anthropogenic climate change, social scientists explore the cultural reasons why people support or reject their scientific conclusions. What we find is that scientists do not hold the definitive final word in the public debate on this issue. Instead, the public develops positions that are consistent with the values held by others within the referent groups of which they are part. In this context, efforts to present ever increasing amounts of data, without attending to the deeper values that are threatened by the conclusions they lead to, will only yield greater resistance and make a social consensus even more elusive.
Website: http://www.andrewhoffman.net/
See more at: http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/logic-schism-what-social-sciences-can-te#sthash.zWrWT8re.dpuf
The social debate around climate change is no longer about carbon dioxide and climate models. It is about values, culture, worldviews and ideology. As physical scientists explore the mechanics and implications of anthropogenic climate change, social scientists explore the cultural reasons why people support or reject their scientific conclusions. What we find is that scientists do not hold the definitive final word in the public debate on this issue. Instead, the public develops positions that are consistent with the values held by others within the referent groups of which they are part. In this context, efforts to present ever increasing amounts of data, without attending to the deeper values that are threatened by the conclusions they lead to, will only yield greater resistance and make a social consensus even more elusive.
Website: http://www.andrewhoffman.net/
See more at: http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/logic-schism-what-social-sciences-can-te#sthash.zWrWT8re.dpuf
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The Untold History of the United States
Thursday, April 03, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
Sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, this event will include a viewing of Episode 3 (The Bomb) of Oliver Stone's newest Showtime mini-series followed by a panel discussion on the "Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Start of the Cold War" with the three time Academy Award winner as well as the co-author of the book by the same name, Peter Kuznick.
Nuclear Arms Control
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): HASTS, SHASS Dean's Office
For more information, contact: Subrata Ghoshroy
617-253-3846
ghoshroy@mit.edu
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Science in Fiction
Thursday, April 3, 2014
5:15 - 7:15 pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Hanya Yanagihara's first book, the widely celebrated The People In The Trees, is loosely based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winner physician and researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek. She'll join author and physicist Alan Lightman, the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities, to discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts. Forum Co-Director Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, will moderate.
Speakers
Hanya Yanagihara is an Editor-At-Large at Conde Nast Traveler and author of The People In The Trees, a novel the New York Times called "suspenseful" and "exhaustingly inventive."
Alan Lightman is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. His most recent novel, Mr g, was published in January 2012.
Seth Mnookin is Co-Director of the Communications Forum and Associate Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
5:15 - 7:15 pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Hanya Yanagihara's first book, the widely celebrated The People In The Trees, is loosely based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winner physician and researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek. She'll join author and physicist Alan Lightman, the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities, to discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts. Forum Co-Director Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, will moderate.
Speakers
Hanya Yanagihara is an Editor-At-Large at Conde Nast Traveler and author of The People In The Trees, a novel the New York Times called "suspenseful" and "exhaustingly inventive."
Alan Lightman is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. His most recent novel, Mr g, was published in January 2012.
Seth Mnookin is Co-Director of the Communications Forum and Associate Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy.
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Elaine Scarry on Her New Book: "Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom”
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, TSAI Auditorium, (S010); CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value; Harvard College Professor, and respondent Philip C. Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu; 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/elaine-scarry-her-new-book-ithermonuclear-monarchy-choosing-between-democracy-and-doomi
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Religious Accommodations in the Age of Civil Rights
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Milstein West A, HLS, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
TICKET WEB LINK www.law.harvard.edu/about/religious-accommodations-conference.html
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Milstein West A, HLS, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School
TICKET WEB LINK www.law.harvard.edu/about/religious-accommodations-conference.html
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Starr Forum: Brazil, 50 Years After the Coup
Thursday, April 03, 2014
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Camilo Tavares, Ben Schneider
Film screening of the documentary "The Day That Lasted 21 Years" Original title "O dia que durou 21 anos" (Brazil, 2013, 77 min.)
Film in Portuguese, with English subtitles
Discussion with:
Camilo Tavares, Pequi Filmes, director of the documentary.
Ben Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT-Brazil Program.
This event is free and open to the public. Light food and refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact: mit-brazil@mit.edu
Co-sponsored by MIT Center for International Studies and MIT-Brazil
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Brazil
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Shocking findings in a high-profile Turkish case!: Computer Forensics Uncovers Evidence Tampering in Sledgehammer and Ergenekon Cases
What are Sledgehammer and Ergenekon?
Sledgehammer and Ergenekon are high-profile and ongoing political trials in Turkey. Sledgehammer involves an alleged Turkish military coup and some of the most sophisticated digital forgeries Arsenal has ever seen. Ergenekon involves an alleged "deep state" in Turkey with ties to the military, academia, NGOs, and media. Forged documents critical to these cases include plans to bomb mosques, shoot down a fighter jet, and overthrow the Turkish government.
Why attend this presentation?
The Sledgehammer and Ergenekon cases have received significant press in the Middle East, but are only now receiving serious attention in the United States. A recent New York Times front-page article on February 27 covered these cases, referring to document forgeries identified by Arsenal with digital forensics. Attendees will be intrigued by details about Arsenal's work found exclusively in this presentation.
What people are saying.
"Mark Spencer's Sledgehammer presentation allows you to see evil up close and personal. He tells an entertaining story and should turn his team's work into a book!" -- W. Olin Sibert, President, Oxford Systems, Inc.
"The Sledgehammer presentation is brilliant. The reality is that motivated and technically competent adversaries can, by tampering with evidence, affect the power structures of nations." -- Paul Bowen, Director Emeritus, National Information Security Group, Inc.
"This presentation gives you a front-row seat to evidence tampering on an unprecedented scale. Arsenal's dedication to digital forensics is obvious." -- Joseph Dahlbeck, Sergeant Detective, Boston Police Department
Original Story from PRNewsWire.com at
Thursday, April 3, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Google, 3 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/boston-security-meetup/events/152876582/
What are Sledgehammer and Ergenekon?
Sledgehammer and Ergenekon are high-profile and ongoing political trials in Turkey. Sledgehammer involves an alleged Turkish military coup and some of the most sophisticated digital forgeries Arsenal has ever seen. Ergenekon involves an alleged "deep state" in Turkey with ties to the military, academia, NGOs, and media. Forged documents critical to these cases include plans to bomb mosques, shoot down a fighter jet, and overthrow the Turkish government.
Why attend this presentation?
The Sledgehammer and Ergenekon cases have received significant press in the Middle East, but are only now receiving serious attention in the United States. A recent New York Times front-page article on February 27 covered these cases, referring to document forgeries identified by Arsenal with digital forensics. Attendees will be intrigued by details about Arsenal's work found exclusively in this presentation.
What people are saying.
"Mark Spencer's Sledgehammer presentation allows you to see evil up close and personal. He tells an entertaining story and should turn his team's work into a book!" -- W. Olin Sibert, President, Oxford Systems, Inc.
"The Sledgehammer presentation is brilliant. The reality is that motivated and technically competent adversaries can, by tampering with evidence, affect the power structures of nations." -- Paul Bowen, Director Emeritus, National Information Security Group, Inc.
"This presentation gives you a front-row seat to evidence tampering on an unprecedented scale. Arsenal's dedication to digital forensics is obvious." -- Joseph Dahlbeck, Sergeant Detective, Boston Police Department
Original Story from PRNewsWire.com at
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arsenal-consultings-president-to-discuss-shocking-findings-in-high-profile-turkish-cases-248209481.html
About
Mark is President of Arsenal Consulting, where he leads engagements involving computer forensics for law firms, corporations, and government agencies. He is also President of Arsenal Recon, where he guides development of computer forensics tools. Mark has more than fifteen years of law-enforcement and private-sector computer forensics experience. He has taught at both the Computer Security Institute and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. Mark has led the Arsenal team on many high-profile and high-stakes cases, from allegations of intellectual property theft and evidence spoliation to support of foreign terrorist organizations and military coup planning.
Tool of the month by Dawn Carroll
Demo of The Harvester. The Harvester is an open source tool, useful in social engineering efforts, for obtaining email addresses and user names from public sources (ie: Google, Linkedin, and more).
Schedule
6:15 - 6:30: Pizza
6:30 - 6:35: Cybersecurity Opener by Akshat
6:35 - 6:45: Tool of the Month by Dawn
6:45 - 7:45: Sophisticated Digital Forgery!
7:50 - 8:00: Lulzy News by Bethany
8:00+ Craft beer @ MeadHall
About
Mark is President of Arsenal Consulting, where he leads engagements involving computer forensics for law firms, corporations, and government agencies. He is also President of Arsenal Recon, where he guides development of computer forensics tools. Mark has more than fifteen years of law-enforcement and private-sector computer forensics experience. He has taught at both the Computer Security Institute and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. Mark has led the Arsenal team on many high-profile and high-stakes cases, from allegations of intellectual property theft and evidence spoliation to support of foreign terrorist organizations and military coup planning.
Tool of the month by Dawn Carroll
Demo of The Harvester. The Harvester is an open source tool, useful in social engineering efforts, for obtaining email addresses and user names from public sources (ie: Google, Linkedin, and more).
Schedule
6:15 - 6:30: Pizza
6:30 - 6:35: Cybersecurity Opener by Akshat
6:35 - 6:45: Tool of the Month by Dawn
6:45 - 7:45: Sophisticated Digital Forgery!
7:50 - 8:00: Lulzy News by Bethany
8:00+ Craft beer @ MeadHall
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Creative Space
Thursday, April 03, 2014
6:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sylvia Lavin, Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD Programs, UCLA Architecture
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 03, 2014
6:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sylvia Lavin, Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD Programs, UCLA Architecture
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Movie Screening: Wild Carpathia 3
Thursday, April 03, 2014
6:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 37-212, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us in watching a beautiful film showcasing the beauty that is Romania. A discussion with the film co-producer Charlie Ottley will follow the screening.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Romanian Students Association, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact: Cosmin, Gheorghe
617-642-8284
rsa-officers@mit.edu
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Jobs Not Jails: End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation
Thursday, April 3rd
7pm-8:30pm
First Church JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
The U.S. locks up a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world.* In Massachusetts, the prison population has tripled since the 1980s.* At this rate, Massachusetts will spend $2 billion in the next 7 years to build 10,000 new jails. Meanwhile, the state is shedding jobs and people are looking for work.
The *Jobs Not Jails campaign (http://act.ips-dc.org/site/R?i=uNhu9xVi6BAww4EvK35-LA), part of a national movement to end mass incarceration, is calling on the state to *stop construction of new prisons and redirect money saved into jobs programs. *The campaign will present Jobs Not Jails petitions to the legislature at a rally on the Boston Common on April 26. We need your help in collecting 10,000 signatures before then!
Learn more about mass incarceration, the Jobs Not Jails campaign, and how you can help from Josh Beardsley of EPOCA (*Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement*), Andrea James of *Families for Justice as Healing*, and a member of *Youth Against Mass Incarceration* at the JP Forum.
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Paradise Lot: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis
Thursday, April 3, 2014
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Baptist Church, 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Permaculture/events/171280452/
Paradise Lot food forest is coming to Boston! Join Jonathan Bates as he gives a presentation about his famous backyard food forest based in Holyoke, Mass. Jonathan’s talk will focus on perennial vegetables for our region, soil building, plant polycultures, and food gardening in small urban spaces. Get answers to your questions about working with poor soil, little sunlight, and New England’s growing season from his years of experience.
The Speaker
Jonathan Bates owns Food Forest Farm, and he and his wife and garden partners are best known for their backyard food forest “Paradise Lot” in Holyoke, Mass. Together, they turned a tenth-of-an-acre barren lot with bad soil into an inspiring “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a tiny city lot. Now the two families live there communally, gardening together, eating the food (over 400 pounds in 6 months!), and sharing what they have learned in this backyard experiment with the public. http://www.foodforestfarm.com/
http://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/
Hundreds of people tour Paradise Lot each year and there is even a New York Times article about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/garden/a-permaculture-love-story.html?_r=1&
Preorder Plants
Food Forest Farm sells very unusual perennial edible plants (way beyond asparagus) at their nursery and people who come to the event will be able to find out how to get some of these very-hard-to-find plants.
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Art as a Catalyst for Social Change
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 7:15 – 9:15 p.m.
WHERE Askwith Hall in Longfellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by QueerEd, with support from the Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, the Dean's Diversity Innovation Fund at HGSE, the Arts in Education Program at HGSE, and the Harvard Kennedy School's Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center
SPEAKER(S) Brooklyn-based, internationally renown hip hop artists and educators Climbing PoeTree along with Moira E. Pirsch, Moana Uluave, and Kayla Dias
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ihm513@mail.harvard.edu
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/466396373488503/
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The BICEP2 Results and What They Mean: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe
Thursday, April 03, 2014
7:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speakers: Alan Guth (MIT), Scott Hughes (MIT), John Kovac (Harvard), Max Tegmark (MIT)
This event will discuss the results of BICEP2, and the background for understanding the results and their implications.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics Colloquia and Seminars, Center for Theoretical Physics, LSC
For more information, contact: Nina Wu
6172536259
ninawu@mit.edu
Thursday, April 03, 2014
7:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speakers: Alan Guth (MIT), Scott Hughes (MIT), John Kovac (Harvard), Max Tegmark (MIT)
This event will discuss the results of BICEP2, and the background for understanding the results and their implications.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics Colloquia and Seminars, Center for Theoretical Physics, LSC
For more information, contact: Nina Wu
6172536259
ninawu@mit.edu
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From Harvard College to the Bestseller List: A Conversation with Ben Mezrich '91 and Scott Stossel '91
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Film, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard College Writing Program, the Harvard Extension School Master’s Degree Program in Journalism, Harvard Review, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Harvard College Program in General Education, and Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
SPEAKER(S) Ben Mezrich '91 and Scott Stossel '91
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jguay@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE After a 25-year friendship that began in Harvard Yard, Scott Stossel and Ben Mezrich have something new in common. They have both written bestselling books. Please join us for a conversation with Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic and the author of "My Age of Anxiety," and Mezrich, author of 12 books including "The Accidental Billionaires" (which was the basis for the film The Social Network) and the forthcoming "Seven Wonders." They will discuss the choices they have made as writers and their very different paths to success.
LINK http://writingprogram.fas.harvard.edu/pages/harvard-writers-work
WHEN Thu., Apr. 3, 2014, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Film, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard College Writing Program, the Harvard Extension School Master’s Degree Program in Journalism, Harvard Review, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Harvard College Program in General Education, and Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
SPEAKER(S) Ben Mezrich '91 and Scott Stossel '91
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jguay@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE After a 25-year friendship that began in Harvard Yard, Scott Stossel and Ben Mezrich have something new in common. They have both written bestselling books. Please join us for a conversation with Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic and the author of "My Age of Anxiety," and Mezrich, author of 12 books including "The Accidental Billionaires" (which was the basis for the film The Social Network) and the forthcoming "Seven Wonders." They will discuss the choices they have made as writers and their very different paths to success.
LINK http://writingprogram.fas.harvard.edu/pages/harvard-writers-work
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Friday, April 4
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Friday, April 4
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Hack for the Planet: Third Annual Boston CleanWeb Hackathon
April 4-6th, 2014
April 4-6th, 2014
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.cleanwebhackathon.com
Cost: $10-$50
The 3rd Annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon is a two-day prize competition to demonstrate the impact of applying information technologies to energy and resource constraints, known as the cleanweb. Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and business professionals create web and mobile IT applications to solve some of our biggest energy and sustainability problems.
We’ll provide the food, some entertainment, and special guests. But we need you to provide the ideas, talent, and hard work.
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Technological Visions and Revisions: An STS Workshop
Friday, April 4, 2014
9:00am - 5:00pm
Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
This workshop draws together several strands of current research on sociotechnical imaginaries in the STS Program at Harvard. Through multiple engagements with new, emerging, and reemerging technologies, the workshop explores the material, discursive, and political resources with which societies create shared visions of what they want, or do not want, from advances in technology. Of primary interest throughout is the connection of remembered technoscientific pasts to the threats and promises of imagined futures.
Introduction: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School, STS Program)
Session I: Nuclear Imaginaries
Session II: Biotechnology’s Moral Materialities
Session III: New Solidarities: Humans, Machines, Environments
Keynote: Alfred Nordmann (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Discussion & Closing (Sheila Jasanoff)
Event organized by the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which is dedicated to enhancing the quality of research, education, and public debate on the role of science and technology in contemporary societies. Through integrated, cross-disciplinary initiatives in research, teaching, training, and public outreach the Program seeks to develop foundational, policy-relevant insights into the nature of science and technology, and the ways in which they both influence and are influenced by society, politics, and culture. Among the fields that significantly contribute to the STS Program’s core mission are science and technology studies, anthropology, comparative politics, history, government, law, and sociology.
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Cyber Inferno: Seven Circles
Friday, April 04, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab
If alive today Dante would no doubt be shocked at how today's seven circles are not those of Hell but seven circles of cyberthreats. As in Inferno, the modern-day cyberthreat circles relate to chronological stages. It all started in Limbo - the first circle - with researchers playing around with malicious code. The latest - seventh circle (curiously in Inferno - Violence) - is that of the deadly cyberthreat emerging out of militarization of the Internet and an escalation of a global cyber arms race: cyber terrorists, whose copying and customization of malicious code - probably developed by state-backed players - really could turn the world into an inferno.
In his presentation, Eugene Kaspersky will detail the evolution of cyberthreats - from the reasonably innocuous to the deadly serious that could cause world catastrophes. In parallel he will indicate the corresponding security measures that arose, are currently arising, and need to arise in the future: from the first preventive measure - formatting floppy discs, through simple antivirus and later Internet security suites, and on to today's Critical Infrastructure Protection and much-needed international cyberarms control negotiations.
Refreshments served.
RSVP to mit-russia@mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
715-2159
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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The Meat We Eat: 2014 Forum on Industrial Animal Farming
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 1 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Building, Austin North, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Food Law Society
SPEAKER(S) Speakers and ticket information will be announced on the conference webpage. Check back regularly for updates throughout March!
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-meat-we-eat-2014-forum-on-industrial-animal-farming-tickets-10726458125?utm_campaign
NOTE http://www3.law.harvard.edu/orgs/foodlaw/themeatweeatforum/
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-meat-we-eat-2014-forum-on-industrial-animal-farming-tickets-10726458125?utm_campaign
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Design Thinking Tools for the Individual, Group and Community
Friday, April 04, 2014
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Refreshments: 1:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Brian Bailey , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Software tools serve a critical role in modern design thinking, from collecting inspirational materials to generating design alternatives to implementing the final solution. Despite many advances in recent years, existing tools still struggle to address the creative needs of users engaged in design thinking. For example, a tenet of design thinking is to generate multiple alternatives, yet the interface representations used in existing design tools still do not effectively support this behavior.
In this talk, I will describe the inspiration for and the design and evaluation of several recent research projects that address problems and opportunities relevant to design thinking for the individual, group and community. The contributions of these projects include (i) the use of interactive spatial maps to organize design alternatives, enabling users to project meaning onto their exploration; (ii) an interactive visualization of design process that enables the user to capture and extract lessons and patterns from prior design activity; (iii) an on-demand method for generating structured feedback on visual designs using a crowd of non-experts; and (iv) an interface to organize design thinking in distributed user interface design discussions. The talk will include critical reflections on these projects and conclude with pathways for future work.
Bio: Brian Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He conducts research and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on user interface design and human-computer interaction. Dr. Bailey was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in 2008-2009. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His research interests include creativity support tools, design studies, crowdsourcing, and attention management. He holds affiliate academic appointments in Human Factors, the Beckman Institute, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dr. Bailey received the NSF CAREER award in 2007. His research has been supported by the NSF, Microsoft, Google, and Ricoh Innovations.
Friday, April 04, 2014
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Refreshments: 1:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Brian Bailey , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Software tools serve a critical role in modern design thinking, from collecting inspirational materials to generating design alternatives to implementing the final solution. Despite many advances in recent years, existing tools still struggle to address the creative needs of users engaged in design thinking. For example, a tenet of design thinking is to generate multiple alternatives, yet the interface representations used in existing design tools still do not effectively support this behavior.
In this talk, I will describe the inspiration for and the design and evaluation of several recent research projects that address problems and opportunities relevant to design thinking for the individual, group and community. The contributions of these projects include (i) the use of interactive spatial maps to organize design alternatives, enabling users to project meaning onto their exploration; (ii) an interactive visualization of design process that enables the user to capture and extract lessons and patterns from prior design activity; (iii) an on-demand method for generating structured feedback on visual designs using a crowd of non-experts; and (iv) an interface to organize design thinking in distributed user interface design discussions. The talk will include critical reflections on these projects and conclude with pathways for future work.
Bio: Brian Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He conducts research and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on user interface design and human-computer interaction. Dr. Bailey was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in 2008-2009. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His research interests include creativity support tools, design studies, crowdsourcing, and attention management. He holds affiliate academic appointments in Human Factors, the Beckman Institute, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dr. Bailey received the NSF CAREER award in 2007. His research has been supported by the NSF, Microsoft, Google, and Ricoh Innovations.
Relevant URL: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/seminar.shtml
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The future of fusion
Friday, April 04, 2014
3:00p–4:39p
MIT, Building NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tim Luce, General Atomics
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
For more information, contact: Paul Rivenberg
617-253-8101
info@psfc.mit.edu
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Bionic Nanomaterials
Friday, April 4, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge
Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
The development of a method for interfacing high performance devices with biology could yield breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, smart prosthetics, and human-machine interfaces. Yet, most high quality inorganic materials are two dimensional, hard and brittle, and their crystallization generally requires high temperatures for maximally efficient performance. These properties render the corresponding devices incompatible with biology. Nanotechnology provides a route for overcoming these dichotomies by altering the mechanics of materials while revealing new effects due to size-scaling. Our group has focused on several vital areas for biointerfacing nanodevices: graphene nanosensors for ubiquitous detection, and piezoelectric nanoribbons for interfaced biomechanics. Our approach involves the following key steps: first, new nanomaterial generation; second, fundamental studies of novel properties; and finally, interfacing these nanomaterials with biology. We have also developed a future vision of bionic nanosystems in which the electronics and biology are seamlessly interwoven in 3D. The novel properties of nanomaterials coupled with “living” platforms may enable exciting avenues in fundamental studies and bioMEMS applications, including creating augmented bionic nanosystems.
Speaker Bio: http://www.princeton.edu/~mcm/research.html
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge
Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
The development of a method for interfacing high performance devices with biology could yield breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, smart prosthetics, and human-machine interfaces. Yet, most high quality inorganic materials are two dimensional, hard and brittle, and their crystallization generally requires high temperatures for maximally efficient performance. These properties render the corresponding devices incompatible with biology. Nanotechnology provides a route for overcoming these dichotomies by altering the mechanics of materials while revealing new effects due to size-scaling. Our group has focused on several vital areas for biointerfacing nanodevices: graphene nanosensors for ubiquitous detection, and piezoelectric nanoribbons for interfaced biomechanics. Our approach involves the following key steps: first, new nanomaterial generation; second, fundamental studies of novel properties; and finally, interfacing these nanomaterials with biology. We have also developed a future vision of bionic nanosystems in which the electronics and biology are seamlessly interwoven in 3D. The novel properties of nanomaterials coupled with “living” platforms may enable exciting avenues in fundamental studies and bioMEMS applications, including creating augmented bionic nanosystems.
Speaker Bio: http://www.princeton.edu/~mcm/research.html
Applied Physics Colloquia
Contact: Miriam Brackett
Email: mbrackett@seas.harvard.edu
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Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Michael Murphy, MArch ’11, and Alan Ricks, MArch ‘10, are cofounders of MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture firm based in Boston, working in Rwanda, Liberia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Haiti, and beyond. First celebrated for its Butaro District Hospital (2011)—designed for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda and the NGO Partners In Health—MASS Design is known for developing-world public health design projects that studiously involve local constituents in the entire design process, from planning and programming to construction. Recent projects include hospitals in Haiti with Les Centres GHESKIO and a center for Global Health Research in Uganda, with Massachusetts General Hospital. A finalist for the TED Prize, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program, and Buckminster Fuller Challenge, MASS Design has won awards from the Architectural League of New York, the Healthcare Design Changemaker Award, and the Curry Stone Design Prize; it has been featured in Architectural Record, MARK, Detail, Lotus, Fast Company, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.
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/open-house-lecture-michael-murphy-and-alan-ricks.html
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"As China Goes, So Goes the Planet: Domestic and International Implications of China's Environmental Crisis"
WHEN Fri., Apr. 4, 2014, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE CGIS Knafel Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Environment in China Series
SPEAKER(S) Judith Shapiro, director of the masters program in natural resources and sustainable development for the School of International Service at American University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkluz@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Judith Shapiro was one of the first Americans to live in China after US-China relations were normalized in 1979, and she taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha, China. Her research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy, the environmental politics of Asia, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of seven books, including China's Environmental Challenges (2012), Mao’s War against Nature (2001), Son of the Revolution with Liang Heng (1983), and After the Nightmare with Liang Heng (1987).
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/judith-shapiro
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Does Drawing Have a Future?
Friday, April 04, 2014
5:30
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: John May
Brief: Just as voice-recognition and "informational shorthand" systems (text messaging, gestural typing, etc.) have radically reshaped the technical relationship between thinking and writing, "real time" machinic processes and simulations have now completely restructured the representational space of architectural reasoning, which historically had been monopolized by orthographic drawing. If orthography has lost its hold, what has it been replaced by? What are the consequences of this replacement for practice and pedagogy? What will become of drawing? And what will become of architecture's relationship to its own history?
Organizer: John May (link: www.millionsofmovingparts.org)
Participants:
Andrew Atwood, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley (link: http://atwood-a.com/)
Vivian Lee, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan (link: http://lamas.us/)
Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD (link: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/kiel-moe.html)
William O'Brien Jr., Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT (link: http://www.wojr.org/)
Jason Payne, Associate Professor of Architecture, UCLA (link: http://www.hirsuta.com/)
with: Sylvia Lavin, Professor of Architecture, UCLA (link: http://www.aud.ucla.edu/faculty/sylvia_lavin_11.html)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
For more information, contact: Anne Deveau
617-258-8348
adeveau@mit.edu
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Barney Frank: Cultural Humanism Award
Friday, April 4, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)
Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/barney-frank-cultural-humanism-award-tickets-11065034817
We are delighted to announce that former Congressmen Barney Frank will accept the 8th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism—an award presented each year by the Humanist Community at Harvard, the American Humanist Association, and the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics.
Mr. Frank was selected by a committee of undergraduates for his career in politics and superlative contribution to Humanism in the public sphere. He represented Massachusetts' 4th district from 1981 to 2013, for a total of sixteen terms, and in 1987 he became the first openly gay member of Congress. We are excited to honor his life's work in the promotion of values shared by our community.
Past recipients of the award include novelist Salman Rushdie, musician and biologist Greg Graffin, filmmaker Joss Whedon, TV 'Mythbusters' Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, writer and actor Stephen Fry, writer Mary Roach, and comedian Eddie Izzar
Saturday, April 5th
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TransportationCamp New England '14
Saturday, April 5, 2014
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Cost: $10-20
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportationcamp-new-england-14-tickets-10281011783
The 1st Annual TransportationCamp New England will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2014. The “unconference” is designed to bring together transportation professionals, technologists, and others interested in the intersection of urban transportation and technology.
We are excited to be hosted by MIT and the MIT Transportation Club at the Stata Center, Main Floor, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139.
The location is easy to get to. The Stata Center is located two blocks west of the Kendall/MIT T-Station (Red Line). Here is more information on the location, including map and directions.
Doors open at 8:30am for breakfast and the introductory session begins at 9:30am. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided. After wrapping up the day at 5:00pm, you are invited to join us for happy hour appetizers and drinks at Champions Sports Bar. The happy hour will be hosted by the Young Professionals in Transportation (Boston Chapter).
What's an "unconference?"
This is not a traditional conference. The organizers don't pick a set of panels and panelists ahead of time. Instead, you organize the panels! Anyone interested in talking about an issue can organize a session, and attendees just go to the sessions they're most interested in. For more information on how TransportationCamp works, read the Essential Guide.
TransportationCamp brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation and technology for learning, debating, connecting and creating.
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Climate Justice Teach-In
Saturday, April 5th
10:00am - 4:00pm
Northeastern University, Boston
See the event Facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/471885616266772/
This one day conference will explore the intersection of climate change and social justice.
We've known about the dangers of climate change for more than two decades and awareness continues to increase. We are already beginning to see the consequences--frigid temperatures thanks to shifting polar vortex, hurricanes, typhoons, flooding--and there is widespread support for policies to mitigate climate change.
Yet, we haven't seen the wide scale changes in society we need and they don't seem on the horizon. Why? What kind of movement (and, ultimately, society) is required to respond seriously to climate change?
Speakers will address: What is the role of the capitalist political and economic system in the climate crisis? How do racism, socioeconomic inequality, and other longstanding forms of oppression facilitate ecological destruction? Why should climate activists be concerned with a broad-based view of social justice and why should social justice activists be concerned with climate change?
A central goal of the conference is to promote climate justice perspectives and analyses in the Boston area. How can we promote collaboration between climate activists and social justice activists and build a strong climate justice movement? Join us for discussion of these important questions!
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Monday, April 7
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Designing for Community - Part 11, Pocket Neighborhoods
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Gund Hall Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhoods, and Eli Spevak, Loeb Fellow 14, and founder, Orange Splot LLC
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/upcoming-loeb-fellowship-events/
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Radcliffe Institute Fellows Presentation Series: Building New Materials, One Atom at a Time
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer E. Hoffman, 2013-2014 Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow, associate professor of physics, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE At Radcliffe, physicist Jennifer E. Hoffman is expanding her research program from imaging to the active creation of new materials, using molecular beam epitaxy, a process of controlled thermal evaporation of single elements that allows the growth of exotic hybrid materials, one atomic layer at a time. Combining material growth with the existing atomic-scale imaging capabilities in the Hoffman Lab allows rapid feedback to guide the discovery of materials with desired properties, such as higher-temperature superconductivity or more robust spin-momentum locking of electrons.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-jennifer-e-hoffman-fellow-presentation
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Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE One of the most controversial aspects of President George W. Bush's administration was the creation of state and federal offices that publicly and financially support faith-based organizations across the country. Although under President Obama this office has continued to issue public support for services offered by religious organizations, these faith-based partnerships raise big questions. What are the implications of state funding for religious organizations? Are faith-based services any more effective than nonreligious ones? Please join us as we explore these questions on the role of faith-based organizations as state sponsored social service providers with Harvard Kennedy School's Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life Fr. Bryan Hehir and Malika Rushdan, director of Islamic Relief Boston, and Dan Bush, Director of Development for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement.
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Legatum Lecture: How the Mobile Industry is Building Nations
Monday, April 07, 2014
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Oddvar Hesjedal
Information technology in general and the mobile services industry in particular give tremendous opportunities in emerging countries, both on a personal, national and regional level. Based on personal experiences from Asia and Eastern Europe, Oddvar will give concrete examples of how nations benefit from this development in areas like democracy, transparency, liberation of women, education, health, etc.
In addition to addressing the positive impact on nations around the world, Oddvar will discuss how the technological revolution has allowed misuse in anti-democratic directions, and the consequent dilemmas.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/events/how-mobile-industry-building-nations
Open to: the general public
Cost: none
Sponsor(s): MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact: Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
legatum@mit.edu
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Israel Fuel Choices Initiative: Israel's Strategy in Reducing Global Dependence on Oil
Monday, April 07, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-335, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/israel-fuel-choices-initiative-israels-strategy-in-reducing-global-dependence-on-oil-tickets-11021751355
Speaker: Eyal Rosner, Chairman and Director, Administration Alternative Fuels Initiative, Israel Prime Minister's Office
The world has a dependence problem; a dependence on oil. It stems mostly from oil's massive and growing use in transportation and its monopoly as an energy source for transportation (about 96%). This dependence is a global issue with challenging geopolitical, economic, and environmental impacts. If the world fails to reduce its dependence on oil in transportation, it will soon be facing a grave social, financial, and environmental crisis.
Join us to hear what steps the government of Israel has been taken to support oil dependence and how global partnerships could accelerate the process of finding solutions.
Program:
5:30-6:00 Registration, refreshments and networking
6:00-7:00 Israel Alternative Fules Initiative; Reducing World Dependence on Oil
7:00-7:30 Networking
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/israel-fuel-choices-initiative-israels-strategy-in-reducing-global-dependence-on-oil-tickets-11021751355
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Israel Program, MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT Energy Club, Israeli Students Club, MIT Energy Initiative, New England-Israel Business Council
For more information, contact: David Dolev
717-324-5581
ddolev@mit.edu
Speaker: Eyal Rosner, Chairman and Director, Administration Alternative Fuels Initiative, Israel Prime Minister's Office
The world has a dependence problem; a dependence on oil. It stems mostly from oil's massive and growing use in transportation and its monopoly as an energy source for transportation (about 96%). This dependence is a global issue with challenging geopolitical, economic, and environmental impacts. If the world fails to reduce its dependence on oil in transportation, it will soon be facing a grave social, financial, and environmental crisis.
Join us to hear what steps the government of Israel has been taken to support oil dependence and how global partnerships could accelerate the process of finding solutions.
Program:
5:30-6:00 Registration, refreshments and networking
6:00-7:00 Israel Alternative Fules Initiative; Reducing World Dependence on Oil
7:00-7:30 Networking
Web site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/israel-fuel-choices-initiative-israels-strategy-in-reducing-global-dependence-on-oil-tickets-11021751355
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Israel Program, MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT Energy Club, Israeli Students Club, MIT Energy Initiative, New England-Israel Business Council
For more information, contact: David Dolev
717-324-5581
ddolev@mit.edu
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Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Tabuman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Susan Akram, director, International Human Rights Clinical Program, Boston University School of Law
NOTE Join us for a talk with Susan Akram as she discusses her research on the legal issues that are creating barriers to relief and protection for refugees fleeing Syria. Boston University graduate students Aaron Lang, Sarah Bidinger and Danielle Hites will join Professor Akram with country-specific presentations on Egypt, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, respectively.
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Shale: A Case for Innovation
April 7, 2014
6:00pm
UK Trade & Investment, 7th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/energy-circle-event-oil-gas/
Cost: $0 - $30
Shale energy has been the biggest innovation in the energy industry this century. Surprised? Surging production of US’s shale energy is igniting economic revival in the US while the world is watching America’s success . The global oil shale market is expected to be US$12 billion by 2015, with an estimated yearly growth of 8% from 2015 to 2030. It has moved the US market from a net importer a just few years ago to a potential exporter in the very near term.
Tapping into this new source of energy could not be possible without breakthrough technological innovation. Disruptive technology has and will continue to dramatically alter the practices — including business practices — in place today. For example, better reservoir characterization and shale production tracking will enhance well performance. Improved micro seismic monitoring, new sensor technologies, and nano-devices create greater production efficiencies with less environmental impact.
Join us to hear the players who are driving the cutting-edge research discuss the challenges facing the industry, as well as the latest developments in technology and innovation.
Our panelists come from all facets of the upstream business: from energy companies and service providers who are spending billions of dollars annually on research; to VCs and start-ups who are financing and bringing successful innovation to market.
In this candid conversation, you will learn:
Complex geology of shale compared to conventional
Tech advancements changing the fossil fuels game
Changing business models due to differences in exploration investments
New technological approaches to increase levels of hydrocarbon retrieval
How material science, chemistry and engineering are a bridge to the new frontier
Role of big data and the importance of data management
Speakers:
Daniel Codazzi, Research Director for Sensor Physics at Schlumberger-Doll Research
Dennis R. Costello, Managing Partner, Braemar Energy Ventures
John M. Gilmore, Jr, Director, Upstream Oil & Gas, Invensys Operations Management a unit of Schneider Electric
Jonathan Kane, Shell-MIT Liaison, Shell
Dr. Michael Pavia, Chief Technology Officer, Glori Energy
Moderator:
Henri Daher, Independent Oil & Gas Researcher
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Sharing Spaces and Building Community Where We Live, Work and Eat
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship
SPEAKER(S) Kevin Cavenaugh LF '08 from Guerilla Development, and Ross Chapin, architect, Pocket Neighborhoods
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
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Noble Lecture
WHEN Mon., Apr. 7, 2014, 7 p.m.
WHERE The Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Memorial Church
SPEAKER(S) Joshua Dubois, former special assistant to President Obama and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and author of "The President's Devotional"
COST FREE
TICKET INFO No tickets required
CONTACT INFO The Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
P: 617-495-5508
LINK http://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/william-belden-noble-lecture
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ACT Lecture: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics?
Monday, April 07, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yvonne Rainer
Full title: Where's the Passion? Where's the Politics? or How I Became Interested in Impersonating, Approximating, and End Running Around My Selves and Others,' and Where Do I Look When You're Looking At Me?
Yvonne Rainer's lecture explores issues around self-expression, spectatorship, and the politics of both. Rainer is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker who in 1962 co-founded the Judson Dance Theater group. Following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer and dancer, she made a transition to filmmaking. After making seven experimental feature films including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996), she returned to dance in 2000 to work on the collaborative project After Many a Summer Dies the Swan with the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation. Her dances and films have been shown worldwide, and her work has been recognized with museum exhibitions, fellowships, and grants, most notably two Guggenheim Fellowships, two Rockefeller grants, a Wexner Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and retrospective exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Her memoir Feelings Are Facts: A Life was published by MIT Press in 2006 and in 2011 Badlands Unlimited published a selection of her poetry under the title Poems.
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Cinematic Migrations, as a conjoined designation, poses the notion of "migrations" in relation to "the cinematic" in an intentionally porous juxtaposition, conceived to allow a wide range of questions, interpretations and permutations to emerge. During this initial phase, the work of John Akomfrah, currently with Smoking Dogs Films and previously with Black Audio Film Collective, provides a focal point for examination, in conjunction with presentations of filmmakers, artists, and scholars participating in the related lecture series.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/projects/cinematic-migrations/
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 8
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Boston Tech Breakfast: Authentik Time, The Edventure Builder, Layrs, PreApps, CookRadar
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155722712/
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 April 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!
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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!
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": JOBS
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IAPril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
11:00a–12:30p
MIT, Building 3-442, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Digital fabrication has changed considerably over the last few decades. Barriers to use have fallen, and technologies that were once the purview of specialized researchers are now sold in retail outlets like Sears, Staples and the Microsoft store. Schools and libraries have even begun getting into the act, from NC State to the Chicago Public Library.
Applications include producing prosthetic hands for accident victims, manufacturing replacement part for hard-to-source components, or even mapping word frequency across the history of a given journal and printing time series histograms.
But what about here at MIT?
This session will discuss the range of fabrication technologies now available, as well as those available at MIT, for sale, for rent, and (for a limited time, experimentally) through the Libraries. As part of this session, the Libraries have acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 that is capable of producing objects in PLA plastic!
Plus, participants will have the opportunity to see a 3D-printer in action and even design their own objects. Submit a printable file, generated by the free MakerWare software, by Tuesday, April 1st. Up to five submissions will be selected for production before the discussion (provided the designs are producible!).
(Hint: You can try turning a photo into a 3D model with 123D Catch.)
Registration Required: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=618667
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=618667
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Shapiro, Randi
6173244988
shapiror@mit.edu
11:00a–12:30p
MIT, Building 3-442, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Digital fabrication has changed considerably over the last few decades. Barriers to use have fallen, and technologies that were once the purview of specialized researchers are now sold in retail outlets like Sears, Staples and the Microsoft store. Schools and libraries have even begun getting into the act, from NC State to the Chicago Public Library.
Applications include producing prosthetic hands for accident victims, manufacturing replacement part for hard-to-source components, or even mapping word frequency across the history of a given journal and printing time series histograms.
But what about here at MIT?
This session will discuss the range of fabrication technologies now available, as well as those available at MIT, for sale, for rent, and (for a limited time, experimentally) through the Libraries. As part of this session, the Libraries have acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 that is capable of producing objects in PLA plastic!
Plus, participants will have the opportunity to see a 3D-printer in action and even design their own objects. Submit a printable file, generated by the free MakerWare software, by Tuesday, April 1st. Up to five submissions will be selected for production before the discussion (provided the designs are producible!).
(Hint: You can try turning a photo into a 3D model with 123D Catch.)
Registration Required: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=618667
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=618667
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Shapiro, Randi
6173244988
shapiror@mit.edu
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Killing a MidWest Generation
Tuesday, April 8
11:45AM-12:45PM
MIT, Building E51-345, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
It is our pleasure to welcome from Chicago the fourth guest of our Climate Change Speaker Series, Kim Wasserman. Wasserman is a community organizer and Director of the Chicago-based Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. She was the North American recipient of the 2013 Goldman Prize – a highly prestigious award given to grassroots environmental heroes from six continents each year – for her involvement in shutting down the Fisk and Crawford Coal plants of southwest Chicago; two of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest power plants. She has been the Keynote Speaker at such events as Power Shift 2013 and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. Wasserman will be sharing with us the lessons that we can draw from her personal journey: from concerned single mother to internationally recognized environmental leader.
http://www.fossilfreemit.org/04-08-14-climate-change-speaker-series-kim-wasserman/
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"The Future of Newspapers."
Tuesday, April 8
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Brian McGrory, editor, The Boston Globe
Tuesday, April 8
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Brian McGrory, editor, The Boston Globe
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Crowd Sourced Real Estate Development: Fundrise.com and the Fairhaired Dumbbell
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Gund Hall 124, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Loeb Fellowship
SPEAKER(S) Kevin Cavenaugh LF '08 from Guerilla Development
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO syoung@gsd.harvard.edu
LINK http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/upcoming-loeb-fellowship-events/
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Anglo-America and the Dynamics of Globalization
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, and visiting professor of business administration, Harvard Business School; moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, and visiting professor of business administration, Harvard Business School; moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Moving Mexico Forward
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Luis Videgaray, MIT PhD '97, Finance Minister of Mexico
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Special Events
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Rowan Williams, The Paradoxes of Empathy
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Paine Hall, Music Building
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
LECTURE 1: "The Other as Myself: Empathy and Power"
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00pm; Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: Drew G. Faust, President, Harvard University
Respondent: David W. Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School
LECTURE 2: "Myself as Stranger: Empathy and Loss"
Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm
Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
Respondent: Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/paradoxes-empathy
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Paine Hall, Music Building
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
LECTURE 1: "The Other as Myself: Empathy and Power"
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00pm; Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: Drew G. Faust, President, Harvard University
Respondent: David W. Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School
LECTURE 2: "Myself as Stranger: Empathy and Loss"
Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm
Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
Respondent: Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/paradoxes-empathy
Editorial Comment: Also livestreamed at the website above
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The Investment Crisis in Life Science
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kevin Starr, Partner at Third Rock Ventures
Join a conversation with Kevin Starr, Partner at Third Rock Ventures, to learn about the challenges of funding new biotechnology ventures.
Inside Cambridge Biotechnology
In this new series at the MIT Museum, meet leaders from new and established Cambridge biotechnologies, and learn about the focus and potential impacts of their company's research.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Inside_Biotech.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free with Museum admission
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Brindha Muniappan
617-253-0527
brindha@mit.edu
In this new series at the MIT Museum, meet leaders from new and established Cambridge biotechnologies, and learn about the focus and potential impacts of their company's research.
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar/Inside_Biotech.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free with Museum admission
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Brindha Muniappan
617-253-0527
brindha@mit.edu
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2014 Annual John R. Freeman Lecture: Capturing Domestic Wastewater's Resource Potentials
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
6:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-Tang, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
6:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-Tang, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Perry L. McCarty, Silas H. Palmer Professor, Stanford University
Today, wastewater can be looked upon more as a resource than as a waste, a resource not only for water, but also for energy and fertilizer nutrients. Using wastewater as a resource can help address the problems of population growth, consumption of finite resources, and climate change from use of fossil fuel. What emerging processes offer the most promise for capturing all of wastewater's resource potential?
Treated wastewater is widely used today in agriculture and industry. It can be treated additionally with modern membrane technology for indirect potable reuse and to meet stringent industrial requirements, though energy requirements for the latter can be quite high. Energy can be obtained from wastewater's organic content as well as from its thermal content. Microbial fuel cells offer potential for direct biological conversion of wastewater's organic content into electricity. However, significant improvements are needed for this process to be competitive with anaerobic biological conversion of wastewater organics into biogas, a renewable fuel that can be used for generation of electricity. Available physical and chemical processes can be used to capture phosphorus and nitrogen for reuse, and bio-solids can be applied to agricultural fields or used for landscaping and parks, helping offset the high-energy costs of synthetic fertilizers.
Freeman Lecture
The John R. Freeman Lecture is co-sponsored by the Environmental and Water Resources Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES), the ASCE, and the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Web site: http://www.bsces.org/index.cfm/page/About/pid/10708
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, BSCES John R. Freeman Fund Committee and ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter
For more information, contact: Eric Adams
617-253-6595
eeadams@mit.edu
The John R. Freeman Lecture is co-sponsored by the Environmental and Water Resources Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES), the ASCE, and the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Web site: http://www.bsces.org/index.cfm/page/About/pid/10708
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, BSCES John R. Freeman Fund Committee and ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter
For more information, contact: Eric Adams
617-253-6595
eeadams@mit.edu
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Lecture: Grace La and James Dallman, "On Integration”
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Grace La and James Dallman
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Architects Grace La and James Dallman engage in projects of diverse scale and type, with particular interest in the relationship between site, culture, and construction. Noted for works that expand architecture’s agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure as public space, the practice has been awarded numerous professional honors, architecture and engineering awards, and prizes in international design competitions. LA DALLMAN was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal, and is the first US practice to receive the Rice Design Alliance Prize, an international award recognizing exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career. Projects include bridges, science exhibits, towers and houses. Current work includes an urban master plan and a collaborative center for dance and wellness. Their work investigates the balance between continuity and disruption, typological clarity and hybrid vigor.
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-grace-la-and-james-dallman-on-integration.html
WHEN Tue., Apr. 8, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Grace La and James Dallman
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE Architects Grace La and James Dallman engage in projects of diverse scale and type, with particular interest in the relationship between site, culture, and construction. Noted for works that expand architecture’s agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure as public space, the practice has been awarded numerous professional honors, architecture and engineering awards, and prizes in international design competitions. LA DALLMAN was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal, and is the first US practice to receive the Rice Design Alliance Prize, an international award recognizing exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career. Projects include bridges, science exhibits, towers and houses. Current work includes an urban master plan and a collaborative center for dance and wellness. Their work investigates the balance between continuity and disruption, typological clarity and hybrid vigor.
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-grace-la-and-james-dallman-on-integration.html
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How Environmental Pollutants Impair Brain Development
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
7:00 PM
Lecture Hall, Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Philippe Grandjean, D.M.Sc, M.D., Professor and Chair of Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark; Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health additional info
At present, industrial chemicals are not even tested for possible effects on brain development. As an international authority on the effect of environmental pollutants on brain development, Dr. Grandjean has long advocated stricter regulations on these neurotoxicants. In this presentation he explains how several common pollutants impair brain development in both the fetal stage and early childhood. During development, the human nervous system is uniquely sensitive to toxic substances. The damage from these substances affects cognition, behavior and health. The problems affect not only the damaged children, but their families, communities and the broader society. The brain power of the next generation deserves better protection, as we get only one chance to generate a brain.
Philippe Grandjean, D.M.Sc, M.D., Professor and Chair of Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark; Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health additional info
At present, industrial chemicals are not even tested for possible effects on brain development. As an international authority on the effect of environmental pollutants on brain development, Dr. Grandjean has long advocated stricter regulations on these neurotoxicants. In this presentation he explains how several common pollutants impair brain development in both the fetal stage and early childhood. During development, the human nervous system is uniquely sensitive to toxic substances. The damage from these substances affects cognition, behavior and health. The problems affect not only the damaged children, but their families, communities and the broader society. The brain power of the next generation deserves better protection, as we get only one chance to generate a brain.
Science for the Public: The Public Science Lectures
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Wednesday, April 9
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WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Terence Roehrig, research fellow - International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu
NOTE Terence Roehrig's research focuses on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea and extended deterrence. He is Professor of National Security Affairs and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the U.S. Naval War College. He is co-author with Uk Heo of a forthcoming book, "South Korea's Rise in the World: Power, Economic Development, and Foreign Policy" (Cambridge University Press), and is a past president of the Association of Korean Political Studies.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6235/japan_and_the_us_nuclear_umbrella.html
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"Is the New Communication Climate Good for the Earth's Climate? A look at the fast-shifting toolbox for conveying, debating and muddying news and ideas related to environmental science and policy."
Wednesday, April 9
12 p.m.
Harvard, Cason Seminar Room, Taubman Building, first floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Andrew Revkin, non-fiction, science and environmental writer, writes the Dot Earth environmental blog for The New York Times' Opinion Pages.
Wednesday, April 9
12 p.m.
Harvard, Cason Seminar Room, Taubman Building, first floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Andrew Revkin, non-fiction, science and environmental writer, writes the Dot Earth environmental blog for The New York Times' Opinion Pages.
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Diamond - Engineer's Best Friend
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marko Loncar, Harvard
Dr. Loncar will review recent advances in nanotechnology that have enabled fabrication of nanoscale optical devices and chip-scale systems in diamond that can generate, manipulate, and store optical signals at the single-photon level. Examples include diamond nanowires, ring resonators and photonic crystal cavities. He will also discuss his work on diamond based on-chip frequency combs, as well as diamond nano-mechanics.
MTL Seminar Series
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2014.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2014.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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More than a Word? Genocide and U.S. Public Opinion
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Benjamin Valentino, Dartmouth College
SSP 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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Webinar: Local and Sustainable Food Procurement - Best Practices from Northeastern State Governments
Thursday, April 9th
2 pm - 3:30pm Eastern
Register today at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/587447112
Is your state government interested in expanding purchase of locally and sustainably farmed agricultural products? Creating markets for these products can contribute to the regional economy, preserve farmland and support a thriving, healthy food system.
Join the Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) for a webinar supported by the John Merck Fund that will highlight Best Practices developed in the New England region to foster state government procurement of local and sustainable food.
Hear first-hand about strategies to:
Structure contracts to best encourage local offerings;
Work with vendors over time to increase local purchasing;
Support distributors that source produce from the region; and
Use policy to build greater vendor accountability.
Speakers:
Mark Curran, Black River Produce, Vermont
Mark Izeman, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York
Jane Slupecki, Department of Agriculture, Connecticut
Moderator: Sarah Church, Responsible Purchasing Network
Space is limited.
For more information, email sarah@responsiblepurchasing.org
Want to learn more? RPN's recent report, Local and Sustainable Food Procurement by New England State Governments: Barriers and Recommendations is now available at http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/resources/local_food/index.php
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China 2035: Energy, Climate, Development
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment; Harvard China Project
SPEAKER(S) Robert Zoellick, former president, World Bank; chairman of Board of International Advisers, Goldman Sachs; Q&A with Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and chair of the Harvard China Project
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE “China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development” is a new lecture series convened by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard China Project. The objective of the series is to explore the challenges China is expected to face over the next two decades at the intersection of economic development, demands for energy, and environmental degradation including the potential impacts of climate change.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/china-zoellick
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment; Harvard China Project
SPEAKER(S) Robert Zoellick, former president, World Bank; chairman of Board of International Advisers, Goldman Sachs; Q&A with Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and chair of the Harvard China Project
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE “China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development” is a new lecture series convened by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard China Project. The objective of the series is to explore the challenges China is expected to face over the next two decades at the intersection of economic development, demands for energy, and environmental degradation including the potential impacts of climate change.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/china-zoellick
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“Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.”
Thursday, April 10
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School.
Thursday, April 10
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School.
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Rowan Williams, The Paradoxes of Empathy
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Paine Hall, Music Building
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
LECTURE 2: "Myself as Stranger: Empathy and Loss"
Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm
Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
Respondent: Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/paradoxes-empathy
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Paine Hall, Music Building
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
LECTURE 2: "Myself as Stranger: Empathy and Loss"
Wednesday, April 9, 4:00pm
Paine Hall, Music Building
Introduction: David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
Respondent: Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/paradoxes-empathy
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"Politics in the Religious Republic: Path to Democracy or Despotism?"
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CES, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the Graduate Workshop "Islam and the West"
SPEAKER(S) Soli Ozel, professor of international relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey and chairman, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6321/soli_ozel.html
WHEN Wed., Apr. 9, 2014, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CES, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the Graduate Workshop "Islam and the West"
SPEAKER(S) Soli Ozel, professor of international relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey and chairman, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6321/soli_ozel.html
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The Modern American Right's Thinking About Expertise: Taxonomy and Reflections
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
4:30-6:00PM
Wasserstein Hall, 2004 Classroom, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Ken I. Kersch, Boston College (Political Science)
Traditional understandings of conservative political thought emphasize its diverse premises and divergent theoretical commitments (e.g., libertarian versus traditionalist versus neoconservative), which, from the vantage point of ideas, render the movement’s strength and longevity a singular accomplishment and puzzle. In recent work, Kersch has sought to demonstrate the ways in which modern American conservatism’s cultivation of a core set of symbolic commitments (e.g., the U.S. Constitution) and historical narratives (e.g., about the meanings of the Founding, the Civil War, and the Progressive Era) bridge these divides, unifying and motivating the movement in ways missed by political theory’s standard analytic frames. In this talk, he considers the possibility that critiques of, and stories about, science and experts and their role in the modern regulatory/administrative/social welfare state – what others have variously called the “statutory,” “legislative,” or “policy” state – have been a critical component of this set of unifying narratives and symbols. He will survey contemporary conservative thinking from diverse theoretical starting points -- Neo-liberal (including Public Choice economics and Hayek), Traditionalist (including Evangelical Christian, the Catholic Right, and Straussian), and Neoconservative – about the nature and purpose of law, implicating fundamental questions of the role of science and expertise within U.S. constitutional government.
Ken I. Kersch is Associate Professor of Political Science, History, and Law at Boston College, where he teaches courses on American political and constitutional development and American political thought. He is the author, with Ronald Kahn, of The Supreme Court and American Political Development(Kansas, 2006), Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge, 2004), and Freedom of Speech (ABC-Clio, 2003) and many book chapters, articles, and reviews. Kersch’s work has won the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association, the J. David Greenstone Award from APSA’s Politics and History Section, and the Hughes-Gossett Prize from the Supreme Court Historical Society. He is working on a book entitled Conservatives and the Constitution: From Brown to Reagan (Cambridge University Press). He received his B.A. from Williams, his J.D. from Northwestern, and his Ph.D. (Government) from Cornell.
Co-sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Societyat the Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
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OpenMind: How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
5:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building E14-6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building E14-6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://openmind.eventbrite.com
Speaker: Yochai Benkler, Harvard University; Francisco Gonzlez, BBVA; Thomas W. Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jason Pontin, MIT Technology Review
Event Agenda:
5:00-6:15pm: Networking and Reception
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served
6:15-7:30pm: Programming and Audience Q&A
The Internet is the single most powerful agent for change in recent history. How will it continue to transform the way we live and do business?
Change: 19 Key Essays on How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives, is the sixth issue of BBVA's annual series devoted to exploring and disseminating knowledge on the critical issues of our time. Join us for a special presentation with Francisco Gonzalez, chairman and CEO of BBVA, and two contributing authors as we explore how the Internet will continue to shape the economy, society, politics, and culture.
Presenters:
- Distributed Innovation and Creativity, Peer Production and Commons in Networked Economy: Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
- Knowledge Banking for a Hyperconnected Society: Francisco Gonzlez, Chairman and CEO, BBVA
- How is the Internet Changing the Way we Work? Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Founding Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- Moderator: Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Web site: https://openmind.eventbrite.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: https://openmind.eventbrite.com
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, BBVA
For more information, contact:
Kathleen Kennedy
617-475-8079
Event Agenda:
5:00-6:15pm: Networking and Reception
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served
6:15-7:30pm: Programming and Audience Q&A
The Internet is the single most powerful agent for change in recent history. How will it continue to transform the way we live and do business?
Change: 19 Key Essays on How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives, is the sixth issue of BBVA's annual series devoted to exploring and disseminating knowledge on the critical issues of our time. Join us for a special presentation with Francisco Gonzalez, chairman and CEO of BBVA, and two contributing authors as we explore how the Internet will continue to shape the economy, society, politics, and culture.
Presenters:
- Distributed Innovation and Creativity, Peer Production and Commons in Networked Economy: Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
- Knowledge Banking for a Hyperconnected Society: Francisco Gonzlez, Chairman and CEO, BBVA
- How is the Internet Changing the Way we Work? Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Founding Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- Moderator: Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Web site: https://openmind.eventbrite.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: https://openmind.eventbrite.com
Sponsor(s): Technology Review, BBVA
For more information, contact:
Kathleen Kennedy
617-475-8079
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Work with Watson - Smaller, Faster, More Accessible
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:00pm -9:00pm
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
Pre-registration required at https://s01.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=15219721911427748100&PG=1521972182300
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
Pre-registration required at https://s01.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=15219721911427748100&PG=1521972182300
Watson is IBM’s first-generation cognitive system – containing massive statistical algorithms running massively in parallel. It combines natural language processing, machine learning, and hypothesis generation and evaluation to give you direct, confidence-based responses. Cognitive systems like IBM Watson, transform how organizations think, act, and operate in the future with technologies which leverage natural language, hypothesis generation and evidence-based learning.
This panel will discuss the Watson Cognitive Computing technology on how its transforming industries and ushering in a whole new era of information communication across enterprises. It will also share perspectives on emergent business opportunities for entrepreneurs around Watson and like technologies.
Come join TiE Boston and IBM for an evening of networking and panel discussion. Meet your local ecosystem of entrepreneurs, VCs, academic leaders, accelerators, IBM executives and Business Partners. Your ecosystem is the most effective means of fostering the success of everyone in the business community. Working together, we can go further than we would on our own!
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Thursday, April 10
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Using Theater to Explore Issues Related to Climate Change
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tufts University, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP: https://climatetheatre.eventbrite.com
Debra Wise, Artistic Director at Underground Railway Theater
In this interactive workshop, participants will brainstorm what they know - and feel - about pressing problems related to climate change, generate provocative questions, and explore their questions through a simple collaborative playwriting exercise. Participants will also get some background information on the world-premiere of SILA, by Chantal Bilodeau, about the intersection of culture, class and climate change in the Canadian Arctic. SILA will have a work-in-progress reading at Tufts on Monday, February 10, and its world premiere at Central Square Theater in Cambridge April 24 - May 25 (www.centralsquaretheater.org). The workshop will be led by Downing Cless, Associate Professor of Drama (with longtime involvement in eco-theater) and Debra Wise, Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater and Co-Director of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an ongoing science theater project.
Debra Wise is Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater (URT), which was founded in Oberlin, Ohio and toured nationally and internationally for 30 years before becoming a theater-in-residence at Central Square Theater. Wise has helped create over 30 new works as performer, playwright, director and/or dramaturge. She is also Co-Director of the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an ongoing partnership with MIT which brings scientists and artists together to create and present works of science theater. With CC@MIT, Wise has overseen and appeared in productions of The Life of Galileo, Breaking the Code (about Alan Turing), Distracted (about the prevalence of ADHD and our media-saturated culture),From Orchids to Octopi – an evolutionary love story, Remembering H.M. (about the science of memory), and Einstein's Dreams. She has presented about CC@MIT at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2012 conference of the American Association of Physical Sciences, and several national conferences about science and performing arts. On Oct. 2012, Ms. Wise was a featured presenter at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Board, convened to discuss how to encourage authentic creative activity at the intersection of art and science. Other science theater work has included the writing and directing of Aging Puzzle for the Boston Museum of Science (2001-2), and helping in the development of InTOXICating – an EcoCabaret (directed by Downing Cless and Wes Sanders), which toured nationally (1994-99) and received an EPA citation for excellence. Wise is on the faculty of Project Zero Summer Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Education; led in 2007-8 a Theater and Active Citizenship residency at Tufts University; has taught acting at MIT; and co-taught an MIT course, Making Theater about Science. She has performed with other companies in Boston and NYC (including the Public Theatre, in Julie Taymor's Haggadah), has received a Boston Globe citation for Best Solo Performance, and has three times been nominated in the Best Actress category by Independent Reviewers of New England.
Downing Cless is Associate Professor of Directing, Dramatic Literature and Theory, Environment and Theatre, at Tufts University. He wrote Ecology and Environment in European Drama (Routledge, 2010), which was selected to be the topic of a plenary session "Author Meets Critic" at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference.
In May 2012 his essay "Ecodirecting Canonical Plays" was published in the collection Readings in Performance and Ecology edited by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May (Palgrave Macmillan), and also he was a panelist in the closing session of the Earth Matters on Stage symposium and festival at Carnegie Mellon University. His articles on theatre about the environment are in TDR: The Drama Review, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. He has presented papers and been on panels at conferences such as the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Director of over sixty plays in university and professional theatres during his career, in the past few years he brought to the Tufts stage productions of Oedipus & Antigone by Sophocles (in translations by former colleague Peter D. Arnott), The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux (newly translated by colleague Laurence Senelick), a contemporary interpretation of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, and a '80s sci-fi sit-com titled Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants. by Y York. In the 1980s, Cless was Associate Artistic Director of Boston's TheaterWorks, for which he directed critically-acclaimed productions of Mensch Meier by Franz Xaver Kroetz and The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. With the Underground Railway Theater he has co-directed three original plays,Sanctuary: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman; The Christopher Columbus Follies: An Eco-Cabaret; andInTOXICating: An Eco-Cabaret (which was the recipient of a grant and award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
In addition to serving as Department Chair 1995-2001 and 2010-2013, he has been on numerous departmental and university committees, including having chaired the Academic Review Board and the Academic Awards Committee. For the last ten years he has been a board member and treasurer for the Underground Railway Theater, now in its new home of five years, The Central Square Theater.
In this interactive workshop, participants will brainstorm what they know - and feel - about pressing problems related to climate change, generate provocative questions, and explore their questions through a simple collaborative playwriting exercise. Participants will also get some background information on the world-premiere of SILA, by Chantal Bilodeau, about the intersection of culture, class and climate change in the Canadian Arctic. SILA will have a work-in-progress reading at Tufts on Monday, February 10, and its world premiere at Central Square Theater in Cambridge April 24 - May 25 (www.centralsquaretheater.org). The workshop will be led by Downing Cless, Associate Professor of Drama (with longtime involvement in eco-theater) and Debra Wise, Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater and Co-Director of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an ongoing science theater project.
Debra Wise is Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater (URT), which was founded in Oberlin, Ohio and toured nationally and internationally for 30 years before becoming a theater-in-residence at Central Square Theater. Wise has helped create over 30 new works as performer, playwright, director and/or dramaturge. She is also Co-Director of the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an ongoing partnership with MIT which brings scientists and artists together to create and present works of science theater. With CC@MIT, Wise has overseen and appeared in productions of The Life of Galileo, Breaking the Code (about Alan Turing), Distracted (about the prevalence of ADHD and our media-saturated culture),From Orchids to Octopi – an evolutionary love story, Remembering H.M. (about the science of memory), and Einstein's Dreams. She has presented about CC@MIT at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2012 conference of the American Association of Physical Sciences, and several national conferences about science and performing arts. On Oct. 2012, Ms. Wise was a featured presenter at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Board, convened to discuss how to encourage authentic creative activity at the intersection of art and science. Other science theater work has included the writing and directing of Aging Puzzle for the Boston Museum of Science (2001-2), and helping in the development of InTOXICating – an EcoCabaret (directed by Downing Cless and Wes Sanders), which toured nationally (1994-99) and received an EPA citation for excellence. Wise is on the faculty of Project Zero Summer Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Education; led in 2007-8 a Theater and Active Citizenship residency at Tufts University; has taught acting at MIT; and co-taught an MIT course, Making Theater about Science. She has performed with other companies in Boston and NYC (including the Public Theatre, in Julie Taymor's Haggadah), has received a Boston Globe citation for Best Solo Performance, and has three times been nominated in the Best Actress category by Independent Reviewers of New England.
Downing Cless is Associate Professor of Directing, Dramatic Literature and Theory, Environment and Theatre, at Tufts University. He wrote Ecology and Environment in European Drama (Routledge, 2010), which was selected to be the topic of a plenary session "Author Meets Critic" at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference.
In May 2012 his essay "Ecodirecting Canonical Plays" was published in the collection Readings in Performance and Ecology edited by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May (Palgrave Macmillan), and also he was a panelist in the closing session of the Earth Matters on Stage symposium and festival at Carnegie Mellon University. His articles on theatre about the environment are in TDR: The Drama Review, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. He has presented papers and been on panels at conferences such as the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Director of over sixty plays in university and professional theatres during his career, in the past few years he brought to the Tufts stage productions of Oedipus & Antigone by Sophocles (in translations by former colleague Peter D. Arnott), The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux (newly translated by colleague Laurence Senelick), a contemporary interpretation of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, and a '80s sci-fi sit-com titled Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants. by Y York. In the 1980s, Cless was Associate Artistic Director of Boston's TheaterWorks, for which he directed critically-acclaimed productions of Mensch Meier by Franz Xaver Kroetz and The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. With the Underground Railway Theater he has co-directed three original plays,Sanctuary: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman; The Christopher Columbus Follies: An Eco-Cabaret; andInTOXICating: An Eco-Cabaret (which was the recipient of a grant and award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
In addition to serving as Department Chair 1995-2001 and 2010-2013, he has been on numerous departmental and university committees, including having chaired the Academic Review Board and the Academic Awards Committee. For the last ten years he has been a board member and treasurer for the Underground Railway Theater, now in its new home of five years, The Central Square Theater.
Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program
Contact Name: Sarah Neville
saraheneville@gmail.com
Contact Name: Sarah Neville
saraheneville@gmail.com
http://as.tufts.edu/environmentalStudies/events/lunchlearn.htm
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Energy 101: Solar Technologies
Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A comprehensive introduction to solar technologies.
Energy 101 Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Scaling Infrastructure
Thursday, April 10, 2014
3:15p–7:30p
MIT, Building E14-674, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
3:15p–7:30p
MIT, Building E14-674, 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2014-cau-conference
Cost: $25-$75
The Spring 2014 Scaling Infrastructure conference is CAU's second and final infrastructure conference of our biennial theme that will convene political leaders, infrastructural engineers, design professionals and academicians to discuss groundbreaking ideas on infrastructure. Faced with new economic, political, and environmental challenges, the question of appropriate infrastructural investments and design scales is critical to the future of urbanized territories. The technical and political realities, design possibilities, and social and economic concerns for shaping sustainable infrastructural futures in American and International contexts will be addressed.
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2014-cau-conference
Open to: the general public
Tickets: http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2014-cau-conference
This event occurs daily at 3:15p - 7:30p through April 10, 2014, and also on April 11, 2014 at 8:45a - 4:15p.
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact: Prudence Robinson
pru@mit.edu
The Spring 2014 Scaling Infrastructure conference is CAU's second and final infrastructure conference of our biennial theme that will convene political leaders, infrastructural engineers, design professionals and academicians to discuss groundbreaking ideas on infrastructure. Faced with new economic, political, and environmental challenges, the question of appropriate infrastructural investments and design scales is critical to the future of urbanized territories. The technical and political realities, design possibilities, and social and economic concerns for shaping sustainable infrastructural futures in American and International contexts will be addressed.
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2014-cau-conference
Open to: the general public
Tickets: http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2014-cau-conference
This event occurs daily at 3:15p - 7:30p through April 10, 2014, and also on April 11, 2014 at 8:45a - 4:15p.
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact: Prudence Robinson
pru@mit.edu
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Computational challenges in large-scale social networks
Thursday, April 10, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Bulding 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Johan Ugander , Cornell University
Problems involving social networks and massive social datasets motivate some of the most difficult computational challenges today, and there is a pressing demand for understanding the structure of these problems. The design and measurement of social networks is commonly studied for properties shared with other networks, when in fact many aspects are specifically characteristics of social contexts. The spread of ideas is often studied as an epidemiological process, but very little research has examined how individuals make social decisions when adopting ideas. In the online world, experimentation using A/B tests does not account for social interference between treatment units, making it poorly suited for many studies on social networks. In this talk I will present research on these challenges (social structure, social contagion, social experimentation), developing computational approaches adapted to understanding the structure of social networks and social processes, and also to impacting the design of large-scale online social systems.
Bio: Johan Ugander is a Ph.D candidate at Cornell University, advised by Jon Kleinberg. His research develops tools for analyzing massive social graphs and other large-scale social data, aiming to provide a better understanding of social structure and human decision making while also impacting the design of large-scale computational systems. He is the recipient of the WSDM '13 Best Student Paper Award and the WebSci '12 Best Paper Award, and his work has been featured in popular-media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and Wired.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Bulding 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Johan Ugander , Cornell University
Problems involving social networks and massive social datasets motivate some of the most difficult computational challenges today, and there is a pressing demand for understanding the structure of these problems. The design and measurement of social networks is commonly studied for properties shared with other networks, when in fact many aspects are specifically characteristics of social contexts. The spread of ideas is often studied as an epidemiological process, but very little research has examined how individuals make social decisions when adopting ideas. In the online world, experimentation using A/B tests does not account for social interference between treatment units, making it poorly suited for many studies on social networks. In this talk I will present research on these challenges (social structure, social contagion, social experimentation), developing computational approaches adapted to understanding the structure of social networks and social processes, and also to impacting the design of large-scale online social systems.
Bio: Johan Ugander is a Ph.D candidate at Cornell University, advised by Jon Kleinberg. His research develops tools for analyzing massive social graphs and other large-scale social data, aiming to provide a better understanding of social structure and human decision making while also impacting the design of large-scale computational systems. He is the recipient of the WSDM '13 Best Student Paper Award and the WebSci '12 Best Paper Award, and his work has been featured in popular-media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and Wired.
Contact: Francis Doughty, francisd@csail.mit.edu
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Huge-Scale First-Order Optimization of Big Data
Thursday, April 10, 2014
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: George Lan
ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
ORC Spring Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact: Swati Gupta, Nathan Kallus, Maokai Lin
617-253-6185
swatig@mit.edu, kallus@mit.edu, lmk@mit.edu
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The Promise(s) of Digital Humanities
Thursday, April 10, 2014
4:30pm
Tufts, Pearson Hall, Room 104, Medford
Neil Fraistat, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Professor Fraistat chairs the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers. He currently serves on the boards of the Society for Textual Scholarship; Project MUSE; INKE; NITLE Digital Humanities Council; Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES); Brown's Women Writer's Project; Studies in Romanticism; Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN); and the Keats-Shelley Association. He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship's biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award, and honorable mention for the Modern Language Association's biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize.
Tufts, Pearson Hall, Room 104, Medford
Neil Fraistat, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Professor Fraistat chairs the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers. He currently serves on the boards of the Society for Textual Scholarship; Project MUSE; INKE; NITLE Digital Humanities Council; Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES); Brown's Women Writer's Project; Studies in Romanticism; Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN); and the Keats-Shelley Association. He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship's biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award, and honorable mention for the Modern Language Association's biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize.
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Climate Change and What it Means for Extreme Weather
Thursday, April 10
Thursday, April 10
4:30pm - 6pm
MIT, Building E19--623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Kerry Emanuel, Professor of atmospheric science, MIT
Dr. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and two books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity driven climate research.
Website: http://eaps4.mit.edu/faculty/Emanuel/
See more at: http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/climate-change-and-what-it-means-extreme#sthash.na7zHTBl.dpuf
Kerry Emanuel, Professor of atmospheric science, MIT
Dr. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and two books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity driven climate research.
Website: http://eaps4.mit.edu/faculty/Emanuel/
See more at: http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/seminars/climate-change-and-what-it-means-extreme#sthash.na7zHTBl.dpuf
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Askwith Forum - Leveling the Playing Field for Children: Celebrating 40 Years of the Children's Defense Fund
WHEN Thu., Apr. 10, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Introduction by: James E. Ryan, Dean and Professor, HGSE
Moderator: Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School; Secretary of Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston; Former Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Discussants:
WHEN Thu., Apr. 10, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Introduction by: James E. Ryan, Dean and Professor, HGSE
Moderator: Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School; Secretary of Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston; Former Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Discussants:
Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College; Former Dean, HGSE
The Honorable George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives (via video)
Robert G. Schwartz, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Juvenile Law Center
Arloc Sherman, Senior Researcher, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Jerry Weast, Founder and CEO, Partnership for Deliberate Excellence, LLC; Former Superintendent, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland
Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund
The Children’s Defense Fund has long espoused the philosophy that “children do not come in pieces” rather children need comprehensive, integrated supports and services from birth through adulthood. How does America achieve such given the existing fragmented education and health and human services systems? This forum focuses on forward-looking pieces in the book, Improving the Odds for America’s Children: Future Directions and Policy and Practice, which diagnose current obstacles to progress and suggest key ideas for the next 40 years of child and family policy.
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Social Physics: Beyond Economics and Org Charts
Thursday, April 10
6:00 to 7:30 PM
MIT Museum (N51)
Yaneer Bar-Yam and Sandy Pentland
From Google to the NSA, personal information has become the currency of our era. When big data meets social science, a new understanding of human society emerges which radically changes how we make decisions and respond to global challenges. Big data-driven research such as social physics and “crowdsourcing” collective intelligence offer the promise of better policy decisions. But is the cost too high? How can we leverage the enormous opportunities available through big data, while still protecting individual privacy?
Join Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute in discussion with Sandy Pentland of the MIT Media Lab about the convergence of big data with social science.
MIT Museum: TalkBack 360 Series
TalkBack 360 is a new program series at the MIT Museum where audiences and researchers come together to share their diverse perspectives on hot topics in science, technology, and the arts. Join the discussion in our MIT 360 arena and talk back about the research that keeps you thinking.
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“Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.”
Thursday, April 10
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time,
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Jerry Melillo, Distinguished Scientist and Director Emeritus, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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Predicting the Future: The Perception of Probability
Probabilistic models of cognitive processes are enjoying a huge vogue in contemporary theorizing in the cognitive and neurosciences, but there is little work on how we perceive simple probabilities. Such work as there is, assumes that the brain updates its estimate of a probability on a trial by trial basis. Prof. Gallistel will present experimental data showing that this is not true; the estimated probability may remain constant for hundreds of trials. Yet, the estimate can change by very large amounts from one trial to the next. He will present a model of the process that accommodates both of these seemingly contradictory facts. And he suggests that the principles underlying the model have broad application in perception.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteriafor “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.
General Info: (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
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Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Land and Climate – Ecological Restoration and Carbon Capture
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00pm
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Land and climate are inseparable. An essential element of mitigating global warming will be restoration of the world’s depleted ecosystems, including estuaries, forests, and grasslands. Seth Itzkan reports from the Africa Center for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where grazing, in accordance with evolutionary patterns, is re-greening highly depleted landscapes: helping to provide sustainable food and water security in semi-arid areas while invariably sequestering carbon through new soil formation. The climate mitigation potential, if applied on range lands globally, is significant and complements efforts to reduce carbon emissions with clean, renewable energy.
http://www.BASEA.org
higginsm@mit.edu
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
6pm
Harvard, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Professor Randy Gallistel, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University
Probabilistic models of cognitive processes are enjoying a huge vogue in contemporary theorizing in the cognitive and neurosciences, but there is little work on how we perceive simple probabilities. Such work as there is, assumes that the brain updates its estimate of a probability on a trial by trial basis. Prof. Gallistel will present experimental data showing that this is not true; the estimated probability may remain constant for hundreds of trials. Yet, the estimate can change by very large amounts from one trial to the next. He will present a model of the process that accommodates both of these seemingly contradictory facts. And he suggests that the principles underlying the model have broad application in perception.
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Annalee Newitz discusses in conversation with Seth Mnookin
Harvard Book Store welcomes science journalist and editor of io9.com ANNALEE NEWITZ and contributing editor for Vanity Fair SETH MNOOKIN for a discussion of Newitz's new-to-paperback book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
Harvard Book Store welcomes science journalist and editor of io9.com ANNALEE NEWITZ and contributing editor for Vanity Fair SETH MNOOKIN for a discussion of Newitz's new-to-paperback book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteriafor “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.
General Info: (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
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Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Land and Climate – Ecological Restoration and Carbon Capture
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00pm
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Land and climate are inseparable. An essential element of mitigating global warming will be restoration of the world’s depleted ecosystems, including estuaries, forests, and grasslands. Seth Itzkan reports from the Africa Center for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where grazing, in accordance with evolutionary patterns, is re-greening highly depleted landscapes: helping to provide sustainable food and water security in semi-arid areas while invariably sequestering carbon through new soil formation. The climate mitigation potential, if applied on range lands globally, is significant and complements efforts to reduce carbon emissions with clean, renewable energy.
http://www.BASEA.org
higginsm@mit.edu
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The 20th International Development Conference at Harvard Kennedy School
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11 – Sat., Apr. 12, 2014
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.events.harvard.edu/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x2443798e59
NOTE More than15 panels occurring over the span of 2 days and amazing speakers such as:
Esther Duflo, co-founder and director of the Poverty Lab
Kris Balderston from the Fleishman-Hillard Washington, D.C. office and John MacArthur Senior Fellow at the UN Foundation
Jane Wales, CEO, Global Philanthropy Forum and the World Affairs
Council and vice president of philanthropy at the Aspen Institute
LINK harvardidc.com
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11 – Sat., Apr. 12, 2014
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.events.harvard.edu/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x2443798e59
NOTE More than15 panels occurring over the span of 2 days and amazing speakers such as:
Esther Duflo, co-founder and director of the Poverty Lab
Kris Balderston from the Fleishman-Hillard Washington, D.C. office and John MacArthur Senior Fellow at the UN Foundation
Jane Wales, CEO, Global Philanthropy Forum and the World Affairs
Council and vice president of philanthropy at the Aspen Institute
LINK harvardidc.com
COST: $50-$85
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents:
New England Governors' Energy Infrastructure Proposals; & ENE's EnergyVision(2050)
Friday, April 11, 2014
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
This past December, the New England Governors expressed their collective perspective on energy infrastructure diversification in a statement entitledNew England Governors' Commitment to Regional Cooperation on Energy Infrastructure Issues. In January, they followed up with a joint letter to ISO New England focusing on two specific areas of agreement:
New Electric Transmission Infrastructure-The New England States, through NESCOE, have agreed that one or more requests for proposals will be issued to advance the development of transmission infrastructure that would enable delivery of at least 1200 MW and as much as 3600 MW of clean energy into the New England electric system from no and/or low carbon emissions resources. [Costs to be recovered through an ISO tariff.]
Increased Natural Gas Capacity-Approval by FERC of a tariff for the recovery of the cost of firm natural gas pipeline capacity, in a manner that is effective to achieve the construction of new, or expansion of existing, pipelines capable of delivering in the amount of firm pipeline capacity into New England of 1000 mmcf/day above 2013 levels. [Cost proposed to be recovered in an ISO tariff.]
We expect to hear about additional developments on these matters from
the New England Governors by the time of the April 11th Roundtable. Meanwhile, ISO New England has begun its analysis of the Governors'
request to develop an unprecedented gas pipeline tariff. To discuss these developments, we will hear from two of the state leaders in these negotiations, Steven Clarke, Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy at Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, and Maine PUC Chairman Tom Welch. Ray Hepper, General Counsel and Vice President at ISO New England will then provide ISO's insights on these recent developments on energy infrastructure in New England and discuss how these requests by the Governors could be translated into tariffs.
Given that the transmission and gas pipeline infrastructure requested by the New England Governors are, by their nature, long-term investments, we have decided to pair this topic with another related longer-term horizon topic - meeting New England's 2050 75-80% greenhouse gas reduction targets. The February release by ENE (Environment Northeast) of its Energy Vision(2050): A Pathway to a Modern, Sustainable, Low Carbon Economic and Environmental Future analysis and report will provide a provocative perspective to the long-term energy infrastructure conversation. ENE's analysis and report concludes that the best way to
meet the 2050 GHG reduction targets is to continue with aggressive energy efficiency programs, electrify the light vehicle and thermal sectors, increase renewable energy generation, and modernize the electric grid. Dan Sosland, President of ENE, and Dr. Abigail Adams, Director, ENE's Utility of the Future and Grid Modernization Initiative, will present ENE'sstudy.
[Note: ENE's presentation of EnergyVision(2050) will precede the New England Governors Energy Infrastructure panel.]
Free and open to the public with no advanced registration!
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“Communication neuroscience: The listening, talking, and reading brain."
Friday, April 11, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
BU, Sargent College, 635 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 220, Boston
Register by: 4/7/2014
Tyler Perrachione
Tyler will discuss his research in the Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory (CNRLab) and help us answer the question “What has communication neuroscience done for us lately?”
Hosted by the Sargent College Faculty Support Committee.
Contact Name Jessica Kramer
Contact Email kramerj@bu.edu
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South Africa’s “Negotiated Revolution” and Mandela’s Legacy: A Conversation with Roelf Meyer and Tim Phillips
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall 102
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator for the African National Congress and former minister of constitutional development and Provincial Affairs, South Africa; Tim Phillips, co-founder of Beyond Conflict (formerly the Project on Justice in Times of Transition)
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO bhankes@law.harvard.edu
NOTE Join us for a discussion with Roelf Meyer and Tim Phillips on South Africa's remarkable “negotiated revolution” and its transition to a democratically elected government. What is Nelson Mandela’s legacy today? What lessons can leaders in current conflict situations learn from South Africa?
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/south-africas-negotiated-revolution-and-mandelas-legacy-a-conversation-with-roelf-meyer-and-tim-phillips/
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall 102
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator for the African National Congress and former minister of constitutional development and Provincial Affairs, South Africa; Tim Phillips, co-founder of Beyond Conflict (formerly the Project on Justice in Times of Transition)
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO bhankes@law.harvard.edu
NOTE Join us for a discussion with Roelf Meyer and Tim Phillips on South Africa's remarkable “negotiated revolution” and its transition to a democratically elected government. What is Nelson Mandela’s legacy today? What lessons can leaders in current conflict situations learn from South Africa?
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/south-africas-negotiated-revolution-and-mandelas-legacy-a-conversation-with-roelf-meyer-and-tim-phillips/
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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Responses to a Global Crisis
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center Fellows Program
SPEAKER(S) Anne Stetson, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Dan O'Bryant, Shared Hope International; Christopher Sage, WCFIA
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center Fellows Program
SPEAKER(S) Anne Stetson, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Dan O'Bryant, Shared Hope International; Christopher Sage, WCFIA
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New England Anglican Studies Conference: Christianity and Capitalism
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Confeßrences, Religion
SPONSOR HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE The HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship is pleased to announce the fourth annual NEAS Conference, an academic and ecumenical conference at Harvard Divinity School. This year's conference theme is "Christianity and Capitalism."
Five years after the worldwide financial crisis, two years after Occupy Wall Street, and in the midst of widespread movements challenging the global economic system, it is an urgent moment for Christians to ask: How should we, as Christians, relate to contemporary capitalism? How should contemporary "capitalism"—or capitalisms—be understood, economically, historically, and theologically? Are there fundamental conflicts between our current economic order and our identity as Christians? If so, what can, and should, we do about them—as individuals, congregations, and institutions? Such questions weigh particularly upon the ministers and lay leaders responsible for guiding the economic lives of Christian communities in a way that answers to the Gospel.
To engage with these issues, and to discern practical paths forward, is the purpose of "Christianity and Capitalism," the fourth annual Conference of the Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School. While we ask these questions from within the community of Anglicans, however, we recognize that they are equally imperative for all Christian ministry leaders and institutions. Our aim, therefore, is to convene an ecumenical conversation, inviting the contributions of other Christian traditions and drawing upon the resources of our own. Given the scope of the topic, we welcome papers taking a variety of approaches, including: theological engagements with economic questions, historical and contemporary studies of how Christian actors and ideas have interacted with the capitalist political economies, and practical proposals for how Christian leaders and institutions should move forward today. We hope especially to bring academic perspectives into dialogue with current and rising church leaders—ordained and lay—so that our theology might guide our practice, our practice our theology, and faithful witness to the Gospel guide both.
For more information, please visit the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship website.
LINK hdsepisc.org
COST: $30-$35
WHEN Fri., Apr. 11, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Confeßrences, Religion
SPONSOR HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE The HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship is pleased to announce the fourth annual NEAS Conference, an academic and ecumenical conference at Harvard Divinity School. This year's conference theme is "Christianity and Capitalism."
Five years after the worldwide financial crisis, two years after Occupy Wall Street, and in the midst of widespread movements challenging the global economic system, it is an urgent moment for Christians to ask: How should we, as Christians, relate to contemporary capitalism? How should contemporary "capitalism"—or capitalisms—be understood, economically, historically, and theologically? Are there fundamental conflicts between our current economic order and our identity as Christians? If so, what can, and should, we do about them—as individuals, congregations, and institutions? Such questions weigh particularly upon the ministers and lay leaders responsible for guiding the economic lives of Christian communities in a way that answers to the Gospel.
To engage with these issues, and to discern practical paths forward, is the purpose of "Christianity and Capitalism," the fourth annual Conference of the Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School. While we ask these questions from within the community of Anglicans, however, we recognize that they are equally imperative for all Christian ministry leaders and institutions. Our aim, therefore, is to convene an ecumenical conversation, inviting the contributions of other Christian traditions and drawing upon the resources of our own. Given the scope of the topic, we welcome papers taking a variety of approaches, including: theological engagements with economic questions, historical and contemporary studies of how Christian actors and ideas have interacted with the capitalist political economies, and practical proposals for how Christian leaders and institutions should move forward today. We hope especially to bring academic perspectives into dialogue with current and rising church leaders—ordained and lay—so that our theology might guide our practice, our practice our theology, and faithful witness to the Gospel guide both.
For more information, please visit the HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship website.
LINK hdsepisc.org
COST: $30-$35
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Swiss Gaming Corner – Opening Reception
Friday, April 11, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/swiss-gaming-corner-opening-reception-tickets-10981785817
swissnex Boston is hosting the SWISS GAMING CORNER – an exhibition of eight immersive games and installations incorporating virtual and augmented reality, designed by students of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). As a special treat Mario von Rickenbach will also present his award winning game KRAUTSCAPE, GDC Best in Play Winner 2013!
Program:
6.30 pm: Doors open – have fun meeting the designers and gaming in the Swiss Gaming Corner
7.30 pm: Welcome and Keynote by Jean-Pierre Greff, Director HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design
7.45 pm: Pitches of the games from the Swiss Gaming Corner and Krautscape
8.30 pm: Networking reception and gaming
9.30 pm: Doors close
This event is free and open to the public. Drinks and food will be served throughout the evening. Registration requested.
Have questions about Swiss Gaming Corner – Opening Reception? Contact swissnex Boston
swissnex Boston is hosting the SWISS GAMING CORNER – an exhibition of eight immersive games and installations incorporating virtual and augmented reality, designed by students of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). As a special treat Mario von Rickenbach will also present his award winning game KRAUTSCAPE, GDC Best in Play Winner 2013!
Program:
6.30 pm: Doors open – have fun meeting the designers and gaming in the Swiss Gaming Corner
7.30 pm: Welcome and Keynote by Jean-Pierre Greff, Director HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design
7.45 pm: Pitches of the games from the Swiss Gaming Corner and Krautscape
8.30 pm: Networking reception and gaming
9.30 pm: Doors close
This event is free and open to the public. Drinks and food will be served throughout the evening. Registration requested.
Have questions about Swiss Gaming Corner – Opening Reception? Contact swissnex Boston
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Saturday, April 12
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TEDxHarvardLaw
On April 12, the Law & Social Change program, following up on the success of last year’s HLSpeaks event, will host its first TEDxHarvardLaw conference! A select group of student speakers will be chosen to present 5-15 minute talks that explain their perspective on using the law and other tools to create and support social change. Speakers may choose to ground their talks in their own experience, draw on lessons from history, and/or propose creative ways to be involved in social change.
Email Blake Strode blakestrode@gmail.com or Scott Hochbergsbhochberg@gmail.com with questions.
On April 12, the Law & Social Change program, following up on the success of last year’s HLSpeaks event, will host its first TEDxHarvardLaw conference! A select group of student speakers will be chosen to present 5-15 minute talks that explain their perspective on using the law and other tools to create and support social change. Speakers may choose to ground their talks in their own experience, draw on lessons from history, and/or propose creative ways to be involved in social change.
Email Blake Strode blakestrode@gmail.com or Scott Hochbergsbhochberg@gmail.com with questions.
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Boston FIRST Student Robotics Competition
8am - 4pm
Agganis Arena at Boston University, 925 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
More information at http://www.bostonfirst.org
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MIT Sloan Africa Innovate 2014: What's Your Big Idea?
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
9:00 AM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
MIT Media Lab (E14, 6th Floor), 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
About the Sloan African Business Club
Our mission is to enlighten the MIT and greater North America community of Africa’s future promise while encouraging their investment in Africa. As a club, we strive to increase local awareness of MIT in Africa and to act as a resource to prospective students interested in attaining degrees from MIT Sloan. Finally, we aim to act as a catalyst in uniting all MIT alumni who are on the continent or interested in pursuing opportunities on the continent.
MIT Media Lab (E14, 6th Floor), 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
About the Sloan African Business Club
Our mission is to enlighten the MIT and greater North America community of Africa’s future promise while encouraging their investment in Africa. As a club, we strive to increase local awareness of MIT in Africa and to act as a resource to prospective students interested in attaining degrees from MIT Sloan. Finally, we aim to act as a catalyst in uniting all MIT alumni who are on the continent or interested in pursuing opportunities on the continent.
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The Business of Sustainability
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
Northeastern University, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-business-of-sustainability-registration-10696693097
The Net Impact graduate student chapter of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business is proud to host "the Business of Sustainability." These afternoon sessions will feature speakers who have transformed their business models to be leaders of their industries, and how sustainability was crucial during that journey. We will discuss the impact of environmental and social responsibility issues, and how sustainability has become a norm for companies to succeed.
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On April 12, 2014, the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of MA joins us in a discussion exploring theenvironment and the economy. In the greater Boston area, the SBN is at the nexus of a new, resilient economy that will help Massachusetts withstand the coming challenges, from price spikes to extreme weather. What is the role of small business in building sustainable communities and how do companies participate in these initiatives?
Guest Speakers:
Susan Labandibar - SBN Board President and founder of Tech Networks
Joe Grafton - SBN Board Vice President, Director of Development & Community Engagement of the American Independent Business Alliance and founder of Somerville Local First
The Net Impact graduate student chapter of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business is proud to host "the Business of Sustainability." These afternoon sessions will feature speakers who have transformed their business models to be leaders of their industries, and how sustainability was crucial during that journey. We will discuss the impact of environmental and social responsibility issues, and how sustainability has become a norm for companies to succeed.
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On April 12, 2014, the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of MA joins us in a discussion exploring theenvironment and the economy. In the greater Boston area, the SBN is at the nexus of a new, resilient economy that will help Massachusetts withstand the coming challenges, from price spikes to extreme weather. What is the role of small business in building sustainable communities and how do companies participate in these initiatives?
Guest Speakers:
Susan Labandibar - SBN Board President and founder of Tech Networks
Joe Grafton - SBN Board Vice President, Director of Development & Community Engagement of the American Independent Business Alliance and founder of Somerville Local First
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Tuesday, April 15
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Deborah Amos, international correspondent, covers the Middle East for National Public Radio.
Tuesday, April 15
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
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Can We Avert the Unfolding Climate Crisis?
Tuesday, April 15
5:00PM-6:30PM
MIT, Building E51-345, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Followed by informal reception in Bush Room (10-105, 6:30PM-7:30PM)
We are thrilled that our sixth and final Climate Change Speaker Series talk will be delivered by world famous climate scientist and prominent advocate of global warming intervention, Dr. James Hansen. Dr. Hansen will discuss the climate realities confronting us as the 21st century unfolds, and the opportunities for MIT students to rise to meet them. Following the talk, an informal reception will be held in the Bush Room (10-105, 6.30-7.30pm). We are most grateful for the generous cosponsoring support of this event by the MIT Earth System Initiative.
Dr. Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a position from which he retired to “focus more on climate activism”), is Adjunct Professor and at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs a program in Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. Dr. Hansen is well known for his 1988 testimony on climate change to Congress that helped raise broad awareness of global warming. As one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people on Earth in 2006, Dr. Hansen is one of the world’s most prominent advocates of public and political action against climate change.
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Tuesday, April 15
5:00PM-6:30PM
MIT, Building E51-345, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Followed by informal reception in Bush Room (10-105, 6:30PM-7:30PM)
We are thrilled that our sixth and final Climate Change Speaker Series talk will be delivered by world famous climate scientist and prominent advocate of global warming intervention, Dr. James Hansen. Dr. Hansen will discuss the climate realities confronting us as the 21st century unfolds, and the opportunities for MIT students to rise to meet them. Following the talk, an informal reception will be held in the Bush Room (10-105, 6.30-7.30pm). We are most grateful for the generous cosponsoring support of this event by the MIT Earth System Initiative.
Dr. Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a position from which he retired to “focus more on climate activism”), is Adjunct Professor and at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs a program in Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. Dr. Hansen is well known for his 1988 testimony on climate change to Congress that helped raise broad awareness of global warming. As one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people on Earth in 2006, Dr. Hansen is one of the world’s most prominent advocates of public and political action against climate change.
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Sustainable Real Estate - Startup Financing for Sustainable Housing
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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/
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
7:00 PM
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/EntreTechForum/events/143820302/
Is It Affordable and How to Build in a New Real Estate Environment
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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/
