hubevents: Energy (and Other) Events

Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.

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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index

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Monday, March 17
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12:30pm Webcast: Sugar, Salt & Supplements: Sorting the Science
4pm At the Nano-Bio interface: probing live cells with nano sensors
4:30pm History and Historical Analysis in the Ukrainian Crisis
6pm Understanding the Urban Heritage: The Cultural Wire-Scape of Historic Lahore
6:30pm "What Art Can Tell Us about the Brain.”
6:30pm Cleaning Up the Water: Case Studies of Stormwater Retrofits In the Metro Boston Area
7pm ACT Lecture | Kazue Kobata: Migration Inside-Out: Contemplate, Imagine, Act

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Tuesday, March 18
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12pm 2030 Districts & EcoDistricts: The Neighborhood as the Next Frontier
12:30pm Governments Pwn the Web: A Constitutional Right to IT-Security?
2pm A Conversation with the Next Generation: A New Social Compact
3:15pm A Unique Testimony about Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris: The Journal of Helene Berr
3:30pm "The Age of Networks”
5:30pm Transforming Waste: From Vision to Reality
6pm Rights of Way
6:30pm Space Day Conference
6:30pm Energy Storage Policy

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Wednesday, March 19
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12pm Societies and Terrorist Violence: How Community Ties Influence Militant Groups' Targeting of Civilians
12pm 2014 Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge Kick-Off and 2013 Awards Celebration of Green Streets Initiative
12:10pm The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: What was it and why?
12:30pm Retired USMC Major General Michael R. Lehnert
4pm Bench to Bedside Lecture "Contemplating Medical Innovation”
4pm "Complexity Made Simple *at a Small Price”
4pm Partisan Media and Democracy: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers
4:15pm Discovering Our Way to Greatness: Better Healthcare for More People More Affordably
5:15pm World Energy and Energy Trends
6pm Opening Reception for Volumetric Robotics
7pm The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

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Thursday, March 20
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"Risk, Perception, and Response” Conference
8am Expert Roundtable: Global Communications in a University
11:30am Sisters Around the World: Culture, Feminism, and Power
12:15pm The Boys: Ideological Extremism and Islamist In-fighting in the Somali Civil War
4pm South Africa’s “Negotiated Revolution” and Mandela’s Legacy: A Conversation with Roelf Meyer and Tim Phillips
5pm MIT Water Night 2014
5:30pm Farm Share Fair 2014
5:30pm Fraunhofer TechBridge Info Session
5:30pm Community + Entrepreneurship: Tim Rowe Talk
6:30pm Urban Design Committee: Greenways Shaping Boston
7pm Blue Future: Protecting Water and People and the Planet Forever
7:30pm A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

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Friday, March 21
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"Risk, Perception, and Response” Conference
The 2014 CF/LANR Colloquium
Music Tech Fest
6pm "Transit Equity”
7pm In-APP-ropriate: A Provocative Question Forum on Children and Mobile Devices Media

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Saturday, March 22
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World Water Day
7am LibrePlanet 2014
2pm Spring Planting 2014
5:15pm World History and the Global Digital Research Environment

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Sunday, March 23
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BostonCAN Spring Campaign Kick-off
7am LibrePlanet 2014

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Monday, March 24
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8am Losing our Lead? Education, Innovation and the MA Economy
12pm Practical and Principled Security
12pm 'Gap-Filling Organizations': Competing at Speed in a Fast-Moving World
12pm "The Water-Energy Nexus in Oman and Abu Dhabi: A View from the Agricultural Sector”
5pm Boston Big Data and Analytics Unconference
4pm The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 5 - Buddhism and Creativity
4pm (Re)imagined Cityscapes: Lviv (Ukraine) and Wroclaw (Poland) after 1944-45
4pm Sexual Violence and Citizenship: Rape Reform in American History
5:30pm "Revolutionizing Human Rights": Slave Emancipation and the 1875 Civil Rights Act”
6pm Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal
6pm Designing the Next Generation
6pm The Creeley Collective: A Community Gathering to Celebrate Robert Creeley's Selected Letters

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Tuesday, March 25
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12pm Divergence and Consensus on Transatlantic Security Policy: A Perspective from Paris
12:30pm Acting on our Accountability to the Future
12:30pm Troll Wrastling for Beginners: Data-Driven Methods to Decrease Hatred Online
1pm Remote Sensing and Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Scaling in the Global System
4pm The Long Emancipation: Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in the United States
4:15pm The Strange Man of Europe: Some Thoughts on Politics and Cultural Change in Contemporary Germany
4:30pm Civil Society in East Asia
5:30pm Cleantech Open Northeast Info Session
6pm Stephen Greenblatt Lecture
6:30pm HOOPS WORKSHOPS WITH NEW CRAFT ARTISTS IN ACTION
6:30pm Lecture: Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
7pm Human-centered Journalism: Designing for Engagement
7pm Net Neutrality and the Future of Internet Access

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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com

Methane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/10/1283709/-Methane-Management-Crowdfunding-Natural-Gas-Leak-Monitoring

Liars and Outliers
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/liars-and-outliers.html

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Monday, March 17
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Webcast: Sugar, Salt & Supplements: Sorting the Science
Mon., Mar. 17, 2014

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
http://www.forumhsph.org
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health in Collaboration with The Huffington Post
SPEAKER(S) Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

JoAnn Manson, Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Channing Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital; moderated by Amanda Chan, senior editor, Health News, The Huffington Post
CONTACT INFO theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
NOTE E-mail questions for the expert participants to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
LINK http://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/sugar-salts-and-supplements/

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At the Nano-Bio interface: probing live cells with nanosensors

Monday, March 17

4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 56-114 (the tallest building on campus)

Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University

Biological Chemistry Seminar Series

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History and Historical Analysis in the Ukrainian Crisis

Monday, March 17, 2014
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Come hear a lively discussion of the background and historical development of the crisis unfolding in Crimea and Ukrainian from two-world experts. In a lively Q & A format Professor Elizabeth Wood will discuss with Professors Mark Kramer and Serhii Plokhii some of the burning issues in the region today. Why is the Crimean region so strategically sensitive? Who did it originally belong to? Why did Khrushchev give it to the Russian part of the USSR? Why are pundits, politicians and scholars throwing around all kinds of allegations of fascism, Nazism, anti-semitism? How can we think about the Crimean referendum which is due to take place the day before, on Sunday March 16?

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
324-2793
ekaminsk@mit.edu

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Understanding the Urban Heritage: The Cultural Wire-Scape of Historic Lahore
Monday, March 17, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Masood Khan, Heritage Consultant

Aga Khan Lecture Series

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
For more information, contact: Jose Luis Arguello
253-1400
akpiarch@mit.edu

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"What Art Can Tell Us about the Brain."
Mon, March 17

6:30pm – 7:30pm
Northeastern University, 200 Richards Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School

More information at http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/neuroscience/Seminars.html

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Cleaning Up the Water: Case Studies of Stormwater Retrofits In the Metro Boston Area
March 17
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Malden Public Library, 36 Salem Street, Malden
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=jqf

Please join us as the Mystic River Watershed Association and MAPC co-host Cleaning the Water: Case Studies of Retrofits in the Metro Boston Area. Speaking on urban stormwater successes and challenges within each of their respective watersheds, Water Quality Monitoring Director Patrick Herron of the Mystic River Watershed Association, Pallavi Kalia Mande of the Charles River Watershed’s Blue Cities initiative, and Ian Cooke, Director of the Neponset River Watershed Association, will be joined by long time urban stormwater engineer Tom Pawlina, P.E. and Principal of ATP Environmental. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and an opportunity to comment and ask questions.

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ACT Lecture | Kazue Kobata: Migration Inside-Out: Contemplate, Imagine, Act
Monday, March 17, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Kazue Kobata
Art curator and professor Kazue Kobata will explore themes of political and personal transformation in connection with aspects of technology, medium, and experience as they unfold in Japanese cinema.

In 1982, Kazue Kobata opened Plan B in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan's first alternative art space run by artists. Her expansive career includes working as an adjunct curator and producer at MoMA PS1 (New York) and De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam). She has translated numerous books on philosophy, science, contemporary art, photography, music, performance, and fashion by authors including Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, Issey Miyake, Eiko Ishioka, Tony Godfrey, and Lyall Watson. Kobata has also worked with a number of established and experimental artists in film, video, and TV, including multimedia artist and film essayist Chris Marker. Currently she is Dean and Professor in the Department of Intermedia Art at the Tokyo National University of the Arts and she serves as a juror for a number of contemporary art awards, grants, and programs.

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): Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, 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, March 18
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2030 Districts & EcoDistricts: The Neighborhood as the Next Frontier
March 18, 2014

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at rsvp@architects.org with "SEC 3/18” in the subject line

Thinking globally and acting locally has long been a principle concept of sustainability. With national and international regulatory policies failing to adequately address serious economic, social, and environmental issues, cities are proving to be effective drivers for sustainability initiatives with tangible benefits. But even at the city level there are many bureaucratic hurdles that can make implementing sustainability a challenging proposition.

EcoDistricts and 2030 Districts are sustainability action programs geared to operate at the hyper-local level: the neighborhood. There are still many constituents and public/private organizations that need to be involved for neighborhood-wide sustainability goals, but the feasibility of execution may prove to be much higher than at the scale of an entire city. Come learn about what EcoDistricts and 2030 Districts are trying to achieve one neighborhood at a time, how architecture can help play a role in leading the process, and where Boston fits in to all of it.

Presenter Steven Burke, works as a Sustainability Coordinator at Bergmeyer Associates, Inc. in Boston, MA. His position involves managing the LEED process and supporting the design team on development and implementation of sustainable strategies. He spent two years in New York City earning a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University where he published several articles related to sustainability and was a guest lecturer on Sustainability Management.

To learn more about the Boston Society of Architects Sustainability Education Committee, visit architects.org/committees/sustainability-education-committee.

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Governments Pwn the Web: A Constitutional Right to IT-Security?
Tue., Mar. 18, 2014

12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/arnbak#RSVP

Axel Arnbak, Berkman Center & Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Fellow

NOTE Governments around the world are hacking into IT-systems, with deep implications for privacy, IT-security, the legal process and geopolitics. This talk will explore three real-life cases to unpack those implications: the German Constitutional Court ruling on the 'Bundestrojaner' malware, the Dutch 'Bredolab' botnet mitigation and the hacking law proposed in its aftermath, and recent Snowden revelations on making 100.000 routers around the world 'wiretap ready' for ubiquitous surveillance by intelligence agencies. Should governments actually have the ability and the right to hack, and to weaken global communications networks? And do conventional concepts such as privacy and communications secrecy sufficiently capture the status quo, or do we need a new constitutional right for IT-security as proposed by the German court? Addressing these questions sets the stage for an interactive discussion with the audience to formulate an agenda for technical, legal and ethical research, policy and activism.
LINK https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/arnbak

CONTACT INFO candersen@cyber.law.harvard.edu

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A Conversation with the Next Generation: A New Social Compact
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
2:00p–3:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Tom Kochan
What can the next generation of Americans do to reverse the declining standards of living they are inheriting from the baby boomers who benefited from the Golden Era of the American economy following WW II? This talk will lay out the challenges and opportunities facing young Americans, with a particular emphasis on education and recent innovations the enable widespread lifelong learning.

From pre-school to life-long-learning programs, all institutions of learning need to be active contributors to a new social contact. This includes providing affordable early childhood outreach educational opportunities, working collaboratively to reform elementary and secondary schools, building alliances with employers and labor groups to enhance professional development and lifelong learning, and transforming professional schools to ensure the next generation of leaders has the skills to build and sustain a social compact for the future.

We will also discuss what is needed from leaders of other institutions. such as business, government, and labor, to support efforts to build and sustain a new social compact.

xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies. For more information, please visit odl.mit.edu/xtalks

Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/tom-kochan-a-conversation-with-the-next-generation-a-new-social-compact/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles

617-324-9185

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A Unique Testimony about Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris: The Journal of Helene Berr
WHEN Tue., Mar. 18, 2014, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Grossman Common Room, 51 Brattle Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S) Guila Kessous
NOTE From April 1942 to February 1944, Helene Berr kept a journal of her life in Nazi-occupied Paris before being transported to Auschwitz on her 23rd birthday and later being forced to march to Bergen-Belsen. Guila Kessous, a French actress and student of Elie Wiesel, narrated the taped version of the journal.

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"The Age of Networks"
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
3:30 pm
BU, Metcalf Science Center, Room 109, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Cambridge

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England

Contact W. Somers
wsomers@bu.edu

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Transforming Waste: From Vision to Reality
Tuesday, March 18th
5:30-7:00 pm
MIT, Building 9-450B, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speakers:
Kevin Kung (Biological Engineering, MIT) will present on the award-winning waste-to-energy startup Takachar, and the vision and reality of bringing a sustainable business to market.
Caroline Howe (Urban Studies and Planning, MIT) will discuss decentralized waste siting and the challenges of pursuing a zero-waste vision in India.
Dinner will be served. RSVP by Friday, March 14th to Chris Smith at .

Speaker Bios:
Kevin Kung is a Taiwanese-Canadian with seven years of experience in international development projects as a student. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Biological Engineering as an MIT-TATA fellow, studying the conversion of organic waste into fuel in resource-constrained settings (such as India). His startup, Takachar is a waste-to-charcoal dissemination collaboration that transforms unmanaged organic waste into clean, affordable, and environmentally friendly household cooking fuel in Kenya.

Caroline Howe works with communities to address local environmental and social challenges through interventions that combine technology, social enterprise, and education. Working both in urban and rural areas, internationally and in her own backyard, Caroline addresses challenges of energy efficiency, livelihood creation, water quality, and waste management that affect many types of communities. Passionate about climate change's impacts on the most vulnerable, Caroline has worked on environmental issues in the Philippines, South Africa, Nepal, Vietnam, Honduras and Nicaragua, and lived for four years in India working with major companies, environmental non-profits, community groups, and the Indian Youth Climate Network. Caroline is currently an MCP candidate at the MIT School of Architecture in the Urban Studies and Planning Department. Prior to joining MIT, Caroline received her BS from Yale University in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering.

Center for International Studies’ Global Sustainability Working Group (GSWG) Monthly Speaker Series
If you would like to be added to our list-serve to hear about upcoming events, please sign up at: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/cis_gswg.

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Rights of Way
Tuesday, March 18
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP to rsvp@architects.org with "Detroit 3/18" in the subject line

Join McLain Clutter—architect, writer, and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning—as he discusses the way Detroit's railways create abrupt demographic divisions within the city. This event will be held on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:00 pm at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston). To attend, rsvp to rsvp@architects.org with "Detroit 3/18" in the subject line. A reception will follow.

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Space Day Conference
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-day-conference-tickets-10863415769

Come and listen to a unique face-to-face discussion on new frontiers of human space exploration and the impact on our lives!

The talks will be followed by a Q&A Session
Light refreshments will be served

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Energy Storage Policy

Tuesday, 18 March

6:30 PM
National Grid, 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham

Richard Fioravanti, Vice President, Distributed Energy Resources, DNV GL Energy
While energy storage has been hailed as the "holy grail" of the smart grid, it also faces a number of hurdles en route to implementation. This talk will focus on recent activities on storage in California and New York. On October 17th, the California Public Utility commission mandated that their IOUs deploy 1.325 GW of electricity storage by 2020. The session will discuss the ruling, process and analysis, and the potential implications of the ruling across the U.S. Mr. Fioravanti will also be discussing efforts in New York around the role of public private partnership in the area of advanced technologies. DNV GL has teamed with New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology consortium and the State of New York to build a testing and commercialization center for storage in Rochester, NY. During the discussion, Mr. Fioravanti will elaborate on the role such innovative partnerships can play is helping States meet their goals.

Mr. Fioravanti has over 18 years of experience working with emerging technologies in commercial and consulting roles. In his current post at DNV GL Energy, his efforts are directed on distributed energy resources such as advanced storage technologies, microgrids, device testing, application modeling, and electric vehicles. He also serves on the board for the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology consortium
Free and Open to the Public - No Registration Required

Visit the IEEE PES Boston Chapter website for further details http://www.ieeepesboston.org/events-activities/;
Light refreshments start at 6:00 pm, talk commences at 6.30 pm

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Wednesday, March 19
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Societies and Terrorist Violence: How Community Ties Influence Militant Groups' Targeting of Civilians
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Risa Brooks, Marquette University

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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2014 Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge Kick-Off and 2013 Awards Celebration of Green Streets Initiative
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge

Join us to kick off the 2014 Challenge and present Awards to the wonderful coordinators and participants of the 2013 Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge!
Network with your fellow workplace coordinators, competitors and challengers! And meet these honored guests:
Nicole Freedman, Director of the City of Boston's Boston Bikes
Kim Niedermaier, Director of Education for MassBike
Robert C. Johns, Director/Associate Administrator, Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center
and other community leaders.
Share inspiring and informative ideas for ways to promote participation in Walk/Ride Days and foster mode change.
Raffle prizes and light food and drink. Special thanks to our hosts, the Volpe Center and to Pemberton Farms of Cambridge for providing delicious food.
More info at www.GoGreenStreets.org or by email at info@gogreenstreets.org.
Have questions about 2014 Walk/Ride Day Corporate Challenge Kick-Off and 2013 Awards Celebration? Contact Green Streets Initiative

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The deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: What was it and why?

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Madeline Miller (Harvard)
Previous inferences of deep ocean temperature and salinity from sediment pore fluid oxygen isotopes and chlorinity indicate that the deep ocean density structure at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~20,000 years BP) was set by salinity, and that the density contrast between northern and southern sourced deep waters was markedly greater than in the modern ocean. High density stratification could help explain the marked contrast in carbon isotope distribution recorded in LGM aged ocean sediments relative to that we observe today, but what made the ocean's density structure so different at the LGM? Was it actually different? We investigate both the feasibility and cause of a highly- and salinity-stratified deep ocean at the LGM. With a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inverse method we test the robustness of the previously inferred LGM deep ocean density structure, and, using a coupled ocean--sea ice--ice shelf cavity model (MITgcm), we test whether the deep ocean density structure at the LGM can be explained by ice--ocean interactions over the Antarctic continental shelves. We show that the LGM southern source bottom water was saltier than northern source deep water, but the contrasts in deep ocean water masses were likely smaller than previously reported. Our sensitivity experiments in MITgcm indicate that a significant portion of the LGM salinity structure can be explained through lower-than-modern ocean temperature.

Oceanography and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series
The MIT Oceanography and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography. The seminars usually take place on Wednesdays from 12.10-1pm. Students are encouraged to lunch with the speaker. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen DiNisco
617-253-2127

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Retired USMC Major General Michael R. Lehnert
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)
Fisher College, Alumni Hall, 116 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/woodrow-wilson-visiting-fellow-major-general-michael-r-lehnert-to-speak-at-fisher-college-tickets-10818900623

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, Major General Michael R. Lehnert to speak at Fisher College. Steve Brown, reporter/anchor for WBUR & NPR to moderate the March 19th discussion.

About Major General Michael R. Lehnert:
Retired Marine Corps Major General Mike Lehnert was commissioned in 1973 as a combat engineer after his graduation from Central Michigan University.
He participated in combat operations in Panama, Kuwait and Iraq. In 2003 he led 5,000 Marines and Sailors during the initial invasion of Iraq in support of the 70,000 Marines who formed the I Marine Expeditionary Force.
During his 37 years active duty, he has held thirteen separate commands from platoon commander to Joint Task Force Commander. He was the Chief of Staff Joint Task Force Panama charged with overseeing the turnover of the Panama Canal, Joint Task Group Commander in Guantanamo Bay Cuba during the Cuban migrant crisis, Commander Joint Task Force 160 to build and run detention facilities for Al Qaida and Taliban terrorists. He commanded Marine Logistics Group Commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His last assignment on active duty was regional commander for the seven Marine bases west of the Mississippi.
He was the subject of Karen Greenberg's book, "The Least Worst Place" This book is used in many military and law schools as a study in ethical decision making. In 2010, the National Conflict Resolution Center honored him as their 2010 National Peacekeeper Award recipient.
Major General Lehnert serves as the Vice Chairman of the board for the Student Veterans of America. SVA is a national veterans’ organization including over 800 active chapters throughout all 50 states and in three countries. It was formed in 2008 to ensure that student veterans achieve their educational goals in universities and achieve their academic potential.
He has been recognized by numerous environmental groups including the Sierra Club for his work recovering endangered species while still on active duty. Today he serves on the eleven person board of the Endangered Species Coalition. The Endangered Species Coalition is a national network of over 440 conservation, scientific, education, religious, sporting, outdoor recreation, business and community organizations working to protect our nation’s disappearing wildlife and last remaining wild places.
General Lehnert and his wife Denise live near Traverse City Michigan. They have two sons. Brendan received his neuro-science PhD from Harvard Medical School and works in China as a Luce Fellow. Erik will receive his PhD from Stanford in bio-genetics in June 2013.

About Steve Brown:
Steve began his career in radio while still in high school in the late 1970s on Cape Cod. In 1979, during his freshman year at Emerson College, Steve began providing news reports from the Massachusetts State House for various radio stations around the state including WROR and WRKO in Boston, WMAS in Springfield, WNBH in New Bedford and WCIB in Falmouth.
In 1987, Steve joined the staff of WMJX and WMEX in Boston as a political and general assignment reporter, heading up the station’s award-winning coverage of the Dukakis presidential campaign. In the early 1990s, Steve began working in television as a reporter and writer at WLVI-TV in Boston, and later at WBZ-TV (CBS-4).
Steve returned to his radio roots in 2003 as an news anchor/host at WBUR, and has covered a variety of stories including the Boston Marathon Bombings and aftermath, the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, congressional redistricting, casino gambling, the state budget process and the passing of former Boston mayor, Kevin White.
When not working, Steve spends time as an amateur Genealogist and Beekeeper.

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Bench to Bedside Lecture "Contemplating Medical Innovation"

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 76-659, 500 Main Street, Cambridge

Jeffrey Karp, MIT, HST, and BWH

Bench to Bedside Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Skoltech Initiative
For more information, contact: Anna Voronova
617-324-8170
voronova@mit.edu

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"Complexity Made Simple *at a Small Price"
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

BU, The Photonics Center, Room 206, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston

Dr. Christos G. Cassandras

There are some fundamental complexity limits that provide a starting point for any effort to solve complex problems. When it comes to the design, control, and optimization of complex dynamic systems, the goal of this lecture is to show that there are ways to solve many hard problems by exploiting their specific structure, by asking the “right” questions, and by challenging some conventional engineering approaches.

First, trial-and-error techniques are often used to systematically learn and predict the behavior of a complex system. These are invariably slow, inefficient, and intrusive (since one has to disrupt the system with a “trial” in order to learn its effect…) I will describe how this learning can sometimes be accomplished at a fraction of the usual brute-force trial-and-error process through simple “thought experiments” constructed at a “small price.” I will include some glimpses at the foundations of the theory on which this approach is built and illustrate it with specific applications.

Second, it is known that decomposition and abstraction methods can sometimes provide accurate solutions or significantly simplify a hard problem at the “small price” of some loss of accuracy. I will discuss how these methods can be used in large distributed systems and whether this “small price” can be quantified.
Finally, when it comes to today’s wireless, networked world, conventional time-driven methods for sampling, control, and communication should be challenged. For example, communication actions dictated solely by a “clock” drain precious battery power, exacerbate security risks, and are often unnecessary; they may be instead event-driven at the “small price” of identifying the proper events triggering these actions. In this vein, an interesting question is “what is the least amount of communication required within a team of cooperating agents to achieve a given goal?” I will address this question for a class of problems where the goal is provably met while saving energy and enhancing security.

Contact Name Fed Chavez
Phone 617-353-9771
Contact Email hchavez@bu.edu

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Partisan Media and Democracy: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Matt Gentzkow (Chicago)

Web site: https://economics.mit.edu/files/9628
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Special Events
For more information, contact: Economics Calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu

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SSRC Seminar: Discovering Our Way to Greatness: Better Healthcare for More People More Affordably
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Steven Spear, Sloan and ESD Senior Lecturer
Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Please join us for our first spring semester seminar in the Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems series. Steven Spear is a senior lecturer in both the MIT Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division (ESD) and a senior fellow in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He will discuss examples of transformation in the US healthcare system and illustrate a general theory for managing complex, dynamic, sociotechnical systems for exceptional performance. 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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World Energy and Energy Trends
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
5:15p–6:45p
MIT, Building 66-110, 20 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Piotr Galitzine, Chairman of the American Division of TMK - the world's largest steel pipemaker - will talk about trends and revolutions in hydrocarbon production worldwide. He will touch on new developments in horizontal shale drilling for both oil and gas, the emergence of the USA as a LNG exporter as well as what it means to world markets, the oil sands and their strategic importance to America specifically and the world at large. He will also touch on revolutionary trends in offshore, including gas production from frozen methanes (clathrates) and sub-sea mining for copper ore. Galitzine will also put these trends in prospective as regards world trade and geopolitical influence.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, MIT ILP, MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
muhaidib@mit.edu

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Opening Reception for Volumetric Robotics
March 19, 2014

6:00 PM

BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at rsvp@architects.org with "Robotics 3/19” in the subject line

Carving volume: From Incas to robots
A reception will be held March 19th at 6 pm at BSA Space (290 Congress St. Boston) for the opening of Volumetric Robotics, An exhibition created by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

While some hold on to notions of alien intervention, Brandon Clifford, Belluschi Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the exhibition Volumetric Robotics, argues that ancient civilizations like the Inca were much more advanced in their knowledge of volumetric construction than we are today. It is a rare occasion when we construct with massive blocks of stone these days.

Read more about this exhibition at BSASpace.org

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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome National Book Award finalist ALAN LIGHTMAN for a discussion of his latest book, The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew.
Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences—old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite expanse of space.

“In this slight volume, Lightman looks toward the universe and captures aspects of it in a series of beautifully written essays, each offering a glimpse at the whole from a different perspective: here time, there symmetry, not least God. It is a meditation by a remarkable humanist-physicist, a book worth reading by anyone entranced by big ideas grounded in the physical world.” —Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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"Risk, Perception, and Response" Conference
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcra/risk-perception-and-response-conference/
Cost: free

A conference focused on how to address the effects of risk misperception on behavior
Conference Overview
How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound of situations where individuals’ risk perceptions lead them to act in ways that appear contrary to their own interests, overreacting to or neglecting risks. How can situations in which individuals are likely to respond poorly be identified, and what can be done to improve their responses? To increase our understanding of the factors that contribute to these behaviors and to develop better options for fostering sound decisions, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis commissioned a series of papers that will be presented at this March 20-21, 2014 conference.

Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce that Cass R. Sunstein will be the keynote speaker for HCRA’s Risk, Perception, and Response conference. Mr. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and founded the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008) and most recently Simpler: The Future of Government (2013). From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Contact Name: Lisa Robinson
Lisa_Robinson@hks.harvard.edu

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Expert Roundtable: Global Communications in a University
swissnex Boston
Thursday, March 20, 2014
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/expert-roundtable-global-communications-in-a-university-tickets-10783508765

From MOOCs to specialized degrees, today's global higher education landscape is changing rapidly. Students have more options and universities must be reaching them through multiple channels. Now, more than ever before, universities' communications strategies are a key factor in the future of the institutions.
swissnex Boston invites you to participate in an expert roundtable discussion around universities international communications strategies. This discussion will be led by Roland Baumann, Head of Public Relations at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Roland is currently on sabbatical at swissnex Boston, looking into different international communication strategies at North American universities.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Lia Breunig at lia@swissnexboston.org.
If you cannot attend this event, please feel free to pass the invitiation on to another colleague in university communications.

Roland Baumann, Head Public Relations, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
Roland Baumann studied Economics and Russian Literature at University of Zurich. Later he qualified as eidg. dipl. PR consultant. Already during his studies he worked as consultant for a small business consultancy. After some years as a business consultant, he joined the Swiss National Bank's communications department. He focused on media relations, intranet and internet, and took care of various communications projects. Roland Baumann joined Corporate Communications at ETH Zurich in May 2007 and is heading thePublic Relations team.

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Sisters Around the World: Culture, Feminism, and Power
WHEN Thu., Mar. 20, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum, formerly the Theological Opportunities Program at Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Elora Halim Chowdhury, professor of women and gender studies, faculty affiliate to the Asian Studies Program at UMass Boston, and author of "Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh"
COST $5 student, $15 individual/$12 individual in groups of 5+
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.womenexplore.org/subscribe.html
CONTACT INFO info@womenexplore.org
NOTE WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum was formed in 1973 as the Harvard Divinity School program Theological Opportunities Program. In the fall of 2013 WE celebrated 40th years of thought-provoking lectures within a strong feminist community. WE brings together people from the Cambridge and Greater Boston area.
The spring 2014 series, "Exploring Choices and Reimagining Women's Lives" runs each Thursday from March 13th until May 22nd.
LINK www.womenexplore.org

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The Boys: Ideological Extremism and Islamist In-fighting in the Somali Civil War
WHEN Thu., Mar. 20, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Aisha Ahmad, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6301/boys.html

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South Africa’s “Negotiated Revolution” and Mandela’s Legacy: A Conversation with Roelf Meyer and Tim Phillips
WHEN Thu., Mar. 20, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein 1023, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Roelf Meyer, chief negotiator for the National Party in South Africa; Tim Phillips, co-founder of Beyond Conflict
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?

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MIT Water Night 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
5:00 pm
MIT Walker Memorial Hall

More information at http://waterclub.scripts.mit.edu/wp/events/event/mit-water-night-2014/

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Farm Share Fair 2014
Thursday, March 20th, 2014
5:30-8:30 pm
Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Avenue, Cambridge

www.farmsharefair.com
Do you love local, fresh food? Have you been thinking about joining a CSA – a Farm Share? A Farm Share program allows you to receive a fabulous box of food every week directly from a Massachusetts farm. Join us at Cambridge College on March 20th, 2014, and meet the fantastic farmers from across this state, and compare all the Boston-area options. CSA’s aren’t just for produce anymore! Check out veggies, fruit, flowers, meat, fish eggs, dairy, chocolate, wine and specialty products. Over 40 vendors will be at the fair, including some wonderful sustainable food product companies and service providers. Spend your food dollars on locally grown, and sign up at the Farm Share Fair!

15% of the proceeds from The Farm Share Fair will be donated to theMOVE, a local Cambridge-based non-profit that brings urban youth and adults out to farms to learn about where their food comes from.

2014 Vendors:
Bay State Fish Share, Boston Organics, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Cape Cod Fish Share, Copicut Farms, Doves & Figs, Enterprise Farm, Farmer Dave’s, The Farm School, First Root Farm, The Food Project, Harvest Co-op, John Crow Farm, Lilac Hedge Farm, Q’s Nuts, Red Fire Farm, Shared Harvest CSA, Siena Farms, Silverbrook Farm, Somerville Chocolate CSA, Spindler Confections, Valley Green Feast, The Wine Bottega, World Peas CSA

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Fraunhofer TechBridge Info Session
Thursday, March 20, 2014
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venture Café (Cancun) @ CIC, One Broadway, Cambridge

Fraunhofer's TechBridge program gives innovative startup companies access to the applied R&D and technical validation resources of Fraunhofer through their Innovation Challenges. Stop by their conference room to learn about their current Challenge focused on efficient manufacturing or, more generally, gain an understanding of Fraunhofer’s technical development capabilities and brainstorm with them about how to work together.

More information at http://cse.fraunhofer.org/techbridge/

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Community + Entrepreneurship: Tim Rowe Talk
Kendall Square Association
Thursday, March 20, 2014
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, 11th Floor, Cambridge,
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-entrepreneurship-tim-rowe-talk-tickets-10689054249

Join members of the Kendall Square Association to hear from Tim Rowe as he steps down as KSA President. The evening will include Tim's talk followed by a reception - food, drink and ping pong sponsored by MIT.

Tim Rowe
Born and raised in Cambridge, MA, Tim Rowe is the founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center, which houses over 450 start-up companies and is perhaps the densest collection of startups anywhere in the world. Over 1000 companies have gotten their start at CIC since its founding in 1999, and venture capitalists have invested over $1.7B in these companies to date. Tim is also a founder and venture partner with New Atlantic Ventures, a $120M early-stage venture fund based in Kendall Square; a founder and current president of The Kendall Square Association, which seeks to promote the Kendall Square area as a global technology hub; and a founder of the Venture Café Foundation, a nonprofit which hosts the largest weekly networking gatherings for the entrepreneurial community in New England.

A graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Amherst College, Tim has testified before the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship as well as met with senior White House officials on promoting entrepreneurship at a national level. He was named one of Boston's "40 under 40" young business leaders by the Boston Business Journal and currently serves on several boards. He is fluent in Japanese and Spanish, and speaks basic Mandarin Chinese.

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Urban Design Committee: Greenways Shaping Boston

March 20, 2014

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at rsvp@architects.org with "UD 3/20” in the subject line

The idea of an urban park system has deep Boston roots, but the city and the way we use urban space have changed since the era of Olmsted. The proposed Greenway Links Initiative is an effort to help Boston build on our open space legacy to meet the changing needs of our thriving city at the heart of a dynamic region. Steve Miller and Matt Kiefer will outline the preliminary vision for the proposed Greenway Links Initiative, which promotes a comprehensive plan, forming a user-friendly network for non-motorized urban travel that serves every neighborhood. The proposal includes selection criteria for Greenway Links projects and a list of priority projects in the Charles, Neponset, and Mystic rivers area. Karl Haglund will frame the Greenway Links effort within the context of Boston’s remarkable and historical legacy of greenways and regional planning efforts.

Karl Haglund is DCR’s Senior Planner, an historian and author of Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press).
Steve Miller is on the Board of Directors of the Livable Streets Alliance, was the co-founder of Boston's Hub On Wheels Bike festival and was subsequently a Gubernatorial appointee on the state’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board.
Matt Kiefer is a land use attorney with Goulston & Storrs and teaches in the urban planning program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

To learn more about the Boston Society of Architects Urban Design Committee, visit architects.org/committees/urban-design-committee.

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Blue Future: Protecting Water and People and the Planet Forever
Thursday, March 20th

7pm-8:30pm
First Church JP, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain

Please join the Jamaica Plain Forum and water warrior *Maude Barlow* for a discussion of her bold new book: Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever (New Press, 2014). Maude is the author of 17 books, the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, the board chair of Food and Water Watch, a senior scholar at IPS, and a leader of a dynamic global movement to address the global water crisis.

This book, the final installment of Maude's "Blue" trilogy, includes inspiring stories of struggle and resistance from communities across the globe, as well as examples of government policies that work for people and the planet. A call to action to create a water-secure world, this is, in the end, a book of hope.

Co sponsors include: Grassroots International, Food and Water Watch and
Corporate Accountability International.

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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

Thursday, March 20, 2014
7:30 pm

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge

Copernicus is the man who turned the universe inside out, placing the Sun and not the Earth at the center of our solar system. Renowned author Dava Sobel (Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Planets) will debut her latest book, with additional commentary by a special guest, historian Owen Gingerich.

You can watch live at http://www.youtube.com/user/CfAPress

For more information, including accessibility, or to sign up for the events mailing list, call the Public Affairs Office, (617) 495-7461 or email pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu

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"Risk, Perception, and Response" Conference
Friday, March 21, 2014
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcra/risk-perception-and-response-conference/
Cost: free

A conference focused on how to address the effects of risk misperception on behavior
Conference Overview
How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound of situations where individuals’ risk perceptions lead them to act in ways that appear contrary to their own interests, overreacting to or neglecting risks. How can situations in which individuals are likely to respond poorly be identified, and what can be done to improve their responses? To increase our understanding of the factors that contribute to these behaviors and to develop better options for fostering sound decisions, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis commissioned a series of papers that will be presented at this March 20-21, 2014 conference.

Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce that Cass R. Sunstein will be the keynote speaker for HCRA’s Risk, Perception, and Response conference. Mr. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and founded the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008) and most recently Simpler: The Future of Government (2013). From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Contact Name: Lisa Robinson
Lisa_Robinson@hks.harvard.edu

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The 2014 CF/LANR Colloquium
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday March 21-23, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA USA

Cost: $100

This event will mark the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of cold fusion by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989.

While mainstream science institutions have refused to acknowledge the field, the breakthrough energy science has developed in part through the International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) which has held eighteen events that bring scientists together from around the world to discuss their findings. The next ICCF-19 is scheduled for March 2015, which makes the 2014 LANR/CF Colloquium one of the year’s top cold fusion meetings.

Sponsored by JET Energy, Inc. and Nanortech, companies headed by Dr. Mitchell Swartz, the CF/LANR Colloquium is the sixth such event held since 2005 that discusses both the scientific and engineering aspects of cold fusion, also called lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), including theory, physics, electrochemistry, material science, metallurgy, physics, and electrical-engineering.

JET Energy and Nanortech produced theNANOR-device demonstrated at MIT during the 2012 Cold Fusion 101 course, which ran continuously for five months and was open-to-the-public. The NANOR is a tiny, dry, pre-loaded with hydrogen fuel, nano-material, two-terminal component that generate excess energy gain. Massachusetts State SenatorBruce Tarr witnessed the event, and is now a supporter of the pioneer technology.
2014 Colloquium speakers include Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz, Larry Forsley, Frank Gordon, Pamela Mosier-Boss, George Miley, Tom Claytor, Mel Miles, John Dash, Yiannis Hadjichristos, Yeong Kim, Brian Ahern, Robert Smith, John Fisher, Vladimir Vysotskii,Yasuhiro Iwamura, and Charles Beaudette.

Contact: http://coldfusionnow.org/2014-lanrcf-colloquium-marks-25th-anniversary-of-new-energy-breakthrough/

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Music Tech Fest

Mar 21-23

Boston

Get in touch to request an invitation to Music Tech Fest Boston at dubber@musictechfest.org and follow us @MusicTechFest.

More information at http://www.musictechfest.org

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"Transit Equity"
Friday, March 21
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston

John A. Powell, professor of law, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and executive director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak about transit equity's key role in Boston's upcoming transportation visioning. To attend this free event, emailrsvp@architects.org with "Traffic 3/21" in the subject line. Seats are extremely limited. Reserve yours today!

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In-APP-ropriate: A Provocative Question Forum on Children and Mobile Devices Media

Friday, March 21

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston

Free, register online at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-app-ropriate-a-provocative-question-forum-on-children-and-mobile-devices-registration-10089089739

Hand-held mobile communication devices are becoming more and more present in our society, connecting people in new ways, but also presenting challenges to social relationships and human development.

Learn how these devices may be impacting our social interaction and our health, and discuss whether their use among children should be regulated. This question will help to inform a future component in our new Hall of Human Life exhibition.

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Saturday, March 22
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World Water Day
Saturday, March 22, 2014
World Wide - Toute le Monde - Todo el Mundo

There comes a time when the flow of the Universe is so powerful that the best thing we can do is get out of the way and let it be.
And when the time is right
And our foundation is strong
We spread our wings
And jump into the river of life
To create a Massive Movement
That changes the World Forever!

This year, with our collective participation, we UNIFY to a whole new octave of awesome. The Spiritual Renaissance takes its next Leap in Evolution this March 22nd, World Water Day.

For World Water Day, we invite you to dedicate this day to this sacred substance that sustains all life on this planet. Get creative and inspired. Gather EVERY meditator, person who prays, artist and yogi in your community to join you at a sacred source of water in your region - at the water, in the water, or on the water!

At Noon in your local time zone be at, on or in a sacred body water as you anchor the global wave of blessings moving across the earth.

At 3pm PST join the global synchronized moment where we will UNIFY our intentions and prayers and restore the sacred relationship between Humanity and Water.

HELP AMPLIFY OUR CALL TO ACTION
Before: Find ways that fit for you to help spread the Love and invite your friends!
During: Take photos and videos and blog about it.
After: Share with the UNIFY networks.

The Voice of Water and the Natural World is speaking loudly now to get our attention. Are you going to answer the call?

With Deepest Gratitude for all that you have done for the greater good of all life everywhere.
- The UNIFY family

ABOUT
UNIFY launched on December 21st, 2012 serving the emerging Unification of the sacred on earth. It has grown beyond anything we could have ever imagined. Millions have organized meditations, prayers and mystical activism vigils and events.

Mystical Activism is Spiritual action to effect change in a deep and profound way for the protection of Love, Truth, the Sacred and Life. Walking a sacred path that is true and genuine for one.

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LibrePlanet 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
7:00a–8:00p
MIT, Building 32-1xx, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

How can free software protect journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and regular computer users from government and corporate surveillance? How can free software, or free software values like copyleft, community development, and transparency, be used by people fighting to create free societies around the world? What challenges are standing between us and our goal of free software ubiquity? With your help, we'll tackle these questions and more at LibrePlanet 2014: Free Software, Free Society.

At LibrePlanet, we bring together software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and address challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2014 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels. LibrePlanet 2014 is produced in partnership by the Free Software Foundation with the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) at MIT. Of course, FSF members and students attend LibrePlanet at no cost. More information is available at https://libreplanet.org/2014/.

Web site: https://libreplanet.org/2014/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), Free Software Foundation (FSF)
For more information, contact: Justin Dove
x3-7788
dove@mit.edu

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Spring Planting 2014
March 22, 2014
2:00 PM until 5:00 PM
St. Katherine Drexel Church, 517 Blue Hill Avenue, Grove Hall, Dorchester

The Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. present: Spring Planting 2014
A free event to help people learn how to grow your own fresh, healthy nutritious foods.
Information tables, displays and demonstrations.
Learn to grow food at your own home, in your yard, on your porch, inside your house!
Our co-sponsors include: The Food Project - Freedom House - Project RIGHT - ABCD Roxbury North Dorchester APAC - BostonCAN

Information tables, displays and demonstrations including:
Victory Programs – Revision Urban Farm - Co-op Power - Boston Vegetarian Society - Next Step Living - Al Freshco - Landless Gardens – grow food in only two square feet of
space! - Massachusetts Master Gardener’s Association - The Leah Collective - Gayhead Street Green Block - Agricultural Hall - And more!
Are you interested in volunteering? Please contact me.
Owen Toney
Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc.
(617) 427-6293 (voice, no text)
otoney@comcast.net
http://otoney.wix.com/gnec
Please forward to your lists!
This is a FREE event!

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World History and the Global Digital Research Environment
Saturday, March 22

5:15PM
Northeastern, West Village G, 102, 450 Parker Street, Boston

Lecture by Dan Cohen (Digital Public Library of America) presented by the Department of History's Global History Seminar Series.
This is also the keynote event for the annual Graduate Student World History Conference, "Memory, Memorials, and Media: Re-Imagining World History.”

More information at http://www.northeastern.edu/history/events/global-history-seminar/2013-14/

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BostonCAN Spring Campaign Kick-off
Sunday, March 23

3:30pm
Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine Street, Jamaica Plain

RSVPs welcome: https://www.facebook.com/events/229300760595051/

BostonCAN "depaves" the way in 2013!

Help kick off a year of ACTION as we fight to fix natural gas leaks threatening our families and climate, hold our new Mayor accountable as the City drafts a new three year climate action plan, and grow this movement!
BCAN needs your ideas, energy and leadership as we dive into our 2014 campaigns, and we welcome any other ideas for ramping up climate activism in Boston neighborhoods and citywide. Don't miss it!

We'll have snacks, drinks, and a fantastic slideshow. Bring a friend!

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LibrePlanet 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
7:00a–8:00p
MIT, Building 32-1xx, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

How can free software protect journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and regular computer users from government and corporate surveillance? How can free software, or free software values like copyleft, community development, and transparency, be used by people fighting to create free societies around the world? What challenges are standing between us and our goal of free software ubiquity? With your help, we'll tackle these questions and more at LibrePlanet 2014: Free Software, Free Society.

At LibrePlanet, we bring together software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and address challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2014 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels. LibrePlanet 2014 is produced in partnership by the Free Software Foundation with the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) at MIT. Of course, FSF members and students attend LibrePlanet at no cost. More information is available at https://libreplanet.org/2014/.

Web site: https://libreplanet.org/2014/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), Free Software Foundation (FSF)

For more information, contact: Justin Dove
617-253-7788
dove@mit.edu

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Losing our Lead? Education, Innovation and the MA Economy
Monday, March 24, 2014

8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PDT)

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/losing-our-lead-education-innovation-and-the-ma-economy-tickets-10730512251

The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) will be announcing a new agenda for improving public education in the Commonwealth as part of The New Opportunity to Lead campaign. We will be sharing the findings of a statewide poll of employers and releasing a report about the condition of public education in Massachusetts and how we compare to the best systems around the world. Sir Michael Barber, lead author of the report, will present findings and recommendations for discussion as we continue to refine this blueprint for future education policy in the Commonwealth.

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Practical and Principled Security
March 24, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tufts, Halligan 102, 161 College Avenue, Medford

Speaker: Andrea Bittau, Stanford University
Most deployed defenses in software security are point solutions to specific attacks, leading to an arms race. Unfortunately many principled solutions remain undeployed partly due to complexity, but possibly also because of the false sense of security people perceive from point solutions. So are deployed solutions really good enough in practice? If not, how can we make principled solutions more practical and deployable?

Modern deployed protection mechanisms can in fact be defeated, as we show with our new Blind Return Oriented Programming (BROP) attack. Using BROP we exploited a recent vulnerability in the nginx web server, running on 64-bit Linux with ASLR, NX and canaries enabled. BROP also shows that hackers can sometimes exploit proprietary services for which the source and binary are unknown.

While there are established security principles that could have prevented BROP, unfortunately they are not deployed. For example, privilege separation suggests to split high-privilege applications into multiple lesser-privilege components. How to achieve this ideal in practice is not obvious: how do we split existing code, and how do we make the resulting decomposed system run fast? I'll briefly present Wedge, a privilege separation system that helps splitting existing code, and then focus on Dune, a generic platform that makes principled security practical: Dune leverages modern CPU hardware to make systems like Wedge run fast. Dune enables practical performance improvements in a range of applications beyond security, as well.

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'Gap-Filling Organizations': Competing at Speed in a Fast-Moving World

Monday, March 24, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_032414/spear-webinar-gap-filling-organizations.html

Speaker: Steven J. Spear, D.B.A., M.S., M.S., Senior Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division and Sloan School of Management, MIT
About the Presentation:
Determining, documenting, and addressing the gaps between an organization's business requirements for products and services and the systems and capabilities available to achieve them is a challenge common to all industries. Many companies address this issue by deploying internal functions that reactively fill these gaps. Although these efforts may differ by sector and context, those that are successful share several common characteristics in a systems-based approach that Dr. Steven J. Spear describes as the creation of "gap-filling organizations."

In this webinar, Spear will highlight some of the factors that make gap-filling organizations so useful, specifically speed, super-focus, and network multipliers. He will also discuss the importance of a degree of institutional independence for gap-filling organizations and how it can be achieved. This presentation will give examples of gap-filling organizations in a variety of settings, identify the capabilities that make them effective and unique, and provide first steps in creating similar capabilities within your organizations.

A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

We invite you to join us.

MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series

This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_032414/spear-webinar-gap-filling-organizations.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: See url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design and Management Program
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
617-253-0812
lslavin@mit.edu

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"The Water-Energy Nexus in Oman and Abu Dhabi: A View from the Agricultural Sector"
Monday, March 24, 2014

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

with Mattijs Van Maasakkers, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series

Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu

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Boston Big Data and Analytics Unconference
March 24 - 28, 2014
Starting at 17:00 - 21:00
Boston, MA
Royal Sonesta / Microsoft NERD
Cost: $12

AnalyticsWeek is a weeklong Big Data & Analytics unconference to be held between March 24 and March 28, 2014 in the heart of Boston. As we keep getting more and more tools in big data landscape, it is imperative that the process of performing bigdata analytics needs a better focus. Our effort during this unconference is to initiate discussions around enterprise challenges about bigdata and how does enterprise see analytics process evolving over the next year. A clear understanding of enterprise challenges will fuel the need for building sustainable frameworks and maintain a consistent strategy for handling big data.

More information at http://analyticsweek.com

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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock; Set 5 - Buddhism and Creativity
WHEN Mon., Mar. 24, 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
4pm,
Set 5 - BUDDHISM AND CREATIVITY
Monday, March 24
Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
Monday, March 31
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/norton-lectures

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(Re)imagined Cityscapes: Lviv (Ukraine) and Wroclaw (Poland) after 1944-45
WHEN Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room S-050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ukrainian Research Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sofia Dyak
COST Free and open to the public
LINK www.huri.harvard.edu

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Sexual Violence and Citizenship: Rape Reform in American History
WHEN Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in US History, Stanford University
COST Free
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-estelle-b-freedman-lecture

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"Revolutionizing Human Rights": Slave Emancipation and the 1875 Civil Rights Act”
WHEN Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) Amy Dru Stanley (University of Chicago)
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu…

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Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal
Monday, March 24
6 PM
Boston University School of Theology, Room B19, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Speaker: Abigail Carroll, PhD, American Studies, Boston University

Presented in conjunction with MET ML 622, History of Food

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Designing the Next Generation
Monday March 24

6:00 p.m.

Alex and Ani, 115 Newbury Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-the-next-generation-mentoring-in-the-design-industry-tickets-10782090523

Cumar Marble and Granite, the Over My Shoulder Foundation (OMSF), and a panel of special guests will convene at Alex and Ani (115 Newbury Street, Boston) during Boston Design Week for a discussion of contemporary design and mentorship.

Hosted by Janice O'Leary, Editor of Robb Report Health and Wellness Magazine, the evening will feature award-winning fashion designer and philanthropist Denise Hajjar, interior designer Paula Daher, and Cumar Marble and Granite Executive Vice President Carlotta Cubi.

15% of the proceeds from all Alex and Ani sales during the event will benefit the Over My Shoulder Foundation, a unique non-profit organization that promotes mentorship in the fields of design and music.

"Dawn Carroll has carved out OMSF's niche in the mentoring world while managing an award worthy design career at Cumar, which is based in Everett, MA, and built on eight generations of Italian craftsmanship, sourcing, and fabrication," says Cumar General Manager Dave Connor.

Carlotta Cubi, daughter of Cumar owner Ivo Cubi, emphasizes the particular importance of mentorship to the industry: "In the stone world, mentoring is the only way that the special craftsmanship has been able to live on from generation to generation.”

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The Creeley Collective: A Community Gathering to Celebrate Robert Creeley's Selected Letters with Penelope Creeley, Kaplan Harris, Gerrit Lansing, Ruth Lepson (host), Rod Smith & Friends
WHEN Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Poetry/Prose
NOTE Poets, editors, scholars, colleagues, friends and readers are invited to join Penelope Creeley, Ruth Lepson, Kaplan Harris and Rod Smith (co-editors of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley) for this informal, free-form gathering that will feature impromptu readings from the Creeley letters (copies will be on-hand) as well as the sharing of reminiscences and rare materials. Refreshments will be provided.
LINK http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom/events/index.cfm

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Divergence and Consensus on Transatlantic Security Policy: A Perspective from Paris
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Transatlantic Relations Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Future of the European Union Study Group
SPEAKER(S) Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Director of Research, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris; Discussant: Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor, Political Science and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
COST free
CONTACT INFO Ann Townes, atownes@wcfia.harvard.edu; Karl Kaiser, kkaiser@wcfia.harvard.edu; Vivien Schmidt,vschmidt@bu.edu
NOTE A snack will be served prior to the talk

LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2214

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Acting on our Accountability to the Future
March 25, 2014
12:30–1:30 pm
Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Avenue Boston

HSPH EcoOpportunity lecture series continues with Heather Henriksen, Director, Harvard Office for Sustainability. Refreshments will be served.

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Troll Wrastling for Beginners: Data-Driven Methods to Decrease Hatred Online
March 25th, 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/2014/03/benesch#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.

Susan Benesch, Berkman Center Faculty Associate
Hateful and even violent speech are familiar online; what’s unusual are data-driven efforts to diminish them. Experiments so far have produced intriguing results including: some ‘trolls’ recant or apologize in response to counterspeech, and small changes in platform architecture can improve online discourse norms. Benesch will describe these findings and propose further experiments, especially in climates where online speech may be tied to offline violence.

About Susan
Susan Benesch founded the Dangerous Speech Project, to find ways of diminishing inflammatory speech – and its capacity to inspire violence - while protecting freedom of expression. Her framework to gauge the dangerousness of speech in context has been used in work to prevent violence in Kenya among other countries. Building on data from Kenya, she is now conducting new research to test the effectiveness of counterspeech on social media platforms.

Susan teaches international human rights at American University's School of International Service. She previously worked at the Center for Justice and Accountability, Amnesty International, and Human Rights First. Before becoming a lawyer, she was a journalist, serving as chief staff writer for the Miami Herald in Haiti, and Latin America correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times. She holds a JD from Yale and an LLM from Georgetown.

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Remote Sensing and Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Scaling in the Global System

Tuesday, March 25
1:00 to 2:30 PM
Cambridge

RSVP at http://necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html?event=27

Timothy Gulden

This talk will explore scaling laws in urban systems from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It will first describe a simple agent-based model that derives the rank-size relationships observed in the USA, France, and Russia. While all three of these countries have city size distributions that resemble the well known Zipf distribution, they each present significant deviations from Zipf and the model focuses on explaining these deviations. The talk will then describe a novel method for estimating economic activity at the city level based on nighttime lights. The resulting global dataset of city sizes, measured both in terms of population and in terms of economic activity will then be used in combination with the modeling results to offer hypotheses about the functional structure of urban hierarchies and the dynamics of globalization.

Timothy Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social Complexity and Department of Computational Social Science in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the context of empirical data. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland School of Public policy where he explored agent-based modeling as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School. During the 1990s he was the technical director of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York. His interests include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows driving changes in the global urban systems, and the development of novel urban metrics based on nighttime lights.

New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and MIT Media Lab Seminar

More information at NECSI, 238 Main Street Suite 319, Cambridge, MA 02142
617-547-4100

http://necsi.edu/

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The Long Emancipation: Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in the United States
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
Tuesday, 3/25 - Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in the United States
Wednesday, 3/26 - First Strikes: The Beginnings of the Struggle for Universal Freedom
Thursday, 3/27 - Bloody Struggles

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The Strange Man of Europe: Some Thoughts on Politics and Cultural Change in Contemporary Germany
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Goldman Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR German Study Group
SPEAKER(S) Paul Nolte, Professor of History, Free University, Berlin
COST free
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2270

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Civil Society in East Asia
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 4:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard-Yenching Institute, co-sponsored with the Asia Center, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Marshall Ganz, Harvard Kennedy School; Gao Bingzhong, Peking University; Jeong Jong-ho, Seoul National University; Kage Rieko, The University of Tokyo; moderated by Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qzagMflRxXJfdQhFg4OohR0BKulg9qK4Nzt8FXbOtxA/viewform
CONTACT INFO strogatz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.harvard-yenching.org

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Cleantech Open Northeast Info Session
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/somerville-ma-cleantech-open-northeast-info-session-tickets-10692990021

Are you an energy or environmental entrepreneur looking for ways to accelerate your startup, expand your cleantech network, and explore funding opportunities?
Join us for an intimate briefing to hear from the Northeast Region of the Cleantech Open business accelerator program and competition and learn more about how the program can help you grow your cleantech venture, or mentor entrepreneurs looking to solve our biggest environmental and energy challenges.

Come and ask questions of Cleantech Open staff and volunteers learn about the program and explore what the Cleantech Open can offer you, whether you are an entrepreneur, prospective mentor, or simply wish to learn more!

Ready to enter the Northeast competition?
Learn more and submit your application here!
About the Cleantech Open
The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges.
http://www.cleantechopen.com
To accomplish this mission, the Cleantech Open provides the infrastructure, expertise and strategic relationships to turn ideas into successful global cleantech companies. Through its one-of-a-kind annual business competition and mentorship program, the Cleantech Open has helped hundreds of clean technology startups bring their breakthrough ideas to fruition. Since 2006, the Cleantech Open has awarded over $6 million in cash and services to support cleantech startups. The 727 participating companies have raised more than $800 million in external capital.

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Stephen Greenblatt Lecture
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Public Library
SPEAKER(S) Stephen Greenblatt
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.349.4040
NOTE Join Stephen Greenblatt for an informal talk titled "Shakespeare and the Pleasure of Tragedy". Greenblatt is the the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and his book, "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In its citation, the Pulitzer board described Greenblatt’s book as "a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipating the science and sensibilities of today." Join us at the Cambridge Public Library for this talk about how Shakespeare and his age rediscovered the peculiar taste for stories of downfall and death.

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HOOPS WORKSHOPS WITH NEW CRAFT ARTISTS IN ACTION
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Support/Social
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
COST free
CONTACT INFO 617-495-3251
NOTE New Craft Artists in Action "Net Works" // Workshop: Learn To Craft Hand Made Basketball Nets for Empty Hoops in your Neighborhood
about NCAA: molteninetworks.tumblr.com
presented in conjunction with the exhibition
Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), on view at the Carpenter Center through April 6
LINK http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html

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Lecture: Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
WHEN Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
NOTE With projects sensitive to place, experience, and environmental concerns, Sergison Bates has worked at scales from architecture to urban planning and regeneration, in the UK and Europe, since 1996. Among recent projects are a Centre for the Applied Arts in Ruthin, Wales; an urban housing development in Finsbury Park, London; a public library in Blankenberge, Belgium; a care home in Huise-Zingem, Belgium; the London Sustainable Industries Park in Dagenham; a rural housing project in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, and an apartment building and crèche in Geneva, Switzerland. Sergison Bates's widely published work has been recognized with RIBA awards, an Erich Schelling Medal for Architecture, and a Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal for Architecture; the firm participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2012. Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates are design critic in architecture and Dunlop visiting professor in architecture at Harvard GSD in Spring 2014.
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-jonathan-sergison-and-stephen-bates.html

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Human-centered Journalism: Designing for Engagement

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

The Boston Globe / Boston.com, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/ONA-Boston/events/169629162/

Step outside the box in the news design process and explore the power of investing in community.

Debates over the future of journalism have often focused on designing for new platforms: "digital-first" or "mobile-first." But what if we put community first? What would it look like to, in the words of longtime editor Melanie Sill, "reorder the fundamental processes of journalism" toward serving and engaging communities? How would such an approach change how we report, how we listen, and how we build our websites, apps and stories?

This panel will explore how the principles of human-centered design can help develop a community-first approach to news regardless of platform. Human-centered design combines the needs of people with the possibility of technology to build sustainable products.

Unearth fresh insights. Identify ways to grow and diversify your audience. Design smarter, more effective projects.

We'll discuss concrete tools to help communities be catalysts, collaborators and co-creators of stronger and more sustainable journalism. Additionally, we'll share projects in Boston and around the country that are using aspects of design thinking to foster empathy and engagement around the news.

Panelists will include Josh Stearns, the press freedom director at Free Press, and Laura Amico, the editor and CEO of Homicide Watch.

This event is co-sponsored by ONA Boston and Hacks/Hackers Boston (http://bit.ly/1evSH7O).

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Net Neutrality and the Future of Internet Access
Tuesday, March 25
7-9:00pm
Tufts University’s Tisch Library, Room 304, 35 Professors Row, Medford
Free and open to the public

Panelists Include:
Candace Clement, Advocacy & Organizing Manager, Free Press
Daniel Lyons, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School
Cara Lisa Berg Powers, Co-Director, Press Pass TV
David Talbot, Chief Correspondent, MIT Technology Review
Moderator: Nina Huntemann, Associate Professor, Suffolk University

What do you know about net neutrality? What services will consumers have access to in the future? What does the future hold for open media in the US?
Net Neutrality allows for an Open Internet, which “is the Internet as we know it, a level playing field where consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use, and where consumers are free to decide what content they want to access, create, or share with others.”-Federal Communications Commission

On Jan. 14, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order.

In translation, Net Neutrality is temporarily dead (for now). For these serious reasons, Somerville Community Access Television has organized a special event to have a conversation on this current issues that will impact many Internet users, far and wide, who use the web each day.

The event is co-sponsored by Wicked Local Somerville, Arlington Community Media, Inc., Cambridge Community Television, Boston Neighborhood Network, and Massachusetts Pirate Party.

More information at http://www.scatvsomerville.org/netneutrality/

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Umbrella Agreements, Consensus Building in the Arctic, and Negotiation in Social Enterprises: New Research from PON Fellows and Scholars
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Wasserstein 3008, Harvard Law School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Alexandros Sarris, PON graduate research fellow; Stefanos Mouzas, PON visiting scholar; Sarah Woodside, PON graduate research fellow
NOTE Every year the Program on Negotiation sponsors fellows and visiting scholars while they research and write about topics important to the fields of negotiation and mediation. This lunch provides an opportunity for this year’s two graduate research fellows, Alexandros Sarris and Sarah Woodside, and visiting scholar Stefanos Mouzas to share their findings with the negotiation community. Join us for a fascinating hour of informal lecture and discussion.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/students/umbrella-agreements-consensus-building-in-the-arctic-and-negotiation-in-social-enterprises-new-research-from-pon-fellows-and-scholars/

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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Wednesday, March 26

12 noon- 1:30 pm

MIT, Building E40, 4th floor conference room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

A seminar sponsored by the Center for International Studies.

Investigative journalist Gareth Porter unravels the whole web of lies and fabrications out of which the U.S. and Israeli governments have constructed their "story" about Iran's purported lengthy and active pursuit of a clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Gareth Porter's book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare has just been published by Just World Books. The book pulls
together the results of several years of his work on this topic. The books will be on sale at the events.

With Iran's negotiations with the P5+1 over the final-status nuclear agreement now moving into full gear, it's important for everyone to understand exactly how this crisis got pumped up as much as it was, for so many years.

As Gareth argued in this piece in Truthout on February 26, one large part of the "evidence"-- the so-called "laptop documents" disclosed in late 2004--
came from a source whom Germany's BND considered no more reliable than their own "Curveball" of Iraq war-mongering infamy.

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Social Security Around the World
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe
SPEAKER(S) Carina Schmitt, Center for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen; Visiting Scholar, CES
COST free
CONTACT INFO Arthur Goldhammer, art.goldhammer@gmail.com
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2201

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Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University, CGIS-S153 South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
SPEAKER(S) Enze Han, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
LINK http://iaas.fas.harvard.edu

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The Long Emancipation: Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in the United States
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
Wednesday, 3/26 - First Strikes: The Beginnings of the Struggle for Universal Freedom
Thursday, 3/27 - Bloody Struggles

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"Complex fluid and proppant placement in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells"

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Brice Lecampion, Schlumberger, Paris

Abstract: The ultimate goal of a hydraulic fracturing (HF) treatment is to create a highly conductive pathway between the reservoir and the well. In order to do so, propping agents (e.g. sand) are mixed to the fracturing fluid such that after the end of pumping, as the fracture closes, it remains opened by the proppant. In this talk, we will review the basics of proppant transport in a fracture accounting for the different type of fracturing fluid used in practice. I will notably emphasize the impact of fluid rheology and proppant placement on the success of a HF treatment.

Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium

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Can Negotiating a Uniform Carbon Price Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 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) Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249

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America and China
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, with generous support from the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
SPEAKER(S) Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter; counselor and trustee, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); senior research professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO vhangell@fas.harvard.edu

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Plant-Based Eating & Environmental Impact: A Conversation with Scott Jurek

March 26, 2014
5–6 pm
Harvard Business School, Aldrich 007, Allston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-based-eating-environmental-impact-a-conversation-with-scott-jurek-tickets-10838547387

Scott Jurek, a record-holding ultramarathoner, committed vegan, and environmental advocate, and New York Times best-selling author will be on campus March 26 to discuss the connection between diet, health, and environmental footprint. HBS Professor Jose Alvarez, agribusiness expert and longtime vegetarian, will conduct a conversation with Jurek that evening. All members of the Harvard University community are welcome to attend.

The discussion will touch on Scott’s impressive running achievements and will explore how his plant-based diet not only fuels his athleticism but also creates less environmental strain than a meat-based diet. The idea is not necessarily to convince everyone to be vegan, but to see Scott as a dramatic example of someone who eats no animal products at all, but defies the all-too-common belief that humans need animal protein to be healthy. This has implications for how the world can feed a growing population while combating climate change and other agricultural impacts.

This event is sponsored by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative, the Running & Triathlon Club, and the Food & Beverage and Agribusiness Club.

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Askwith Forum - Temple Grandin: All Kinds of Minds Help the World
WHEN Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT 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
NOTE Introduction: Thomas Hehir, Ed.D.’90, Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences; Director, Special Studies Program
Speaker: Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University
World famous animal scientist Temple Grandin has enriched the lives of people around the world within the autism community. Diagnosed with autism, Grandin used her personal insights to lead dramatic improvements in the livestock industry. In particular, she believes that the world needs all kinds of thinkers – visual thinkers, mathematical thinkers, and language-based thinkers –to solve problems and complete projects successfully. Join Grandin as she discusses how autism and visual thinking has revolutionized farm-animal welfare, as well as countless others with autism.

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Boston Gardeners Council Film Series "Flow: For the Love of Water
Wednesday, March 26
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, 2nd Floor, Downtown Crossing, Boston

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary portrays investigations into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st century - The World Water Crisis. Join Boston Natural Areas Network and others for a screening of the film “Flow: For the Love of Water,” followed by a panel discussion on innovative ways Boston residents and organizations are creating resilient gardens and harvesting rainwater in gardens and beyond.

Registration required by contacting 617-542-7696 ordana@bostonnatural.org.

All programs are free and open to the public.

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Boston Tech-Security Conference
Thursday, March 27, 2014
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT)
Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway, Cambridge

The Boston Tech-Security Conference will be held at the Boston Marriott Cambridge at Two Cambridge Center on Thursday, March 27th at 8:15am and will feature vendor exhibits and industry leading speakers discussing current IT security topics such as cloud security, social media security, personal devices security, wireless security, compliance & more. IPod’s, $50-$100 gift cards, cash and lots of other prizes.

Register for a COMPLIMENTARY ticket at
http://www.dataconnectors.com/events/2014/03Boston/inv_ad.asp
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-tech-security-conference-boston-032714-tickets-10858924335

Breakfast, lunch, conference materials and entrance into the speaker sessions and exhibit area included. Conference qualifies for (8) CPE credits and Certificates of Attendance.

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Babson Energy Conference: Fifteen Shades of Green
March 27
9am - 6:30pm
Babson, 231 Forest Street, Wellesley
http://babsonenergy.com/2014conference/
Cost: $20-90

This year's conference - Fifteen Shades of Green - is about how energy efficiency and sustainability has evolved into an integral part of every industry helping grow the top line and breaking the long held myth that sustainability is a cost center. Speakers include Jigar Shah and Doug Foy.

The Babson Energy and Environmental Club Conference is a flagship event highlighting Babson's committment to Social, Environmental, Economic Responsibility, and Sustainability (SEERS). For the past seven years the conference has brought together thinkers and leaders on the cutting edge of green business and awareness. At the 2014 conference, speakers spanning mainstream and cutting edge industries will discuss these challenges and obstacles centered on one main focus - what the implications of evolving energy and environmental circumstances mean for businesses.

For more information about this year's conference, please go to http://babsonenergy.com/2014conference

Babson Energy and Environment Club
Email: beecadmin@gmail.com
Web: babsonenergy.com

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Cities and Climate Change: Building Resilience by Stealth or by Spotlight

Thursday, March 27, 2014

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Tufts University, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
RSVP: https://citiesandclimate.eventbrite.com

Elisabeth Hamin, Professor of Regional Planning and Head of the Department for Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Despite significant research saying that cities need to prepare for climate change and more severe and variable weather, relatively few US cities have made progress toward this explicit goal. This research will discuss the barriers communities experience in planning for climate adaptation, and the ways some communities are able to overcome those barriers -- whether through very public planning (spotlight), quieter actions that increase adaptation but are publicly presented as achieving different goals (stealth), or something in between.

Elisabeth Hamin is a Professor of Regional Planning and Head of Department for Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst. She has published extensively on climate change planning, growth management, and collaborative regional land conservation.

Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program
http://as.tufts.edu/environmentalStudies/events/lunchlearn.htm
Contact Name: Sarah Neville
saraheneville@gmail.com

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Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Hauser 102, Harvard Law School Campus
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Mohamed M. Keshavjee
NOTE The concept of Shari’a, or Islamic law, has been generally misunderstood. With millions of Muslims in North America, it is important for policy makers and the judiciary to have a better understanding of what Shari‘a represents, how it is viewed by Muslims, and its historical evolution and application.
Mohamed M. Keshavjee will discuss his new book, Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution, which provides an informed and thorough discussion of the relevance of Shari'a and its principles that affirm equity, justice and basic human rights, and its interface with the UK’s official judicial system. The book also touches on Muslim and Jewish Alternative Dispute Resolution processes, with specific reference to well-established systems.
LINK http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dispute-resolution/islam-sharia-and-alternative-dispute-resolution-mechanisms-for-legal-redress-in-the-muslim-community/

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Book Launch & Author Talk: Zaid Al-Ali, "The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy"
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Zaid Al-Ali, senior adviser on constitution building, International IDEA; moderator: Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO smeyrick@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A limited number of free copies of The Struggle for Iraq's Future will be available on a first come, first served basis to Harvard students attending this talk (please have your Harvard ID available). This is a brown bag (bring-your-own) lunch event. Cookies and beverages provided.
This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
Photo information: Author Zaid Al-Ali and his wife Rouba Beydoun during a dust storm in Iraq in 2010.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3578

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Inside the Labyrinth: Policymaking in Iran
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369 at HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Payam Mohseni, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6307/inside_the_labyrinth.html

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Innovate: Holly Samuelson "Near-Zero: Simulation-Aided Design of a Low-Energy House" and Mark Mulligan "Horizon House: A 21st-century Sustainable House in Rural Japan”
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 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) Holly Samuelson and Mark Mulligan
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.
Holly Samuelson, DDes ’13, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Mark Mulligan, MArch ’90, Adjunct Associate Professor 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-holly-samuelson-near-zero-simulation-aided-design-of-a.html

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The Long Emancipation: Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in the United States
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
Thursday, 3/27 - Bloody Struggles

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Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Cash on Hand and Consumption: Evidence from Mortgage Refinancing
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Economics Department
SPEAKER(S) Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
NOTE A reception will follow the lecture in the Hansen-Mason Room, Littauer Center, third floor.
LINK http://economics.harvard.edu/event/seymour-e-ruth-b-harris-lecture-spring-2014

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What Tomorrow? A Day in the Life of an Arab Woman
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Center (formerly Radcliffe Gymnasium), 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Huda Zurayk, professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut
COST Free and open to the public.
NOTE Public health research in Arab countries is growing and is providing useful knowledge despite tremendous political and social disturbances in the region, some recent and some stretching back for decades. Building on her research experience, Huda Zurayk will analyze how Arab women are managing to cope with their lives, their health, and the survival of their families in the midst of uncertainty, conflict, and resilience. Zurayk will also share her experience that sustainable research in trying circumstances can best be achieved by encouraging inquiry, creating collaborative research networks, and prioritizing institution building. The resulting accumulation of knowledge—and its translation to policy and practice—leads to interventions that use multiple strategies to reach women of varied experiences whose overwhelming daily question is: What tomorrow?
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-huda-zurayk-lecture

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Caitlin Berrigan: Lessons in Capitalism - free financial advice for one and all
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
COST free

CONTACT INFO 617-495-3251
NOTE Free financial advice for one and all.
A performance by artist Caitlin Berrigan for the exhibition Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), on view at the Carpenter Center through April 6.
The performance will be followed at 6 pm by a lecture by Nato Thompson, curator of the original Living as Form exhibition at the Essex Street Market in NYC.
http://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/living_as_form_the_nomadic_version
LINK http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html

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A Conversation on Civic Technology
Thursday, March 27, 2014
5:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft Research & Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/microsoft-innovation-policy-center-new-england-a-conversation-on-civic-technology-tickets-10738977571

In coordination with the Venture Café Foundation, the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center will convene a conversation on Civic Tech on March 27, 2014, 5:30PM – 7:30PM at Microsoft New England Research & Development.

Boston’s innovation community has had great successes recently in working with government officials to empower and inform citizens. Some examples have included Citizens Connect, Will they tow me?, Localocracy and NearbyFYI. We now want to expand the conversation on Civic Technology to address the harder and broader problems that the public groups are facing.

The questions that we plan to address in this evening conversation are:
What is Civic Technology?
What problems are we trying to solve?
What is the role of citizen engagement?
How do we make it easier for the technology community to connect with public officials about their problems?

We have lined up people from various parts of the public and private communities to spark the conversation and then invite the attendees to engage in the discussion. Panelists include:
Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales.
Nigel Jacob, New Urban Mechanics
Carlos Martinez-Vela, Executive Director, Venture Café Foundation

About Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center New England
The Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center aims for Microsoft to be “of” the community, not just exist within it.
Through the Innovation and Policy Center we are extending beyond the tech community to:
Connect stakeholders from tech to the broader business, academic and government communities;
Catalyze important technology and public policy discussions, and;
Contribute more directly with the health and vitality of greater New England.
About Venture Café Foundation
The Venture Café Foundation (VCF) provides resources for the entrepreneurial and innovation communities that enable conversations and collaborations. The Venture Café Foundation presently runs four resource programs: Venture Café, District Hall, Mass Bay Innovation Alliance (MBIA), and Captains of Innovation Program. The Venture Café Foundation is a not-for-profit, public-purpose sister organization of the Cambridge Innovation Center. VCF is incorporated as a Massachusetts Not-for-Profit Corporation.

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Creating Culture in Virtual Worlds

Thursday, March 27, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: D. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies Program and in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Todd Harper, Postdoctoral Researcher in the MIT Game Lab
Join a conversation with MIT Professor D. Fox Harrell and MIT Researcher Todd Harper as they discuss the ways in which cultural values are both created and represented in digital media. Explore how online communities and computer code both give rise to shared values - through the interactions between people online, as well as the underlying computational structure of video games, websites, and other online communities.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/talkback.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong@mit.edu

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Carpenter Center Lecture: An Evening with Nato Thompson
WHEN Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Carpenter Center Lecture Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Humanities, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
SPEAKER(S) Nato Thompson
COST free
CONTACT INFO 617-495-3251
NOTE The lecture by Nato Thompson occurs in conjunction with the exhibition Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), on view at the Carpenter Center through April 6, 2014.
In collaboration with 25 curators from around the world, Nato Thompson selected 48 socially engaged projects produced in the last 20 years as the foundation of the exhibition Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.
“Something historically unique is happening in cultural production that requires different rules for art than those of the 20th century,” says Thompson, “This culturally-savvy method of civic production has manifested in everyday urban life and growing civil unrest. Living as Form is an opportunity to cast a wide net and ask: how do we make sense of this work, and in turn, how do we make sense of the world we find ourselves in?”
ABOUT NATO THOMPSON
Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time, New York, as well as a writer and activist. Among his public projects for Creative Time are Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International Democracy in America: The National Campaign, and Waiting for Godot, a project by Paul Chan held in New Orleans. Thompson was formerly a curator at MASS MoCA, and he also curated ICI’s Experimental Geography, which traveled to eight venues in North America.
LINK http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/thompson.html

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Green Patriot Posters Gallery Talk w/ Elizabeth Resnick
Thursday, March 27, 2014

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Design Museum Boston, Exhibition Space, 315 on A, 315 A Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-patriot-posters-gallery-talk-w-elizabeth-resnick-tickets-10952765015

Cost: $11.54 (for non-members)

Join us for our second Green Patriot Posters Gallery Talk with local design curator & Chair of Graphic Design at MassArt, Elizabeth Resnick.

“From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information and opinion.”

We’ll hear about Resnick’s project Graphic Advocacy and how posters are used as a medium for social change. Take a special tour of the Green Patriot Posters exhibition with Design Museum Boston’s Executive Director, and enjoy light refreshments.

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 showcases a selection of 122 posters– a magnificent body of empathetic and visually compelling messages for our time. We will look at how Green Patriot Posters and Graphic Advocacy are inspired by early propaganda posters and how they are used as tools for protest today.

Elizabeth Resnick is a design curator and Chair of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She earned her BFA and MFA degrees in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She publishes regularly, amongst others she is the author of the book “Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics”.

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"The Carbon Tax Return: Lessons Learned From British Columbia's First Five Years of Taxing Emissions.”
Thursday, March 27
8:30pm EDT (5:30p.m. PDT)
Queen Elizabeth Theatre Salon C, Vancouver, British Columbia
Live participation by Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/478393512262374/
Livestream video at http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/climate-desk-live-carbon-tax-british-columbia

Spencer Chandra Herbert, Environment Critic and Member of the BC Legislative Assembly
Spencer Chandra Herbert was re-elected to represent Vancouver West-End in 2013. He is the official opposition environment critic and previously served as the opposition voice on Tourism, Arts, and Culture and the BC Lottery Corporation and Gaming Policy. Spencer served as an elected Vancouver park board commissioner from 2005-2008, where he worked to improve environmental sustainability in Vancouver's Parks and accessibility to programs for youth and low-income people.

Merran Smith, Director, Clean Energy Canada
Merran Smith is the director of Clean Energy Canada at Tides Canada. She leads a team working to diversify Canada’s energy systems, cut carbon pollution, and reduce the nation's fossil-fuel dependence, and she writes and speaks extensively on the opportunities for Canada in the global low-carbon economy.

Ross Beaty, Chairman Alterra Power Corp.
Ross J. Beaty is a geologist and resource company entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in the international minerals and renewable energy industries. In early 2008, Mr. Beaty founded Magma Energy Corp. to focus on international geothermal energy development. In 2011, Magma and Plutonic Power merged to create Alterra Power Corp. Mr. Beaty also founded and currently serves as chairman of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world's leading silver producers.

Jeremy Hainsworth
Jeremy Hainsworth is a contributor internationally to Bloomberg BNA (BBNA) and the Associated Press. Jeremy has worked with BBNA for over three years on legal, regulatory, and policy issues in western Canada for BBNA's wide-ranging stable of international publications.

Climate Desk, Climate Access, and Bloomberg BNA are partnering to present this distinguished panel.

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Northeast Student Cooperative Convergence 2014
March 28th-30

Amherst, Massachusetts

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yHR2nofR3FiejMmVloxrLnHniKttHF34ZjnXtuhvRGk/viewform

Cost: $25-100

The Northeast Student Cooperative Convergence aims to bring together students (broadly defined - lifelong learners welcome) involved/interested in co-ops, social and economic justice to learn from and about each other, share skills, experiences, struggles, successes and food and to strategize to support one another in the upcoming year and beyond.

The Northeast Student Cooperative Convergence will be offered on a sliding scale $25-100. We ask participants to contribute what they are able to afford in order to cover costs for convergence planning.

And for student cooperatives or groups of students doing cooperative organizing, consider a $100-500 sliding scale CoFED Membership and register for the convergence as a group.

https://www.facebook.com/northeastcoops

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Conference: “Dynamics of Transformational Environmental Policy Reform”
Friday, March 28, 2014

8:30am - 5:30pm
Harvard, Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://environment.harvard.edu/environmental-policy-reform

Transformational change is well established in business and can deliver outstanding results. In the world of environmental policy, however, many transformational policy reforms flounder.

The list of reasons for failure is long. Using case studies drawn primarily from Australia, North America and Europe, this international conference will examine key factors that drive success in environmental policy reform.

The day will be facilitated by the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University, Prof. Mike Young who is teaching a course on transforming water, fish, forest and environmental policies.

This is an opportunity to learn from a unique set of practitioners and researchers with demonstrated experience in success policy reform.

From Australia

Andrew Campbell, a former environment administrator who played a key role in establishing Australia’s Landcare and biodiversity conservation programs and now heads Charles Darwin University’s Environment Institute

Quentin Grafton, a prominent Australian fishery, energy and water policy reformer from the Australian National University

Deborah Peterson, a Victoria University Board member with extensive government experience in implementing reforms and working on productivity reform

From North America and Europe

Georgeta Vidican, a member of the German Development Institute speaking on lessons from the reform of energy subsidies

Rebecca Henderson, a Harvard University specialist in the environmental transformation of business

David Fairman, Consensus Building Institute Managing Director speaking on successful negotiation strategies

David Keith, a Harvard University specialist identifying lessons from the failure of climate policy development

Dustin Garrick, a McMaster University expert on water reform and the barriers imposed by transaction costs

Jim Salzman, a Duke University environmental lawyer presenting lessons emerging from the failure of ecosystem service payment programs

Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu

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Conference on Environmental Justice: Where Are We Now?
WHEN Fri., Mar. 28, 11:30 a.m. – Sat., Mar. 29, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Environmental Sciences, Law, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Environmental Law Society
COST Free for Harvard affiliates; $35 for the general public
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.eventbrite.com/e/naels-26th-annual-conference-environmental-justice-where-are-we-now-registration-8968923291
NOTE This event features a keynote address by former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson; a plenary address by the “father of environmental justice” Robert Bullard; an interview with Professor Gerald Torres, who, as counsel to the attorney general, drafted the President’s Executive Order on Environmental Justice; and listening sessions with the EPA on how to move forward on environmental justice over the next 20 years.
LINK http://www3.law.harvard.edu/orgs/naelsej2014/

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From Sudan to Afghanistan: Human Rights in the 113th Congress
Friday, March 28, 2014

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (PDT)
Northeastern University School of Law, 65 Forsyth Street, Dockser Hall, Room 240, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-sudan-to-afghanistan-human-rights-in-the-113th-congress-tickets-10726937559

Congressman James McGovern (D-MA) will give a speech entitled "From Sudan to Afghanistan: Human Rights in the 113th Congress

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Effective Crowd-Sourcing
WHEN Fri., Mar. 28, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Maxwell Dworkin Building G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Devavrat Shah, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
COST Free and open to the public. No registration required.
CONTACT INFO nrbaker@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-2623
NOTE Crowd-sourcing systems provide means to harness human ability at a large-scale to solve a variety of problems effectively. Examples abound of classical surveys for collecting opinion of a group to the modern setting of social recommendations. In this talk, we shall discuss effective ways to design crowd-sourcing experiments as well as aggregate the information collected. In the context of Mechanical Turk framework, this leads to automated approach for getting a task done at the minimum possible cost. Time-permitting, different variations of the theme will be discussed. This is based on joint work with D. Karger (MIT) and S. Oh (UIUC).
LINK https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/76456

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What Kind of Political Economy Have We Had? Political Consequences Of a Consumer-Oriented Growth Model
WHEN Fri., Mar. 28, 2014, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800
SPEAKER(S) Monica Prasad, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University ; Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
COST free
CONTACT INFO Peter Hall, phall@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE There will be no presentation. The seminar will go directly to discussion. Those interested in attending should read the paper in advance. It will be posted approximately one week before the event.
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1683

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Harvard Thinks Healthy: A Panel Discussion on Intuitive Eating
WHEN Fri., Mar. 28, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Wellness/Work Life
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard College Health Advocacy Program
SPEAKER(S) Michelle Gallant, dietitian and nutritionist at HUHS specializing in intuitive eating; Ellen Frankel, public speaker, published author and therapist on intuitive eating; Heidi Feinstein, founder and CEO of Cafe Life Alive in Cambridge, Lowell, and Salem; representatives from ECHO
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO gitabhattacharya@college.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hap/?page_id=834

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WGBH'S Smart Conversation Series Presents Climate Change

Friday, March 28

6:30pm to organize and distribute flyers. The event begins at 7pm and ends at 9pm.

WGBH,One Guest Street, Boston
Cost: $25-35 http://www.wgbh.org/support/boxoffice_climatechange.cfm

Free! If you RSVP Koch-Free WGBH* (they’ll pay for the ticket): http://act.forecastthefacts.org/survey/rsvp_wgbh_climate_change/?akid=362.37620.H44ywZ&rd=1&t=3

Join WGBH host Edgar B. Herwick III and a panel of experts — meteorologist Harvey Leonard, ocean and climate change expert Dr. Scott Doney, WGBH/WCAI science editor Heather Goldstone, and director of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management Bruce Carlisle — to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding climate change and what rising sea levels will mean for New England — maybe within our lifetimes. What if a Hurricane Sandy hits here? What would the city of Boston look like afterwards? Can anything be done? These and other questions will be explored at this lively discussion, which is part of WGBH’s Smart Conversation series. A short reception will follow.

Bruce K. Carlisle is the director of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), providing oversight and administration for the agency. He directs policy development, planning efforts, and technical approaches for CZM program areas, including ocean planning, shoreline and floodplain management, climate change adaptation, habitat protection and restoration, port and harbor planning, water quality, seafloor and tidal habitat mapping, and GIS/data management. Carlisle also supervises CZM’s regulatory review of coastal and ocean projects, ranging from municipal waterfront development and dredging to offshore wind turbines and LNG facilities. He formerly served as both acting and assistant director for CZM, as well as the manager for the commonwealth’s Wetlands Restoration Program, where he led collaborative efforts to restore former and degraded wetlands. Prior to that, he worked as a project manager and principal investigator for coastal wetland assessment projects and as a specialist in water resources policy, monitoring, and planning.

Dr. Scott Doney is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute at WHOI. His science interests span oceanography, climate and biogeochemistry, with particular emphasis on the application of numerical models and data analysis methods to global-scale questions. Much of his research focuses on how the global carbon cycle and ocean ecology respond to natural and human-driven climate change. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications and co-authored a textbook on data analysis and modeling methods for the marine sciences. He was the inaugural chair of the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, and a convening lead author for the Oceans and Marine Resources chapter of the US 2013 National Climate Assessment.

Heather Goldstone is the WGBH/WCAI science editor. She holds a Ph.D. in ocean science from M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and spent a decade as an active researcher before leaving the lab to become a writer. In her nine years with the Cape and Islands NPR Station, Goldstone has reported on Woods Hole’s unique scientific community and key environmental issues on Cape Cod. Her reporting has appeared in venues ranging from NPR and PBS News Hour to The Cape Cod Times and Commercial Fishery News. Most recently, Goldstone hosted the blogClimatide, an exploration of how climate change is impacting coastal life in the region.

Harvey Leonard is WCVB-TV Channel 5’s chief meteorologist. He joined the station in 2002 as Storm Team 5’s co-chief meteorologist with his longtime friend Dick Albert, who retired in 2009. Widely regarded as Boston’s top meteorologists, Leonard and Albert were honored by the Associated Press in 2005 for Best Weathercast in New England. In 2003, Leonard received the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences New England Chapter for his more than 25 years of broadcast excellence. In 1999, he won the prestigious Award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist from the American Meteorological Society. Prior to joining WCVB, Leonard served as chief meteorologist for WHDH-TV from May 1977 to April 2002. He is credited as the first meteorologist to correctly predict the impact and intensity of the Blizzard of 1978.

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*Join Forecast the Facts members to bring the Campaign for a Koch-Free WGBH to WGBH's Smart Conversations Series presents Climate Change, an upcoming forum on March 28. The panelists will focus on the connections between climate change and severe weather, as well as how to prepare for climate disasters; but we'll also be there to make sure the conversation addresses why David Koch—a fossil fuel tycoon and massive financier of misinformation on climate change—sits on WGBH's Board of Trustees. We'll be flyering before and after the event, and asking about the impacts of Koch's climate change denial in the Q&A.

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"FORBIDDEN VOICES: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer" - Film Screening - WTTR 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014
7:00p–9:00p

MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies and Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies present a Women Take the Reel film screening of...
"FORBIDDEN VOICES: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer" director Barbara Miller

Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial regimes. These fearless women represent a new, networked generation of modern rebels. In Cuba, China and Iran their blogs shake the foundations of the state information monopoly, putting them at great risk.

This film accompanies these brave young cyberfeminists on perilous journeys. Eyewitness reports and clandestine footage show Sanchez's brutal beating by Cuban police for criticizing her country's regime; Chinese human rights activist Jinyan under house arrest for four years; and Iranian journalist and women's advocate Seifi forced into exile, where she blogs under a pseudonym. Tracing each woman's use of social media to denounce and combat violations of human rights and free speech in her home country, FORBIDDEN VOICES attests to the Internet's potential for building international awareness and political pressure.

96 minutes. Subtitled. Free and open to the public.

Q&A with MIT Researcher Catherine D'Ignazio to follow film screening.

Fifth Annual WOMEN TAKE THE REEL Film Festival.
WOMEN TAKE THE REEL is a FREE film festival that celebrates women's contributions to the film industry, their voices and their stories.

Web site: web.mit.edu/wgs
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, Comparative Media Studies|Writing, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Literature, Linguistics & Philosophy, Political Science, Center for International Studies, and History.
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
617-253-8844
wgs@mit.edu

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Saturday, March 29
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Open Rehearsal with Juilliard String Quartet
WHEN Sat., Mar. 29, 2014, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall Studio, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Office for the Arts at Harvard
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
NOTE The Juilliard String Quartet — violinists Joseph Lin ’00 and Ronald Copes, cellist Joel Krosnick and violist Roger Tapping — whose “mixture of seamless precision and depth of tonal character” (The Guardian, UK) has earned them accolades from audiences and critics throughout the world, will conduct an open rehearsal at 11 am, followed by a master class with Harvard undergraduate musicians at 2 pm, at Farkas Hall.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=44562

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8th Annual Future of Food and Nutrition Graduate Research Conference
Saturday, March 29th, 2014
9:00am - 5:00pm
Tufts, The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Early Bird online registration will be available until Monday March 24th. The registration fee is $20 for students and $25 for professionals.
Register online: http://studentconference.nutrition.tufts.edu/join-us/register/

This multidisciplinary research conference, hosted by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, brings together students from around the country to share research and engage on topics related to food and nutrition. Students and Professionals interested in the food system and nutrition science are encouraged to come join the conversation.

Our keynote speaker, Dr. Jessica Jones-Smith, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is a nutrition epidemiologist who studies social, economic, and contextual correlates of nutrition-related disease in both high- and low- income countries. Learn more about her research here.

Following the Conference there will be a Networking Reception with free food from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm at Trade near South Station located at 540 Atlantic Avenue.

For More Information, email studentconference@tufts.edu or visit the Future of Food and Nutrition website at: http://studentconference.nutrition.tufts.edu/

Thank you again for sharing this with your community,

The Student Research Conference Committee
You have received this email because of your affiliation with a graduate program that may have students interested in participating in this conference. Please consider sharing this email with anyone who may be interested in joining us for the conference on March 29th. Thank you in advance.

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39th Annual Gardener’s Gathering

Saturday, March 29

11am - 5pm

Northeastern University, The Egan Center and Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street, Boston

Applaud the Twelfth Annual Community Garden Awards

Build skills in workshops

Connect with fellow gardeners

Discover local gardening resources.

More information at http://www.bostonnatural.org

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Master Class with Juilliard String Quartet
WHEN Sat., Mar. 29, 2014, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Farkas Hall Studio, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge `
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers, Office for the Arts
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
NOTE The Juilliard String Quartet — violinists Joseph Lin ’00 and Ronald Copes, cellist Joel Krosnick and violist Roger Tapping — whose “mixture of seamless precision and depth of tonal character” (The Guardian, UK) has earned them accolades from audiences and critics throughout the world, will conduct a master class with Harvard undergraduate musicians.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=44563

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TEDxBeaconStreet Event
Saturday, March 29
4-9 PM
B.I.G., 46 Tappan Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e8tql0bld6d4aaf1&oseq=&c=&ch=

Audience max is 180, will open up registration soon. If you can't wait for our next conference in November, plan to participate in this smaller, more intimate version of TEDxBeaconStreet (after each talk in the state of the art recording there will be a q&a with the speakers in a 40 person movie theater.

If you have an idea, a story, a demo, an experience that you believe could be considered please submit it for consideration (deadline is Thursday February 10).
We are looking for talks that range in length from 3-12 minutes. They can be: an innovative idea, a brand new piece of work or research, a unique "how to", an amazing personal story, an incredible demo, a slide show of remarkable photos, a startling piece of film, smart stand-up comedy, or great music, anything that you think would fascinate, excite, educate, inspire or delight. Speaker nomination HERE

If chosen for a TEDxBeaconStreet event, a talk requires serious preparation and rehearsal, so by submitting your proposal please note that you are committing to that. A TEDx talk is not like any other talk - ask any of our speakers!

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If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take it: How Christ Transcends Good and Bad

Sunday, March 20

1pm

Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church, 8 Inman Street, Central Square, Cambridge

Jan N. H. Perkins, MDiv

This presentation will consider how false notions of good and evil are formed, and how notions of good and evil often have very little to do with the GOOD of God, or with the evil of Diabolos - the principle of fragmentation, dissociation, and division.

Since 1975, Dr Perkins has practiced as a psychoanalyst in the tradition of C. G.Jung. He believes that a chief function of religion is to both awaken and nourish mysterious depths of the human soul.

More information at http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/news/events/2014/vonholzhausen

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The Meadow Project: A Movie
Sunday, March 30
2 to 4 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place, 650 Concord Avenue, Cambridge

If you are tired of mowing your lawn or looking at the monotony of grass, this film may inspire you. It addresses ecological problems caused by the extensive planting of non-native grass lawns in the United States. Through her own experience, producer Catherine Zimmerman shares her insight on turf alternatives that offer great health, aesthetic, and ecological benefits. We will have refreshments and time for discussion.

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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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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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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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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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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/

hubevents

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Energy (and Other) Events - March 16, 2014

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