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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, March 3
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11:45am From HKS to FEMA: A Conversation with Ashley Zohn
12pm 3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
12pm Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe
12:30pm "Rethinking Electricity Distribution Regulation"
12:30pm "Changing Geopolitical World Energy Landscape: Challenges to Oil and Gas Producers, Focusing on the Gulf Cooperation Council"
2:30pm Progress and Privacy: Bitter Enemies or Strong Allies?
3pm Technology and Education in the Age of Film
4pm Afghanistan 2014: The Way Forward
4:30pm France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
4:30pm A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey
5pm Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
5pm The Emerging Cyber Security Paradigm: How New Innovations Meet Unknown Cyber Needs
6pm Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Prospects for the Upcoming Summit
6:30pm WebInnovators Group Demo Night
7pm Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
7pm ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
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Tuesday, March 4
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Building Energy
8:30am The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
10am Building Energy: keynote by Gina McCarthy, EPA
12pm The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
12pm Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
12:30pm How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
2pm Migrating to Google for Nonprofits
2:30pm Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation
4pm Network Localization and Navigation
4pm Muslim Youth and The Post-9/11 World led by Farah Pandith
4:15pm Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
5:30pm Tackling Climate Change: the Compelling Logic of Fossil Fuel Divestment
5:30pm The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
6pm SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
6pm Sustainable Food Fix
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Wednesday, March 5
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Building Energy
11:45am Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment
12pm Are SiC Power Devices Ready for Prime Time?
12pm Organizing Repression: Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
12:10pm Wind driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO2
2:30pm Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
3pm Technology and Education in the Age of Film
4pm "Mixing water and faults: the changing patterns of seismicity in stable North America"
4pm Media Lab Conversations Series: Jaron Lanier - "How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time"
5:30pm Contemporary China: Characteristics and Challenges of its Path
6pm "Six Ideas" lecture with Carlo Ratti
6pm Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism: Candy Crowley
6:30pm US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
7pm Landscape Design as Ecological Art
7pm Framing Military Occupation
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Thursday, March 6
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Building Energy
Cinematic Migrations Symposium
9am Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting
1pm Wyss Colloquium: Secrets of swarm architecture: deciphering construction rules in ant colonies
3:30pm China's Carbon Emissions: A Footprint Perspective
3:30pm Climate Change in the American Mind
4pm "Climate Change and the Food System: Moving to Next-Generation Models and Tools"
4pm Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks: Safeguarding the User's Internet Experience
4pm Voter Suppression, Equal Rights, and the Promise of Democracy
4pm “Do Partisan Media Matter for Democracy Today?”
4pm Prospects for Political (In)Stability in Central Asia
4pm Everyday, Environmental Trauma and the Art of Rediscovery: Lewis Mumford's Reconnaissance of American Modernity
4:15pm Using Web Intelligence to Make Strategic Business Decisions
4:30pm Starr Forum: "The Network"
6:30pm Introduction to Beethoven's String Quartets by Jupiter String Quartet
7pm NIRS Quarterly Briefing: Update on Fukushima - Three Years On
7:30pm New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
8pm Humanitarian Happy Hour
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Friday, March 7
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
9am 2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge
10:45am New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
12pm Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
2:30pm Renewables Globally: Challenges and Possible Solutions
5:30pm Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
8pm Jupiter Quartet Plays Beethoven
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Saturday, March 8
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8:30am 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
10am Tufts Clean Energy Conference
2pm Wounds of Waziristan, film screening, with director
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Sunday, March 9
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10am Tufts Clean Energy Conference
2pm Echoes of Their Wings: The Life and Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon
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Monday March 10
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10am Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet
12pm "The Energy Outlook"
12:15pm "Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern"
12:30pm Transparent Structure - Designing with Glass
1pm The Password That Never Was
2:30pm The Dynamics of Natural Monopoly Regulation and Political Environments
3:30pm Surveillance after Snowden: Decoding the "Snooping Scandal"
4pm Herbie Hancock: The Ethics of Jazz - Buddhism and Creativity
4pm The Contours of Contemporary Fertility Declines: A Fresh Assessment
6pm Container Gardening with Native Plants
7pm Science by the Pint: “Structures and Signaling: How your cells work at the subatomic level”
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Tuesday, March 11
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Whole Earth Summit
8am Boston TechBreakfast: Priori Legal, @Pay, Agora, RapidMiner, DapperJobs
12pm Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
12pm Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent
12:30pm A Roadmap to Cyberpeace
12:30pm Three Years after the 3.11 Disasters: Lessons and Reflections
4pm China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development Lecture Series
4pm Meanings of Mandela
5pm Your Future Smart Wristband
5:15pm Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: Next Generation Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
6pm How Dungeons & Dragons and Fantasy Prepare You for Law and Life
6pm SABRe – Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet– Lecture and Concert
6:30pm GreenPort Forum Climate Emergency Refuge in Cambridgeport: A discussion with faith based organizations
6:30pm BostonCHI: Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Monday, March 3
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11:45am From HKS to FEMA: A Conversation with Ashley Zohn
12pm 3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
12pm Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe
12:30pm "Rethinking Electricity Distribution Regulation"
12:30pm "Changing Geopolitical World Energy Landscape: Challenges to Oil and Gas Producers, Focusing on the Gulf Cooperation Council"
2:30pm Progress and Privacy: Bitter Enemies or Strong Allies?
3pm Technology and Education in the Age of Film
4pm Afghanistan 2014: The Way Forward
4:30pm France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
4:30pm A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey
5pm Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
5pm The Emerging Cyber Security Paradigm: How New Innovations Meet Unknown Cyber Needs
6pm Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Prospects for the Upcoming Summit
6:30pm WebInnovators Group Demo Night
7pm Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
7pm ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
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Tuesday, March 4
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Building Energy
8:30am The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
10am Building Energy: keynote by Gina McCarthy, EPA
12pm The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
12pm Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
12:30pm How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
2pm Migrating to Google for Nonprofits
2:30pm Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation
4pm Network Localization and Navigation
4pm Muslim Youth and The Post-9/11 World led by Farah Pandith
4:15pm Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
5:30pm Tackling Climate Change: the Compelling Logic of Fossil Fuel Divestment
5:30pm The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
6pm SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
6pm Sustainable Food Fix
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Wednesday, March 5
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Building Energy
11:45am Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment
12pm Are SiC Power Devices Ready for Prime Time?
12pm Organizing Repression: Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
12:10pm Wind driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO2
2:30pm Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
3pm Technology and Education in the Age of Film
4pm "Mixing water and faults: the changing patterns of seismicity in stable North America"
4pm Media Lab Conversations Series: Jaron Lanier - "How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time"
5:30pm Contemporary China: Characteristics and Challenges of its Path
6pm "Six Ideas" lecture with Carlo Ratti
6pm Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism: Candy Crowley
6:30pm US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
7pm Landscape Design as Ecological Art
7pm Framing Military Occupation
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Thursday, March 6
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Building Energy
Cinematic Migrations Symposium
9am Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting
1pm Wyss Colloquium: Secrets of swarm architecture: deciphering construction rules in ant colonies
3:30pm China's Carbon Emissions: A Footprint Perspective
3:30pm Climate Change in the American Mind
4pm "Climate Change and the Food System: Moving to Next-Generation Models and Tools"
4pm Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks: Safeguarding the User's Internet Experience
4pm Voter Suppression, Equal Rights, and the Promise of Democracy
4pm “Do Partisan Media Matter for Democracy Today?”
4pm Prospects for Political (In)Stability in Central Asia
4pm Everyday, Environmental Trauma and the Art of Rediscovery: Lewis Mumford's Reconnaissance of American Modernity
4:15pm Using Web Intelligence to Make Strategic Business Decisions
4:30pm Starr Forum: "The Network"
6:30pm Introduction to Beethoven's String Quartets by Jupiter String Quartet
7pm NIRS Quarterly Briefing: Update on Fukushima - Three Years On
7:30pm New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
8pm Humanitarian Happy Hour
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Friday, March 7
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
9am 2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge
10:45am New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
12pm Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
2:30pm Renewables Globally: Challenges and Possible Solutions
5:30pm Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
8pm Jupiter Quartet Plays Beethoven
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Saturday, March 8
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8:30am 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
10am Tufts Clean Energy Conference
2pm Wounds of Waziristan, film screening, with director
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Sunday, March 9
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10am Tufts Clean Energy Conference
2pm Echoes of Their Wings: The Life and Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon
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Monday March 10
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10am Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet
12pm "The Energy Outlook"
12:15pm "Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern"
12:30pm Transparent Structure - Designing with Glass
1pm The Password That Never Was
2:30pm The Dynamics of Natural Monopoly Regulation and Political Environments
3:30pm Surveillance after Snowden: Decoding the "Snooping Scandal"
4pm Herbie Hancock: The Ethics of Jazz - Buddhism and Creativity
4pm The Contours of Contemporary Fertility Declines: A Fresh Assessment
6pm Container Gardening with Native Plants
7pm Science by the Pint: “Structures and Signaling: How your cells work at the subatomic level”
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Tuesday, March 11
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Whole Earth Summit
8am Boston TechBreakfast: Priori Legal, @Pay, Agora, RapidMiner, DapperJobs
12pm Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
12pm Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent
12:30pm A Roadmap to Cyberpeace
12:30pm Three Years after the 3.11 Disasters: Lessons and Reflections
4pm China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development Lecture Series
4pm Meanings of Mandela
5pm Your Future Smart Wristband
5:15pm Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
5:30pm Legatum Lecture: Next Generation Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
6pm How Dungeons & Dragons and Fantasy Prepare You for Law and Life
6pm SABRe – Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet– Lecture and Concert
6:30pm GreenPort Forum Climate Emergency Refuge in Cambridgeport: A discussion with faith based organizations
6:30pm BostonCHI: Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/holistic-management-new-framework-for.html
"Net zero is not a practical goal in New England"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1280088/--Net-zero-is-not-a-practical-goal-in-New-England
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Monday, March 3
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"Net zero is not a practical goal in New England"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1280088/--Net-zero-is-not-a-practical-goal-in-New-England
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Monday, March 3
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From HKS to FEMA: A Conversation with Ashley Zohn
Monday, March 3, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Harvard, Hauser Conference Room, Room B-L-4, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
In this career brownbag, Ashley Zohn (HKS 2011), will discuss her experience working at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s FEMAStat program and – more broadly – provide insight on building a career in the emergency management field. Lunch will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Crisis Management Student Group at Harvard Kennedy School; and the Program on Crisis Leadership, Ash and Taubman Centers, Harvard Kennedy School, with generous support from the Office of Career Advancement.
Harvard, Hauser Conference Room, Room B-L-4, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
In this career brownbag, Ashley Zohn (HKS 2011), will discuss her experience working at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s FEMAStat program and – more broadly – provide insight on building a career in the emergency management field. Lunch will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Crisis Management Student Group at Harvard Kennedy School; and the Program on Crisis Leadership, Ash and Taubman Centers, Harvard Kennedy School, with generous support from the Office of Career Advancement.
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3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Geneviève Dion, Assistant Professor, Director, Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory at Drexel University
The Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory is dedicated to advancing the fields of wearable technology and cutting-edge textiles, by laying the foundation for modular and flexible production intended for a variety of high performance applications. 3D knit fabrication holds remarkable potential for innovative and customizable design solutions, offering a future of many opportunities including sustainable methods of production and rapid prototyping. We explore 3D knit fabrication methods to create forms requiring little to no assembly after being knitted and experiment with new yarns to design innovative textile devices. Multidisciplinary research, with strong support from industry partnerships, enables us to investigate new materials and fabricate seamless forms that empower designers and researchers to invent and prototype products that can be readily scaled up for production.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio@wyss.harvard.edu
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3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Geneviève Dion, Assistant Professor, Director, Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory at Drexel University
The Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory is dedicated to advancing the fields of wearable technology and cutting-edge textiles, by laying the foundation for modular and flexible production intended for a variety of high performance applications. 3D knit fabrication holds remarkable potential for innovative and customizable design solutions, offering a future of many opportunities including sustainable methods of production and rapid prototyping. We explore 3D knit fabrication methods to create forms requiring little to no assembly after being knitted and experiment with new yarns to design innovative textile devices. Multidisciplinary research, with strong support from industry partnerships, enables us to investigate new materials and fabricate seamless forms that empower designers and researchers to invent and prototype products that can be readily scaled up for production.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio@wyss.harvard.edu
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Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe
Monday, March 03, 2014
12:00a–2:00p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Speakers: Marco Magnani-Senior lecturer Harvard Kennedy School and Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Discussant:Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT
Is Economic growth in Europe a zero sum or a positive sum game? what can be learned from the experiences of its member states?
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Speakers: Marco Magnani-Senior lecturer Harvard Kennedy School and Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Discussant:Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT
Is Economic growth in Europe a zero sum or a positive sum game? what can be learned from the experiences of its member states?
MISTI EURO TRAINING
Events meant to introduce MISTI interns to the cultures and societies of the regions where they will work and do research
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, MIT-Italy Program
For more information, contact:
45202693
ssferza@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): MISTI, MIT-Italy Program
For more information, contact:
45202693
ssferza@mit.edu
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"Rethinking Electricity Distribution Regulation"
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), MIT; and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica (IIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Rethinking Electricity Distribution Regulation"
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), MIT; and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica (IIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Changing Geopolitical World Energy Landscape: Challenges to Oil and Gas Producers, Focusing on the Gulf Cooperation Council"
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:30pm
Harvard, Belfer Center Library (L369), Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Belfer Center Library (L369), Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Director General of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin is the Director General of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and former acting Secretary General and Director of Research for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna.
He has served in previous positions as Director of the Technical Cooperation Department of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Technology in Cairo, Director General of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and Vice Rector of Kuwait University. Dr. Shihab-Eldin serves as Board Member and advisor to many national and international institutions and corporations.
Dr. Shihab-Eldin received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science and PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Shihab-Eldin has published extensively and is invited regularly to speak at many international and regional meetings on topics including: energy policy, economics, technology and the environment, oil markets, nuclear power, and management and development of science and technology in developing countries.
As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Belfer Center Lunches are strictly off-the-record. By requesting to attend the lunch, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the lunch. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/shihabeldin.html
Contact Name: Sarah Donahue
Sarah_Donahue@hks.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Sarah Donahue
Sarah_Donahue@hks.harvard.edu
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Progress and Privacy: Bitter Enemies or Strong Allies?
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, K354 CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Data Privacy Lab
SPEAKER(S) Scott Howe, CEO Acxiom
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO shooley@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Progressive marketers cry, "We need data!" Privacy advocates challenge, "Stop the sharing!" But is there another view - where consumer data can be used for compelling marketing programs, without compromising personal privacy? Join Scott Howe, Acxiom CEO and President, as he discusses how progress and privacy can, and should, go hand in hand. You'll learn how Acxiom, and companies like it, gather and use consumer data. He will also give an update on Acxiom's www.aboutthedata.com - the first consumer portal for viewing and managing personal marketing data. Finally, he will offer his frank opinions on recent Congressional investigations of data brokers - and the potential for future government regulation.
As CEO and president of Acxiom, Scott drives a strong, results-oriented culture for Acxiom's approximately 6,200 associates as the company deepens and expands its offerings of global marketing and technology products. Delivering on his vision, Acxiom is fundamentally changing the business of marketing by delivering 1:1 cross-channel marketing at scale. Delivering on his vision, Acxiom is fundamentally changing the business of marketing by delivering 1:1 cross-channel marketing at scale.
Scott is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with a degree in economics, and he earned an MBA from Harvard University. He serves on the board of Blue Nile - a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, as well as the Center for Medical Weight Loss. Formerly, he was a director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.
LINK http://dataprivacylab.org/TIP/
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, K354 CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Data Privacy Lab
SPEAKER(S) Scott Howe, CEO Acxiom
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO shooley@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Progressive marketers cry, "We need data!" Privacy advocates challenge, "Stop the sharing!" But is there another view - where consumer data can be used for compelling marketing programs, without compromising personal privacy? Join Scott Howe, Acxiom CEO and President, as he discusses how progress and privacy can, and should, go hand in hand. You'll learn how Acxiom, and companies like it, gather and use consumer data. He will also give an update on Acxiom's www.aboutthedata.com - the first consumer portal for viewing and managing personal marketing data. Finally, he will offer his frank opinions on recent Congressional investigations of data brokers - and the potential for future government regulation.
As CEO and president of Acxiom, Scott drives a strong, results-oriented culture for Acxiom's approximately 6,200 associates as the company deepens and expands its offerings of global marketing and technology products. Delivering on his vision, Acxiom is fundamentally changing the business of marketing by delivering 1:1 cross-channel marketing at scale. Delivering on his vision, Acxiom is fundamentally changing the business of marketing by delivering 1:1 cross-channel marketing at scale.
Scott is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with a degree in economics, and he earned an MBA from Harvard University. He serves on the board of Blue Nile - a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, as well as the Center for Medical Weight Loss. Formerly, he was a director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.
LINK http://dataprivacylab.org/TIP/
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Technology and Education in the Age of Film
Monday, March 03, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Mindell
This talk will trace the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. Mindell will focus on what became known as the 'audiovisual' industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today's digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today's debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.
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/david-mindell-technology-and-education-in-the-age-of-film/
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
ruggles@mit.edu
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Technology and Education in the Age of Film
Monday, March 03, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Mindell
This talk will trace the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. Mindell will focus on what became known as the 'audiovisual' industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today's digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today's debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.
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/david-mindell-technology-and-education-in-the-age-of-film/
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
ruggles@mit.edu
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Afghanistan 2014: The Way Forward
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Buidling, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Katherine Hunter, Weatherhead Center Fellow and former senior deputy country representative, Asia Foundation in Afghanistan and Sangar Rahimi, Afghan journalist for the New York Times and Nieman Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
Monday, March 03, 2014
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Maurice Samuels, Professor, Yale
This talk examines one of the most stunning cases of Jewish integration in the golden age following emancipation: Rachel Felix, who became France's most celebrated actress in the 1830s and 40s with her electrifying performances as the heroines of Racine and Corneille at the Comedie Francaise. The daughter of poor, Yiddish-speaking peddlers, Rachel single-handedly revived the neoclassical theatrical tradition while at the same time maintaining (some would say flaunting) her Jewish identity. Reading the critical response to Rachel from the time, Samuels explores how she offered a model for the way French universalism, embodied in the neo-classical tradition, could be enabled rather than hindered by Jewishness.
MIT Research Seminar in French and Francophone Studies
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, Comedie Francaise Registers Project
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Buidling, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Katherine Hunter, Weatherhead Center Fellow and former senior deputy country representative, Asia Foundation in Afghanistan and Sangar Rahimi, Afghan journalist for the New York Times and Nieman Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
Monday, March 03, 2014
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Maurice Samuels, Professor, Yale
This talk examines one of the most stunning cases of Jewish integration in the golden age following emancipation: Rachel Felix, who became France's most celebrated actress in the 1830s and 40s with her electrifying performances as the heroines of Racine and Corneille at the Comedie Francaise. The daughter of poor, Yiddish-speaking peddlers, Rachel single-handedly revived the neoclassical theatrical tradition while at the same time maintaining (some would say flaunting) her Jewish identity. Reading the critical response to Rachel from the time, Samuels explores how she offered a model for the way French universalism, embodied in the neo-classical tradition, could be enabled rather than hindered by Jewishness.
MIT Research Seminar in French and Francophone Studies
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, Comedie Francaise Registers Project
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Government & International Studies (CGIS) South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Working Group on Film and Visual Arts in a Changing Middle East, the Political Anthropology Working Group, Harvard University, and Jadaliyya
SPEAKER(S) Bassam Haddad, Elizabeth Angell, Ceyhun Arslan, Cihan Tekay, Emrah Yildiz
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A discussion of the Gezi Park protests, which erupted in Istanbul in late May 2013, and their aftermath. This event coincides with the launch of the "JadMag" volume, “'Resistance Everywhere'”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey," published by "Jadaliyya" and Tadween Publishing—a collection of essays intended as a pedagogical resource for those teaching and studying recent events in Turkey.
Panel
"The Politics of Knowledge Production Today: Pedagogy, Policy, and Real Time," Bassam Haddad, Director of Middle Eastern Studies Program & Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University & "Jadaliyya" Co-Founder and Co-Editor
"Constructing Politics: Infrastructure and Public Space in Istanbul," Elizabeth Angell, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Columbia University, and Contributor to the "JadMag" Volume
"Heterogeneous Rootedness: Gezi as a Global Event in Contemporary Turkish Literature," Ceyhun Arslan, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
"Engendering Biographies & Bibliographies: Women's Movement, Critical Media Practice, and Gezi," Cihan Tekay, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, The CUNY-Graduate Center & "Jadaliyya" Turkey Page Co-Editor
"Formations of the Areligious: Secularism, Islamism and Alignments of Dissent after Gezi," Emrah Yildiz, Joint PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & "Jadaliyya" Turkey Page and "JadMag" Volume Co-Editor
Moderator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Photo credit: Taha Alkan, "Lady in Red Dress"
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3611
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Government & International Studies (CGIS) South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Working Group on Film and Visual Arts in a Changing Middle East, the Political Anthropology Working Group, Harvard University, and Jadaliyya
SPEAKER(S) Bassam Haddad, Elizabeth Angell, Ceyhun Arslan, Cihan Tekay, Emrah Yildiz
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A discussion of the Gezi Park protests, which erupted in Istanbul in late May 2013, and their aftermath. This event coincides with the launch of the "JadMag" volume, “'Resistance Everywhere'”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey," published by "Jadaliyya" and Tadween Publishing—a collection of essays intended as a pedagogical resource for those teaching and studying recent events in Turkey.
Panel
"The Politics of Knowledge Production Today: Pedagogy, Policy, and Real Time," Bassam Haddad, Director of Middle Eastern Studies Program & Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University & "Jadaliyya" Co-Founder and Co-Editor
"Constructing Politics: Infrastructure and Public Space in Istanbul," Elizabeth Angell, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Columbia University, and Contributor to the "JadMag" Volume
"Heterogeneous Rootedness: Gezi as a Global Event in Contemporary Turkish Literature," Ceyhun Arslan, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
"Engendering Biographies & Bibliographies: Women's Movement, Critical Media Practice, and Gezi," Cihan Tekay, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, The CUNY-Graduate Center & "Jadaliyya" Turkey Page Co-Editor
"Formations of the Areligious: Secularism, Islamism and Alignments of Dissent after Gezi," Emrah Yildiz, Joint PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & "Jadaliyya" Turkey Page and "JadMag" Volume Co-Editor
Moderator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Photo credit: Taha Alkan, "Lady in Red Dress"
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3611
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Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
Monday, March 03, 2014
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 14E-109, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Erin Gee, Jana Dambrogio
Composer and vocalist Erin Gee and MIT Libraries conservator Jana Dambrogio will demonstrate a practical, low-tech way to transform the pages of your performing music scores into a continuous sheet that is easy to handle during performances. Erin will perform the voice part from her piece for voice and ensemble, Mouthpiece X, to show how the enhanced score functions. Jana will demonstrate how you can do this with your own music. Reception follows.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Munstedt, Peter A
617-253-5636
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Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
Monday, March 03, 2014
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 14E-109, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Erin Gee, Jana Dambrogio
Composer and vocalist Erin Gee and MIT Libraries conservator Jana Dambrogio will demonstrate a practical, low-tech way to transform the pages of your performing music scores into a continuous sheet that is easy to handle during performances. Erin will perform the voice part from her piece for voice and ensemble, Mouthpiece X, to show how the enhanced score functions. Jana will demonstrate how you can do this with your own music. Reception follows.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Munstedt, Peter A
617-253-5636
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The Emerging Cyber Security Paradigm: How New Innovations Meet Unknown Cyber Needs
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Austin West
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Urs Gasser, Nimrod Kozlovski, Gadi Tirosh, Mark Gazit, Aviv Cohen, Liran Trachman ... and more!
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
CONTACT INFO candersen@cyber.law.harvard.edu
NOTE Over the past decade Israel has created some of the most innovative cyber security companies in the world today. On March 3, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) will gather leaders in academia, business, and entrepreneurs to discuss trends we see among cyber security companies, where we will hear from prominent Israeli start-ups and their founders on new approaches to cyber security. Participants will discuss shifting cyber security paradigms, demonstrate and showcase emerging technologies, and explore the evolving security landscape and ecosystem.
LINK http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/cybersecurity
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Austin West
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Information Technology, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Urs Gasser, Nimrod Kozlovski, Gadi Tirosh, Mark Gazit, Aviv Cohen, Liran Trachman ... and more!
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
CONTACT INFO candersen@cyber.law.harvard.edu
NOTE Over the past decade Israel has created some of the most innovative cyber security companies in the world today. On March 3, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) will gather leaders in academia, business, and entrepreneurs to discuss trends we see among cyber security companies, where we will hear from prominent Israeli start-ups and their founders on new approaches to cyber security. Participants will discuss shifting cyber security paradigms, demonstrate and showcase emerging technologies, and explore the evolving security landscape and ecosystem.
LINK http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/cybersecurity
RSVP required at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/cybersecurity#RSVP
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Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Prospects for the Upcoming Summit
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) A panel discussion with Matthew Bunn, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School; Laura Holgate, senior director, WMD Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council; Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, senior program officer, Nuclear Materials Security Program, NTI; and moderator Gary Samore, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-1380
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/preventing-nuclear-terrorism-prospects-upcoming-summit
WHEN Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) A panel discussion with Matthew Bunn, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School; Laura Holgate, senior director, WMD Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council; Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, senior program officer, Nuclear Materials Security Program, NTI; and moderator Gary Samore, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-1380
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/preventing-nuclear-terrorism-prospects-upcoming-summit
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WebInnovators Group Demo Night
Monday, March 3, 2014
6:30 PM
Royal Sonesta Cambridge, 40 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/web-innovators-group-41-webinno41-tickets-10003208867
Cost: $0 - $30 (for all service providers - lawyers, accountants, consultants, PR professionals, etc.)
WebInno is an informal gathering of people interested in internet and mobile innovation - open to all in the community.
7pm: "Main Dish" Demos will present on stage:
Chimani - Kerry Gallivan & Shaun Meredith
CO Everywhere - Tony Longo
Happier - Nataly Kogan
6:30-9pm: "Side Dish" Demos will demo throughout the night:
BoardProspects - Mark Rogers, Bobby Driscoll, & Ashton Adams
EZCater - Jason Squatrito
Pictual - Chintan Intwala
Prep4GMAT (LTG Exam Prep Platform) - Elad Shoushan & Arnout Hemel
Quick Key Mobile - Isaac D. Van Wesep & Walter O. Duncan
RedNote - Richard van den Bosch
Demo? If your early stage web or mobile startup is interested demo’ing in either Side Dish or Main Dish format, please apply to david at web innovators group dot com with the name of your company/site/product, a brief overview and description, and a link to a live site or password-protected beta demo site for review.
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Monday, March 3, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome EMILY PARKER, former member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning staff, for a discussion of her book Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, Emily Parker provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China, Cuba and Russia.
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become the most prominent opposition figure since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of Twitter and Facebook, this is impossible. Or as one blogger put it: "Now I know who my comrades are." Social media helps people overcome feelings of powerlessness, leading to the rise of a new kind of citizen.
Emily Parker details how prominent dissidents and ordinary citizens use the Internet to expose injustices and challenge authority. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are is a testament to the power of community in the face of repression.
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ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
Monday, March 03, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul
Joh productions n Akomfrah's Transfigured Night is a two-screen installation and reinterpretation of Richard Dehmel's poem Verklarte Nacht that reflects on postcolonial histories. Exploring the many facets of migration, human experience, and political struggle, Akomfrah and Gopaul's films, gallery installations, documentaries, TV, and video works challenge and redefine traditional modes of filmmaking.
John Akomfrah, OBE, and Lina Gopaul co-founded the seminal film and video group Black Audio Film Collective and the more recent production company Smoking Dogs Films. Their collaborative and long-standing partnership has won them over thirty-five international awards and over one hundred official film festival selections. Akomfrah and Gopaul's extensive filmography includes The March (2013), Stuart Hall Project (2012), The Nine Muses (2010), Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (2009), Riot (1999), Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997), and Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993).
This lecture is presented in collaboration with the MIT Visiting Artists Program and in connection to the Cinematic Migrations Symposium on March 6-7, 2014.
Complementing the lecture series and symposium, the Harvard Film Archive will be showing several films directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. Seehttp://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa for details.
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): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 4
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
March 4, 2014
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Registration Fees:
FREE for Massachusetts and New England Specialty Crop Producers (See USDA definition here)
$100 for All Other Exhibitors (Local Food Aggregators, Distributors, and Non-Specialty Local Food Producers)
$25 for Attendees (Buyers and Others)
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is excited to announce its third Local Food Trade Show. This event is sponsored by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event are Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Health Care Without Harm.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate trade between local buyers and producers of specialty crop food products and includes expert panels on overcoming barriers to selling and buying local products, as well as open floor trading.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show will attract:
Massachusetts and New England-based specialty and non-specialty crop growers, fishermen, and value-added producers who are looking to connect to interested wholesale buyers
Massachusetts and New England-based buyers, including college and healthcare institutions, restaurants, retail grocers and more
Other organizations that support or do business with food growers, producers or buyers
Event Itinerary:
7:30am - 9:45am Set-up for Exhibitors
7:30am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:45am Seminar #1 (Buyer Seminar)
9:45am - 12:00pm Open Floor Trading
12:15pm - 1:30pm Seminar #2 (Producer Seminar)
Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for $11.00 and will be available to pick up from 11:30am until 1:30pm
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The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
12pm
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30am. The talk will begin at noon and will run until 1pm.
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
C.H. Robinson CEO John Wiehoff will visit MIT to share some of the dynamics in the challenging transportation and logistics services marketplace, as well as some of the future challenges and opportunities in the industry. This session will be conducted in an interview and open discussion format, which provides an exciting engagement with this industry leader.
Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson is one of the world's largest third party logistics (3PL) providers, with 2012 gross revenues of $11.4 billion. The company provides freight transportation and logistics, outsource solutions, produce sourcing, and information services to over 42,000 customers through a network of offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
To learn more about this event, see: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/mit_ctl_global_leadership_lecture_series_john_wiehoff_ceo_ch_robinson
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Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
Tuesday, March 4
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Shorenstein Center Speaker Series
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
March 4, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/lakhani#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems, however, is whether disclosures take place only after final innovations are completed or whether disclosures relate to intermediate solutions and advances. Karim Lakhani will present experimental evidence showing that implementing intermediate versus final disclosures does not just create quantitative tradeoffs in shaping the rate of innovation. Rather, it qualitatively transforms the very nature of the innovation search process. Intermediate disclosures have the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solutions, but curtails experimentation and wider search. He will discuss comparative advantages of systems implementing intermediate versus final disclosures.
This talk is based on the paper "How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation."
About Karim
Karim R. Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be accessed through innovation contests. Currently Professor Lakhani is investigating incentives and behavior in contests and the mechanisms behind scientific team formation through field experiments on the TopCoder platform and the Harvard Medical School.
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Monday, March 3, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome EMILY PARKER, former member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning staff, for a discussion of her book Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, Emily Parker provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China, Cuba and Russia.
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become the most prominent opposition figure since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of Twitter and Facebook, this is impossible. Or as one blogger put it: "Now I know who my comrades are." Social media helps people overcome feelings of powerlessness, leading to the rise of a new kind of citizen.
Emily Parker details how prominent dissidents and ordinary citizens use the Internet to expose injustices and challenge authority. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are is a testament to the power of community in the face of repression.
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ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
Monday, March 03, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul
Joh productions n Akomfrah's Transfigured Night is a two-screen installation and reinterpretation of Richard Dehmel's poem Verklarte Nacht that reflects on postcolonial histories. Exploring the many facets of migration, human experience, and political struggle, Akomfrah and Gopaul's films, gallery installations, documentaries, TV, and video works challenge and redefine traditional modes of filmmaking.
John Akomfrah, OBE, and Lina Gopaul co-founded the seminal film and video group Black Audio Film Collective and the more recent production company Smoking Dogs Films. Their collaborative and long-standing partnership has won them over thirty-five international awards and over one hundred official film festival selections. Akomfrah and Gopaul's extensive filmography includes The March (2013), Stuart Hall Project (2012), The Nine Muses (2010), Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (2009), Riot (1999), Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997), and Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993).
This lecture is presented in collaboration with the MIT Visiting Artists Program and in connection to the Cinematic Migrations Symposium on March 6-7, 2014.
Complementing the lecture series and symposium, the Harvard Film Archive will be showing several films directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. Seehttp://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa for details.
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): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 4
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
March 4, 2014
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Registration Fees:
FREE for Massachusetts and New England Specialty Crop Producers (See USDA definition here)
$100 for All Other Exhibitors (Local Food Aggregators, Distributors, and Non-Specialty Local Food Producers)
$25 for Attendees (Buyers and Others)
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is excited to announce its third Local Food Trade Show. This event is sponsored by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event are Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Health Care Without Harm.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate trade between local buyers and producers of specialty crop food products and includes expert panels on overcoming barriers to selling and buying local products, as well as open floor trading.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show will attract:
Massachusetts and New England-based specialty and non-specialty crop growers, fishermen, and value-added producers who are looking to connect to interested wholesale buyers
Massachusetts and New England-based buyers, including college and healthcare institutions, restaurants, retail grocers and more
Other organizations that support or do business with food growers, producers or buyers
Event Itinerary:
7:30am - 9:45am Set-up for Exhibitors
7:30am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:45am Seminar #1 (Buyer Seminar)
9:45am - 12:00pm Open Floor Trading
12:15pm - 1:30pm Seminar #2 (Producer Seminar)
Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for $11.00 and will be available to pick up from 11:30am until 1:30pm
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The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
12pm
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30am. The talk will begin at noon and will run until 1pm.
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
C.H. Robinson CEO John Wiehoff will visit MIT to share some of the dynamics in the challenging transportation and logistics services marketplace, as well as some of the future challenges and opportunities in the industry. This session will be conducted in an interview and open discussion format, which provides an exciting engagement with this industry leader.
Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson is one of the world's largest third party logistics (3PL) providers, with 2012 gross revenues of $11.4 billion. The company provides freight transportation and logistics, outsource solutions, produce sourcing, and information services to over 42,000 customers through a network of offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
To learn more about this event, see: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/mit_ctl_global_leadership_lecture_series_john_wiehoff_ceo_ch_robinson
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Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
Tuesday, March 4
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Shorenstein Center Speaker Series
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
March 4, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/lakhani#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems, however, is whether disclosures take place only after final innovations are completed or whether disclosures relate to intermediate solutions and advances. Karim Lakhani will present experimental evidence showing that implementing intermediate versus final disclosures does not just create quantitative tradeoffs in shaping the rate of innovation. Rather, it qualitatively transforms the very nature of the innovation search process. Intermediate disclosures have the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solutions, but curtails experimentation and wider search. He will discuss comparative advantages of systems implementing intermediate versus final disclosures.
This talk is based on the paper "How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation."
About Karim
Karim R. Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be accessed through innovation contests. Currently Professor Lakhani is investigating incentives and behavior in contests and the mechanisms behind scientific team formation through field experiments on the TopCoder platform and the Harvard Medical School.
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Migrating to Google for Nonprofits
HandsOn Tech Boston
HandsOn Tech Boston
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Google Cambridge, 3 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Google Cambridge, 3 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at xhttp://www.eventbrite.com/e/migrating-to-google-for-nonprofits-tickets-10552235019
Google for Nonprofits offers organizations like yours access to free business products from Google's suite of business tools. These tools can help you find new donors and volunteers, work efficiently, and get supporters to take action. They include all of the popular Google Apps programs, along with management tools to create, manage, and monitor your environment.
But what exactly is "Google for Nonprofits" and how do you get started with it? In this workshop, we'll discuss what Google for Nonprofits is, how to set it up, how to use it and some of the potential challenges with a migration off of older architectures to a fully integrated suite of Internet tools.
We'll discuss:
Curt Fennell is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Google, helping to architect and support the system infrastructure of PSS (the Passenger Service System), the worlds first genuinely new Airline Passenger Reservation System in 50 years. Curt has been with Google for 2.5 years and was with ITA Software before that. In addition to his regular duties as an SRE, Curt has been a volunteer Technical Program Manager for the Google for Non-Profits group since last spring and has helped a number of non-profit groups transition from proprietary office applications to Google Apps for Non-profits. He is a graduate of MIT and a Marine Corps Veteran.
Google for Nonprofits offers organizations like yours access to free business products from Google's suite of business tools. These tools can help you find new donors and volunteers, work efficiently, and get supporters to take action. They include all of the popular Google Apps programs, along with management tools to create, manage, and monitor your environment.
But what exactly is "Google for Nonprofits" and how do you get started with it? In this workshop, we'll discuss what Google for Nonprofits is, how to set it up, how to use it and some of the potential challenges with a migration off of older architectures to a fully integrated suite of Internet tools.
We'll discuss:
Exactly what Google for Nonprofits is and what you get when you sign up
How to plan for your migration to Google for Nonprofits
What kinds of challenges you might face in moving to Google for Nonprofits
What kinds of day-to-day tasks you can do with Google for Nonprofits
Any other questions you can think of....
This workshop is designed for Nonprofit organizations who are new to Google for Nonprofits and are deciding whether or not to sign up, as well as new adopters of Google for Nonprofits who are just getting started and want help in planning for their migration.Curt Fennell is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Google, helping to architect and support the system infrastructure of PSS (the Passenger Service System), the worlds first genuinely new Airline Passenger Reservation System in 50 years. Curt has been with Google for 2.5 years and was with ITA Software before that. In addition to his regular duties as an SRE, Curt has been a volunteer Technical Program Manager for the Google for Non-Profits group since last spring and has helped a number of non-profit groups transition from proprietary office applications to Google Apps for Non-profits. He is a graduate of MIT and a Marine Corps Veteran.
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Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yingni Guo (Yale)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yingni Guo (Yale)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Network Localization and Navigation
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
4:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow.
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow.
Event Speaker: Moe Win (MIT)
Abstract: The availability of positional information is of extreme importance in numerous commercial, health-care, public safety, and military applications. The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware networks with sub-meter localization accuracy, minimal infrastructure, and robustness in harsh (GPS challenged) environments. To reach this goal we advocate network localization and navigation, a new paradigm that exploits a combination of wideband transmission and spatiotemporal cooperation. In particular, our work has addressed this problem from three perspectives: theoretical framework, cooperative algorithms, and network experimentation. We will give a brief technical overview of our research results in this exciting field.
Biography: Moe Win is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was at AT&T Research Laboratories for five years and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for seven years. His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, intrinsic wireless network secrecy, adaptive diversity techniques, and ultra-wide bandwidth systems.
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Abstract: The availability of positional information is of extreme importance in numerous commercial, health-care, public safety, and military applications. The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware networks with sub-meter localization accuracy, minimal infrastructure, and robustness in harsh (GPS challenged) environments. To reach this goal we advocate network localization and navigation, a new paradigm that exploits a combination of wideband transmission and spatiotemporal cooperation. In particular, our work has addressed this problem from three perspectives: theoretical framework, cooperative algorithms, and network experimentation. We will give a brief technical overview of our research results in this exciting field.
Biography: Moe Win is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was at AT&T Research Laboratories for five years and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for seven years. His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, intrinsic wireless network secrecy, adaptive diversity techniques, and ultra-wide bandwidth systems.
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Muslim Youth and The Post-9/11 World led by Farah Pandith
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 166, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Farah Pandith, Spring 2014 IOP Fellow; Naif Al Mutawa (via Skype), founder and creator of The 99
NOTE Hear how a Muslim social entrepreneur used comic books to change perspectives and influence conversation.
Naif Al Mutawa (via Skype), founder and creator of The 99, the first group of superheroes built from an Islamic archetype. The 99 was named by Forbes as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the globe.
LINK http://www.iop.harvard.edu/muslim-youth-and-post-911-world-led-farah-pandith-1
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 166, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Farah Pandith, Spring 2014 IOP Fellow; Naif Al Mutawa (via Skype), founder and creator of The 99
NOTE Hear how a Muslim social entrepreneur used comic books to change perspectives and influence conversation.
Naif Al Mutawa (via Skype), founder and creator of The 99, the first group of superheroes built from an Islamic archetype. The 99 was named by Forbes as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the globe.
LINK http://www.iop.harvard.edu/muslim-youth-and-post-911-world-led-farah-pandith-1
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Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-judy-chicago-in-conversation
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Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-judy-chicago-in-conversation
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Tackling Climate Change: the Compelling Logic of Fossil Fuel Divestment
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Bob Massie
Ever wonder what climate change means for you, or what you can really do about it? Join Fossil Free MIT this Spring for a star-studded series of interactive discussions with some of the world's pioneering academics, advocates and activists, who are shaping today's global climate change conversation.
As President of the New Economy Coalition and former Executive Director of CERES, Bob Massie was named one of the financial world's 100 most influential people by CFO Magazine in 2002. His award-winning book, Loosing the Bonds, is the seminal account of the grassroots movement that compelled American corporations to divest during the Apartheid era.
Dr. Massie will be sharing with us his first-hand insights into the theory and effectiveness of divestment, and discussing how these translate into a compelling logic for fossil fuel divestment as a strategy for tackling climate change.
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Bob Massie
Ever wonder what climate change means for you, or what you can really do about it? Join Fossil Free MIT this Spring for a star-studded series of interactive discussions with some of the world's pioneering academics, advocates and activists, who are shaping today's global climate change conversation.
As President of the New Economy Coalition and former Executive Director of CERES, Bob Massie was named one of the financial world's 100 most influential people by CFO Magazine in 2002. His award-winning book, Loosing the Bonds, is the seminal account of the grassroots movement that compelled American corporations to divest during the Apartheid era.
Dr. Massie will be sharing with us his first-hand insights into the theory and effectiveness of divestment, and discussing how these translate into a compelling logic for fossil fuel divestment as a strategy for tackling climate change.
FFMIT Spring Climate Change Speaker Series
Web site: http://www.fossilfreemit.org/springspeakerseries2014/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Patrick Brown
fossilfree@mit.edu
Web site: http://www.fossilfreemit.org/springspeakerseries2014/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Patrick Brown
fossilfree@mit.edu
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The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room – CGIS South S020, Center for Government and International Studies South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University FAS Standing Committee on Archaeology
SPEAKER(S) Gideon Shelach
CONTACT INFO sca@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The lecture will be followed by a reception in the CGIS South Concourse.
LINK http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.page396550
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SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 76-156, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
Editorial Comment: Yes, that Koch.
with/in/sight
The Koch Institute's with/in/sight public lecture series features the insights that emerge when powerful forces come together. We explore the intersections where science meets engineering, clinical practice meets urgent patient need, entrepreneurial drive meets venture capital, and imaging technology meets artistic vision. We invite you to explore new vistas with us as we work together to bring cancer solutions within sight.
Tonight's Program:
Celebrate the opening of the 2014 Image Awards Exhibition in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. From cancer biology and computer science to neuroscience and nanotechnology, this whirlwind tour of life sciences research at MIT has something for everyone. Researchers from across the Institute will present the science and stories behind their winning images, with plenty of time for questions, conversation, and networking.
Web site: http://ki.mit.edu/news/events/withinsight/march-2014
Open to: the general public
Cost: free, please register in advance
Tickets: http://science-withinsight-2014.eventbrite.com/?aff=mitevents
Sponsor(s): Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For more information, contact: Vanessa Alviti
617-324-2169
valviti@mit.edu
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Sustainable Food Fix
Tuesday, March 4th
6-9PM
Cambridge Innovation Center Venture Café, 5th Floor, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mar-4-basg-sustainable-food-fix-getting-the-food-system-we-want-we-need-tickets-10483896617
Cost: $10-$12
Our food system is extraordinarily complex with a myriad of stakeholders motivated by varying concerns of climate change, personal health, local economic development, social justice, financial returns, and other factors. What does the local landscape of food look like for us in New England and what does the future hold in terms of innovative partnerships and disruptive supply chain solutions?
Come hear from leaders, who will share a broad perspective of the food system.
Holly Fowler Co-founder & Managing Director, Northbound Ventures, LLC
Holly is a strategic advisor on sustainable agriculture, energy, water, waste, health, and stakeholder engagement to clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, national health care networks, public school districts, colleges and universities, city and state governments, and non-profit organizations. From 2008-2013, she was the Senior Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility for Sodexo North America, where she led training and innovation, identification and implementation of best practices, and deployment of a proprietary dashboard for measuring site-level impacts at over 500 locations.
Edith Murnane
Director of the Office of Food Initiatives, City of Boston
Edith will highlight recent successes of the City of Boston's food agenda to increase access to healthy and affordable food, to expand Boston's capacity to produce, distribute and consume local food through urban agriculture, and to build a strong local food economy through financing and supporting local food retail and distribution businesses.
Alex Linkow, Program Director, Fair Food Fun
Alex will share how the Fair Food Fund, an impact capital fund from Fair Food Network, is supporting food system enterprises that connect small and medium-sized, sustainable farms in the Northeast with the growing demand for local, sustainably-produced food.
Stacia Clinton, RD. LDN. Healthy Food in Health Care Program Regional Director, Health Care Without Harm
Stacia will discuss her experience using clinician advocacy, market-based strategies, and policy efforts to improve the food system through involvement with regionally-based and national organizations. She is a Regional Healthy Food in Health Care Program Director for the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm guiding local and sustainable institutional purchasing and program development for the six-state New England region.
Tim Griffin
Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Tim will present the future of agriculture in New England and the potential for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in creating a sustainable regional food system. Timothy Griffin received his Ph.D. in crop and soil science from Michigan State University. Dr. Griffin is a faculty steering committee member for the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts. His primary research interest is the intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems.
The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room – CGIS South S020, Center for Government and International Studies South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University FAS Standing Committee on Archaeology
SPEAKER(S) Gideon Shelach
CONTACT INFO sca@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The lecture will be followed by a reception in the CGIS South Concourse.
LINK http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.page396550
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SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 76-156, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
Editorial Comment: Yes, that Koch.
with/in/sight
The Koch Institute's with/in/sight public lecture series features the insights that emerge when powerful forces come together. We explore the intersections where science meets engineering, clinical practice meets urgent patient need, entrepreneurial drive meets venture capital, and imaging technology meets artistic vision. We invite you to explore new vistas with us as we work together to bring cancer solutions within sight.
Tonight's Program:
Celebrate the opening of the 2014 Image Awards Exhibition in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. From cancer biology and computer science to neuroscience and nanotechnology, this whirlwind tour of life sciences research at MIT has something for everyone. Researchers from across the Institute will present the science and stories behind their winning images, with plenty of time for questions, conversation, and networking.
Web site: http://ki.mit.edu/news/events/withinsight/march-2014
Open to: the general public
Cost: free, please register in advance
Tickets: http://science-withinsight-2014.eventbrite.com/?aff=mitevents
Sponsor(s): Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For more information, contact: Vanessa Alviti
617-324-2169
valviti@mit.edu
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Sustainable Food Fix
Tuesday, March 4th
6-9PM
Cambridge Innovation Center Venture Café, 5th Floor, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mar-4-basg-sustainable-food-fix-getting-the-food-system-we-want-we-need-tickets-10483896617
Cost: $10-$12
Our food system is extraordinarily complex with a myriad of stakeholders motivated by varying concerns of climate change, personal health, local economic development, social justice, financial returns, and other factors. What does the local landscape of food look like for us in New England and what does the future hold in terms of innovative partnerships and disruptive supply chain solutions?
Come hear from leaders, who will share a broad perspective of the food system.
Holly Fowler Co-founder & Managing Director, Northbound Ventures, LLC
Holly is a strategic advisor on sustainable agriculture, energy, water, waste, health, and stakeholder engagement to clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, national health care networks, public school districts, colleges and universities, city and state governments, and non-profit organizations. From 2008-2013, she was the Senior Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility for Sodexo North America, where she led training and innovation, identification and implementation of best practices, and deployment of a proprietary dashboard for measuring site-level impacts at over 500 locations.
Edith Murnane
Director of the Office of Food Initiatives, City of Boston
Edith will highlight recent successes of the City of Boston's food agenda to increase access to healthy and affordable food, to expand Boston's capacity to produce, distribute and consume local food through urban agriculture, and to build a strong local food economy through financing and supporting local food retail and distribution businesses.
Alex Linkow, Program Director, Fair Food Fun
Alex will share how the Fair Food Fund, an impact capital fund from Fair Food Network, is supporting food system enterprises that connect small and medium-sized, sustainable farms in the Northeast with the growing demand for local, sustainably-produced food.
Stacia Clinton, RD. LDN. Healthy Food in Health Care Program Regional Director, Health Care Without Harm
Stacia will discuss her experience using clinician advocacy, market-based strategies, and policy efforts to improve the food system through involvement with regionally-based and national organizations. She is a Regional Healthy Food in Health Care Program Director for the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm guiding local and sustainable institutional purchasing and program development for the six-state New England region.
Tim Griffin
Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Tim will present the future of agriculture in New England and the potential for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in creating a sustainable regional food system. Timothy Griffin received his Ph.D. in crop and soil science from Michigan State University. Dr. Griffin is a faculty steering committee member for the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts. His primary research interest is the intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems.
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Wednesday, March 5
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
Keynotes:
Living Building Institute’s Amanda Sturgeon at 9am
EPA’s Gina McCarthy To Give Remarks at BE14 at 9:30am
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Wednesday, March 5
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
Keynotes:
Living Building Institute’s Amanda Sturgeon at 9am
EPA’s Gina McCarthy To Give Remarks at BE14 at 9:30am
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
11:45am - 1:00pm
L-332, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The panel, “Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment” will provide an overview of different career options in public-service oriented energy and environment. Speakers include:
Michael Buonocore, MPP ‘11, is Senior Manager of Real-Time and Dispatch Operations, EnerNOC
Moses Esema, MPP-MBA ’14, formerly Consultant with World Bank, Clean Energy and Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Rick Kjelberg, MPA ’13, Ogin, Inc. (formerly known as FloDesign Wind Turbine), Process Manager, Business Development
Henry Lee, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Feel free to bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided.
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11:45am - 1:00pm
L-332, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The panel, “Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment” will provide an overview of different career options in public-service oriented energy and environment. Speakers include:
Michael Buonocore, MPP ‘11, is Senior Manager of Real-Time and Dispatch Operations, EnerNOC
Moses Esema, MPP-MBA ’14, formerly Consultant with World Bank, Clean Energy and Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Rick Kjelberg, MPA ’13, Ogin, Inc. (formerly known as FloDesign Wind Turbine), Process Manager, Business Development
Henry Lee, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Feel free to bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided.
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Are SiC Power Devices Ready for Prime Time?
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, Grier Rooms combined, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ljubisa Stevanovic, GE Global Research
Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices can operate at higher temperatures, higher voltages and higher switching frequencies compared to existing silicon devices, resulting in greater power converter efficiency, smaller size and improved bandwidth. The SiC program at GE, which started out eight years ago, has now reached a manufacturing scale-up. This talk will describe the SiC MOSFET technology that has been optimized for aerospace applications. The next challenge is to expand the use of SiC in high power industrial applications, where the emphasis on reliability and cost is significantly higher.
Dr. Ljubisa Stevanovic received Dipl. Eng. degree from Belgrade University, Serbia, in 1988, and Ph.D. in Power Electronics from Caltech in 1995. He has been with GE Global Research Center since 1993, where he is presently a Chief Engineer for Energy Conversion. He is responsible for GE???s development of Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices, advanced packaging and power conversion for a wide range of applications, including aerospace and renewables. Ljubisa holds 29 U.S. patents and has co-authored 40 publications.
MTL Seminar Series
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices can operate at higher temperatures, higher voltages and higher switching frequencies compared to existing silicon devices, resulting in greater power converter efficiency, smaller size and improved bandwidth. The SiC program at GE, which started out eight years ago, has now reached a manufacturing scale-up. This talk will describe the SiC MOSFET technology that has been optimized for aerospace applications. The next challenge is to expand the use of SiC in high power industrial applications, where the emphasis on reliability and cost is significantly higher.
Dr. Ljubisa Stevanovic received Dipl. Eng. degree from Belgrade University, Serbia, in 1988, and Ph.D. in Power Electronics from Caltech in 1995. He has been with GE Global Research Center since 1993, where he is presently a Chief Engineer for Energy Conversion. He is responsible for GE???s development of Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices, advanced packaging and power conversion for a wide range of applications, including aerospace and renewables. Ljubisa holds 29 U.S. patents and has co-authored 40 publications.
MTL Seminar Series
The MTL Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays at noon. Speakers for the series are selected on the basis of their knowledge and competence in the areas of microelectronics research, manufacturing, or policy. The series is open to the public and is free to attend.
Web site: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2014.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie Dinardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Organizing Repression: Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri
Security Studies Progam 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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Wind driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO2
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Jonathan Lauderdale (MIT)
Uncertainty about the causes of natural atmospheric carbon dioxide variations in the past demonstrates our incomplete grasp of fundamental processes that govern the climate. The Southern Ocean residual overturning circulation is thought to play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Using a coarse resolution configuration of MITgcm and its coupled biogeochemistry code, an ensemble of idealized perturbations to external forcing and internal physics of the Southern Ocean is examined revealing a striking positive correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the rate of Southern Ocean overturning: stronger or northward-shifted westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere result in increased residual circulation, greater upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters and oceanic outgassing, which increases atmospheric pCO2 by ~20 uatm; weaker or southward-shifted winds lead to the opposing result. The ocean carbon inventory in our model studies varies through contrasting changes in the diagnosed saturated, disequilibrium, soft-tissue and carbonate reservoirs, each varying by O(10-100) PgC, all of which contribute to the net anomaly in atmospheric CO2, elucidating the processes that link circulation, nutrient distributions and biological productivity.
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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Organizing Repression: Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri
Security Studies Progam 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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Wind driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO2
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Jonathan Lauderdale (MIT)
Uncertainty about the causes of natural atmospheric carbon dioxide variations in the past demonstrates our incomplete grasp of fundamental processes that govern the climate. The Southern Ocean residual overturning circulation is thought to play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Using a coarse resolution configuration of MITgcm and its coupled biogeochemistry code, an ensemble of idealized perturbations to external forcing and internal physics of the Southern Ocean is examined revealing a striking positive correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the rate of Southern Ocean overturning: stronger or northward-shifted westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere result in increased residual circulation, greater upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters and oceanic outgassing, which increases atmospheric pCO2 by ~20 uatm; weaker or southward-shifted winds lead to the opposing result. The ocean carbon inventory in our model studies varies through contrasting changes in the diagnosed saturated, disequilibrium, soft-tissue and carbonate reservoirs, each varying by O(10-100) PgC, all of which contribute to the net anomaly in atmospheric CO2, elucidating the processes that link circulation, nutrient distributions and biological productivity.
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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Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth visiting Harvard Kennedy School)
Web site: https://economics.mit.edu/files/9588
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Workshop
For more information, contact:
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Technology and Education in the Age of Film
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Mindell
This talk will trace the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. Mindell will focus on what became known as the 'audiovisual' industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today's digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today's debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.
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.
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Mindell
This talk will trace the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. Mindell will focus on what became known as the 'audiovisual' industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today's digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today's debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.
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/david-mindell-technology-and-education-in-the-age-of-film/
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
ruggles@mit.edu
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"Mixing water and faults: the changing patterns of seismicity in stable North America"
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, 301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with William D. Ellsworth, Earthquake Hazards, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Abstract: The dramatic increase in earthquake activity in the central and eastern U.S. since 2009 is an unintended consequence of changing practices for the production of oil and gas from low permeability formations. Although hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has been widely discussed in the media as a cause, it does not appear to be a significant contributor to the increased seismic activity. Rather, the anomalous earthquakes can be linked to disposal of wastewater by injection into deep, undepleted formations in many cases. In this talk, I will discuss several field investigations of induced or potentially induced earthquakes and challenges these earthquakes pose for the development of predictive models of seismic hazard.
Abstract: The dramatic increase in earthquake activity in the central and eastern U.S. since 2009 is an unintended consequence of changing practices for the production of oil and gas from low permeability formations. Although hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has been widely discussed in the media as a cause, it does not appear to be a significant contributor to the increased seismic activity. Rather, the anomalous earthquakes can be linked to disposal of wastewater by injection into deep, undepleted formations in many cases. In this talk, I will discuss several field investigations of induced or potentially induced earthquakes and challenges these earthquakes pose for the development of predictive models of seismic hazard.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Jaron Lanier - "How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time"
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E14, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E14, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jaron Lanier in conversation with Ken Perlin, Hiroshi Ishii, and Pattie Maes
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2014/03/05/media-lab-conversations-series-jaron-lanier
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact: Jess Sousa
events-admin@media.mit.edu
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Contemporary China: Characteristics and Challenges of its Path
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Wen Tiejun
Professor Wen Tiejun is a renowned expert on social-economic sustainable development and rural issues, especially in policy studies on current affairs, macro-economic & geo-strategy of south-south cooperatives, inclusive growth
He is the Executive Dean, Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability; Dean, School of Agronomics & Rural Development; and Director, Institute of Rural Finance Director, Centre of Rural Reconstruction at Renmin University of China, People???s Republic of China
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/events/
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT Chinese Students and Scholars Association
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler@mit.edu
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"Six Ideas" lecture with Carlo Ratti
Wednesday, March 5
Wednesday, March 5
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP to rsvp@architects.org with "Mobility 3/5" in the subject line
Carlo Ratti will speak about how the way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed—alongside the tools we use to design them and the impact on their physical structure. All "Six Ideas" events correspond to video interviews incorporated into the design exhibition Rights of Way: Mobility and the City, on view at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston) through May 26. Rights of Way is part of Overhaul: The 2013-2014 Transportation Series. To attend, RSVP to rsvp@architects.org with "Mobility 3/5" in the subject line. A reception will follow.
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Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism: Candy Crowley
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School,79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Candy Crowley, chief political correspondent, CNN
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO alison_kommer@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.1329
LINK www.shorensteincenter.org
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US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
March 5, 2014
6:30pm ET
Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/impossible#RSVP
Since September, the public has been experimenting with an app that relies on the goodness of humankind. Called *impossible*, it leverages the idea of a gift economy through social media to grant wishes. Users interact by posting wishes—such as a desire to learn Spanish or to find a jogging buddy—and other *impossible* users who can grant those wishes based on skills and proximity connect to grant the wish.
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social entrepreneur, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder and CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, Rosemary Leith, Berkman Center Fellow, Judith Donath, Berkman Center Fellow, Jonathan Zittrain, Director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor at Harvard Law School, and moderator Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In an interactive discussion, the group will discuss the feasibility of a social media platform that relies on themes related to human cooperation, reciprocity, and kindness. Read more about *impossible* and its origins in The Telegraph and Wired UKand of course, download it in the iTunes app store.
About the Participants
Lily Cole is a fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Rosemary Leith is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she works with Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, and acts as a Director of Herdict. She is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on health, education and democracy working with underserved countries and communities to make them full members of online society.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the original postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
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Landscape Design as Ecological Art
March 5, 2014
7:00-8:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Darrel Morrison, FASLA, Preeminent Designer of Native Plant Landscapes. Explore how ecology can inform landscape design--creating environments that are experientiallty rich, ecologically sound, and "of their place"--while they are dynamic systems that change over time.
Events are free and open to all.
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Framing Military Occupation
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, Mass Avenue at Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Alice Rothchild, American Jews for a Just Peace, and a panel of human rights delegates
COST FREE
CONTACT INFO 617-495-2727, director@cambridgeforum.org
NOTE What does life in the Middle East feel like on the ground? Physician Alice Rothchild of American Jews for a Just Peace – Boston leads a panel discussion on living under military occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Panelists from the AJJP Health and Human Rights Project present their observations of daily life in the West Bank and East Jerusalem made during their visits as part of human rights delegations over the past decade.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, March 6
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism: Candy Crowley
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School,79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Candy Crowley, chief political correspondent, CNN
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO alison_kommer@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.1329
LINK www.shorensteincenter.org
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US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
March 5, 2014
6:30pm ET
Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/impossible#RSVP
Since September, the public has been experimenting with an app that relies on the goodness of humankind. Called *impossible*, it leverages the idea of a gift economy through social media to grant wishes. Users interact by posting wishes—such as a desire to learn Spanish or to find a jogging buddy—and other *impossible* users who can grant those wishes based on skills and proximity connect to grant the wish.
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social entrepreneur, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder and CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, Rosemary Leith, Berkman Center Fellow, Judith Donath, Berkman Center Fellow, Jonathan Zittrain, Director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor at Harvard Law School, and moderator Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In an interactive discussion, the group will discuss the feasibility of a social media platform that relies on themes related to human cooperation, reciprocity, and kindness. Read more about *impossible* and its origins in The Telegraph and Wired UKand of course, download it in the iTunes app store.
About the Participants
Lily Cole is a fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Rosemary Leith is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she works with Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, and acts as a Director of Herdict. She is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on health, education and democracy working with underserved countries and communities to make them full members of online society.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the original postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
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Landscape Design as Ecological Art
March 5, 2014
7:00-8:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Darrel Morrison, FASLA, Preeminent Designer of Native Plant Landscapes. Explore how ecology can inform landscape design--creating environments that are experientiallty rich, ecologically sound, and "of their place"--while they are dynamic systems that change over time.
Events are free and open to all.
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Framing Military Occupation
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, Mass Avenue at Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Alice Rothchild, American Jews for a Just Peace, and a panel of human rights delegates
COST FREE
CONTACT INFO 617-495-2727, director@cambridgeforum.org
NOTE What does life in the Middle East feel like on the ground? Physician Alice Rothchild of American Jews for a Just Peace – Boston leads a panel discussion on living under military occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Panelists from the AJJP Health and Human Rights Project present their observations of daily life in the West Bank and East Jerusalem made during their visits as part of human rights delegations over the past decade.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, March 6
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
Free Trade Show pass with promo code: BASEAATBE14 (courtesy of http://www.basea.org)
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 9 – 10:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fifth Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
NOTE Panel discussion with reporters from The Center for Public Integrity, ABC News, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, IRP at UC Berkeley's School of Journalism, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Miami New Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.
LINK www.shorensteincenter.org
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 9 – 10:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fifth Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
NOTE Panel discussion with reporters from The Center for Public Integrity, ABC News, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, IRP at UC Berkeley's School of Journalism, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Miami New Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.
LINK www.shorensteincenter.org
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Wyss Colloquium: Secrets of swarm architecture: deciphering construction rules in ant colonies
Thursday, March 6, 2014
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Guy Theraulaz, Ph.D., Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
The amazing ability of social insects to solve everyday-life problems, also known as "swarm intelligence" has received a considerable attention the past twenty years. One of the most famous feats of insect societies is their ability to build impressive nest architectures. Not only their characteristic scale is typically much larger than the size of individual insects but some of these nests can also be highly complex. The amazing evolution of construction techniques used by ants, wasps, bees and termites has provided a whole set of innovations in terms of architectural designs that proved to be efficient to solve problems as various as controlling nest temperature, ensuring gas exchanges with the outside environment or adapting nest architecture to growing colony size. The big question is: how these efficient designs emerge from the combination of millions of local building actions performed by individual workers? And how do insects interact with each other to coordinate their building actions? To investigate these issues, we focused on the early stages of nest construction in the garden ant Lasius niger. This experimental paradigm was used to disentangle the coordinating mechanisms at work and characterize individual behaviors (transport and assemblage of construction material) and the stigmergic interactions involved in the coordination of building actions. We then developed a 3D model implementing the mechanisms detected on the individual level and showed that they correctly explain the construction dynamics and the spatial patterns observed at the collective level for various conditions. Our model showed that the evaporation rate of a building pheromone was a highly influential parameter on the shape transition of the resulting structures. The model also revealed that complex helicoidal structures connecting nearby chambers emerge from a constant remodeling process of the nest architecture.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio@wyss.harvard.edu
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Wyss Colloquium: Secrets of swarm architecture: deciphering construction rules in ant colonies
Thursday, March 6, 2014
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Guy Theraulaz, Ph.D., Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
The amazing ability of social insects to solve everyday-life problems, also known as "swarm intelligence" has received a considerable attention the past twenty years. One of the most famous feats of insect societies is their ability to build impressive nest architectures. Not only their characteristic scale is typically much larger than the size of individual insects but some of these nests can also be highly complex. The amazing evolution of construction techniques used by ants, wasps, bees and termites has provided a whole set of innovations in terms of architectural designs that proved to be efficient to solve problems as various as controlling nest temperature, ensuring gas exchanges with the outside environment or adapting nest architecture to growing colony size. The big question is: how these efficient designs emerge from the combination of millions of local building actions performed by individual workers? And how do insects interact with each other to coordinate their building actions? To investigate these issues, we focused on the early stages of nest construction in the garden ant Lasius niger. This experimental paradigm was used to disentangle the coordinating mechanisms at work and characterize individual behaviors (transport and assemblage of construction material) and the stigmergic interactions involved in the coordination of building actions. We then developed a 3D model implementing the mechanisms detected on the individual level and showed that they correctly explain the construction dynamics and the spatial patterns observed at the collective level for various conditions. Our model showed that the evaporation rate of a building pheromone was a highly influential parameter on the shape transition of the resulting structures. The model also revealed that complex helicoidal structures connecting nearby chambers emerge from a constant remodeling process of the nest architecture.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio@wyss.harvard.edu
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China's Carbon Emissions: A Footprint Perspective
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
3:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Liu Zhu, Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The seminar will consider calculation of China’s carbon footprint from regional and sectoral perspectives, assessment of technology improvements, and the policy implications for China’s low-carbon development
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/Zhu140306
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Climate Change in the American Mind
March 6, 2014
3:30–5 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, 4th floor Littauer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
March 6, 2014
3:30–5 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, 4th floor Littauer Building, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Harvard Kennedy School for a seminar and discussion on "Climate Change in the American Mind" with Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, Director, Yale University Project on Climate Change Communication.
Public understanding of human-caused climate change and support for actions to curb its damaging global impact has shifted dramatically in recent years. Recent surveys show that, since a sharp drop five years ago, there’s been a promising upswing in what Americans know about global warming and their willingness to take action.
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., a leading expert on climate change and public opinion in the United States and internationally, will report on the latest trends in Americans’ global warming knowledge, attitudes, policy support, and behavior. He will also discuss the influential role of the media, strategies for improving public engagement, and how the U.S. compares to countries such as China and India.
Open to the public. Refreshments served.
Contact: Amanda Swanson Sardonis, amanda_sardonis@hks.harvard.edu
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Public understanding of human-caused climate change and support for actions to curb its damaging global impact has shifted dramatically in recent years. Recent surveys show that, since a sharp drop five years ago, there’s been a promising upswing in what Americans know about global warming and their willingness to take action.
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., a leading expert on climate change and public opinion in the United States and internationally, will report on the latest trends in Americans’ global warming knowledge, attitudes, policy support, and behavior. He will also discuss the influential role of the media, strategies for improving public engagement, and how the U.S. compares to countries such as China and India.
Open to the public. Refreshments served.
Contact: Amanda Swanson Sardonis, amanda_sardonis@hks.harvard.edu
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"Climate Change and the Food System: Moving to Next-Generation Models and Tools"
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, Geology Museum, Haller Hall (GM 102), 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Harvard, Geology Museum, Haller Hall (GM 102), 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
with Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institutue for Space Studies
Reception to follow on Geology Museum, 4th floor, interactive area
Harvard Climate Seminar
Contact Name: Jenifer Lee
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
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Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks: Safeguarding the User's Internet Experience
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech
A user's experience on the Internet rests in the hands of a large and increasingly diverse set of stakeholders. Internet service providers and content providers point fingers at one other about performance problems. Miscreants launch attacks against both other users and the Internet infrastructure itself. Content providers continually engage in practices to "personalize" what we see and when we see it. Many governments aim to control its citizens' access to information, while activists design circumvention tools. Safeguarding the user's Internet experience requires both gathering empirical network measurements to detect threats (typically in the absence of any "ground truth") and developing large-scale systems to
mitigate them. In this talk, I will present three classes of safeguards against different threats to the user's Internet experience: (1) technologies to characterize and improve performance in the Internet's "last mile," including a worldwide deployment of home routers in around 200 home networks and ongoing studies with the Federal Communications Commission; (2) methods for lightweight and fast detection of message abuse, such as spam, that have since been widely adopted by industry; and (3) defenses against against information manipulation attacks, a new class of attacks against personalization algorithms. I will also discuss other such threats and how networking can draw from other disciplines to tackle them.
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech
A user's experience on the Internet rests in the hands of a large and increasingly diverse set of stakeholders. Internet service providers and content providers point fingers at one other about performance problems. Miscreants launch attacks against both other users and the Internet infrastructure itself. Content providers continually engage in practices to "personalize" what we see and when we see it. Many governments aim to control its citizens' access to information, while activists design circumvention tools. Safeguarding the user's Internet experience requires both gathering empirical network measurements to detect threats (typically in the absence of any "ground truth") and developing large-scale systems to
mitigate them. In this talk, I will present three classes of safeguards against different threats to the user's Internet experience: (1) technologies to characterize and improve performance in the Internet's "last mile," including a worldwide deployment of home routers in around 200 home networks and ongoing studies with the Federal Communications Commission; (2) methods for lightweight and fast detection of message abuse, such as spam, that have since been widely adopted by industry; and (3) defenses against against information manipulation attacks, a new class of attacks against personalization algorithms. I will also discuss other such threats and how networking can draw from other disciplines to tackle them.
Speaker Bio: Nick Feamster is an associate professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, with a focus on network operations, network security, and censorship-resistant communication systems. In December 2008, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his contributions to cybersecurity, notably spam filtering. His honors include the Technology Review 35 "Top Young Innovators Under 35" award, the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the IBM Faculty Fellowship, the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, and award papers at the SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (measuring Web performance bottlenecks), SIGCOMM (network-level behavior of spammers), the NSDI conference (fault detection in router configuration), Usenix Security (circumventing web censorship using Infranet), and Usenix Security (web cookie analysis).
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Voter Suppression, Equal Rights, and the Promise of Democracy
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 4 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Tsai Auditorium (S-010), CGIS South Building, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Scholars Strategy Network, Center for American Political Studies, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
SPEAKER(S) Introduced by Theda Skocpol, Harvard University, and director, Scholars Strategy Network; moderated by Karen Holmes Ward, host of "CityLine," WCVB-TV Channel 5
Panel: Keith Bentele and Erin O'Brien, University of Massachusetts, Boston; co-authors of "Convincing Evidence that States Aim to Suppress Minority Voting."
Lorraine Minnite, Rutgers University, Camden; author of "The Myth of Voter Fraud."
Michael J. Moran, Massachusetts State Representative, D-Brighton, former co-chair of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws.
Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University, author of "Do Election Reforms Promote Equal Participation?"
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Reception to follow.
LINK http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/event/voter-suppression-equal-rights-and-promise-democracy
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 4 – 5:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Tsai Auditorium (S-010), CGIS South Building, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Scholars Strategy Network, Center for American Political Studies, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
SPEAKER(S) Introduced by Theda Skocpol, Harvard University, and director, Scholars Strategy Network; moderated by Karen Holmes Ward, host of "CityLine," WCVB-TV Channel 5
Panel: Keith Bentele and Erin O'Brien, University of Massachusetts, Boston; co-authors of "Convincing Evidence that States Aim to Suppress Minority Voting."
Lorraine Minnite, Rutgers University, Camden; author of "The Myth of Voter Fraud."
Michael J. Moran, Massachusetts State Representative, D-Brighton, former co-chair of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws.
Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University, author of "Do Election Reforms Promote Equal Participation?"
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Reception to follow.
LINK http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/event/voter-suppression-equal-rights-and-promise-democracy
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“Do Partisan Media Matter for Democracy Today?”
Thursday, March 6
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kevin Arceneaux, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University; and Natalie Stroud, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Moderator: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard Kennedy School.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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“Do Partisan Media Matter for Democracy Today?”
Thursday, March 6
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kevin Arceneaux, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University; and Natalie Stroud, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Moderator: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard Kennedy School.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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Prospects for Political (In)Stability in Central Asia
Thursday, March 06, 2014
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan Political Science Dept.
After 2014: What Next for Central and South Asia
Many scholars and policy-makers have understandably raised concerns about how the impending U.S. departure from Afghanistan will affect domestic stability in Central Asia. Based on recent fieldwork and an original database of local protests across the region since 2000, Pauline Jones Luong will focus instead on how prospects for political instability in Central Asia might affect the transition in Afghanistan.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Harlene Miller
617-258-6531
harlenem@mit.edu
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Everyday, Environmental Trauma and the Art of Rediscovery: Lewis Mumford's Reconnaissance of American Modernity
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, northern side of Sever quadrangle at 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) Aaron Sachs, Cornell University
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html
WHEN Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, northern side of Sever quadrangle at 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) Aaron Sachs, Cornell University
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html
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Using Web Intelligence to Make Strategic Business Decisions
Thursday, March 06, 2014
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Staffan Truv
ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
ORC Spring Seminar Series
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact:
Swati Gupta, Nathan Kallus, Maokai Lin
253-6185
swatig@mit.edu, kallus@mit.edu, lmk@mit.edu
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Starr Forum: "The Network"
Thursday, March 06, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Eva Orner, Academy and Emmy Award winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles
Fotini Christa, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT
Filming screening and discussion
A documentary set behind the scenes at the largest television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan.
"Eva Orner's documentary, The Network, tours Afghanistan's first independent TV operation and shows a burgeoning media organization still gaining its look and its polish. ... the movie provides an angle on a country remaking itself after Taliban rule." New York Times
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_030614_orner.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
Starr Forum: "The Network"
Thursday, March 06, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Eva Orner, Academy and Emmy Award winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles
Fotini Christa, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT
Filming screening and discussion
A documentary set behind the scenes at the largest television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan.
"Eva Orner's documentary, The Network, tours Afghanistan's first independent TV operation and shows a burgeoning media organization still gaining its look and its polish. ... the movie provides an angle on a country remaking itself after Taliban rule." New York Times
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_030614_orner.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum@mit.edu
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Introduction to Beethoven's String Quartets by Jupiter String Quartet
Thursday, March 06, 2014
6:30p–7:30p
MIT, Building 14E-109, Lewis Music Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
6:30p–7:30p
MIT, Building 14E-109, Lewis Music Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: JUPITER STRING QUARTET
6 | Thu | "Open-Score Introduction to the Beethoven Quartets" hosted by Teresa Neff and the Jupiter Quartet. Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2; Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 Harp; Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. The Jupiter Quartet will present each of the works on their concert program of March 7 and play excerpts, with scores and facsimiles available for use by the audience. Q and A and reception following. 6:30pm, Lewis Music Library, 14E-109. Free.
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries, Music and Theater Arts, MIT LIBRARIES
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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NIRS Quarterly Briefing: Update on Fukushima - Three Years On
March 6, 2014
March 6, 2014
7 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific
RSVP at sending an e-mail with your name and contact information to maryo@nirs.org to register and receive the call-in information
Speakers:
Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Aileen Mioko Smith, Green Action Japan
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates
The disaster at the Fukushima Diachi nuclear site has had enormous and ongoing impacts in Japan and around the world. As we prepare for the third anniversary of Fukushima on March 11, it is vital that clean energy activists and concerned citizens everywhere know--from the most credible sources possible--what is happening at Fukushima and Japan generally, and what we can expect in the coming year.
Join us to hear an update from both the technical and the social perspectives on the status of Fukushima in 2014. Arnie Gundersen has more than 40 years of nuclear power engineering experience and is Chief Engineer with Fairewinds Associates. He has been dedicatedly following developments at Fukushima--from the root causes of the initial disaster to the problems and dangers that will be encountered during decommissioning over the next decades--and his expertise is second to none. Aileen Mioko Smith is Director of Green Action in Japan and is supporting those directly impacted by the accident as well as working non-stop to prevent the restart of nuclear reactors in the country--two of the issues she'll be raising. Diane D'Arrigo is a veteran member of the NIRS staff and Director of our Radioactive Waste Project.
To participate in this event by phone, please respond by sending an e-mail with your name and contact information to maryo@nirs.org to register and receive the call-in information.
Quarterly Telebriefings: NIRS has passed its 35th year and continues to serve you: people concerned with nuclear energy and its impacts in our communities and how together we can create a sustainable, clean, healthy energy future. This year we invite you to participate in a Quarterly Telebriefing on topical issues. We will offer a presentation by one or more speakers, and time for those who call in to pose questions and offer perspective as well. If you want to suggest a topic for a future Quarterly Briefing, please contact Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast office, 828-252-8409 or maryo@nirs.org.
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Speakers:
Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Aileen Mioko Smith, Green Action Japan
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates
The disaster at the Fukushima Diachi nuclear site has had enormous and ongoing impacts in Japan and around the world. As we prepare for the third anniversary of Fukushima on March 11, it is vital that clean energy activists and concerned citizens everywhere know--from the most credible sources possible--what is happening at Fukushima and Japan generally, and what we can expect in the coming year.
Join us to hear an update from both the technical and the social perspectives on the status of Fukushima in 2014. Arnie Gundersen has more than 40 years of nuclear power engineering experience and is Chief Engineer with Fairewinds Associates. He has been dedicatedly following developments at Fukushima--from the root causes of the initial disaster to the problems and dangers that will be encountered during decommissioning over the next decades--and his expertise is second to none. Aileen Mioko Smith is Director of Green Action in Japan and is supporting those directly impacted by the accident as well as working non-stop to prevent the restart of nuclear reactors in the country--two of the issues she'll be raising. Diane D'Arrigo is a veteran member of the NIRS staff and Director of our Radioactive Waste Project.
To participate in this event by phone, please respond by sending an e-mail with your name and contact information to maryo@nirs.org to register and receive the call-in information.
Quarterly Telebriefings: NIRS has passed its 35th year and continues to serve you: people concerned with nuclear energy and its impacts in our communities and how together we can create a sustainable, clean, healthy energy future. This year we invite you to participate in a Quarterly Telebriefing on topical issues. We will offer a presentation by one or more speakers, and time for those who call in to pose questions and offer perspective as well. If you want to suggest a topic for a future Quarterly Briefing, please contact Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast office, 828-252-8409 or maryo@nirs.org.
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New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
Thursday, March 6
7:30 PM
Thursday, March 6
7:30 PM
Harvard Hall Room 104, Harvard Yard
Following a screening of Oscar-nominated documentary Trouble the Water on Thursday, March 6, Harvard's Center for Public Leadership will be hosting a conversation with Kimberly Rivers Roberts on Friday, March 7. Roberts, a Ninth Ward resident, stars in the film and shot much of its footage. She will discuss the arduous journey that she and other New Orleanians have taken as they rebuild their lives and their city. The conversation will focus in particular on inequality in the New Orleans recovery. Please join us for both events.
The discussion will take place from 10:45 AM to noon on Friday, March 7 in the Darman Seminar Room at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School.
Roberts' appearance is sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. It is also supported by the Program on Crisis Leadership at the Taubman Center and the Ash Center, The Black Student Union, The Black Policy Conference, The Social and Urban Policy PIC, and The Crisis Management PIC, Harvard Kennedy School.
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Humanitarian Happy Hour
Thursday, March 6th
Thursday, March 6th
8-10 pm (after Humanitarian Logistics Class)
Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tX6nzU4KOIDcCyUsSZ6LYeXWpnunTmpeVj_P618TDoc/viewform
Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tX6nzU4KOIDcCyUsSZ6LYeXWpnunTmpeVj_P618TDoc/viewform
It's that time again! Join your fellow students, faculty, and humanitarian practitioners for a happy hour sponsored by the MIT Humanitarian Working Group. Meet fellow humanitarians from along the red line and beyond!! We'll provide some appetizers.
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Friday, March 7
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2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge - General Admission
MassDiGI
Friday, March 7, 2014, Saturday, March 8, 2014
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM (EST)
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-massdigi-game-challenge-general-admission-registration-10137817485
NOTE: The deadline for general admission registration is Friday, February 28 at 5pm ET!
The MassDiGI Game Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition event that helps aspiring game developers launch new games. The Game Challenge will be held on March 7-8, 2014 at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. Featuring industry mentors, panel discussions, keynote talks and more - you won’t want to miss this! The Game Challenge will feature:
Competitive Game Challenge w/ Desirable Prizes: Enter your game concept or prototype in one of three levels (Indie, College and High School) and in one of two categories (Best Entertainment Game or Best Serious Game). The grand-prize winning College team will receive full access to the 2014 MassDiGI Summer Innovation Program. In addition, winners in each category will receive cash and experiential prizes, industry mentorship, game promotion/PR opportunities and much more.
Robust Mentorship Program: One of the highlights of our 2013 event was the over 30 industry volunteers who met with competing teams on a one-on-one basis to provide valuable insight and critique on each team’s game concept. This year, participating teams will have a chance to sign-up for mentor meetings in the expertise areas of Art, Design, Business and Technology.
Educational Programming: Day 1 of the Game Challenge will feature sessions to help teams fine-tune their pitch for the judging committee. Mini-sessions will focus on the topics of art, design, business and technology.
Indie Game Showcase: What would a Game Challenge be without a few games to play! The Massachusetts Indie community is full of extremely talented individuals with great ideas on the cutting edge of game development. Teams and general attendees will have a chance to network with and, more importantly, play some of the great Indie games created in our own backyards.
Whether you are a small developer looking to breakout or a student exploring job opportunities, after attending the 2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge you’ll be guaranteed to walk away with valuable new connections and a better understanding of this exciting industry.
REGISTER EARLY!
Registration for both competing teams and general attendees is limited, so we encourage all interested parties to sign up as early as possible.
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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New Orleans Nine Years Later: Reflections on Inequality in Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery
Friday, March 7
10:45 AM to noon
10:45 AM to noon
Harvard Kennedy School, Darman Seminar Room,Center for Public Leadership, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Harvard's Center for Public Leadership will be hosting a conversation with Kimberly Rivers Roberts on Friday, March 7. Roberts, a Ninth Ward resident, stars in the film and shot much of its footage. She will discuss the arduous journey that she and other New Orleanians have taken as they rebuild their lives and their city. The conversation will focus in particular on inequality in the New Orleans recovery. Please join us for both events.
Roberts' appearance is sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. It is also supported by the Program on Crisis Leadership at the Taubman Center and the Ash Center, The Black Student Union, The Black Policy Conference, The Social and Urban Policy PIC, and The Crisis Management PIC, Harvard Kennedy School.
Roberts' appearance is sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. It is also supported by the Program on Crisis Leadership at the Taubman Center and the Ash Center, The Black Student Union, The Black Policy Conference, The Social and Urban Policy PIC, and The Crisis Management PIC, Harvard Kennedy School.
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Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
Friday, March 7, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sangeeta Sharma, Research Chemist, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&formid=D296...
Host: Rachel Chang
Email: rchang@seas.harvard.edu
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Renewables Globally: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Friday, March 07, 2014
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst (corner of Hayward & Amherst), Cambridge
Agenda:
2:30-3 Networking and refreshments,
3-4 Program,
4-4:30 Networking
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Speaker: Prof. David Faiman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Director of Israel's National Solar Energy Center; Moderated by Prof. Richard K. Lester, Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Chair, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
New fossil-fuelled electricity generating (FFEG) plants continue to be built world-wide in spite of serious concern about their negative environmental impact. For geographically small countries, like Israel, the impact is mainly on health - as a result of particulate and chemical emissions. For larger countries such as China and the USA, greenhouse gases are a major global concern. The presentation will discuss the technical and economic feasibility of ceasing the construction of all new FFEGs and providing for the world???s growing electricity needs using wind and photovoltaic power generation. The examples of Israel and the USA will be singled out for quantitative discussion.
David Faiman (PhD Univ. of Illinois 1969), a former theoretical physicist (Oxford, CERN, Weizmann Institute), joined Ben-Gurion University in 1976 and established its department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics at the university's Sede Boqer campus. In 1993 he was appointed director of Israel???s National Solar Energy Center, which the government established at Sede Boqer. His solar research activities have spanned a range from solar radiation measurements to device and system testing, with particular emphasis on concentrator photovoltaics.
Web site:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free- please RSVP
Tickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Israel Program, Industrial Performance Center, MIT's Undergraduate Energy Club
For more information, contact: David Dolev
617-324-5581
mit-israel@mit.edu
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Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
Friday, March 07, 2014
5:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of Barcelona City Council
Book talk by Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
"Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet."
The Self-sufficient City outlines a blueprint for the world to come,a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again. His new book relies on ideas and projects for transforming the urban habitat, based on the principles of local self-sufficiency and global connectivity.
Architecture Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by The Center for Bits and Atoms and the Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Center for Bits and Atoms
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
Friday, March 7, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sangeeta Sharma, Research Chemist, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&formid=D296...
Host: Rachel Chang
Email: rchang@seas.harvard.edu
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Renewables Globally: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Friday, March 07, 2014
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst (corner of Hayward & Amherst), Cambridge
Agenda:
2:30-3 Networking and refreshments,
3-4 Program,
4-4:30 Networking
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Speaker: Prof. David Faiman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Director of Israel's National Solar Energy Center; Moderated by Prof. Richard K. Lester, Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Chair, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
New fossil-fuelled electricity generating (FFEG) plants continue to be built world-wide in spite of serious concern about their negative environmental impact. For geographically small countries, like Israel, the impact is mainly on health - as a result of particulate and chemical emissions. For larger countries such as China and the USA, greenhouse gases are a major global concern. The presentation will discuss the technical and economic feasibility of ceasing the construction of all new FFEGs and providing for the world???s growing electricity needs using wind and photovoltaic power generation. The examples of Israel and the USA will be singled out for quantitative discussion.
David Faiman (PhD Univ. of Illinois 1969), a former theoretical physicist (Oxford, CERN, Weizmann Institute), joined Ben-Gurion University in 1976 and established its department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics at the university's Sede Boqer campus. In 1993 he was appointed director of Israel???s National Solar Energy Center, which the government established at Sede Boqer. His solar research activities have spanned a range from solar radiation measurements to device and system testing, with particular emphasis on concentrator photovoltaics.
Web site:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free- please RSVP
Tickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Israel Program, Industrial Performance Center, MIT's Undergraduate Energy Club
For more information, contact: David Dolev
617-324-5581
mit-israel@mit.edu
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Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
Friday, March 07, 2014
5:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of Barcelona City Council
Book talk by Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
"Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet."
The Self-sufficient City outlines a blueprint for the world to come,a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again. His new book relies on ideas and projects for transforming the urban habitat, based on the principles of local self-sufficiency and global connectivity.
Architecture Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by The Center for Bits and Atoms and the Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Center for Bits and Atoms
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Jupiter Quartet Plays Beethoven
Friday, March 07, 2014
8:00p–10:00p
MIT, w16, Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Cost: $5
8:00p–10:00p
MIT, w16, Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Cost: $5
MIT Guest Artist Series presents: the Jupiter Quartet in the second concert as part of the complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle performances at MIT (2013-2015). Beethoven: Quartet in G Major, Op.18, No. 2; Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 'Harp'; Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. General admission $5; Free, in advance via Eventbrite, to MIT community with MIT email address. Tickets at http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door. Funded in part by the MIT Visiting Artists program and Music and Theater Arts at MIT.
Open to: the general public
Tickets: http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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Saturday, March 8
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2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
Saturday, March 8, 2014
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Northeastern University Student Center, Curry Center, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-massachusetts-urban-farming-conference-tickets-7547919029
The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance urban farming issues ranging from farming techniques and
business models to climate change adaptation and food security. The UFC contributes to short-term and long-term state-wide strategic planning for a sustainable food system in Massachusetts.
Network with Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this dynamic event that looks at current issues, emerging practices and programs, and markets that
can contribute to Massachusetts' urban farming sector resiliency.
For vendor or general information, contact Rose Arruda at MDAR; Rose.Arruda@state.ma.us
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Crystal Johnson at Crystal@isesplanning.com
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Tufts Clean Energy Conference
Saturday, March 8
10am - 7:30pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-energy-conference-tickets-4912941741
Cost: $15-40
More Information at http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com
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Wounds of Waziristan, film screening, with director
Saturday, March 8, 2014
2:00pm
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
A Pakistani-American journalist, Madiha Tahir, films people in the tribal areas of Pakistan who live under the constant presence of US drones and in the wake of their destruction.
Sponsors: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Eastern Mass Anti-Drone Network Task force of UJP, Boston UNAC, Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia, and Mass Global Action.
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Sunday, March 9
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Tufts Clean Energy Conference
Sunday, March 9
10am - 7:30pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-energy-conference-tickets-4912941741
Cost: $15-40
More information at http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com
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Echoes of Their Wings: The Life and Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon
WHEN Sun., Mar. 9, 2014, 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Joel Greenberg, author
COST Regular museum admission rates apply
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2773
NOTE The passenger pigeon once ruled the skies of North America; numbering in the billions, they made up more than twenty-five percent of the region’s bird population in the mid-1800s. By 1914, however, the species was extinct—a downfall hastened by America’s growing hunger for land development and hunting. Author and naturalist Joel Greenberg will discuss how the passenger pigeon’s extinction may inform today’s conservation decisions.
LINK http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
WHEN Sun., Mar. 9, 2014, 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Joel Greenberg, author
COST Regular museum admission rates apply
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2773
NOTE The passenger pigeon once ruled the skies of North America; numbering in the billions, they made up more than twenty-five percent of the region’s bird population in the mid-1800s. By 1914, however, the species was extinct—a downfall hastened by America’s growing hunger for land development and hunting. Author and naturalist Joel Greenberg will discuss how the passenger pigeon’s extinction may inform today’s conservation decisions.
LINK http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
Editorial Comment: Stewart Brand, George Church and others are beginning to explore the possibilities of de-extinction with the passenger pigeon being one early candidate.
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Monday March 10
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Monday March 10
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Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet
Monday, March 10, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
10:00am to 11:00am
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 25 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125, 25 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Keith Winstein, MIT
The technologies that make up the Internet are changing every year, but some transport protocols continue to act as though the Internet behaved as it did 20 years ago. This can cause poor performance on newer networks -- cellular networks, datacenters -- and makes it more challenging to roll out networking technologies that break markedly with the past. How do we make applications and protocols keep up with an evolving network? I will describe the Sprout algorithm, a transport protocol designed for videoconferencing over cellular networks, that uses probabilistic inference to forecast network congestion in advance. On commercial cellular networks, Sprout gives 2-to-4 times the throughput and 7-to-9 times less delay than Skype, Apple Facetime, and Google+ Hangouts.
This work led to Remy, a computer program that generates transport protocols automatically, as a function of a protocol designer's assumptions about the network and statement of an objective function. Remy's computer-generated algorithms can achieve higher performance and greater fairness than some sophisticated human-designed schemes. I will discuss our work on using Remy to probe open questions of Internet congestion control -- what's the cost of maintaining backwards compatibility with existing algorithms, including the Transmission Control Protocol as it exists today? Is there a tradeoff between a protocol's performance today and its ability to adapt to networks of the future?
This talk includes joint work with Anirudh Sivaraman, Pratiksha Thaker, and Hari Balakrishnan.
URL: http://mit.edu/keithw
Speaker Bio:
Keith Winstein is a doctoral candidate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His work applies statistical and predictive approaches to teach computers to design better network protocols and applications. He created the Mosh (mobile shell) tool for remote access to Unix-like systems and the Sprout algorithm for cellular networks, which was awarded a 2014 Applied Networking Research Prize. From 2007 to 2010, Keith worked as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering science and medicine.
Speaker Bio:
Keith Winstein is a doctoral candidate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His work applies statistical and predictive approaches to teach computers to design better network protocols and applications. He created the Mosh (mobile shell) tool for remote access to Unix-like systems and the Sprout algorithm for cellular networks, which was awarded a 2014 Applied Networking Research Prize. From 2007 to 2010, Keith worked as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering science and medicine.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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"The Energy Outlook"
Monday, March 10, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Adam Sieminski, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern"
Monday, March 10, 2014
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Victor Seow (Cornell, History)
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
sts@hks.harvard.edu
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
sts@hks.harvard.edu
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
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Transparent Structure - Designing with Glass
Monday, March 10, 2014
12:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff Anderson, TriPyramid, Westford, Mass
Architecture | Building Technology Lecture Series
A talk in the Building Technology Discipline Group Lecture Series in the Department of Architecture
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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The Password That Never Was
Monday, March 10, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Harvard, 60 Oxford Street, Room 330, CAmbridge
Harvard, 60 Oxford Street, Room 330, CAmbridge
Ari Juels, Independent security researcher.
Breaches of databases with millions of passwords are becoming a commonplace threat to consumer security. Compromised passwords are also a feature of sophisticated targeted attacks, as the New York Times, for instance, reported of its own intrusions early this year. The most common defense is hashing, a cryptographic transformation of stored passwords that makes verification of incoming passwords easy, but extraction of stored ones hard. “Hard,” though, often isn’t hard enough: Password cracking tools (such as “John the Ripper”) often easily defeat hashing.
I’ll describe a new defense called honeywords. Honeywords are decoys designed to be indistinguishable from legitimate passwords. When seeded in a password database, honeywords offer protection against an adversary that compromises the database and cracks its hashed passwords. The adversary must still guess which passwords are legitimate, and is very likely to pick a honeyword instead, creating a detectible event signaling a breach. I’ll also discuss a related idea, called honey encryption, which creates ciphertexts that decrypt under incorrect keys to seemingly valid messages.
Broadly speaking, Honeywords and honey encryption represent some of the first steps toward the principled use of decoys, a time-honored and increasingly important defense in a world of frequent and sophisticated security breaches.
Honeywords are honey encryption are joint work respectively with Ron Rivest (MIT) and Tom Ristenpart (U. Wisc)
Speaker Bio: Dr. Ari Juels is an independent security researcher
He was Chief Scientist of RSA (The Security Division of EMC), Director of RSA Laboratories, and a Distinguished Engineer at EMC, where he worked until September 2013. He joined RSA in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley.
His recent areas of interest include “big data” security analytics, cybersecurity, cloud security, user authentication, privacy, medical-device security, biometric security, and RFID / NFC security. As an industry scientist, Dr. Juels has helped incubate innovative new product features and products and advised on the science behind security-industry strategy. He is also a frequent public speaker, and has published highly cited scientific papers on many topics in computer security.
In 2004, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Dr. Juels one of the world’s top 100 technology innovators under the age of 35. Computerworld honored him in its “40 Under 40″ list of young industry leaders in 2007. He has received other distinctions, but sadly no recent ones acknowledging his youth.
Center for Research on Computation and Society
Contact: Carol Harlow
Email: harlow@seas.harvard.edu
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The Dynamics of Natural Monopoly Regulation and Political Environments
Monday, March 10, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford visiting Harvard)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact: econ-cal@mit.edu
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Surveillance after Snowden: Decoding the "Snooping Scandal"
Monday, March 10, 2014
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, Building E14-648, Silverman Skylline, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, Building E14-648, Silverman Skylline, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. David Lyon, Queen's University - Canada
Revelations from the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden are making waves around the world. Mass surveillance programs track personal data from internet companies targeting everyone from ordinary citizens to heads-of-state. Many are outraged; few saw the writing on the (Facebook) wall. After commenting on (1), what exactly has been revealed, and (2) some implications, we ask how to respond, in ethical and critical ways? (3) This has been developing for decades: The rise of "risk society" and of data-driven organizations; digital dreams dominate; public-and-private blur into one. (4) Why do we tolerate it? The familiarity factor in everyday surveillance, the fear factor after 9/11 and the fun factor of social media produce compliance, not critique. (5) What's really at stake? Not just privacy and autonomy but accountability, freedom, dignity, in short, human flourishing.
Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Web site: web.mit.edu/sts
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS, STS
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn@mit.edu
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Herbie Hancock: The Ethics of Jazz - Buddhism and Creativity
WHEN Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 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 Event is free, but tickets are required. 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, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street
Monday, March 10
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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The Contours of Contemporary Fertility Declines: A Fresh Assessment
WHEN Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) John Casterline, Robert T. Lazarus Professor in Population Studies, Department of Sociology, and director, Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
WHEN Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) John Casterline, Robert T. Lazarus Professor in Population Studies, Department of Sociology, and director, Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Container Gardening with Native Plants
Monday March 10
6 to 7:30 pm
Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Facility, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
No space or time for an in-ground garden? No problem! Join this workshop led by Dan Jaffe of New England Wild Flower Society for advice on how to successfully grow native New England plants in pots. Now’s the time to start planning for the growing season! Registration required: call 617-349-6489 or e-mail fpr@cambridgema.gov.
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Science by the Pint: “Structures and Signaling: How your cells work at the subatomic level”
March 10, 2014
7 p.m.
Burren, 247 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
Dr. Stephen Blacklow
Science in the News, the GSAS student group that sponsors these talks, is an organization of PhD students interested in exploring the science behind current headlines and health claims. The group runs a popular lecture series each fall and spring, and it publishes accessible articleson an impressive array of topics, including climate change, low-glycemic-index diets, performing enhancing drugs, and cutting-edge advances in limb prosthetics. SITN also works to bring science into local elementary and secondary schools, offering an educator’s guide and an outreach program to bring graduate students into local classrooms.
Contact: http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/news/science-by-the-pint.php
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Tuesday, March 11
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Tuesday, March 11
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Whole Earth Summit
March 11-13
Webinar at http://www.WholeEarthSummit.org
Epic Event Alert [Free & Online]: 42 extraordinary visionaries, including Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Charles Eisenstein, Joel Salatin, the founders of the Small Planet Fund, Living Building Challenge, Transition Town, Pachamama Alliance, Bioneers, Appropedia, Kid's Right to Know, Wise Women Tradition, and many others are joining together to share valuable insights around food, water, the commons, ecological activism, regenerative design, social transformation, collective vision and practical models for making a difference.
The Whole Earth Summit airs March 11-13. Free registration is now available online at www.WholeEarthSummit.org. Participants will have access to conversations with all 42 presenters--some of the world’s leading changemakers who will be sharing their stories, strategies and visions for a whole earth.
Co-producers, Janell Kapoor and Stacey Murphy, say that their goal is “to inspire all of us in creating regenerative communities and a more resilient world.”
Ashevillage Institute, based out of Asheville, NC, brings together individuals in community for hands-on, skilling-up, educational programs that activate on-the-ground, nature-based projects with the aim of fostering a vibrant, just and resilient world. Contact: Anna Pizzo -- Communications Support Team Email Info@WholeEarthSummit.org | Website www.WholeEarthSummit.org Twitter www.twitter.com/Ashevillage Facebook www.facebook.com/Ashevillage
The Whole Earth Summit airs March 11-13. Free registration is now available online at www.WholeEarthSummit.org. Participants will have access to conversations with all 42 presenters--some of the world’s leading changemakers who will be sharing their stories, strategies and visions for a whole earth.
Co-producers, Janell Kapoor and Stacey Murphy, say that their goal is “to inspire all of us in creating regenerative communities and a more resilient world.”
Through the generosity of the presenters, their organizations and partners, summit participants will have access to the Whole Earth Toolkit — an extensive collection of online programs, videos, e-books, discounts and skill-building tools designed for people to strengthen their practice of creating the world they want for themselves, future generations, and for life on earth.
The instigators of the Whole Earth Summit bring 34 collective years of hands-on social and environmental activism to this work. Janell Kapoor, Founder of Kleiwerks International, has led on-the-ground natural building trainings for people from over 52 countries. Stacey Murphy, founder of BK Farmyards, inoculated renegade farming tactics throughout the backyards of Brooklyn, NY. The two have teamed up to launch this first-ever online global summit through the Ashevillage Institute, a 501c3 nonprofit organization they co-direct. “It's another way we can give back to benefit people and our earth, only at a larger scale,” they say.
Ashevillage Institute, based out of Asheville, NC, brings together individuals in community for hands-on, skilling-up, educational programs that activate on-the-ground, nature-based projects with the aim of fostering a vibrant, just and resilient world. Contact: Anna Pizzo -- Communications Support Team Email Info@WholeEarthSummit.org | Website www.WholeEarthSummit.org Twitter www.twitter.com/Ashevillage Facebook www.facebook.com/Ashevillage
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Boston TechBreakfast: Priori Legal, @Pay, Agora, RapidMiner, DapperJobs
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for March 2014:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Priori Legal - Kimberly Palsson
@Pay - Mike Hogan
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": JOBS
Agora - Elsa Sze
RapidMiner - Giuseppe Taibi
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": EVENTS
DapperJobs - Sebastian Fung
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time,
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Lyons, Principal Technical Advisor in Transportation Planning, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155722532/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for March 2014:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Priori Legal - Kimberly Palsson
@Pay - Mike Hogan
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": JOBS
Agora - Elsa Sze
RapidMiner - Giuseppe Taibi
30 Second Lightning "Shout Outs": EVENTS
DapperJobs - Sebastian Fung
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time,
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Lyons, Principal Technical Advisor in Transportation Planning, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe
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"Bottom-up, Top Down & Sideways. Prespectives on Evolutionary & Ecological Process: Consequences for Conservation Policy."
Tuesday, March 11
Noon.
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Charles Fenster
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Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent
Tuesday, March 11
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Shorenstein Speaker Series with Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent; leads NPR’s Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Shorenstein Speaker Series with Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent; leads NPR’s Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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A Roadmap to Cyberpeace
March 11, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/francois#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Camille François, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Camille François argues that we should reflect upon the notion of ‘cyberpeace’, giving guidelines to separate war-time cyber activities from peace-time cyber activities, clarifying the operations and legal framework.
This project questions "cyberwar" (the concept, its reality and its legal framework) and examines its relationship to the idea of peace. What is cyberwar, and where does this notion comes from? Doctrinally, the ‘cyber’ realm grew between conceptions of war and peace. We will explore how these blurry lines translated in operations (ex. NSA/USCYBERCOM) and legal frameworks. We will attempt to address the consequences of the framing, and think about why this matters.
About Camille
Camille François joined the Berkman Center as a fellow to work on the legal, political and ethical frames of cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyberpeace. She also studies how academic institutions address Internet policy issues.
Camille is both a Fulbright Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies. She helped structure the School of Public and International Affairs program in Cybersecurity and worked for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), organizing the Expert Workshop on Privacy in Cyberspace at the agency's headquarters. In 2013, she won first place for Columbia at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 National Challenge in Cyber Policy.
She previously worked for Google in Europe, managing research on market insights, key policy and privacy trends.
In her home country of France she has worked mainly in politics, serving two years in the Parliament as a legislative aide and holding leadership positions in national and local campaigns. She also participated in the main research project on religious politics in the French suburbs, published by the think tank L'Institut Montaigne.
Camille is a free culture advocate: she served on the board of Students for Free Culture, created its French chapter, researched for the Open Video Alliance, and co-founded two Paris-based free cultural start-ups. She enjoys helping out with projects exploring the impact of technology on war and peace, and recently joined the organizing team of the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU Law School.
She holds a Master's degree in International Public Management from Sciences-Po Paris University, and a Master's degree in International Security from the Columbia School of Public and International Affairs. She completed her Bachelor at Sciences-Po Paris, with a year as a visiting student at Princeton University, and received legal education at Paris II - Sorbonne Universités.
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Three Years after the 3.11 Disasters: Lessons and Reflections
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Miaki Ishii, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University; Hiro Saito, postdoctoral fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO wnehring@wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Miaki Ishii, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University; Hiro Saito, postdoctoral fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO wnehring@wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
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China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development Lecture Series
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
4:00pm
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Featuring Michael Spence, former Dean of FAS and Nobel Laureate of economics. Currently a Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Michael Spence is also a Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Chairman of the Academic Council, Fung Global Institute. His scholarship focuses on economic policy in emerging markets, the economics of information, and the impact of leadership on economic growth.
“China 2035: Energy, Climate, and Development” is a new lecture series convened by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard China Project. The objective of the series is to explore the challenges China is expected to face over the next two decades at the intersection of economic development, demands for energy, and environmental degradation including the potential impacts of climate change.
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Meanings of Mandela
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on African Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Presidents Office at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on African Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Presidents Office at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.3611
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Your Future Smart Wristband
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rosalind W. Picard, professor of media arts and sciences; director of Affective Computing; director of the Autism & Communication Technology Initiative; co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.496.1084
NOTE Wrist sensors can now collect some of the core physiological data that changes with emotion and health. This talk will present examples of new things we can learn from a wristband, including interesting patterns related to sleep, stress, engagement, and epileptic seizures.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-rosalind-w-picard-lecture
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 5 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Rosalind W. Picard, professor of media arts and sciences; director of Affective Computing; director of the Autism & Communication Technology Initiative; co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.496.1084
NOTE Wrist sensors can now collect some of the core physiological data that changes with emotion and health. This talk will present examples of new things we can learn from a wristband, including interesting patterns related to sleep, stress, engagement, and epileptic seizures.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-rosalind-w-picard-lecture
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Religion and Social Welfare: How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE One of the most controversial aspects of President George W. Bush's administration was the creation of state and federal offices that publicly and financially support faith-based organizations across the country. Although under President Obama this office has continued to issue public support for services offered by religious organizations, these faith-based partnerships raise big questions. What are the implications of state funding for religious organizations? Are faith-based services any more effective than nonreligious ones? Please join us as we explore these questions on the role of faith-based organizations as state sponsored social service providers with Harvard Kennedy School's Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life Fr. Bryan Hehir.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement. RSVP to cswr@hds.harvard.edu.
WHEN Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
NOTE One of the most controversial aspects of President George W. Bush's administration was the creation of state and federal offices that publicly and financially support faith-based organizations across the country. Although under President Obama this office has continued to issue public support for services offered by religious organizations, these faith-based partnerships raise big questions. What are the implications of state funding for religious organizations? Are faith-based services any more effective than nonreligious ones? Please join us as we explore these questions on the role of faith-based organizations as state sponsored social service providers with Harvard Kennedy School's Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life Fr. Bryan Hehir.
This event is part of CSWR Junior Fellow Usra Ghazi's conversation series: Interfaith as Antidote: Models of Faith-Based Civic Engagement. RSVP to cswr@hds.harvard.edu.
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Legatum Lecture: Next Generation Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Stuart Hart, President, Enterprise for a Sustainable World
It has been a decade since C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart first published the article, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" which launched the "BoP" business movement. Since then, many corporate initiatives, entrepreneurial ventures, and innovation centers have been launched focused on the BoP.
This lecture will examine the next-generation BoP strategies that have evolved over the past decade to reinvent industries and create new markets around the world;leapfrog, clean technology strategies, and business models that include and lift the four plus billion poor at the base of the income pyramid.
The first 25 guests to arrive will receive a complimentary copy of one of Stuart Hart's books.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/events/next-generation-strategies-base-pyramid
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development
For more information, contact: Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
agnesh@mit.edu
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How Dungeons & Dragons and Fantasy Prepare You for Law and Life
March 11, 2013
March 11, 2013
6PM
Location TBA
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/gilsdorf#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 6:00pm ET.
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/gilsdorf#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 6:00pm ET.
Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain
How is a lawyer like a wizard? How does a courtroom resemble an epic battle? How is a casebook like the Dungeon Master's Guide? If you played Dungeons & Dragons in another age, or today, then you know this enormously influential role-playing gaming, which shaped the video gaming industry and geek culture, can be perfect training ground for law and life. This low-tech, pencil-and-paper-and-dice game teaches us how to solve problems, be a heroic leader, and achieve a common goal in a collaborative group environment. But the skills, rulebooks and "laws" required to play D&D --- whether understanding complex "to hit" charts or inventing the backstory of an evil Witch King -- can especially apply to law students. What Dungeon Master or lawyer doesn't need to parley with a foe? In this informal talk and conversation, critic and journalist Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, discusses how D&D's inherent storytelling skills can champion a role for creative play space in both your work and leisure life. We'll also discuss the push and pull of laws and rules vs. imagination in a game like D&D, a book series like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, or any fantasy world, and the role of the dungeon master/author/world-builder in the consistent (or inconsistent) application of these rules and standards, and how this all might apply to the imaginary world of law, too.
Jonathan Zittrain will join Ethan Gilsdorf for a conversation about how D&D can be a perfect training ground for law and life.
About Ethan
Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, memoirist, critic, poet, teacher and 17th level geek.
He wrote the award-winning travel memoir investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
Based in Somerville, Massachusetts, Gilsdorf writes regularly for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Salon.com, BoingBoing.net, PsychologyToday.com, Washington Post and wired.com. He has published hundreds of articles, essays, op-eds and reviews on the arts, pop culture, gaming, geek culture and travel in dozens of other magazines, newspapers, websites and guidebooks worldwide. He has also published dozens of poems in literary magazines and anthologies.
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SABRe – Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet– Lecture and Concert
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
swissnex Boston, , Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
swissnex Boston, , Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sabre-sensor-augmented-bass-clarinet-lecture-and-concert-tickets-10674934015
Matthias Mueller, Professor for Clarinet at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) will present his latest research project: SABRe – Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet.
The Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet (SABRe) is a bass clarinet, which is playable in a conventional manner and is equipped with various sensors, with which a computer can be controlled. The original qualities of the instrument are retained, but by connecting it to your computer, a wide field of new applications and application areas open up. Through SABRe - for the first time in history - a musical instrument is made available to the world of art that creates a direct link between acoustic music and the digital world. The musician on stage can directly control this interface and thus put the electronic music spontaneously in a musical context. The development of this tool was made possible through a research project of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The concert will feature pieces by Matthias Mueller, Hans Tutschku and Lee Hyla, performed by Matthias Mueller, SABRe, and Philipp Stäudlin, Bartione Sax
Matthias Mueller, Professor for Clarinet at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) will present his latest research project: SABRe – Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet.
The Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet (SABRe) is a bass clarinet, which is playable in a conventional manner and is equipped with various sensors, with which a computer can be controlled. The original qualities of the instrument are retained, but by connecting it to your computer, a wide field of new applications and application areas open up. Through SABRe - for the first time in history - a musical instrument is made available to the world of art that creates a direct link between acoustic music and the digital world. The musician on stage can directly control this interface and thus put the electronic music spontaneously in a musical context. The development of this tool was made possible through a research project of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The concert will feature pieces by Matthias Mueller, Hans Tutschku and Lee Hyla, performed by Matthias Mueller, SABRe, and Philipp Stäudlin, Bartione Sax
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GreenPort Forum Climate Emergency Refuge in Cambridgeport: A discussion with faith based organizations
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:30 PM
Eitz Chayim, 134 Magazine Street, Cambridge
As we face climate uncertainties, resilience within our own neighborhoods is key - with neighbors looking after one another. Places of refuge play a critical role. Join us for initial discussions and problem solving with leaders of faith based organizations in Cambridgeport: Eitz Chayim, Cambridgeport Baptist Church, and Church of the Nazarene.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
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BostonCHI: Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
IBM Center for Social Business, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostonchi-hosts-michael-muller-crowdsourcing-inside-the-enterprise-tickets-10598212539
Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland discuss their research on Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise: New opportunities for collaborative innovation
Abstract
This research is a collaborative effort between Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland.
Crowdfunding is a relatively recent Internet phenomenon, in which an innovator can propose a project and solicit investments from the public. More than 450 crowdfunding sites are now in operation around the world, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rockethub, Kiva, and Donors Choose. Successfully-funded projects span much of human aspiration and intention, including charity, creativity, community service, new business initiatives, and financial rate-of-return.
We describe an experiment in crowdfunding inside IBM. Our project, I Fund IT (previously "1x5"), has been run four times -- twice in research organizations, and twice in an IT organization. Major outcomes include: employee proposals that addressed diverse individual and collective needs; high participation rates; extensive inter-departmental and international collaboration, including the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown collaborators; and the development of goals and motivations based on collective concerns at multiple levels of project groups, communities of practice, and the organization as a whole. Moving crowdfunding "behind the firewall" is transformative, highlighting opportunities for new forms of collaboration among employees and between employees and upper management. We conclude with our current understanding of success factors, best practices, and implications for theory and design.
Bio
Michael Muller works in the Collaborative User Experience group of IBM Research, and the IBM Center for Social Software. His work focuses on metrics and analytics for enterprise social software applications, and emergent social phenomena in social software. Earlier IBM work involved activity-centric computing and communities of practice.
Michael is an internationally recognized expert in participatory design and participatory analysis. His work in this area includes the development of methods (CARD, PICTIVE, participatory heuristic evaluation) and theory (ethnocritical heuristics), as well as the creation of taxonomies and encyclopedic descriptions of participatory methodology in handbook chapters. Michael contributed expertise on participatory and qualitative analysis to a recent book from the National Academy of Science, as part of a three-year membership in a human-systems integration committee.
Michael is active in IBM's inventor community. He is head of the Invention Development Team for the Collaborative User Experience group, and was recently recognized as an IBM Master Inventor.
Evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over pizza and beverages
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!
IBM is hosting us and providing pre-meeting food.
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Wednesday, March 12
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:30 PM
Eitz Chayim, 134 Magazine Street, Cambridge
As we face climate uncertainties, resilience within our own neighborhoods is key - with neighbors looking after one another. Places of refuge play a critical role. Join us for initial discussions and problem solving with leaders of faith based organizations in Cambridgeport: Eitz Chayim, Cambridgeport Baptist Church, and Church of the Nazarene.
GreenPort envisions and encourages a just and sustainable Cambridgeport neighborhood
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at steven.wineman@gmail.com
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BostonCHI: Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
IBM Center for Social Business, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostonchi-hosts-michael-muller-crowdsourcing-inside-the-enterprise-tickets-10598212539
Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland discuss their research on Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise: New opportunities for collaborative innovation
Abstract
This research is a collaborative effort between Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland.
Crowdfunding is a relatively recent Internet phenomenon, in which an innovator can propose a project and solicit investments from the public. More than 450 crowdfunding sites are now in operation around the world, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rockethub, Kiva, and Donors Choose. Successfully-funded projects span much of human aspiration and intention, including charity, creativity, community service, new business initiatives, and financial rate-of-return.
We describe an experiment in crowdfunding inside IBM. Our project, I Fund IT (previously "1x5"), has been run four times -- twice in research organizations, and twice in an IT organization. Major outcomes include: employee proposals that addressed diverse individual and collective needs; high participation rates; extensive inter-departmental and international collaboration, including the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown collaborators; and the development of goals and motivations based on collective concerns at multiple levels of project groups, communities of practice, and the organization as a whole. Moving crowdfunding "behind the firewall" is transformative, highlighting opportunities for new forms of collaboration among employees and between employees and upper management. We conclude with our current understanding of success factors, best practices, and implications for theory and design.
Bio
Michael Muller works in the Collaborative User Experience group of IBM Research, and the IBM Center for Social Software. His work focuses on metrics and analytics for enterprise social software applications, and emergent social phenomena in social software. Earlier IBM work involved activity-centric computing and communities of practice.
Michael is an internationally recognized expert in participatory design and participatory analysis. His work in this area includes the development of methods (CARD, PICTIVE, participatory heuristic evaluation) and theory (ethnocritical heuristics), as well as the creation of taxonomies and encyclopedic descriptions of participatory methodology in handbook chapters. Michael contributed expertise on participatory and qualitative analysis to a recent book from the National Academy of Science, as part of a three-year membership in a human-systems integration committee.
Michael is active in IBM's inventor community. He is head of the Invention Development Team for the Collaborative User Experience group, and was recently recognized as an IBM Master Inventor.
Evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over pizza and beverages
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!
IBM is hosting us and providing pre-meeting food.
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"What Can We Hope to Know About the Future of the Energy System?"
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Laboratory Room B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) M. Granger Morgan, University and Lord Chair Professor of Engineering; head and professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Twenty years ago with Hadi Dowlatabadi, Morgan built one of the first detailed integrated assessment models to explore the likely future evolution of the energy system and associated climate impacts. Unlike virtually all integrated assessment models in use today their ICAM model included an extensive treatment of uncertainty in model functional form as well as uncertainty in the value of specific coefficients. They found that within a very wide range, they could get almost any answer they wanted depending on the assumptions made and concluded that using integrated assessment to search for optimal global climate policy made no sense.
Subsequently, Morgan has conducted a wide range of more focused studies of specific parts of the energy system. In parallel, he has done work that critically assessed methods of scenario analysis and energy forecasting. In this talk, Morgan will briefly recap some of this previous work and then discuss, and seek suggestions on, a number of issues related to doing a better job of incorporating uncertainty into energy forecasts that he plans to explore over the course of the next several years.
Biography
M. Granger Morgan is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he is also University and Lord Chair Professor in Engineering. In addition, he holds academic appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the H. John Heinz III College. His research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy with a particular focus on energy, environmental systems, climate change and risk analysis. Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. At Carnegie Mellon, Morgan directs the NSF Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making. He is also director of the newly-formed campus-wide Wilton E.Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Morgan serves as Chair of the Scientific and Technical Council for the International Risk Governance Council. In the recent past, he served as Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute, of which he is now again a member. He holds a BA from Harvard College (1963) where he concentrated in Physics, an MS in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell (1965) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (1969).
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-03-12/future-energy
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Laboratory Room B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) M. Granger Morgan, University and Lord Chair Professor of Engineering; head and professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
CONTACT INFO matthew@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Twenty years ago with Hadi Dowlatabadi, Morgan built one of the first detailed integrated assessment models to explore the likely future evolution of the energy system and associated climate impacts. Unlike virtually all integrated assessment models in use today their ICAM model included an extensive treatment of uncertainty in model functional form as well as uncertainty in the value of specific coefficients. They found that within a very wide range, they could get almost any answer they wanted depending on the assumptions made and concluded that using integrated assessment to search for optimal global climate policy made no sense.
Subsequently, Morgan has conducted a wide range of more focused studies of specific parts of the energy system. In parallel, he has done work that critically assessed methods of scenario analysis and energy forecasting. In this talk, Morgan will briefly recap some of this previous work and then discuss, and seek suggestions on, a number of issues related to doing a better job of incorporating uncertainty into energy forecasts that he plans to explore over the course of the next several years.
Biography
M. Granger Morgan is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he is also University and Lord Chair Professor in Engineering. In addition, he holds academic appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the H. John Heinz III College. His research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy with a particular focus on energy, environmental systems, climate change and risk analysis. Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. At Carnegie Mellon, Morgan directs the NSF Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making. He is also director of the newly-formed campus-wide Wilton E.Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Morgan serves as Chair of the Scientific and Technical Council for the International Risk Governance Council. In the recent past, he served as Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute, of which he is now again a member. He holds a BA from Harvard College (1963) where he concentrated in Physics, an MS in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell (1965) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (1969).
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-03-12/future-energy
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The Writer as Witness: Poetry On and Off the Firing Line
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Reading Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Gary Geddes, poet and writer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE W. H. Auden is often quoted in his poem on the death of W. B. Yeats, whose speaker says: "Poetry makes nothing happen." This was not Auden's own view on the subject, and probably not that of Yeats, either. Auden's view of art is best expressed in his essays in The Dyer's Hand, where he says: "The mere making of a work of art is a political act" because it reminds the managers that we are not automatons, but living beings. Poetry, whatever its essential subject, is subversive; at its best, poetry flies below the radar, nests in the ear, stirs up the neurons.
Gary Geddes is one of Canada's best-known and most celebrated writers. He has written and edited more that forty-five books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies and won a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the National Magazine Gold Award, B. C.'s Lt.-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the government of Chile, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti and Mario Benedetti. His latest works are the non-fiction book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's Search for Justice and Healing in Africa and a selection of poems called What Does A House Want?
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program/seminars-0
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Reading Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Gary Geddes, poet and writer
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
NOTE W. H. Auden is often quoted in his poem on the death of W. B. Yeats, whose speaker says: "Poetry makes nothing happen." This was not Auden's own view on the subject, and probably not that of Yeats, either. Auden's view of art is best expressed in his essays in The Dyer's Hand, where he says: "The mere making of a work of art is a political act" because it reminds the managers that we are not automatons, but living beings. Poetry, whatever its essential subject, is subversive; at its best, poetry flies below the radar, nests in the ear, stirs up the neurons.
Gary Geddes is one of Canada's best-known and most celebrated writers. He has written and edited more that forty-five books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies and won a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the National Magazine Gold Award, B. C.'s Lt.-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the government of Chile, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti and Mario Benedetti. His latest works are the non-fiction book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's Search for Justice and Healing in Africa and a selection of poems called What Does A House Want?
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program/seminars-0
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All Power to the Networks
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nebel Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Comparative Literature
SPEAKER(S) Sorin Radu Cucu, professor of English, LaGuardia College, CUNY
WHEN Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nebel Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Classes/Workshops, Education, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Comparative Literature
SPEAKER(S) Sorin Radu Cucu, professor of English, LaGuardia College, CUNY
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Mass Innovation Nights MIN60
March 12, 2014
6pm-8:30pm
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Are you ready for Mass Innovation Nights #60? We promise it will be an event not to be missed! We're back in Kendall Square at the Microsoft NERD center (Microsoft New England R & D Center). A great collection of new products await you.
Check out the new PRODUCTS
VOTE for your favorite product launcher to present (VOTE HERE!)
RSVP to attend (it is free to attend)
See who else is planning on attending (click the ATTENDEES tab)
Help spread the word - blog, tweet (using the #MIN60 hashtag), Like, and post!
Support local innovation, network and have fun at the same time.
See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-min60#sthash.A41V5o1w.dpuf
Mass Innovation Nights MIN60
March 12, 2014
6pm-8:30pm
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Are you ready for Mass Innovation Nights #60? We promise it will be an event not to be missed! We're back in Kendall Square at the Microsoft NERD center (Microsoft New England R & D Center). A great collection of new products await you.
Check out the new PRODUCTS
VOTE for your favorite product launcher to present (VOTE HERE!)
RSVP to attend (it is free to attend)
See who else is planning on attending (click the ATTENDEES tab)
Help spread the word - blog, tweet (using the #MIN60 hashtag), Like, and post!
Support local innovation, network and have fun at the same time.
See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-min60#sthash.A41V5o1w.dpuf
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Important People Honest Conversations with Adam Melonas
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Startup Institute Boston 179 Lincoln Street, Suite 405 Boston (Please use the entrance at 1 Surface Street)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/important-people-honest-conversations-tickets-10633151041
The morning after an evening spend trick-or-treating, a 13 year old boy had an argument with his health-conscious father when he found most of his candy had been confiscated. Surely, this scene has played out time and again in households across our country, but this time was different because Nicky asked, "why not make candy with good-for-you ingredients?" From there, UNREAL Candy was born. One year later, their product could be found in every major CVS, Target, and Stop&Shop.
On Wednesday, March 12, we're excited to welcome Adam Melonas, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation of UNREAL Candy. Adam is responsible for creating a candy without the corn syrup, artificial ingredients, and partially hydrogenated oils typically found in candies, and creating a product with responsibly sourced incredients. And guess what? It still tastes good!
Allan Telio, VP & Director of Startup Institute Boston, will moderate a candid conversation with Adam. Wine, beer, and cheese will be served at 6:30pm, and the conversation will begin at 7:00pm. Please use the hashtag #IPHC.
Startup Institute Boston 179 Lincoln Street, Suite 405 Boston (Please use the entrance at 1 Surface Street)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/important-people-honest-conversations-tickets-10633151041
The morning after an evening spend trick-or-treating, a 13 year old boy had an argument with his health-conscious father when he found most of his candy had been confiscated. Surely, this scene has played out time and again in households across our country, but this time was different because Nicky asked, "why not make candy with good-for-you ingredients?" From there, UNREAL Candy was born. One year later, their product could be found in every major CVS, Target, and Stop&Shop.
On Wednesday, March 12, we're excited to welcome Adam Melonas, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation of UNREAL Candy. Adam is responsible for creating a candy without the corn syrup, artificial ingredients, and partially hydrogenated oils typically found in candies, and creating a product with responsibly sourced incredients. And guess what? It still tastes good!
Allan Telio, VP & Director of Startup Institute Boston, will moderate a candid conversation with Adam. Wine, beer, and cheese will be served at 6:30pm, and the conversation will begin at 7:00pm. Please use the hashtag #IPHC.
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David Catalunya, Medieval Keyboard Concert
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
7:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 14W-111, Killian Hall, Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
A concert by David Catalunya, a Medieval keyboard player and music researcher from Barcelona currently on the faculty of W??rzburg. He is one of the greatest minds in medieval music both from a research stand point (his dissertation on 14th c. Spanish music is winning every award in Europe) and as a performer (with the group Mala Punica and his own group Canto Coronato). His most recent work has been in recreating "mechanized psaltries"/"hammered clavicembela" of the early fifteenth century -- that is to say, medieval pianos (that play soft and loud). Listen to live on his website: http://www.davidcatalunya.com/clavisimbalum/ 7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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Thursday, March 13
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7:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 14W-111, Killian Hall, Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
A concert by David Catalunya, a Medieval keyboard player and music researcher from Barcelona currently on the faculty of W??rzburg. He is one of the greatest minds in medieval music both from a research stand point (his dissertation on 14th c. Spanish music is winning every award in Europe) and as a performer (with the group Mala Punica and his own group Canto Coronato). His most recent work has been in recreating "mechanized psaltries"/"hammered clavicembela" of the early fifteenth century -- that is to say, medieval pianos (that play soft and loud). Listen to live on his website: http://www.davidcatalunya.com/clavisimbalum/ 7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request@mit.edu
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Thursday, March 13
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Center for Computational Engineering 2014 Student Symposium
Thursday, March 13, 2014
4:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, 34-401B, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
4:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 26-100, 34-401B, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.tinyurl.com/MITCCE14
Speaker: Dr. Cleve Moler, co-Founder of Mathworks
The Center for Computational Engineering (CCE) invites graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and other CCE-affiliated researchers to a symposium highlighting student research in computational science and engineering at MIT. The symposium will feature student research demonstrating the development of computational methods and diverse applications of computational tools in engineering, science, and social sciences, ranging from supply chain management and economics to aeronautical engineering and fluid dynamics. Graduate students are encouraged to submit a poster as an opportunity to present their research to peers, professors, and members of the CCE community.
This symposium will consist of two parts: (i) a keynote speaker, Dr. Cleve Moler, and (ii) a poster session. Refreshments will be provided.
Web site: http://www.tinyurl.com/MITCCE14
Open to: open to the general public, registration via website is needed
Tickets: website
Sponsor(s): Center for Computational Engineering, Computation for Design and Optimization
For more information, contact: Hadi Kasab
hadi1@mit.edu
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SSRC Seminar: MIT BLOSSOMS: In-Class Learning of Math and Science in a Different Way
Thursday, March 13, 2014
4:15p–6:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
4:15p–6:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems, Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
Designing Sociotechnical Systems for a Complex World
Please join us at our first spring seminar in the SSRC Occasional Distinguished Lecture Series. Prof. Richard Larson will introduce BLOSSOMS, review its history, highlight current projects in Malaysia, China, and Massachusetts, and discuss possible new work. A reception will follow the presentation.
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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Brazil 2014: Soccer, Elections, and the Excitement Ahead
Thursday, March 13, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
PANELISTS
Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp);
Marcus Melo, Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE);
Sergio Lazarini, Professor at INSPER (Sao Paulo);
Timothy J. Power, Director of the Brazilian Studies Program (University of Oxford, UK)
Moderator: Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT-Brazil Program
Web site: http://misti.mit.edu/brazil-2014-soccer-elections-and-excitement-ahead
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT-Brazil, MIT Political Science Department
For more information, contact: Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar
617- 258-6007
mit-brazil@mit.edu
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge
PANELISTS
Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp);
Marcus Melo, Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE);
Sergio Lazarini, Professor at INSPER (Sao Paulo);
Timothy J. Power, Director of the Brazilian Studies Program (University of Oxford, UK)
Moderator: Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT-Brazil Program
Web site: http://misti.mit.edu/brazil-2014-soccer-elections-and-excitement-ahead
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Center for International Studies, MIT-Brazil, MIT Political Science Department
For more information, contact: Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar
617- 258-6007
mit-brazil@mit.edu
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Olafur Eliasson Artist Lecture: “Holding hands with the sun”
Thursday, March 13
5:00 p.m.
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free and open to the public but reservations strongly recommended:http://artsm.it/eliasson
Olafur Eliasson Artist Lecture: “Holding hands with the sun”
Thursday, March 13
5:00 p.m.
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free and open to the public but reservations strongly recommended:http://artsm.it/eliasson
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Geoengineering: Science and Governance
Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:00pm
Harvard
Phil Rasch, Chief Scientist for Climate Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Finding safe, secure alterative ways to combat climate change requires exploration and innovation. Join us to learn more about this topic from leading climate engineering researchers. Sponsored by HUCE and the MIT Joint Program on Global Change
Dr. Philip Rasch serves as the Chief Scientist for Climate Science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy Office of Science research laboratory. In his advisory role, he provides leadership and direction to PNNL's Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change (ASGC) Division. The Division conducts research on the long‐term impact of human activities on climate and natural resources using a research strategy that starts with measurements and carries that information into models, with a goal of improving the nation's ability to predict climate change.
Dr. Rasch provides oversight to more than 90 researchers who lead and contribute to programs within a number of government agencies and industry. These programs focus on climate, aerosol and cloud physics; global and regional scale modeling; integrated assessment of global change; and complex regional meteorology and chemistry.
Dr. Rasch received a Bachelor Degree in Atmospheric Science and another in Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1976. He then moved to Florida State University for a Master of Science in Meteorology. He went to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado as an Advanced Study Program (ASP) Graduate Fellow to complete his PhD (which was also awarded from Florida State University). Following his PhD, Rasch remained at NCAR, first as ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, and then as a scientist where he worked in various positions. He joined PNNL in 2008. Rasch also holds an adjunct position at the University of Colorado and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington.
Dr. Rasch is internationally known for his work in general circulation, atmospheric chemistry, and climate modeling. He is particularly interested in the role of aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, and has worked on the processes that describe these components of the atmosphere, the computational details that are needed to describe them in computer models, and on their impact on climate. For the last five years, he helped to lead the technical development team for the next generation of the atmospheric component of the Community Climate System Model Project, one of the major climate modeling activities in the United States. He also studies geoengineering, or the intentional manipulation of the atmosphere to counteract global warming.
Dr. Rasch was a chair of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program (IGAC, 2004‐2008), and participates on the steering and scientific committees of a number of international scientific bodies. He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognized for his contributions to climate modeling and connecting cloud formation, atmospheric chemistry and climate. He has contributed to scientific assessments for the World Meteorological Organization, NASA and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:00pm
Harvard
Phil Rasch, Chief Scientist for Climate Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Finding safe, secure alterative ways to combat climate change requires exploration and innovation. Join us to learn more about this topic from leading climate engineering researchers. Sponsored by HUCE and the MIT Joint Program on Global Change
Dr. Philip Rasch serves as the Chief Scientist for Climate Science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy Office of Science research laboratory. In his advisory role, he provides leadership and direction to PNNL's Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change (ASGC) Division. The Division conducts research on the long‐term impact of human activities on climate and natural resources using a research strategy that starts with measurements and carries that information into models, with a goal of improving the nation's ability to predict climate change.
Dr. Rasch provides oversight to more than 90 researchers who lead and contribute to programs within a number of government agencies and industry. These programs focus on climate, aerosol and cloud physics; global and regional scale modeling; integrated assessment of global change; and complex regional meteorology and chemistry.
Dr. Rasch received a Bachelor Degree in Atmospheric Science and another in Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1976. He then moved to Florida State University for a Master of Science in Meteorology. He went to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado as an Advanced Study Program (ASP) Graduate Fellow to complete his PhD (which was also awarded from Florida State University). Following his PhD, Rasch remained at NCAR, first as ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, and then as a scientist where he worked in various positions. He joined PNNL in 2008. Rasch also holds an adjunct position at the University of Colorado and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington.
Dr. Rasch is internationally known for his work in general circulation, atmospheric chemistry, and climate modeling. He is particularly interested in the role of aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, and has worked on the processes that describe these components of the atmosphere, the computational details that are needed to describe them in computer models, and on their impact on climate. For the last five years, he helped to lead the technical development team for the next generation of the atmospheric component of the Community Climate System Model Project, one of the major climate modeling activities in the United States. He also studies geoengineering, or the intentional manipulation of the atmosphere to counteract global warming.
Dr. Rasch was a chair of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program (IGAC, 2004‐2008), and participates on the steering and scientific committees of a number of international scientific bodies. He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognized for his contributions to climate modeling and connecting cloud formation, atmospheric chemistry and climate. He has contributed to scientific assessments for the World Meteorological Organization, NASA and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
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Kate Crawford
Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Kate Crawford is a 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. She researches how people engage with networked technologies, and analyse the political, cultural, legal, philosophical and policy-making implications. She has done interview-based studies in Australia, India and the US, in big cities and in very small towns. Crawford is interested in how networked data becomes part of our understanding of knowledge, privacy, democracy, intimacy and subjectivity. Her first book Adult Themes was through Pan Macmillan, and she is currently working on a new book.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Kate Crawford is a 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. She researches how people engage with networked technologies, and analyse the political, cultural, legal, philosophical and policy-making implications. She has done interview-based studies in Australia, India and the US, in big cities and in very small towns. Crawford is interested in how networked data becomes part of our understanding of knowledge, privacy, democracy, intimacy and subjectivity. Her first book Adult Themes was through Pan Macmillan, and she is currently working on a new book.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Info Table: MassChallenge
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:00pm - 7:30pm
Venture Café (Café Table) @ CIC, One Broadway, Cambridge
Meet MassChallenge staffers to learn more about the application process for the world's largeststartup accelerator. Benefits for startups include world-class mentorship and training, a driven community of fellow entrepreneurs, $10M+ of in-kin d benefits, and $1M+ in cash grants annually with no equity taken and no r estrictions. Early bird appli cationsare due March 5 and all applications are due by April 2.
Venture Café (Café Table) @ CIC, One Broadway, Cambridge
Meet MassChallenge staffers to learn more about the application process for the world's largeststartup accelerator. Benefits for startups include world-class mentorship and training, a driven community of fellow entrepreneurs, $10M+ of in-kin d benefits, and $1M+ in cash grants annually with no equity taken and no r estrictions. Early bird appli cationsare due March 5 and all applications are due by April 2.
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The Rise of China: Implications for the Japanese Military and the US-Japan Alliance
Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Center for International Studies, is an expert on Japanese studies.
Taylor Fravel, associate professor of political science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT, studies China's foreign and security policies.
Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Major General (Retired, Japan Self Defense Force), senior fellow, Harvard Asia Center, and research principal, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratory.
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University, has written on Japan, China, and Asia.
Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously served as an unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Friday, March 14
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MacVicar Day 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
2:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Symposium: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Reception: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
2:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Symposium: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Reception: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Creating a Network of Mentors: A Roundtable
Join us to honor the 2014 MacVicar Faculty Fellows and celebrate the tradition of excellence in teaching at MIT. Dean Dennis Freeman will introduce the new Fellows and moderate a symposium focused on the ways we educate advisees and other undergraduates beyond the MIT classroom. The Roundtable will feature Professors David Darmofal, Nergis Mavalvala, Leslie Norford, and Stephen Tapscott, and Chemical Engineering major Justin Bullock '14.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Faculty Support, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, MacVicar Fellows
For more information, contact: Office of Faculty Support
617-253-6776
macvicarprogram@mit.edu
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“The Art and Science of Solar Lights”
Olafur Eliasson with Harald Quintus-¬Bosz, Chief Technology Officer, Cooper Perkins
Friday, March 14
6:00 p.m.
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free with MIT Museum admission
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
“The Art and Science of Solar Lights”
Olafur Eliasson with Harald Quintus-¬Bosz, Chief Technology Officer, Cooper Perkins
Friday, March 14
6:00 p.m.
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free with MIT Museum admission
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
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“Climate Solutions: Meeting the Challenge”
Friday, March 14, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
7-9pm
Trinitarian Congregational Church, 54 Walden Street, Concord
Trinitarian Congregational Church, 54 Walden Street, Concord
Speaker: Frances Moore Lappé
ConcordCAN!, joining with five other local sponsors, is proud and excited to announce that the next major speaker in the “Climate Solutions” speaker series will be renowned author and speaker Frances Moore Lappé. Save the date now; and stand by for further details!
Frances Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy “Diet for a Small Planet.” Her most recent work, Eco-Mind, (released by Nation Books in September 2011) is the winner of a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Environment/Ecology/Nature category.
Frances Moore Lappé has brought her brilliant and original mind to deeply consider the question of how best to approach the climate crisis. In her Concord appearance on March 14, she will assure us “that solutions to global crises are right in front of our noses, and our real challenge is to free ourselves from self-defeating thought traps that keep us from bringing these solutions to life.” In keeping with her upbeat message, the event will open with the lively music of local singer-guitarist, Tom Yates. There will be a book signing and reception at the conclusion of her remarks.
The “Climate Solutions: Meeting the Challenge” speaker series is co-sponsored by six local organizations: ConcordCAN!, The League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle, the Social Action Community at First Parish in Concord, Musketaquid Arts and the Environment, Trinitarian Congregational Church, and Trinity Episcopal Church. What brings all of these organizations together is a common belief that solving the climate crisis is the most important challenge of our times and critical for the survival of all life on this planet.
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"AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs" - Film Screening
Friday, March 14, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America's past and its potentially radical future.
The documentary film, plunges us into Boggs's lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs's constantly evolving strategy-her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her-drives the story forward. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs's late husband James and a host of Detroit comrades across three generations help shape this uniquely American story. As she wrestles with a Detroit in ongoing transition, contradictions of violence and non-violence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the 1967 rebellions, and non-linear notions of time and history, Boggs emerges with an approach that is radical in its simplicity and clarity: revolution is not an act of aggression or merely a protest. Revolution, is about the ability to transform oneself to transform the world.
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America's past and its potentially radical future.
The documentary film, plunges us into Boggs's lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs's constantly evolving strategy-her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her-drives the story forward. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs's late husband James and a host of Detroit comrades across three generations help shape this uniquely American story. As she wrestles with a Detroit in ongoing transition, contradictions of violence and non-violence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the 1967 rebellions, and non-linear notions of time and history, Boggs emerges with an approach that is radical in its simplicity and clarity: revolution is not an act of aggression or merely a protest. Revolution, is about the ability to transform oneself to transform the world.
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, Office of Minority Education and History.
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
617-253-8844
wgs@mit.edu
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, Office of Minority Education and History.
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
617-253-8844
wgs@mit.edu
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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.
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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Wednesday, March 19
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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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Thursday, March 20
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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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Thursday, March 20
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"Risk, Perception, and Response" Conference
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
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/
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.
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
Lisa_Robinson@hks.harvard.edu
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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/
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.
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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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,
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.
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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Friday, March 21
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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.
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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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.
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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"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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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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Saturday, March 22
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World Water Day
Saturday, March 22, 2014
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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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!
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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Monday, March 24
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Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal
Monday, March 24
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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Tuesday, March 25
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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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Thursday, March 27
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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
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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Saturday, March 29
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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!
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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Sunday, March 30
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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
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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Opportunity
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events/calendar/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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