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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, December 1
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9:30am Daylighting - Structure - Noseprints @ The Harvard Museums
12pm A Systems Approach to Fostering Innovation Ecosystems within Academic and Business Communities
12pm Financing Energy Innovation: Government Grants, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurs
12:15pm "Democracy and the Deep-Sea: Telepresence and Public Participation in Remote Environments”
4pm Health Insurance Plan Choice
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Panel: Whither the Earth: Hands off? Geoengineer? Or Biosphere 3?
5pm Broken Memory, Shining Dust: Film Screening
6pm Theodore H. White Lecture with Mark Halperin & John Heilemann
6pm The old city and the sea-- Boston landmaking meets sea level rise
6:30pm "New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
6:30pm Social Media Strategy Mapping
7pm Social Physics: from ideas to actions
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Tuesday, December 2
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10am Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: "Media, Campaigns, and 2016”
11:30am 3D Printing of tough and conducting hydrogel materials
12:15pm Responding to New Realities in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, and ISIS
12:30pm The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property
12:30pm "Protecting the Global Commons: The Role of International Financial Institutions”
1pm Paul Farmer on Ebola and the Future of Global Health Equity
3pm "Biomass in the Energy Industry"
3:30pm xTalks: Book Release Celebration - Art of Insight in Science & Engineering
4pm Bio-mimetic Drones: From Collision Free to Collision Friendly
4pm Reflexive Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in Games
4pm NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project: Overview and Propulsion Technology Highlights
4:10pm Making Cities Work: The PerformanceStat Potential
4:30pm Climate and Thoreau
4:30pm Conditions of violence in Central America and their effects on emigration from that region
5pm How Tactile Cues Can Assist Navigation
5:30pm Askwith Forum - Closing the Gap: African American Educational Excellence
5:30pm Clean Energy Prize Kickoff: NSTAR MIT Clean Energy Prize
6pm BASG: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
6pm Nanoresearch: Swiss and American perspectives on academic-industrial collaboration
6:30pm The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
7pm Film Screening: ART21 "Fiction" (2014)
7pm Peace & PlanetNo Nukes! No Wars! No Warming! Boston Area Organizing Meeting
7:30pm Pretty Faces (FREE admission)
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Wednesday, December 3
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9:30am Winter Investor Roundtable – McCarter & English Entrepreneurs Series at Cambridge Innovation Center
12pm Nanotechnology in the Development of Future Nano electronics
12pm Orientalism and the Apocalypse
12:15pm Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Challenges: Why Technology will Define our Energy Future
12:30pm Disappearance: Violence & Urban Governance in Mexico
1pm Mass-independent Sulfur Isotope Fractionation During Photochemistry of Sulfur Dioxide
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series—How a Language Was Born: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Social Factors That Led to the Creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language
4pm The Politics of Destruction: “Managing” Political Relationships and the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
4:10pm "Learning by Doing in Solar Photovoltaic Installations”
4:15pm "Deep Learning”
5pm What can floating an airplane across the Pacific Ocean on 15,000 plastic bottles tell you about the world’s garbage patches?”
5:30pm Urban Infrastructures for Public Health: Conversation on Civic Tech
6:30pm Synthetic Human Organs on Chips
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Thursday, December 4
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Cyber Security Symposium
3pm A Conversation with Composer/Instrumentalist David Amram
4pm Human-like Singing and Talking Machines: Flexible Speech Synthesis in Karaoke, Anime, Smart Phones, Video Games, Digital Signage, TV and Radio Programs
4pm “Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility”
4:15pm What are the causes of rising CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere?
5:30pm Strategic Partners in Cleantech Discussion #3: How to Pitch to Strategic Partners
6pm The Road to Intelligence
6:30pm Flash Forum: Warrior Princess
6:30pm TechHub Boston Demo Night - December 2014
7pm Farmed Seaweed: The Next Great Sustainable Seafood?
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Friday, December 5
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MassHack Winter 2014
12pm Quantification of emissions from various sectors in the oil and gas industry: methane and cohorts
12:30pm Sustainable Development in Asia
2pm Winter Bike Festival
6pm MIT Trashion Show
6:45pm "Climate Change, Local Adaptation, and Arctic Plant Communities”
7pm The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
7pm City Connect: A Night of Dancing, Drinking, & Connecting
7pm Playing For The Planet
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Saturday, December 6
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10am Underwater Robotics
12pm Artisan’s Asylum Winter Open Studios
5:30pm Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
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Sunday, December 7
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1:30pm The Language of Humanism
5pm Light for Lima Vigil #LightforLima
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Monday, December 8
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8:15am The French-American Innovation Day 2014: The Challenge of Innovation in the Energy Field: Energy Storage
12pm MASS Seminar - Zhiming Kuang (Harvard)
12pm Industrial Urbanism in Africa
4:30pm Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
7pm Fuzzy Beliefs and Preferences: We All Have Them What Should We Do About Them?
7pm Gustav Metzger's Dome(s) Project
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Tuesday, December 9
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Moodsnap, and More!
12pm American Association of Port Authorities President to Deliver Talk at Volpe
4pm "iBiology: New Opportunities for Learning Biology through the Internet”
4:30pm Animal Psychology
6pm Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
7pm The Bee: A Natural History
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Notes on The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-splendid-century-life-under-louis.html
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Monday, December 1
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Speaker: Rajesh Nair, Visiting Scholar, Tata Center for Technology and Design, MIT; Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Degree Controls, Inc.; and SDM Alumnus
Financing Energy Innovation: Government Grants, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurs
Monday, December 1
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard Environmental Economics Program Fellow and Harvard University Ph.D. Student
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"Democracy and the Deep-Sea: Telepresence and Public Participation in Remote Environments"
Monday, December 1
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Zara Mirmalek, Harvard, STS Fellow
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Contact Name: sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-01-171500-2014-12-01-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.s2eBce30.dpuf
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Health Insurance Plan Choice
Monday, December 1
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jonathan Gruber (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: Jonathan Gruber has been in the news a bit lately. Could be an interesting discussion.
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Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Panel: Whither the Earth: Hands off? Geoengineer? Or Biosphere 3?
Monday, December 1
4:30p–6:00p
MIT Museum, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: With Samuel Bowring (MIT), Daniel Schrag (Harvard), David Keith (Harvard)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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Theodore H. White Lecture with Mark Halperin & John Heilemann
WHEN Mon., Dec. 1, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/theodore-h-white-lecture-mark-halperin-john-heilemann
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The old city and the sea-- Boston landmaking meets sea level rise
Monday, December 1
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-old-city-and-the-sea-boston-landmaking-meets-sea-level-rise-tickets-13955141203
Speakers: Nancy Seasholes and Julie Wormser, moderated by Mike Ross
Boston Living with Water (http://www.bostonlivingwithwater.org) is a website managed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, The Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Society of Architects. Here you will find resources, educational forums and details on Boston’s international design competition, held from October 29, 2014 through June 2015.
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Social Media Strategy Mapping
Monday, December 1
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
General Assembly Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
http://ga.co/c8I
Social media initiatives don’t start when you register a Facebook or Twitter account and start posting announcements, it begins much sooner. In this workshop, you’ll be taken through a seven-step framework for strategic mapping that will help guide your efforts to develop an actionable social media strategy.
You’ll learn how to structure your social media efforts, deploy your resources, and ultimately launch a social media campaign that is professional and provides results you’ll be able to interpret and understand.
Takeaways
Learn how to develop and implement a social media strategy.
Find out how to manage and adapt your strategy when working with big teams, small teams, or volunteers.
Be able to measure your social strategy.
Discover how to incorporate a social strategy into your other marketing.
Preparation: Please bring a laptop or pencil/paper to take notes (you will need to be able to draw diagrams). A smartphone/tablet camera is also recommended for taking pictures of the white board.
Organizer: General Assembly
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Social Physics: from ideas to actions
Thursday, December 11
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-054, Bartos Auditorium (MIT Room E15-054), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sandy Pentland
We live our lives in social networks...mostly face-to-face, but increasingly digital...and yet we don't know how to leverage these networks to make us smarter or more innovative. By combining sophisticated machine learning with `big data' gathered from wearables, cell phones and credit cards I have been able able to extract the patterns that drive innovation in our communities, companies, and cities, and by using feedback from mobiles, wearables, and the web I have show how we can enhance these patterns to improve our society. One of the big barriers to using this technology is privacy and security, and building on my 6 years co-leading discussions at Davos I have worked out a concrete way to increase innovation while at the same time enhancing personal privacy, and have tested this solution in `Living Labs' in both the US and Europe.
Professor Alex `Sandy' Pentland has helped create and direct MIT's Media Lab, and is a member of the Advisory Boards for Google, Nissan, Telefonica, the UN Secretary General, and the World Economic Forum. In 2012 Forbes named Sandy one of the 'seven most powerful data scientists in the world', along with Google founders and the CTO of the United States. He is among the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and a pioneer in computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent book is `Social Physics,' published by Penguin Press.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/pentland.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact: Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@mit.edu
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Tuesday, December 2
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Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: "Media, Campaigns, and 2016”
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 9 – 10:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times; visiting lecturer, Harvard University
Kristen Soltis Anderson, IOP Fellow; co-founder, Echelon Insights
Mark Halperin, Theodore H. White Lecturer; managing editor, Bloomberg Politics
John Heilemann, Theodore H. White Lecturer; managing editor, Bloomberg Politics
David Rogers, Nyhan Prize winner; reporter, Politico
Alex S. Jones, moderator; director of the Shorenstein Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: a panel discussion based on the topic of the Theodore H. White Lecture, "Optimism for a Change: Media, Campaigns and 2016".
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/theodore-h-white-lecture-mark-halperin-john-heilemann/
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3D Printing of tough and conducting hydrogel materials
Tuesday, December 2
11:30am to 12:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Marc in het Panhuis
Abstract: Additive fabrication techniques such as three-dimensional (3D) printing are receiving growing interest from a diverse range of fields due to their ability to quickly produce complex 3D objects. However, new applications of hydrogels such as soft robotics and cartilage tissue scaffolds require hydrogels with enhanced mechanical performance, which has stimulated an investigation into how hydrogels may be made electrically conducting, tougher and more enduring. Moreover, the parallel development of these materials and suitable 3D fabrication techniques has accelerated the advancement of many technologies including bionic implants, sensors, controlled release systems and soft robotics. The understanding of how to marry these recent advances in materials (e.g. tough and/or electrically conducting hydrogels) with manufacturing (3D printing of hydrogels) for the purpose of building smart hydrogel materials is incomplete. In this presentation, I will describe our approach to 3D printing tough materials consisting of ionic-covalent entanglement (ICE) gels consisting of ionically cross-linked and covalently cross-linked polymer networks. The crucial aspect to facilitate printing is that these gels can be prepared in a “one-pot” synthesis approach, which involves optimization of the rheological conditions. Using this approach we have developed a variety of tough (and conducting) hydrogel systems and fiber reinforced hydrogels that can be 3D printed in a single-step process. For example, composite materials could be fabricated by selectively 3D pattering a combination of alginate/acrylamide gel and an epoxy based UV-curable adhesive. Spatial control of fiber distribution within the digital models allowed for the fabrication of a series of materials with a spectrum of swelling behavior and mechanical properties with physical characteristics ranging from soft and wet to hard and dry. Finally, I will present our understanding of the mechanical and electrical behavior, and illustrate the potential applications of our materials by a number of prototypes, i.e. pressure sensor, artificial cartilage meniscus and a working valve.
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
Contact: LaShanda Banks
Email: lbanks@seas.harvard.edu
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Responding to New Realities in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, and ISIS
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center Fellows Program
SPEAKER(S) Amine Jaoui, WCFIA Fellow, former adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, UAE; Thomas O'Steen, WCFIA Fellow, colonel, US Army; Oliver Owcza, WCFIA Fellow, diplomat, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
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The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property
Tuesday, December 2
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/12/silbey#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/12/silbey at 12:30 pm.
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School
The book analyzes and elaborates upon a qualitative empirical study of artists, scientists, engineers, lawyers and businesspeople that investigates the motivations and mechanisms of creative and innovative activity in everyday professional life. Based on over fifty face-to-face interviews, the book centers on the stories told by interviewees describing how and why they create and innovate and whether or how IP law plays a role in their activities. The goal of the empirical project was to figure out how IP actually works in creative and innovative fields, as opposed to how we think or say it works (through formal law or legislative debate). Breaking new ground in its qualitative method examining the economic and cultural system of creative and innovative production, The Eureka Myth draws out new and surprising conclusions about the sometimes misinterpreted relationships between creativity, invention and intellectual property protections.
About Jessica Silbey
Professor Silbey's scholarship draws from her interdisciplinary background in the humanities and law. One of her interests is in intellectual property law, particularly in the investigation of "IP communities:" activities, groups and organizations with a particular creative or innovative focus. She studies the common and conflicting narratives within those communities in relation to intellectual property law and legal institutions that purport to regulate them. She is especially interested in the connections between cultural narratives of creation, discovery, incentive and labor and their legal counterparts in IP communities, statutes and legal cases. The empirical dimension of this project (conducting and analyzing interviews with artists, scientists and intellectual property professionals) will be published by Stanford University Press in 2014.
Another of her interests is in the interrelationship of law and film in legal practice and popular culture. Her research and writing in this area investigates how film and video are used as legal tools and how they become objects of legal analysis. A long-time interest since she was a graduate student in literature and film, her work explores questions such as: how does automated surveillance film become testimony in a court of law? How do cultural perceptions about film and video affect their evaluation by jurors, advocates and judges? How might legal actors and lay citizens mobilize the audiovisual technology of our twenty-first century to further the promises of our justice system? A current project in this area concerns ultrasound technology and the politics of reproductive choice.
Professor Silbey teaches courses in constitutional law and intellectual property.
Professor Silbey received her B.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. and Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) from the University of Michigan. Before joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, Professor Silbey was a litigator at the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Keeton on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and to the Honorable Levin Campbell on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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"Protecting the Global Commons: The Role of International Financial Institutions"
Tuesday, December 2
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
with Naoko Ishii, Chairperson and CEO, Global Environmental Facility, the World Bank Group. Moderator: Susan Pharr. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira
sfujihira@wcfia.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-02-173000-2014-12-02-190000/wcfia-program-us-japan-relations-seminar#sthash.2Vj69LVo.dpuf
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Introduction by Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University; Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
COST Harvard University affiliated staff, faculty and students are invited to attend
CONTACT INFO communications@hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
Light refreshments will be provided. Q&A to follow.
If you are unable to attend, we will be offering a live webcast of the event, starting at 1pm. Please visit: www.cchmav.org/ebola_farmer/live.html.
LINK http://www.cchmav.org/ebola_farmer/live.html
with Dr. John Pierce Chief Bioscientist, BP
xTalks: Book Release Celebration - Art of Insight in Science & Engineering
Tuesday, December 2,
3:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 10-105, (Bush Room), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sanjoy Mahajan
MIT Press author and ODL colleague Sanjoy Mahajan will discuss why we humans, to master the complexity of our world, need insight rather than precision. He'll also discuss the inspiration for publishing his book under a free license (CC-BY-NC-SA). Copies of Mahajan's books will be available for sale at 20% discount, as well as Vijay Kumar & Toru Iiyoshi's Opening Up Education, Peter Suber's Open Access, and others.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks 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.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/sanjoy-mahajan/
Open to: the general public
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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Bio-mimetic Drones: From Collision Free to Collision Friendly
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G-115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dario Floreano, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland, Director, Swiss National Center of Robotics
Drones capable of flying in confined spaces without GPS signal offer amazing socio-economical opportunities, but also present great scientific and technological challenges. Dr. Floreano will start by describing recent work on collision-free flight by means of insect-inspired sensors and control. He will then argue for the need to make these drones collision-friendly and describe flying robots capable of surviving and exploiting collisions in order to explore extremely cluttered environments in poor visibility conditions. Dr. Floreano will conclude by describing ongoing work on foldable and shape-shifting drones for easy deployment and multi-modal locomotion in the air and on the ground.
Bio: Prof. Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL and Director of the Swiss National Center of Robotics. His research focuses on the convergence of biology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He published more than 300 articles and four books on evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired artificial intelligence, and bio-mimetic flying robots with MIT Press and Springer Verlag. He has been a founding member of the World Economic Forum Council on robotics and smart devices, co-founder of the International Society of Artificial Life, Inc. (USA), and executive board member of the International Society for Neural Networks. His research and public engagement activities have resulted in three spin-offs: senseFly Ltd. producing drones for professional imaging, Flyability Ltd. producing drones for inspection, and RoboHub Inc., the world-largest, non-for-profit communication agency in robotics.
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Speaker: Dr. Kenneth L. Suder, Chief, LTE0/Turbomachinery and Turboelectric Systems Branch Propulsion Division, Research and Engineering Directorate, NASA Glenn Research Center
Sponsor(s): AeroAstro
For more information, contact: Robin Courchesne-Sato
617-253-2481
rsato@mit.edu
Making Cities Work: The PerformanceStat Potential
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Robert Behn, senior lecturer in public policy
Joseph A. Curtatone, mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts and senior fellow, Ash Center
Tony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Will_Pfeffer@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer Robert Behn and Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone will discuss Behn’s new book The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results. The book explores the growth and prominence of PerformanceStat leadership strategy across so many jurisdictions and agencies in pursuit of improve government performance. With examples from three dozen government jurisdictions and public agencies, Behn explores the leadership behaviors of public officials who leverage the PerformanceStat strategy to promote economic independence, to eradicate urban blight, and to harness their institutions’ full capacity. In response, Mayor Curtatone, whose ground-breaking work on SomerStat in Somerville is highlighted in the book, will offer additional insights.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/Challenges-to-Democracy/Events/Making-Cities-Work-The-PerformanceStat-Potential
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Climate and Thoreau
Tuesday, December 2
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Richard Primack, Professor of Biology
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Conditions of violence in Central America and their effects on emigration from that region
Tuesday, December 2
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Louisa Reynolds, 2014-2015 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Inter-University Committee on International Migration
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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How Tactile Cues Can Assist Navigation
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Lynette A. Jones, senior research scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-lynette-a-jones-lecture
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Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Challenges: Why Technology will Define our Energy Future
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S) Francesco Starace, CEO and general manager, Enel Group
LINK http://heep.hks.harvard.edu/event/meeting-tomorrow’s-energy-challenges-why-technology-will-define-our-energy-future-mr
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Speaker: Jota Samper, Andres Lajous, and Miguel Basanez
Please save the date for a panel on the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. The panel will address violence and disappearances in Mexico as they relate to urban governance, particularly highlighting implications for future urban governance and drawing on international examples.
Lunch will be served to RSVPs.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: RSVP by email
Sponsor(s): International Development Group, DUSP Student Council
For more information, contact: Claire Evans
cmevans@mit.edu
Mass-independent Sulfur Isotope Fractionation During Photochemistry of Sulfur Dioxide
Wednesday, December 3
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Andrew Richard Whitehill
Thesis Defense
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: N/A
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series—How a Language Was Born: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Social Factors That Led to the Creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ann Senghas, Radcliffe Institute Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow and Barnard College
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-ann-senghas-fellow-presentation
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with Juliette Kayyem, Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and former Undersecretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Advisor to the Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This seminar will focus on intergovernmental relations during the response to the 2010 BP oil spill. Participants will be asked to read a two-part case study about this topic in preparation for the seminar.
In addition, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about Professor Kayyem’s experience as a senior state and federal official dealing with crisis response and homeland security – as well as her teaching at HKS, which this spring will include two graduate-level courses: The Management of Crises Response (MLD-381) and The U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise (IGA-615).
As space is limited, please register by Sunday, November 30th using the following link -- even if you already registered at the beginning of the semester, as we understand that schedules might have changed:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AVqEsT4PWE259chbnMA9zwoB3exzc77TWyZM6bYP63k/viewform?usp=send_form
"Learning by Doing in Solar Photovoltaic Installations"
Wednesday, December 3
4:10PM - 5:30PM
Harvard, L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar
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"Deep Learning"
Wednesday, December 3
4:15p–5:45p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto
Abstract: I will give a brief history of deep learning explaining what it is,what kinds of task it should be good for and why it was largely abandoned in the 1990's. I will then describe how ideas from statistical physics were used to make deep learning work much better on small datasets. Finally I will describe how deep learning is now used by Google for speech recognition and object recognition and how it may soon be used for machine translation.
Biographical Sketch: Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in experimental psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. He spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto. Since 2013, he hasbeen splitting his time between the University of Toronto and Google.
Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of the Royal Society, an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Cognitive Science Society. He was awarded the first David E. Rumelhart prize (2001), the IJCAI award for research excellence (2005) and the Killam prize for Engineering (2012).
CSAIL Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture Series 2014-2015
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/143675
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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What can floating an airplane across the Pacific Ocean on 15,000 plastic bottles tell you about the world’s garbage patches?”
Wednesday December 3
5:00 - 6:00 PM (refreshments at 4:30PM)
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://goo.gl/forms/BbLpk4kv02
Marcus Eriksen, PhD, Director of Research & Co-Founder, 5 Gyres Institute
Abstract: Our “Throw Away” culture has trashed our oceans with plastic to the tune of 270,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion particles. A majority of what we eat, drink, or use in contemporary society comes packaged in petroleum-based plastic – a material designed to last forever, yet used for products that we throw away after a single use. Unable to adequately deal with our plastic garbage, much of our everyday plastics flow out to sea. The lifecycle of plastic in the ocean is a sinister journey from macro to microplastic, sorption of persistent pollutants, and cycling through marine food webs through ingestion, filter-feeding, and entanglement.
During this talk, I will present results from field studies on the current state of the science of plastic marine pollution, including results from our upcoming global estimate of total plastic abundance – the first of its kind. With a focus on solutions, I will discuss how our freshwater research discovered microbeads, which led to legislative victories within one year of publication.
Solutions will be hard-won, and include design innovations to improve the recyclability and recovery rates of products, and a commitment from industry to abandon products that do not measure up. Recommendations on how to address growing problems associated with plastic marine pollution will be discussed from engineering and business perspectives. We welcome academic audience members from all sectors including science, engineering, business and policy.
About the Speaker: Marcus Eriksen is the Director of Research and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Southern California in 2003, months before embarking on a 2000-mile, 5-month journey down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft. His experience on the river led to a career studying the ecological impacts of marine plastic pollution, which has included expeditions sailing 35,000 miles through all 5 subtropical gyres to discover new garbage patches of plastic pollution in the Southern Hemisphere. Still rafting, his most recent adventure sent him and a colleague across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on JUNK a homemade raft floating on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessina airplane fuselage as a cabin. The journey, 2,600 miles in 88 days, drew widespread awareness to the work of the 5 Gyres Institute. His first book, titled “My River Home” (Beacon Press, 2007) chronicled his Mississippi River experience paralleled with his tour as a Marine in the 1991 Gulf War. The experience of war, sailing across the gyres with diverse crews, and long rafting voyages, have led to a strong conservation ethic worth fighting for. Today, Dr. Eriksen continues to drive marine conservation through scientific research, activism, and education on the plague of plastic waste on land and sea.
Contact: Neha Mehta
nehamehta@mit.edu
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Urban Infrastructures for Public Health: Conversation on Civic Tech
Wednesday, December 3
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-infrastructures-for-public-health-conversation-on-civic-tech-registration-14024514701
This Conversation on Civic Tech aims to explore how a city can take an innovative look at public health. While data and technology play a key role in tracking the flu and assisting collaboration among researchers and physicians, technology can also be a useful tool in driving wellness and even economic growth in Boston.
In October, Microsoft was honored to host the second annual Hacking Pediatrics event. The range of innovative ideas that came out of the event was inspiring: from end-to-end childhood vaccine management to accurate, rapid fabrication of custom tracheostomy tubes for children to better ways to manage asthma and monitor use of inhalers. How can we apply the creativity, collaboration and innovation that all come together at a hackathon to public health?
At the fourth in the series of conversations on Civic Tech, we plan to address the following questions:
How does city infrastructure – signage and bike paths – enable public health and wellness?
What role does public health play in the innovation economy in Boston through job creation and industry innovation?
How can collection and analysis of data improve services for citizens and patients?
What technology exists today to collect, analyze or visualize public health data? And what other technologies do we need?
We are bringing together people from various parts of the public and private communities to spark the conversation and then invite the attendees to engage in the discussion. Speaker list will be added as names are confirmed.
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Time, Space, and Reading the Visual in the Graphic Novel
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cognitive Theory and the Arts, Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Hillary Chute, English Department, University of Chicago
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
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Thursday, December 4
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A Conversation with Composer/Instrumentalist David Amram
WHEN Thu., Dec. 4, 2014, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall Studio, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Concerts, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) David Amram
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Composer of more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, two operas, many scores for Broadway theater and film—including the classic scores for the films “Splendor in The Grass” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” as well as the landmark 1959 documentary “Pull My Daisy,” narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac—David Amram will discuss his career during a conversation moderated by Mark Olson, Interim Director of Harvard Bands.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=45168
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Human-like Singing and Talking Machines: Flexible Speech Synthesis in Karaoke, Anime, Smart Phones, Video Games, Digital Signage, TV and Radio Programs
Thursday, December 4
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva Room), Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Keiichi Tokuda , Nagoya Institute of Technology
This talk will give an overview of statistical approach to flexible speech synthesis. For constructing human-like talking machines, speech synthesis systems are required to have an ability to generate speech with arbitrary speaker's voice, various speaking styles in different languages, varying emphasis and focus, and/or emotional expressions. The main advantage of the statistical approach is that such flexibility can easily be realized using mathematically well-defined algorithms. In this talk, the system architecture is outlined and then recent results and demos will be presented.
Keiichi Tokuda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology and currently he is visiting Google on sabbatical. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was an Invited Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), formally known as the ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan from 2000 to 2013, and was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from 2001 to 2002. He has been working on statistical parametric speech synthesis after he proposed an algorithm for speech parameter generation from HMM in 1995. He received six paper awards and two achievement awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ISCA Fellow.
This CSAIL SEMINAR SERIES, organized in cooperation with the Siri team at Apple, invites leading researchers in HLT to give lectures that introduce the fundamentals of spoken language systems, assess the current state of the art, outline challenges, and speculate on how they can be met. Lectures occur 2-3 times per semester and should be accessible to undergraduates with some technical background.
Contact: Marcia G. Davidson, 617-253-3049, marcia@csail.mit.edu
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“Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility"
Thursday, December 4
4:00 pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 8-329 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
Omar Hurricane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ignition has been a long sought-after goal needed to make fusion energy a viable alternative energy source, but ignition has yet to be achieved. For an inertially confined fusion (ICF) plasma to ignite, the plasma must be very well confined and very hot to generate extremely high pressures needed for self-heating – achieving this state is not easy!
In this talk, we will discuss the technology, science, and progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Northern California. We will cover the some of the setbacks encountered during the progress of the research at NIF, but also cover the great advances that have been made.
In particular, we will cover the recent work using the new “high-foot” pulse-shape implosion that presently holds the record for fusion performance. High-foot implosions are the first facility based fusion experiments to generate more energy from fusion than was invested in the fusion fuel and demonstrate significant yield amplifications from alpha-particle self-heating.
More at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html#sthash.7jJHnRB5.dpuf
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What are the causes of rising CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere?
Flash Forum: Warrior Princess
Thursday, December 4
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-forum-warrior-princess-tickets-13702595833
Speaker: Kristin Beck (author, Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender)
Moderator: Elif Armbruster (Associate Professor of English, Suffolk University)
As a 20-year veteran Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck was hailed as a hero, serving on thirteen deployments and ultimately earning a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. But Chris’s biggest battle was coming to terms with the fact that she was really a woman. Now known as Kristin, Beck opens up about her life in a field of masculinity while struggling to acknowledge and accept her true gender. Suffolk English Professor Elif Armbruster helps Beck present her true story, a profile of finding the courage to be herself.
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TechHub Boston Demo Night - December 2014
Thursday, December 4
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall, 306 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhub-boston-demo-night-december-2014-tickets-13552091671
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top StartUps are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech! Come by and chat with this exciting community group while enjoying free beer and preztels at Harpoon, Boston's best brewery (in our minds).
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each company to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each Demo there is live Q&A with the audience.
After the Demo, stick around for a pint and more networking.
Location - Harpoon Brewery Beer Hall & Event Room
6:30 - Doors open
7:00 - Grab some food & drink while listening to presenters demo
8:00 - Networking
9:00 - Continue into the Beer Hall
Interested in demoing your product @ TechHub Demo Night? Get in touch at simon.towers@techhub.com
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Farmed Seaweed: The Next Great Sustainable Seafood?
Thursday, December 4
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium, 1 Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105509&view=Detail
Matt Thompson, aquaculture project lead, Conservation Department, New England Aquarium, and 2013 John H. Cunningham Award Winner
“Is seaweed the next kale?” asked an article promoting seaweed as a health food, but what of its potential as a sustainable seafood? Seaweed farming is one of the largest segments of the global aquaculture industry, which includes a small but growing US contingent. Seaweeds have the potential to be farmed with few environmental impacts and inputs, but they have received little attention in the sustainable seafood movement and aren’t commonly found on US dinner plates.
In an effort to gain a fuller understanding of farmed seaweed, Matt applied for the 2013 John H. Cunningham Award, a professional development program for Aquarium staff to further their knowledge in a particular area. His finding swill be shared during this talk; he will focus on the sustainability of seaweed farming, including recent visits to US and Chinese seaweed farms, and in doing so, ask how we embrace seaweed as a sustainable seafood.
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Friday, December 5
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MassHack Winter 2014
MassHack
Friday, December 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM - Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/masshack-winter-2014-tickets-9325108651
Hackathons are all about innovation. Innovation fuels the economy and helps solve some of the day’s greatest challenges. We need more innovation and to help drive this we are creating one of the largest community driven hackathon.
Developed to be able to bring competitive teams of one-to-six developers into a structured 48-hour applications development environment, MassHack brings the best of the Left Coast’s hackathons together with the venture capital and academic communities of the Right Coast. The Boston metropolitan area has long been home to cool and creative companies, and now we have a world-class competition to challenge the best and brightest.
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Quantification of emissions from various sectors in the oil and gas industry: methane and cohorts
Friday, December 5
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Scott Herndon
Speaker Bio: http://www.aerodyne.com/employees/scott-c-herndon
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Email: rcommane@seas.harvard.edu
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Sustainable Development in Asia
Friday, December 5
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (EST)
Tufts, Cabot 703, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-development-in-asia-tickets-14208823975
Nathan Perry, Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University
Sara Hsu, Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz
The authors will discuss their recent book series examining sustainable development in six countries in Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. They will explore various social, economic, and environmental regulations and practices related to issues of biodiversity, income inequality, healthcare, and water pollution and consumption. The authors will review progress in these areas and compare each pair of countries to highlight policy recommendations.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP
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Winter Bike Festival
Friday, December 5
2:00p–6:00p
W20-First floor, 76 Vassar Street, Cambridge
MIT PN2K will be having a winter bike festival! This event is catered toward the cycling community; free basic bicycle repairs and tune ups courtesy of Bike Boom to get your bikes in good condition for riding in the winter. If you need bike lights, we will have a very limited number of bike lights for a heavily subsidized price ($15). Stop by for music, fun, friends, snacks, and to grab bike safety information from MIT PN2K as well as a map of the cycling routes and bike cages around MIT. Additional tips for cycling in the winter will be provided. Bike lights courtesy of Planet Bike. A chance to win free tire valve lights for stopping by!
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Sponsor(s): Phyo Nyi Nyi Kyaw, MIT
For more information, contact: Ye Yao
pn2kmit-officers@mit.edu
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MIT Trashion Show
Friday, December 5
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Participate in a night of sustainable fashion and enjoy creations from unconventional materials by student designers.
https://www.facebook.com/MITrashion
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"Climate Change, Local Adaptation, and Arctic Plant Communities”
Friday, December 5
6:45 pm.
Harvard, Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Gaius R. Shaver, Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
More information at http://www.rhodora.org/meetings/upcomingmeetings.html
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Friday, December 5
7:00 PM
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Walter Isaacson
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Playing For The Planet
Friday, December 5
7:00 pm
The Community Church Of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/playing-for-the-planet-improvisors-against-climate-change-tickets-13841288667
Admission is $20; $15 students & seniors
The tenth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert showcases master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation, with all proceeds going to benefit the environmental advocacy group 350MA.org. The performers include Nima Janmohammadi, a contemporary master of Persian classical music; Triarky, a brilliant jazz “power trio” featuring violinist Mimi Rabson and the electric tuba of David Harris; and the Hindustani classical singing of Warren Senders, with George Ruckert & Amit Kavthekar. The music begins at For information, please call 781-396-0734, or visit the event website at www.warrensenders.com.
“Playing For The Planet: Improvisors Against Climate Change” is the tenth concert in an ongoing series of cross-cultural concerts conceived as a way for creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Their choice of beneficiary, 350MA.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
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Saturday, December 6
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Underwater Robotics
Saturday, December 6
Main presentation 10:00-11:00 a.m. + hands-on activity booths afterward
MIT Kresge Auditorium 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Presented by MIT Marine Robotics Team
FREE! Open to all elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as their parents and teachers
No preregistration required, but seating is limited— first come, first seated
Map & parking info at edgerton.mit.edu/scienceonsaturday Any questions? Email Dr. Todd H. Rider, thor@mit.edu
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Artisan’s Asylum Winter Open Studios
Saturday, December 6 - Monday, December 8
12pm - 4pm
Artisan's Asylum Inc, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/artisans-asylum-winter-open-studios-tickets-14451156799
Artisan’s Asylum, now one of the largest collaborative maker/art/hacker-spaces in the USA, is holding its third annual Winter Open Studios on December 6th and 7th. Dozens of makers, crafters, jewelers, engineers and artists will participate. Tour workshops and studios, observe demos, and purchase unique artwork. Sign up for classes. Take a peek at welding demos, robotics shops and jewelry classes. See what everyone’s talking about.
Join filmmaker Sarah Holt and EAPS Geologist Samuel A. Bowring to a screening of Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink featuring EAPS Alumni: Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Seth Burgess, and Ben Black.
The Language of Humanism
WHEN Sun., Dec. 7, 2014, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University, Science Center - Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Steven Pinker, Julia Sweeney, Robert Pinsky, Rebecca Goldstein, Greg Epstein
COST Suggested donation - $35
TICKET WEB LINK www.eventbrite.com…
CONTACT INFO info@harvardhumanist.org
LINK www.harvardhumanist.org
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Monday, December 8
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More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-08-050000/french-american-innovation-day-2014%C2%AD-%E2%80%93-challenges-energy-storage#sthash.jFd3Sh14.dpuf
MASS Seminar - Zhiming Kuang (Harvard)
Monday, December 8, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Zhiming Kuang
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Industrial Urbanism in Africa
Monday, December 8, 2014
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Calestous Juma
Africa is one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world. This population shift is associated with rising prospects for urban industrial development. However, it also creates new challenges for land use planning and regulations. This lecture explores the
implications of rapid technological advancement for industrial urbanism in Africa. Using the case of Lagos in Nigeria, it focuses on how technological leapfrogging is likely to create new opportunities for more integrated land use planning approaches in African cities. The lecture outlines regulatory and human resource development strategies needed for African cities to effectively harness emerging technological opportunities for sustainable urban development and the extent to which technological leapfrogging is creating new opportunities for adopting more integrated land use planning.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
Monday, December 8
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Sweet Talk: A Lecture by Kara Walker
WHEN Mon., Dec. 8, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Kara Walker, artist
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-kara-walker-lecture
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-kara-walker-lecture
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Fuzzy Beliefs and Preferences: We All Have Them What Should We Do About Them?
Monday, December 8
7pm – 8pm
The Burren 247 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
Dr Casper Hare
SITN’s Science by the Pint is a chance to interact directly with research scientists. The featured scientists will give a brief intro to her work, and take a few questions before mingling from table to table with other member of her group to chat with you.
Contact http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/
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Gustav Metzger's Dome(s) Project
Monday, December 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniela Perez & Patrick Charpenel
Patrick Charpenel and Daniela Perez will introduce the life and work of the artist Gustav Metzger and expand on one of the artist's most recent proposals regarding the construction and long-term activation of spaces for social change. This project explores questions regarding the environment, climate change, architecture, humanity, biodiversity, consciousness, natural resources, science, technology, food, sustainability, the future, and art, among other topics.
The aim of the lecture is to share Gustav Metzger's project in Mexico with the MIT community at large in order to openly discuss the deep urgency and obligation to act in regard to environmental challenges facing the world today, and the passion that collectively-uniting many strengths-can be harnessed to promote a more sustainable future. The lecture is a platform for conversation that aims to bring together the intellectual and creative strengths that individuals from a variety of departments at MIT can use to explore the role of art in society, commonly described by Gustav Metzger as the path of "ethics into aesthetics."
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Ilse Damkoehler
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, December 9
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Boston TechBreakfast: Moodsnap, and More!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723092/
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 Boston TechBreakfast:
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!
Moodsnap - David Blutenthal
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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American Association of Port Authorities President to Deliver Talk at Volpe
Tuesday, December 9
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell@dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Kurt J. Nagle, President and Chief Executive Officer for the American Association of Port Authorities
Kurt Nagle has over 30 years of experience in Washington, D.C., related to seaports and international trade. Since 1995, Nagle has served as president and chief executive officer for the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA). Nagle began working at AAPA, the alliance of the leading public port authorities throughout the Western Hemisphere, in 1985.
Prior to joining AAPA, Nagle was director of International Trade for the National Coal Association and Assistant Secretary for the Coal Exporters Association.
Previously, he worked in the Office of International Economic Research at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Nagle serves on the Executive Committee of the Propeller Club of the United States and is a former commissioner of PIANC, the International Navigation Congress.
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"iBiology: New Opportunities for Learning Biology through the Internet"
Tuesday, December 9
4:00 pm
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, B23, Mallinckrodt, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Ron Vale, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, the University of California, San Francisco; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Winner of the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Dudley Herschbach Teacher/Scientist Lecture
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Animal Psychology
Tuesday, December 9
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Laurel Braitman, author, Animal Madness
More information at https://ksj.mit.edu/seminars/
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Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
Tuesday, December 9 and 10
6-9pm
196 Quincy Street, Dorchester
Learn from HAACP-expert Amanda Kinchla, of UMASS Food Science Department, as she helps guide you through concept, process, food safety, and product launch. Register for CropCircle Kitchen's 2-day, content-filled course.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-development-considerations-beyond-the-concept-tickets-13270154389
Do you want to better understand the food safety principles behind your process? Do you need help with product development for your current or future food product?
This 2-day course will cover the following topics:
Principals of Food Safety
The Product Development Process
Cycle to Creating a New Food Product
Product Development Process (including business strategy, product testing,product launch)
HACCP Plan requirements and/or Low-acid & Acidified certification
Determining formula, process and packaging for a safe food system
Process Validation requirements
Label Regulations, product claims, ingredient statements and nutrition facts
Operational capabilities and Quality Controls
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The Bee: A Natural History
Tuesday, December 9
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Cost: $10 (Students: email to register for free.)
Noah Wilson-Rich, PhD, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, The Best Bees Company
Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Yet bees are dying at an alarming rate, threatening food supplies and ecosystems around the world. In this natural history talk, Noah Wilson-Rich will provide a window into the vitally important role that bees play in the life of our planet. He will speak about the human–bee relationship through time; explain a bit about bee evolution, ecology, and physiology; and share his holistic approach to bee health and how you can help bee populations.
http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
An Arnold Arboretum Lecture for Adults
Contact Name: Pam Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-10-000000-2014-12-10-013000/bee-natural-history#sthash.ViNjsEDA.dpuf
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Wednesday, December 10
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6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology Final Project Showcase
Wednesday, December 10
3:00p
MIT, Building 32-044, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP: http://bit.ly/ppat_showcase
6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology (PPAT) is a 12-unit, interdisciplinary, project-based course in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to develop a practical product or solution that helps them live more independently. During the term, each team meets with its client, iterates through multiple prototypes, and learns about the complexities of designing assistive technology (AT) for people with disabilities. The course also includes lectures on principles of successful AT design, perspectives from people with disabilities and AT makers and users, design processes and human factors, and social, economic, and ethical perspectives on disability.
PPAT was founded, taught, and championed by Professor Seth Teller, who conceived of the course and taught it from 2011 to 2013. We are very proud to be offering PPAT once again in Fall 2014.
Web site: http://bit.ly/ppat_showcase
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Assistive Technology Club
For more information, contact: William Li
assistivetech-contact@mit.edu
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D-Lab Fall Showcase and Open House
Wednesday, December 10
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building N51-3rd floor
Speaker: D-Lab students
D-Lab challenges talented students to use their math, science, engineering, social science, and business skills to tackle a broad range of global poverty issues. Come see how our students are making an impact!
D-Lab students from the five fall courses offered will be presenting!
D-Lab: Development
D-Lab: Schools
D-Lab: Supply Chains
D-Lab: Waste
Design for Scale
Development Ventures
To kick things off, students will give brief presentations. Attendees will then be able to view all the working prototypes on display throughout the D-Lab space! All welcome.
Web site: http://d-lab.mit.edu/node/1045
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): D-Lab
For more information, contact: Nancy Adams
nadam@mit.edu
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Mass Innovation Nights #MIN69
December 10
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Each month, ten companies bring new products to Mass Innovation Nights and the social media community turns out to blog, tweet, post pictures & video, add product mentions to LinkedIn & Facebook, and otherwise help spread the word. These live events allow companies to show off Massachusetts-based innovation. In the last four years, Mass Innovation Nights have helped to:
Launch more than 650 products
Connect dozens of job seekers and hiring managers
Profile dozens of local experts
Launch a wave of Innovation Nights events around the world (coming soon)
Registration and networking begin at 6:00 pm and presentations begin at 7:00 pm. Innovation Nights are held once a month on-site at various venues that donate their space to further the cause of local innovation.
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/
Organizer: Mass Innovation Nights
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/
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Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
Wednesday, December 10
6-9pm
196 Quincy Street, Dorchester
Learn from HAACP-expert Amanda Kinchla, of UMASS Food Science Department, as she helps guide you through concept, process, food safety, and product launch. Register for CropCircle Kitchen's 2-day, content-filled course.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-development-considerations-beyond-the-concept-tickets-13270154389
Do you want to better understand the food safety principles behind your process? Do you need help with product development for your current or future food product?
This 2-day course will cover the following topics:
Principals of Food Safety
The Product Development Process
Cycle to Creating a New Food Product
Product Development Process (including business strategy, product testing,product launch)
HACCP Plan requirements and/or Low-acid & Acidified certification
Determining formula, process and packaging for a safe food system
Process Validation requirements
Label Regulations, product claims, ingredient statements and nutrition facts
Operational capabilities and Quality Controls
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Christ Actually: Jesus in the 21st Century
Wednesday, December 10
7pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Award-winning author James Carroll discusses his new book, Christ Actually: The Son of God for The Secular Age. Carroll asks what can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the post-20th century world of wars and Holocaust and the drift from religion that followed? Answering his own question, Carroll revisits Christ’s crucial identity as a Jew. What can the ordinary humanness of the Christ figure mean to the 21st century? How can Christ, who is no Christian himself, transcend Christianity to speak
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/to people in today’s world?
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The Bee: A Natural History
WHEN Tue., Dec. 9, 2014, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum
SPEAKER(S) Noah Wilson-Rich, founder and chief scientific officer, The Best Bees Company
COST $10 (students can email to register for free)
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1385&DayPlannerDate=12/9/2014
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.384.5277
DETAILS Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Yet bees are dying at an alarming rate, threatening food supplies and ecosystems around the world. In this natural history talk, Noah Wilson-Rich will provide a window into the vitally important role that bees play in the life of our planet. He will speak about the human–bee relationship through time; explain a bit about bee evolution, ecology, and physiology; and share his holistic approach to bee health and how you can help bee populations
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Syria, Iraq and ISIS: Understanding the New War and How the Peace Movement should Respond
Wednesday, December 10
7:00pm
Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
$5 donation requested
Prof. Elaine Hagopian on understanding the war
Activist views on the peace movement's response
Discussion on what to do next
The US announced early in November that troop deployment in the war against ISIS will be doubled from 1500 to 3000 -- although they are supposedly not "boots on the ground." Meanwhile, thousands of air sorties have been flown and the Obama administration is again asking Congress for billions to fund a new war. But US allies are reluctant to commit resources, Turkey regards the Kurds as the greater threat and Saudi Arabia is privately providing ISIS aid. The US is battling to overthrow Assad in Syria while also fighting his enemy. Contacts are made with Iran -- but we don't really want to coordinate efforts. Beheadings rouse demands for action.
The US claims its only goal is to defeat ISIS but the long term goal has not changed: regime change in Syria and continued domination over the region made unstable by years of US intervention. The prospect of a long and escalating war confronts us. What is our message in this complex and contradictory situation?
Elaine Hagopian, professor emeritus of sociology at Simmons College, will provide background and context on Syria, referencing Palestine and Iraq. Cole Harrison, executive director of Mass Peace Action, and Marilyn Levin, co-coordinator of United National Antiwar Coalition, will offer different views on the peace movement's response.
Elaine Hagopian is a retired professor of sociology from Simmons College, Boston. She served as visiting professor of sociology at the American University in Beirut, and as a distinguished Lecturer at the American University of Cairo. She was awarded two Fulbright Hays Faculty research grants to do research in France and the Arab region. She served with UNCIEF in the United Arab Emirates; and as part of a UNESCO team to do a feasibility study for a Palestine Open University. Her publications focus on Arab regional issues and on Arab-Americans; her article "Bashar Assad's Missed Opportunity: Syria's Pandoran Box" appeared in Counterpunch in June 2011.
Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace
info@justicewithpeace.org
617 383 4857
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Monday, December 1
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9:30am Daylighting - Structure - Noseprints @ The Harvard Museums
12pm A Systems Approach to Fostering Innovation Ecosystems within Academic and Business Communities
12pm Financing Energy Innovation: Government Grants, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurs
12:15pm "Democracy and the Deep-Sea: Telepresence and Public Participation in Remote Environments”
4pm Health Insurance Plan Choice
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Panel: Whither the Earth: Hands off? Geoengineer? Or Biosphere 3?
5pm Broken Memory, Shining Dust: Film Screening
6pm Theodore H. White Lecture with Mark Halperin & John Heilemann
6pm The old city and the sea-- Boston landmaking meets sea level rise
6:30pm "New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
6:30pm Social Media Strategy Mapping
7pm Social Physics: from ideas to actions
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Tuesday, December 2
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10am Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: "Media, Campaigns, and 2016”
11:30am 3D Printing of tough and conducting hydrogel materials
12:15pm Responding to New Realities in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, and ISIS
12:30pm The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property
12:30pm "Protecting the Global Commons: The Role of International Financial Institutions”
1pm Paul Farmer on Ebola and the Future of Global Health Equity
3pm "Biomass in the Energy Industry"
3:30pm xTalks: Book Release Celebration - Art of Insight in Science & Engineering
4pm Bio-mimetic Drones: From Collision Free to Collision Friendly
4pm Reflexive Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in Games
4pm NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project: Overview and Propulsion Technology Highlights
4:10pm Making Cities Work: The PerformanceStat Potential
4:30pm Climate and Thoreau
4:30pm Conditions of violence in Central America and their effects on emigration from that region
5pm How Tactile Cues Can Assist Navigation
5:30pm Askwith Forum - Closing the Gap: African American Educational Excellence
5:30pm Clean Energy Prize Kickoff: NSTAR MIT Clean Energy Prize
6pm BASG: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
6pm Nanoresearch: Swiss and American perspectives on academic-industrial collaboration
6:30pm The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
7pm Film Screening: ART21 "Fiction" (2014)
7pm Peace & PlanetNo Nukes! No Wars! No Warming! Boston Area Organizing Meeting
7:30pm Pretty Faces (FREE admission)
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Wednesday, December 3
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9:30am Winter Investor Roundtable – McCarter & English Entrepreneurs Series at Cambridge Innovation Center
12pm Nanotechnology in the Development of Future Nano electronics
12pm Orientalism and the Apocalypse
12:15pm Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Challenges: Why Technology will Define our Energy Future
12:30pm Disappearance: Violence & Urban Governance in Mexico
1pm Mass-independent Sulfur Isotope Fractionation During Photochemistry of Sulfur Dioxide
4pm Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series—How a Language Was Born: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Social Factors That Led to the Creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language
4pm The Politics of Destruction: “Managing” Political Relationships and the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
4:10pm "Learning by Doing in Solar Photovoltaic Installations”
4:15pm "Deep Learning”
5pm What can floating an airplane across the Pacific Ocean on 15,000 plastic bottles tell you about the world’s garbage patches?”
5:30pm Urban Infrastructures for Public Health: Conversation on Civic Tech
6:30pm Synthetic Human Organs on Chips
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Thursday, December 4
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Cyber Security Symposium
3pm A Conversation with Composer/Instrumentalist David Amram
4pm Human-like Singing and Talking Machines: Flexible Speech Synthesis in Karaoke, Anime, Smart Phones, Video Games, Digital Signage, TV and Radio Programs
4pm “Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility”
4:15pm What are the causes of rising CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere?
5:30pm Strategic Partners in Cleantech Discussion #3: How to Pitch to Strategic Partners
6pm The Road to Intelligence
6:30pm Flash Forum: Warrior Princess
6:30pm TechHub Boston Demo Night - December 2014
7pm Farmed Seaweed: The Next Great Sustainable Seafood?
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Friday, December 5
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MassHack Winter 2014
12pm Quantification of emissions from various sectors in the oil and gas industry: methane and cohorts
12:30pm Sustainable Development in Asia
2pm Winter Bike Festival
6pm MIT Trashion Show
6:45pm "Climate Change, Local Adaptation, and Arctic Plant Communities”
7pm The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
7pm City Connect: A Night of Dancing, Drinking, & Connecting
7pm Playing For The Planet
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Saturday, December 6
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10am Underwater Robotics
12pm Artisan’s Asylum Winter Open Studios
5:30pm Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
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Sunday, December 7
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1:30pm The Language of Humanism
5pm Light for Lima Vigil #LightforLima
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Monday, December 8
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8:15am The French-American Innovation Day 2014: The Challenge of Innovation in the Energy Field: Energy Storage
12pm MASS Seminar - Zhiming Kuang (Harvard)
12pm Industrial Urbanism in Africa
4:30pm Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
7pm Fuzzy Beliefs and Preferences: We All Have Them What Should We Do About Them?
7pm Gustav Metzger's Dome(s) Project
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Tuesday, December 9
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Moodsnap, and More!
12pm American Association of Port Authorities President to Deliver Talk at Volpe
4pm "iBiology: New Opportunities for Learning Biology through the Internet”
4:30pm Animal Psychology
6pm Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
7pm The Bee: A Natural History
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Notes on The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-splendid-century-life-under-louis.html
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Monday, December 1
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Daylighting - Structure - Noseprints @ The Harvard Museums
Monday, December 1
9:30a–11:00a
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Building Technology Lecture with Justin Lee and Richard Aeck
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Kathleen Ross
(617) 253-1876
kross@mit.edu
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Building Technology Lecture with Justin Lee and Richard Aeck
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Kathleen Ross
(617) 253-1876
kross@mit.edu
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A Systems Approach to Fostering Innovation Ecosystems within Academic and Business Communities
Monday, December 1
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_120114/systems-approach-to-fostering-innovation-ecosystems.html
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_120114/systems-approach-to-fostering-innovation-ecosystems.html
Speaker: Rajesh Nair, Visiting Scholar, Tata Center for Technology and Design, MIT; Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Degree Controls, Inc.; and SDM Alumnus
In this webinar, Rajesh Nair will describe a systems-based experiment conducted in India at small engineering colleges with no active entrepreneurship initiatives. This research addressed the following questions:
Is it possible to bring about a positive change in the average student's attitude toward entrepreneurship?
Can suitable ecosystems be created at colleges to provide nurturing environments in which entrepreneurship and innovation can flourish?
Nair will describe:
a specially designed experiential curriculum and training in innovation, fabrication, and entrepreneurship;
how students created new ventures by interacting with their local communities to validate problems for business opportunities, ideate solutions, and fabricate prototypes???in effect creating healthy entrepreneurship ecosystems within their academic institutions and surrounding communities;
how these strategies can be applied and adapted by other academic institutions; and
how students' attitudes toward entrepreneurship changed.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
Is it possible to bring about a positive change in the average student's attitude toward entrepreneurship?
Can suitable ecosystems be created at colleges to provide nurturing environments in which entrepreneurship and innovation can flourish?
Nair will describe:
a specially designed experiential curriculum and training in innovation, fabrication, and entrepreneurship;
how students created new ventures by interacting with their local communities to validate problems for business opportunities, ideate solutions, and fabricate prototypes???in effect creating healthy entrepreneurship ecosystems within their academic institutions and surrounding communities;
how these strategies can be applied and adapted by other academic institutions; and
how students' attitudes toward entrepreneurship changed.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
MIT System Design & Management Systems Thinking Webinar Series
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_120114/systems-approach-to-fostering-innovation-ecosystems.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: See url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management (SDM)
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_120114/systems-approach-to-fostering-innovation-ecosystems.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: See url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management (SDM)
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
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Financing Energy Innovation: Government Grants, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurs
Monday, December 1
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard Environmental Economics Program Fellow and Harvard University Ph.D. Student
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"Democracy and the Deep-Sea: Telepresence and Public Participation in Remote Environments"
Monday, December 1
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Zara Mirmalek, Harvard, STS Fellow
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Contact Name: sts@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-01-171500-2014-12-01-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.s2eBce30.dpuf
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Health Insurance Plan Choice
Monday, December 1
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jonathan Gruber (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: Jonathan Gruber has been in the news a bit lately. Could be an interesting discussion.
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Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Panel: Whither the Earth: Hands off? Geoengineer? Or Biosphere 3?
Monday, December 1
4:30p–6:00p
MIT Museum, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: With Samuel Bowring (MIT), Daniel Schrag (Harvard), David Keith (Harvard)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan@mit.edu
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Broken Memory, Shining Dust: Film Screening
Monday, December 1
5:00pm
Harvard, CGIS South, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Depicts the extraordinary journey of kashmiri women from loss, separation, pain, anger, helplessness to hope, faith, grit and determination thrown up by tragedies and circumstances around them. The film is about ‘women in wait’ for their loved ones, who went missing in the conflict ridden valley of Kashmir, India, in last two decades. Woven around the life of Parveena Ahanger, a Kashmiri mother and other such women, the narrative of the film interweaves their memories of loss, pain, struggle, separation vented cathartic that have formed into a resistance movement which in practicality relives their hope to trace a clue about their missing family members.
Cosponsored with the Harvard Asia Center
Depicts the extraordinary journey of kashmiri women from loss, separation, pain, anger, helplessness to hope, faith, grit and determination thrown up by tragedies and circumstances around them. The film is about ‘women in wait’ for their loved ones, who went missing in the conflict ridden valley of Kashmir, India, in last two decades. Woven around the life of Parveena Ahanger, a Kashmiri mother and other such women, the narrative of the film interweaves their memories of loss, pain, struggle, separation vented cathartic that have formed into a resistance movement which in practicality relives their hope to trace a clue about their missing family members.
Cosponsored with the Harvard Asia Center
More information at http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/broken-memory-shining-dust/
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Theodore H. White Lecture with Mark Halperin & John Heilemann
WHEN Mon., Dec. 1, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/theodore-h-white-lecture-mark-halperin-john-heilemann
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The old city and the sea-- Boston landmaking meets sea level rise
Monday, December 1
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-old-city-and-the-sea-boston-landmaking-meets-sea-level-rise-tickets-13955141203
Speakers: Nancy Seasholes and Julie Wormser, moderated by Mike Ross
Boston Living with Water (http://www.bostonlivingwithwater.org) is a website managed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, The Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Society of Architects. Here you will find resources, educational forums and details on Boston’s international design competition, held from October 29, 2014 through June 2015.
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"New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City" Reading and Book Discussion
Monday, December 1
6:30pm
Brookline Booksmith, 27 Harvard Street, Boston
With author Williams Powers
About NEW SLOW CITY: Burned-out after years of doing development and conservation work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina. Could he live a similarly minimalist way in the belly of the go-go beast — New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro apartment” in Greenwich Village. Downshifting to a 20-hour workweek, Powers explores the viability of the global “Slow” movement—Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries, rooftop gardening and beekeeping. Discovering a colorful cast of New Yorkers attempting to resist the culture of Total Work, Powers offers an inspiring exploration for anyone trying to make urban life more people- and planet-friendly.
About the Author: William Powers has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and Native North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. A 2004-2005 recipient of the Open Door Foundation for non-fiction, he is the author of the Liberia memoir Blue Clay People, the Bolivian memoir Whispering in the Giant's Ear and the memoir of living “off-the-grid” in a twelve-foot-square cabin Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream.
Brookline Booksmith, 27 Harvard Street, Boston
With author Williams Powers
About NEW SLOW CITY: Burned-out after years of doing development and conservation work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina. Could he live a similarly minimalist way in the belly of the go-go beast — New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro apartment” in Greenwich Village. Downshifting to a 20-hour workweek, Powers explores the viability of the global “Slow” movement—Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries, rooftop gardening and beekeeping. Discovering a colorful cast of New Yorkers attempting to resist the culture of Total Work, Powers offers an inspiring exploration for anyone trying to make urban life more people- and planet-friendly.
About the Author: William Powers has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, and Native North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. A 2004-2005 recipient of the Open Door Foundation for non-fiction, he is the author of the Liberia memoir Blue Clay People, the Bolivian memoir Whispering in the Giant's Ear and the memoir of living “off-the-grid” in a twelve-foot-square cabin Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream.
http://williampowersbooks.com
Contact Name: Aidai Tursunbekova
tursunbekova@worldpolicy.org
Contact Name: Aidai Tursunbekova
tursunbekova@worldpolicy.org
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-01-233000/new-slow-city-living-simply-worlds-fastest-city-reading-and-book-discussion#sthash.dpwSuFH1.dpuf
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Social Media Strategy Mapping
Monday, December 1
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
General Assembly Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
http://ga.co/c8I
Social media initiatives don’t start when you register a Facebook or Twitter account and start posting announcements, it begins much sooner. In this workshop, you’ll be taken through a seven-step framework for strategic mapping that will help guide your efforts to develop an actionable social media strategy.
You’ll learn how to structure your social media efforts, deploy your resources, and ultimately launch a social media campaign that is professional and provides results you’ll be able to interpret and understand.
Takeaways
Learn how to develop and implement a social media strategy.
Find out how to manage and adapt your strategy when working with big teams, small teams, or volunteers.
Be able to measure your social strategy.
Discover how to incorporate a social strategy into your other marketing.
Preparation: Please bring a laptop or pencil/paper to take notes (you will need to be able to draw diagrams). A smartphone/tablet camera is also recommended for taking pictures of the white board.
Organizer: General Assembly
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Social Physics: from ideas to actions
Thursday, December 11
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-054, Bartos Auditorium (MIT Room E15-054), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sandy Pentland
We live our lives in social networks...mostly face-to-face, but increasingly digital...and yet we don't know how to leverage these networks to make us smarter or more innovative. By combining sophisticated machine learning with `big data' gathered from wearables, cell phones and credit cards I have been able able to extract the patterns that drive innovation in our communities, companies, and cities, and by using feedback from mobiles, wearables, and the web I have show how we can enhance these patterns to improve our society. One of the big barriers to using this technology is privacy and security, and building on my 6 years co-leading discussions at Davos I have worked out a concrete way to increase innovation while at the same time enhancing personal privacy, and have tested this solution in `Living Labs' in both the US and Europe.
Professor Alex `Sandy' Pentland has helped create and direct MIT's Media Lab, and is a member of the Advisory Boards for Google, Nissan, Telefonica, the UN Secretary General, and the World Economic Forum. In 2012 Forbes named Sandy one of the 'seven most powerful data scientists in the world', along with Google founders and the CTO of the United States. He is among the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and a pioneer in computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent book is `Social Physics,' published by Penguin Press.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/pentland.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact: Dorothy Curtis
617-253-0541
dcurtis@mit.edu
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Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: "Media, Campaigns, and 2016”
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 9 – 10:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times; visiting lecturer, Harvard University
Kristen Soltis Anderson, IOP Fellow; co-founder, Echelon Insights
Mark Halperin, Theodore H. White Lecturer; managing editor, Bloomberg Politics
John Heilemann, Theodore H. White Lecturer; managing editor, Bloomberg Politics
David Rogers, Nyhan Prize winner; reporter, Politico
Alex S. Jones, moderator; director of the Shorenstein Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics: a panel discussion based on the topic of the Theodore H. White Lecture, "Optimism for a Change: Media, Campaigns and 2016".
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/theodore-h-white-lecture-mark-halperin-john-heilemann/
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3D Printing of tough and conducting hydrogel materials
Tuesday, December 2
11:30am to 12:30pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Marc in het Panhuis
Abstract: Additive fabrication techniques such as three-dimensional (3D) printing are receiving growing interest from a diverse range of fields due to their ability to quickly produce complex 3D objects. However, new applications of hydrogels such as soft robotics and cartilage tissue scaffolds require hydrogels with enhanced mechanical performance, which has stimulated an investigation into how hydrogels may be made electrically conducting, tougher and more enduring. Moreover, the parallel development of these materials and suitable 3D fabrication techniques has accelerated the advancement of many technologies including bionic implants, sensors, controlled release systems and soft robotics. The understanding of how to marry these recent advances in materials (e.g. tough and/or electrically conducting hydrogels) with manufacturing (3D printing of hydrogels) for the purpose of building smart hydrogel materials is incomplete. In this presentation, I will describe our approach to 3D printing tough materials consisting of ionic-covalent entanglement (ICE) gels consisting of ionically cross-linked and covalently cross-linked polymer networks. The crucial aspect to facilitate printing is that these gels can be prepared in a “one-pot” synthesis approach, which involves optimization of the rheological conditions. Using this approach we have developed a variety of tough (and conducting) hydrogel systems and fiber reinforced hydrogels that can be 3D printed in a single-step process. For example, composite materials could be fabricated by selectively 3D pattering a combination of alginate/acrylamide gel and an epoxy based UV-curable adhesive. Spatial control of fiber distribution within the digital models allowed for the fabrication of a series of materials with a spectrum of swelling behavior and mechanical properties with physical characteristics ranging from soft and wet to hard and dry. Finally, I will present our understanding of the mechanical and electrical behavior, and illustrate the potential applications of our materials by a number of prototypes, i.e. pressure sensor, artificial cartilage meniscus and a working valve.
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
Contact: LaShanda Banks
Email: lbanks@seas.harvard.edu
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Responding to New Realities in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, and ISIS
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center Fellows Program
SPEAKER(S) Amine Jaoui, WCFIA Fellow, former adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, UAE; Thomas O'Steen, WCFIA Fellow, colonel, US Army; Oliver Owcza, WCFIA Fellow, diplomat, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
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The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property
Tuesday, December 2
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/12/silbey#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/12/silbey at 12:30 pm.
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School
The book analyzes and elaborates upon a qualitative empirical study of artists, scientists, engineers, lawyers and businesspeople that investigates the motivations and mechanisms of creative and innovative activity in everyday professional life. Based on over fifty face-to-face interviews, the book centers on the stories told by interviewees describing how and why they create and innovate and whether or how IP law plays a role in their activities. The goal of the empirical project was to figure out how IP actually works in creative and innovative fields, as opposed to how we think or say it works (through formal law or legislative debate). Breaking new ground in its qualitative method examining the economic and cultural system of creative and innovative production, The Eureka Myth draws out new and surprising conclusions about the sometimes misinterpreted relationships between creativity, invention and intellectual property protections.
About Jessica Silbey
Professor Silbey's scholarship draws from her interdisciplinary background in the humanities and law. One of her interests is in intellectual property law, particularly in the investigation of "IP communities:" activities, groups and organizations with a particular creative or innovative focus. She studies the common and conflicting narratives within those communities in relation to intellectual property law and legal institutions that purport to regulate them. She is especially interested in the connections between cultural narratives of creation, discovery, incentive and labor and their legal counterparts in IP communities, statutes and legal cases. The empirical dimension of this project (conducting and analyzing interviews with artists, scientists and intellectual property professionals) will be published by Stanford University Press in 2014.
Another of her interests is in the interrelationship of law and film in legal practice and popular culture. Her research and writing in this area investigates how film and video are used as legal tools and how they become objects of legal analysis. A long-time interest since she was a graduate student in literature and film, her work explores questions such as: how does automated surveillance film become testimony in a court of law? How do cultural perceptions about film and video affect their evaluation by jurors, advocates and judges? How might legal actors and lay citizens mobilize the audiovisual technology of our twenty-first century to further the promises of our justice system? A current project in this area concerns ultrasound technology and the politics of reproductive choice.
Professor Silbey teaches courses in constitutional law and intellectual property.
Professor Silbey received her B.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. and Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) from the University of Michigan. Before joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, Professor Silbey was a litigator at the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Keeton on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and to the Honorable Levin Campbell on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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"Protecting the Global Commons: The Role of International Financial Institutions"
Tuesday, December 2
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
with Naoko Ishii, Chairperson and CEO, Global Environmental Facility, the World Bank Group. Moderator: Susan Pharr. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira
sfujihira@wcfia.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-02-173000-2014-12-02-190000/wcfia-program-us-japan-relations-seminar#sthash.2Vj69LVo.dpuf
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Paul Farmer on Ebola and the Future of Global Health Equity
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Amphitheater, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HMS Office of Communications and External Relations
SPEAKER(S) Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Amphitheater, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HMS Office of Communications and External Relations
SPEAKER(S) Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Introduction by Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University; Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
COST Harvard University affiliated staff, faculty and students are invited to attend
CONTACT INFO communications@hms.harvard.edu
DETAILS Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
Light refreshments will be provided. Q&A to follow.
If you are unable to attend, we will be offering a live webcast of the event, starting at 1pm. Please visit: www.cchmav.org/ebola_farmer/live.html.
LINK http://www.cchmav.org/ebola_farmer/live.html
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"Biomass in the Energy Industry"
Tuesday, December 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MIT, Building 4-163, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Tuesday, December 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MIT, Building 4-163, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
with Dr. John Pierce Chief Bioscientist, BP
MIT BioEnergy Seminar Series
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xTalks: Book Release Celebration - Art of Insight in Science & Engineering
Tuesday, December 2,
3:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 10-105, (Bush Room), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sanjoy Mahajan
MIT Press author and ODL colleague Sanjoy Mahajan will discuss why we humans, to master the complexity of our world, need insight rather than precision. He'll also discuss the inspiration for publishing his book under a free license (CC-BY-NC-SA). Copies of Mahajan's books will be available for sale at 20% discount, as well as Vijay Kumar & Toru Iiyoshi's Opening Up Education, Peter Suber's Open Access, and others.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks 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.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/sanjoy-mahajan/
Open to: the general public
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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Bio-mimetic Drones: From Collision Free to Collision Friendly
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G-115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dario Floreano, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland, Director, Swiss National Center of Robotics
Drones capable of flying in confined spaces without GPS signal offer amazing socio-economical opportunities, but also present great scientific and technological challenges. Dr. Floreano will start by describing recent work on collision-free flight by means of insect-inspired sensors and control. He will then argue for the need to make these drones collision-friendly and describe flying robots capable of surviving and exploiting collisions in order to explore extremely cluttered environments in poor visibility conditions. Dr. Floreano will conclude by describing ongoing work on foldable and shape-shifting drones for easy deployment and multi-modal locomotion in the air and on the ground.
Bio: Prof. Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL and Director of the Swiss National Center of Robotics. His research focuses on the convergence of biology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He published more than 300 articles and four books on evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired artificial intelligence, and bio-mimetic flying robots with MIT Press and Springer Verlag. He has been a founding member of the World Economic Forum Council on robotics and smart devices, co-founder of the International Society of Artificial Life, Inc. (USA), and executive board member of the International Society for Neural Networks. His research and public engagement activities have resulted in three spin-offs: senseFly Ltd. producing drones for professional imaging, Flyability Ltd. producing drones for inspection, and RoboHub Inc., the world-largest, non-for-profit communication agency in robotics.
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Reflexive Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in Games
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Theory-of-mind (ToM) is the modeling of mental states (such as belief, desire, knowledge, perception) through recursive ('I think you think I think. . . ') type reasoning in order to plan one's action or anticipate others' action. Such reasoning forms the core of strategic analysis in the game-theoretic setting. Traditional analysis of rational behavior in games of complete information is centered on the axiom of 'common knowledge,' according to which all players know something to be true, know that all players know it to be true, know that all players know all players know it to be true, etc. Such axiom requires recursive modeling of players to the full depth, and seems to contradict human empirical behavior revealed by behavioral game literature. Here, I propose that such deviation from normative analysis may be due to players??? building predictive mental models of their co-players based on experience and context without necessarily assuming a priori full rationality and common knowledge, rather than due to any lapse in 'instrumental rationality' whereby players (and co-players) translate the predictions from their mental models to optimal choice.
Theory-of-mind (ToM) is the modeling of mental states (such as belief, desire, knowledge, perception) through recursive ('I think you think I think. . . ') type reasoning in order to plan one's action or anticipate others' action. Such reasoning forms the core of strategic analysis in the game-theoretic setting. Traditional analysis of rational behavior in games of complete information is centered on the axiom of 'common knowledge,' according to which all players know something to be true, know that all players know it to be true, know that all players know all players know it to be true, etc. Such axiom requires recursive modeling of players to the full depth, and seems to contradict human empirical behavior revealed by behavioral game literature. Here, I propose that such deviation from normative analysis may be due to players??? building predictive mental models of their co-players based on experience and context without necessarily assuming a priori full rationality and common knowledge, rather than due to any lapse in 'instrumental rationality' whereby players (and co-players) translate the predictions from their mental models to optimal choice.
Brains, Minds & Machines Seminar Series
(This seminar series was formerly known as "Brains & Machines Seminar Series.")This seminar series is organized by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under a Science and Technology Centers (STCs): Integrative Partnerships award, Grant No. CCF-1231216.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Web site: https://cbmm.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to the public
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
For more information, contact: Kathleen D Sullivan
kdsulliv@mit.edu
(This seminar series was formerly known as "Brains & Machines Seminar Series.")This seminar series is organized by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under a Science and Technology Centers (STCs): Integrative Partnerships award, Grant No. CCF-1231216.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Web site: https://cbmm.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to the public
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
For more information, contact: Kathleen D Sullivan
kdsulliv@mit.edu
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NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project: Overview and Propulsion Technology Highlights
Tuesday, December 2
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 31-161
3:45 PM Refreshments
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 31-161
3:45 PM Refreshments
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth L. Suder, Chief, LTE0/Turbomachinery and Turboelectric Systems Branch Propulsion Division, Research and Engineering Directorate, NASA Glenn Research Center
Sponsor(s): AeroAstro
For more information, contact: Robin Courchesne-Sato
617-253-2481
rsato@mit.edu
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Making Cities Work: The PerformanceStat Potential
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 4:10 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Robert Behn, senior lecturer in public policy
Joseph A. Curtatone, mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts and senior fellow, Ash Center
Tony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Will_Pfeffer@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer Robert Behn and Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone will discuss Behn’s new book The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results. The book explores the growth and prominence of PerformanceStat leadership strategy across so many jurisdictions and agencies in pursuit of improve government performance. With examples from three dozen government jurisdictions and public agencies, Behn explores the leadership behaviors of public officials who leverage the PerformanceStat strategy to promote economic independence, to eradicate urban blight, and to harness their institutions’ full capacity. In response, Mayor Curtatone, whose ground-breaking work on SomerStat in Somerville is highlighted in the book, will offer additional insights.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/Challenges-to-Democracy/Events/Making-Cities-Work-The-PerformanceStat-Potential
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Climate and Thoreau
Tuesday, December 2
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Richard Primack, Professor of Biology
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Conditions of violence in Central America and their effects on emigration from that region
Tuesday, December 2
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Louisa Reynolds, 2014-2015 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Inter-University Committee on International Migration
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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How Tactile Cues Can Assist Navigation
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Lynette A. Jones, senior research scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-lynette-a-jones-lecture
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Askwith Forum - Closing the Gap: African American Educational Excellence
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: David J. Johns, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator: Karen L. Mapp, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Director, Education Policy and Management Program, HGSE
David Johns will discuss the purpose and goals of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. During his talk, Johns will share lessons learned as a result of the initiative and what it will take to ensure all students -- especially students of color -- achieve academic excellence. Professor Karen Mapp will moderate the event, which will include opportunities to ask Johns about his work as an educator and education policymaker and ways future educators can make a difference in student achievement.
Please join us for a reception following the forum.
This forum is being held in conjunction with a yearlong community conversation on Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity.
WHEN Tue., Dec. 2, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: David J. Johns, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator: Karen L. Mapp, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Director, Education Policy and Management Program, HGSE
David Johns will discuss the purpose and goals of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. During his talk, Johns will share lessons learned as a result of the initiative and what it will take to ensure all students -- especially students of color -- achieve academic excellence. Professor Karen Mapp will moderate the event, which will include opportunities to ask Johns about his work as an educator and education policymaker and ways future educators can make a difference in student achievement.
Please join us for a reception following the forum.
This forum is being held in conjunction with a yearlong community conversation on Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity.
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Clean Energy Prize Kickoff: NSTAR MIT Clean Energy Prize
Tuesday, December 2
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street 3rd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-prize-kickoff-boston-tickets-14403526335
The Clean Energy Prize and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) are happy to present: Clean Energy Prize Kickoff. Join us for an exciting evening where you'll have an opportunity to learn about the Clean Energy Prize and connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals interested in tackling some of today's most important energy issues.
This is a great chance to share your clean energy ideas, technologies, or businesses, and to find out how you can get involved with the Prize. Don't miss the opportunity to develop the next game-changing clean energy startup!
Food and drink will be served!
Thank you to the event host, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, and to the sponsors of the Clean Energy Prize, NSTAR, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Morrison & Foerster LLP, for helping make this event a reality.
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BASG: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
Tuesday, December 2
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-re-use-re-gift-celebrate-december-2-2014-tickets-14131334201
Cost: $10-12
In partnership with Northbound Ventures, BASG presents: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
Get in the sustainability spirit with December’s theme of Re-use and join fellow BASG members for a traditional yankee swap. Everyone is invited to bring a small item to exchange this month, so dust off that used copy of An Inconvenient Truth or reusable water bottle with your company’s logo on it for the party.
We’ll take inspiration from re-use leaders and our guest speakers for the evening:
Dina Gjertsen, Creator, Fixer Fair (LinkedIn)
Dina will talk about the The Repair Movement and coordinating creative ways to keep objects in use through repair. Fixer Fair is an event devoted to repairing things instead of recycling them. Dina usually finds herself at the intersection of the arts, technology, and community development. She has worked as a theater technician and lighting designer, for a STEM curriculum development company, at a science museum and as an online game designer. Originally a native of Long Island, NY, she graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 and moved to Greater Boston soon after. She currently works as a community event organizer in Somerville and for a family hackerspace. She is also currently organizing the Somerville Tool Library, a lending library for household tools.
Jason Marshall, Vice President - Retail, Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries (LinkedIn)
Jason will explain how a donation to Goodwill® creates opportunities for individuals in the community to access the career, family and financial support services necessary to succeed and keeps billions of pounds of clothing and household items out of landfills. Jason is responsible for Goodwill’s retail footprint in eastern and central Massachusetts as well as developing new employment opportunities for individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency.A seasoned executive with 20 years of experience in retail and workforce development, Jason was previously the executive vice president of retail and workforce development at Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Strayer University in Washington, D.C.
Carol Baroudi, Global Sustainability and Compliance, Arrow Electronics (LinkedIn)
At Arrow, Carol works to define and drive sustainability initiatives. Carol’s primary focus is sustainable electronics and its potential contribution toward overall sustainability goals, brand protection and enhancement. She works to support customers’ sustainability initiatives, including education, evangelizing and reporting. Carol is the lead-author of Green IT For Dummies, which gives organizations basic principles and guidance in moving toward sustainable IT, including basics of power management and what to consider in greening your data center. A best-selling author, Carol’s books have more than 7 million copies in print in more than 30 languages -including the first 11 editions of Internet For Dummies, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, Mastering COBOL, Internet Secrets, and Email For Dummies. Prior to joining Arrow, Carol worked as an industry analyst as Research Director of Sustainability and Green IT at Aberdeen Group, CEO of Baroudi Bloor International, and Vice President at Hurwitz Group. Carol holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a post baccalaureate certificate in Sustainable Development from the University of Massachusetts.
Brad McNamara, CEO & Co-founder, Frieght Farms (LinkedIn)
Brad will share how Freight Farms Inc. manufactures fully-operational farms from upcycled freight containers, transforming non-traditional growing spaces into year-round production centers for local, fresh produce. As a champion for sustainability and eco-friendly practices, Brad has deftly combined his business and marketing background to help bring his latest company, Freight Farms, to the world stage. He and his co-founder, Jon Friedman, have developed a product that allows any business or individual to grow a high-volume of fresh produce in any environment regardless of the climate. He has big expectations for the future, envisioning Freight Farms scattered across the globe making a dramatic impact on the way food is produced. Brad has an MBA and Masters in Environmental Science from Clark University.
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Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
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Nanoresearch: Swiss and American perspectives on academic-industrial collaboration
Tuesday, December 2
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nanoresearch-swiss-and-american-perspectives-on-academic-industrial-collaboration-tickets-14460039367
Nanoscale science and engineering have brought impressive advancements to various industrial fields. International collaborations in R&D between academia and industry are essential drivers for the progress of this discipline.
On December 2, we invite you to meet world-class academic & industrial researchers and young entrepreneurs from Switzerland and the US.
Please join their presentations on nanomaterials and -fabrication, followed by a discussion and networking at swissnex Boston, the world’s first Science Consulate between MIT and Harvard. And feel free to forward this invitation in your academic & industrial networks.
Speakers
Ahmed Busnaiana, PhD, William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor in the College of Engineering and Director of NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern University
Felix Holzner, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of SwissLitho AG, a startup from IBM Research Zurich, and creator of the smallest 3D earth map (Guinness World Record)
Efthimios Kaxiras, PhD, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics and Director of Institute for Applied Computational Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
David J. Norris, PhD, Professor of Materials Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and Director of the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory at ETHZ.
Program
6 PM Doors open
6:30 PM Welcome address by Dr. Felix Moesner, CEO & Consul at swissnex Boston
6:35 PM Presentations
7:45 PM Reception & Networking
9:00 PM Doors closing
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
COGdesign: Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design
Tuesday, December 2
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-resilient-farm-and-homestead-talk-by-ben-falk-tickets-13915645069
Cost: $16.84 - $64.29
6:30 pm Reception and COGdesign Exhibit
7:30 pm The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
8:45 pm Book Signing
Author Ben Falk, a land designer and site developer, has seen his Vermont-based, permaculture-research farm draw national attention as a proven working model of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. Situated on a terraced hillside overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland, Falk's farm is an array of fruiting plants, ducks, nuts, fuelwood, hedges, earth-inspired buildings, and even rice paddies.
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Film Screening: ART21 "Fiction" (2014)
Tuesday, December 2
7:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Join the List for a free screening to celebrate the newest season of ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century", the award-winning documentary series that showcases contemporary art and artists.
The episode "Fiction" examines how artists tell compelling stories. How do artists disrupt everyday reality in the service of revealing subtler truths? This episode features artists who explore the virtues of ambiguity, mix genres, and merge aesthetic disciplines to discern not simply what stories mean, but how and why they come to have meaning.
Featured in this episode is artist and MIT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas, who will be representing the US in the 2015 Venice Biennale; the List and Director Paul Ha are organizing the exhibition. "Fiction" also highlights the work of artists Katharina Grosse and Omer Fast.
This event is part of ART21 Access '14, a worldwide initiative providing unprecedented access to contemporary artists through preview screenings of ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7. ART21 is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a more creative place through the work and words of living artists.
Web site: http://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/film-screening-art21-art-twent
y-first-century-secrets-2014
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center, ART21
For more information, contact: Mark Linga
617-253-4680
listinfo@mit.edu
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Peace & PlanetNo Nukes! No Wars! No Warming! Boston Area Organizing Meeting
Tuesday, December 2
7:00 pm
encuentro 5 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (across from Park Street T)
RSVP http://goo.gl/forms/3Z1GIhTeGI
Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University, author, Thermonuclear Monarchy
Organizing around Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference on April 27 at the UN and has planned events from April 24 on.
The United States, U.K., Russia, China and France long ago signed onto a commitment to negotiate the elimination of their nuclear weapons, but after 44 years this group has yet to hold its first meeting.
April 27, 2015 is when the nations of the world meet at the UN to determine what -- if anything -- can be done to compel the U.S. and other nuclear weapons states to adhere to their commitments.
Contact: Massachusetts Peace Action
info@masspeaceaction.org, 617-354-2169
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Pretty Faces (FREE admission)
Tuesday, December 2
7:30p
MIT, Building 26-100, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Pretty faces is an all female ski film featuring the best athletes from around the world in celebration of playing outside, pushing the sport of skiing and living up to our fullest potential as a supportive community. Inspired by the desire to offer young girls role models and inspiration to play outside, this film aims to capture all the girl stoke from the pioneers who have paved the way to the "never-evers" who will continue to define what it means to ski like a girl.
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/2014.4q/desc-prettyfaces.shtml
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): LSC, MITOC, Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT)
For more information, contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee
617-253-3791
lsc@mit.edu
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Wednesday, December 3
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Winter Investor Roundtable – McCarter & English Entrepreneurs Series at Cambridge Innovation Center
Wednesday, December 3
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Havana Training Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mccarterenglishwinterinvestortable2014.eventbrite.com
Prominent Boston investors will discuss the current investment climate, recent trends, and what they look for in potential investments.
Panelists:
Jo Tango from Kepha Partners (http://www.kephapartners.com/about-kepha-partners.php)
Graham Brooks from .406 Ventures (http://www.406ventures.com/team/7-graham_brooks)
James Geshwiler from Common Angels (http://commonangels.com/our-team/management/james-geshwiler/)
Moderator:
David Sorin, McCarter & English (http://www.mccarter.com/David-J-Sorin/)
Doors will open for networking at 9:30am.
This program is part of McCarter & English’s ongoing series at CIC on legal and business topics for entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Programs are held once or twice each month and are open to members of the CIC and their guests, as well as to the greater Boston entrepreneurial community. Contact: Benjamin Hron, 617-449-6584, bhron@mccarter.com, @HronEsq
About the McCarter & English Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group
McCarter’s Emerging Companies Group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build and finance their businesses. The group is composed of tech-savvy lawyers who have helped build, grow, sell and take public companies across the full spectrum of businesses, including Internet, software, medical devices, new media, life sciences, cleantech, healthcare, consumer products, biotechnology, retail, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, insurance and telecom.
McCarter & English
Phone: 617.449.6500
Website: www.mccarter.com
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Nanotechnology in the Development of Future Nano electronics
Wednesday, December 3
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Light lunch at 11:30am
Speaker: Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, NASA
Carrier transport in vacuum is the fastest and vacuum devices are inherently radiation resistant. We have developed nanoscale vacuum transistors by entirely using silicon technology and the devices have the potential for THz electronics. This talk will also cover our recent efforts in flexible electronics.
Meyya Meyyappan is Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, graphene, and various inorganic nanowires, their growth and characterization, and application development in chemical and biosensors, instrumentation, electronics and optoelectronics. He is a Fellow of IEEE, MRS, AVS, ECS and AIChE.
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2014.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie DiNardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Clean Energy Prize Kickoff: NSTAR MIT Clean Energy Prize
Tuesday, December 2
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street 3rd Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-prize-kickoff-boston-tickets-14403526335
The Clean Energy Prize and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) are happy to present: Clean Energy Prize Kickoff. Join us for an exciting evening where you'll have an opportunity to learn about the Clean Energy Prize and connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals interested in tackling some of today's most important energy issues.
This is a great chance to share your clean energy ideas, technologies, or businesses, and to find out how you can get involved with the Prize. Don't miss the opportunity to develop the next game-changing clean energy startup!
Food and drink will be served!
Thank you to the event host, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, and to the sponsors of the Clean Energy Prize, NSTAR, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Morrison & Foerster LLP, for helping make this event a reality.
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BASG: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
Tuesday, December 2
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details)
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-re-use-re-gift-celebrate-december-2-2014-tickets-14131334201
Cost: $10-12
In partnership with Northbound Ventures, BASG presents: Re-use, Re-gift & Celebrate
Get in the sustainability spirit with December’s theme of Re-use and join fellow BASG members for a traditional yankee swap. Everyone is invited to bring a small item to exchange this month, so dust off that used copy of An Inconvenient Truth or reusable water bottle with your company’s logo on it for the party.
We’ll take inspiration from re-use leaders and our guest speakers for the evening:
Dina Gjertsen, Creator, Fixer Fair (LinkedIn)
Dina will talk about the The Repair Movement and coordinating creative ways to keep objects in use through repair. Fixer Fair is an event devoted to repairing things instead of recycling them. Dina usually finds herself at the intersection of the arts, technology, and community development. She has worked as a theater technician and lighting designer, for a STEM curriculum development company, at a science museum and as an online game designer. Originally a native of Long Island, NY, she graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 and moved to Greater Boston soon after. She currently works as a community event organizer in Somerville and for a family hackerspace. She is also currently organizing the Somerville Tool Library, a lending library for household tools.
Jason Marshall, Vice President - Retail, Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries (LinkedIn)
Jason will explain how a donation to Goodwill® creates opportunities for individuals in the community to access the career, family and financial support services necessary to succeed and keeps billions of pounds of clothing and household items out of landfills. Jason is responsible for Goodwill’s retail footprint in eastern and central Massachusetts as well as developing new employment opportunities for individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency.A seasoned executive with 20 years of experience in retail and workforce development, Jason was previously the executive vice president of retail and workforce development at Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Strayer University in Washington, D.C.
Carol Baroudi, Global Sustainability and Compliance, Arrow Electronics (LinkedIn)
At Arrow, Carol works to define and drive sustainability initiatives. Carol’s primary focus is sustainable electronics and its potential contribution toward overall sustainability goals, brand protection and enhancement. She works to support customers’ sustainability initiatives, including education, evangelizing and reporting. Carol is the lead-author of Green IT For Dummies, which gives organizations basic principles and guidance in moving toward sustainable IT, including basics of power management and what to consider in greening your data center. A best-selling author, Carol’s books have more than 7 million copies in print in more than 30 languages -including the first 11 editions of Internet For Dummies, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, Mastering COBOL, Internet Secrets, and Email For Dummies. Prior to joining Arrow, Carol worked as an industry analyst as Research Director of Sustainability and Green IT at Aberdeen Group, CEO of Baroudi Bloor International, and Vice President at Hurwitz Group. Carol holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a post baccalaureate certificate in Sustainable Development from the University of Massachusetts.
Brad McNamara, CEO & Co-founder, Frieght Farms (LinkedIn)
Brad will share how Freight Farms Inc. manufactures fully-operational farms from upcycled freight containers, transforming non-traditional growing spaces into year-round production centers for local, fresh produce. As a champion for sustainability and eco-friendly practices, Brad has deftly combined his business and marketing background to help bring his latest company, Freight Farms, to the world stage. He and his co-founder, Jon Friedman, have developed a product that allows any business or individual to grow a high-volume of fresh produce in any environment regardless of the climate. He has big expectations for the future, envisioning Freight Farms scattered across the globe making a dramatic impact on the way food is produced. Brad has an MBA and Masters in Environmental Science from Clark University.
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Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
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Nanoresearch: Swiss and American perspectives on academic-industrial collaboration
Tuesday, December 2
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nanoresearch-swiss-and-american-perspectives-on-academic-industrial-collaboration-tickets-14460039367
Nanoscale science and engineering have brought impressive advancements to various industrial fields. International collaborations in R&D between academia and industry are essential drivers for the progress of this discipline.
On December 2, we invite you to meet world-class academic & industrial researchers and young entrepreneurs from Switzerland and the US.
Please join their presentations on nanomaterials and -fabrication, followed by a discussion and networking at swissnex Boston, the world’s first Science Consulate between MIT and Harvard. And feel free to forward this invitation in your academic & industrial networks.
Speakers
Ahmed Busnaiana, PhD, William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor in the College of Engineering and Director of NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern University
Felix Holzner, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of SwissLitho AG, a startup from IBM Research Zurich, and creator of the smallest 3D earth map (Guinness World Record)
Efthimios Kaxiras, PhD, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics and Director of Institute for Applied Computational Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
David J. Norris, PhD, Professor of Materials Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and Director of the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory at ETHZ.
Program
6 PM Doors open
6:30 PM Welcome address by Dr. Felix Moesner, CEO & Consul at swissnex Boston
6:35 PM Presentations
7:45 PM Reception & Networking
9:00 PM Doors closing
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
COGdesign: Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design
Tuesday, December 2
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-resilient-farm-and-homestead-talk-by-ben-falk-tickets-13915645069
Cost: $16.84 - $64.29
6:30 pm Reception and COGdesign Exhibit
7:30 pm The Resilient Farm and Homestead talk by Ben Falk
8:45 pm Book Signing
Author Ben Falk, a land designer and site developer, has seen his Vermont-based, permaculture-research farm draw national attention as a proven working model of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. Situated on a terraced hillside overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland, Falk's farm is an array of fruiting plants, ducks, nuts, fuelwood, hedges, earth-inspired buildings, and even rice paddies.
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Film Screening: ART21 "Fiction" (2014)
Tuesday, December 2
7:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Join the List for a free screening to celebrate the newest season of ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century", the award-winning documentary series that showcases contemporary art and artists.
The episode "Fiction" examines how artists tell compelling stories. How do artists disrupt everyday reality in the service of revealing subtler truths? This episode features artists who explore the virtues of ambiguity, mix genres, and merge aesthetic disciplines to discern not simply what stories mean, but how and why they come to have meaning.
Featured in this episode is artist and MIT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas, who will be representing the US in the 2015 Venice Biennale; the List and Director Paul Ha are organizing the exhibition. "Fiction" also highlights the work of artists Katharina Grosse and Omer Fast.
This event is part of ART21 Access '14, a worldwide initiative providing unprecedented access to contemporary artists through preview screenings of ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7. ART21 is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a more creative place through the work and words of living artists.
Web site: http://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/film-screening-art21-art-twent
y-first-century-secrets-2014
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center, ART21
For more information, contact: Mark Linga
617-253-4680
listinfo@mit.edu
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Peace & PlanetNo Nukes! No Wars! No Warming! Boston Area Organizing Meeting
Tuesday, December 2
7:00 pm
encuentro 5 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (across from Park Street T)
RSVP http://goo.gl/forms/3Z1GIhTeGI
Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University, author, Thermonuclear Monarchy
Organizing around Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference on April 27 at the UN and has planned events from April 24 on.
The United States, U.K., Russia, China and France long ago signed onto a commitment to negotiate the elimination of their nuclear weapons, but after 44 years this group has yet to hold its first meeting.
April 27, 2015 is when the nations of the world meet at the UN to determine what -- if anything -- can be done to compel the U.S. and other nuclear weapons states to adhere to their commitments.
Contact: Massachusetts Peace Action
info@masspeaceaction.org, 617-354-2169
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Pretty Faces (FREE admission)
Tuesday, December 2
7:30p
MIT, Building 26-100, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Pretty faces is an all female ski film featuring the best athletes from around the world in celebration of playing outside, pushing the sport of skiing and living up to our fullest potential as a supportive community. Inspired by the desire to offer young girls role models and inspiration to play outside, this film aims to capture all the girl stoke from the pioneers who have paved the way to the "never-evers" who will continue to define what it means to ski like a girl.
Web site: http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/2014.4q/desc-prettyfaces.shtml
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): LSC, MITOC, Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT)
For more information, contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee
617-253-3791
lsc@mit.edu
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Wednesday, December 3
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Winter Investor Roundtable – McCarter & English Entrepreneurs Series at Cambridge Innovation Center
Wednesday, December 3
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Havana Training Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://mccarterenglishwinterinvestortable2014.eventbrite.com
Prominent Boston investors will discuss the current investment climate, recent trends, and what they look for in potential investments.
Panelists:
Jo Tango from Kepha Partners (http://www.kephapartners.com/about-kepha-partners.php)
Graham Brooks from .406 Ventures (http://www.406ventures.com/team/7-graham_brooks)
James Geshwiler from Common Angels (http://commonangels.com/our-team/management/james-geshwiler/)
Moderator:
David Sorin, McCarter & English (http://www.mccarter.com/David-J-Sorin/)
Doors will open for networking at 9:30am.
This program is part of McCarter & English’s ongoing series at CIC on legal and business topics for entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Programs are held once or twice each month and are open to members of the CIC and their guests, as well as to the greater Boston entrepreneurial community. Contact: Benjamin Hron, 617-449-6584, bhron@mccarter.com, @HronEsq
About the McCarter & English Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group
McCarter’s Emerging Companies Group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build and finance their businesses. The group is composed of tech-savvy lawyers who have helped build, grow, sell and take public companies across the full spectrum of businesses, including Internet, software, medical devices, new media, life sciences, cleantech, healthcare, consumer products, biotechnology, retail, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, insurance and telecom.
McCarter & English
Phone: 617.449.6500
Website: www.mccarter.com
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Nanotechnology in the Development of Future Nano electronics
Wednesday, December 3
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Light lunch at 11:30am
Speaker: Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, NASA
Carrier transport in vacuum is the fastest and vacuum devices are inherently radiation resistant. We have developed nanoscale vacuum transistors by entirely using silicon technology and the devices have the potential for THz electronics. This talk will also cover our recent efforts in flexible electronics.
Meyya Meyyappan is Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, graphene, and various inorganic nanowires, their growth and characterization, and application development in chemical and biosensors, instrumentation, electronics and optoelectronics. He is a Fellow of IEEE, MRS, AVS, ECS and AIChE.
MTL Seminar Series
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/fall2014.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie DiNardo
253-9328
valeried@mit.edu
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Orientalism and the Apocalypse
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director's Series
SPEAKER(S) Mohammed Sharafuddin, professor of English and comparative literature, Sana'a University, Yemen
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3748
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director's Series
SPEAKER(S) Mohammed Sharafuddin, professor of English and comparative literature, Sana'a University, Yemen
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3748
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Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Challenges: Why Technology will Define our Energy Future
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S) Francesco Starace, CEO and general manager, Enel Group
LINK http://heep.hks.harvard.edu/event/meeting-tomorrow’s-energy-challenges-why-technology-will-define-our-energy-future-mr
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Disappearance: Violence & Urban Governance in Mexico
Wednesday, December 3
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jota Samper, Andres Lajous, and Miguel Basanez
Please save the date for a panel on the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. The panel will address violence and disappearances in Mexico as they relate to urban governance, particularly highlighting implications for future urban governance and drawing on international examples.
Lunch will be served to RSVPs.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: RSVP by email
Sponsor(s): International Development Group, DUSP Student Council
For more information, contact: Claire Evans
cmevans@mit.edu
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Mass-independent Sulfur Isotope Fractionation During Photochemistry of Sulfur Dioxide
Wednesday, December 3
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Andrew Richard Whitehill
Thesis Defense
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: N/A
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series—How a Language Was Born: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Social Factors That Led to the Creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ann Senghas, Radcliffe Institute Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow and Barnard College
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-ann-senghas-fellow-presentation
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The Politics of Destruction: “Managing” Political Relationships and the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Wednesday, December 3
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Harvard, Room 105, Suite 160, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Room 105, Suite 160, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
with Juliette Kayyem, Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and former Undersecretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Advisor to the Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This seminar will focus on intergovernmental relations during the response to the 2010 BP oil spill. Participants will be asked to read a two-part case study about this topic in preparation for the seminar.
In addition, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about Professor Kayyem’s experience as a senior state and federal official dealing with crisis response and homeland security – as well as her teaching at HKS, which this spring will include two graduate-level courses: The Management of Crises Response (MLD-381) and The U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise (IGA-615).
As space is limited, please register by Sunday, November 30th using the following link -- even if you already registered at the beginning of the semester, as we understand that schedules might have changed:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AVqEsT4PWE259chbnMA9zwoB3exzc77TWyZM6bYP63k/viewform?usp=send_form
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"Learning by Doing in Solar Photovoltaic Installations"
Wednesday, December 3
4:10PM - 5:30PM
Harvard, L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/event-calendar
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"Deep Learning"
Wednesday, December 3
4:15p–5:45p
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto
Abstract: I will give a brief history of deep learning explaining what it is,what kinds of task it should be good for and why it was largely abandoned in the 1990's. I will then describe how ideas from statistical physics were used to make deep learning work much better on small datasets. Finally I will describe how deep learning is now used by Google for speech recognition and object recognition and how it may soon be used for machine translation.
Biographical Sketch: Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in experimental psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. He spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto. Since 2013, he hasbeen splitting his time between the University of Toronto and Google.
Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of the Royal Society, an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Cognitive Science Society. He was awarded the first David E. Rumelhart prize (2001), the IJCAI award for research excellence (2005) and the Killam prize for Engineering (2012).
CSAIL Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture Series 2014-2015
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/143675
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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What can floating an airplane across the Pacific Ocean on 15,000 plastic bottles tell you about the world’s garbage patches?”
Wednesday December 3
5:00 - 6:00 PM (refreshments at 4:30PM)
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://goo.gl/forms/BbLpk4kv02
Marcus Eriksen, PhD, Director of Research & Co-Founder, 5 Gyres Institute
Abstract: Our “Throw Away” culture has trashed our oceans with plastic to the tune of 270,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion particles. A majority of what we eat, drink, or use in contemporary society comes packaged in petroleum-based plastic – a material designed to last forever, yet used for products that we throw away after a single use. Unable to adequately deal with our plastic garbage, much of our everyday plastics flow out to sea. The lifecycle of plastic in the ocean is a sinister journey from macro to microplastic, sorption of persistent pollutants, and cycling through marine food webs through ingestion, filter-feeding, and entanglement.
During this talk, I will present results from field studies on the current state of the science of plastic marine pollution, including results from our upcoming global estimate of total plastic abundance – the first of its kind. With a focus on solutions, I will discuss how our freshwater research discovered microbeads, which led to legislative victories within one year of publication.
Solutions will be hard-won, and include design innovations to improve the recyclability and recovery rates of products, and a commitment from industry to abandon products that do not measure up. Recommendations on how to address growing problems associated with plastic marine pollution will be discussed from engineering and business perspectives. We welcome academic audience members from all sectors including science, engineering, business and policy.
About the Speaker: Marcus Eriksen is the Director of Research and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Southern California in 2003, months before embarking on a 2000-mile, 5-month journey down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft. His experience on the river led to a career studying the ecological impacts of marine plastic pollution, which has included expeditions sailing 35,000 miles through all 5 subtropical gyres to discover new garbage patches of plastic pollution in the Southern Hemisphere. Still rafting, his most recent adventure sent him and a colleague across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on JUNK a homemade raft floating on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessina airplane fuselage as a cabin. The journey, 2,600 miles in 88 days, drew widespread awareness to the work of the 5 Gyres Institute. His first book, titled “My River Home” (Beacon Press, 2007) chronicled his Mississippi River experience paralleled with his tour as a Marine in the 1991 Gulf War. The experience of war, sailing across the gyres with diverse crews, and long rafting voyages, have led to a strong conservation ethic worth fighting for. Today, Dr. Eriksen continues to drive marine conservation through scientific research, activism, and education on the plague of plastic waste on land and sea.
Contact: Neha Mehta
nehamehta@mit.edu
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Urban Infrastructures for Public Health: Conversation on Civic Tech
Wednesday, December 3
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-infrastructures-for-public-health-conversation-on-civic-tech-registration-14024514701
This Conversation on Civic Tech aims to explore how a city can take an innovative look at public health. While data and technology play a key role in tracking the flu and assisting collaboration among researchers and physicians, technology can also be a useful tool in driving wellness and even economic growth in Boston.
In October, Microsoft was honored to host the second annual Hacking Pediatrics event. The range of innovative ideas that came out of the event was inspiring: from end-to-end childhood vaccine management to accurate, rapid fabrication of custom tracheostomy tubes for children to better ways to manage asthma and monitor use of inhalers. How can we apply the creativity, collaboration and innovation that all come together at a hackathon to public health?
At the fourth in the series of conversations on Civic Tech, we plan to address the following questions:
How does city infrastructure – signage and bike paths – enable public health and wellness?
What role does public health play in the innovation economy in Boston through job creation and industry innovation?
How can collection and analysis of data improve services for citizens and patients?
What technology exists today to collect, analyze or visualize public health data? And what other technologies do we need?
We are bringing together people from various parts of the public and private communities to spark the conversation and then invite the attendees to engage in the discussion. Speaker list will be added as names are confirmed.
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Synthetic Human Organs on Chips
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Honeycomb, Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Le Laboratoire Cambridge
SPEAKER(S) Don Ingber
DETAILS Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber will give one of four talks as part of Le Laboratoire Cambrige's ArtScience Lecture series. This lecture series is aimed at exploring how the arts and design are informing the frontiers of science.
LINK http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/427/
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Honeycomb, Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Le Laboratoire Cambridge
SPEAKER(S) Don Ingber
DETAILS Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber will give one of four talks as part of Le Laboratoire Cambrige's ArtScience Lecture series. This lecture series is aimed at exploring how the arts and design are informing the frontiers of science.
LINK http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/427/
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Time, Space, and Reading the Visual in the Graphic Novel
WHEN Wed., Dec. 3, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cognitive Theory and the Arts, Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Hillary Chute, English Department, University of Chicago
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
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Thursday, December 4
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Cyber Security Symposium
Thursday, December 4
8:30am - 1:00pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Thursday, December 4
8:30am - 1:00pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Request an invitation at http://www.cssymposium.com/invitations/
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A Conversation with Composer/Instrumentalist David Amram
WHEN Thu., Dec. 4, 2014, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall Studio, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Concerts, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) David Amram
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Composer of more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, two operas, many scores for Broadway theater and film—including the classic scores for the films “Splendor in The Grass” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” as well as the landmark 1959 documentary “Pull My Daisy,” narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac—David Amram will discuss his career during a conversation moderated by Mark Olson, Interim Director of Harvard Bands.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=45168
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Human-like Singing and Talking Machines: Flexible Speech Synthesis in Karaoke, Anime, Smart Phones, Video Games, Digital Signage, TV and Radio Programs
Thursday, December 4
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments: 3:45 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva Room), Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Keiichi Tokuda , Nagoya Institute of Technology
This talk will give an overview of statistical approach to flexible speech synthesis. For constructing human-like talking machines, speech synthesis systems are required to have an ability to generate speech with arbitrary speaker's voice, various speaking styles in different languages, varying emphasis and focus, and/or emotional expressions. The main advantage of the statistical approach is that such flexibility can easily be realized using mathematically well-defined algorithms. In this talk, the system architecture is outlined and then recent results and demos will be presented.
Keiichi Tokuda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology and currently he is visiting Google on sabbatical. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was an Invited Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), formally known as the ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan from 2000 to 2013, and was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from 2001 to 2002. He has been working on statistical parametric speech synthesis after he proposed an algorithm for speech parameter generation from HMM in 1995. He received six paper awards and two achievement awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ISCA Fellow.
This CSAIL SEMINAR SERIES, organized in cooperation with the Siri team at Apple, invites leading researchers in HLT to give lectures that introduce the fundamentals of spoken language systems, assess the current state of the art, outline challenges, and speculate on how they can be met. Lectures occur 2-3 times per semester and should be accessible to undergraduates with some technical background.
Contact: Marcia G. Davidson, 617-253-3049, marcia@csail.mit.edu
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“Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility"
Thursday, December 4
4:00 pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 8-329 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
Omar Hurricane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ignition has been a long sought-after goal needed to make fusion energy a viable alternative energy source, but ignition has yet to be achieved. For an inertially confined fusion (ICF) plasma to ignite, the plasma must be very well confined and very hot to generate extremely high pressures needed for self-heating – achieving this state is not easy!
In this talk, we will discuss the technology, science, and progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Northern California. We will cover the some of the setbacks encountered during the progress of the research at NIF, but also cover the great advances that have been made.
In particular, we will cover the recent work using the new “high-foot” pulse-shape implosion that presently holds the record for fusion performance. High-foot implosions are the first facility based fusion experiments to generate more energy from fusion than was invested in the fusion fuel and demonstrate significant yield amplifications from alpha-particle self-heating.
More at: http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html#sthash.7jJHnRB5.dpuf
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What are the causes of rising CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere?
Thursday, December 4
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Steven C. Wofsy, Harvard University
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of environmental topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Weekly seminar series hosted on Thursdays in Parsons Laboratory.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Parsons Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Parsons Laboratory
For more information, contact: Rebecca Fowler
617-253-7101
ceed@mit.edu
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Strategic Partners in Cleantech Discussion #3: How to Pitch to Strategic Partners
Thursday, December 4
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
Networking: 5:30PM – 6:30PM
Panel Discussion: 6:30 PM– 7:30PM
Networking to follow
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/strategic-partners-in-cleantech-discussion-3-how-to-pitch-to-strategic-partners-tickets-14383398131
Confirmed panelists include:
Henrik Holland, Venture Principal at Shell Technology Ventures (moderator)
Makarand Joshi, Director of Energy Management Platform, Strategy, and Innovation, Schneider Electric
Bob Caspe, CEO, IEC Partners
Nadav Efraty, CEO, Desalitech
Qichao Hu, CEO, SolidEnergy Systems
This is the third installment of a five-part speaker series sponsored by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Our previous panels featured a discussion on Corporate Strategic Partners versus Venture Capitalists and IP and legal considerations in dealmaking with strategic partners.
The goal of the speaker series is to educate the start-up community about the benefits, drawbacks and challenges of various types of strategic partnerships.
Our panel series will educate startups about viable sources of funding and strategies to acquire funding for their business. Funding is a challenge that every startup faces so we believe every early stage clean energy startup will find value in this panel series.
Future panels will include topics such as How to Fundraise with Family Offices and Partnerships with Municipalities.
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4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Steven C. Wofsy, Harvard University
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of environmental topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Weekly seminar series hosted on Thursdays in Parsons Laboratory.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Parsons Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Parsons Laboratory
For more information, contact: Rebecca Fowler
617-253-7101
ceed@mit.edu
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Strategic Partners in Cleantech Discussion #3: How to Pitch to Strategic Partners
Thursday, December 4
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
Networking: 5:30PM – 6:30PM
Panel Discussion: 6:30 PM– 7:30PM
Networking to follow
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/strategic-partners-in-cleantech-discussion-3-how-to-pitch-to-strategic-partners-tickets-14383398131
Confirmed panelists include:
Henrik Holland, Venture Principal at Shell Technology Ventures (moderator)
Makarand Joshi, Director of Energy Management Platform, Strategy, and Innovation, Schneider Electric
Bob Caspe, CEO, IEC Partners
Nadav Efraty, CEO, Desalitech
Qichao Hu, CEO, SolidEnergy Systems
This is the third installment of a five-part speaker series sponsored by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Our previous panels featured a discussion on Corporate Strategic Partners versus Venture Capitalists and IP and legal considerations in dealmaking with strategic partners.
The goal of the speaker series is to educate the start-up community about the benefits, drawbacks and challenges of various types of strategic partnerships.
Our panel series will educate startups about viable sources of funding and strategies to acquire funding for their business. Funding is a challenge that every startup faces so we believe every early stage clean energy startup will find value in this panel series.
Future panels will include topics such as How to Fundraise with Family Offices and Partnerships with Municipalities.
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The Road to Intelligence
Thursday, December 4
Thursday, December 4
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
MIT, Building 46-3002, McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with Geoffrey E. Hinton, Bob Desimone, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum and Patrick H Winston
Chaired by Tomaso Poggio and Shimon Ullman
Website: http://cbcl.mit.edu/
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Chaired by Tomaso Poggio and Shimon Ullman
Website: http://cbcl.mit.edu/
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Flash Forum: Warrior Princess
Thursday, December 4
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-forum-warrior-princess-tickets-13702595833
Speaker: Kristin Beck (author, Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender)
Moderator: Elif Armbruster (Associate Professor of English, Suffolk University)
As a 20-year veteran Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck was hailed as a hero, serving on thirteen deployments and ultimately earning a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. But Chris’s biggest battle was coming to terms with the fact that she was really a woman. Now known as Kristin, Beck opens up about her life in a field of masculinity while struggling to acknowledge and accept her true gender. Suffolk English Professor Elif Armbruster helps Beck present her true story, a profile of finding the courage to be herself.
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TechHub Boston Demo Night - December 2014
Thursday, December 4
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall, 306 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhub-boston-demo-night-december-2014-tickets-13552091671
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top StartUps are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech! Come by and chat with this exciting community group while enjoying free beer and preztels at Harpoon, Boston's best brewery (in our minds).
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each company to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each Demo there is live Q&A with the audience.
After the Demo, stick around for a pint and more networking.
Location - Harpoon Brewery Beer Hall & Event Room
6:30 - Doors open
7:00 - Grab some food & drink while listening to presenters demo
8:00 - Networking
9:00 - Continue into the Beer Hall
Interested in demoing your product @ TechHub Demo Night? Get in touch at simon.towers@techhub.com
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Farmed Seaweed: The Next Great Sustainable Seafood?
Thursday, December 4
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium, 1 Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105509&view=Detail
Matt Thompson, aquaculture project lead, Conservation Department, New England Aquarium, and 2013 John H. Cunningham Award Winner
“Is seaweed the next kale?” asked an article promoting seaweed as a health food, but what of its potential as a sustainable seafood? Seaweed farming is one of the largest segments of the global aquaculture industry, which includes a small but growing US contingent. Seaweeds have the potential to be farmed with few environmental impacts and inputs, but they have received little attention in the sustainable seafood movement and aren’t commonly found on US dinner plates.
In an effort to gain a fuller understanding of farmed seaweed, Matt applied for the 2013 John H. Cunningham Award, a professional development program for Aquarium staff to further their knowledge in a particular area. His finding swill be shared during this talk; he will focus on the sustainability of seaweed farming, including recent visits to US and Chinese seaweed farms, and in doing so, ask how we embrace seaweed as a sustainable seafood.
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Friday, December 5
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MassHack Winter 2014
MassHack
Friday, December 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM - Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/masshack-winter-2014-tickets-9325108651
Hackathons are all about innovation. Innovation fuels the economy and helps solve some of the day’s greatest challenges. We need more innovation and to help drive this we are creating one of the largest community driven hackathon.
Developed to be able to bring competitive teams of one-to-six developers into a structured 48-hour applications development environment, MassHack brings the best of the Left Coast’s hackathons together with the venture capital and academic communities of the Right Coast. The Boston metropolitan area has long been home to cool and creative companies, and now we have a world-class competition to challenge the best and brightest.
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Quantification of emissions from various sectors in the oil and gas industry: methane and cohorts
Friday, December 5
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Scott Herndon
Speaker Bio: http://www.aerodyne.com/employees/scott-c-herndon
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Email: rcommane@seas.harvard.edu
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Sustainable Development in Asia
Friday, December 5
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (EST)
Tufts, Cabot 703, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-development-in-asia-tickets-14208823975
Nathan Perry, Assistant Professor at Colorado Mesa University
Sara Hsu, Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz
The authors will discuss their recent book series examining sustainable development in six countries in Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. They will explore various social, economic, and environmental regulations and practices related to issues of biodiversity, income inequality, healthcare, and water pollution and consumption. The authors will review progress in these areas and compare each pair of countries to highlight policy recommendations.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP
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Winter Bike Festival
Friday, December 5
2:00p–6:00p
W20-First floor, 76 Vassar Street, Cambridge
MIT PN2K will be having a winter bike festival! This event is catered toward the cycling community; free basic bicycle repairs and tune ups courtesy of Bike Boom to get your bikes in good condition for riding in the winter. If you need bike lights, we will have a very limited number of bike lights for a heavily subsidized price ($15). Stop by for music, fun, friends, snacks, and to grab bike safety information from MIT PN2K as well as a map of the cycling routes and bike cages around MIT. Additional tips for cycling in the winter will be provided. Bike lights courtesy of Planet Bike. A chance to win free tire valve lights for stopping by!
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Sponsor(s): Phyo Nyi Nyi Kyaw, MIT
For more information, contact: Ye Yao
pn2kmit-officers@mit.edu
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MIT Trashion Show
Friday, December 5
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Participate in a night of sustainable fashion and enjoy creations from unconventional materials by student designers.
https://www.facebook.com/MITrashion
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"Climate Change, Local Adaptation, and Arctic Plant Communities”
Friday, December 5
6:45 pm.
Harvard, Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Gaius R. Shaver, Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
More information at http://www.rhodora.org/meetings/upcomingmeetings.html
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Friday, December 5
7:00 PM
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Walter Isaacson
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City Connect: A Night of Dancing, Drinking, & Connecting
Friday, December 5
Friday, December 5
7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
GA Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
Come kick off Boston’s City Awake with the ultimate anti-networking party. Join General Assembly, New Sector Alliance, and StartingBloc to meet other social changemakers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs in a fun setting filled with drinks, fun, music, and meaningful connections. Come share your passions, connect with people in the area, and have fun as we help kick off Boston’s City Awake!
City Awake
City Awake is Boston’s social impact festival. Boston is home to the world’s leading foundations, nonprofits, and social enterprises anchored by an unmatched ecosystem of academic institutions, innovative companies and civil society. City Awake’s mission is to catalyze Boston’s diverse community of for-impact institutions and leaders to maximize their collective impact through increased awareness and community-building.
From December 4th through 13th, City Awake is bringing together over 100 partner organizations for a week-long festival celebrating and connecting Boston’s vibrant impact community. With dozens of planned events, from panels and Ted-style talks to hands-on workshops and hackathons, City Awake aims to highlight and amplify the work being done by Boston’s impact sector.
Starting Bloc
StartingBloc is built on the belief that a small, committed group of people can change the world.
They bring together entrepreneurs, activists, educators, and innovators working to create change. They connect them to their tribe and give them access to the resources, co-conspirators, projects and support they need to create the impact they want.
New Sector Alliance
Through intensive fellowships New Sector Alliance prepares emerging talent from across the nation for high-impact careers in the social sector.
Website: http://ga.co/g95
Come kick off Boston’s City Awake with the ultimate anti-networking party. Join General Assembly, New Sector Alliance, and StartingBloc to meet other social changemakers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs in a fun setting filled with drinks, fun, music, and meaningful connections. Come share your passions, connect with people in the area, and have fun as we help kick off Boston’s City Awake!
City Awake
City Awake is Boston’s social impact festival. Boston is home to the world’s leading foundations, nonprofits, and social enterprises anchored by an unmatched ecosystem of academic institutions, innovative companies and civil society. City Awake’s mission is to catalyze Boston’s diverse community of for-impact institutions and leaders to maximize their collective impact through increased awareness and community-building.
From December 4th through 13th, City Awake is bringing together over 100 partner organizations for a week-long festival celebrating and connecting Boston’s vibrant impact community. With dozens of planned events, from panels and Ted-style talks to hands-on workshops and hackathons, City Awake aims to highlight and amplify the work being done by Boston’s impact sector.
Starting Bloc
StartingBloc is built on the belief that a small, committed group of people can change the world.
They bring together entrepreneurs, activists, educators, and innovators working to create change. They connect them to their tribe and give them access to the resources, co-conspirators, projects and support they need to create the impact they want.
New Sector Alliance
Through intensive fellowships New Sector Alliance prepares emerging talent from across the nation for high-impact careers in the social sector.
Website: http://ga.co/g95
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Playing For The Planet
Friday, December 5
7:00 pm
The Community Church Of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/playing-for-the-planet-improvisors-against-climate-change-tickets-13841288667
Admission is $20; $15 students & seniors
The tenth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert showcases master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation, with all proceeds going to benefit the environmental advocacy group 350MA.org. The performers include Nima Janmohammadi, a contemporary master of Persian classical music; Triarky, a brilliant jazz “power trio” featuring violinist Mimi Rabson and the electric tuba of David Harris; and the Hindustani classical singing of Warren Senders, with George Ruckert & Amit Kavthekar. The music begins at For information, please call 781-396-0734, or visit the event website at www.warrensenders.com.
“Playing For The Planet: Improvisors Against Climate Change” is the tenth concert in an ongoing series of cross-cultural concerts conceived as a way for creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Their choice of beneficiary, 350MA.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
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Saturday, December 6
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Underwater Robotics
Saturday, December 6
Main presentation 10:00-11:00 a.m. + hands-on activity booths afterward
MIT Kresge Auditorium 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Presented by MIT Marine Robotics Team
FREE! Open to all elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as their parents and teachers
No preregistration required, but seating is limited— first come, first seated
Map & parking info at edgerton.mit.edu/scienceonsaturday Any questions? Email Dr. Todd H. Rider, thor@mit.edu
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Artisan’s Asylum Winter Open Studios
Saturday, December 6 - Monday, December 8
12pm - 4pm
Artisan's Asylum Inc, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/artisans-asylum-winter-open-studios-tickets-14451156799
Artisan’s Asylum, now one of the largest collaborative maker/art/hacker-spaces in the USA, is holding its third annual Winter Open Studios on December 6th and 7th. Dozens of makers, crafters, jewelers, engineers and artists will participate. Tour workshops and studios, observe demos, and purchase unique artwork. Sign up for classes. Take a peek at welding demos, robotics shops and jewelry classes. See what everyone’s talking about.
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Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
Saturday, December 6
Saturday, December 6
5:30pm – 6:30pm
MIT, Building 32-123, Stata Auditorium, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
MIT, Building 32-123, Stata Auditorium, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join filmmaker Sarah Holt and EAPS Geologist Samuel A. Bowring to a screening of Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink featuring EAPS Alumni: Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Seth Burgess, and Ben Black.
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Sunday, December 7
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Sunday, December 7
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The Language of Humanism
WHEN Sun., Dec. 7, 2014, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University, Science Center - Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Steven Pinker, Julia Sweeney, Robert Pinsky, Rebecca Goldstein, Greg Epstein
COST Suggested donation - $35
TICKET WEB LINK www.eventbrite.com…
CONTACT INFO info@harvardhumanist.org
LINK www.harvardhumanist.org
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Light for Lima Vigil #LightforLima
Join us! This December, world leaders will meet in Lima, Peru to reach an agreement to prevent the devastating effects of climate change. Time is running out for meaningful action. Our collective future is on the line, and our prayers and public gatherings matter.
This is why OurVoices is organizing #LightForLIMA – a global, multi-faith prayer vigil. On Sunday evening, December 7, people from diverse faith and spiritual communities around the world will gather for public vigils – lit by solar lamps! Join people of all faiths in Downtown Boston on Sunday, December 7 at 5 PM.
Co-sponsoring organizations (in addition to OurVoices.Net) so far include:
The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts (TABCOM)
Better Future Project
Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM)
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Franciscan Action Network
First Parish Church in Cambridge, Environmental Justice Task Force
Jewish Climate Action Network
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis
Massachusetts Conference United Church of Christ
Mass Interfaith Power and Light
Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue
The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts
Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore
And more every day...
When world leaders come together in Lima, they need to know that we're holding them in our thoughts, meditations, and prayers. Our prayers and presence will bring hope.
To purchase your own solar lamp for the vigil and also support SolarAid in bringing solar lamps to Africa, go to http://shop.ourvoices.net/
Sunday, December 7
5:00pm - 5:45pm
Faneuil Hall Square, Downtown Boston
This is why OurVoices is organizing #LightForLIMA – a global, multi-faith prayer vigil. On Sunday evening, December 7, people from diverse faith and spiritual communities around the world will gather for public vigils – lit by solar lamps! Join people of all faiths in Downtown Boston on Sunday, December 7 at 5 PM.
Co-sponsoring organizations (in addition to OurVoices.Net) so far include:
The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts (TABCOM)
Better Future Project
Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM)
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Franciscan Action Network
First Parish Church in Cambridge, Environmental Justice Task Force
Jewish Climate Action Network
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis
Massachusetts Conference United Church of Christ
Mass Interfaith Power and Light
Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue
The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts
Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore
And more every day...
When world leaders come together in Lima, they need to know that we're holding them in our thoughts, meditations, and prayers. Our prayers and presence will bring hope.
To purchase your own solar lamp for the vigil and also support SolarAid in bringing solar lamps to Africa, go to http://shop.ourvoices.net/
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Monday, December 8
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The French-American Innovation Day 2014: The Challenge of Innovation in the Energy Field: Energy Storage
Monday, December 8 - Tuesday, December 9
8:15am - 5:45pm
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://faid2014.france-science.org/venue-and-registration/
Join us for the 2014 edition of the French-American Innovation Day (FAID 2014) organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in collaboration with MIT, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
During this event, you will hear presentations on state-of-the-art technologies from academic leaders such as MIT’s Don Sadoway and Harvard’s Michael Aziz. Industrial leaders such as Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, Schneider Electric and Saft will focus on how to “Bring new technologies in the Energy Storage Field to the Market Place”.
FAID will also feature an open innovation meet-up, where students and young companies will be able to meet strategic players in the energy storage field such as Saint-Gobain or Schneider Electric.
Contact Name: Maxime Huynh
maxime.huynh@ambascience-usa.org
During this event, you will hear presentations on state-of-the-art technologies from academic leaders such as MIT’s Don Sadoway and Harvard’s Michael Aziz. Industrial leaders such as Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, Schneider Electric and Saft will focus on how to “Bring new technologies in the Energy Storage Field to the Market Place”.
FAID will also feature an open innovation meet-up, where students and young companies will be able to meet strategic players in the energy storage field such as Saint-Gobain or Schneider Electric.
Contact Name: Maxime Huynh
maxime.huynh@ambascience-usa.org
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-08-050000/french-american-innovation-day-2014%C2%AD-%E2%80%93-challenges-energy-storage#sthash.jFd3Sh14.dpuf
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MASS Seminar - Zhiming Kuang (Harvard)
Monday, December 8, 2014
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Zhiming Kuang
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Industrial Urbanism in Africa
Monday, December 8, 2014
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 9-450, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Calestous Juma
Africa is one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world. This population shift is associated with rising prospects for urban industrial development. However, it also creates new challenges for land use planning and regulations. This lecture explores the
implications of rapid technological advancement for industrial urbanism in Africa. Using the case of Lagos in Nigeria, it focuses on how technological leapfrogging is likely to create new opportunities for more integrated land use planning approaches in African cities. The lecture outlines regulatory and human resource development strategies needed for African cities to effectively harness emerging technological opportunities for sustainable urban development and the extent to which technological leapfrogging is creating new opportunities for adopting more integrated land use planning.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
Monday, December 8
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Sweet Talk: A Lecture by Kara Walker
WHEN Mon., Dec. 8, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Kara Walker, artist
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-kara-walker-lecture
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-kara-walker-lecture
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Fuzzy Beliefs and Preferences: We All Have Them What Should We Do About Them?
Monday, December 8
7pm – 8pm
The Burren 247 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
Dr Casper Hare
SITN’s Science by the Pint is a chance to interact directly with research scientists. The featured scientists will give a brief intro to her work, and take a few questions before mingling from table to table with other member of her group to chat with you.
Contact http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/
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Gustav Metzger's Dome(s) Project
Monday, December 8
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniela Perez & Patrick Charpenel
Patrick Charpenel and Daniela Perez will introduce the life and work of the artist Gustav Metzger and expand on one of the artist's most recent proposals regarding the construction and long-term activation of spaces for social change. This project explores questions regarding the environment, climate change, architecture, humanity, biodiversity, consciousness, natural resources, science, technology, food, sustainability, the future, and art, among other topics.
The aim of the lecture is to share Gustav Metzger's project in Mexico with the MIT community at large in order to openly discuss the deep urgency and obligation to act in regard to environmental challenges facing the world today, and the passion that collectively-uniting many strengths-can be harnessed to promote a more sustainable future. The lecture is a platform for conversation that aims to bring together the intellectual and creative strengths that individuals from a variety of departments at MIT can use to explore the role of art in society, commonly described by Gustav Metzger as the path of "ethics into aesthetics."
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Ilse Damkoehler
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu
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Tuesday, December 9
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Boston TechBreakfast: Moodsnap, and More!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723092/
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 Boston TechBreakfast:
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!
Moodsnap - David Blutenthal
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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American Association of Port Authorities President to Deliver Talk at Volpe
Tuesday, December 9
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell@dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Kurt J. Nagle, President and Chief Executive Officer for the American Association of Port Authorities
Kurt Nagle has over 30 years of experience in Washington, D.C., related to seaports and international trade. Since 1995, Nagle has served as president and chief executive officer for the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA). Nagle began working at AAPA, the alliance of the leading public port authorities throughout the Western Hemisphere, in 1985.
Prior to joining AAPA, Nagle was director of International Trade for the National Coal Association and Assistant Secretary for the Coal Exporters Association.
Previously, he worked in the Office of International Economic Research at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Nagle serves on the Executive Committee of the Propeller Club of the United States and is a former commissioner of PIANC, the International Navigation Congress.
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"iBiology: New Opportunities for Learning Biology through the Internet"
Tuesday, December 9
4:00 pm
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, B23, Mallinckrodt, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Ron Vale, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, the University of California, San Francisco; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Winner of the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Dudley Herschbach Teacher/Scientist Lecture
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Animal Psychology
Tuesday, December 9
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Laurel Braitman, author, Animal Madness
More information at https://ksj.mit.edu/seminars/
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Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
Tuesday, December 9 and 10
6-9pm
196 Quincy Street, Dorchester
Learn from HAACP-expert Amanda Kinchla, of UMASS Food Science Department, as she helps guide you through concept, process, food safety, and product launch. Register for CropCircle Kitchen's 2-day, content-filled course.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-development-considerations-beyond-the-concept-tickets-13270154389
Do you want to better understand the food safety principles behind your process? Do you need help with product development for your current or future food product?
This 2-day course will cover the following topics:
Principals of Food Safety
The Product Development Process
Cycle to Creating a New Food Product
Product Development Process (including business strategy, product testing,product launch)
HACCP Plan requirements and/or Low-acid & Acidified certification
Determining formula, process and packaging for a safe food system
Process Validation requirements
Label Regulations, product claims, ingredient statements and nutrition facts
Operational capabilities and Quality Controls
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The Bee: A Natural History
Tuesday, December 9
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Cost: $10 (Students: email to register for free.)
Noah Wilson-Rich, PhD, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, The Best Bees Company
Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Yet bees are dying at an alarming rate, threatening food supplies and ecosystems around the world. In this natural history talk, Noah Wilson-Rich will provide a window into the vitally important role that bees play in the life of our planet. He will speak about the human–bee relationship through time; explain a bit about bee evolution, ecology, and physiology; and share his holistic approach to bee health and how you can help bee populations.
http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
An Arnold Arboretum Lecture for Adults
Contact Name: Pam Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-10-000000-2014-12-10-013000/bee-natural-history#sthash.ViNjsEDA.dpuf
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Wednesday, December 10
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6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology Final Project Showcase
Wednesday, December 10
3:00p
MIT, Building 32-044, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP: http://bit.ly/ppat_showcase
6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology (PPAT) is a 12-unit, interdisciplinary, project-based course in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to develop a practical product or solution that helps them live more independently. During the term, each team meets with its client, iterates through multiple prototypes, and learns about the complexities of designing assistive technology (AT) for people with disabilities. The course also includes lectures on principles of successful AT design, perspectives from people with disabilities and AT makers and users, design processes and human factors, and social, economic, and ethical perspectives on disability.
PPAT was founded, taught, and championed by Professor Seth Teller, who conceived of the course and taught it from 2011 to 2013. We are very proud to be offering PPAT once again in Fall 2014.
Web site: http://bit.ly/ppat_showcase
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Assistive Technology Club
For more information, contact: William Li
assistivetech-contact@mit.edu
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D-Lab Fall Showcase and Open House
Wednesday, December 10
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building N51-3rd floor
Speaker: D-Lab students
D-Lab challenges talented students to use their math, science, engineering, social science, and business skills to tackle a broad range of global poverty issues. Come see how our students are making an impact!
D-Lab students from the five fall courses offered will be presenting!
D-Lab: Development
D-Lab: Schools
D-Lab: Supply Chains
D-Lab: Waste
Design for Scale
Development Ventures
To kick things off, students will give brief presentations. Attendees will then be able to view all the working prototypes on display throughout the D-Lab space! All welcome.
Web site: http://d-lab.mit.edu/node/1045
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): D-Lab
For more information, contact: Nancy Adams
nadam@mit.edu
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series—What's Wrong With Me?: The Uncertainties of Chronic Illness
WHEN Wed., Dec. 10, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Meghan O'Rourke, Radcliffe Institute Helen Putnam Fellow and New York University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-meghan-orourke-fellow-presentation
WHEN Wed., Dec. 10, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Meghan O'Rourke, Radcliffe Institute Helen Putnam Fellow and New York University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-meghan-orourke-fellow-presentation
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Mass Innovation Nights #MIN69
December 10
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Each month, ten companies bring new products to Mass Innovation Nights and the social media community turns out to blog, tweet, post pictures & video, add product mentions to LinkedIn & Facebook, and otherwise help spread the word. These live events allow companies to show off Massachusetts-based innovation. In the last four years, Mass Innovation Nights have helped to:
Launch more than 650 products
Connect dozens of job seekers and hiring managers
Profile dozens of local experts
Launch a wave of Innovation Nights events around the world (coming soon)
Registration and networking begin at 6:00 pm and presentations begin at 7:00 pm. Innovation Nights are held once a month on-site at various venues that donate their space to further the cause of local innovation.
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/
Organizer: Mass Innovation Nights
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/
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Food Product Development Considerations Workshop
Wednesday, December 10
6-9pm
196 Quincy Street, Dorchester
Learn from HAACP-expert Amanda Kinchla, of UMASS Food Science Department, as she helps guide you through concept, process, food safety, and product launch. Register for CropCircle Kitchen's 2-day, content-filled course.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-development-considerations-beyond-the-concept-tickets-13270154389
Do you want to better understand the food safety principles behind your process? Do you need help with product development for your current or future food product?
This 2-day course will cover the following topics:
Principals of Food Safety
The Product Development Process
Cycle to Creating a New Food Product
Product Development Process (including business strategy, product testing,product launch)
HACCP Plan requirements and/or Low-acid & Acidified certification
Determining formula, process and packaging for a safe food system
Process Validation requirements
Label Regulations, product claims, ingredient statements and nutrition facts
Operational capabilities and Quality Controls
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Christ Actually: Jesus in the 21st Century
Wednesday, December 10
7pm
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Award-winning author James Carroll discusses his new book, Christ Actually: The Son of God for The Secular Age. Carroll asks what can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the post-20th century world of wars and Holocaust and the drift from religion that followed? Answering his own question, Carroll revisits Christ’s crucial identity as a Jew. What can the ordinary humanness of the Christ figure mean to the 21st century? How can Christ, who is no Christian himself, transcend Christianity to speak
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/to people in today’s world?
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The Bee: A Natural History
WHEN Tue., Dec. 9, 2014, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum
SPEAKER(S) Noah Wilson-Rich, founder and chief scientific officer, The Best Bees Company
COST $10 (students can email to register for free)
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1385&DayPlannerDate=12/9/2014
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu, 617.384.5277
DETAILS Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Yet bees are dying at an alarming rate, threatening food supplies and ecosystems around the world. In this natural history talk, Noah Wilson-Rich will provide a window into the vitally important role that bees play in the life of our planet. He will speak about the human–bee relationship through time; explain a bit about bee evolution, ecology, and physiology; and share his holistic approach to bee health and how you can help bee populations
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Syria, Iraq and ISIS: Understanding the New War and How the Peace Movement should Respond
Wednesday, December 10
7:00pm
Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
$5 donation requested
Prof. Elaine Hagopian on understanding the war
Activist views on the peace movement's response
Discussion on what to do next
The US announced early in November that troop deployment in the war against ISIS will be doubled from 1500 to 3000 -- although they are supposedly not "boots on the ground." Meanwhile, thousands of air sorties have been flown and the Obama administration is again asking Congress for billions to fund a new war. But US allies are reluctant to commit resources, Turkey regards the Kurds as the greater threat and Saudi Arabia is privately providing ISIS aid. The US is battling to overthrow Assad in Syria while also fighting his enemy. Contacts are made with Iran -- but we don't really want to coordinate efforts. Beheadings rouse demands for action.
The US claims its only goal is to defeat ISIS but the long term goal has not changed: regime change in Syria and continued domination over the region made unstable by years of US intervention. The prospect of a long and escalating war confronts us. What is our message in this complex and contradictory situation?
Elaine Hagopian, professor emeritus of sociology at Simmons College, will provide background and context on Syria, referencing Palestine and Iraq. Cole Harrison, executive director of Mass Peace Action, and Marilyn Levin, co-coordinator of United National Antiwar Coalition, will offer different views on the peace movement's response.
Elaine Hagopian is a retired professor of sociology from Simmons College, Boston. She served as visiting professor of sociology at the American University in Beirut, and as a distinguished Lecturer at the American University of Cairo. She was awarded two Fulbright Hays Faculty research grants to do research in France and the Arab region. She served with UNCIEF in the United Arab Emirates; and as part of a UNESCO team to do a feasibility study for a Palestine Open University. Her publications focus on Arab regional issues and on Arab-Americans; her article "Bashar Assad's Missed Opportunity: Syria's Pandoran Box" appeared in Counterpunch in June 2011.
Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace
info@justicewithpeace.org
617 383 4857
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Arts of War Concert with Special Free Gallery Hours
WHEN Wed., Dec. 10, 2014, 8 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Music, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmsc@hmsc.harvard.edu, 617.496.1027
DETAILS The Dudley World Music Ensemble presents a unique concert inspired by the Peabody Museum's exhibition Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons across Cultures, featuring both original compositions and existing repertoire drawn from across the world: from battle music in Java and classics dedicated to the war goddess of India to conversations between the Yi mouth harp and voices of tabla drums. The concert will also include performances by Harvard’s Gamelan Si Betty ensemble.
Arrive early to enjoy special free hours in the Arts of War exhibition preceding the concert, from 5:00-8:00 pm. The concert begins at 8:00 pm in the adjacent Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
The Dudley World Music Ensemble (WME) at Harvard University is a collective of musicians committed to exploring music beyond the Euro-American tradition through rearranging, composing, and performing music and sound that draws on various national, regional, and local musical cultures. Rujing Huang currently serves as the ensemble director for WME.
5:00-8:00 pm special gallery hours in the Arts of War exhibition, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
8:00 pm Arts of War Concert in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
LINK https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2117
Reversing the Tide of Plastic Oceans
Thursday, December 11
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105521&view=Detail
Dr. Mike Biddle, founder & director, MBA Polymers, Inc.
Plastics provide us with many lifestyle as well as economic, health and environmental benefits. And because of this, plastics have become one of the major material categories in use on the planet, with over 500 billion pounds produced each and every year around the world. Unfortunately, very little of this plastic is re-used, and much of it ends up either burned or buried, with potentially negative environmental impacts and lost economic opportunities. Even more concerning is the fact that billions of pounds of plastics enter the oceans each year, sometimes with devastating impacts on sea life and the overall health of our oceans.
Dr. Biddle will discuss why plastics are the last major material category to be recovered from end-of-life products on a large scale, the impact they are having on our oceans and beyond and what is required to propel this last frontier of recycling forward on a global scale. He will also discuss the development of breakthrough technology for the "above-ground mining" of plastics from highly mixed waste streams and why this is important for economic as well as environmental reasons.
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MIT Water Summit - Opening Ceremony
Thursday, December 11
5:00p–8:00p
Cambridge Marriott, 2 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniel Bena, Sustainability Development Executive at PepsiCo
The MIT Water Summit is a landmark event that brings together experts from industry, academia, government, and finance to discuss the challenges and cutting-edge developments in the water sector. The opening ceremony will boast a high-profile keynote speaker, cocktails, and networking with many esteemed local and national water researchers, business leaders, and policy makers.
Web site: www.mitwatersummit.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club, Earth Systems Initiative, Abdul Lateef Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab
For more information, contact: Adam Weiner
waterclub-officers@mit.edu
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MIT Water Summit - Panel Session
Friday, December 12
8:00a–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-mit-water-summit-tickets-14299358767
Cost: $0-22.09
Speaker: Numerous expert panelists from Sandia National Labs, Monsanto, IFC-World Bank, and more!
The MIT Water Summit is a landmark event that brings together experts from industry, academia, government, and finance to discuss the challenges and cutting-edge developments in the water sector. Friday's all-day event is composed of several high-profile keynote speakers, thought provoking discussions by expert panelists, and a closing ceremony and cocktail reception.
Our three panel themes are:
Water in Health - Sanitation and basic water treatment in the developing world alongside emerging contaminants will be discussed.
Water for Food - Sustainable science, policy, and finance for securing clean water to feed the growing world population.
Water in Cities - Conservation, potable reuse, and desalination for the 21st century and beyond.
Web site: www.mitwatersummit.com
Open to: the general public
Tickets: www.mitwatersummit.com
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club, Earth Systems Initiative, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Security Laboratory
For more information, contact: Adam Weiner
waterclub-officers@mit.edu
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Understanding and Improving Cities
Friday, December 12
9 am–5 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?456249
"Understanding and Improving Cities: Policy/Research Partnerships in the Digital Age" will bring together civic leaders, scholars, local practitioners, and students to discuss current and future research and policy collaborations. The event will feature panel discussions in which scholars and officials discuss work being done in Boston and other locales on education, public safety, economic development, and public management, including several initiatives that are using new data sources in novel ways. Conference participants will also have opportunities to explore new partnerships in small-scale conversations. The day’s program will conclude with remarks and discussion with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, whose administration is committed to making Boston’s data more accessible and using that data to improve the lives of citizens.
For additional information about the conference, contact David Luberoff, Senior Project Advisor at the Boston Area Research Initiative (david_luberoff@radcliffe.harvard.edu), or Steve Poftak, Executive Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston (steven_poftak@hks.harvard.edu).
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/understanding-and-improving-cities#sthash.3TqDTyst.dpuf
December Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, December 17
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EST)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-13973329605
Join us for the December installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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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://mitenergyclub.org/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/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
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/
WHEN Wed., Dec. 10, 2014, 8 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Exhibitions, Music, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmsc@hmsc.harvard.edu, 617.496.1027
DETAILS The Dudley World Music Ensemble presents a unique concert inspired by the Peabody Museum's exhibition Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons across Cultures, featuring both original compositions and existing repertoire drawn from across the world: from battle music in Java and classics dedicated to the war goddess of India to conversations between the Yi mouth harp and voices of tabla drums. The concert will also include performances by Harvard’s Gamelan Si Betty ensemble.
Arrive early to enjoy special free hours in the Arts of War exhibition preceding the concert, from 5:00-8:00 pm. The concert begins at 8:00 pm in the adjacent Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
The Dudley World Music Ensemble (WME) at Harvard University is a collective of musicians committed to exploring music beyond the Euro-American tradition through rearranging, composing, and performing music and sound that draws on various national, regional, and local musical cultures. Rujing Huang currently serves as the ensemble director for WME.
5:00-8:00 pm special gallery hours in the Arts of War exhibition, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
8:00 pm Arts of War Concert in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
LINK https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2117
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Thursday, December 11
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Big Data and Analytics Workshop
Thursday, December 11
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://ibm.biz/BdE2N9
Learn all about the key capabilities in the IBM Big Data & Analytics portfolio (including Watson Analytics), how to get started via Bluemix and how these offerings can solve real business problems. See how a real life IoT application showcases these key capabilities.
Contact: Caeli Byrne
Phone:
617-693-3023
Email: cbyrne@us.ibm.com
Website: http://ibm.com/partnerworld/iic/Cambridge
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Live Streaming: TEDxPlaceDesNations @
Thursday, December 11
8:30 am to 2:00 pm
swissnexBoston 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lX-psOLV3CiOVYB5u9HwM7PSFNC8h_tpH_8HphdXPZI/viewform
in Geneva, Switzerland, a TEDx stage will open to showcase remarkable stories of people helping people. At swissnex Boston we are providing a moderated live streaming of the TEDxPlaceDesNations to our event space in Cambridge, MA
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/tedxplacedesnations-swissnexboston/
T: (617) 876 3076
F: (617) 876 3079
info@swissnexboston.org
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Between Mao and Gandhi: Strategies of Violence and Nonviolence in Revolutionary Movements
WHEN Thu., Dec. 11, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Ches Thurber, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6507/between_mao_and_gandhi.html
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Thursday, December 11
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Big Data and Analytics Workshop
Thursday, December 11
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://ibm.biz/BdE2N9
Learn all about the key capabilities in the IBM Big Data & Analytics portfolio (including Watson Analytics), how to get started via Bluemix and how these offerings can solve real business problems. See how a real life IoT application showcases these key capabilities.
Contact: Caeli Byrne
Phone:
617-693-3023
Email: cbyrne@us.ibm.com
Website: http://ibm.com/partnerworld/iic/Cambridge
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Live Streaming: TEDxPlaceDesNations @
Thursday, December 11
8:30 am to 2:00 pm
swissnexBoston 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lX-psOLV3CiOVYB5u9HwM7PSFNC8h_tpH_8HphdXPZI/viewform
in Geneva, Switzerland, a TEDx stage will open to showcase remarkable stories of people helping people. At swissnex Boston we are providing a moderated live streaming of the TEDxPlaceDesNations to our event space in Cambridge, MA
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/tedxplacedesnations-swissnexboston/
T: (617) 876 3076
F: (617) 876 3079
info@swissnexboston.org
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Between Mao and Gandhi: Strategies of Violence and Nonviolence in Revolutionary Movements
WHEN Thu., Dec. 11, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Ches Thurber, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6507/between_mao_and_gandhi.html
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The Ethics of Compassion: Lessons from the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa
WHEN Thu., Dec. 11, 2014, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Gordon Hall, Waterhouse Room, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
SPEAKER(S) Arthur D. Caplan
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1O8XC4isMs4pOr5x0L6dvJTJmhZR9OAYViyzjAx9wjXo/viewform
DETAILS The ongoing Ebola outbreak has raised many important ethical issues. Does quarantine have a role to play in controlling the epidemic? Why was the initial response to the outbreak in Guinea so slow and what ought be done to prevent that from happening again? And what sorts of restrictions should be placed on testing experimental agents in West Africa? Each of these questions will be examined and discussed.
LINK http://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/upcoming-events
WHEN Thu., Dec. 11, 2014, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Gordon Hall, Waterhouse Room, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
SPEAKER(S) Arthur D. Caplan
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1O8XC4isMs4pOr5x0L6dvJTJmhZR9OAYViyzjAx9wjXo/viewform
DETAILS The ongoing Ebola outbreak has raised many important ethical issues. Does quarantine have a role to play in controlling the epidemic? Why was the initial response to the outbreak in Guinea so slow and what ought be done to prevent that from happening again? And what sorts of restrictions should be placed on testing experimental agents in West Africa? Each of these questions will be examined and discussed.
LINK http://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/upcoming-events
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Reversing the Tide of Plastic Oceans
Thursday, December 11
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105521&view=Detail
Dr. Mike Biddle, founder & director, MBA Polymers, Inc.
Plastics provide us with many lifestyle as well as economic, health and environmental benefits. And because of this, plastics have become one of the major material categories in use on the planet, with over 500 billion pounds produced each and every year around the world. Unfortunately, very little of this plastic is re-used, and much of it ends up either burned or buried, with potentially negative environmental impacts and lost economic opportunities. Even more concerning is the fact that billions of pounds of plastics enter the oceans each year, sometimes with devastating impacts on sea life and the overall health of our oceans.
Dr. Biddle will discuss why plastics are the last major material category to be recovered from end-of-life products on a large scale, the impact they are having on our oceans and beyond and what is required to propel this last frontier of recycling forward on a global scale. He will also discuss the development of breakthrough technology for the "above-ground mining" of plastics from highly mixed waste streams and why this is important for economic as well as environmental reasons.
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MIT Water Summit - Opening Ceremony
Thursday, December 11
5:00p–8:00p
Cambridge Marriott, 2 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Speaker: Daniel Bena, Sustainability Development Executive at PepsiCo
The MIT Water Summit is a landmark event that brings together experts from industry, academia, government, and finance to discuss the challenges and cutting-edge developments in the water sector. The opening ceremony will boast a high-profile keynote speaker, cocktails, and networking with many esteemed local and national water researchers, business leaders, and policy makers.
Web site: www.mitwatersummit.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club, Earth Systems Initiative, Abdul Lateef Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab
For more information, contact: Adam Weiner
waterclub-officers@mit.edu
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Friday, December 12
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MIT Water Summit - Panel Session
Friday, December 12
8:00a–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-mit-water-summit-tickets-14299358767
Cost: $0-22.09
Speaker: Numerous expert panelists from Sandia National Labs, Monsanto, IFC-World Bank, and more!
The MIT Water Summit is a landmark event that brings together experts from industry, academia, government, and finance to discuss the challenges and cutting-edge developments in the water sector. Friday's all-day event is composed of several high-profile keynote speakers, thought provoking discussions by expert panelists, and a closing ceremony and cocktail reception.
Our three panel themes are:
Water in Health - Sanitation and basic water treatment in the developing world alongside emerging contaminants will be discussed.
Water for Food - Sustainable science, policy, and finance for securing clean water to feed the growing world population.
Water in Cities - Conservation, potable reuse, and desalination for the 21st century and beyond.
Web site: www.mitwatersummit.com
Open to: the general public
Tickets: www.mitwatersummit.com
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club, Earth Systems Initiative, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Security Laboratory
For more information, contact: Adam Weiner
waterclub-officers@mit.edu
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Understanding and Improving Cities
Friday, December 12
9 am–5 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?456249
"Understanding and Improving Cities: Policy/Research Partnerships in the Digital Age" will bring together civic leaders, scholars, local practitioners, and students to discuss current and future research and policy collaborations. The event will feature panel discussions in which scholars and officials discuss work being done in Boston and other locales on education, public safety, economic development, and public management, including several initiatives that are using new data sources in novel ways. Conference participants will also have opportunities to explore new partnerships in small-scale conversations. The day’s program will conclude with remarks and discussion with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, whose administration is committed to making Boston’s data more accessible and using that data to improve the lives of citizens.
For additional information about the conference, contact David Luberoff, Senior Project Advisor at the Boston Area Research Initiative (david_luberoff@radcliffe.harvard.edu), or Steve Poftak, Executive Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston (steven_poftak@hks.harvard.edu).
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/understanding-and-improving-cities#sthash.3TqDTyst.dpuf
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Saturday, December 13
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City Awake - Creative Roots Speculating Boston Hack
Saturday, December 13
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
TBA
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-awake-creative-roots-speculating-boston-hack-tickets-14514032863
Saturday, December 13
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City Awake - Creative Roots Speculating Boston Hack
Saturday, December 13
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
TBA
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-awake-creative-roots-speculating-boston-hack-tickets-14514032863
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Green Entrepreneur Small Business Network seminar on: Building Quick, Convincing Business Plans
Saturday, December 13
Saturday, December 13
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Dudley Library, 65 Warren Street, Roxbury
Seating is limited please RSVP at http://otoney.wix.com/gnec#!green-entrepreneur-small-bus-network/c1tmj
Building Quick, Convincing Business Plans that deliver confidence, capital, market share and more.
Presentation Description
This presentation is designed for professionals of all levels who want to transform the Rubik’s cube of ideas in their heads into a clear and compelling strategic direction for their business (or career). The speaker will introduce proven tips, tools and techniques to help you quickly organize those thoughts into a succinct business storyline that 1) is unique and valuable for your clients and 2) provides confidence and clarity in both running your business and in educating and enticing investors, employees and other stakeholders. The content will address the latest business megatrend of green and sustainability including permaculture and local food and farming and why, when and how to consider these initiatives. The ultimate deliverable to you is insight into the simple mechanics and key drivers of developing a sound growth strategy that will deliver focus, action and results.
Speaker Bio
Bill Bean is a Strategic Business Consultant and President of Green Planning & Coaching. His 35 year career began in Strategic Planning at International Paper Company’s Fortune 500 Headquarters in Manhattan. He then gained 16 years of experience in commissioned sales, sales management, marketing management and a $150,000,000 Division Management responsibility with Trus Joist Corporation. That was followed in 2000 by 5 years in the tech sector and 8 years in independent business consulting with for profit and nonprofit businesses.
GP&C’s work includes:
1. Business Plan Facilitation using a proprietary, collaborative process to prepare hundreds of plans across a broad range of industries, designed and executed for Focus, Action and Results. This includes the growing movement of local food and farming,
2. Executive and Career Coaching with professionals of all ages and position levels.
3. Speaking engagements ranging from local groups to international conferences.
4. Teaching “Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Planning” in Master’s programs at: UMass Amherst, Clark University, and Suffolk University (online).
Bill has BBA and MS degrees from UMass, Amherst, is a LEED® AP and has a Permaculture Designer Certification (PDC). He serves on 4 nonprofit boards in MA, and CA and is a US Army veteran. He lives in Tyringham MA. bill@GreenPlanningAndCoaching.com 413-243-8008.
Please find the flyer at our website and then share it and post it where appropriate. Go to: http://otoney.wix.com/gnec#!green-entrepreneur-small-bus-network/c1tmj
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Monday, December 15
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Climate Change and Plant Conservation: Is managed relocation an option?
Monday, December 15
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston
Cost: $10 (Students: email to register for free.)
Jesse Bellemare, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College
Climate change is projected to be one of the top threats to biodiversity in coming decades. Species with small geographic ranges, often called “endemics”, may be at especially high risk of extinction because unsuitable climatic conditions could develop rapidly across the entirety of their ranges. If such species are unable to disperse long distances on their own to follow suitable climatic conditions, it has been proposed that human-assisted colonization or "managed relocation" might be an option of last resort to avoid extinctions. With this approach, climate-threatened species would be intentionally translocated to new regions as conditions deteriorated within their native ranges. Jesse Bellemare will speak about his research to better understand how the distribution and diversity of these rare species is related to past climate change, such as the Ice Ages, and to predict how the species might respond to the threat of modern anthropogenic climate change. Will managed relocation of species be a viable solution to prevent rare species extinction?
http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
An Arnold Arboretum Lecture for Adults
Contact Name: Pam Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-16-000000-2014-12-16-013000/climate-change-and-plant-conservation-managed-relocation#sthash.MIC3K5Oj.dpuf
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Wednesday, December 17
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Seating is limited please RSVP at http://otoney.wix.com/gnec#!green-entrepreneur-small-bus-network/c1tmj
Building Quick, Convincing Business Plans that deliver confidence, capital, market share and more.
Presentation Description
This presentation is designed for professionals of all levels who want to transform the Rubik’s cube of ideas in their heads into a clear and compelling strategic direction for their business (or career). The speaker will introduce proven tips, tools and techniques to help you quickly organize those thoughts into a succinct business storyline that 1) is unique and valuable for your clients and 2) provides confidence and clarity in both running your business and in educating and enticing investors, employees and other stakeholders. The content will address the latest business megatrend of green and sustainability including permaculture and local food and farming and why, when and how to consider these initiatives. The ultimate deliverable to you is insight into the simple mechanics and key drivers of developing a sound growth strategy that will deliver focus, action and results.
Speaker Bio
Bill Bean is a Strategic Business Consultant and President of Green Planning & Coaching. His 35 year career began in Strategic Planning at International Paper Company’s Fortune 500 Headquarters in Manhattan. He then gained 16 years of experience in commissioned sales, sales management, marketing management and a $150,000,000 Division Management responsibility with Trus Joist Corporation. That was followed in 2000 by 5 years in the tech sector and 8 years in independent business consulting with for profit and nonprofit businesses.
GP&C’s work includes:
1. Business Plan Facilitation using a proprietary, collaborative process to prepare hundreds of plans across a broad range of industries, designed and executed for Focus, Action and Results. This includes the growing movement of local food and farming,
2. Executive and Career Coaching with professionals of all ages and position levels.
3. Speaking engagements ranging from local groups to international conferences.
4. Teaching “Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Planning” in Master’s programs at: UMass Amherst, Clark University, and Suffolk University (online).
Bill has BBA and MS degrees from UMass, Amherst, is a LEED® AP and has a Permaculture Designer Certification (PDC). He serves on 4 nonprofit boards in MA, and CA and is a US Army veteran. He lives in Tyringham MA. bill@GreenPlanningAndCoaching.com 413-243-8008.
Please find the flyer at our website and then share it and post it where appropriate. Go to: http://otoney.wix.com/gnec#!green-entrepreneur-small-bus-network/c1tmj
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Monday, December 15
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Climate Change and Plant Conservation: Is managed relocation an option?
Monday, December 15
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Boston
Cost: $10 (Students: email to register for free.)
Jesse Bellemare, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College
Climate change is projected to be one of the top threats to biodiversity in coming decades. Species with small geographic ranges, often called “endemics”, may be at especially high risk of extinction because unsuitable climatic conditions could develop rapidly across the entirety of their ranges. If such species are unable to disperse long distances on their own to follow suitable climatic conditions, it has been proposed that human-assisted colonization or "managed relocation" might be an option of last resort to avoid extinctions. With this approach, climate-threatened species would be intentionally translocated to new regions as conditions deteriorated within their native ranges. Jesse Bellemare will speak about his research to better understand how the distribution and diversity of these rare species is related to past climate change, such as the Ice Ages, and to predict how the species might respond to the threat of modern anthropogenic climate change. Will managed relocation of species be a viable solution to prevent rare species extinction?
http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
An Arnold Arboretum Lecture for Adults
Contact Name: Pam Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-12-16-000000-2014-12-16-013000/climate-change-and-plant-conservation-managed-relocation#sthash.MIC3K5Oj.dpuf
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Wednesday, December 17
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"Social Computing”
Wednesday, December 17
6:30p
le laboratoire, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/#!programs/c18hu
Sep Kamver
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December Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, December 17
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EST)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-13973329605
Join us for the December installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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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://mitenergyclub.org/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/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
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/
