NOTE: This week's edition is abbreviated as I lost the completed version and its back-up in the course of trying to overcome some difficulties in emailing it. Sorry for the inconvenience. I plan to be back on schedule next week.
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Monday, April 13
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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MASS Seminar - Nicole Riemer (University of Illinois)
Monday, April 13
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Nicole Riemer
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Animal Law and Environmentalism: Reconnecting the Humane Ethic with Conservation, Public Health, and Related Disciplines
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 101, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
SPEAKER(S) Jon Lovvorn, senior vice president of animal litigation and investigations, Humane Society of the United States
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO aanello@jd16.law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Jon Lovvorn will speak about the intersection between environmental and animal law and the impact of factory farming on the environment.
Free Chinese food.
LINK https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/saldf/events/
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Revaluing our Local Water Systems
April 13t
12:00- 1:00 pm
MIT, Building 4-145
Matt Thomas is the Founder and President of BeCause Water. As one of the first legally registered Massachusetts-based Benefit Corporations, BeCause Water is helping people revalue water by creating a network of water awareness solutions in schools, local businesses, and municipalities in the United States. Partners or customers include: Boston Green Academy, State Street Corporation, Patagonia – Newbury Street, Crossfit Southie, Planet Fitness, Flour Bakery, MA Senator Jamie Eldridge Committee, City of Somerville: Health & Human Services Department, Newton South High, Framingham High, and others. Matt also volunteers at the Waterworks Museum and was recently selected as a Onein3 Boston Impact Award Honoree. He will be speaking to MIT Water Club about the local water system and his proposed solutions to increase the value and treatment of water.
This special seminar is a collaboration between the MIT Water Club and the MIT Waste Alliance and is generously sponsored by the MIT Graduate Student Council Collaboration Award.
MIT Water Club Lunch & Learn
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New York’s 'Reforming the Energy Vision' Initiative
Monday, April 13
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Audrey Zibelman, Chair, New York State Public Service Commission
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Infant Science and Health Adventuring: Global Intervention around Infant Mortality"
Monday, April 13
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Emily Harrison, Harvard, History of Science
STS Circle at Harvard
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Addressing Ebola Lecture: On the Ground Reality of Practice and Patient Treatment
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Rupa Kanapathipillai, editorial fellow at New England Journal of Medicine; infectious disease physician
CONTACT INFO deansevents@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Lunch will be served at this event.
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Pricing Carbon to Combat Climate Change: What Can We Learn from British Columbia?
Monday, April 13
1:00 pm
MIT, Walker Memorial-Morss Hall, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Featuring British Columbia Premier Christy Clark
Panel of experts:
Christopher Knittel, Economist and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Ross Beaty, Founder and Chair of PanAmerican Silver Corp. and Alterra Power Corp.
Merran Smith, Executive Director of Clean Energy Canada
Senator Michael Barrett, 3rd Middlesex district, sponsor of carbon fee and rebate bill in MassachusettsDaniel Gatti, MA Campaign for a Clean Energy Future, Executive Director of Climate XChange
Moderated by Robert C. Armstrong, Director of MIT Energy Initiative
Hosted by: MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Presented by: Massachusetts Campaign for a Clean Energy Future
https://www.facebook.com/events/358464787686384/
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Who will save the tokamak? Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal or Donald Trump?
Monday, April 13
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 24-115, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Freidberg
Today's talk will attempt to bridge the gap between tokamak reactor design and plasma physics. The analysis demonstrates that the overall design of a tokamak fusion reactor is determined almost entirely by the constraints imposed by nuclear physics and fusion engineering. Virtually no plasma physics is required to determine the main design parameters of a reactor. The one exception is the value of the toroidal current , which depends upon a combination of engineering and plasma physics. This exception, however, ultimately has a major impact on the feasibility of an attractive tokamak reactor.
The analysis shows that the engineering/nuclear physics design makes demands on the plasma physics that must be satisfied in order to generate power. These demands are substituted into the well-known operational constraints arising in tokamak physics: the Troyon limit, Greenwald limit, kink stability limit, and bootstrap fraction limit. Unfortunately, a tokamak reactor designed on the basis of standard engineering and nuclear physics constraints does not scale to a reactor. Too much current is required to achieve the necessary confinement time for ignition. The combination of achievable bootstrap current plus current drive is not sufficient to generate the current demanded by the engineering design. Several possible solutions are discussed in detail involving advances in plasma physics or engineering.
ANS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center, American Nuclear Society
For more information, contact: Aditi Verma
aditive@mit.edu
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Harvard President's Panel on Climate Change
Monday, April 13
4 p.m.
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.edu/president/event/2015/ticket-request-for-presidential-panel-on-climate-change
Panelists are expected to include:
Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former special assistant to the president for energy and environment, the White House.
Christopher Field, co-chair, Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; founding director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science; Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University; member, Harvard University Board of Overseers; Harvard ’75.
Rebecca Henderson. McArthur University Professor, Harvard University; co-director, Business and Environment Initiative, Harvard Business School.
John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology, the White House; co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; former Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former professor of environmental science and public policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.
Richard Newell, Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Duke University; director, Duke University Energy Initiative; former administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration; former senior economist for energy and environment, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Harvard Ph.D. ’97.
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science and director of graduate studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.”
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, professor of environmental science and engineering, and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University.
This event is part of Harvard University's Climate Week: http://www.harvard-climate-week.com/events
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Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing
Monday, April 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10502
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microeconomic Applications
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India’s Employment Guarantee
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HCPDS
SPEAKER(S) Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT and director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Climate Change Negotiations: What Can We Learn from the US/China Agreement?
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Room K-262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Celeste LeCompte, Nieman Fellow and columnist and co-founder of Climate Confidential and Michael McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Remembering Selma: A Conversation with Rev. Clark Olsen
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Rabinowitz Room, Andover Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR HUUMS
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Fifty years ago, the Rev. Clark Olsen was one of dozens of Unitarian Universalist ministers who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to march for voting rights and protest the murder of activist Jimmy Lee Jackson. Rev. Olsen was with the Rev. Orloff Miller and the Rev. James Reeb when a group of segregationists attacked them, murdering James Reeb with a club. Please join Rev. Olsen for a special HUUMS conversation about what the Selma legacy means for Unitarian Universalists, and for the world today.
Rev. Olsen will also be preaching at Memorial Church, and speaking at Memorial Church’s Faith and Life Forum, on Sunday, April 12.
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McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: Title TBD
Monday, April 13
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, and Veena Das
Spring 2015 McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World:
Memory Matters: Gender and Politics of Knowledge Production on the Armenian Genocide
Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, "Threading a Map, Spinning Life Stories: Tracing Fractured Memories in the Archives"
Melissa Bilal, Columbia University, "Lullaby the Irreconcilable"
Discussant: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): WGS
For more information, contact: Emily Neill
617-253-2642
wgs@mit.edu
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Rescheduled Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL roger_falcon@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS
This Forum has been rescheduled from January 26.
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists:
Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Jennings School District, Jennings, MO
Tracey Benson, Ed.L.D.’16, Co-author of case study on Ferguson, MO
Ni'Cole Gipson, Parent and Social Media Activist, Florissant, MO (to be confirmed)
Valeria Silva, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN
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The Power of Wearable Technology in Sports
Monday, April 13
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Classroom (Room 122), Boston
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-wearable-technology-in-sports-tickets-16298492229
We welcome Isaiah Kacyvenski, Head of the Consumer Business and Chairman of the Sports Advisory Board at MC10, to the i-lab to discuss the opportunities new and emerging technology provides to Innovate in Sports. MC10 is developing revolutionary products that transform the way we think about electronics and their interaction with the human body and intending to redefine the interface between electronics and the human body. In other words – make humans more superhuman.
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Science by the Pint: Cosmic Origins: Simulating a universe in a computer
Monday, April 13
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Mark Vogelsberger
MIT Professor Mark Vogelsberger and his group will be settling in to discuss the science behind simulating a universe in a computer. Using a combination of ever more sophisticated observations, theoretical models, and powerful supercomputer simulations to achieve a better understanding of how galaxies and structure in the Universe formed, cosmology and galaxy formation have only recently entered their golden age with an enormous amount of observational data being available.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
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The quick and the dirty
Monday, April 13
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: CLAIRE PENTECOST
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2015-spring/apr-13-claire-pentecost-quick-dirty/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACT, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 14
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks
Tuesday, April 14
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2004
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor at 12:00 pm.
with filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, Astra Taylor
The Internet is said to be a space of democratic expression and transformation, both culturally and politically. But how true is that claim? What are some of the economic, technical, and legal obstacles in place? Drawing from my recent book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, and my experience as an artist and an activist, this talk will address campaigns by musicians against streaming services and debtors against creditors to reflect on the larger question of how to organize and leverage change in an age of virtual networks—be they networks of cultural distribution or financial ones.
About Astra
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Athens, Georgia. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer and others. Taylor’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, and many other publications. She is the editor of Examined Life, a companion volume to the film, and coeditor of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. Taylor also helped launch the Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt and its Rolling Jubilee campaign and Debt Collective initiatives, and has helped erase over $30 million dollars of predatory medical and educational debt as part of these efforts. Most recently she is the author of the book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, which was named a New York Time Books Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Globe & Mail “Best Book of 2014.” She is currently working on a new documentary about democracy.
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The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Mr. Alberto Pototschnig)
Tuesday, April 14
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
Alberto Pototschnig is the first Director of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), established in 2010 by the European Commission. He took office in September 2010.
The mission of ACER is to complement and coordinate the work of national energy regulators at the European-Union (EU) level and work towards the completion of a single EU energy market for electricity and natural gas.
ACER plays a central role in the development of EU-wide network and market rules with a view to enhance competition. It coordinates regional and cross-regional initiatives which favour market integration. It monitors the work of European networks of transmission system operators (ENTSOs) and notably their EU-wide network development plans. Finally, it monitors the functioning of gas and electricity markets in general, and of wholesale energy trading in particular.
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Clean Energy Standard Hearings
Tuesday, April 14
1:00 pm
DEP offices, One Winter Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Department of Envrionmental Protection is proposing a new clean energy standard to increase the amount of non-fossil fuel generated electricity for consumers. The standard is part of the Commonwealth’s efforts to achieve an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions statewide by 2050.
More information at http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/massdep/climate-energy/climate/ghg/ces.html
The deadline to submit written comments is April 27.
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IApril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you
Tuesday, April 14
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 66-168, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Matt Bernhardt
Digital fabrication has changed considerably over the last few decades. Barriers to use have fallen, and technologies that were once the purview of specialized researchers are now sold in retail outlets like Sears, Staples and the Microsoft store. Schools and libraries have even begun getting into the act, from NC State to the Chicago Public Library.
Applications include producing prosthetic hands for accident victims, manufacturing replacement parts forhard-to-source components, or even mapping word frequency across the history of a given journal and printing time series histograms.
But what about here at MIT?
3d printing for fun and science from Micah Altman
This session, led by MIT Libraries Web Developer Matthew Bernhardt, will discuss the range of fabrication technologies now available, as well as those available at MIT, for sale, for rent, and (for a limited time, experimentally) through the Libraries-as part of this session, the Libraries have acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 that is capable of producing objects in PLA plastic!
Registration: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=942341
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=942341
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Chen, Andrew
6172533044
achen0@mit.edu
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Research in Learning More: A Marriage of Cognitive Psychology & Digital Learning
Tuesday, April 14
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building 3-333, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Schulz, John Gabrieli & Karl Szpunar
Moderated by Dean of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma, this xTalk will host a panel discussion with MIT Prof. Laura Schulz, MIT Prof John Gabrieli, and Dr. Karl Szpunar (Harvard).
xTalks: Digital Discourses
ODL's 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/braincog-panel/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Digital Learning, OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
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2015 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology - Climate Change and Energy: How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future?
Tuesday, April 14
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. James Hansen
The David J. Rose Lecture was established in December 1984 in honor of Professor David J. Rose (1922-85), a renowned professor of nuclear engineering at MIT who dedicated his career to the study of energy resources and their impact on the environment, fusion technology, nuclear waste management, and ethical questions arising from advances in science and technology. The inaugural Rose Lecture was delivered in 1985 by the Hon. James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Defense. Subsequent Rose Lecturers have included Dr. Hans Blix, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei, also Director General of the IAEA and the winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology, and Lady Barbara Judge.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/nse/events/rose-lecture.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
For more information, contact: Lisa Magnano Bleheen
617-253-7522
magnano@mit.edu
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"Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France"
Tuesday, April 14
4:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces
Giora Sternberg, Oxford University (UK)
In the old regime of information, centralization was only one part of the story. Studying the politics of information in the provinces does not just refocus or complement the view from Paris or Versailles. It also demonstrates how peripheral actors could build and deploy knowledge-bases to subvert that view along with the designs of their "central" counterparts.
Private Lives, Public Figures: The invention of Celebrity in the eighteenth century
Antoine Lilti, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France)
Far from being a recent phenomenon, Lilti argues that celebrity culture has its origins in the eighteenth century. In London as in Paris, the new conditions of urban life contributed to feed the fascination for the personalities and private lives of public figures.
Web site: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/information-networks-and-celebrity-enlightenment-france
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages, MIT Global France Seminar
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
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Ethnobotany in the 21st Century
WHEN Tue., Apr. 14, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museums of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S) Michael J. Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmnh@hmnh.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045
DETAILS For more than four decades, Michael Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden has studied the relationships between plants and people — the field known as ethnobotany — in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and most recently in Micronesia and Melanesia. In this lecture he will discuss the relevance of working with indigenous cultures to document their knowledge of medicinal plants and evaluate their potential for broader applications. He will also highlight some of the medicinal plants used by non-Western cultures, such as ashwagandha and maca, which are becoming available and popular in the West and are discussed in his most recent book, Rodale’s 21st Century Herbal: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature’s Most Powerful Plants.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ethnobotany-21st-century
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Music as Medicine: The Impact of Healing Harmonies
Tuesday, April 14
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
It's been said that music soothes the soul, but can it also help heal our bodies and help us learn? In this seminar, Harvard Medical School scientists and physicians share how they use music as a tool to help patients - from premature newborns to elderly stroke victions - survive and thrive.
More information: seminar@hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Wednesday, April 15
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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"Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic"
Wednesday, April 15
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Charles Edel (U.S. Naval War College)
Wednesday Seminar Series, Security Studies Program
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting
Wednesday, April 15
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Boston Public Library - East Boston Branch, 365 Bremen Street, East Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-urban-ag-visioning-steering-committee-public-meeting-tickets-16318649520
About
The next meeting of the Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting will be held at the East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library in the Community Room on Wednesday April 15, 2015. This event is free to all and all are encouraged to attend. RSVP is requested by 4/14/2015, but not required.
Transportation
We strongly recommend the use of public transportation for all Urban Ag Visioning events.
MBTA: Airport on the Blue Line (5-7 minute walk via the East Boston Greenway)
Bus: Line 120 Bennington St @ Prescott St
Background
In December 2013, the City of Boston passed Article 89, a new addition to the city’s zoning code that allows for urban agriculture. Since this time, the support for urban agriculture in the city has been tremendous, but there has been limited collaboration between the multitude of public, private, and non-profit sectors on how to create a vision for its future in Boston.
In support of a Boston Urban Ag Visioning process, the City of Boston has received a $25,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP). The goal of this process will be to bring diverse organizations to the table to create a vision for Boston around food production and distribution, which will enable farmer livelihoods, provide multiple access points for food, and determine how to create food access for low-income constituents. Representatives from all aspects of urban growing in the city will be engaged, including community gardeners, traditional farmers, gleaners, edible forest developers, farmers’ market reps, traditional and rooftop farmers, as well as food production folks.
Holly Fowler of Northbound Ventures will facilitate and a Steering Committee has been selected to guide and to inform the process. The Steering Committee will meet the third Wednesday of each month from January to August 2015. All meetings are open to the public. The location of each meeting will vary. The existence of this group will allow every area of urban growing in Boston to have a role in determining this vision, and to collaborate as one entity to achieve this goal.
Please visit the Boston Urban Ag Visioning blog for more information.
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15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
Wednesday, April 15
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow in 54-923
Speaker: Professor Jochem Marotzke, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie
ABSTRACT: Observations suggest a hiatus in global surface temperature rise since 1998, whereas most climate models simulate continued warming. What causes this difference? Do climate models respond too sensitively to the increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations such as that of CO2, and thus overestimate climate change systematically? Or has the discrepancy arisen by chance? And what is the relevance of this discrepancy for our assessment of long-term anthropogenic climate change?
In my lecture I will first illustrate the physically fundamental manifestation of anthropogenic climate change: the ocean's heat content increases because of the greenhouse effect from rising greenhouse-gas concentrations. This increase in heat content has gone on unabated for at least the past forty years. Then I will show that differences between different model simulations -- and hence also differences between simulations and observations -- are dominated by chance events if we consider temperature changes over periods as short as fifteen years. By contrast, it matters little whether models respond more or less sensitively to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations, if we only consider changes over fifteen years. The difference between simulated and observed global surface temperature changes during the hiatus period thus tells us very little about model capability or lack thereof, and as an indicator of anthropogenic climate change the surface-warming hiatus is largely irrelevant.
Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/kendall
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Global Change Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
jfen@mit.edu
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, April 15
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge (or halfway down the Infinite Corridor from 77 Massachusetts Avenue)
Join the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge for a celebration of the spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship, and public service. This year, over 30 teams are working with communities around the world on challenges such as waste treatment, access to clean water, healthcare, education, transportation, disaster relief, and much more.
On Wednesday, April 15th, come meet the teams that entered this year and celebrate with us as we announce the teams that will be awarded up to $10,000 to make their ideas a reality. This is where ideas come to life!
The celebration will entail:
6:00pm - Reception with Teams
7:00pm - Awards Ceremony
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15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
Wednesday, April 15
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow the lecture in the Ida Green Lounge, 54-923
Speaker: Professor Jochem Marotzke, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture, please contact Jen Fentress at 617.253.2127 or jfen@mit.edu. Reservations not required.
Sponsored by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Center for Global Change Science, MIT.
Web site: http://cgcs.mit.edu/events/kendall-memorial-lecture
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Global Change Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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The Global Struggle for Climate Justice
Wednesday, April 15
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, Pearson Hall, 62 Talbot Avenue, Pearson 104, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-global-struggle-for-climate-justice-tickets-16424654584
“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
It’s happening, even if we don’t yet feel its impacts – but communities around the globe are already suffering from the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels, climbing temperatures, increasing extreme weather events, acidifying oceans, and decreasing snow cover are destroying ecosystems and lives, and for the most part the victims of climate chaos had no part in causing it.
This isn't just about the environment – it’s about justice.
Join us in Pearson 104 on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 PM to learn more about climate chaos and what WE can do on our own campus to slow the crisis.
Presentations will be given by three organizers from 350.org, an international environmental organization encouraging citizens to act to pressure world leaders to address climate change and to reduce carbon dioxide levels to 350 parts per million. The speakers are Bill McKibben, Senior Advisor and Co-Founder, Koreti Tiumalu, and Ferrial Adam, coordinators for Pacific and African-Arab regions, respectively. They will be talking about impacts already being felt in these regions, as well as some of the efforts we can be taking to address this injustice.
Senator Ben Downing, the Massachusetts state senator and Tufts alum who wrote the Massachusetts state divestment bill, will also be speaking about local efforts and solutions.
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Thursday, April 16
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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The Pursuit of Sustainable Living: Community & Campus Sustainability Conference
Thursday, April 16
Devens Common Center, Devens
Register @ http://masccc.eventbrite.com
Cost: $60 before March 19
$75 after March 19
$45 Students
Groups (5 or more) use code GROUP for $5 discount
www.MaSustainableCommunities.com #MaSustain
Grassroots. Government. Education. Business.
Jane Amidon, Northeastern University
Jess Belhumeur & Dan Sullivan, Tiny House
Leo Bonanni, Source Map
Lisa Capone, MA Green Communities
Sheila Harrity, Voc Tech Education
Nancy Hazard, Greening Greenfield
Karen Hynick, North Shore Community College
Grey Lee, USGBC
Peter Lowitt, Sustainable Devens
Matthew McIntosh, Marlboro College
Lesly Medina, Groundwork Lawrence
Greg Minott, DREAM Collaborative
Jon Mitchell, Mayor New Bedford
David Narkewicz, Mayor Northampton
Susanne Rasmussen, Cambridge
Julie Rawson, NE Organic Farming Association
Dan Rivera, Mayor Lawrence
Catherine Tumber, Small, Gritty, and Green
Vesela Veleva, UMass Boston
Nelle Ward, Conway School & Holyoke Green Streets
And more!
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Earthworks Unlimited: Problems and Prospects of Geoengineering
April 16-17, 2015, 9:30AM-5:30PM, 9:30AM-12:30PM
Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at harvardgeoengineeringworkshop.eventbrite.com
ABSTRACT
Workshop Objectives: Geoengineering, a suite of technologies aimed at mitigating the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change through deliberate human intervention, has attracted wide attention and given rise to sharply polarized debate. Proponents argue that prudence calls for these technologies to be rapidly developed, through appropriate forms of research and experimentation; opponents point to the troublesome ethical and political implications of imposing uncertain solutions on a culturally heterogeneous and economically and technologically unequal planet. Despite their global implications, geoengineering debates have remained sequestered in relatively few European and North American centers, and serious cross-disciplinary conversation is still in its infancy. This workshop brings together scholars from different regions and from fields including science and technology studies, political science, law and engineering to address the following major questions:
What is at stake in geoengineering controversies and what accounts for differences across nations and regions?
What specific issues are raised by geoengineering as a site of public experimentation?
At what scales should the governance of geoengineering be imagined, and using what kinds of material and social infrastructures?
How does geoengineering engage with ideas and practices of global constitutionalism?
More information at http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/workshops/earthworks-unlimited/
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Photographing climate change above and below the waterline
Thursday, April 16
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
David Arnold, Photographer
Boston photographer David Arnold (www.doublexposure.net) precisely compares glacier and coral scenes to create "then and now" comparisons to illustrate the significant changes already taking place above and below the waterline of a warming planet. His Double Exposure exhibit opened at Boston's Museum of Science in 2008, then toured the country non-stop for four years. Currently he is working on a second exhibit. He will speak personally to the power of photography, and reflect with audience help about how we got into this mess - and how we can get out.
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Tropical Jets and Future Rainfall over the Sahel
Thursday, April 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 48-308, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Whittleston
For more information on this speaker, David Whittleston (Entekhabi group), see http://watercycle.mit.edu/index_files/DavidWhittleston.htm
Environmental Fluid Mechanics/Hydrology
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Noriko Endo
617 253-7101
enori@mit.edu
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"Decarbonizing China: Power System Strategies to Electrify Transportation and Building Heating with Renewable Sources"
Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with CHEN Xinyu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
China Project Seminar
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Collaboration and Multi-Tasking in Human Networks
Thursday, April 16
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jan Van Mieghem
ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact: Peng Shi, Nataly Youssef, or Jerry Kung
617 253-6185
pengshi@mit.edu, youssefn@mit.edu, jkung@mit.edu
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The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
Thursday, April 16
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff VanderMeer, G. Eric Schaller, Seth Mnookin
Jeff VanderMeer, author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), will join G. Eric Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth, for a broad-ranging discussion about the scientific and philosophical ideas that inspired the series. The two friends and occasional collaborators will discuss conservation science, VanderMeer's relationship with the natural world, and the theme of extinction in "slow apocalypse" fiction, as well as the role of real-world science in science fiction. Moderator: Seth Mnookin.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/spookyscience.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact: Cora Kraft
ckraft@mit.edu
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Understanding Warfare: An Evolutionary Approach
Thursday, April 16
6pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Warfare is a nearly universal trait of human societies that has influenced the evolution of human societies at least since the dawn of history. By some definitions, warfare is uniquely human; no other species engages in armed combat using manufactured weapons. But in other respects, human warfare bears much in common with intergroup aggression in a range of species, from ants to chimpanzees. In this free, illustrated, public lecture, Michael Wilson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, will discuss how an evolutionary perspective on warfare can help shed light on why people fight and what they can do to make war less likely to occur.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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Next Generation of International Development
Thursday, April 16
6:30 pm
Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.archimedesproject.com/disruptid
Cost: $16.82 - $52.69
Join fellow professionals over beers and, for an evening, take up a challenge faced by the Archimedes Project.
Micro-consulting, speed problem solving, whatever you want to call it, it'll be good fun and you'll get to learn about our work building scalable clean water and sanitation enterprises around the world directly from our founder!
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Ford Hall Forum: Vicious Anonymity
Thursday, April 16
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vicious-anonymity-tickets-16222862017
Arthur Chu (blogger, The Daily Beast and repeat winner, Jeopardy)
Jason Tuohey (Editor, BostonGlobe.com)
Sarah Sobieraj (Associate Professor of sociology, Tufts University and author, The Outrage Industry)
The online world grapples daily with the struggle between freedom of expression and the right to privacy with one’s internet presence, particularly in comment sections of popular blogs. Nearly all internet comments are allowed to be anonymous but many people regularly take advantage of that with shockingly abusive comments. Does the American public deserve online privacy? Does the current environment have a chilling effect on others’ freedom of speech? Can journalists be expected to take this abuse as part of their jobs, day in and day out? And short of compulsory identity verification, is there something we can do to mitigate the ill effects of this sociological phenomenon?
More information at http://www.fordhallforum.org
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Astronomy in the Year 2020
Thursday, April 16
7:30 pm
Harvard, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Jeff McClintock
Travel into the future for a preview of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This cathedral-sized telescope perched on a Chilean mountaintop will, like Star Trek's Enterprise, take us where no one has gone before. Stunning developments in optics technology will deliver images 10 times sharper than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Center for Astrophysics is not only a founding partner in this grand endeavor, but also is building the premier first-light instrument that will study other earths, the first stars, and the origin of our universe. Jeff McClintock is a senior astrophysicist at the CfA and a lecturer in the Harvard University Astronomy Department.
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Friday, April 17
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Cambridge Science Festival 2015
Friday, April 17
All day
The Cambridge Science Festival is a celebration showcasing the leading edge in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event every spring, the Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun for all!
Web site: http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx
Open to: the general public
This event occurs daily through April 26, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Cambridge Science Festival
For more information, contact: Sung Kim
617 254-4379
sungmi@mit.edu
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MIT Clean Earth Hackathon
Friday, April 17 - Sunday, April 19
ALL DAY
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
http://cleanearthhack.mit.edu/
Solve real challenges in the quest for environmental sustainability
On April 17-19, 2015, Sustainability at MIT will host a hackathon event like no other. You will take on environmental challenges put forth by industry and academic partners.
Teams will have two days to develop a solution to a real-world challenge of your choice. We are seeking participants eager to tackle complex puzzles and passionate about helping our community reach more sustainable practices and lower environmental impact.
The hackathon is open to students and young professionals. Participants from all disciplines, backgrounds and work experiences encouraged to apply.
Registration is free! Deadline is April 1, 2015.
The Challenge Areas
Natural Resource Management: Water, water and resource reuse and conservation
Mobility in the Modern World: Transportion innovation for the 21st century
Environmentally Conscious Design: Reducing the footprint of products and buildings
(re)Fueling the Next Generation: Sustainable energy solutions
Schedule Highlights:
Registration opens: January 30, 2015
Registration deadline: April 1, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Companies and organizations will present their challenges and address questions regarding the challenges posed
Networking session to help participants find teammates and ask representatives further questions
Participants will form teams based on challenge interest and start crafting their solutions
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Teams continue to refine their solutions and begin preparing for presentations
Sunday, April 19, 2015:
Teams wrap up projects and present their solutions to a panel of judges
Judging and awards ceremony
Contact Name: cleanearthhack@mit.edu
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Innovation Breakfast at TechHub
Friday, April 17
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
TechHub, 212 Elm Street, 3rd floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-breakfast-at-techhub-april-17-2015-tickets-16258347154
The roving Innovation Breakfast continues! Hosted by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Mass Innovation Nights, this Innovation Breakfast is taking place at the area's newest coworking space, TechHub. Right in super hip Davis Square!
Come out for a chance to talk with other innovators over a cup of coffee, network and check out the new co-working space.
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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: "Future of Solar in New England; and Transmission & Renewable Developments in New England"
Friday, April 17
9:00AM - 12:15PM
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/417-roundtable-future-of-solar-in-new-england-and-transmission-renewable-developments-in-new-england-tickets-16186331754?utm_campaign=3.13.15+first+notice&utm_medium=email&utm_source=4.17.15+First+Announcement
Cost: $35 - $65
To live-stream the Roundtable, or to watch it later on-demand, sign up at http://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/?utm_source=4.17.15+First+Announcement&utm_campaign=3.13.15+first+notice&utm_medium=email
We have two very timely topics for the April 17th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable (145): The Future of Solar in New England; and Transmission & Renewable Developments in New England.
Panel I: Future of Solar in New England
We begin The Future of Solar in New England panel with a presentation by Jonathan Black, Lead Engineer for System Planning at ISO-New England, who will discuss ISO New England's latest solar forecast. We will then hear about some of the emerging findings from MIT's ongoing Future of Solar Energy Study by Dr. Francis O'Sullivan, Director of Research and Analysis at MIT's Energy Initiative. Next, Ashley Brown, Executive Director of Harvard Electricity Policy Group, will discuss his recent article in the Electricity Journal (Valuation of Distributed Solar: A Qualitative View) which calls for reassessing the value of solar DG to better calibrate pricing policies. Karl Rábago, Executive Director at PACE University Climate & Energy Center (formerly of RMI, Texas PUC, and US DOE Undersecretary) will share his pioneering work in using solar valuation methodologies to inform net metering rates and policy. Janet Gail Besser, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs for the New England Clean Energy Council, will share her perspective on a sensible path forward for solar in New England.
Panel II: Transmission & Renewable Energy Developments in New England
Next, we turn our attention to another timely topic,
Transmission & Renewable Energy Developments in New England. With the recent release of the draft RFP for renewables & transmission from the Southern New England States (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island) it is time once again to reflect on a wide range of renewable resources and related transmission options that could help the New England states to meet their climate goals, while also potentially mitigating spikes in electricity prices. We have arranged for an excellent group of senior executives of leading renewable energy and transmission developers in New England and Eastern Canada to discuss their existing and proposed resources/projects.
We will begin with a keynote address from Hydro-Québec's CEO Thierry Vandal about the various renewable resources that HQ has to offer New England. Paul Gaynor, former CEO of First Wind, and current Executive Vice President for Utility & Global Wind at SunEdison, will discuss wind opportunities for New England. Edward Krapels, CEO of Anbaric Transmission, will discuss several innovative transmission-for-renewables projects his company is involved with, as will Robin McAdam, Vice President for Major Developments at Emera Energy.
http://www.RaabAssociates.org
Contact Name: Susan Rivo
susan@raabassociates.org
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Harvard Faculty Forum on Divestment
Friday, April 17
2:00 PM
Harvard Hall, Room 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
As Harvard Heat Week comes to a close, Harvard Faculty and financial professionals will lead us in a powerful day of action and learning about how the tide has turned — support for divestment is widespread, and the right choice both morally and financially.
Speakers:
Jim Anderson
Bill McKibben
Robert Massie
Chloe Maxmin
Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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A Conversation with 2015 Jazz Masters in Residence George Coleman and Harold Mabern
WHEN Fri., Apr. 17, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room at the Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers
SPEAKER(S) Harold Mabern, George Coleman, and moderator Ingrid Monson
COST Free, tickets/RSVPs not required; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity.
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Tenor saxophonist George Coleman and pianist Harold Mabern—natives of Memphis, Tennessee, whose distinctive “hard bop” sound incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel and blues—will discuss their careers during a public conversation moderated by Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Jazz Bands. Coleman and Mabern are the guest performers in “Memphis Giants,” a tribute concert featuring the Harvard Jazz Bands on Saturday, April 18 at 8 pm, Sanders Theatre. Visit the OFA’s Jazz Program page [http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/music/memphisgiants.php] for more information.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/music/memphisgiants.php
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Architecture Lecture Series: "Function and Friction: Rethinking Design, Disability, and Assistive Technology"
Friday, April 17
5:30p–7:30p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sara Hendren
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Harvard Heat Week Closing Rally
Friday, April 17
6:00 PM
Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
As Harvard Heat Week comes to a close, Cornel West ’73, Bob Massie ’89, Bevis Longstreth ’61, and many others will join us for a wrap-up to an incredible week — closing rally at 6:00 PM.
Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Saturday, April 18
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Science Carnival & Robot Zoo
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday, April 18
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School Field House & Cambridge Public Library, Broadway & Ellery Street, Cambridge
Prepare yourself...for a Carnival of the Sciences and a ROBOT ZOO!
See, touch, smell, hear, and taste science in new and exciting ways!
Are you ready?
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Terry Riley’s 80th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, April 18
7:00pm
MIT Kresge Auditorium, W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sounding-terry-riley-80th-birthday-concert-tickets-13095596281
Cost: $0 -20
with Terry Riley, Eviyan, Gamelan Galak Tika, Sarah Cahill, and the world premiere of all-live Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
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Sunday, April 19
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Life in Space Long-Term
Sunday, April 19
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Museum of Science, Gordon Current Science & Technology Center, 1 Science Park, Boston
Free with Exhibit Halls admission; purchase online
Astronaut Chris Cassidy spent 181 days in space, including five space walks with Shuttle mission STS-127 and as a member of the International Space Station crew on Expedition 35.
Listen as he shares his experiences about what it's really like being an astronaut and living in space for months at a time!
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MakeScience: Arts & Tech Science Fair
Sunday, April 19
4:00pm - 8:00pm
Artisan's Asylum, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
An old-school science fair with a modern Arts & Tech spin, featuring the ideas, tools, and processes of engineers, fine artisans, designers, sculptors, makers, tinkerers, and crafters. Come check out Artisan’s Asylum, greater Boston's premier community fabrication facility, and meet the people who make science here! Quench your curiosity with brewing science & robots, welding demos & dioramas, blinking lights and molten glass.
Artisan's Asylum
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Monday, April 20
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"How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California"
Monday, April 20
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, HKS, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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The Politics of Openness: Technology, Corruption and Participation in Indian Public Employment
Monday, April 20
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, UC Berkeley/Harvard Berkman Center
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
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African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
WHEN Mon., Apr. 20, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
SPEAKER(S)Vincent J Intondi, author, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-0738; humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Learn more about the book here: http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23490
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/vincent-j-intondi-his-new-book-emafrican-americans-against-bomb-nuclear-weapons-colonialism
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Environmental Lawlessness
Monday, April 20
7:00–8:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1391&DayPlannerDate=4/20/2015
Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University
What happens when laws and regulations don’t keep pace with changes in technology, science, and society? The answer, according to Harvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus, is lawlessness. Come learn some of the history and circumstances behind the country’s current but outdated environmental laws, how the original scope and intentions of these laws may no longer match the scope of the problems we face today, and the lawmaking challenges we now face as we seek to address the mounting environmental risks posed by deepwater drilling, natural gas fracking, and climate change. Professor Lazarus, who teaches environmental law, natural resources law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts at Harvard Law School, was the principal author of Deep Water–The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission. He will speak of lessons learned from this environmental disaster and how new regulations in line with current technologies are needed to better protect the environment as we tap our natural resources.
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How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California
Monday, April 20
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, April 21
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Classes of defense for computer systems
Tuesday, April 21
12:00 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Wolff#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Wolff at 12:00 pm.
with Berkman Fellow, Josephine Wolff
There is no silver bullet for defending computer systems. Strengthening security means negotiating a balance among a variety of defenses that fall into several different categories and rely on the cooperation and support of many different actors, including technologists, managers, and policy-makers. Therefore, one crucial element of security involves understanding the multiplicity of defenses and the ways they can be combined and recombined to protect systems. Yet, there is no clear model of how different classes of computer system defense relate to classes of attack, or what defensive functions are best suited to technical, policy, or managerial interventions. Drawing on case studies of actual security incidents, as well as the past decade of security incident data at MIT, this talk will analyze security roles and defense design patterns for application designers, administrators, and policy-makers. It will also discuss the interplay between defenses designed to limit access to computer systems and those oriented towards limiting and mitigating the resulting damage.
About Josephine
Josephine is a PhD candidate in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT studying cybersecurity and Internet policy. Her dissertation research focuses on understanding combinations of different types of defenses for computer systems, including the interactions among technical, social, and policy mechanisms. She has interned with Microsoft's Technology Policy Group, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense. She has also written on computer security topics for Slate, Scientific American, and Newsweek. She holds an AB in mathematics from Princeton University, and an SM in Technology & Policy from MIT.
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Wahhabism: From Provincial Heresy to Arabian Hegemony
WHEN Tue., Apr. 21, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CMES Lecture Series on Arabian Peninsula Studies
SPEAKER(S) David Commins, professor of history, Dickinson College
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rescheduled from March 5.
This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3833
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Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS19 (NERD)
Tuesday, April 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Microsoft NERD New England Research & Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/220016995/
Sign in at the front desk and then take the elevators to the 1st floor.
Price: $7.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, April 21st for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at Microsoft. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano@gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Michael at myams@me.com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano@gmail.com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
Don't know what Ignite means? Click here for more info and here for tips on how to deliver a fantastic quick-fire presentation.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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Boston New Technology April 2015 Product Showcase #BNT52
Tuesday, April 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, 41 Berkeley Street, Boston
Enter at the Berkeley St Entrance, look for BNT signs and come to our check-in table to print your name tag. Showcase will take place in the auditorium off the lobby.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/220504973/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Questions & Answers. And yes, we will have chairs! Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT52 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
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CafeSci Boston: "Why 60 Minutes? 5000 Years of Tradition and Science"
Tuesday, April 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall St. Cambridge
Join WGBH's NOVA at our monthly event, CafeSci Boston. Science Cafes are live and lively events that bring scientists, researchers, artists, and professionals out to have a conversation about their work with the general public. This month, Robert Coolman will discuss why mechanical clocks were incapable of measuring minutes and seconds until the 16th century, yet the 60 used then is the same used by the Sumerians over 5000 years ago. This will be the story of how 60 was handed from civilization to civilization.
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Monday, April 13
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Harvard Heat Week
12pm MASS Seminar - Nicole Riemer (University of Illinois)
12pm Animal Law and Environmentalism: Reconnecting the Humane Ethic with Conservation, Public Health, and Related Disciplines
12pm Revaluing our Local Water Systems
12pm New York’s 'Reforming the Energy Vision' Initiative
12:15pm "Infant Science and Health Adventuring: Global Intervention around Infant Mortality"
12:30pm Addressing Ebola Lecture: On the Ground Reality of Practice and Patient Treatment
1pm Pricing Carbon to Combat Climate Change: What Can We Learn from British Columbia?
2:45pm “American Maize: Climate Change, Adaptation, and Spatio-Temporal Variation in Temperature Sensitivity"
3pm Who will save the tokamak? Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal or Donald Trump?
4pm Harvard President's Panel on Climate Change
4pm Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing
4pm Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India’s Employment Guarantee
4pm Climate Change Negotiations: What Can We Learn from the US/China Agreement?
4pm Remembering Selma: A Conversation with Rev. Clark Olsen
5pm McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: Title TBD
3pm Who will save the tokamak? Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal or Donald Trump?
4pm Harvard President's Panel on Climate Change
4pm Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing
4pm Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India’s Employment Guarantee
4pm Climate Change Negotiations: What Can We Learn from the US/China Agreement?
4pm Remembering Selma: A Conversation with Rev. Clark Olsen
5pm McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: Title TBD
5pm Just eat it: A food waste story
5:15pm Towards a Muslim Poetics of Nature
5:30pm e4Dev Speaker Series: Evaluating Off-Grid Solar Energy Products & Providers in India
5:30pm Rescheduled Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
5:30pm Rescheduled Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
6pm The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
6pm The Power of Wearable Technology in Sports
6pm The Power of Wearable Technology in Sports
6:30pm Urgent Meeting Re: Cambridge Beekeeping Regulation Recommendations
7pm Science by the Pint: Cosmic Origins: Simulating a universe in a computer
7pm The quick and the dirty
7pm Science by the Pint: Cosmic Origins: Simulating a universe in a computer
7pm The quick and the dirty
7pm Jeff Danzinger presents “Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy”
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Tuesday, April 14
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Harvard Heat Week
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Tuesday, April 14
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Harvard Heat Week
12pm Managing Digital Disruption in a Traditional Newsroom: Putting Theory into Practice
12pm Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks
12pm The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Mr. Alberto Pototschnig)
1pm Clean Energy Standard Hearings
2pm IApril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you
2:30pm Research in Learning More: A Marriage of Cognitive Psychology & Digital Learning
4pm 2015 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology - Climate Change and Energy: How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future?
12pm Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks
12pm The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Mr. Alberto Pototschnig)
1pm Clean Energy Standard Hearings
2pm IApril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you
2:30pm Research in Learning More: A Marriage of Cognitive Psychology & Digital Learning
4pm 2015 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology - Climate Change and Energy: How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future?
4pm An Overview of Airborne Wind Energy and the Altaeros Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT)
4pm "Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France"
4pm "Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France"
4:30pm Food, Agriculture, and the Cost of Inaction: The Role of Science and Research in Narrowing the Inequality Gap
5pm Rescheduled: Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific
5pm Environments, Genes, Archaeology and the End of Prehistory: Discussion of Broodbank’s Making of the Middle Sea
5:30pm The Accelerating Evolution of Capitalism
6pm Ethnobotany in the 21st Century
6pm Music as Medicine: The Impact of Healing Harmonies
6pm Ethnobotany in the 21st Century
6pm Music as Medicine: The Impact of Healing Harmonies
6pm An Evening with edX
6:30pm Conceptualizing The Urban Civic Realm: Insights From The Indian City
7pm Maickel Melamed: From scarcity into abundance. A new narrative to Latin America
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Wednesday, April 15
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Harvard Heat Week
Wednesday, April 15
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Harvard Heat Week
12pm "Designing Materials For High-Tech Applications"
12pm "Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic"
4pm Autonomy and the Future or Urban Mobility
4pm Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting
4:15pm The Middle East at the Precipice: Challenges and Imperatives for Egypt and the Region
5pm On Anarchy and Government: The Arab Fall in Libya
5pm 15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
5pm "Under the Dome" Documentary Screening
6pm MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Awards Ceremony
6:30pm Evening of food entrepreneurship
7:30pm The Global Struggle for Climate Justice
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Thursday, April 16
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Harvard Heat Week
Thursday, April 16
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Harvard Heat Week
The Pursuit of Sustainable Living: Community & Campus Sustainability Conference
Earthworks Unlimited: Problems and Prospects of Geoengineering
12pm Photographing climate change above and below the waterline
12pm Tropical Jets and Future Rainfall over the Sahel
3pm “Foodways and Futures”: Promoting Healthy Eating and Social Justice in Scotland
4pm "Decarbonizing China: Power System Strategies to Electrify Transportation and Building Heating with Renewable Sources"
4pm 6 Million Deaths at Birth: Progress, Priorities, and Potential for Change Post-2015
4:15pm Collaboration and Multi-Tasking in Human Networks
5pm The Global Struggle for Climate Justice
5pm The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
5:30pm Solar Panel Discussion
6pm Understanding Warfare: An Evolutionary Approach
6pm Crypto Party
6:30pm Next Generation of International Development
6:30pm Ford Hall Forum: Vicious Anonymity
6:30pm Branchfood Presents: dineXdemo
7:30pm Astronomy in the Year 2020
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Friday, April 17
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Harvard Heat Week
Friday, April 17
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Harvard Heat Week
Cambridge Science Festival 2015
MIT Clean Earth Hackathon
African Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future
8:30am Innovation Breakfast at TechHub
9am New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: "Future of Solar in New England; and Transmission & Renewable Developments in New England"
12pm WHY IS FACEBOOK LIKE CRACK COCAINE? HOW TECHNOLOGY SUCKS US IN AND HOW MINDFULNESS CAN HELP US STEP OUT
1pm Brown Bag Lunch with Indigenous Leader Franco Viteri
2pm Harvard Faculty Forum on Divestment
2pm Meet the next generation Norwegian startups!
4pm A Conversation with 2015 Jazz Masters in Residence George Coleman and Harold Mabern
5:30pm Architecture Lecture Series: "Function and Friction: Rethinking Design, Disability, and Assistive Technology"
6pm Harvard Heat Week Closing Rally
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Saturday, April 18
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Microbial Science Symposium
Saturday, April 18
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Microbial Science Symposium
10am GET GROWING!
12pm Science Carnival & Robot Zoo
6pm Reinventing A Genre: Pushing the Limits of Science Writing
7pm Terry Riley’s 80th Birthday Celebration
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Sunday, April 19
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2:30pm Life in Space Long-Term
Sunday, April 19
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2:30pm Life in Space Long-Term
4pm Tufts Archimedes Project Ideation Lab: Pitches & Dinner
4pm MakeScience: Arts & Tech Science Fair
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Monday, April 20
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12pm SCOTUS Preview: An Analysis of the Affordable Care Act and King v. Burwell
Monday, April 20
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12pm SCOTUS Preview: An Analysis of the Affordable Care Act and King v. Burwell
12pm "How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California"
12:15pm The Politics of Openness: Technology, Corruption and Participation in Indian Public Employment
5pm Cultural Navigation: Finding One's Way Across Traditions
6pm African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
7pm The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
7pm Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick
7pm Environmental Lawlessness
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Tuesday, April 21
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12pm Media and Politics: What’s Next? A Conversation with the Spring 2015 Joan Shorenstein Fellows
Tuesday, April 21
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12pm Media and Politics: What’s Next? A Conversation with the Spring 2015 Joan Shorenstein Fellows
12pm Classes of defense for computer systems
4pm Wahhabism: From Provincial Heresy to Arabian Hegemony
6pm Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS19 (NERD)
6pm Boston New Technology April 2015 Product Showcase #BNT52
7pm Your Health Destiny: Take Control of your Body’s Innate Ability to Heal Itself
7pm CafeSci Boston: "Why 60 Minutes? 5000 Years of Tradition and Science"
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Solar Coldframe and First Planting in the Garden
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Solar Coldframe and First Planting in the Garden
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376072/-Solar-Coldframe-and-First-Planting-in-the-Garden
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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MASS Seminar - Nicole Riemer (University of Illinois)
Monday, April 13
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Nicole Riemer
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Animal Law and Environmentalism: Reconnecting the Humane Ethic with Conservation, Public Health, and Related Disciplines
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 101, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
SPEAKER(S) Jon Lovvorn, senior vice president of animal litigation and investigations, Humane Society of the United States
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO aanello@jd16.law.harvard.edu
DETAILS Jon Lovvorn will speak about the intersection between environmental and animal law and the impact of factory farming on the environment.
Free Chinese food.
LINK https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/saldf/events/
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Revaluing our Local Water Systems
April 13t
12:00- 1:00 pm
MIT, Building 4-145
Matt Thomas is the Founder and President of BeCause Water. As one of the first legally registered Massachusetts-based Benefit Corporations, BeCause Water is helping people revalue water by creating a network of water awareness solutions in schools, local businesses, and municipalities in the United States. Partners or customers include: Boston Green Academy, State Street Corporation, Patagonia – Newbury Street, Crossfit Southie, Planet Fitness, Flour Bakery, MA Senator Jamie Eldridge Committee, City of Somerville: Health & Human Services Department, Newton South High, Framingham High, and others. Matt also volunteers at the Waterworks Museum and was recently selected as a Onein3 Boston Impact Award Honoree. He will be speaking to MIT Water Club about the local water system and his proposed solutions to increase the value and treatment of water.
This special seminar is a collaboration between the MIT Water Club and the MIT Waste Alliance and is generously sponsored by the MIT Graduate Student Council Collaboration Award.
MIT Water Club Lunch & Learn
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New York’s 'Reforming the Energy Vision' Initiative
Monday, April 13
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Audrey Zibelman, Chair, New York State Public Service Commission
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Infant Science and Health Adventuring: Global Intervention around Infant Mortality"
Monday, April 13
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Emily Harrison, Harvard, History of Science
STS Circle at Harvard
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Addressing Ebola Lecture: On the Ground Reality of Practice and Patient Treatment
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Rupa Kanapathipillai, editorial fellow at New England Journal of Medicine; infectious disease physician
CONTACT INFO deansevents@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Lunch will be served at this event.
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Pricing Carbon to Combat Climate Change: What Can We Learn from British Columbia?
Monday, April 13
1:00 pm
MIT, Walker Memorial-Morss Hall, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Featuring British Columbia Premier Christy Clark
Panel of experts:
Christopher Knittel, Economist and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Ross Beaty, Founder and Chair of PanAmerican Silver Corp. and Alterra Power Corp.
Merran Smith, Executive Director of Clean Energy Canada
Senator Michael Barrett, 3rd Middlesex district, sponsor of carbon fee and rebate bill in MassachusettsDaniel Gatti, MA Campaign for a Clean Energy Future, Executive Director of Climate XChange
Moderated by Robert C. Armstrong, Director of MIT Energy Initiative
Hosted by: MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Presented by: Massachusetts Campaign for a Clean Energy Future
https://www.facebook.com/events/358464787686384/
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Who will save the tokamak? Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal or Donald Trump?
Monday, April 13
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 24-115, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Freidberg
Today's talk will attempt to bridge the gap between tokamak reactor design and plasma physics. The analysis demonstrates that the overall design of a tokamak fusion reactor is determined almost entirely by the constraints imposed by nuclear physics and fusion engineering. Virtually no plasma physics is required to determine the main design parameters of a reactor. The one exception is the value of the toroidal current , which depends upon a combination of engineering and plasma physics. This exception, however, ultimately has a major impact on the feasibility of an attractive tokamak reactor.
The analysis shows that the engineering/nuclear physics design makes demands on the plasma physics that must be satisfied in order to generate power. These demands are substituted into the well-known operational constraints arising in tokamak physics: the Troyon limit, Greenwald limit, kink stability limit, and bootstrap fraction limit. Unfortunately, a tokamak reactor designed on the basis of standard engineering and nuclear physics constraints does not scale to a reactor. Too much current is required to achieve the necessary confinement time for ignition. The combination of achievable bootstrap current plus current drive is not sufficient to generate the current demanded by the engineering design. Several possible solutions are discussed in detail involving advances in plasma physics or engineering.
ANS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center, American Nuclear Society
For more information, contact: Aditi Verma
aditive@mit.edu
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Harvard President's Panel on Climate Change
Monday, April 13
4 p.m.
Harvard, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.edu/president/event/2015/ticket-request-for-presidential-panel-on-climate-change
Panelists are expected to include:
Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former special assistant to the president for energy and environment, the White House.
Christopher Field, co-chair, Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; founding director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science; Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University; member, Harvard University Board of Overseers; Harvard ’75.
Rebecca Henderson. McArthur University Professor, Harvard University; co-director, Business and Environment Initiative, Harvard Business School.
John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology, the White House; co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; former Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former professor of environmental science and public policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.
Richard Newell, Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Duke University; director, Duke University Energy Initiative; former administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration; former senior economist for energy and environment, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Harvard Ph.D. ’97.
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science and director of graduate studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.”
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, professor of environmental science and engineering, and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University.
This event is part of Harvard University's Climate Week: http://www.harvard-climate-week.com/events
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Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing
Monday, April 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/10502
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microeconomic Applications
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India’s Employment Guarantee
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HCPDS
SPEAKER(S) Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT and director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Climate Change Negotiations: What Can We Learn from the US/China Agreement?
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Room K-262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Celeste LeCompte, Nieman Fellow and columnist and co-founder of Climate Confidential and Michael McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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Remembering Selma: A Conversation with Rev. Clark Olsen
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Rabinowitz Room, Andover Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR HUUMS
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Fifty years ago, the Rev. Clark Olsen was one of dozens of Unitarian Universalist ministers who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to march for voting rights and protest the murder of activist Jimmy Lee Jackson. Rev. Olsen was with the Rev. Orloff Miller and the Rev. James Reeb when a group of segregationists attacked them, murdering James Reeb with a club. Please join Rev. Olsen for a special HUUMS conversation about what the Selma legacy means for Unitarian Universalists, and for the world today.
Rev. Olsen will also be preaching at Memorial Church, and speaking at Memorial Church’s Faith and Life Forum, on Sunday, April 12.
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McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: Title TBD
Monday, April 13
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, and Veena Das
Spring 2015 McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World:
Memory Matters: Gender and Politics of Knowledge Production on the Armenian Genocide
Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, "Threading a Map, Spinning Life Stories: Tracing Fractured Memories in the Archives"
Melissa Bilal, Columbia University, "Lullaby the Irreconcilable"
Discussant: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): WGS
For more information, contact: Emily Neill
617-253-2642
wgs@mit.edu
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Rescheduled Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL roger_falcon@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS
This Forum has been rescheduled from January 26.
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists:
Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Jennings School District, Jennings, MO
Tracey Benson, Ed.L.D.’16, Co-author of case study on Ferguson, MO
Ni'Cole Gipson, Parent and Social Media Activist, Florissant, MO (to be confirmed)
Valeria Silva, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN
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The Power of Wearable Technology in Sports
Monday, April 13
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Classroom (Room 122), Boston
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-wearable-technology-in-sports-tickets-16298492229
We welcome Isaiah Kacyvenski, Head of the Consumer Business and Chairman of the Sports Advisory Board at MC10, to the i-lab to discuss the opportunities new and emerging technology provides to Innovate in Sports. MC10 is developing revolutionary products that transform the way we think about electronics and their interaction with the human body and intending to redefine the interface between electronics and the human body. In other words – make humans more superhuman.
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Science by the Pint: Cosmic Origins: Simulating a universe in a computer
Monday, April 13
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Mark Vogelsberger
MIT Professor Mark Vogelsberger and his group will be settling in to discuss the science behind simulating a universe in a computer. Using a combination of ever more sophisticated observations, theoretical models, and powerful supercomputer simulations to achieve a better understanding of how galaxies and structure in the Universe formed, cosmology and galaxy formation have only recently entered their golden age with an enormous amount of observational data being available.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
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The quick and the dirty
Monday, April 13
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: CLAIRE PENTECOST
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2015-spring/apr-13-claire-pentecost-quick-dirty/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACT, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 14
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks
Tuesday, April 14
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2004
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor at 12:00 pm.
with filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, Astra Taylor
The Internet is said to be a space of democratic expression and transformation, both culturally and politically. But how true is that claim? What are some of the economic, technical, and legal obstacles in place? Drawing from my recent book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, and my experience as an artist and an activist, this talk will address campaigns by musicians against streaming services and debtors against creditors to reflect on the larger question of how to organize and leverage change in an age of virtual networks—be they networks of cultural distribution or financial ones.
About Astra
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Athens, Georgia. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer and others. Taylor’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, and many other publications. She is the editor of Examined Life, a companion volume to the film, and coeditor of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. Taylor also helped launch the Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt and its Rolling Jubilee campaign and Debt Collective initiatives, and has helped erase over $30 million dollars of predatory medical and educational debt as part of these efforts. Most recently she is the author of the book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, which was named a New York Time Books Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Globe & Mail “Best Book of 2014.” She is currently working on a new documentary about democracy.
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The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Mr. Alberto Pototschnig)
Tuesday, April 14
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
Alberto Pototschnig is the first Director of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), established in 2010 by the European Commission. He took office in September 2010.
The mission of ACER is to complement and coordinate the work of national energy regulators at the European-Union (EU) level and work towards the completion of a single EU energy market for electricity and natural gas.
ACER plays a central role in the development of EU-wide network and market rules with a view to enhance competition. It coordinates regional and cross-regional initiatives which favour market integration. It monitors the work of European networks of transmission system operators (ENTSOs) and notably their EU-wide network development plans. Finally, it monitors the functioning of gas and electricity markets in general, and of wholesale energy trading in particular.
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Clean Energy Standard Hearings
Tuesday, April 14
1:00 pm
DEP offices, One Winter Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Department of Envrionmental Protection is proposing a new clean energy standard to increase the amount of non-fossil fuel generated electricity for consumers. The standard is part of the Commonwealth’s efforts to achieve an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions statewide by 2050.
More information at http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/massdep/climate-energy/climate/ghg/ces.html
The deadline to submit written comments is April 27.
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IApril: 3D printing for fun and science? A conversation about digital fabrication, the library, and you
Tuesday, April 14
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 66-168, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Matt Bernhardt
Digital fabrication has changed considerably over the last few decades. Barriers to use have fallen, and technologies that were once the purview of specialized researchers are now sold in retail outlets like Sears, Staples and the Microsoft store. Schools and libraries have even begun getting into the act, from NC State to the Chicago Public Library.
Applications include producing prosthetic hands for accident victims, manufacturing replacement parts forhard-to-source components, or even mapping word frequency across the history of a given journal and printing time series histograms.
But what about here at MIT?
3d printing for fun and science from Micah Altman
This session, led by MIT Libraries Web Developer Matthew Bernhardt, will discuss the range of fabrication technologies now available, as well as those available at MIT, for sale, for rent, and (for a limited time, experimentally) through the Libraries-as part of this session, the Libraries have acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 that is capable of producing objects in PLA plastic!
Registration: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=942341
Web site: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=942341
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Chen, Andrew
6172533044
achen0@mit.edu
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Research in Learning More: A Marriage of Cognitive Psychology & Digital Learning
Tuesday, April 14
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building 3-333, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Laura Schulz, John Gabrieli & Karl Szpunar
Moderated by Dean of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma, this xTalk will host a panel discussion with MIT Prof. Laura Schulz, MIT Prof John Gabrieli, and Dr. Karl Szpunar (Harvard).
xTalks: Digital Discourses
ODL's 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/braincog-panel/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Digital Learning, OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
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2015 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology - Climate Change and Energy: How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future?
Tuesday, April 14
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. James Hansen
The David J. Rose Lecture was established in December 1984 in honor of Professor David J. Rose (1922-85), a renowned professor of nuclear engineering at MIT who dedicated his career to the study of energy resources and their impact on the environment, fusion technology, nuclear waste management, and ethical questions arising from advances in science and technology. The inaugural Rose Lecture was delivered in 1985 by the Hon. James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Defense. Subsequent Rose Lecturers have included Dr. Hans Blix, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei, also Director General of the IAEA and the winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology, and Lady Barbara Judge.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/nse/events/rose-lecture.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
For more information, contact: Lisa Magnano Bleheen
617-253-7522
magnano@mit.edu
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"Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France"
Tuesday, April 14
4:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces
Giora Sternberg, Oxford University (UK)
In the old regime of information, centralization was only one part of the story. Studying the politics of information in the provinces does not just refocus or complement the view from Paris or Versailles. It also demonstrates how peripheral actors could build and deploy knowledge-bases to subvert that view along with the designs of their "central" counterparts.
Private Lives, Public Figures: The invention of Celebrity in the eighteenth century
Antoine Lilti, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France)
Far from being a recent phenomenon, Lilti argues that celebrity culture has its origins in the eighteenth century. In London as in Paris, the new conditions of urban life contributed to feed the fascination for the personalities and private lives of public figures.
Web site: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/information-networks-and-celebrity-enlightenment-france
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages, MIT Global France Seminar
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
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Ethnobotany in the 21st Century
WHEN Tue., Apr. 14, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museums of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S) Michael J. Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmnh@hmnh.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045
DETAILS For more than four decades, Michael Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden has studied the relationships between plants and people — the field known as ethnobotany — in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and most recently in Micronesia and Melanesia. In this lecture he will discuss the relevance of working with indigenous cultures to document their knowledge of medicinal plants and evaluate their potential for broader applications. He will also highlight some of the medicinal plants used by non-Western cultures, such as ashwagandha and maca, which are becoming available and popular in the West and are discussed in his most recent book, Rodale’s 21st Century Herbal: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature’s Most Powerful Plants.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ethnobotany-21st-century
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Music as Medicine: The Impact of Healing Harmonies
Tuesday, April 14
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
It's been said that music soothes the soul, but can it also help heal our bodies and help us learn? In this seminar, Harvard Medical School scientists and physicians share how they use music as a tool to help patients - from premature newborns to elderly stroke victions - survive and thrive.
More information: seminar@hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Wednesday, April 15
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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"Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic"
Wednesday, April 15
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Charles Edel (U.S. Naval War College)
Wednesday Seminar Series, Security Studies Program
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu
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Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting
Wednesday, April 15
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Boston Public Library - East Boston Branch, 365 Bremen Street, East Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-urban-ag-visioning-steering-committee-public-meeting-tickets-16318649520
About
The next meeting of the Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting will be held at the East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library in the Community Room on Wednesday April 15, 2015. This event is free to all and all are encouraged to attend. RSVP is requested by 4/14/2015, but not required.
Transportation
We strongly recommend the use of public transportation for all Urban Ag Visioning events.
MBTA: Airport on the Blue Line (5-7 minute walk via the East Boston Greenway)
Bus: Line 120 Bennington St @ Prescott St
Background
In December 2013, the City of Boston passed Article 89, a new addition to the city’s zoning code that allows for urban agriculture. Since this time, the support for urban agriculture in the city has been tremendous, but there has been limited collaboration between the multitude of public, private, and non-profit sectors on how to create a vision for its future in Boston.
In support of a Boston Urban Ag Visioning process, the City of Boston has received a $25,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP). The goal of this process will be to bring diverse organizations to the table to create a vision for Boston around food production and distribution, which will enable farmer livelihoods, provide multiple access points for food, and determine how to create food access for low-income constituents. Representatives from all aspects of urban growing in the city will be engaged, including community gardeners, traditional farmers, gleaners, edible forest developers, farmers’ market reps, traditional and rooftop farmers, as well as food production folks.
Holly Fowler of Northbound Ventures will facilitate and a Steering Committee has been selected to guide and to inform the process. The Steering Committee will meet the third Wednesday of each month from January to August 2015. All meetings are open to the public. The location of each meeting will vary. The existence of this group will allow every area of urban growing in Boston to have a role in determining this vision, and to collaborate as one entity to achieve this goal.
Please visit the Boston Urban Ag Visioning blog for more information.
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15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
Wednesday, April 15
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow in 54-923
Speaker: Professor Jochem Marotzke, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie
ABSTRACT: Observations suggest a hiatus in global surface temperature rise since 1998, whereas most climate models simulate continued warming. What causes this difference? Do climate models respond too sensitively to the increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations such as that of CO2, and thus overestimate climate change systematically? Or has the discrepancy arisen by chance? And what is the relevance of this discrepancy for our assessment of long-term anthropogenic climate change?
In my lecture I will first illustrate the physically fundamental manifestation of anthropogenic climate change: the ocean's heat content increases because of the greenhouse effect from rising greenhouse-gas concentrations. This increase in heat content has gone on unabated for at least the past forty years. Then I will show that differences between different model simulations -- and hence also differences between simulations and observations -- are dominated by chance events if we consider temperature changes over periods as short as fifteen years. By contrast, it matters little whether models respond more or less sensitively to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations, if we only consider changes over fifteen years. The difference between simulated and observed global surface temperature changes during the hiatus period thus tells us very little about model capability or lack thereof, and as an indicator of anthropogenic climate change the surface-warming hiatus is largely irrelevant.
Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/kendall
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Global Change Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
jfen@mit.edu
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, April 15
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge (or halfway down the Infinite Corridor from 77 Massachusetts Avenue)
Join the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge for a celebration of the spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship, and public service. This year, over 30 teams are working with communities around the world on challenges such as waste treatment, access to clean water, healthcare, education, transportation, disaster relief, and much more.
On Wednesday, April 15th, come meet the teams that entered this year and celebrate with us as we announce the teams that will be awarded up to $10,000 to make their ideas a reality. This is where ideas come to life!
The celebration will entail:
6:00pm - Reception with Teams
7:00pm - Awards Ceremony
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15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
Wednesday, April 15
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow the lecture in the Ida Green Lounge, 54-923
Speaker: Professor Jochem Marotzke, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture, please contact Jen Fentress at 617.253.2127 or jfen@mit.edu. Reservations not required.
Sponsored by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Center for Global Change Science, MIT.
Web site: http://cgcs.mit.edu/events/kendall-memorial-lecture
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Global Change Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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The Global Struggle for Climate Justice
Wednesday, April 15
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, Pearson Hall, 62 Talbot Avenue, Pearson 104, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-global-struggle-for-climate-justice-tickets-16424654584
“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
It’s happening, even if we don’t yet feel its impacts – but communities around the globe are already suffering from the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels, climbing temperatures, increasing extreme weather events, acidifying oceans, and decreasing snow cover are destroying ecosystems and lives, and for the most part the victims of climate chaos had no part in causing it.
This isn't just about the environment – it’s about justice.
Join us in Pearson 104 on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 PM to learn more about climate chaos and what WE can do on our own campus to slow the crisis.
Presentations will be given by three organizers from 350.org, an international environmental organization encouraging citizens to act to pressure world leaders to address climate change and to reduce carbon dioxide levels to 350 parts per million. The speakers are Bill McKibben, Senior Advisor and Co-Founder, Koreti Tiumalu, and Ferrial Adam, coordinators for Pacific and African-Arab regions, respectively. They will be talking about impacts already being felt in these regions, as well as some of the efforts we can be taking to address this injustice.
Senator Ben Downing, the Massachusetts state senator and Tufts alum who wrote the Massachusetts state divestment bill, will also be speaking about local efforts and solutions.
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Thursday, April 16
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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The Pursuit of Sustainable Living: Community & Campus Sustainability Conference
Thursday, April 16
Devens Common Center, Devens
Register @ http://masccc.eventbrite.com
Cost: $60 before March 19
$75 after March 19
$45 Students
Groups (5 or more) use code GROUP for $5 discount
www.MaSustainableCommunities.com #MaSustain
Grassroots. Government. Education. Business.
Jane Amidon, Northeastern University
Jess Belhumeur & Dan Sullivan, Tiny House
Leo Bonanni, Source Map
Lisa Capone, MA Green Communities
Sheila Harrity, Voc Tech Education
Nancy Hazard, Greening Greenfield
Karen Hynick, North Shore Community College
Grey Lee, USGBC
Peter Lowitt, Sustainable Devens
Matthew McIntosh, Marlboro College
Lesly Medina, Groundwork Lawrence
Greg Minott, DREAM Collaborative
Jon Mitchell, Mayor New Bedford
David Narkewicz, Mayor Northampton
Susanne Rasmussen, Cambridge
Julie Rawson, NE Organic Farming Association
Dan Rivera, Mayor Lawrence
Catherine Tumber, Small, Gritty, and Green
Vesela Veleva, UMass Boston
Nelle Ward, Conway School & Holyoke Green Streets
And more!
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Earthworks Unlimited: Problems and Prospects of Geoengineering
April 16-17, 2015, 9:30AM-5:30PM, 9:30AM-12:30PM
Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at harvardgeoengineeringworkshop.eventbrite.com
ABSTRACT
Workshop Objectives: Geoengineering, a suite of technologies aimed at mitigating the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change through deliberate human intervention, has attracted wide attention and given rise to sharply polarized debate. Proponents argue that prudence calls for these technologies to be rapidly developed, through appropriate forms of research and experimentation; opponents point to the troublesome ethical and political implications of imposing uncertain solutions on a culturally heterogeneous and economically and technologically unequal planet. Despite their global implications, geoengineering debates have remained sequestered in relatively few European and North American centers, and serious cross-disciplinary conversation is still in its infancy. This workshop brings together scholars from different regions and from fields including science and technology studies, political science, law and engineering to address the following major questions:
What is at stake in geoengineering controversies and what accounts for differences across nations and regions?
What specific issues are raised by geoengineering as a site of public experimentation?
At what scales should the governance of geoengineering be imagined, and using what kinds of material and social infrastructures?
How does geoengineering engage with ideas and practices of global constitutionalism?
More information at http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/workshops/earthworks-unlimited/
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Photographing climate change above and below the waterline
Thursday, April 16
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
David Arnold, Photographer
Boston photographer David Arnold (www.doublexposure.net) precisely compares glacier and coral scenes to create "then and now" comparisons to illustrate the significant changes already taking place above and below the waterline of a warming planet. His Double Exposure exhibit opened at Boston's Museum of Science in 2008, then toured the country non-stop for four years. Currently he is working on a second exhibit. He will speak personally to the power of photography, and reflect with audience help about how we got into this mess - and how we can get out.
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Tropical Jets and Future Rainfall over the Sahel
Thursday, April 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 48-308, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Whittleston
For more information on this speaker, David Whittleston (Entekhabi group), see http://watercycle.mit.edu/index_files/DavidWhittleston.htm
Environmental Fluid Mechanics/Hydrology
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Noriko Endo
617 253-7101
enori@mit.edu
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"Decarbonizing China: Power System Strategies to Electrify Transportation and Building Heating with Renewable Sources"
Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with CHEN Xinyu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
China Project Seminar
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Collaboration and Multi-Tasking in Human Networks
Thursday, April 16
4:15p–5:15p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jan Van Mieghem
ORC Spring Seminar Series
The OR Center organizes a seminar series each year in which prominent OR professionals from around the world are invited to present topics in operations research. We have been privileged to have speakers from business and industry as well as from academia throughout the years. For a list of past distinguished speakers and their seminar topics, please visit our Seminar Archives.
Seminar reception immediately following the talk.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/orc/www/seminars/seminars.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
For more information, contact: Peng Shi, Nataly Youssef, or Jerry Kung
617 253-6185
pengshi@mit.edu, youssefn@mit.edu, jkung@mit.edu
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The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
Thursday, April 16
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jeff VanderMeer, G. Eric Schaller, Seth Mnookin
Jeff VanderMeer, author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), will join G. Eric Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth, for a broad-ranging discussion about the scientific and philosophical ideas that inspired the series. The two friends and occasional collaborators will discuss conservation science, VanderMeer's relationship with the natural world, and the theme of extinction in "slow apocalypse" fiction, as well as the role of real-world science in science fiction. Moderator: Seth Mnookin.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/spookyscience.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Communications Forum
For more information, contact: Cora Kraft
ckraft@mit.edu
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Understanding Warfare: An Evolutionary Approach
Thursday, April 16
6pm
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Warfare is a nearly universal trait of human societies that has influenced the evolution of human societies at least since the dawn of history. By some definitions, warfare is uniquely human; no other species engages in armed combat using manufactured weapons. But in other respects, human warfare bears much in common with intergroup aggression in a range of species, from ants to chimpanzees. In this free, illustrated, public lecture, Michael Wilson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, will discuss how an evolutionary perspective on warfare can help shed light on why people fight and what they can do to make war less likely to occur.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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Next Generation of International Development
Thursday, April 16
6:30 pm
Meadhall, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.archimedesproject.com/disruptid
Cost: $16.82 - $52.69
Join fellow professionals over beers and, for an evening, take up a challenge faced by the Archimedes Project.
Micro-consulting, speed problem solving, whatever you want to call it, it'll be good fun and you'll get to learn about our work building scalable clean water and sanitation enterprises around the world directly from our founder!
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Ford Hall Forum: Vicious Anonymity
Thursday, April 16
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vicious-anonymity-tickets-16222862017
Arthur Chu (blogger, The Daily Beast and repeat winner, Jeopardy)
Jason Tuohey (Editor, BostonGlobe.com)
Sarah Sobieraj (Associate Professor of sociology, Tufts University and author, The Outrage Industry)
The online world grapples daily with the struggle between freedom of expression and the right to privacy with one’s internet presence, particularly in comment sections of popular blogs. Nearly all internet comments are allowed to be anonymous but many people regularly take advantage of that with shockingly abusive comments. Does the American public deserve online privacy? Does the current environment have a chilling effect on others’ freedom of speech? Can journalists be expected to take this abuse as part of their jobs, day in and day out? And short of compulsory identity verification, is there something we can do to mitigate the ill effects of this sociological phenomenon?
More information at http://www.fordhallforum.org
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Astronomy in the Year 2020
Thursday, April 16
7:30 pm
Harvard, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Jeff McClintock
Travel into the future for a preview of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This cathedral-sized telescope perched on a Chilean mountaintop will, like Star Trek's Enterprise, take us where no one has gone before. Stunning developments in optics technology will deliver images 10 times sharper than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Center for Astrophysics is not only a founding partner in this grand endeavor, but also is building the premier first-light instrument that will study other earths, the first stars, and the origin of our universe. Jeff McClintock is a senior astrophysicist at the CfA and a lecturer in the Harvard University Astronomy Department.
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Friday, April 17
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Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Cambridge Science Festival 2015
Friday, April 17
All day
The Cambridge Science Festival is a celebration showcasing the leading edge in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event every spring, the Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun for all!
Web site: http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx
Open to: the general public
This event occurs daily through April 26, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Cambridge Science Festival
For more information, contact: Sung Kim
617 254-4379
sungmi@mit.edu
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MIT Clean Earth Hackathon
Friday, April 17 - Sunday, April 19
ALL DAY
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
http://cleanearthhack.mit.edu/
Solve real challenges in the quest for environmental sustainability
On April 17-19, 2015, Sustainability at MIT will host a hackathon event like no other. You will take on environmental challenges put forth by industry and academic partners.
Teams will have two days to develop a solution to a real-world challenge of your choice. We are seeking participants eager to tackle complex puzzles and passionate about helping our community reach more sustainable practices and lower environmental impact.
The hackathon is open to students and young professionals. Participants from all disciplines, backgrounds and work experiences encouraged to apply.
Registration is free! Deadline is April 1, 2015.
The Challenge Areas
Natural Resource Management: Water, water and resource reuse and conservation
Mobility in the Modern World: Transportion innovation for the 21st century
Environmentally Conscious Design: Reducing the footprint of products and buildings
(re)Fueling the Next Generation: Sustainable energy solutions
Schedule Highlights:
Registration opens: January 30, 2015
Registration deadline: April 1, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Companies and organizations will present their challenges and address questions regarding the challenges posed
Networking session to help participants find teammates and ask representatives further questions
Participants will form teams based on challenge interest and start crafting their solutions
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Teams continue to refine their solutions and begin preparing for presentations
Sunday, April 19, 2015:
Teams wrap up projects and present their solutions to a panel of judges
Judging and awards ceremony
Contact Name: cleanearthhack@mit.edu
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Innovation Breakfast at TechHub
Friday, April 17
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
TechHub, 212 Elm Street, 3rd floor, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-breakfast-at-techhub-april-17-2015-tickets-16258347154
The roving Innovation Breakfast continues! Hosted by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Mass Innovation Nights, this Innovation Breakfast is taking place at the area's newest coworking space, TechHub. Right in super hip Davis Square!
Come out for a chance to talk with other innovators over a cup of coffee, network and check out the new co-working space.
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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: "Future of Solar in New England; and Transmission & Renewable Developments in New England"
Friday, April 17
9:00AM - 12:15PM
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/417-roundtable-future-of-solar-in-new-england-and-transmission-renewable-developments-in-new-england-tickets-16186331754?utm_campaign=3.13.15+first+notice&utm_medium=email&utm_source=4.17.15+First+Announcement
Cost: $35 - $65
To live-stream the Roundtable, or to watch it later on-demand, sign up at http://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/?utm_source=4.17.15+First+Announcement&utm_campaign=3.13.15+first+notice&utm_medium=email
We have two very timely topics for the April 17th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable (145): The Future of Solar in New England; and Transmission & Renewable Developments in New England.
Panel I: Future of Solar in New England
We begin The Future of Solar in New England panel with a presentation by Jonathan Black, Lead Engineer for System Planning at ISO-New England, who will discuss ISO New England's latest solar forecast. We will then hear about some of the emerging findings from MIT's ongoing Future of Solar Energy Study by Dr. Francis O'Sullivan, Director of Research and Analysis at MIT's Energy Initiative. Next, Ashley Brown, Executive Director of Harvard Electricity Policy Group, will discuss his recent article in the Electricity Journal (Valuation of Distributed Solar: A Qualitative View) which calls for reassessing the value of solar DG to better calibrate pricing policies. Karl Rábago, Executive Director at PACE University Climate & Energy Center (formerly of RMI, Texas PUC, and US DOE Undersecretary) will share his pioneering work in using solar valuation methodologies to inform net metering rates and policy. Janet Gail Besser, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs for the New England Clean Energy Council, will share her perspective on a sensible path forward for solar in New England.
Panel II: Transmission & Renewable Energy Developments in New England
Next, we turn our attention to another timely topic,
Transmission & Renewable Energy Developments in New England. With the recent release of the draft RFP for renewables & transmission from the Southern New England States (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island) it is time once again to reflect on a wide range of renewable resources and related transmission options that could help the New England states to meet their climate goals, while also potentially mitigating spikes in electricity prices. We have arranged for an excellent group of senior executives of leading renewable energy and transmission developers in New England and Eastern Canada to discuss their existing and proposed resources/projects.
We will begin with a keynote address from Hydro-Québec's CEO Thierry Vandal about the various renewable resources that HQ has to offer New England. Paul Gaynor, former CEO of First Wind, and current Executive Vice President for Utility & Global Wind at SunEdison, will discuss wind opportunities for New England. Edward Krapels, CEO of Anbaric Transmission, will discuss several innovative transmission-for-renewables projects his company is involved with, as will Robin McAdam, Vice President for Major Developments at Emera Energy.
http://www.RaabAssociates.org
Contact Name: Susan Rivo
susan@raabassociates.org
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Harvard Faculty Forum on Divestment
Friday, April 17
2:00 PM
Harvard Hall, Room 104, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
As Harvard Heat Week comes to a close, Harvard Faculty and financial professionals will lead us in a powerful day of action and learning about how the tide has turned — support for divestment is widespread, and the right choice both morally and financially.
Speakers:
Jim Anderson
Bill McKibben
Robert Massie
Chloe Maxmin
Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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A Conversation with 2015 Jazz Masters in Residence George Coleman and Harold Mabern
WHEN Fri., Apr. 17, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room at the Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers
SPEAKER(S) Harold Mabern, George Coleman, and moderator Ingrid Monson
COST Free, tickets/RSVPs not required; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity.
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Tenor saxophonist George Coleman and pianist Harold Mabern—natives of Memphis, Tennessee, whose distinctive “hard bop” sound incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel and blues—will discuss their careers during a public conversation moderated by Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Jazz Bands. Coleman and Mabern are the guest performers in “Memphis Giants,” a tribute concert featuring the Harvard Jazz Bands on Saturday, April 18 at 8 pm, Sanders Theatre. Visit the OFA’s Jazz Program page [http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/music/memphisgiants.php] for more information.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/music/memphisgiants.php
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Architecture Lecture Series: "Function and Friction: Rethinking Design, Disability, and Assistive Technology"
Friday, April 17
5:30p–7:30p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sara Hendren
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim@mit.edu
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Harvard Heat Week Closing Rally
Friday, April 17
6:00 PM
Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
As Harvard Heat Week comes to a close, Cornel West ’73, Bob Massie ’89, Bevis Longstreth ’61, and many others will join us for a wrap-up to an incredible week — closing rally at 6:00 PM.
Harvard Heat Week
http://harvardheatweek.org/schedule/
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Saturday, April 18
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Science Carnival & Robot Zoo
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday, April 18
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School Field House & Cambridge Public Library, Broadway & Ellery Street, Cambridge
Prepare yourself...for a Carnival of the Sciences and a ROBOT ZOO!
See, touch, smell, hear, and taste science in new and exciting ways!
Are you ready?
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Terry Riley’s 80th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, April 18
7:00pm
MIT Kresge Auditorium, W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sounding-terry-riley-80th-birthday-concert-tickets-13095596281
Cost: $0 -20
with Terry Riley, Eviyan, Gamelan Galak Tika, Sarah Cahill, and the world premiere of all-live Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
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Sunday, April 19
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Life in Space Long-Term
Sunday, April 19
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Museum of Science, Gordon Current Science & Technology Center, 1 Science Park, Boston
Free with Exhibit Halls admission; purchase online
Astronaut Chris Cassidy spent 181 days in space, including five space walks with Shuttle mission STS-127 and as a member of the International Space Station crew on Expedition 35.
Listen as he shares his experiences about what it's really like being an astronaut and living in space for months at a time!
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MakeScience: Arts & Tech Science Fair
Sunday, April 19
4:00pm - 8:00pm
Artisan's Asylum, 10 Tyler Street, Somerville
An old-school science fair with a modern Arts & Tech spin, featuring the ideas, tools, and processes of engineers, fine artisans, designers, sculptors, makers, tinkerers, and crafters. Come check out Artisan’s Asylum, greater Boston's premier community fabrication facility, and meet the people who make science here! Quench your curiosity with brewing science & robots, welding demos & dioramas, blinking lights and molten glass.
Artisan's Asylum
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Monday, April 20
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"How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California"
Monday, April 20
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, HKS, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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The Politics of Openness: Technology, Corruption and Participation in Indian Public Employment
Monday, April 20
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, UC Berkeley/Harvard Berkman Center
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts@hks.harvard.edu
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African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
WHEN Mon., Apr. 20, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
SPEAKER(S)Vincent J Intondi, author, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-0738; humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Learn more about the book here: http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23490
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/vincent-j-intondi-his-new-book-emafrican-americans-against-bomb-nuclear-weapons-colonialism
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Environmental Lawlessness
Monday, April 20
7:00–8:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1391&DayPlannerDate=4/20/2015
Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University
What happens when laws and regulations don’t keep pace with changes in technology, science, and society? The answer, according to Harvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus, is lawlessness. Come learn some of the history and circumstances behind the country’s current but outdated environmental laws, how the original scope and intentions of these laws may no longer match the scope of the problems we face today, and the lawmaking challenges we now face as we seek to address the mounting environmental risks posed by deepwater drilling, natural gas fracking, and climate change. Professor Lazarus, who teaches environmental law, natural resources law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts at Harvard Law School, was the principal author of Deep Water–The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission. He will speak of lessons learned from this environmental disaster and how new regulations in line with current technologies are needed to better protect the environment as we tap our natural resources.
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How Much Energy do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California
Monday, April 20
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, April 21
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Classes of defense for computer systems
Tuesday, April 21
12:00 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Wolff#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Wolff at 12:00 pm.
with Berkman Fellow, Josephine Wolff
There is no silver bullet for defending computer systems. Strengthening security means negotiating a balance among a variety of defenses that fall into several different categories and rely on the cooperation and support of many different actors, including technologists, managers, and policy-makers. Therefore, one crucial element of security involves understanding the multiplicity of defenses and the ways they can be combined and recombined to protect systems. Yet, there is no clear model of how different classes of computer system defense relate to classes of attack, or what defensive functions are best suited to technical, policy, or managerial interventions. Drawing on case studies of actual security incidents, as well as the past decade of security incident data at MIT, this talk will analyze security roles and defense design patterns for application designers, administrators, and policy-makers. It will also discuss the interplay between defenses designed to limit access to computer systems and those oriented towards limiting and mitigating the resulting damage.
About Josephine
Josephine is a PhD candidate in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT studying cybersecurity and Internet policy. Her dissertation research focuses on understanding combinations of different types of defenses for computer systems, including the interactions among technical, social, and policy mechanisms. She has interned with Microsoft's Technology Policy Group, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense. She has also written on computer security topics for Slate, Scientific American, and Newsweek. She holds an AB in mathematics from Princeton University, and an SM in Technology & Policy from MIT.
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Wahhabism: From Provincial Heresy to Arabian Hegemony
WHEN Tue., Apr. 21, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR CMES Lecture Series on Arabian Peninsula Studies
SPEAKER(S) David Commins, professor of history, Dickinson College
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Rescheduled from March 5.
This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3833
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Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell #BQS19 (NERD)
Tuesday, April 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Microsoft NERD New England Research & Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BostonQS/events/220016995/
Sign in at the front desk and then take the elevators to the 1st floor.
Price: $7.00/per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, April 21st for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at Microsoft. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano@gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Michael at myams@me.com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano@gmail.com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
Don't know what Ignite means? Click here for more info and here for tips on how to deliver a fantastic quick-fire presentation.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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Boston New Technology April 2015 Product Showcase #BNT52
Tuesday, April 21
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, 41 Berkeley Street, Boston
Enter at the Berkeley St Entrance, look for BNT signs and come to our check-in table to print your name tag. Showcase will take place in the auditorium off the lobby.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/220504973/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Questions & Answers. And yes, we will have chairs! Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT52 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
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CafeSci Boston: "Why 60 Minutes? 5000 Years of Tradition and Science"
Tuesday, April 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall St. Cambridge
Join WGBH's NOVA at our monthly event, CafeSci Boston. Science Cafes are live and lively events that bring scientists, researchers, artists, and professionals out to have a conversation about their work with the general public. This month, Robert Coolman will discuss why mechanical clocks were incapable of measuring minutes and seconds until the 16th century, yet the 60 used then is the same used by the Sumerians over 5000 years ago. This will be the story of how 60 was handed from civilization to civilization.
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Wednesday, April 22
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Harvard Celebrates Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22
11:30 am–5 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join us we celebrate Earth Day, with booths from campus groups, local farmers, and the Cambridge Community. Learn about sustainability initiatives on campus and places to volunteer, listen to student performances, participate in a freecycle, play recycling-related lawn games, or get your bike tuned up!
Sponsored by the Office for Sustainability, Harvard University Dining Services, and Harvard's Common Spaces.
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Libraries as a Platform: Enabling libraries to become community centers of meaning
Wednesday, April 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-202, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Weinberger, Harvard University
Libraries are in a unique position to reflect a community back to itself, enabling us to see what matters, and to use that information so that the community learns from itself. This is one of the primary use cases for developing and widely deploying library platforms. But becoming a community center of meaning can easily turn into creating an echo chamber. The key is developing interoperable systems that let communities learn from one another. We'll look at one proposal for a relatively straightforward way of doing so that's so dumb that it just might work.
Discussant: David Weinberger has worked in high tech for decades and writes about the effect of the Internet on how we think about ourselves, our world, and business. He has served as co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and am is currently a Senior Researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-david-weinberger-harvard-university-libraries-platform-enabling-libraries
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Chen, Andrew
6172533044
achen0@mit.edu
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3D Printed Bionic Nanomaterials
Wednesday, April 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
The ability to interweave biology with nanomaterials in 3D could enable the creation of bionic systems possessing unique properties and functionalities. The coupling of 3D printing with novel nanomaterials and living platforms may enable next-generation 3D printed bionic nanodevices. Interfacing these devices with biology could yield breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, smart prosthetics, and human-machine interfaces.
MTL Seminar Series
Light lunch at 11:30am
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2015.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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The Chinese Dream of Great Renewal: Challenges for China and the World
WHEN Wed., Apr. 22, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, former Swedish ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Vietnam
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CIC Technology Showcase
Wednesday, April 22
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe (5th floor), 1 Broadway, Cambridge
CIC Cambridge houses over 700 startups under one roof in Kendall Square. Some amazing products such as the Android operating system, the Kindle Fire 2, and the Second Life virtual world have been developed here. Join us April 22nd to see some of the coolest devices and applications being conjured up right here in Cambridge. This event is open to the public and co-hosted with the Cambridge Science Festival.
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/
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Adopting a Cleaner Technology: The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Fleet Turnover
Wednesday, April 22
4:10-5:30
Harvard, Room L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Juan-Pablo Montero, Catholic University of Chile
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
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Sustainability unConference 2015
Wednesday, April 22
5:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-unconference-2015-tickets-15880959377
Got Earth Day plans? Bring them to District Hall and be apart of the third annual Sustainability unConferenceon on Wednesday evening, April 22nd, from 5-10PM. EcoMotion, Impact Hub Boston, Greenovate Boston, District Hall, City Awake, and many others are providing a platform for diverse sectors to riff off one another and collaborate on the intersections of sustainability and innovation. We would love to engage you/your organization as a partner. The event is free to the public and will reflect the unique attendees who join the conversation.
What is an unConference? An unConference is an interactive event where participants propose topics and shape the agenda. There will be several planned exhibitors and thematic spaces, but the rest is up to you! Out-of-the-box ideas, idea paint walls, creative formatting, and props are encouraged. Proposed sessions will range from Sustainability in our Schools to Food Entrepreneurship, Cleantech and Eco-Districts to Beekeeping in the City, Women in Sustainability, Green Financing and many more!
If you are interested in hosting a session, you can propose your idea form by April 20th here.
Questions? Contact Sierra (sflanigan@ecomotion.us) or Helen (hfpetty@gmail.com). Looking forward to collaborating with you!
Session Proposals must be posted by 5:30pm. It is the responsibility of session leaders to ensure session title and description is posted on voting wall. Voting for session topics runs from 5:30pm to 6:00pm in the Assembly room.
Session locations will be finalized at 6:15pm.
5:00: Doors open for networking reception
5:30-6: Session voting, networking, and presentation tables
6: Welcoming address
6:30-7:30: Session Wave 1
8-9: Session Wave 2
9-10: Closing and Mingling
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Boston Living with Water Competition Pin-up
Wednesday, April 22
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, #200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-living-with-water-competition-pin-up-tickets-16433473963
Join us on Earth Day (April 22nd) from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at BSA Space for pin-up event involving all Boston Living with Water competition semi-finalists.
This is a valuable opportunity for teams to present their draft proposals for discussion and feedback from their peers, community members and other experts. Each team has 15 minutes to present their draft work before hearing back from participants. Teams within each site will hear all three proposals presented and commented on. They will then have another month to revise and finalize their submissions.
Space is limited, so please only RSVP if you plan to join us and participate in the discussion. We encourage team members from one site to spread out and participate in other site reviews as well. We look forward to seeing you there!
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The Health of Democracy: Polarization and Ideologies
Wednesday, April 22
6:30pm
Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
Can a polarized public maintain a healthy democracy? It;s not just the Congress that is ideologically divided.? The Pew Research Center recently documented how the American people have become polarized over the past 50 years. Michael Dimock, President of the Pew Research Center, discusses this ground-breaking study and its implications for the health of our democracy. What can citizens do to create and support effective community dialogues aimed at strengthening social bonds?
This program is funded in part by a grant from MassHumanities.
617-495-2727
www.cambridgeforum.org
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Solving for X: Preparing Our Children for an Uncertain World
Wednesday, April 22
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: John Hunter, Scot Osterweil, Peter Stidwill, Tenzin Priyadarshi
John Hunter, master teacher and creator of the World Peace Game, will share the subtle mechanics of his geo-political simulation, how it has for 35 years proved to be a successful interdisciplinary classroom tool, and why now his work has been hailed as a tool for peace by institutions ranging from the US Pentagon to the United Nations.
His heart-felt message of hope has evolved from a regular, introspective and intensive practice of engaging his students in the chaos and uncertainty of life through transformative experiences of give and take, and the innovative and critical thinking demanded of the impossible goals of his "game" the welfare of all nations and practical solutions to global crisis.
Hunter hopes to inspire others with the stories of immense compassion, courage, and optimism that have sprung from the collective wisdom of the children, our best hopes for peace tomorrow.
Web site: http://thecenter.mit.edu/cent_events/solving-x/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
For more information, contact: The Center at MIT
617 254-6030
DalaiLamaCenter@mit.edu
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Cambridge Science Festival Panel: Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming
Wednesday, April 22
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Human impact has “broken” some ecosystems on the planet and significantly compromised most others. Is it possible restoring ecological health to impacted areas could address the worst threat yet faced by human civilization: the climate crisis?
Vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide can be returned to soil through innovative land management practices. Benefits include greater agricultural productivity, improved nutrition, enhanced drought resilience, and the return of water to dried-up rivers and lakes.
This panel discussion, a free Cambridge Science Festival event, will focus on the latest science and field trials indicating that significant carbon drawdown is not only possible, it's essential.
Presented by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, a 501c3 nonprofit based in Lexington, MA
http://bio4climate.org
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The Health of Democracy: A Polarized Public
WHEN Wed., Apr. 22, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Michael Dimock, president, Pew Research Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-2727
director@cambridgeforum.org
DETAILS Can a polarized public maintain a healthy democracy? It’s not just the Congress that is ideologically divided. The Pew Research Center recently documented how the American people have become polarized over the past 50 years. Michael Dimock, president of the Pew Research Center, discusses this ground-breaking study and its implications for the health of our democracy. What can citizens do to create and support effective community dialogues aimed at strengthening social bonds?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, April 23
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A Critical Comparison of Regulatory Regimes for Offshore Oil and Gas in the U.S., U.K, and Norway
Thursday, April 23
11:45-1
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lori Bennear, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke University
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
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New England Groundfish: A Story About Managing People
Thursday, April 23
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Brett Alger, Fishery Management Specialist, NOAA Fisheries
New England fisheries date back several centuries, with the iconic Atlantic cod playing a key role in our countries' development. In the 1970's, faced with declining fish stocks, Congress passed the Magnuson-Stevens Act to create sustainable fisheries that benefit our fishermen and our Nation. The Act created eight Fishery Management Councils made up of fishermen, along with state and federal managers to develop measures to manage fisheries within the legal requirements. The New England Council is responsible for developing a management plan for 13 groundfish species, including cod. The fishery is managed using a variety of tools, including catch limits, effort controls, and a catch share system. Despite being one of the most scrutinized and highly regulated fisheries in the world, several groundfish stocks including cod, are in extremely poor condition. A concoction of political, environmental, economic, and scientific factors has left cod and the fishing industry in peril, and fisheries management with few options. Brett's presentation will cover the legal, scientific, and management process of New England groundfish, and highlight what has happened with Atlantic cod, and where the fishery might be headed.
Brett Alger is a Fishery Management Specialist for NOAA Fisheries in the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office in Gloucester, MA, a region that extends from the Canadian border to North Carolina. He helps to manage commercial and recreational fisheries in Federal waters of the Atlantic Ocean, including developing policy, implementing management measures, and monitoring catch. Before coming to NOAA Fisheries six years ago, Brett earned a B.S. in Biology from Central Michigan University, an M.S in Fisheries Management and Science from Michigan State University, and worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and several State agencies in the Midwest.
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How Interfaces Demand Obedience
Thursday, April 23
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-lunch-mushon-zer-aviv-how-interfaces-demand-obedience
Mushon Zer-Aviv
The internet, once associated with openness and decentralization, is increasingly understood in terms of the control exerted by government agencies (like the NSA) and advertising (targeted ads). What is less commonly discussed is how this subliminal control is embedded in interface design. In this talk Mushon Zer-Aviv argues that web interfaces demand our silent obedience with every page load and he tries to offer tactics and strategies for challenging the politics of the interface.
Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in Tel Aviv. His work and writing explore the boundaries of interface and the biases of techno-culture as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the co-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine – exploring algorithmic prejudice; the AdNauseam extension – clicking ads so you don’t have to; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon also designed the map for Waze.com. Mushon is an alumni of Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a senior faculty member at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Read him at Mushon.com and follow him at @mushon.
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The Benefits of Biomass Combined Heat and Power
Thursday, April 23
2 p.m. Eastern
webinar
RSVP at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3533308468996012289?utm_source=SCN+InBox+e-Newsletter&utm_campaign=a1c67323e1-HurstInvite_4-2-15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_11e7ac761c-a1c67323e1-188562049
featuring Sullivan County's Combined Heat & Power System
In December, 2013, Sullivan County New Hampshire flipped the switch on a new $3.4 million biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) district energy system to serve its 166-bed nursing home and 168-bed prison complex, as well as two smaller on-site buildings in Unity, N.H.
The system is almost entirely fueled by locally sourced, renewable wood chips and produces inexpensive heat and electricity for the more than 215,000 sq. ft. of conditioned space. The system has replaced 95 percent of fuel oil purchases and 10 percent of electric purchases in the nursing home.
The county estimates the annual fuel savings will pay for the construction bond within 15 years.
In this free, one-hour webinar, Sullivan County Facilities Director John Cressy will explain how the project was conceived and implemented, and how it has performed in its first full year of operation. He'll be joined by Bob Waller of Thermal Systems, Inc., who managed all specification and procurement services for the project.
Sustainable City Network operates a website (http://www.sCityNetwork.com), customized e-newsletters and interactive tools dedicated to providing quality and timely information on sustainability products, services and best practices to leaders in government, education and healthcare.
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A STEAM Conversation: Learning through the Lens of Art & Science
Thursday, April 23
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Lesley University College of Art and Design, Lower Arts Commons in Lunder Art Center, 1801 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
This 2nd annual STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Conversation, a collaboration between Catalyst Conversation (CC) and the Cambridge Creativity Commons (CCC) is a lecture and workshop that explores the fertile overlap between the arts and sciences and how teaching them together can promote excitement and engagement in learning. A local artist and scientist will give presentations on a common theme followed by a hands-on workshop with ideas on how to merge science and arts education. We welcome educators, youth, artists, scientists and those interested in this rich ground for learning!
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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An Atmospheric Measurement Network and Modeling Framework to Quantify Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Losses in the Boston Urban Region
Thursday, April 23
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Kathryn McKain, Harvard University
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Parsons Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Brenda Pepe
617-258-5554
pepebe@mit.edu
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What Went Wrong?: The Causes of Democratic Breakdown in Egypt
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS, Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Seminar, co-chairs: Herbert C. Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy; sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
SPEAKER(S) Carrie R. Wickham, professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO sroy@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/3822
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Making Education Relevant in the Face of Global Challenges
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 4 – 6:30 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 Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Moderator: Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Faculty Director, International Education Policy Program, HGSE
Panelists:
William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development and Faculty Chair, Energy and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Member of the Faculty of Divinity
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard School of Public Health and Co-Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
This panel opens a think tank focused on the question of how to make education relevant. How do we align what schools and universities teach w some of the biggest global challenges we face? the challenges of including all, of preventing and addressing the potential for religious, ethnic and racial conflict, the challenge of closing gender gaps, promoting health and fostering environmental sustainability.
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Investing in Lower Income Communities: A Continuing Conversation
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Building, B-500, Bell Hal, l79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Joint Center for Housing Studies and Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
SPEAKER(S) Elizabeth B. Smith, Janelle Chan, Joe Flatley, Chrystal Kornegay, and Esther Schlorholtz
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Lower income communities face continuing challenges in attracting capital for housing and other types of investments. This panel discussion, with speakers representing key stakeholder groups, is aimed at furthering the conversation about the current investment needs facing lower income areas and how lending efforts can best be focused – viable strategies and new ideas. Although the focus will be on the Boston area, the issues discussed have broader relevance.
LINK http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/event/investing-lower-income-communities-continuing-conversation
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Islands: Natural Laboratories of Evolution
Thursday, April 23
6:00PM
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tahiti, Bermuda, Madeira, Bali. Everyone loves islands, but no one loves them more than an evolutionary biologist. From the dwarf elephants of Crete to the carnivorous caterpillars of Hawaii and the snaggly-fingered aye-aye of Madagascar, islands present a cornucopia of biodiversity. Darwin drew much of his inspiration from island stopovers on his fabled Beagle voyage, as did Alfred Russel Wallace on his own perambulations through the East Indies. Ever since Darwin and Wallace jointly proposed their theory of evolution by natural selection, biologists have returned to islands to gain fresh insights. In this illustrated, public lecture Jonathan Losos, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator in Herpetology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, will discuss the relevance of islands to our understanding of evolution and its processes.
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Thursday Evening Lecture Series: Global Health Includes US: Poverty, Race and Health in Mississippi
Thursday, April 23
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Dr (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: H. Jack Geiger, City University of New York Medical School
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Evening Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global and mental health during the fall 2014 semester. This talk featuring H. Jack Geiger is the fourth event in this lecture series. Dr. Geiger launched the Community Health Center Model in the United States, a network that now provides primary care for 28 million low-income patients, in 1965, with health centers in the Mississippi Delta and Boston. He is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights, which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and 1988, respectively.
Appetizers and refreshments will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
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Google Wearables Challenge Final Smackdown
Thursday, April 23
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, Cambridge
Reserve your tickets here: http://goo.gl/Hbj9D4
In our second iteration of this event following on the huge success of last year's "Google Glass Challenge", Google and Medstro widen the focus to include all wearable technology, regardless of manufacturer or OS. As of the submission deadline for the online portion of this year's challenge (March 14), we received 89 amazing submissions, surpassing last year by 34. During the voting period, which ends on March 28, you, the "crowd" will get to vote on your favorites along with a panel of expert judges. The top eight finalists will be invited to pitch their idea live at Google's Cambridge Center campus in Kendall Square on April 23. This event will also feature a "networking & demonstration" happy hour with hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine where you'll be able to try on the latest brain sensing headbands, myoelectric gesture sensing input devices, wearable body temperature trackers, fitness trackers plus some secret new stuff from Google!
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A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Special Events
DETAILS In association with John Harvard Projection Krzysztof Wodiczko will discuss his work followed by a conversation with James Voorhies, the John R. and Barbara Robison Family Director of the Carpenter Center, and Silvia Benedito, Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
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Ford Hall Forum: A Bumpy Ride
Thursday, April 23
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bumpy-ride-tickets-16223060611
Stephanie Pollack (Secretary, MassDOT)
Steve Regan (spokesman, MA Regional Taxi Advocacy Group)
Steve DelBianco (Executive Director, NetChoice)
Sabrina Maloney (driver, Lyft)
Uber and Lyft are warring with cab companies in every major city and the controversy is heating up in Boston. Are Lyft and Uber skirting regulations and is this related to the safety issues that have arisen with these services? Or are the taxi companies simply crying foul because their business model is outdated? In this conversation on a pivotal local issue, we talk about what’s fair to the companies when the rules of the road change, and what’s best for Bostonians on the move.
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Friday, April 24
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MIT Sustainability Summit 2015 - Farming, Food, and the Future
Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:00 PM
MIT, McDermott Court, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sustainability-summit-2015-farming-food-and-the-future-tickets-15693724352
Cost: $50-$150
Farming, Food, and the Future: Changing the Shape of Agricultural Systems
Sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab and Pure Strategies
The 7th Annual MIT Sustainability Summit will focus on understanding—and offering solutions to—the complex problems facing local and global agriculture systems. This year’s Summit will tackle food and farming challenges through the lens of the “Circular Economy,” a systems-thinking approach that demonstrates that a flourishing, sustainable world is built on intentionally cycling resources between production and consumption: from farm to table and back again.
Speakers include:
Britt Lundgren ~ Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Stonyfield Farm
Fedele Bauccio ~ CEO, Bon Appetit Management Company and 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Kathleen Merrigan ~ Executive Director, George Washington Sustainability Institute and Former Undersecretary, US Department of Agriculture
Our full agenda will be announced shortly on the Sustainability Summit website at http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu
We encourage you to buy tickets early - we do have limited attendance capacity this year.
Interested in volunteering at the Summit? Please reach out to the Summit Operations Team.
We will not be able to refund tickets after purchase.
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Architecture & CAST Symposium: Active Matter Summit, Programming Materials to Sense, Transform, and Self-Assemble
Friday, April 24
9:00a–6:00p
If today we program computers and machines, tomorrow we will program matter itself. This conference is about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications. This two-day conference will consist of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Conference is organized by Skylar Tibbits & Athina Papadopoulou, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT in collaboration with: the Center for Arts Science and Technology at MIT (CAST), the Department of Architecture at MIT, the International Design Center at MIT (IDC) & Autodesk Inc.
The Active Matter Summit is funded in part by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) through the generosity of Ronald A. Kurtz '54, in recognition of the exemplary career of Merton C. Flemings, Toyota Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Materials Processing Center at MIT.
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Web site: http://www.selfassemblylab.net
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
This event occurs daily through April 25, 2015.
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Center for Art, Science & Technology, MIT-SUTD International Design Centre
For more information, contact: Athina Papadopoulou
617-253-4412
athpap@mit.edu
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Friday Morning Seminar: Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning During the Ebola Crisis
Friday, April 24
10:00a–11:50a
Harvard, 1550 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Adia Benton, Brown University
The Friday Morning Seminar, as it is widely known, has been meeting every year since 1984, when it was launched as the foundational seminar for a postdoctoral fellowship program in culture, psychiatry, and mental health and the predoctoral program in medical anthropology. Since that time, the seminar has brought together an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians, including faculty, fellows, students, and visiting scholars from across the University and the teaching hospitals, and universities across greater Boston.
The seminar features presentations of new research and writing by faculty, fellows, and students, and by invited guests. Its perspective is global and international, with a focus on comparative and cross-cultural studies. Some seminars have led to edited books (recently, Postcolonial Disorders; Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations; and Shattering Culture), and special issues for journals such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Research.
The seminar will take place on Friday, 4/24/15, and will feature Adia Benton who will be giving a presentation entitled, Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning During the Ebola Crisis.
We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Program in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
For more information, contact:
Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Spring Music Concert: Dance Music from Northeastern Brazil
WHEN Fri., Apr. 24, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Concerts, Dance, Exhibitions, Lecture, Music, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This event is organized by ARTS @DRCLAS in collaboration with the Brazil Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) Forró Zabumbeca
Paddy League, G3 in ethnomusicology, Harvard
Adam Bahrami, postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary biology, Harvard
Marié Abe, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, Boston University
Catherine Bent, instructor, Berklee College of Music
Kenny Kozol, performing arts coordinator, Brookline Public Schools
DETAILS
Program:
Talk: 12:00-12:10 p.m.
Dance lesson - 12:10 - 12:20 p.m.
Concert - 12:20 - 1:00 p.m.
LINK http://drclas.harvard.edu/event/artsdrclas-spring-music-concert15%27
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The State of Solar in Massachusetts
Friday, April 24
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-of-solar-in-massachusetts-tickets-16299008774
The State of Solar:
A networking event and panel discussion for business leaders on solar power in Massachusetts
Over the past decade, Massachusetts has positioned itself as a solar leader in the United States. The state has 776 MW of installed solar capacity - ranking it 6th in the country - and is planning on reaching 1600 MW by 2020. 9,400 jobs have been created by the solar industry in Massachusetts, the 2nd largest solar industry employer in the country.
But the real question is: How will Massachusetts continue to regulate this market while also sustaining its growth?
Join Senator Jamie Eldridge as well as other forward-thinking legislators and industry leaders in a discussion on the future of the solar industry and the challenges that will need to be overcome to reach our solar goal.
Climate Action Business Association http://cabaus.org
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Saturday, April 25
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MIT Sustainability Summit 2015 - Farming, Food, and the Future
Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:00 PM
MIT, McDermott Court, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sustainability-summit-2015-farming-food-and-the-future-tickets-15693724352
Cost: $50-$150
Farming, Food, and the Future: Changing the Shape of Agricultural Systems
Sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab and Pure Strategies
The 7th Annual MIT Sustainability Summit will focus on understanding—and offering solutions to—the complex problems facing local and global agriculture systems. This year’s Summit will tackle food and farming challenges through the lens of the “Circular Economy,” a systems-thinking approach that demonstrates that a flourishing, sustainable world is built on intentionally cycling resources between production and consumption: from farm to table and back again.
Speakers include:
Britt Lundgren ~ Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Stonyfield Farm
Fedele Bauccio ~ CEO, Bon Appetit Management Company and 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Kathleen Merrigan ~ Executive Director, George Washington Sustainability Institute and Former Undersecretary, US Department of Agriculture
Our full agenda will be announced shortly on the Sustainability Summit website at http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu
We encourage you to buy tickets early - we do have limited attendance capacity this year.
Interested in volunteering at the Summit? Please reach out to the Summit Operations Team.
We will not be able to refund tickets after purchase.
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RootsCamp MA
April 25-26
1199SEIU in Dorchester.
Not familiar with RootsCamp MA? This is a cross-issue, progressive, movement building "unconference" where the attendees drive the agenda.
Learn more at www.RootsCampMA.org.
*Registration is open*
You are invited to attend. We encourage you to register for the event this week at www.rootscampma15.eventbrite.com. Tickets are $20 and include breakfast, lunch, and snacks for two days. A limited number of $10 tickets are available. Sponsorships of $100, $250, and $500 help keep the ticket price accessible.
*Call for volunteers*
RootsCamp MA is an all-volunteer effort that is organized in just 10 weeks. We will need additional help throughout the weekend of the event. Please
fill out the volunteer interest form
so we can match your availability, skills, and interest as we schedule volunteers.
*What will YOU present?*
Since this is a participant-driven event so we are strongly encouraging you to come prepared to present a session or facilitate a dialogue. You know what you know, and you know what you are curious about. Bring that and we'll all benefit from the shared learning and relationship building. It's an "unconference", so all sessions are chosen the morning of the event. Let us know what session you might lead so we can create some buzz about it!
*Who will you invite?*
Invite your friends to the Facebook event and share this Facebook
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Robbie Samuels & David Sloane
RootsCamp MA Lead Organizers
www.RootsCampMA.org
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Trends in Technology (part of Cambridge Science Festival)
Saturday, April 25
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Wondering how new technologies like 3D printing, Internet of Things, Wearable Tech, and Unmanned Civilian Vehicles will affect you? Read on!
The Greater Boston Chapter of ACM is proud to be a part of the Festival. We are producing a presentation which will explore some of the latest headline-grabbing technology trends. Our speaker, Greg Page, will describe and demystify 9 areas of technology that are changing everyone's life: 3D printing, Internet of Things, Wearable Tech, IPv6, Bitcoin, NFC, Cloud Computing, Ephemeral Communication Apps, and Unmanned Civilian Vehicles. He explains the meaning behind the related buzzwords, and the impact of each of these emerging tech fields for individuals, small businesses, and society in general.
We plan to provide some light refreshments before and after the talk, so please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/ACM-Boston/events/221218999/ so we can plan appropriate quantities.
Speaker: Greg Page, is a 2014 graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, affiliate of MIT's Venture Mentoring Service, former US Navy Intelligence Officer, and now a Captain in the United States Army Reserve. Greg is also an Adjunct Computer Science Lecturer at Boston University and CEO and co-founder of Merrimack Analysis Group.
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Sunday, April 26
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Science Festival After Party at Aeronaut
Sunday, April 26
5:00pm - 10:00pm
Aeronaut Brewery, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
Sip the science festival brew and toast to geeky science love everywhere with festival revelers. Cheers!
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Economic Prosperity For Peace Conference
Sunday, April 26
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/economic-prosperity-for-peace-conference-tickets-16004624262
The goal of the "Economic Prosperity for Peace" conference is to explore the role that the private sector can play in building and promoting economic prosperity for Arabs and Israelis alike as a catalyst for regional stability and cooperation. The conference will take place over one day and through addresses from keynote speakers and several different panels, explore how entrepreneurship, infrastructure development, skills-based training and education can play an important role in laying the groundwork for an eventual and sustainable peace in the region.
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Monday, April 27
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MASS Seminar - Clara Orbe (GSFC)
Monday, April 27
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Clara Orbe
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Low-carbon leapfrogging and globalization: How China developed its solar PV industry
Monday, April 27
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Christian Binz, Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Harvard Kennedy School
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Cities, Technologies and Political Imaginaries"
Monday, April 27
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Antoine Picon, Harvard, GSD
STS Circle at Harvard
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Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
Monday, April 27
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, ACT
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 28
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Building Newborn Minds in Virtual Worlds
Tuesday, April 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 46-3189, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Justin Wood
Abstract: What are the origins of high-level vision: Is this ability hardwired by genes or learned during development? Although researchers have been wrestling with this question for over a century, progress has been hampered by two major limitations: (1) most newborn animals cannot be raised in controlled environments from birth, and (2) most newborn animals cannot be observed and tested for long periods of time. Thus, it has generally not been possible to characterize how specific visual inputs relate to specific cognitive outputs in the newborn brain.
To overcome these two limitations, I recently developed an automated, high-throughput controlled-rearing technique. This technique can be used to measure all of a newborn animal's behavior (9 samples/second, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week) within strictly controlled virtual environments. In this talk, I will describe a series of controlled-rearing experiments that reveal how one high-level visual ability "invariant object recognition" emerges in the newborn brain. Further, I will show how these controlled-rearing data can be linked to models of visual cortex for characterizing the computations underlying newborn vision. More generally, I will argue that controlled rearing can serve as a critical tool for testing between different theories and models, both for developmental psychology and computational neuroscience.
Web site: http://cbmm.mit.edu/news-events/events/building-newborn-minds-virtual-worlds
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
For more information, contact: Kathleen D. Sullivan
cbmm-contact@mit.edu
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Migration, National Security, and New forms of Policing: Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Tuesday, April 28
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Noora A. Lori,Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Today non-citizens make up 90 percent of the population in the United Arab Emirates. This 'demographic imbalance' is an outcome of combining expansive temporary worker schemes with a highly exclusionary citizenship regime. Both policies are regulated by a security apparatus that is increasingly pervasive. The expatriate population is at once sanctioned as a necessary economic force and a threat to be 'managed'. But how is this uneasy balance maintained? This presentation will explore the instruments of population management developed by the UAE's security forces - including extensive surveillance networks, multi-cultural community policing, and DNA imaging - to pre-empt the security threats associated with migrant populations. The research finds that security forces loyal to the state are not always instruments of top-down social control. Rather, as the police forces have become more involved in embedded surveillance and active policing strategies, they are also increasingly pulled into the role of alleviating the tensions and responding to communal struggles to define the UAE's public sphere.
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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Disease Gone Global: What Causese Epidemics?
Tuesday, April 28
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Humankind is in an ongoing struggle against infectious invaders. New diseases are spreading around the globe and diseases that were once considered eradicated are now making a comeback. What's driving the resurgence? Where do these bugs come from? How do they spread? In this seminar researchers explain how they are developing ways to track, control and eventually cure these diseases.
More information: seminar@hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Healthy Places in the Transition Century
Tuesday, April 28
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
Cost: $10
Students: Email to register for free.
An Arnold Arboretum lecture with Ann Forsyth, PhD, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
In the coming century urban populations around the world will grow at uneven rates--some places will lose population in metropolitan areas and others gain it. Populations in most places will be older on average. How can the growing body of research on the connections between health and environments be used to make a positive contribution to evolving urban and suburban communities? Ann Forsyth will speak about the components that contribute to healthier and more sustainable cities, alternatives to sprawl, and the tensions that exist between social and ecological values in urban design.
https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1407&DayPlannerDate=4/28/2015
Contact Name: Pamela Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
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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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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
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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Wednesday, April 22
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Harvard Celebrates Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22
11:30 am–5 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join us we celebrate Earth Day, with booths from campus groups, local farmers, and the Cambridge Community. Learn about sustainability initiatives on campus and places to volunteer, listen to student performances, participate in a freecycle, play recycling-related lawn games, or get your bike tuned up!
Sponsored by the Office for Sustainability, Harvard University Dining Services, and Harvard's Common Spaces.
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Libraries as a Platform: Enabling libraries to become community centers of meaning
Wednesday, April 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-202, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: David Weinberger, Harvard University
Libraries are in a unique position to reflect a community back to itself, enabling us to see what matters, and to use that information so that the community learns from itself. This is one of the primary use cases for developing and widely deploying library platforms. But becoming a community center of meaning can easily turn into creating an echo chamber. The key is developing interoperable systems that let communities learn from one another. We'll look at one proposal for a relatively straightforward way of doing so that's so dumb that it just might work.
Discussant: David Weinberger has worked in high tech for decades and writes about the effect of the Internet on how we think about ourselves, our world, and business. He has served as co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and am is currently a Senior Researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-david-weinberger-harvard-university-libraries-platform-enabling-libraries
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Chen, Andrew
6172533044
achen0@mit.edu
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3D Printed Bionic Nanomaterials
Wednesday, April 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
The ability to interweave biology with nanomaterials in 3D could enable the creation of bionic systems possessing unique properties and functionalities. The coupling of 3D printing with novel nanomaterials and living platforms may enable next-generation 3D printed bionic nanodevices. Interfacing these devices with biology could yield breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, smart prosthetics, and human-machine interfaces.
MTL Seminar Series
Light lunch at 11:30am
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2015.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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The Chinese Dream of Great Renewal: Challenges for China and the World
WHEN Wed., Apr. 22, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, former Swedish ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Vietnam
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CIC Technology Showcase
Wednesday, April 22
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe (5th floor), 1 Broadway, Cambridge
CIC Cambridge houses over 700 startups under one roof in Kendall Square. Some amazing products such as the Android operating system, the Kindle Fire 2, and the Second Life virtual world have been developed here. Join us April 22nd to see some of the coolest devices and applications being conjured up right here in Cambridge. This event is open to the public and co-hosted with the Cambridge Science Festival.
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/
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Adopting a Cleaner Technology: The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Fleet Turnover
Wednesday, April 22
4:10-5:30
Harvard, Room L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Juan-Pablo Montero, Catholic University of Chile
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
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Sustainability unConference 2015
Wednesday, April 22
5:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainability-unconference-2015-tickets-15880959377
Got Earth Day plans? Bring them to District Hall and be apart of the third annual Sustainability unConferenceon on Wednesday evening, April 22nd, from 5-10PM. EcoMotion, Impact Hub Boston, Greenovate Boston, District Hall, City Awake, and many others are providing a platform for diverse sectors to riff off one another and collaborate on the intersections of sustainability and innovation. We would love to engage you/your organization as a partner. The event is free to the public and will reflect the unique attendees who join the conversation.
What is an unConference? An unConference is an interactive event where participants propose topics and shape the agenda. There will be several planned exhibitors and thematic spaces, but the rest is up to you! Out-of-the-box ideas, idea paint walls, creative formatting, and props are encouraged. Proposed sessions will range from Sustainability in our Schools to Food Entrepreneurship, Cleantech and Eco-Districts to Beekeeping in the City, Women in Sustainability, Green Financing and many more!
If you are interested in hosting a session, you can propose your idea form by April 20th here.
Questions? Contact Sierra (sflanigan@ecomotion.us) or Helen (hfpetty@gmail.com). Looking forward to collaborating with you!
Session Proposals must be posted by 5:30pm. It is the responsibility of session leaders to ensure session title and description is posted on voting wall. Voting for session topics runs from 5:30pm to 6:00pm in the Assembly room.
Session locations will be finalized at 6:15pm.
5:00: Doors open for networking reception
5:30-6: Session voting, networking, and presentation tables
6: Welcoming address
6:30-7:30: Session Wave 1
8-9: Session Wave 2
9-10: Closing and Mingling
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Boston Living with Water Competition Pin-up
Wednesday, April 22
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, #200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-living-with-water-competition-pin-up-tickets-16433473963
Join us on Earth Day (April 22nd) from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at BSA Space for pin-up event involving all Boston Living with Water competition semi-finalists.
This is a valuable opportunity for teams to present their draft proposals for discussion and feedback from their peers, community members and other experts. Each team has 15 minutes to present their draft work before hearing back from participants. Teams within each site will hear all three proposals presented and commented on. They will then have another month to revise and finalize their submissions.
Space is limited, so please only RSVP if you plan to join us and participate in the discussion. We encourage team members from one site to spread out and participate in other site reviews as well. We look forward to seeing you there!
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The Health of Democracy: Polarization and Ideologies
Wednesday, April 22
6:30pm
Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
Can a polarized public maintain a healthy democracy? It;s not just the Congress that is ideologically divided.? The Pew Research Center recently documented how the American people have become polarized over the past 50 years. Michael Dimock, President of the Pew Research Center, discusses this ground-breaking study and its implications for the health of our democracy. What can citizens do to create and support effective community dialogues aimed at strengthening social bonds?
This program is funded in part by a grant from MassHumanities.
617-495-2727
www.cambridgeforum.org
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Solving for X: Preparing Our Children for an Uncertain World
Wednesday, April 22
6:30p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: John Hunter, Scot Osterweil, Peter Stidwill, Tenzin Priyadarshi
John Hunter, master teacher and creator of the World Peace Game, will share the subtle mechanics of his geo-political simulation, how it has for 35 years proved to be a successful interdisciplinary classroom tool, and why now his work has been hailed as a tool for peace by institutions ranging from the US Pentagon to the United Nations.
His heart-felt message of hope has evolved from a regular, introspective and intensive practice of engaging his students in the chaos and uncertainty of life through transformative experiences of give and take, and the innovative and critical thinking demanded of the impossible goals of his "game" the welfare of all nations and practical solutions to global crisis.
Hunter hopes to inspire others with the stories of immense compassion, courage, and optimism that have sprung from the collective wisdom of the children, our best hopes for peace tomorrow.
Web site: http://thecenter.mit.edu/cent_events/solving-x/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
For more information, contact: The Center at MIT
617 254-6030
DalaiLamaCenter@mit.edu
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Cambridge Science Festival Panel: Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming
Wednesday, April 22
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Human impact has “broken” some ecosystems on the planet and significantly compromised most others. Is it possible restoring ecological health to impacted areas could address the worst threat yet faced by human civilization: the climate crisis?
Vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide can be returned to soil through innovative land management practices. Benefits include greater agricultural productivity, improved nutrition, enhanced drought resilience, and the return of water to dried-up rivers and lakes.
This panel discussion, a free Cambridge Science Festival event, will focus on the latest science and field trials indicating that significant carbon drawdown is not only possible, it's essential.
Presented by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, a 501c3 nonprofit based in Lexington, MA
http://bio4climate.org
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The Health of Democracy: A Polarized Public
WHEN Wed., Apr. 22, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Michael Dimock, president, Pew Research Center
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-2727
director@cambridgeforum.org
DETAILS Can a polarized public maintain a healthy democracy? It’s not just the Congress that is ideologically divided. The Pew Research Center recently documented how the American people have become polarized over the past 50 years. Michael Dimock, president of the Pew Research Center, discusses this ground-breaking study and its implications for the health of our democracy. What can citizens do to create and support effective community dialogues aimed at strengthening social bonds?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, April 23
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A Critical Comparison of Regulatory Regimes for Offshore Oil and Gas in the U.S., U.K, and Norway
Thursday, April 23
11:45-1
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lori Bennear, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke University
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
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New England Groundfish: A Story About Managing People
Thursday, April 23
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Brett Alger, Fishery Management Specialist, NOAA Fisheries
New England fisheries date back several centuries, with the iconic Atlantic cod playing a key role in our countries' development. In the 1970's, faced with declining fish stocks, Congress passed the Magnuson-Stevens Act to create sustainable fisheries that benefit our fishermen and our Nation. The Act created eight Fishery Management Councils made up of fishermen, along with state and federal managers to develop measures to manage fisheries within the legal requirements. The New England Council is responsible for developing a management plan for 13 groundfish species, including cod. The fishery is managed using a variety of tools, including catch limits, effort controls, and a catch share system. Despite being one of the most scrutinized and highly regulated fisheries in the world, several groundfish stocks including cod, are in extremely poor condition. A concoction of political, environmental, economic, and scientific factors has left cod and the fishing industry in peril, and fisheries management with few options. Brett's presentation will cover the legal, scientific, and management process of New England groundfish, and highlight what has happened with Atlantic cod, and where the fishery might be headed.
Brett Alger is a Fishery Management Specialist for NOAA Fisheries in the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office in Gloucester, MA, a region that extends from the Canadian border to North Carolina. He helps to manage commercial and recreational fisheries in Federal waters of the Atlantic Ocean, including developing policy, implementing management measures, and monitoring catch. Before coming to NOAA Fisheries six years ago, Brett earned a B.S. in Biology from Central Michigan University, an M.S in Fisheries Management and Science from Michigan State University, and worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and several State agencies in the Midwest.
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How Interfaces Demand Obedience
Thursday, April 23
12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-lunch-mushon-zer-aviv-how-interfaces-demand-obedience
Mushon Zer-Aviv
The internet, once associated with openness and decentralization, is increasingly understood in terms of the control exerted by government agencies (like the NSA) and advertising (targeted ads). What is less commonly discussed is how this subliminal control is embedded in interface design. In this talk Mushon Zer-Aviv argues that web interfaces demand our silent obedience with every page load and he tries to offer tactics and strategies for challenging the politics of the interface.
Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in Tel Aviv. His work and writing explore the boundaries of interface and the biases of techno-culture as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the co-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine – exploring algorithmic prejudice; the AdNauseam extension – clicking ads so you don’t have to; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon also designed the map for Waze.com. Mushon is an alumni of Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a senior faculty member at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Read him at Mushon.com and follow him at @mushon.
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The Benefits of Biomass Combined Heat and Power
Thursday, April 23
2 p.m. Eastern
webinar
RSVP at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3533308468996012289?utm_source=SCN+InBox+e-Newsletter&utm_campaign=a1c67323e1-HurstInvite_4-2-15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_11e7ac761c-a1c67323e1-188562049
featuring Sullivan County's Combined Heat & Power System
In December, 2013, Sullivan County New Hampshire flipped the switch on a new $3.4 million biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) district energy system to serve its 166-bed nursing home and 168-bed prison complex, as well as two smaller on-site buildings in Unity, N.H.
The system is almost entirely fueled by locally sourced, renewable wood chips and produces inexpensive heat and electricity for the more than 215,000 sq. ft. of conditioned space. The system has replaced 95 percent of fuel oil purchases and 10 percent of electric purchases in the nursing home.
The county estimates the annual fuel savings will pay for the construction bond within 15 years.
In this free, one-hour webinar, Sullivan County Facilities Director John Cressy will explain how the project was conceived and implemented, and how it has performed in its first full year of operation. He'll be joined by Bob Waller of Thermal Systems, Inc., who managed all specification and procurement services for the project.
Sustainable City Network operates a website (http://www.sCityNetwork.com), customized e-newsletters and interactive tools dedicated to providing quality and timely information on sustainability products, services and best practices to leaders in government, education and healthcare.
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A STEAM Conversation: Learning through the Lens of Art & Science
Thursday, April 23
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Lesley University College of Art and Design, Lower Arts Commons in Lunder Art Center, 1801 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
This 2nd annual STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Conversation, a collaboration between Catalyst Conversation (CC) and the Cambridge Creativity Commons (CCC) is a lecture and workshop that explores the fertile overlap between the arts and sciences and how teaching them together can promote excitement and engagement in learning. A local artist and scientist will give presentations on a common theme followed by a hands-on workshop with ideas on how to merge science and arts education. We welcome educators, youth, artists, scientists and those interested in this rich ground for learning!
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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An Atmospheric Measurement Network and Modeling Framework to Quantify Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Losses in the Boston Urban Region
Thursday, April 23
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Kathryn McKain, Harvard University
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Parsons Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Brenda Pepe
617-258-5554
pepebe@mit.edu
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What Went Wrong?: The Causes of Democratic Breakdown in Egypt
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS, Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Seminar, co-chairs: Herbert C. Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy; sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
SPEAKER(S) Carrie R. Wickham, professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO sroy@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/3822
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Making Education Relevant in the Face of Global Challenges
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 4 – 6:30 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 Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Moderator: Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Faculty Director, International Education Policy Program, HGSE
Panelists:
William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development and Faculty Chair, Energy and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Member of the Faculty of Divinity
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard School of Public Health and Co-Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
This panel opens a think tank focused on the question of how to make education relevant. How do we align what schools and universities teach w some of the biggest global challenges we face? the challenges of including all, of preventing and addressing the potential for religious, ethnic and racial conflict, the challenge of closing gender gaps, promoting health and fostering environmental sustainability.
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Investing in Lower Income Communities: A Continuing Conversation
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Building, B-500, Bell Hal, l79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Joint Center for Housing Studies and Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
SPEAKER(S) Elizabeth B. Smith, Janelle Chan, Joe Flatley, Chrystal Kornegay, and Esther Schlorholtz
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Lower income communities face continuing challenges in attracting capital for housing and other types of investments. This panel discussion, with speakers representing key stakeholder groups, is aimed at furthering the conversation about the current investment needs facing lower income areas and how lending efforts can best be focused – viable strategies and new ideas. Although the focus will be on the Boston area, the issues discussed have broader relevance.
LINK http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/event/investing-lower-income-communities-continuing-conversation
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Islands: Natural Laboratories of Evolution
Thursday, April 23
6:00PM
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tahiti, Bermuda, Madeira, Bali. Everyone loves islands, but no one loves them more than an evolutionary biologist. From the dwarf elephants of Crete to the carnivorous caterpillars of Hawaii and the snaggly-fingered aye-aye of Madagascar, islands present a cornucopia of biodiversity. Darwin drew much of his inspiration from island stopovers on his fabled Beagle voyage, as did Alfred Russel Wallace on his own perambulations through the East Indies. Ever since Darwin and Wallace jointly proposed their theory of evolution by natural selection, biologists have returned to islands to gain fresh insights. In this illustrated, public lecture Jonathan Losos, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator in Herpetology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, will discuss the relevance of islands to our understanding of evolution and its processes.
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Thursday Evening Lecture Series: Global Health Includes US: Poverty, Race and Health in Mississippi
Thursday, April 23
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Dr (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: H. Jack Geiger, City University of New York Medical School
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Evening Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global and mental health during the fall 2014 semester. This talk featuring H. Jack Geiger is the fourth event in this lecture series. Dr. Geiger launched the Community Health Center Model in the United States, a network that now provides primary care for 28 million low-income patients, in 1965, with health centers in the Mississippi Delta and Boston. He is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights, which shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and 1988, respectively.
Appetizers and refreshments will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Anthropology Program, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
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Google Wearables Challenge Final Smackdown
Thursday, April 23
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, Cambridge
Reserve your tickets here: http://goo.gl/Hbj9D4
In our second iteration of this event following on the huge success of last year's "Google Glass Challenge", Google and Medstro widen the focus to include all wearable technology, regardless of manufacturer or OS. As of the submission deadline for the online portion of this year's challenge (March 14), we received 89 amazing submissions, surpassing last year by 34. During the voting period, which ends on March 28, you, the "crowd" will get to vote on your favorites along with a panel of expert judges. The top eight finalists will be invited to pitch their idea live at Google's Cambridge Center campus in Kendall Square on April 23. This event will also feature a "networking & demonstration" happy hour with hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine where you'll be able to try on the latest brain sensing headbands, myoelectric gesture sensing input devices, wearable body temperature trackers, fitness trackers plus some secret new stuff from Google!
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A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko
WHEN Thu., Apr. 23, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Special Events
DETAILS In association with John Harvard Projection Krzysztof Wodiczko will discuss his work followed by a conversation with James Voorhies, the John R. and Barbara Robison Family Director of the Carpenter Center, and Silvia Benedito, Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
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Ford Hall Forum: A Bumpy Ride
Thursday, April 23
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bumpy-ride-tickets-16223060611
Stephanie Pollack (Secretary, MassDOT)
Steve Regan (spokesman, MA Regional Taxi Advocacy Group)
Steve DelBianco (Executive Director, NetChoice)
Sabrina Maloney (driver, Lyft)
Uber and Lyft are warring with cab companies in every major city and the controversy is heating up in Boston. Are Lyft and Uber skirting regulations and is this related to the safety issues that have arisen with these services? Or are the taxi companies simply crying foul because their business model is outdated? In this conversation on a pivotal local issue, we talk about what’s fair to the companies when the rules of the road change, and what’s best for Bostonians on the move.
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Friday, April 24
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MIT Sustainability Summit 2015 - Farming, Food, and the Future
Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:00 PM
MIT, McDermott Court, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sustainability-summit-2015-farming-food-and-the-future-tickets-15693724352
Cost: $50-$150
Farming, Food, and the Future: Changing the Shape of Agricultural Systems
Sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab and Pure Strategies
The 7th Annual MIT Sustainability Summit will focus on understanding—and offering solutions to—the complex problems facing local and global agriculture systems. This year’s Summit will tackle food and farming challenges through the lens of the “Circular Economy,” a systems-thinking approach that demonstrates that a flourishing, sustainable world is built on intentionally cycling resources between production and consumption: from farm to table and back again.
Speakers include:
Britt Lundgren ~ Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Stonyfield Farm
Fedele Bauccio ~ CEO, Bon Appetit Management Company and 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Kathleen Merrigan ~ Executive Director, George Washington Sustainability Institute and Former Undersecretary, US Department of Agriculture
Our full agenda will be announced shortly on the Sustainability Summit website at http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu
We encourage you to buy tickets early - we do have limited attendance capacity this year.
Interested in volunteering at the Summit? Please reach out to the Summit Operations Team.
We will not be able to refund tickets after purchase.
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Architecture & CAST Symposium: Active Matter Summit, Programming Materials to Sense, Transform, and Self-Assemble
Friday, April 24
9:00a–6:00p
If today we program computers and machines, tomorrow we will program matter itself. This conference is about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications. This two-day conference will consist of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Conference is organized by Skylar Tibbits & Athina Papadopoulou, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT in collaboration with: the Center for Arts Science and Technology at MIT (CAST), the Department of Architecture at MIT, the International Design Center at MIT (IDC) & Autodesk Inc.
The Active Matter Summit is funded in part by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) through the generosity of Ronald A. Kurtz '54, in recognition of the exemplary career of Merton C. Flemings, Toyota Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Materials Processing Center at MIT.
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Web site: http://www.selfassemblylab.net
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
This event occurs daily through April 25, 2015.
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Center for Art, Science & Technology, MIT-SUTD International Design Centre
For more information, contact: Athina Papadopoulou
617-253-4412
athpap@mit.edu
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Friday Morning Seminar: Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning During the Ebola Crisis
Friday, April 24
10:00a–11:50a
Harvard, 1550 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Adia Benton, Brown University
The Friday Morning Seminar, as it is widely known, has been meeting every year since 1984, when it was launched as the foundational seminar for a postdoctoral fellowship program in culture, psychiatry, and mental health and the predoctoral program in medical anthropology. Since that time, the seminar has brought together an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians, including faculty, fellows, students, and visiting scholars from across the University and the teaching hospitals, and universities across greater Boston.
The seminar features presentations of new research and writing by faculty, fellows, and students, and by invited guests. Its perspective is global and international, with a focus on comparative and cross-cultural studies. Some seminars have led to edited books (recently, Postcolonial Disorders; Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations; and Shattering Culture), and special issues for journals such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Research.
The seminar will take place on Friday, 4/24/15, and will feature Adia Benton who will be giving a presentation entitled, Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning During the Ebola Crisis.
We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Program in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
For more information, contact:
Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu
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Spring Music Concert: Dance Music from Northeastern Brazil
WHEN Fri., Apr. 24, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Concerts, Dance, Exhibitions, Lecture, Music, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This event is organized by ARTS @DRCLAS in collaboration with the Brazil Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) Forró Zabumbeca
Paddy League, G3 in ethnomusicology, Harvard
Adam Bahrami, postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary biology, Harvard
Marié Abe, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, Boston University
Catherine Bent, instructor, Berklee College of Music
Kenny Kozol, performing arts coordinator, Brookline Public Schools
DETAILS
Program:
Talk: 12:00-12:10 p.m.
Dance lesson - 12:10 - 12:20 p.m.
Concert - 12:20 - 1:00 p.m.
LINK http://drclas.harvard.edu/event/artsdrclas-spring-music-concert15%27
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The State of Solar in Massachusetts
Friday, April 24
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-of-solar-in-massachusetts-tickets-16299008774
The State of Solar:
A networking event and panel discussion for business leaders on solar power in Massachusetts
Over the past decade, Massachusetts has positioned itself as a solar leader in the United States. The state has 776 MW of installed solar capacity - ranking it 6th in the country - and is planning on reaching 1600 MW by 2020. 9,400 jobs have been created by the solar industry in Massachusetts, the 2nd largest solar industry employer in the country.
But the real question is: How will Massachusetts continue to regulate this market while also sustaining its growth?
Join Senator Jamie Eldridge as well as other forward-thinking legislators and industry leaders in a discussion on the future of the solar industry and the challenges that will need to be overcome to reach our solar goal.
Climate Action Business Association http://cabaus.org
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Saturday, April 25
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MIT Sustainability Summit 2015 - Farming, Food, and the Future
Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM - Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:00 PM
MIT, McDermott Court, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sustainability-summit-2015-farming-food-and-the-future-tickets-15693724352
Cost: $50-$150
Farming, Food, and the Future: Changing the Shape of Agricultural Systems
Sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab and Pure Strategies
The 7th Annual MIT Sustainability Summit will focus on understanding—and offering solutions to—the complex problems facing local and global agriculture systems. This year’s Summit will tackle food and farming challenges through the lens of the “Circular Economy,” a systems-thinking approach that demonstrates that a flourishing, sustainable world is built on intentionally cycling resources between production and consumption: from farm to table and back again.
Speakers include:
Britt Lundgren ~ Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Stonyfield Farm
Fedele Bauccio ~ CEO, Bon Appetit Management Company and 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year
Kathleen Merrigan ~ Executive Director, George Washington Sustainability Institute and Former Undersecretary, US Department of Agriculture
Our full agenda will be announced shortly on the Sustainability Summit website at http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu
We encourage you to buy tickets early - we do have limited attendance capacity this year.
Interested in volunteering at the Summit? Please reach out to the Summit Operations Team.
We will not be able to refund tickets after purchase.
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RootsCamp MA
April 25-26
1199SEIU in Dorchester.
Not familiar with RootsCamp MA? This is a cross-issue, progressive, movement building "unconference" where the attendees drive the agenda.
Learn more at www.RootsCampMA.org.
*Registration is open*
You are invited to attend. We encourage you to register for the event this week at www.rootscampma15.eventbrite.com. Tickets are $20 and include breakfast, lunch, and snacks for two days. A limited number of $10 tickets are available. Sponsorships of $100, $250, and $500 help keep the ticket price accessible.
*Call for volunteers*
RootsCamp MA is an all-volunteer effort that is organized in just 10 weeks. We will need additional help throughout the weekend of the event. Please
fill out the volunteer interest form
so we can match your availability, skills, and interest as we schedule volunteers.
*What will YOU present?*
Since this is a participant-driven event so we are strongly encouraging you to come prepared to present a session or facilitate a dialogue. You know what you know, and you know what you are curious about. Bring that and we'll all benefit from the shared learning and relationship building. It's an "unconference", so all sessions are chosen the morning of the event. Let us know what session you might lead so we can create some buzz about it!
*Who will you invite?*
Invite your friends to the Facebook event
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Robbie Samuels & David Sloane
RootsCamp MA Lead Organizers
www.RootsCampMA.org
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Trends in Technology (part of Cambridge Science Festival)
Saturday, April 25
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Wondering how new technologies like 3D printing, Internet of Things, Wearable Tech, and Unmanned Civilian Vehicles will affect you? Read on!
The Greater Boston Chapter of ACM is proud to be a part of the Festival. We are producing a presentation which will explore some of the latest headline-grabbing technology trends. Our speaker, Greg Page, will describe and demystify 9 areas of technology that are changing everyone's life: 3D printing, Internet of Things, Wearable Tech, IPv6, Bitcoin, NFC, Cloud Computing, Ephemeral Communication Apps, and Unmanned Civilian Vehicles. He explains the meaning behind the related buzzwords, and the impact of each of these emerging tech fields for individuals, small businesses, and society in general.
We plan to provide some light refreshments before and after the talk, so please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/ACM-Boston/events/221218999/ so we can plan appropriate quantities.
Speaker: Greg Page, is a 2014 graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, affiliate of MIT's Venture Mentoring Service, former US Navy Intelligence Officer, and now a Captain in the United States Army Reserve. Greg is also an Adjunct Computer Science Lecturer at Boston University and CEO and co-founder of Merrimack Analysis Group.
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Sunday, April 26
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Science Festival After Party at Aeronaut
Sunday, April 26
5:00pm - 10:00pm
Aeronaut Brewery, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
Sip the science festival brew and toast to geeky science love everywhere with festival revelers. Cheers!
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2015Festival/2015ScheduleOfEvents.aspx
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Economic Prosperity For Peace Conference
Sunday, April 26
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, 117 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/economic-prosperity-for-peace-conference-tickets-16004624262
The goal of the "Economic Prosperity for Peace" conference is to explore the role that the private sector can play in building and promoting economic prosperity for Arabs and Israelis alike as a catalyst for regional stability and cooperation. The conference will take place over one day and through addresses from keynote speakers and several different panels, explore how entrepreneurship, infrastructure development, skills-based training and education can play an important role in laying the groundwork for an eventual and sustainable peace in the region.
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Monday, April 27
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MASS Seminar - Clara Orbe (GSFC)
Monday, April 27
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Clara Orbe
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass@mit.edu
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Low-carbon leapfrogging and globalization: How China developed its solar PV industry
Monday, April 27
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Christian Binz, Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Harvard Kennedy School
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund@hks.harvard.edu
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"Cities, Technologies and Political Imaginaries"
Monday, April 27
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Antoine Picon, Harvard, GSD
STS Circle at Harvard
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Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
Monday, April 27
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, ACT
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 28
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Building Newborn Minds in Virtual Worlds
Tuesday, April 28
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 46-3189, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Justin Wood
Abstract: What are the origins of high-level vision: Is this ability hardwired by genes or learned during development? Although researchers have been wrestling with this question for over a century, progress has been hampered by two major limitations: (1) most newborn animals cannot be raised in controlled environments from birth, and (2) most newborn animals cannot be observed and tested for long periods of time. Thus, it has generally not been possible to characterize how specific visual inputs relate to specific cognitive outputs in the newborn brain.
To overcome these two limitations, I recently developed an automated, high-throughput controlled-rearing technique. This technique can be used to measure all of a newborn animal's behavior (9 samples/second, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week) within strictly controlled virtual environments. In this talk, I will describe a series of controlled-rearing experiments that reveal how one high-level visual ability "invariant object recognition" emerges in the newborn brain. Further, I will show how these controlled-rearing data can be linked to models of visual cortex for characterizing the computations underlying newborn vision. More generally, I will argue that controlled rearing can serve as a critical tool for testing between different theories and models, both for developmental psychology and computational neuroscience.
Web site: http://cbmm.mit.edu/news-events/events/building-newborn-minds-virtual-worlds
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
For more information, contact: Kathleen D. Sullivan
cbmm-contact@mit.edu
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Migration, National Security, and New forms of Policing: Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Tuesday, April 28
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Noora A. Lori,Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Today non-citizens make up 90 percent of the population in the United Arab Emirates. This 'demographic imbalance' is an outcome of combining expansive temporary worker schemes with a highly exclusionary citizenship regime. Both policies are regulated by a security apparatus that is increasingly pervasive. The expatriate population is at once sanctioned as a necessary economic force and a threat to be 'managed'. But how is this uneasy balance maintained? This presentation will explore the instruments of population management developed by the UAE's security forces - including extensive surveillance networks, multi-cultural community policing, and DNA imaging - to pre-empt the security threats associated with migrant populations. The research finds that security forces loyal to the state are not always instruments of top-down social control. Rather, as the police forces have become more involved in embedded surveillance and active policing strategies, they are also increasingly pulled into the role of alleviating the tensions and responding to communal struggles to define the UAE's public sphere.
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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Disease Gone Global: What Causese Epidemics?
Tuesday, April 28
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Humankind is in an ongoing struggle against infectious invaders. New diseases are spreading around the globe and diseases that were once considered eradicated are now making a comeback. What's driving the resurgence? Where do these bugs come from? How do they spread? In this seminar researchers explain how they are developing ways to track, control and eventually cure these diseases.
More information: seminar@hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Healthy Places in the Transition Century
Tuesday, April 28
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
RSVP at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu
Cost: $10
Students: Email to register for free.
An Arnold Arboretum lecture with Ann Forsyth, PhD, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
In the coming century urban populations around the world will grow at uneven rates--some places will lose population in metropolitan areas and others gain it. Populations in most places will be older on average. How can the growing body of research on the connections between health and environments be used to make a positive contribution to evolving urban and suburban communities? Ann Forsyth will speak about the components that contribute to healthier and more sustainable cities, alternatives to sprawl, and the tensions that exist between social and ecological values in urban design.
https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1407&DayPlannerDate=4/28/2015
Contact Name: Pamela Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
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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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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
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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