Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Index
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
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Monday, October 12
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11am "ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
7pm Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
7pm The Ethics of What We Eat
7pm Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
7pm Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, October 13
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7:30am The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
8am Boston TechBreakfast
12pm Nikole Hannah-Jones: Investigating Racial Injustice
12pm Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
12pm From LA to San Salvador: Lessons from a Gang Prevention Leader
3pm Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
4pm Implausible Life: An Unappealing But Plausible Scenario for Life's Origin on Earth
4pm Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
4:45pm Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
6pm 4Dev Weekly Speaker: The Grand Inga Dam Project in Congo: Current Status and Lessons Learned from the World's Biggest Hydropower Plant
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm The Remote-Controlled Society
6:30pm Measuring & Motivating Health Behavior Change Using Mobile Technology: Opportunities and (Difficult) Challenges
7pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
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Wednesday, October 14
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7:30am Genomics with Broad Institute and Google Cloud Platform: An Executive Networking Session
8am 2015 MIT Material Day
8:30am MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
11am People’s Boston Climate March
11:30am Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
12pm Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
12pm EDFall Gathering in Boston
12pm The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
12pm Boston Climate Teach-In
12:30pm China in the World Economy: The New Normal
4pm Predicting Rainfall Change Under Global Warming: New Challenge for Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
4pm Earth’s Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
4pm Homelessness Discussion Series at NE Complex Systems Institute
4:30pm Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
4:30pm Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
4:30pm Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
5:30pm Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
6pm Ancient Mesopotamian Music
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
6pm Mass Innovation Nights 79
6:30pm Design In Boston: Creating a More Connected City
6:30pm Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
7pm The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
7pm Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
7pm Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
7pm Cambridge Candidates Night on Energy and Environment, 2015
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Thursday, October 15
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11:45am Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
12pm Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
12pm Webinar: The New England New Economy Fund
4pm A Big Data System for Things That Move
4pm Askwith Forum - Rac(e)ing to Class
4pm The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field
4pm Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment
5pm The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
5:30pm Building Resilient Communities
6pm Branchfood Happy Hour @ Firebrand Saints
6pm IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
6pm RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
6pm SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Masterclass with Angela Belcher
6pm USDA Innovation Challenge & Interactive DataViz Using R
6:15pm 2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
6:30pm Organizing Meeting for Science for the People MIT
6:30pm JP Forum Potluck: Sustainable is Possible Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
6:30pm HEET Fundraising Gala
7pm The People Speak
7pm MakeSpeak
7pm The Art and Practice of Saving Seeds
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Friday, October 16
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Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
10am Deglaciation to dam removal: climatic and land-use controls on New England river processes
2:30pm Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
3pm The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
3pm Harvard HackED: HIVE Education Hackathon
6pm Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
6pm MIT Energy Night
6:30pm Psychedelic Medicine: The New Science of Hallucinogens
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Saturday, October 17
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7:30am 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
9am Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
9:30am Virtual Reality Hackathon & Workshop - Powered by AT&T (Boston)
10am Cambridge Volpe Site Development (Kendall Square) Outreach forum
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Sunday, October 18
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9am SWAPFEST
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Monday, October 19
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12pm MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
12pm The Western Energy Imbalance Market
12pm A Synergistic Approach to Ecological Literacy and Technological Fluency
12:15pm The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
12:30pm Food waste, hunger, and climate change
4pm After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
4:15pm Naked Body Language: Dance is Time and Gesture is Meaningless
4:30pm Understanding ISIS
5pm C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series: The Challenge of Sustainablility
5pm Syria and the Right to the Image
6pm Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
7pm Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
7pm ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
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Tuesday, October 20
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12pm Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
12pm Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
3pm Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
7pm Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Notes on How People Think About Climate Change
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1427706/-Notes-on-How-People-Think-about-Climate-Change
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Monday, October 12
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"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Evans Way Park, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-energy-necklace-solar-lanterns-at-opening-our-doors-tickets-18781373594
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
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Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
Monday, October 12
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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With computers in nearly all of our machines (cars, refrigerators, etc.), people increasingly have less control over these devices. Corporations claim that Digital Rights Management is necessary to fight copyright infringement and viruses, but its real function appears to be destroying whatever they consider “unauthorized” uses of their hardware and software. Such restrictions built into computers to supposedly protect royalty demands are making computers less useful and businesses less innovative. Do you risk felony conviction to report a bug in critical technology? Will the bank lock you out of your house if you fall behind on the mortgage? Have we created a Digital Rights Management monster?
Genomics with Broad Institute and Google Cloud Platform: An Executive Networking Session
Wednesday, October 14
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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*******************************************
******
-------
Index
--------
******
Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
---------------------------
Monday, October 12
---------------------------
11am "ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
7pm Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
7pm The Ethics of What We Eat
7pm Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
7pm Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
7pm Science Monday
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Tuesday, October 13
----------------------------
7:30am The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
8am Boston TechBreakfast
12pm Nikole Hannah-Jones: Investigating Racial Injustice
12pm Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
12pm From LA to San Salvador: Lessons from a Gang Prevention Leader
3pm Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
4pm Implausible Life: An Unappealing But Plausible Scenario for Life's Origin on Earth
4pm Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
4:45pm Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
6pm 4Dev Weekly Speaker: The Grand Inga Dam Project in Congo: Current Status and Lessons Learned from the World's Biggest Hydropower Plant
6:30pm FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
6:30pm The Remote-Controlled Society
6:30pm Measuring & Motivating Health Behavior Change Using Mobile Technology: Opportunities and (Difficult) Challenges
7pm Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
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Wednesday, October 14
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7:30am Genomics with Broad Institute and Google Cloud Platform: An Executive Networking Session
8am 2015 MIT Material Day
8:30am MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
11am People’s Boston Climate March
11:30am Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
12pm Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
12pm EDFall Gathering in Boston
12pm The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
12pm Boston Climate Teach-In
12:30pm China in the World Economy: The New Normal
4pm Predicting Rainfall Change Under Global Warming: New Challenge for Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
4pm Earth’s Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
4pm Homelessness Discussion Series at NE Complex Systems Institute
4:30pm Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
4:30pm Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
4:30pm Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
5:30pm Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
6pm Ancient Mesopotamian Music
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
6pm Mass Innovation Nights 79
6:30pm Design In Boston: Creating a More Connected City
6:30pm Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
7pm The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
7pm Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
7pm Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
7pm Cambridge Candidates Night on Energy and Environment, 2015
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Thursday, October 15
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11:45am Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
12pm Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
12pm Webinar: The New England New Economy Fund
4pm A Big Data System for Things That Move
4pm Askwith Forum - Rac(e)ing to Class
4pm The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field
4pm Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment
5pm The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
5:30pm Building Resilient Communities
6pm Branchfood Happy Hour @ Firebrand Saints
6pm IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
6pm RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
6pm SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Masterclass with Angela Belcher
6pm USDA Innovation Challenge & Interactive DataViz Using R
6:15pm 2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
6:30pm Organizing Meeting for Science for the People MIT
6:30pm JP Forum Potluck: Sustainable is Possible Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
6:30pm HEET Fundraising Gala
7pm The People Speak
7pm MakeSpeak
7pm The Art and Practice of Saving Seeds
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Friday, October 16
-------------------------
Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
10am Deglaciation to dam removal: climatic and land-use controls on New England river processes
2:30pm Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
3pm The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
3pm Harvard HackED: HIVE Education Hackathon
6pm Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
6pm MIT Energy Night
6:30pm Psychedelic Medicine: The New Science of Hallucinogens
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Saturday, October 17
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7:30am 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
9am Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
9:30am Virtual Reality Hackathon & Workshop - Powered by AT&T (Boston)
10am Cambridge Volpe Site Development (Kendall Square) Outreach forum
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Sunday, October 18
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9am SWAPFEST
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Monday, October 19
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12pm MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
12pm The Western Energy Imbalance Market
12pm A Synergistic Approach to Ecological Literacy and Technological Fluency
12:15pm The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
12:30pm Food waste, hunger, and climate change
4pm After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
4:15pm Naked Body Language: Dance is Time and Gesture is Meaningless
4:30pm Understanding ISIS
5pm C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series: The Challenge of Sustainablility
5pm Syria and the Right to the Image
6pm Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
7pm Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
7pm ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
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Tuesday, October 20
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12pm Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
12pm Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
3pm Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
7pm Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Notes on How People Think About Climate Change
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1427706/-Notes-on-How-People-Think-about-Climate-Change
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
---------------------------
Monday, October 12
---------------------------
"ASK" & Energy Necklace Solar Lanterns at Opening Our Doors
Monday, October 12
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Evans Way Park, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 Fenway, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-energy-necklace-solar-lanterns-at-opening-our-doors-tickets-18781373594
Be part of the Energy Necklace on the Emerald Necklace!! Make your own solar-powered lantern (nothing technical required, just artsty fun). Take one home or help make a community solar powered string of lights.
AND - ASK! Put your burning climate change questions to our friendly and outgoing scientistswho are 50% performer/100% scientist. Memeory Card game and plenty of info to get you ready to start answering your friends' climate queries. All ages, free. Sponsored by the Transatlantic Climate Bridge and produced by Energy Necklace Project. Hosts: Fenway Alliance, Opening Our Doors & Emerald Necklace Conservancy.Questions: EnergyNecklace@gmail.com
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Science and Cooking: Science and Emotions: Delicious or Disgusting?
Monday, October 12
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andoni Aduriz, (@mugaritz), Mugaritz
*Ramon Perisé, Mugaritz
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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The Ethics of What We Eat
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM
Harvard, Science Center Hall E, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join Vegitas as we host a presentation on the ethics of our food choices. We will be exploring the nature of industrialized agriculture and the impact of our food on the animals and environment.
Speaker Rachel Atcheson of the Humane League played a critical role in getting Philadelphia City Council to pass its Meatless Monday Resolution and is also working with students at colleges around the US to spread socially responsible diet choices.
Join the Vegitas mailing list: http://vegitasclub.weebly.com/join-us.html
Sign Harvard’s Meatless Monday pledge: http://harvard.meatlessmondaypledge.com/
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM
Harvard, Science Center Hall E, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Join Vegitas as we host a presentation on the ethics of our food choices. We will be exploring the nature of industrialized agriculture and the impact of our food on the animals and environment.
Speaker Rachel Atcheson of the Humane League played a critical role in getting Philadelphia City Council to pass its Meatless Monday Resolution and is also working with students at colleges around the US to spread socially responsible diet choices.
Join the Vegitas mailing list: http://vegitasclub.weebly.com/join-us.html
Sign Harvard’s Meatless Monday pledge: http://harvard.meatlessmondaypledge.com/
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Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Monday, October 12
7 pm
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
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Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
Monday, October12
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Road, Wellesley
RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate
“Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to future generations.” - Pope Francis, speaking at the White House, September 23, 2015.
Inspired by the message of Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Laudato Sí: On Care for Our Common Home, people of many faiths will join together in shared appreciation for creation and with shared determination to take action to protect it. The event kicks-off an interfaith coalition to “answer the call” to act on climate change, and to ensure a clean and equitable energy future in Massachusetts. This event is part service, part forum, and part rally. People will gather to learn what Pope Francis is telling us about the connection between faith, social justice, and climate change; what the call to action on climate means to people of faith in Massachusetts, and what the practical response looks like in our communities; and what we can accomplish together as people of faith that we cannot accomplish alone!
Speakers include: Father Bryan Hehir, The Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy School and the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston; Rabbi Joel Sisenwine, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley; Imam Ismail Fenni, Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge; Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, Assistant Rabbi for Engagement at Temple Sinai; Father Robert VerEecke, Pastor, St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill; Jesuit Artist-in-Residence at Boston College; Director of Boston Liturgical Ensemble; Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Episcopal priest and Missioner for Creation Care in the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; Mariama White-Hammond, Minister-in-Training, Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain; Rev. Fred Small, Minister of First Parish in Cambridge (UU) and founder of the Creation Coalition; and Rabbi Rachel Saphire, Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim.
To be part of this special interfaith event please RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate.
Originally conceived of as a small interfaith gathering by members of the Wellesley Village Church, UCC, the event has now grown to include 39 Boston area congregations and faith organizations that have signed on as sponsors and supporters.
Contact Name: Phyllis Theermann
Phyllis@theermann.com
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Science Monday
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-18749207384
Have you ever wished for a re-do of your middle school science fair? So have we! Gather your friends and come to Ames Street Deli on October 12 to compete in a test of knoweledge (a science quiz!) and a test of skill (a science project!). Also, there will be delicoius cocktails, and real live scientists to judge your work!
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Tuesday, October 13
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The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
Tuesday, October 13
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Center, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-transportation-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-18652252389
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
--------------------------------
Quite a Sight! Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Monday, October 12
7 pm
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu
-------------------------------
Answering the Call: An Interfaith Gathering for Climate Action
Monday, October12
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Road, Wellesley
RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate
“Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to future generations.” - Pope Francis, speaking at the White House, September 23, 2015.
Inspired by the message of Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Laudato Sí: On Care for Our Common Home, people of many faiths will join together in shared appreciation for creation and with shared determination to take action to protect it. The event kicks-off an interfaith coalition to “answer the call” to act on climate change, and to ensure a clean and equitable energy future in Massachusetts. This event is part service, part forum, and part rally. People will gather to learn what Pope Francis is telling us about the connection between faith, social justice, and climate change; what the call to action on climate means to people of faith in Massachusetts, and what the practical response looks like in our communities; and what we can accomplish together as people of faith that we cannot accomplish alone!
Speakers include: Father Bryan Hehir, The Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy School and the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston; Rabbi Joel Sisenwine, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley; Imam Ismail Fenni, Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge; Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, Assistant Rabbi for Engagement at Temple Sinai; Father Robert VerEecke, Pastor, St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill; Jesuit Artist-in-Residence at Boston College; Director of Boston Liturgical Ensemble; Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Episcopal priest and Missioner for Creation Care in the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; Mariama White-Hammond, Minister-in-Training, Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain; Rev. Fred Small, Minister of First Parish in Cambridge (UU) and founder of the Creation Coalition; and Rabbi Rachel Saphire, Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth Elohim.
To be part of this special interfaith event please RSVP at www.tbewellesley.org/climate.
Originally conceived of as a small interfaith gathering by members of the Wellesley Village Church, UCC, the event has now grown to include 39 Boston area congregations and faith organizations that have signed on as sponsors and supporters.
Contact Name: Phyllis Theermann
Phyllis@theermann.com
-------------------------------
Science Monday
Monday, October 12
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Ames Street Deli, 73 Ames Street Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-monday-tickets-18749207384
Have you ever wished for a re-do of your middle school science fair? So have we! Gather your friends and come to Ames Street Deli on October 12 to compete in a test of knoweledge (a science quiz!) and a test of skill (a science project!). Also, there will be delicoius cocktails, and real live scientists to judge your work!
Our theme this Monday is Science in the Movies. Please bring a team of 2 - 6. Registration is free.
We look forward to seeing you!
----------------------------
Tuesday, October 13
----------------------------
The Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth
Tuesday, October 13
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (EDT)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Center, 10 Winter Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-transportation-in-the-commonwealth-tickets-18652252389
The State House News Service and MASSterList will host a conversation about one of the commonwealth’s most vital public policy issues: improving the quality and availability of public transportation and road infrastructure in the Commonwealth. Beyond the short-term strategy to shore up the system, what’s the vision five, ten, and twenty years down the road?
Panelists: Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charlie Chieppo, principal at Chieppo Strategies; and Rick Dimino, President and CEO of A Better City.
Moderator: The event will be moderated by George Donnelly, publisher of MASSterList and State House News Service contributor.
Networking until 8 a.m. - panel will begin at 8:05. The conversation will be formatted by moderator questions and free-flowing conversation, leaving 20 minutes at the end for audience questions. The event will be covered by the State House News Service; other media will be welcome to attend and cover.
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, October 13
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002742/
Twitter: @techbreakfast
Description: Based on the popular TechBreakfast format, the Boston TechBreakfast is a "show and tell" format event where up to five different technologists will demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to hardware, IT to Biotech, robotics to space tech. The event is "triple agnostic". We don't care if the technology is from a start up, a large company, a university, a government agency, or someone's hobby. We are also agnostic as to the industry of the tech - it could be IT, biotech, robotics, aerospace, materials sciences, anything tech and innovative is cool. And we're also region agnostic - even if you're not from where we're hosting, we want to see you and your technology!
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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Investigating Racial Injustice
WHEN Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Room 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Nikole Hannah-Jones, investigative reporter and staff writer, The New York Times Magazine
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who recently joined The New York Times Magazine as a staff writer, covering topics such as civil rights and racial injustice. Prior to joining the Times, Hannah-Jones worked at ProPublica covering civil rights with a focus on segregation and discrimination in housing and schools. Her 2012 coverage of federal failures to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act won several awards, including Columbia University’s Tobenkin Award for distinguished coverage of racial or religious discrimination. Her reporting has been featured The Atlantic Magazine, The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Week Magazine, Grist, Politico Magazine and on Face the Nation, This American Life, NPR, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now and radio stations across the country. She was named 2015 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and has won the Society of Professional Journalists Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award three times and the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/nikole-hannah-jones/
WHEN Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Room 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Nikole Hannah-Jones, investigative reporter and staff writer, The New York Times Magazine
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who recently joined The New York Times Magazine as a staff writer, covering topics such as civil rights and racial injustice. Prior to joining the Times, Hannah-Jones worked at ProPublica covering civil rights with a focus on segregation and discrimination in housing and schools. Her 2012 coverage of federal failures to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act won several awards, including Columbia University’s Tobenkin Award for distinguished coverage of racial or religious discrimination. Her reporting has been featured The Atlantic Magazine, The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Week Magazine, Grist, Politico Magazine and on Face the Nation, This American Life, NPR, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now and radio stations across the country. She was named 2015 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and has won the Society of Professional Journalists Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award three times and the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/nikole-hannah-jones/
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade
Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Doctorow at 12:00 pm
with science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain
Cory Doctorow wants to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade and as an EFF Special Advisor, he's working with them to do just that.
From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Corporations claim that DRM is necessary to fight copyright infringement online and keep consumers safe from viruses. But there's no evidence that DRM helps fight either of those. Instead DRM helps big business stifle innovation and competition by making it easy to quash "unauthorized" uses of media and technology.
DRM has proliferated thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), which sought to outlaw any attempt to bypass DRM.
Fans shouldn't be treated like criminals, and companies shouldn't get an automatic veto over user choice and innovation. EFF has led the effort to free the iPhone and other smartphones, is working to uncover and explain the restrictions around new hardware and software, has fought for the right to make copies of DVDs, and sued Sony-BMG for their "rootkit" CD copy-protection scheme.
About Cory
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE< and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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From LA to San Salvador: Lessons from a Gang Prevention Leader
WHEN Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (HKS), the HKS Criminal Justice PIC, the
Center for International Development (HKS), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
SPEAKER(S) Guillermo Cespedes, Los Angeles former deputy mayor for gang reduction and youth development
DETAILS Few are in better position to talk about gangs than Guillermo Cespedes, who has spent his life working with socially and economically marginalized communities both inside and outside the US. In LA, he ran the pioneering GRYD anti-gang program, leading to a 38% reduction in gang crime over five years. He works now in Central America, where gang crime has spiraled out of control. Come listen to his views on how to prevent gang crime before it starts using a comprehensive approach to working with kids and families at risk.
WHEN Tue., Oct. 13, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (HKS), the HKS Criminal Justice PIC, the
Center for International Development (HKS), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
SPEAKER(S) Guillermo Cespedes, Los Angeles former deputy mayor for gang reduction and youth development
DETAILS Few are in better position to talk about gangs than Guillermo Cespedes, who has spent his life working with socially and economically marginalized communities both inside and outside the US. In LA, he ran the pioneering GRYD anti-gang program, leading to a 38% reduction in gang crime over five years. He works now in Central America, where gang crime has spiraled out of control. Come listen to his views on how to prevent gang crime before it starts using a comprehensive approach to working with kids and families at risk.
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Is the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus a Useful Framework?
Tuesday, October 13
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Peter Rogers, Professor, Harvard University
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Implausible Life: An Unappealing But Plausible Scenario for Life's Origin on Earth
Tuesday, October 13
Tuesday, October 13
4:00pm
MIT, Building 37-252, Marlar Lounge
MIT, Building 37-252, Marlar Lounge
Speaker: Edwin Turner, Princeton University
Abstract: There is no evidence which strongly contradicts the hypothesis that life arose on Earth due to such extraordinarily improbable events that it is extremely unlikely it has arisen or will ever arise elsewhere within the observable universe. Moreover, a few bits of evidence and lines of reasoning support this hypothesis, though none in a conclusive or compelling way. The ways in which molecular biology suggests combinatoric improbability, the Fermi(-Hart) paradox, "rare Earth" lines of argument and the failure to date of SETI are among them. Moreover, some of the most common counterarguments to these inferences are flawed in fundamental ways. However unappealing it may be (to most, but not all), we should take the hypothesis quite seriously at our current state of knowledge. It is arguably as good as any other available scenario on a purely empirical basis.
Abstract: There is no evidence which strongly contradicts the hypothesis that life arose on Earth due to such extraordinarily improbable events that it is extremely unlikely it has arisen or will ever arise elsewhere within the observable universe. Moreover, a few bits of evidence and lines of reasoning support this hypothesis, though none in a conclusive or compelling way. The ways in which molecular biology suggests combinatoric improbability, the Fermi(-Hart) paradox, "rare Earth" lines of argument and the failure to date of SETI are among them. Moreover, some of the most common counterarguments to these inferences are flawed in fundamental ways. However unappealing it may be (to most, but not all), we should take the hypothesis quite seriously at our current state of knowledge. It is arguably as good as any other available scenario on a purely empirical basis.
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Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
Tuesday, October 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Kilby (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
Tuesday, October 13
4:45p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Erich Schneider, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin
Seawater contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved uranium. This resource, if it proves to be recoverable at a reasonable cost, could provide an essentially unlimited source of supply and serve as an economic "backstop" to the uranium price. In his talk, Schneider will review progress toward practical, large-scale recovery of seawater uranium by U.S. laboratories and universities. Notable achievements include polymeric adsorbents containing amidoxime ligands developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which have demonstrated marked improvements in uranium uptake over previous technologies. A key component of this novel technology lies in the unique high surface-area polyethylene fibers that considerably increase the surface area and thus the grafting yield of functional groups without compromising its mechanical properties. The talk will also address novel maritime deployment strategies which offer the potential to greatly reduce the cost and energy use associated with deploying the adsorbents at sea. Cost analyses guide the technology development and highlight parameters, such as capacity, recyclability, and stability, which have the largest impact on the cost of extraction of uranium from seawater.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Sponsored by IHS
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
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Opioids for the Masses: Welfare Tradeoffs in the Regulation of Narcotic Pain Medications
Tuesday, October 13
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Kilby (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Recovery of Uranium from Seawater: Technologies, Economics, and Prospects
Tuesday, October 13
4:45p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Erich Schneider, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin
Seawater contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved uranium. This resource, if it proves to be recoverable at a reasonable cost, could provide an essentially unlimited source of supply and serve as an economic "backstop" to the uranium price. In his talk, Schneider will review progress toward practical, large-scale recovery of seawater uranium by U.S. laboratories and universities. Notable achievements include polymeric adsorbents containing amidoxime ligands developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which have demonstrated marked improvements in uranium uptake over previous technologies. A key component of this novel technology lies in the unique high surface-area polyethylene fibers that considerably increase the surface area and thus the grafting yield of functional groups without compromising its mechanical properties. The talk will also address novel maritime deployment strategies which offer the potential to greatly reduce the cost and energy use associated with deploying the adsorbents at sea. Cost analyses guide the technology development and highlight parameters, such as capacity, recyclability, and stability, which have the largest impact on the cost of extraction of uranium from seawater.
Reception to follow.
MITEI Seminar Series
Sponsored by IHS
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
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4Dev Weekly Speaker: The Grand Inga Dam Project in Congo: Current Status and Lessons Learned from the World's Biggest Hydropower Plant
Tuesday, October 13
Tuesday, October 13
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319
MIT, Building E19-319
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/120RAUH4KJhnyLFWJ6bOMmXd-e5hBdC3BDgH6G49WNR4/viewform
(dinner included!)
Rich Swanson, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado at Boulder and Visiting Researcher, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT
Details: The Inga Dam, in the Democratic Republic of Congo would be the largest hydro-power plant in the world, and one of the largest civil works projects ever constructed. Its power could electrify much of Africa. The site, near the mouth of the Congo River, has long been considered by engineers, investors and politicians as both a fascinating challenge, and source of great benefits. But still, it seems as though its completion is a distant possibility at best. What is the history of this compelling site, and why has Inga not been built? Today there is renewed interest; where is the interest coming from, and what are the new ideas that have been driving it?
Speaker Bio: Rich Swanson is an independent consultant, and researcher for a current MIT and UN-WIDER project entitled Africa’s Energy Futures. The project is analyzing various aspects of Africa’s energy market, and how those aspects may be impacted by climate change. Rich’s role is to study investment risk, and to develop tools for risk analysis around large hydropower projects, currently being considered in Africa. Rich is also the president of World Partners, a non-profit that helps small businesses in developing countries to grow more rapidly. He is currently working on his PhD in Civil Systems at the University of Colorado (CU), has a Master’s degree from Tufts’ Fletcher School and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from CU. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four kids.
Details: The Inga Dam, in the Democratic Republic of Congo would be the largest hydro-power plant in the world, and one of the largest civil works projects ever constructed. Its power could electrify much of Africa. The site, near the mouth of the Congo River, has long been considered by engineers, investors and politicians as both a fascinating challenge, and source of great benefits. But still, it seems as though its completion is a distant possibility at best. What is the history of this compelling site, and why has Inga not been built? Today there is renewed interest; where is the interest coming from, and what are the new ideas that have been driving it?
Speaker Bio: Rich Swanson is an independent consultant, and researcher for a current MIT and UN-WIDER project entitled Africa’s Energy Futures. The project is analyzing various aspects of Africa’s energy market, and how those aspects may be impacted by climate change. Rich’s role is to study investment risk, and to develop tools for risk analysis around large hydropower projects, currently being considered in Africa. Rich is also the president of World Partners, a non-profit that helps small businesses in developing countries to grow more rapidly. He is currently working on his PhD in Civil Systems at the University of Colorado (CU), has a Master’s degree from Tufts’ Fletcher School and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from CU. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four kids.
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FIRST MEETING: the role of business on climate change
Tuesday, October 13
6:30 PM
The Kinsale Irish Pub & Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston
The Kinsale Irish Pub & Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Climate-Action-Business-Association-Meetup/events/224772405/
Firstly, we are using this meetup to garner support and find the right audience to have these discussions. Also, we will be polling our members to find a good time that works for everyone! Lastly, look for our guest speakers, who will share a quick success story from a climate action or sustainability project.
More information at cabaus.org
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The Remote-Controlled Society
Tuesday, October 13
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.fordhallforum.org/programs/remote-control
Cory Doctorow (science fiction author and Co-Editor of Boing Boingtech blog)
Rebecca Curtin (Assistant Professor of Law with a focus on copyrights, Suffolk Law School)
Benjamin Ngugi (Associate Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management, Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University)
Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science with a focus on cryptography, Boston University
With computers in nearly all of our machines (cars, refrigerators, etc.), people increasingly have less control over these devices. Corporations claim that Digital Rights Management is necessary to fight copyright infringement and viruses, but its real function appears to be destroying whatever they consider “unauthorized” uses of their hardware and software. Such restrictions built into computers to supposedly protect royalty demands are making computers less useful and businesses less innovative. Do you risk felony conviction to report a bug in critical technology? Will the bank lock you out of your house if you fall behind on the mortgage? Have we created a Digital Rights Management monster?
The Remote-Controlled Society
Co-Presented with Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Sciences and Boston’s Literary District
Cory Doctorow will be signing and selling his books — Homeland, Little Brother, Content, Context, and Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — at the close of the event in the lobby.
Co-Presented with Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Sciences and Boston’s Literary District
Cory Doctorow will be signing and selling his books — Homeland, Little Brother, Content, Context, and Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — at the close of the event in the lobby.
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Measuring & Motivating Health Behavior Change Using Mobile Technology: Opportunities and (Difficult) Challenges
Tuesday, October 13
6:30 PM
Cambridge IBM Research Facility, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
Cambridge IBM Research Facility, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/measuring-and-motivating-health-behavior-change-using-mobile-technology-with-stephen-intille-tickets-18526374886
Stephen Intille, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Abstract: New mobile apps and wearable devices for measuring health-related behavior and motivating health behavior change are being introduced by academia and industry at a dizzying rate. There are certainly some exciting opportunities in “just-in-time” behavioral measurement and intervention technologies enabled by these technologies. There are also, however, some major hurdles to overcome to prove that these new ideas lead to meaningful improvements in health. Part of the challenge is that short-term behavior change may be relatively easy, but maintaining behavior change is fundamentally difficult for most people to do. To address this, transdisciplinary teams of technologists and behavioral scientists must work together to deploy prototype technologies in “messy,” real-world settings for relatively long periods of time. I will discuss some of my group’s experiences building and deploying systems for measuring or motivating behavior change, with special focus on an app for weight loss, and use them to frame some challenges practitioners designing interfaces for health technologies may want to consider going forward.
Bio: Stephen Intille, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on the development of novel healthcare technologies that incorporate ideas from ubiquitous computing, user-interface design, pattern recognition, behavioral science, and preventive medicine. Areas of special interest include technologies for measuring and motivating health-related behaviors, technologies that support healthy aging and well-being in the home setting, and mobile technologies that permit longitudinal measurement of health behaviors for research, especially the type, duration, intensity, and location of physical activity.
For more on Stephen Intille see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/intille/cv-web/bio.htm.
Evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over pizza and beverages
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!
Sponsors
IBM Research is hosting us and providing food.
Stephen Intille, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Abstract: New mobile apps and wearable devices for measuring health-related behavior and motivating health behavior change are being introduced by academia and industry at a dizzying rate. There are certainly some exciting opportunities in “just-in-time” behavioral measurement and intervention technologies enabled by these technologies. There are also, however, some major hurdles to overcome to prove that these new ideas lead to meaningful improvements in health. Part of the challenge is that short-term behavior change may be relatively easy, but maintaining behavior change is fundamentally difficult for most people to do. To address this, transdisciplinary teams of technologists and behavioral scientists must work together to deploy prototype technologies in “messy,” real-world settings for relatively long periods of time. I will discuss some of my group’s experiences building and deploying systems for measuring or motivating behavior change, with special focus on an app for weight loss, and use them to frame some challenges practitioners designing interfaces for health technologies may want to consider going forward.
Bio: Stephen Intille, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on the development of novel healthcare technologies that incorporate ideas from ubiquitous computing, user-interface design, pattern recognition, behavioral science, and preventive medicine. Areas of special interest include technologies for measuring and motivating health-related behaviors, technologies that support healthy aging and well-being in the home setting, and mobile technologies that permit longitudinal measurement of health behaviors for research, especially the type, duration, intensity, and location of physical activity.
For more on Stephen Intille see http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/intille/cv-web/bio.htm.
Evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over pizza and beverages
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!
Sponsors
IBM Research is hosting us and providing food.
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Tuesday, October 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes MIT professor and award-winning author DAVID A. MINDELL for a discussion of his book Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.
In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines.
Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments—high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space—to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world’s largest geological features, and even to “commute” to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea, and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries, and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives.
Mindell argues that the stark lines we’ve drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren’t helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls “rich human presence” at the center of the technological landscape we are now creating.
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Wednesday, October 14
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Tuesday, October 13
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes MIT professor and award-winning author DAVID A. MINDELL for a discussion of his book Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.
In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines.
Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments—high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space—to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world’s largest geological features, and even to “commute” to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea, and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries, and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives.
Mindell argues that the stark lines we’ve drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren’t helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls “rich human presence” at the center of the technological landscape we are now creating.
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Wednesday, October 14
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Wednesday, October 14
7:30 AM
355 Main Street, Fifth Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genomics-with-broad-institute-and-google-cloud-platform-an-executive-networking-session-tickets-18958938696
Please join Google, Broad Institute and Cloud Technology Partners for an exclusive networking event to discuss the role technology is playing within the Genomics and Healthcare industry.
The Google Genomics team and Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard will be discussing how they have partnered to accelerate the pace of analysis within genomics.
Please join us along with a select group of Google and Broad Institute executives in learning more about how multi-petabyte storage and cloud-native tools capable of analyzing massive datasets will have a profound impact in shedding light on long-standing mysteries about the human genome and human health.
RSVP Required. Photo ID Required to enter event.
Agenda
7:30AM-8:00AM Breakfast and Networking
8:00AM - 8:05AM Welcome
Shaena Heintz, Google Cloud Platform
8:05 AM - 8:30 AM Keynote: Data Sciences at the Broad Institute
Anthony Philippakis, M.D., Ph.D Broad Institute, Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Researcher
8:30AM - 9:00AM Industry Keynote & Google Perspectives
Joe Corkery, M.D. Google, Product Management Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences
9:00AM - 9:15AM Google Cloud Platform and Genomics
Benny Ayalew, Google, Solution Engineer Lead, Life Sciences
9:15AM - 9:30AM Panel Discussion and Q&A
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genomics-with-broad-institute-and-google-cloud-platform-an-executive-networking-session-tickets-18958938696
Please join Google, Broad Institute and Cloud Technology Partners for an exclusive networking event to discuss the role technology is playing within the Genomics and Healthcare industry.
The Google Genomics team and Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard will be discussing how they have partnered to accelerate the pace of analysis within genomics.
Please join us along with a select group of Google and Broad Institute executives in learning more about how multi-petabyte storage and cloud-native tools capable of analyzing massive datasets will have a profound impact in shedding light on long-standing mysteries about the human genome and human health.
RSVP Required. Photo ID Required to enter event.
Agenda
7:30AM-8:00AM Breakfast and Networking
8:00AM - 8:05AM Welcome
Shaena Heintz, Google Cloud Platform
8:05 AM - 8:30 AM Keynote: Data Sciences at the Broad Institute
Anthony Philippakis, M.D., Ph.D Broad Institute, Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Researcher
8:30AM - 9:00AM Industry Keynote & Google Perspectives
Joe Corkery, M.D. Google, Product Management Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences
9:00AM - 9:15AM Google Cloud Platform and Genomics
Benny Ayalew, Google, Solution Engineer Lead, Life Sciences
9:15AM - 9:30AM Panel Discussion and Q&A
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2015 MIT Material Day
Wednesday, October 14
8:00a–5:00p
MIT, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenuw (Rear), Cambridge
RSVP at http://mpc-www.mit.edu/registration
Web site: http://ilp.mit.edu/conference.jsp?confid=130&tabname=overview
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Corporate Relations/ILP
For more information, contact: Kwan Lee
617-253-0406
kwanhlee@mit.edu
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MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
Wednesday October 14
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
New England Room, Federal Reserve Plaza, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebfos1qg20be44cb&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
How can municipal officials best reap the benefits of clean energy for their communities? How can businesses, NGOs and others support these efforts?
Generating energy and cost savings in municipal buildings is a must, and new tools in building energy monitoring are now ready for deployment. Increasingly, municipalities can also help residents and businesses directly access energy, GHG and cost savings of clean energy projects, too.
Join MAPC's Clean Energy Forum to explore these topics in detail and learn how municipalities can successfully implement them.
The forum will bring together energy experts from municipalities, state government, non-profits and the private sector for lively panels and interactive discussion.
Panel 1: Leveraging Building Energy Data
Moderator: Patrick Roche, MAPC
Eric Friedman, MA Department of Energy Resources
Jillian Wilson-Martin, Town of Natick
James Siegel, Eversource
Panel 2: Planning for Clean Energy beyond the Municipal Sector
Moderator: Cameron Peterson, MAPC
Andrew Savitz, City of Newton
Paul Gromer, Peregrine Energy Group
Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
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Speaker: Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
General Riley will start with a short background of Federal water policy development with its concomitant challenges, including how the US Army managed to have such a large role in managing our nation’s water resources. General Riley will then bring everyone up to date on three of the more progressive directions in which US national policy makers have been moving over the past several years to improve their management of water resources: integrated water resources management, flood risk management, and adaptation to climate change. He will then be open to questions on those and other aspects of Federal water resources policy and management.
US Army Maj. General (Ret.) Don Riley is presently the Senior VP for Dawson & Associates. General Riley was the Deputy Commanding General & Deputy Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers, which made him second in command of an organization of 37,000 people with a budget of $40 billion a year. General Riley is an engineer, and a graduate of West Point (B. Sc.), the University of California, Berkeley (M. Sc.), and the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (MMAS). In his 37 years with the Corps, General Riley managed work personally in the US and abroad – he led the Army Corps’ Hurricane Katrina response and recovery operations and he ensured sufficient basing, equipment, and movement of troops in Afghanistan, including consideration of a long-term water management strategy for Afghanistan.
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Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
Wednesday, October 14
4:30p–5:45p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Stonebraker
Abstract:This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80s and early 90s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.
Biography: Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of Paradigm4 and Tamr, Inc.
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/159756
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center C Lecture Hall, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Economics
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
CONTACT INFO eunverz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/departmental_seminars
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, October 14
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
Program 1: Wednesday, October 14
Turning the City Around, 1945 -- 1970
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Lizabeth Cohen, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Frank Del Vecchio, retired attorney; Mel King, community organizer; David Fixler, EYP; and moderator Tunney Lee, MIT.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: 617-646-0578
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Ancient Mesopotamian Music
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103, 52 Oxford Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Semitic Museum
SPEAKER(S) Richard Dumbrill, professor emeritus, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Irving Finkel, assistant keeper, The British Museum
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.4631
DETAILS Some of the earliest known examples of musical notation have been found in the region of modern-day Syria and Iraq and date back almost four thousand years. These early compositions—recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets—have become better understood in recent years. This program will trace the history of early musical composition and discuss advances in the theory of its interpretation. The speakers will demonstrate the sound of this music using reconstructed instruments and show how these were built and played in the Bronze Age.
LINK www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
Wednesday, October 14
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristala Jones Prather, Ron Weiss
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Mass Innovation Nights 79
Wednesday, October 14
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Are you ready for the second annual all Women Founders Mass Innovation Nights – MIN #79? We have 12 truly incredible products that will showcase just for you. Held at District Hall in Boston on October 14th and sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank & Babson’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, MIN #79 will be co-located with Innovation Women’s Women Entrepreneurs Evening – an event featuring Boston’s top organizations that support women entrepreneurs. Both MIN #79 & the Women Entrepreneurs Evening are part of the week long WEBOS (Women’s Entrepreneurship Boston). What a great night and week it will be!
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/min-79-women-founders
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About This Event
Join us at Hatch Fenway – Boston’s launchpad for scaling companies with disruptive ideas – for a series exploring the many faces of design in Boston. Up first – we’re inviting the movers and shakers who are helping to define and redesign what makes for a better urban lifestyle.
From urban planning to real estate development, connected devices to mobile apps – we’ll discuss what it means to be a Bostonian today and what living in Boston will look like in the future. Join us for a lively conversation followed by plenty of time for connecting.
The Instructors
Sam Aquillano, Executive Director, Design Museum Foundation
Josh Trautwein Co-Founder / Executive Director, Fresh Truck
Matthew George CEO, Bridj
Sara Myerson Executive Director, Imagine Boston 2030
Hatch Fenway
Hatch Fenway is a launch pad for scaling companies with disruptive ideas. This dynamic community offers a range of workspaces for growing innovation companies, and is located in the vibrant, industrious, and diverse Fenway neighborhood.
Website: https://generalassemb.ly/education/design-in-boston-creating-a-more-connected-city/boston/17352
Organizer
General Assembly
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.meetup.com/branchfood/events/225733959/
Branchfood
Email: lauren@branchfood.com
Website: www.branchfood.com
Sftp mailing list: Sftp@mit.edu
"We didn't want to hear the words of the White House. We wanted to hear the words of those picketing the White House. Agitators. The anti-war
protesters. The socialists and anarchists. In other words, the people who gave us whatever liberty and democracy we have in this country. What's common to all of them is the spirit of resistance to illegitimate authority." ~Howard Zinn
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." ~Frederick Douglass
See the trailer at https://youtube.com/watch?v=5qpm6aw5OWw
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos
Harvard HackED, an education hackathon organized by HIVE (Harvard GSE Innovation & Ventures in Education), is a 3-day event for student teams to propose, design, and test solutions to educational challenges. Mentors and workshop leaders will guide participants through ideation, prototyping, testing, and pitching.
HIVE invites Harvard and other Boston-area undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including education, policy, engineering, science, arts, design, business, and more to participate in our Hackathon, to create new education-related projects from scratch and develop them over a period of 3 days.
Technical skills or programming experience is not required. Bring your creativity, energy, and open mind to share with fellow participants!
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Friday 10/16 (3-7pm) - Kick Off
Onsite registration, orientation, and team formation.
Saturday 10/17 (9am-7pm)
Brainstorming, idea refinement, mockup, testing, and presentation preparation. Starting early at 9am, group mentors and experts will work with individual groups to push ideas forward and help build momentum. The day wraps at 7pm with a final push for preparing team demos and presentations.
Sunday 10/18 (12-4pm) - Hackathon Showcase & Celebration
Teams pitch their ideas to a judging panel, who will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback and critique.
NOTE
To ensure the best experience for those who take part in the event, we are limiting the total number of participant slots. We will work to accommodate as many interested applicants as possible.
FAQs
Is the event open only to HGSE or Harvard University students?
This event is open to ALL undergraduate and graduate students in the Boston area and we encourage everyone interested to apply!
I've never attended a hackathon before. Can I still apply?
Absolutely! There are no prerequisites for attendance. We will scaffold the experience in such a way that everyone can contribute and learn, regardless of technical or education experience.
Where can I find out more details about specific agenda items for the weekend?
Once your participation is confirmed by our event coordinator, you will receive detailed information for the weekend, including a full agenda, hackathon background information, and detailed logistics.
What if I am unable to participate for some portion of the weekend (e.g. 'I cannot attend Friday night')?
Active attendance is required all weekend. There is a public kickoff on Friday at 3pm that we encourage all to attend. Mandatory attendance is required starting at 4:30pm on Friday through Sunday at 3pm.
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Friday, October 16
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sherry_turkle1/
Cost: $5
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned media scholar and MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE for a discussion of her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, an investigation on how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures.
Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do.
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.
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MIT Energy Night
Friday, October 16
6pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Energy Night is the MIT Energy Club's flagship fall event with world-class posters from MIT researchers and start-up companies.
Web site: http://mitenergynight.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum, MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-324-7313
novotney@mit.edu
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Psychedelic Medicine: The New Science of Hallucinogens
Friday, October 16
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedelic-medicine-the-new-science-of-hallucinogens-registration-17953492379
For over 40 years, drugs like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms) were classified as the most dangerous, Schedule I substances, with no accepted medical use. They were impossible to secure for research, but recently, that began to change. These and other psychedelic compounds are capturing attention again — not as part of a trippy counter-culture, but as an exciting new frontier in medicine.
Can we unlock their powerful potential to help patients gripped by depression, struggling with terminal cancer, or craving another cigarette? Hear from the researchers exploring groundbreaking treatments for addiction, PTSD, and end-of-life anxiety.
With an introduction by Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist; founder and president of The Amazon Conservation Team; and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and Medicine Quest.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
Program Speakers
Charles S. Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center | Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Stephen Ross, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Dual Diagnosis Training Unit, and the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and director of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group
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Saturday, October 17
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12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
Saturday, October 17
7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, Spangler Hall, 117 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-annual-energy-symposium-at-harvard-business-school-managing-through-volatility-tickets-18198714846
Cost: $25 - $110
The Energy & Environment Club at Harvard Business School would like to invite you to the 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School. Come join leading professionals and students from around the world in a high-intensity atmosphere of engagement as we collectively wrestle with the energy challenges of the future. On the boundary between conventional energy solutions such as oil and gas, and newer topics such as renewables and clean technology, the 12th Annual Energy Symposium will bring collective understanding as we build a brighter and cleaner future by leveraging the power of today’s energy experts. Join us on the Harvard Business School campus on Saturday, October 17th, as some of the industry’s leading executives, policy makers, and students engage in a vibrant discussion on the future of energy.
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Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
Saturday, October 17
9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-symposium
Cost: $20 - $90
Passive House Massachusetts is hosting a Symposium connecting Architects, Builders, Engineers, Home/Building Owners, Policymakers, Real Estate Professionals, Students and the general public. The mission is to further educate through lectures by and discussions with esteemed professionals local to Massachusetts. Vendors will also be attending the event showcasing products and services regarding Passive Homes.
The Early Bird rates will be available until 9/1. Regular rates, $75 for members and $90 for non-members, will be available until 10/1. After 10/1, both members and non-member will need to purchase a ticket at the event for $100. Student tickets will be $35 at the event.
If you would like to sign up to be a member, please visit:
https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-membership
Coffee and Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
If you or your organization would like to sponsor or volunteer in exchange for complimentary admission to this event please email projects@zeroenergy.com.
Keynote Speaker:
Matthew A. Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts
Featured Speakers:
Ian Finlayson, Manager of Buildings and Climate Programs, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
John Dalzell, Senior Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Marc Rosenbaum, Director of Engineering, South Mountain Company
Katrin Klingenberg, Cofounder/Executive Director, PHIUS
Breakout Session:
In the afternoon, we will have about 10 tables, each with a dedicated topic and moderator, for participants to speak in small groups about the challenges and opportunities of Passive House.
Editorial Comment: This is a great opportunity for those interested in energy efficient building and buildings.
Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
Monday, October 19
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
Josep Roca, (@CanRocaCeller), El Celler de Can Roca
Raül Sillero, El Celler de Can Roca
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
Monday, October 19
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rosa Barba
Toward A Philosophy of the Act
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, TBC
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
6172534415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, October 20
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Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Patrick Murck
Join Patrick for a conversation about Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
About Patrick
Patrick is a lawyer and expert on bitcoin and blockchain-based technologies. He will conduct research into the law and policy implications of bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts.
Previously Patrick was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation where he served at times as General Counsel and Executive Director. Patrick has engaged regulators and policymakers in the US and Europe on bitcoin and the emerging digital economy. He was named among America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel for 2014 by the National Law Journal.
Patrick also serves as President Board member for the BitGive Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on charitable giving and social impact using bitcoin.
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Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Description
Increasingly, knowledge from biology and neuroscience allows us to identify biological states that are predictive but not determinative of human behavior in certain situations. These are called biomarkers of behavior. Looking at MAOA, a gene variant linked to increased criminal behavior in those who were maltreated as children, Professor Julian Savulescu will ask whether and how such behavioral biomarkers can ethically be used. Does the presence of the gene, or the presence of the gene in the right environment, affect moral or criminal responsibility? If so, does this affect the way we should respond to this group, either before or after they have committed any offence? Further into the future, could biology be modified to reduce the probability of violent offence?
Speakers
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Director of The Institute for Science and Ethics, The Oxford Martin School. His areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy; research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research; new forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction; medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas; sports ethics; the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. He is on the Advisory Board for the journal Neuroethics. Savulescu and Bostrom initiated the two year EU ENHANCE project, an interdisciplinary project devoted to studying the ethical implications of human enhancement and to providing detailed recommendations to European policy makers. Oxford led the cognitive enhancement theme. Savulescu is editor of two major collections on enhancement: one, co-edited with Bostrom, entitled Human Enhancement (OUP) and another draws on research from the ENHANCE project, entitled Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley Blackwell, due for publication January 2011).
Before coming to Oxford in 2002 as Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Professor Savulescu was Director of the Ethics Program at the Murdoch Children's Research Unit, University of Melbourne, before which he studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University, followed by a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Singer.
Thomas Cochrane is the Director of Neuroethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, Dr. Cochrane is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Senior Ethics Consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Cochrane received a combined MD and MBA from the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurology in the Partners Neurology program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and then served as a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Dr. Cochrane’s energies are primarily directed toward education, scholarship, and research in medical ethics and neurology. He teaches medical students in their course on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and directs a Masters-level course in Neuroethics. He has given over a hundred invited lectures and presentations. Dr. Cochrane has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, educational material for medical professionals, ethicists, and laypeople. He co-edited the popular neurology board review book First Aid for the Neurology Boards, and also a book on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, intended for use in training physicians and other medical providers.
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
Tuesday, October 20
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
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Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
Tuesday, October 20
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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Speaker: Geoff Aardsma, Enevo
Join Geoff Aardsma, Sales Manager from Enevo, and learn about how technology can help cities achieve maximum efficiency and help us save this environment.
Enevo is a waste management company that provides smart solutions to track, in real time, when garbage bins are full. Their solution provides up to 50% in direct cost savings in waste collection.
This event is organized by the MIT Waste Alliance, and made possible with the support from the GSC Sustainability Fund.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1Lg6YoH
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Life Grants
For more information, contact: Kevin Kung
trashiscash@mit.edu
Deep Learning Tech Talk at Boston University
Thursday, October 22
Host: Barbara Grosz and Radhika Nagpal
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Monday, October 26
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MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
Monday, October 26
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
Monday, October 26
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Larry Makovich, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
Monday, October 26
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Alessandro Behgini, Associate and Sr. Structural Engineer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
Monday, October 26
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Susanne E. Freidberg, Chair, Department of Geography, Dartmouth
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
Monday, October 26
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Tuesday, October 27
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Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
Tuesday, October 27
7:45 AM to 9:45 AM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre - Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-boston-2030-widett-circle-bostons-next-frontier-for-innovation-tickets-18187575528
The Center for Real Estate and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board presents: Building Boston 2030
Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation and Growth
Widett Circle-off the southeast expressway-is on the brink of major redevelopment. The area once slated to become a temporary stadium for the Boston Olympics could become Boston's next frontier for growth. But now, with Mayor Martin J. Walsh's support, developers are determined to transform it into a new section of the city that offers workforce housing and economic opportunities for new and existing industries.
What does that mean for Widett Circle? Will it become the next Kendall Square-a hotbed for technological innovation? A new place for people to live and work like Fenway? Or maybe an upscale shopping and entertainment center like Assembly Row in Somerville?
Panelists:
Panelists will be announced shortly!
Moderated by:
Peter Howe, Business Editor, NECN
This event is free and open to the public, registration is required.
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UE, OCT 27, 2015 AT 9:00 AM
Innovating for Billions - Conference
Tuesday, October 27
2015 MIT Material Day
Wednesday, October 14
8:00a–5:00p
MIT, Building W16, 48 Massachusetts Avenuw (Rear), Cambridge
RSVP at http://mpc-www.mit.edu/registration
Web site: http://ilp.mit.edu/conference.jsp?confid=130&tabname=overview
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Office of Corporate Relations/ILP
For more information, contact: Kwan Lee
617-253-0406
kwanhlee@mit.edu
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MAPC 2015 Clean Energy Forum: Advancing Community Energy Planning
Wednesday October 14
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
New England Room, Federal Reserve Plaza, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebfos1qg20be44cb&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
How can municipal officials best reap the benefits of clean energy for their communities? How can businesses, NGOs and others support these efforts?
Generating energy and cost savings in municipal buildings is a must, and new tools in building energy monitoring are now ready for deployment. Increasingly, municipalities can also help residents and businesses directly access energy, GHG and cost savings of clean energy projects, too.
Join MAPC's Clean Energy Forum to explore these topics in detail and learn how municipalities can successfully implement them.
The forum will bring together energy experts from municipalities, state government, non-profits and the private sector for lively panels and interactive discussion.
Panel 1: Leveraging Building Energy Data
Moderator: Patrick Roche, MAPC
Eric Friedman, MA Department of Energy Resources
Jillian Wilson-Martin, Town of Natick
James Siegel, Eversource
Panel 2: Planning for Clean Energy beyond the Municipal Sector
Moderator: Cameron Peterson, MAPC
Andrew Savitz, City of Newton
Paul Gromer, Peregrine Energy Group
Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
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People’s Boston Climate March
Wednesday, October 14
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
We will march from Kendall Square in Cambridge to Boston Common and the State House via The Longfellow Bridge, Cambridge Street, Tremont Street, and Park Street. Speakers(?) TBD
Kenneth Larsen
Phone: 781-648-5332
Email: klvairagya@verizon.net
We will march from Kendall Square in Cambridge to Boston Common and the State House via The Longfellow Bridge, Cambridge Street, Tremont Street, and Park Street. Speakers(?) TBD
Kenneth Larsen
Phone: 781-648-5332
Email: klvairagya@verizon.net
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Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
Wednesday, October 14
11:30a–1:00p
MIT, Building 50, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Rinku Sen
Lunchtime Presentation and Discussion with buffet lunch with Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation.
Web site: http://diversity.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Political Science, ICEO
For more information, contact: Weiner, Tobie
617-253-3649
iguanatw@mit.edu
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Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors
Becoming a sustainable society requires change to nearly every product and process we use. Big companies and governments are unlikely to get us there. This talk explains the how and why of Tesla Motors founding, and follows its growth to the release of their first car, the Tesla Roadster.
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
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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Whose Lives Matter: A Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond
Wednesday, October 14
11:30a–1:00p
MIT, Building 50, 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Rinku Sen
Lunchtime Presentation and Discussion with buffet lunch with Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation.
Web site: http://diversity.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Political Science, ICEO
For more information, contact: Weiner, Tobie
617-253-3649
iguanatw@mit.edu
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Why Starting a Car Company Was a Good Idea
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors
Becoming a sustainable society requires change to nearly every product and process we use. Big companies and governments are unlikely to get us there. This talk explains the how and why of Tesla Motors founding, and follows its growth to the release of their first car, the Tesla Roadster.
MTL Seminar Series
Refreshments at 11:30 am
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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EDFall Gathering in Boston
Wednesday, October 14
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
EDF's Boston office, 18 Tremont Street, Suite 850, Boston
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
EDF's Boston office, 18 Tremont Street, Suite 850, Boston
RSVP to Alysa Perez at aperez@edf.org
You are cordially invited to join the Boston EDF Ambassadors community for the EDFall Gathering, an opportunity for climate conversation and connection with like-minded environmentalists.
The guest speaker for this event will be Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at EDF. Gernot's recently-released book, Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, co-authored with Harvard economist Martin Weitzman, explores the likely repercussions of a hotter planet and argues that the climate crisis should be addressed from a risk management standpoint.
The guest speaker for this event will be Gernot Wagner, lead senior economist at EDF. Gernot's recently-released book, Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, co-authored with Harvard economist Martin Weitzman, explores the likely repercussions of a hotter planet and argues that the climate crisis should be addressed from a risk management standpoint.
A light lunch will be served. You are encouraged to bring a friend.
Hurry! Space is limited, so reserve your seats by sending your RSVP to Alysa Perez (aperez@edf.org) today.
Hurry! Space is limited, so reserve your seats by sending your RSVP to Alysa Perez (aperez@edf.org) today.
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The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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The Current National Security Challenges of Israel
Wednesday, October 14
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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 Climate Teach-In
Wednesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 14
12:00 am - 11:00 pm
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
A collective effort of teachers in the greater Boston area, started by musicians/activists/teachers at the New England Conservatory, but open to all. As teachers we have the opportunity to remind our students that everything they’re learning, the entirety of human achievement, is contingent on a planet that is still habitable. If you are teaching on Wednesday, Oct. 14th (People’s Climate Movement Day Of Action), you can participate by teaching your students about climate change and how it relates to your field of study. For example, if you play a violin made of wood from five different continents, how does climate change impact future generations of musicians?”
Organizer: Rob Flax
Phone: (847) 894-7283
Email: robflax@comcast.net
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
A collective effort of teachers in the greater Boston area, started by musicians/activists/teachers at the New England Conservatory, but open to all. As teachers we have the opportunity to remind our students that everything they’re learning, the entirety of human achievement, is contingent on a planet that is still habitable. If you are teaching on Wednesday, Oct. 14th (People’s Climate Movement Day Of Action), you can participate by teaching your students about climate change and how it relates to your field of study. For example, if you play a violin made of wood from five different continents, how does climate change impact future generations of musicians?”
Organizer: Rob Flax
Phone: (847) 894-7283
Email: robflax@comcast.net
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China in the World Economy: The New Normal
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Edwin Lim, China Economic Research and Advisory Programme; former CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC); former economist for The World Bank; former director of The World Bank’s China office
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Predicting Rainfall Change Under Global Warming: New Challenge for Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
Wednesday, October 14
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
Reception to follow in the Interactive Lounge, Geology Museum, 4th floor.
EPS Climate Seminar
Contact Name: Jenifer Lee
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
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China in the World Economy: The New Normal
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Edwin Lim, China Economic Research and Advisory Programme; former CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CICC); former economist for The World Bank; former director of The World Bank’s China office
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Predicting Rainfall Change Under Global Warming: New Challenge for Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
Wednesday, October 14
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
Reception to follow in the Interactive Lounge, Geology Museum, 4th floor.
EPS Climate Seminar
Contact Name: Jenifer Lee
jeniferlee@fas.harvard.edu
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Earth’s Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
Wednesday, October 14,
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Wednesday, October 14,
4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Earth’s Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), which is the equilibrium surface warming from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, has long been hypothesized to be between about 1.5 and 4.5 K. Over the past few decades consensus approaches to narrowing this broad uncertainty range have become popular, albeit not successful. By developing physical storylines for values of ECS outside the accepted range it is easier to understand why higher or lower values of the ECS appear unlikely, as well as point the way to the type of research that will be necessary to narrow this range. In developing this approach I also outline arguments for a narrower (2-3.5K) range.
About the Speaker
Bjorn B. Stevens, PhD, leads the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” as well as the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
Prof. Stevens has published ground-breaking research papers dealing with the theory, modelling and observation of “low” clouds, which is one of the most important problems in meteorology and climate research.
About the Series
The EAPS Department Lecture Series are weekly talks given by leading thinkers in the areas of geology, geophysics, geobiology, geochemistry, atmospheric science, oceanography, climatology, and planetary science. Lectures take place in MIT Building 54 room 915 at 4:00pm on Wednesday afternoons unless otherwise noted. (term-time only). A reception at 3:45pm in 54-923 generally precedes each lecture. Calendar contact is Jen Fentress (jfen@mit.edu)
About the Speaker
Bjorn B. Stevens, PhD, leads the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” as well as the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
Prof. Stevens has published ground-breaking research papers dealing with the theory, modelling and observation of “low” clouds, which is one of the most important problems in meteorology and climate research.
About the Series
The EAPS Department Lecture Series are weekly talks given by leading thinkers in the areas of geology, geophysics, geobiology, geochemistry, atmospheric science, oceanography, climatology, and planetary science. Lectures take place in MIT Building 54 room 915 at 4:00pm on Wednesday afternoons unless otherwise noted. (term-time only). A reception at 3:45pm in 54-923 generally precedes each lecture. Calendar contact is Jen Fentress (jfen@mit.edu)
Event website: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/dls-bjorn-stevens-max-planck-institute-meteorology
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Homelessness Discussion Series at NE Complex Systems Institute
Wednesday, October 14
4:00-6:00 PM
New England Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway Suite 10, Cambridge
Join us for a continuation of our discussion series on tackling homelessness as a complex problem. Homelessness remains a persistent concern in most cities of the world, despite the success of some localized programs. The issue is often viewed in isolation, when it should be addressed in the context of health, career, family, and community culture.
Sign up at http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
Phone: 617-547-4100
Fax: 617-661-7711
necsi.edu
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Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
Wednesday, October 14
4:30 pm
Wednesday, October 14
4:00-6:00 PM
New England Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway Suite 10, Cambridge
Join us for a continuation of our discussion series on tackling homelessness as a complex problem. Homelessness remains a persistent concern in most cities of the world, despite the success of some localized programs. The issue is often viewed in isolation, when it should be addressed in the context of health, career, family, and community culture.
Sign up at http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
Phone: 617-547-4100
Fax: 617-661-7711
necsi.edu
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Fall Lecture Series: Retired General Don Riley Discusses US Water Policy – Its Development Over Time and Main Challenges Now and in the Future
Wednesday, October 14
4:30 pm
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
General Riley will start with a short background of Federal water policy development with its concomitant challenges, including how the US Army managed to have such a large role in managing our nation’s water resources. General Riley will then bring everyone up to date on three of the more progressive directions in which US national policy makers have been moving over the past several years to improve their management of water resources: integrated water resources management, flood risk management, and adaptation to climate change. He will then be open to questions on those and other aspects of Federal water resources policy and management.
US Army Maj. General (Ret.) Don Riley is presently the Senior VP for Dawson & Associates. General Riley was the Deputy Commanding General & Deputy Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers, which made him second in command of an organization of 37,000 people with a budget of $40 billion a year. General Riley is an engineer, and a graduate of West Point (B. Sc.), the University of California, Berkeley (M. Sc.), and the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (MMAS). In his 37 years with the Corps, General Riley managed work personally in the US and abroad – he led the Army Corps’ Hurricane Katrina response and recovery operations and he ensured sufficient basing, equipment, and movement of troops in Afghanistan, including consideration of a long-term water management strategy for Afghanistan.
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Dertouzos Lecture: "The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box"
Wednesday, October 14
4:30p–5:45p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michael Stonebraker
Abstract:This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80s and early 90s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.
Biography: Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of Paradigm4 and Tamr, Inc.
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/159756
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses@csail.mit.edu
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Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Information Diffusion Processes
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center C Lecture Hall, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Economics
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
CONTACT INFO eunverz@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/departmental_seminars
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, October 14
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
Program 1: Wednesday, October 14
Turning the City Around, 1945 -- 1970
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Lizabeth Cohen, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Frank Del Vecchio, retired attorney; Mel King, community organizer; David Fixler, EYP; and moderator Tunney Lee, MIT.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: 617-646-0578
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Ancient Mesopotamian Music
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103, 52 Oxford Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Semitic Museum
SPEAKER(S) Richard Dumbrill, professor emeritus, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Irving Finkel, assistant keeper, The British Museum
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.4631
DETAILS Some of the earliest known examples of musical notation have been found in the region of modern-day Syria and Iraq and date back almost four thousand years. These early compositions—recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets—have become better understood in recent years. This program will trace the history of early musical composition and discuss advances in the theory of its interpretation. The speakers will demonstrate the sound of this music using reconstructed instruments and show how these were built and played in the Bronze Age.
LINK www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Customizing Nature
Wednesday, October 14
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Kristala Jones Prather, Ron Weiss
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Mass Innovation Nights 79
Wednesday, October 14
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
Are you ready for the second annual all Women Founders Mass Innovation Nights – MIN #79? We have 12 truly incredible products that will showcase just for you. Held at District Hall in Boston on October 14th and sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank & Babson’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, MIN #79 will be co-located with Innovation Women’s Women Entrepreneurs Evening – an event featuring Boston’s top organizations that support women entrepreneurs. Both MIN #79 & the Women Entrepreneurs Evening are part of the week long WEBOS (Women’s Entrepreneurship Boston). What a great night and week it will be!
Website: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/min-79-women-founders
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Design In Boston: Creating a More Connected City
Wednesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 14
6:30 pm
Hatch Fenway, 401 Park Drive, Boston
About This Event
Join us at Hatch Fenway – Boston’s launchpad for scaling companies with disruptive ideas – for a series exploring the many faces of design in Boston. Up first – we’re inviting the movers and shakers who are helping to define and redesign what makes for a better urban lifestyle.
From urban planning to real estate development, connected devices to mobile apps – we’ll discuss what it means to be a Bostonian today and what living in Boston will look like in the future. Join us for a lively conversation followed by plenty of time for connecting.
The Instructors
Sam Aquillano, Executive Director, Design Museum Foundation
Josh Trautwein Co-Founder / Executive Director, Fresh Truck
Matthew George CEO, Bridj
Sara Myerson Executive Director, Imagine Boston 2030
Hatch Fenway
Hatch Fenway is a launch pad for scaling companies with disruptive ideas. This dynamic community offers a range of workspaces for growing innovation companies, and is located in the vibrant, industrious, and diverse Fenway neighborhood.
Website: https://generalassemb.ly/education/design-in-boston-creating-a-more-connected-city/boston/17352
Organizer
General Assembly
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
Wednesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 14
6:30 PM (EDT)
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-extinction-life-at-the-brink-registration-17952872525
Jonathan Payne, PhD, associate professor of geological sciences, Stanford University | Sarah Holt, producer, director, and writer of Mass Extinction for Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Tangled Bank Studios, and NOVA/PBS
It’s a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth’s past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. The “K/T Extinction” wiped out the dinosaurs; “The Great Dying” obliterated nearly 90% of all Earth’s species. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Travel through time and around the world as the film Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink explores some of our most compelling questions around what happened, when such devastation could happen again, and how we as a species may cause—or prevent—a sixth extinction.
Introduction and post-screening conversation with Dr. Payne, featured scientist, and Sarah Holt, producer, director, and writer of the documentary.
Advance registration begins at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 30 (Monday, September 28 for Museum members) at mos.org/events.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Additional funding provided by the Richard S. Morse Fund.
Jonathan Payne, PhD, associate professor of geological sciences, Stanford University | Sarah Holt, producer, director, and writer of Mass Extinction for Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Tangled Bank Studios, and NOVA/PBS
It’s a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth’s past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. The “K/T Extinction” wiped out the dinosaurs; “The Great Dying” obliterated nearly 90% of all Earth’s species. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Travel through time and around the world as the film Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink explores some of our most compelling questions around what happened, when such devastation could happen again, and how we as a species may cause—or prevent—a sixth extinction.
Introduction and post-screening conversation with Dr. Payne, featured scientist, and Sarah Holt, producer, director, and writer of the documentary.
Advance registration begins at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 30 (Monday, September 28 for Museum members) at mos.org/events.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Additional funding provided by the Richard S. Morse Fund.
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Wednesday, October 14
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes DANIEL J. LEVITIN, bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, for a discussion of his new-to-paperback book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
Readers of Daniel J. Levitin’s two previous New York Times bestsellers have come to know and trust his unique ability to translate cutting edge neuroscience into an informative and entertaining narrative. Now Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper-flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and—with chapters targeted specifically to business readers—shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.
"[An] impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful work. . . . The Organized Mind is an organized book, but it also rewards dipping in at any point, for there are fascinating facts and examples throughout." —The Wall Street Journal
"From how not to lose your keys to how to decide when the risks of surgery are worth it, Levitin focuses on smart ways to process the constant flow of information the brain must deal with." —The Washington Post
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 14
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 7 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of Student Life
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson, will share her insight on the creation of a beloved community through the use of political and ethical externalization.
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Cambridge Candidates Night on Energy and Environment, 2015
Wednesday, October 14
7:00pm
Cambridge YMCA, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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Thursday, October 15
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Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
Thursday, October 15
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy at HKS; Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/rpp/seminars
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Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
Thursday, October 15
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Eric Hove, Regional Plan Implementation Assistant Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) works with dozens of municipalities and non-profits to advance smart growth and preservation in Greater Boston. In the summer of 2014, MAPC and the Metro Boston Consortium for Sustainable Communities wrapped up work on the $4 million Regional Planning Grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Consortium included 170 organizations and municipalities and was governed by an elected and representative steering committee. The grant allowed MAPC and the Consortium to advance MetroFuture, a long-term regional plan, through local planning efforts, state and regional policy work, development of tools and data, and capacity building for local residents and leaders. This work is now turning into on-the-ground change, as the plans and recommendations are implemented.
Eric Hove is the Assistant Director of the Regional Plan Implementation department at MAPC. Mr. Hove works closely with a number of MAPC's divisions and external partners on a variety of projects. Under the HUD-funded Sustainable Communities program, he managed project solicitation and selection processes, helps develop and manage state and local policy and planning projects, and is responsible for evaluating, documenting, and disseminating best practices internally and throughout the region. Prior to joining MAPC, Mr. Hove served as the Assistant Director for Land Use Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). While at EEA, he helped establish and implement a wide range of smart growth policies and programs throughout the Commonwealth. He also worked at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in their Environmental and Land Use section. Mr. Hove holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and English from Oberlin College and a master's degree in regional planning from UMass-Amherst. He is a member of the American Planning Association.
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Wednesday, October 14
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes DANIEL J. LEVITIN, bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music, for a discussion of his new-to-paperback book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
Readers of Daniel J. Levitin’s two previous New York Times bestsellers have come to know and trust his unique ability to translate cutting edge neuroscience into an informative and entertaining narrative. Now Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the digital age: organization. It’s the reason that some people are more adept than others at managing today’s hyper-flow of data. The Organized Mind explains the science behind their success and—with chapters targeted specifically to business readers—shows how all of us can make small but crucial changes to regain mastery over our lives.
"[An] impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful work. . . . The Organized Mind is an organized book, but it also rewards dipping in at any point, for there are fascinating facts and examples throughout." —The Wall Street Journal
"From how not to lose your keys to how to decide when the risks of surgery are worth it, Levitin focuses on smart ways to process the constant flow of information the brain must deal with." —The Washington Post
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 14
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Marianne Williamson: On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America
WHEN Wed., Oct. 14, 2015, 7 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Office of Student Life
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson, will share her insight on the creation of a beloved community through the use of political and ethical externalization.
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Cambridge Candidates Night on Energy and Environment, 2015
Wednesday, October 14
7:00pm
Cambridge YMCA, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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Thursday, October 15
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Designing Durable Climate and Energy Policy: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
Thursday, October 15
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy at HKS; Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/rpp/seminars
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Towards a more sustainable and equitable Metro Boston: The HUD regional planning grant
Thursday, October 15
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Eric Hove, Regional Plan Implementation Assistant Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) works with dozens of municipalities and non-profits to advance smart growth and preservation in Greater Boston. In the summer of 2014, MAPC and the Metro Boston Consortium for Sustainable Communities wrapped up work on the $4 million Regional Planning Grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Consortium included 170 organizations and municipalities and was governed by an elected and representative steering committee. The grant allowed MAPC and the Consortium to advance MetroFuture, a long-term regional plan, through local planning efforts, state and regional policy work, development of tools and data, and capacity building for local residents and leaders. This work is now turning into on-the-ground change, as the plans and recommendations are implemented.
Eric Hove is the Assistant Director of the Regional Plan Implementation department at MAPC. Mr. Hove works closely with a number of MAPC's divisions and external partners on a variety of projects. Under the HUD-funded Sustainable Communities program, he managed project solicitation and selection processes, helps develop and manage state and local policy and planning projects, and is responsible for evaluating, documenting, and disseminating best practices internally and throughout the region. Prior to joining MAPC, Mr. Hove served as the Assistant Director for Land Use Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). While at EEA, he helped establish and implement a wide range of smart growth policies and programs throughout the Commonwealth. He also worked at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in their Environmental and Land Use section. Mr. Hove holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and English from Oberlin College and a master's degree in regional planning from UMass-Amherst. He is a member of the American Planning Association.
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Webinar: The New England New Economy Fund
Thursday, October 15
Thursday, October 15
12pm - 1pm
Webinar at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241
RSVP at http://netransition.org/2015/09/10/webinar-the-new-england-new-economy-fund/
Did you know The New England New Economy Fund (NENE Fund) is launching to provide greater support for the grassroots movement for a new economy in New England! Grassroots groups, funders, and donors take note. Here's what NENE does:
provides direct support for grassroots groups through grants,
offers opportunities for skills-building and training, and
facilitates network-building activities to foster a learning community of local groups in New England.
The Fund is a collaboration of New England Grassroots Environment Fund and the Institute for Policy Studies and utilizes the Grassroots Fund's
existing grant framework.
Join this webinar to learn more about NENE https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241, what it funds and how it works. You'll hear inspiring stories from grassroots groups building the new economy in their communities, as well as learn about exciting training and skills-building opportunities NENE is supporting. You'll also hear about how NENE is supporting the New England Resilience & Transition (NERT) network to facilitate lesson sharing and joint action among local groups.
As you know, action is needed now in New England and beyond to ensure that everyone has continued access to livelihoods, food, health care,
transportation, energy, and other basic needs. Across the region, hundreds of local initiatives are working to meet these needs by building community
resilience and shaping a new economy. NENE exists to support this activity and strengthen our regional movement for a new economy. Join this webinar
to learn more and get involved.
Register Here
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241
NENE's Partners Include Transition US, The Center for Economic Democracy, and Co-Op Power.
Institute for Policy Studies, New England Office
412.953.6405 (cell)
http://netransition.org
Webinar at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241
RSVP at http://netransition.org/2015/09/10/webinar-the-new-england-new-economy-fund/
Did you know The New England New Economy Fund (NENE Fund) is launching to provide greater support for the grassroots movement for a new economy in New England! Grassroots groups, funders, and donors take note. Here's what NENE does:
provides direct support for grassroots groups through grants,
offers opportunities for skills-building and training, and
facilitates network-building activities to foster a learning community of local groups in New England.
The Fund is a collaboration of New England Grassroots Environment Fund and the Institute for Policy Studies and utilizes the Grassroots Fund's
existing grant framework.
Join this webinar to learn more about NENE https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241, what it funds and how it works. You'll hear inspiring stories from grassroots groups building the new economy in their communities, as well as learn about exciting training and skills-building opportunities NENE is supporting. You'll also hear about how NENE is supporting the New England Resilience & Transition (NERT) network to facilitate lesson sharing and joint action among local groups.
As you know, action is needed now in New England and beyond to ensure that everyone has continued access to livelihoods, food, health care,
transportation, energy, and other basic needs. Across the region, hundreds of local initiatives are working to meet these needs by building community
resilience and shaping a new economy. NENE exists to support this activity and strengthen our regional movement for a new economy. Join this webinar
to learn more and get involved.
Register Here
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6468563614619754241
NENE's Partners Include Transition US, The Center for Economic Democracy, and Co-Op Power.
Institute for Policy Studies, New England Office
412.953.6405 (cell)
http://netransition.org
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A Big Data System for Things That Move
Thursday, October 15
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
The world consists of many interesting things that move: people go to work, home, school, and shop in public transit buses and trains or in cars and taxis; goods move on these networks and by trucks or by air each day; and food items travel a very large distance to meet their eater. Thus, massive movement processes are underway in the world every day and it is critical to ensure their safe, timely and efficient operation. Towards this end, low-cost sensing and acquisition of the movement data is being achieved: from GPS devices, RFID and barcode scanners, to smart commuter cards and smartphones, snapshots of the movement process are becoming available.
In this talk, I will present a system for stitching together these snapshots and reconstructing urban mobility at a very fine-grained level. The system, which we call the Space-Time Engine, provides an interactive dashboard and a querying engine for answering questions such as: what is the crowding at a train station? where're packages held up and how can their delivery be sped up? how can the available supply of transport capacity be better used to address daily demand as well as the demand on exceptional days (such as rallies and severe weather events). I will describe the STE's capabilities for operational and planning purposes, and as a learning system.
Speaker Bio: Balaji Prabhakar is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Urban Engines. His research interests are in Cloud Computing, Internet Algorithms and, recently, in Societal Networks, especially Transportation Networks. He has been awarded the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and the IEEE Innovation in Social Infrastructure Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves on the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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A Big Data System for Things That Move
Thursday, October 15
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
The world consists of many interesting things that move: people go to work, home, school, and shop in public transit buses and trains or in cars and taxis; goods move on these networks and by trucks or by air each day; and food items travel a very large distance to meet their eater. Thus, massive movement processes are underway in the world every day and it is critical to ensure their safe, timely and efficient operation. Towards this end, low-cost sensing and acquisition of the movement data is being achieved: from GPS devices, RFID and barcode scanners, to smart commuter cards and smartphones, snapshots of the movement process are becoming available.
In this talk, I will present a system for stitching together these snapshots and reconstructing urban mobility at a very fine-grained level. The system, which we call the Space-Time Engine, provides an interactive dashboard and a querying engine for answering questions such as: what is the crowding at a train station? where're packages held up and how can their delivery be sped up? how can the available supply of transport capacity be better used to address daily demand as well as the demand on exceptional days (such as rallies and severe weather events). I will describe the STE's capabilities for operational and planning purposes, and as a learning system.
Speaker Bio: Balaji Prabhakar is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Urban Engines. His research interests are in Cloud Computing, Internet Algorithms and, recently, in Societal Networks, especially Transportation Networks. He has been awarded the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and the IEEE Innovation in Social Infrastructure Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves on the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Askwith Forum - Rac(e)ing to Class
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 5:30 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 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 Speaker: Rich Milner, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Professor of Education, and Director of the Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh; Editor-in-Chief, Urban Education; author, Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms
Discussant: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M.’97, Associate Professor of Education, HGSE
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
NOTE: Rac(e)ing to Class is the 2015–16 community reading selection for HGSE.
Educators often talk about poverty when discussing the failures of our education system, yet they often shy away from conversations around race. The author of Rac(e)ing to Class, H. Richard Milner, IV, argues that honest discourse about race and racism is essential for teaching practices that are adequate for all students. In this Askwith Forum, Milner examines the pervasive raced structural and social policies that shape educators’ mindsets, considers how we can support instructional practices that address race and poverty in meaningful ways, and shares what “successful” schools and districts do to meet the needs of underserved students.
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 5:30 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 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 Speaker: Rich Milner, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Professor of Education, and Director of the Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh; Editor-in-Chief, Urban Education; author, Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms
Discussant: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M.’97, Associate Professor of Education, HGSE
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
NOTE: Rac(e)ing to Class is the 2015–16 community reading selection for HGSE.
Educators often talk about poverty when discussing the failures of our education system, yet they often shy away from conversations around race. The author of Rac(e)ing to Class, H. Richard Milner, IV, argues that honest discourse about race and racism is essential for teaching practices that are adequate for all students. In this Askwith Forum, Milner examines the pervasive raced structural and social policies that shape educators’ mindsets, considers how we can support instructional practices that address race and poverty in meaningful ways, and shares what “successful” schools and districts do to meet the needs of underserved students.
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The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum, WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Ammar Kourany, safety and liaison manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, health program manager, Save the Children, Syria
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-tba-0
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Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment
Thursday, October 15
4:00-6:00 pm
BU, Questrom 426/428, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities
The urban environment – from the air we breathe and water we drink to the soil beneath our feet – is crucial for metropolitan universities like BU. Faculty across the University are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, public health, and communications. Find out how your surroundings are evolving and what this means for you.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/research/research-on-tap-air-earth-and-water-elements-of-health-and-the-urban-environment/ to help us best plan this event.
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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
Thursday, October 15
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions, and the harmful effects of this on society.
Sarah Zaidan's research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis' plans, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance.
Dr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum, WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Ammar Kourany, safety and liaison manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, health program manager, Save the Children, Syria
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-tba-0
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Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment
Thursday, October 15
4:00-6:00 pm
BU, Questrom 426/428, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities
The urban environment – from the air we breathe and water we drink to the soil beneath our feet – is crucial for metropolitan universities like BU. Faculty across the University are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, public health, and communications. Find out how your surroundings are evolving and what this means for you.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/research/research-on-tap-air-earth-and-water-elements-of-health-and-the-urban-environment/ to help us best plan this event.
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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
Thursday, October 15
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions, and the harmful effects of this on society.
Sarah Zaidan's research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis' plans, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance.
Dr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Building Resilient Communities
Thursday, October 15
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Roxbury Innovation Center, 2300 Washington Street, Roxbury
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-resilient-communities-tickets-18906830840
Dr. S. Atyia Martin recently joined the City of Boston as its Chief Resilience Officer, focusing on building social and economic resilience. Mayor Martin J. Walsh appointed Martin to the position as part of the 100 Resilient Cities pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Martin, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has developed resiliency and preparedness models used nationwide and is a published author and public speaker. She was the Director of the DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness. She has also worked at the Boston Police Department's Boston Regional Intelligence Center and at the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management. Additionally, she was employed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency.
NEBiP invites you to join us in a discussion on Building Resilient Communities with Dr. S. Atyia Martin. Sahar Lawrence, Chairwoman of Grove Hall Trust, will moderate.
Building Resilient Communities is co-sponsored by Grove Hall Trust, which was founded on the belief that communities know what they need to improve their outcomes, and sustainable impact comes from shared risk and responsibility. The Grove Hall Trust is built upon the principles of pooling knowledge and resources, and fostering collaboration between families, the community and donors. The goal is to improve community capacity and leadership while increasing the flow of educational opportunities, jobs, capital and social connections that can help end the cycle of poverty.
Dr. S. Atyia Martin recently joined the City of Boston as its Chief Resilience Officer, focusing on building social and economic resilience. Mayor Martin J. Walsh appointed Martin to the position as part of the 100 Resilient Cities pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Martin, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has developed resiliency and preparedness models used nationwide and is a published author and public speaker. She was the Director of the DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness. She has also worked at the Boston Police Department's Boston Regional Intelligence Center and at the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management. Additionally, she was employed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency.
NEBiP invites you to join us in a discussion on Building Resilient Communities with Dr. S. Atyia Martin. Sahar Lawrence, Chairwoman of Grove Hall Trust, will moderate.
Building Resilient Communities is co-sponsored by Grove Hall Trust, which was founded on the belief that communities know what they need to improve their outcomes, and sustainable impact comes from shared risk and responsibility. The Grove Hall Trust is built upon the principles of pooling knowledge and resources, and fostering collaboration between families, the community and donors. The goal is to improve community capacity and leadership while increasing the flow of educational opportunities, jobs, capital and social connections that can help end the cycle of poverty.
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Branchfood Happy Hour @ Firebrand Saints
Thursday, October 15
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Firebrand Saints, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Who’s in for Happy Hour? Branchfood’s next Happy Hour meetup will be at Firebrand Saints – a short walk from the Kendall/MIT T stop on Thursday, October 15th from 6 PM-8 PM.
Here’s your chance to meet and mingle with Boston-area foodies, techies, and entrepreneurs and catch up on new innovation, services, and products! All are welcome.
Thursday, October 15
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Firebrand Saints, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
Who’s in for Happy Hour? Branchfood’s next Happy Hour meetup will be at Firebrand Saints – a short walk from the Kendall/MIT T stop on Thursday, October 15th from 6 PM-8 PM.
Here’s your chance to meet and mingle with Boston-area foodies, techies, and entrepreneurs and catch up on new innovation, services, and products! All are welcome.
Website: http://www.meetup.com/branchfood/events/225733959/
Branchfood
Email: lauren@branchfood.com
Website: www.branchfood.com
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IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
Thursday, October 15
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Cost: $0 - $20
Speaker: Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems;Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant;Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi;Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
The US population and our need for stuff is growing. Yet our transportation systems- roads, transport capacity, and personnel are not meeting the needs of our growing and diverse needs.
Capacity is shrinking just as our demand is growing. Shorter driver hours, environmental and city ordinances shorten delivery hours and ecommerce sales keep growing.
At the same time highway safety issues, as well as risks and threats keep growing.
Government solutions are slow. So industry needs to adjust to the new realities of shrinking capacity and increasing cost and risks.
The transportation market has responded to this challenge with diverse technologies from Telematics, mobility, asset tracking, IoT and integrated cargo and fleet management systems. Trucks and trains are already loaded with technologies that continue to be enhanced to improve on time, safety and cost metrics.
Join us for this informative session from some of the most innovative companies in the transportation sector.
This session will discuss the options and technologies today - IoT, GPS, RFID +Sensors, Streaming data, Location-based systems, visualization, optimization and analytics, that are used to enhance transportation.
Speakers:
Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems
Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant
Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi
Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
Moderator:
Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free for Students and MITEF Members; $20 non-members
Tickets: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series
Inaugural Lecture of the Islamic and the Practice of Peace Lecture Series
Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cwPfjRncGqnICXz
Dr. Nathan C. Funk is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. He is the co-author of Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.
Examining Islamic peace teachings and paradigms within a larger comparative context, Dr. Funk will explore both the distinctiveness of Islamic approaches to peacemaking and ways in which Islamic experiences of conflict and peace mirror those of other communities. Particular attention will be given to keynote themes emphasized by Muslim peacebuilders, and to examples of various ways in which Islamic precepts have been applied to support restorative justice, nonviolent social justice advocacy, and interfaith understanding.
Launch of a new lecture series on Islam and the Practice of Peace sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and RPP.
Launched by HDS Dean David N. Hempton in 2014, this monthly public series convenes a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard’s Schools and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace. A diverse array of scholars, leaders, and religious peacebuilders are invited to present and engage with the RPP Working Group and general audience. A light dinner is served and a brief reception follows the program.
Join RPP’s mailing list and visit the RPP Initiative at http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/religions-and-the-practice-of-peace
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IoT Takes to the Road: Getting Smarter in Transportation
Thursday, October 15
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Cost: $0 - $20
Speaker: Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems;Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant;Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi;Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
The US population and our need for stuff is growing. Yet our transportation systems- roads, transport capacity, and personnel are not meeting the needs of our growing and diverse needs.
Capacity is shrinking just as our demand is growing. Shorter driver hours, environmental and city ordinances shorten delivery hours and ecommerce sales keep growing.
At the same time highway safety issues, as well as risks and threats keep growing.
Government solutions are slow. So industry needs to adjust to the new realities of shrinking capacity and increasing cost and risks.
The transportation market has responded to this challenge with diverse technologies from Telematics, mobility, asset tracking, IoT and integrated cargo and fleet management systems. Trucks and trains are already loaded with technologies that continue to be enhanced to improve on time, safety and cost metrics.
Join us for this informative session from some of the most innovative companies in the transportation sector.
This session will discuss the options and technologies today - IoT, GPS, RFID +Sensors, Streaming data, Location-based systems, visualization, optimization and analytics, that are used to enhance transportation.
Speakers:
Ken Wood, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Descartes Systems
Dennis Groseclose, CEO, TransVoyant
Andy Souders, Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy, Savi
Marc Held, Founder and CEO, Weft
Moderator:
Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free for Students and MITEF Members; $20 non-members
Tickets: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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RPP Colloquium/IPP Lecture: Making Peace with Islam: Islamic Approaches to Peacemaking
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series
Inaugural Lecture of the Islamic and the Practice of Peace Lecture Series
Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cwPfjRncGqnICXz
Dr. Nathan C. Funk is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. He is the co-author of Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East, and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.
Examining Islamic peace teachings and paradigms within a larger comparative context, Dr. Funk will explore both the distinctiveness of Islamic approaches to peacemaking and ways in which Islamic experiences of conflict and peace mirror those of other communities. Particular attention will be given to keynote themes emphasized by Muslim peacebuilders, and to examples of various ways in which Islamic precepts have been applied to support restorative justice, nonviolent social justice advocacy, and interfaith understanding.
Launch of a new lecture series on Islam and the Practice of Peace sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and RPP.
Launched by HDS Dean David N. Hempton in 2014, this monthly public series convenes a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard’s Schools and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace. A diverse array of scholars, leaders, and religious peacebuilders are invited to present and engage with the RPP Working Group and general audience. A light dinner is served and a brief reception follows the program.
Join RPP’s mailing list and visit the RPP Initiative at http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/religions-and-the-practice-of-peace
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SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Masterclass with Angela Belcher
Thursday, October 15
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 76-156, Koch Institute at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Belcher
Fighting cancer with a virus? Koch Institute faculty member and renowned bioengineer Angela Belcher has been internationally lauded for her nature-inspired, engineered devices in medicine, energy, fuel, and more. Now, she has her sights set on cancer prevention through the early detection and detailed monitoring of the disease using a virus-driven probe developed in her interdisciplinary laboratory at the KI.
Professor Belcher and her trainees will take us up close and personal with the future of cancer research, exploring how biologists and engineers can come together under one roof to accelerate new solutions for one of the great biomedical challenges of the 21st century.
This program is the first in a series of special with/in/sight events celebrating our fifth anniversary and highlighting five pillars of progress in MIT's integrative approach to cancer research. Join us for an exciting evening of interactive demonstrations and networking, along with an inspiring presentation by one of MIT's most dynamic researchers.
Web site: http://withinsight-oct2015.eventbrite.com/?aff=mitevents
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: Register online
Sponsor(s): Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For more information, contact: Wendy Brown
617-324-2169
kievents@mit.edu
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 76-156, Koch Institute at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Angela Belcher
Fighting cancer with a virus? Koch Institute faculty member and renowned bioengineer Angela Belcher has been internationally lauded for her nature-inspired, engineered devices in medicine, energy, fuel, and more. Now, she has her sights set on cancer prevention through the early detection and detailed monitoring of the disease using a virus-driven probe developed in her interdisciplinary laboratory at the KI.
Professor Belcher and her trainees will take us up close and personal with the future of cancer research, exploring how biologists and engineers can come together under one roof to accelerate new solutions for one of the great biomedical challenges of the 21st century.
This program is the first in a series of special with/in/sight events celebrating our fifth anniversary and highlighting five pillars of progress in MIT's integrative approach to cancer research. Join us for an exciting evening of interactive demonstrations and networking, along with an inspiring presentation by one of MIT's most dynamic researchers.
Web site: http://withinsight-oct2015.eventbrite.com/?aff=mitevents
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Tickets: Register online
Sponsor(s): Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For more information, contact: Wendy Brown
617-324-2169
kievents@mit.edu
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USDA Innovation Challenge & Interactive DataViz Using R
More information on USDA Challenge at http://usdaapps.devpost.com
This series will focus on developing applications for this challenge which has a deadline for submissions of October 27th. Each night of the series will include a tutorial on a particular aspect of using R that applies to this challenge. For example, Web Applications using R Shiny will be one of the training sessions.
Thursday, October 15
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, Unit 17, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-for-Social-Good/events/225928895/
Cost: $2.00 /per person
The USDA and Microsoft are collaborating on an Innovation Challenge to help farmers be more efficient and effective. The USDA has a tremendous amount of food supply, economic demand, and remote sensing data as part of its Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS), the challenge is to explore how to make this data accessible and provide insights for potential users.
More information on USDA Challenge at http://usdaapps.devpost.com
This series will focus on developing applications for this challenge which has a deadline for submissions of October 27th. Each night of the series will include a tutorial on a particular aspect of using R that applies to this challenge. For example, Web Applications using R Shiny will be one of the training sessions.
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2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
Thursday, October 15
6:15p–8:00p
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106143&view=Detail
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens - Director of the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and professor at the University of Hamburg
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/john_carlson_lecture
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE (register via event website)
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Lorenz Center
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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2015 Carlson Lecture - "Watching Water: Nature's Field Guide to Weather and Climate"
Thursday, October 15
6:15p–8:00p
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=106143&view=Detail
Speaker: Bjorn Stevens - Director of the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and professor at the University of Hamburg
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2015/john_carlson_lecture
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE (register via event website)
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Lorenz Center
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Organizing Meeting for Science for the People MIT
Thursday, October 15
6:30 PM
MIT, Building 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Thanks to everyone who came out to everyone who came out to Dick Levins’ fantastic talk last week. If you found Dick’s discussion of the need for activism in the sciences inspiring, then I’d encourage you to come to our organizing meeting next week. We’ll be discussing our plans for the coming school year, including a reading group and future events in our seminar series.
Sftp mailing list: Sftp@mit.edu
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JP Forum Potluck: Sustainable is Possible Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Thursday, October 15
Thursday, October 15
6:30-8:30pm
First Church, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
First Church, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1640805652825297/
What might a livable, low-carbon future look like? The folks at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage have been living into that question for more than 17 years. They are building a village-scale sustainable town in the rolling hills of Northeast Missouri, aiming to create a vibrant, thriving community while using 10% of the resources of average Americans.
Maikwe Ludwig, Executive Director of Dancing Rabbit, Inc, will visit the JP Forum as part of a nationwide speaking tour, presenting an expanded and
updated version of her popular TEDxCarleton talk in 2013.
Sustainable is Possible shows how Dancing Rabbit residents are living rich, full lives using only 10% of the resources of the average American. It includes a new section about climate disruption and the choices we can make to respond to this most pressing of environmental and social problems.
Please join us!
See more at: http://www.dancingrabbit.org/speakingtour/
What might a livable, low-carbon future look like? The folks at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage have been living into that question for more than 17 years. They are building a village-scale sustainable town in the rolling hills of Northeast Missouri, aiming to create a vibrant, thriving community while using 10% of the resources of average Americans.
Maikwe Ludwig, Executive Director of Dancing Rabbit, Inc, will visit the JP Forum as part of a nationwide speaking tour, presenting an expanded and
updated version of her popular TEDxCarleton talk in 2013.
Sustainable is Possible shows how Dancing Rabbit residents are living rich, full lives using only 10% of the resources of the average American. It includes a new section about climate disruption and the choices we can make to respond to this most pressing of environmental and social problems.
Please join us!
See more at: http://www.dancingrabbit.org/speakingtour/
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HEET Fundraising Gala
Thursday, October 15
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Carrie Nation Restaurant, 11 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraising-gala-tickets-18401437194
Cost: $53.49 - as much as you wish to donate
HEET's 2015 Fundraiser
Honoring Senator Markey & Mothers Out Front (Downtown Boston & Jamaica Plain groups)
HEET has mapped and made public more natural gas leaks than any other organization in the country. Through these maps, HEET has made visible and local the danger, damage and waste of these leaks, including the irreparable harm to the climate.
In a letter to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the Mass. House of Representatives named HEET’s work as one of the three reasons they didn’t want the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline.
HEET’s maps and analysis earned a front-page story in the Boston Globe, as well as stories in over 60 other news outlets. HEET has also, for years, installed solar and efficiency measures in hundreds of homes and nonprofits around Greater Boston.
Come to HEET’s Gala. Have some drinks and meet some new friends while supporting a scrappy local nonprofit fighting to preserve our children’s planet.
HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that reduces greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewables. HEET has won an EPA Regional Environmental Merit Award, Cambridge GoGreen Award and others.
Honorees
US Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is a national leader on energy and environmental issues and a passionate voice for the families and businesses of Massachusetts. He has fought global warming through landmark legislation and climate change initiatives. In 2013, Markey commissioned a federal study “America Pays for Gas Leaks” which shows consumers paid over $20 billion dollars from 2000 to 2011 for gas that was lost through leaking pipes.
Mothers Out Front is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and movement of mothers, grandmothers and caregivers using their collective energy and voice to convince elected officials and business leaders to push for a swift and complete transition away from fossil fuels, to clean energy. Their goal is to pressure political, business, and economic institutions to align their priorities and actions with the reality of climate change and its impacts.
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HEET Fundraising Gala
Thursday, October 15
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Carrie Nation Restaurant, 11 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heet-fundraising-gala-tickets-18401437194
Cost: $53.49 - as much as you wish to donate
HEET's 2015 Fundraiser
Honoring Senator Markey & Mothers Out Front (Downtown Boston & Jamaica Plain groups)
HEET has mapped and made public more natural gas leaks than any other organization in the country. Through these maps, HEET has made visible and local the danger, damage and waste of these leaks, including the irreparable harm to the climate.
In a letter to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the Mass. House of Representatives named HEET’s work as one of the three reasons they didn’t want the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline.
HEET’s maps and analysis earned a front-page story in the Boston Globe, as well as stories in over 60 other news outlets. HEET has also, for years, installed solar and efficiency measures in hundreds of homes and nonprofits around Greater Boston.
Come to HEET’s Gala. Have some drinks and meet some new friends while supporting a scrappy local nonprofit fighting to preserve our children’s planet.
HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that reduces greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewables. HEET has won an EPA Regional Environmental Merit Award, Cambridge GoGreen Award and others.
Honorees
US Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is a national leader on energy and environmental issues and a passionate voice for the families and businesses of Massachusetts. He has fought global warming through landmark legislation and climate change initiatives. In 2013, Markey commissioned a federal study “America Pays for Gas Leaks” which shows consumers paid over $20 billion dollars from 2000 to 2011 for gas that was lost through leaking pipes.
Mothers Out Front is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and movement of mothers, grandmothers and caregivers using their collective energy and voice to convince elected officials and business leaders to push for a swift and complete transition away from fossil fuels, to clean energy. Their goal is to pressure political, business, and economic institutions to align their priorities and actions with the reality of climate change and its impacts.
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The People Speak
Thursday, October 15
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
The People Speak is a feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances, as well as film footage, to bring to life the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans - "acclaimed and anonymous" - who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout US history.
The film is narrated by historian Howard Zinn and is based on his books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
Produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn.
"We must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country... conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated... And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners." ~Howard Zinn
"This is the perfect format for a history lesson. You're getting the actual historical text verbatim, so there's no spin. History is
intimidating. There's so much to know." ~Matt Damon
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor
The People Speak is a feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances, as well as film footage, to bring to life the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans - "acclaimed and anonymous" - who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout US history.
The film is narrated by historian Howard Zinn and is based on his books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
Produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn.
"We must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country... conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated... And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners." ~Howard Zinn
"This is the perfect format for a history lesson. You're getting the actual historical text verbatim, so there's no spin. History is
intimidating. There's so much to know." ~Matt Damon
"We didn't want to hear the words of the White House. We wanted to hear the words of those picketing the White House. Agitators. The anti-war
protesters. The socialists and anarchists. In other words, the people who gave us whatever liberty and democracy we have in this country. What's common to all of them is the spirit of resistance to illegitimate authority." ~Howard Zinn
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." ~Frederick Douglass
See the trailer at https://youtube.com/watch?v=5qpm6aw5OWw
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film & free door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos
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MakeSpeak
Thursday, October 15
7pm
MIT Student Center, Lobdell Room, Building W20-208, 2nd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/makespeak-tickets-17975809129
7 takes on craft, 7 presentations, 7 minutes. This is a free public lecture choreographed by the Commonwealth of Craft. Seating is limited. Reserve your space now!
Join the contemporary craft community for seven fast-paced presentations by artisans who think outside the box:
Arthur Hash, jeweler, 3-D print artist
Brian Chan, maker of everything
Jiyoung Chung, fibers
Laurin Macios, Mass Poetry
Ayr Muir, Clover Food Lab
Bart Niswonger, furniture maker and artisan cattle rancher
John Rowse, Community Boatbuilding
Sponsored by ArtScope Magazine and Boston Beer
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The Art and Practice of Saving Seeds
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Lee Buttala
COST $5
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1455&DayPlannerDate=10/15/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS The time-honored tradition of saving seeds merges botany, history, observation, and experience. Lee Buttala, editor of The Seed Garden, by the Seed Savers Exchange, will provide an overview of plant reproduction and pollination, how to preserve varietal traits, and the many reasons for saving seeds from your favorite heirloom and open-pollinated plants. Even if you don’t have seeds to save, Lee will help you understand the origin of that heirloom tomato that you picked up at the farmers market and share knowledge that has been passed down through generations by farmers and home gardeners for preserving the plants that sustain us.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Friday, October 16
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Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18
Tufts University, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-water-cycles-to-reverse-global-warming-tickets-17028813640
Visit our http://www.bio4climate.org for latest updates! If you'd like to volunteer, sponsor or advertise, please contact us at climate2015@bio4climate.org.
Water and its remarkable physical properties make life on earth possible. In this conference we will pay particular attention to water's role in regulating climate through its capacity to store, move and transfer more heat than any other natural compound. Water is a planetary thermostat, and even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere it can cool the biosphere and address destructive feedbacks in the climate system.
Good water management is a facet of good land management, which we covered broadly at last year's conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. This year we will carefully examine the water cycle, how we can have a dramatic positive influence on it, and in so doing successfully address drought, floods, soil health, food production and climate.
Although water and carbon travel together, water cycles can be restored even more quickly than soil sequestration can reduce atmospheric carbon levels. Thus, while we're addressing greenhouse gases, we can significantly cool the surface of the earth to mitigate and even reverse the damage done to date by elevated planetary temperatures.
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Deglaciation to dam removal: climatic and land-use controls on New England river processes
Friday, October 16
10am – 11am
MIT, Building E25-119, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Noah Snyder (Boston College)
COG3 Seminar - Chemical oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geobiology seminar
Contact: bzklein@gmail.com
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Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
Friday, October 16
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
"Normal" science is history. Routine problem soving based on past insights has failed to deal effectively with issues like climate change, where facts are in doubt, values in conflict, and the need for action urgent. Beginning in the 1990s, the story goes, scientists began to articulate a new style of scientific activity:"post-normal" science acknowledges unpredictability, incomplete control, and a plurality of perspectives and sees scientists share, if not cede, authority over knowledge production. I put post-normal science in its time and place, arguing that it has a longer history, one that was grounded in different sites and involved a variety of actors, including non-human ones. One of those sites was the Canadian north, where beginning in the 1970s, wildlife scientists dealt with the uncertainty inherent in their population estimates of barren ground caribou and with the different values and perspectives on them by creating an "extended peer community."Including the Indigenous users of the animal in its management changed how science was practiced and shaped the "facts" on which biologists based their recommendations for conservation.
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Web site: http://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office, STS
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Friday, October 16
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store welcomes sociologist MICHAEL A. GOULD-WARTOFSKY for a discussion of his book The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement.
Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted.
In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.
Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come.
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Harvard HackED: HIVE Education Hackathon
HIVE (Harvard Innovations & Ventures in Education)
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM - Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-hacked-hive-education-hackathon-registration-18801985244
Apply Now! Open to all Boston-area undergraduate and graduate students.
Want to reimagine the future of learning? Want to tackle challenges facing education? Interested in developing a new school model? Got ideas for an educational app? Inspired to solve problems that plague our education system?
MakeSpeak
Thursday, October 15
7pm
MIT Student Center, Lobdell Room, Building W20-208, 2nd floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/makespeak-tickets-17975809129
7 takes on craft, 7 presentations, 7 minutes. This is a free public lecture choreographed by the Commonwealth of Craft. Seating is limited. Reserve your space now!
Join the contemporary craft community for seven fast-paced presentations by artisans who think outside the box:
Arthur Hash, jeweler, 3-D print artist
Brian Chan, maker of everything
Jiyoung Chung, fibers
Laurin Macios, Mass Poetry
Ayr Muir, Clover Food Lab
Bart Niswonger, furniture maker and artisan cattle rancher
John Rowse, Community Boatbuilding
Sponsored by ArtScope Magazine and Boston Beer
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The Art and Practice of Saving Seeds
WHEN Thu., Oct. 15, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Lee Buttala
COST $5
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1455&DayPlannerDate=10/15/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS The time-honored tradition of saving seeds merges botany, history, observation, and experience. Lee Buttala, editor of The Seed Garden, by the Seed Savers Exchange, will provide an overview of plant reproduction and pollination, how to preserve varietal traits, and the many reasons for saving seeds from your favorite heirloom and open-pollinated plants. Even if you don’t have seeds to save, Lee will help you understand the origin of that heirloom tomato that you picked up at the farmers market and share knowledge that has been passed down through generations by farmers and home gardeners for preserving the plants that sustain us.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Friday, October 16
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Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming
Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18
Tufts University, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restoring-water-cycles-to-reverse-global-warming-tickets-17028813640
Visit our http://www.bio4climate.org for latest updates! If you'd like to volunteer, sponsor or advertise, please contact us at climate2015@bio4climate.org.
Water and its remarkable physical properties make life on earth possible. In this conference we will pay particular attention to water's role in regulating climate through its capacity to store, move and transfer more heat than any other natural compound. Water is a planetary thermostat, and even with elevated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere it can cool the biosphere and address destructive feedbacks in the climate system.
Good water management is a facet of good land management, which we covered broadly at last year's conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. This year we will carefully examine the water cycle, how we can have a dramatic positive influence on it, and in so doing successfully address drought, floods, soil health, food production and climate.
Although water and carbon travel together, water cycles can be restored even more quickly than soil sequestration can reduce atmospheric carbon levels. Thus, while we're addressing greenhouse gases, we can significantly cool the surface of the earth to mitigate and even reverse the damage done to date by elevated planetary temperatures.
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Deglaciation to dam removal: climatic and land-use controls on New England river processes
Friday, October 16
10am – 11am
MIT, Building E25-119, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Noah Snyder (Boston College)
COG3 Seminar - Chemical oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geobiology seminar
Contact: bzklein@gmail.com
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Political Animals: Barren Ground Caribou and their Managers in a 'Post-Normal' Age
Friday, October 16
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
"Normal" science is history. Routine problem soving based on past insights has failed to deal effectively with issues like climate change, where facts are in doubt, values in conflict, and the need for action urgent. Beginning in the 1990s, the story goes, scientists began to articulate a new style of scientific activity:"post-normal" science acknowledges unpredictability, incomplete control, and a plurality of perspectives and sees scientists share, if not cede, authority over knowledge production. I put post-normal science in its time and place, arguing that it has a longer history, one that was grounded in different sites and involved a variety of actors, including non-human ones. One of those sites was the Canadian north, where beginning in the 1970s, wildlife scientists dealt with the uncertainty inherent in their population estimates of barren ground caribou and with the different values and perspectives on them by creating an "extended peer community."Including the Indigenous users of the animal in its management changed how science was practiced and shaped the "facts" on which biologists based their recommendations for conservation.
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Web site: http://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-environmental-and-agricultural-history
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): History Office, STS
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info@mit.edu
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Friday, October 16
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store welcomes sociologist MICHAEL A. GOULD-WARTOFSKY for a discussion of his book The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement.
Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted.
In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.
Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come.
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Harvard HackED: HIVE Education Hackathon
HIVE (Harvard Innovations & Ventures in Education)
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM - Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-hacked-hive-education-hackathon-registration-18801985244
Apply Now! Open to all Boston-area undergraduate and graduate students.
Want to reimagine the future of learning? Want to tackle challenges facing education? Interested in developing a new school model? Got ideas for an educational app? Inspired to solve problems that plague our education system?
Harvard HackED, an education hackathon organized by HIVE (Harvard GSE Innovation & Ventures in Education), is a 3-day event for student teams to propose, design, and test solutions to educational challenges. Mentors and workshop leaders will guide participants through ideation, prototyping, testing, and pitching.
HIVE invites Harvard and other Boston-area undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including education, policy, engineering, science, arts, design, business, and more to participate in our Hackathon, to create new education-related projects from scratch and develop them over a period of 3 days.
Technical skills or programming experience is not required. Bring your creativity, energy, and open mind to share with fellow participants!
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Friday 10/16 (3-7pm) - Kick Off
Onsite registration, orientation, and team formation.
Saturday 10/17 (9am-7pm)
Brainstorming, idea refinement, mockup, testing, and presentation preparation. Starting early at 9am, group mentors and experts will work with individual groups to push ideas forward and help build momentum. The day wraps at 7pm with a final push for preparing team demos and presentations.
Sunday 10/18 (12-4pm) - Hackathon Showcase & Celebration
Teams pitch their ideas to a judging panel, who will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback and critique.
NOTE
To ensure the best experience for those who take part in the event, we are limiting the total number of participant slots. We will work to accommodate as many interested applicants as possible.
FAQs
Is the event open only to HGSE or Harvard University students?
This event is open to ALL undergraduate and graduate students in the Boston area and we encourage everyone interested to apply!
I've never attended a hackathon before. Can I still apply?
Absolutely! There are no prerequisites for attendance. We will scaffold the experience in such a way that everyone can contribute and learn, regardless of technical or education experience.
Where can I find out more details about specific agenda items for the weekend?
Once your participation is confirmed by our event coordinator, you will receive detailed information for the weekend, including a full agenda, hackathon background information, and detailed logistics.
What if I am unable to participate for some portion of the weekend (e.g. 'I cannot attend Friday night')?
Active attendance is required all weekend. There is a public kickoff on Friday at 3pm that we encourage all to attend. Mandatory attendance is required starting at 4:30pm on Friday through Sunday at 3pm.
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Friday, October 16
6:00 PM (Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/sherry_turkle1/
Cost: $5
Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned media scholar and MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE for a discussion of her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, an investigation on how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures.
Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do.
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.
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MIT Energy Night
Friday, October 16
6pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Energy Night is the MIT Energy Club's flagship fall event with world-class posters from MIT researchers and start-up companies.
Web site: http://mitenergynight.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum, MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-324-7313
novotney@mit.edu
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Psychedelic Medicine: The New Science of Hallucinogens
Friday, October 16
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Museum of Science, Cahners Theater, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedelic-medicine-the-new-science-of-hallucinogens-registration-17953492379
For over 40 years, drugs like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms) were classified as the most dangerous, Schedule I substances, with no accepted medical use. They were impossible to secure for research, but recently, that began to change. These and other psychedelic compounds are capturing attention again — not as part of a trippy counter-culture, but as an exciting new frontier in medicine.
Can we unlock their powerful potential to help patients gripped by depression, struggling with terminal cancer, or craving another cigarette? Hear from the researchers exploring groundbreaking treatments for addiction, PTSD, and end-of-life anxiety.
With an introduction by Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist; founder and president of The Amazon Conservation Team; and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and Medicine Quest.
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
Program Speakers
Charles S. Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center | Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Stephen Ross, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Dual Diagnosis Training Unit, and the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program at Bellevue Hospital Center, and director of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group
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Saturday, October 17
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12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School - "Managing through Volatility"
Saturday, October 17
7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, Spangler Hall, 117 Western Avenue, Allston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-annual-energy-symposium-at-harvard-business-school-managing-through-volatility-tickets-18198714846
Cost: $25 - $110
The Energy & Environment Club at Harvard Business School would like to invite you to the 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School. Come join leading professionals and students from around the world in a high-intensity atmosphere of engagement as we collectively wrestle with the energy challenges of the future. On the boundary between conventional energy solutions such as oil and gas, and newer topics such as renewables and clean technology, the 12th Annual Energy Symposium will bring collective understanding as we build a brighter and cleaner future by leveraging the power of today’s energy experts. Join us on the Harvard Business School campus on Saturday, October 17th, as some of the industry’s leading executives, policy makers, and students engage in a vibrant discussion on the future of energy.
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Passive House Massachusetts Symposium
Saturday, October 17
9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-symposium
Cost: $20 - $90
Passive House Massachusetts is hosting a Symposium connecting Architects, Builders, Engineers, Home/Building Owners, Policymakers, Real Estate Professionals, Students and the general public. The mission is to further educate through lectures by and discussions with esteemed professionals local to Massachusetts. Vendors will also be attending the event showcasing products and services regarding Passive Homes.
The Early Bird rates will be available until 9/1. Regular rates, $75 for members and $90 for non-members, will be available until 10/1. After 10/1, both members and non-member will need to purchase a ticket at the event for $100. Student tickets will be $35 at the event.
If you would like to sign up to be a member, please visit:
https://passivehouseboston.givezooks.com/events/passive-house-new-england-membership
Coffee and Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
If you or your organization would like to sponsor or volunteer in exchange for complimentary admission to this event please email projects@zeroenergy.com.
Keynote Speaker:
Matthew A. Beaton, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts
Featured Speakers:
Ian Finlayson, Manager of Buildings and Climate Programs, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
John Dalzell, Senior Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Marc Rosenbaum, Director of Engineering, South Mountain Company
Katrin Klingenberg, Cofounder/Executive Director, PHIUS
Breakout Session:
In the afternoon, we will have about 10 tables, each with a dedicated topic and moderator, for participants to speak in small groups about the challenges and opportunities of Passive House.
Editorial Comment: This is a great opportunity for those interested in energy efficient building and buildings.
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Virtual Reality Hackathon & Workshop - Powered by AT&T (Boston)
Saturday, October 17
Saturday, October 17
9:30 AM - Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM (EDT)
Raizlabs, 50 Milk Street 19th Floor, Boston
Raizlabs, 50 Milk Street 19th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-reality-hackathon-workshop-powered-by-att-boston-tickets-18348667358
Warm-up to VR Hackathon?
The break neck pace of Virtual Reality continues in Boston with a Virtual Reality Hackathon and Workshop.
This Hackathon will help you prepare for an even bigger VR hackathon this fall letting individuals meet, form teams and hone their skills. If you are a VR expert come and stretch if you are new to VR get started and build your first VR app.
This event is designed to be all inclusive - so attendees will develop for Google Cardboard. You don't need your own VR equipement just a laptop and an Android or iPhone that fits into the Google Cardboard. If you have your own VR equipment, Bring Your Own VR (BYOVR) equipment.
The first 100 attendees will be given a free Google Cardboard to use during the hackathon and to take home afterwards.
To get ready for the hackathon - here's some useful links
Build VR with Google Cardboard
Google Cardboard Developer site
Unity Learn Site
An intro to Unity3D session will also lead off the first day to give developers and designers new to VR a fast start.
Co-produced by GDG Boston Boston Virtual Reality, Boston Unity Group, Boston Android and the AT&T Developer Program this event is designed for attendees interested in coding VR apps and games. Join for a weekend of talks, hacking, build new skills and meet other developers in the community intereses in VR, complete with free food, prizes. We will have experts from the Boston VR community and AT&T will be onsite to assist with your development.
You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas, an Android or iPhone if you're building for Cardboard - bring you're own VR equipment too. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag.
Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!
We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, Google Cardboard, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical senseis to assist you in building faster and smarter.
Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekend's agenda:
Warm-up to VR Hackathon?
The break neck pace of Virtual Reality continues in Boston with a Virtual Reality Hackathon and Workshop.
This Hackathon will help you prepare for an even bigger VR hackathon this fall letting individuals meet, form teams and hone their skills. If you are a VR expert come and stretch if you are new to VR get started and build your first VR app.
This event is designed to be all inclusive - so attendees will develop for Google Cardboard. You don't need your own VR equipement just a laptop and an Android or iPhone that fits into the Google Cardboard. If you have your own VR equipment, Bring Your Own VR (BYOVR) equipment.
The first 100 attendees will be given a free Google Cardboard to use during the hackathon and to take home afterwards.
To get ready for the hackathon - here's some useful links
Build VR with Google Cardboard
Google Cardboard Developer site
Unity Learn Site
An intro to Unity3D session will also lead off the first day to give developers and designers new to VR a fast start.
Co-produced by GDG Boston Boston Virtual Reality, Boston Unity Group, Boston Android and the AT&T Developer Program this event is designed for attendees interested in coding VR apps and games. Join for a weekend of talks, hacking, build new skills and meet other developers in the community intereses in VR, complete with free food, prizes. We will have experts from the Boston VR community and AT&T will be onsite to assist with your development.
You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas, an Android or iPhone if you're building for Cardboard - bring you're own VR equipment too. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag.
Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!
We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, Google Cardboard, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical senseis to assist you in building faster and smarter.
Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekend's agenda:
Saturday October 17, 2015
09:30AM - Doors open - begin caffenating or just start coding!
10:00AM - Kick-off and Intro to Unity
11:00AM - Pitch ideas and form teams
01:00PM - Lunch is served
07:00PM - Dinner is served
11:00PM - The venue will close for the evening. You may continue hacking overnight offsite or get some sleep Don't miss the last MBTA trolly or train.
Sunday October 18, 2015
09:30AM - Doors open breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec’d. Senseis will be available throughout the entire day to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM.
12:30PM - Lunch is served
04:30PM - Pencils down
04:30PM - 06:00PM - Judging (science project style) and presentations
6PM - Dinner, talks and prize awards
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Cambridge Volpe Site Development (Kendall Square) Outreach forum
Saturday, October 17
10am-12pm
Kennedy-Longfellow School, 158 Spring Street, Cambridge
An agenda will be posted on the Volpe webpage before the forum. http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/zoninganddevelopment/Zoning/Amendments/PUDKSVolpeSite
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Sunday, October 18
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SWAPFEST
Sunday, October 18
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Street Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Monday, October 19
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MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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The Western Energy Imbalance Market
Monday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Keith Casey, Vice President, Market and Infrastructure Development, California ISO
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
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Sunday, October 18
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SWAPFEST
Sunday, October 18
9:00a–2:00p
MIT, N4, Albany Street Garage and Lots, Cambridge
Cost: $6
MIT's monthly Hi Tech, Computer, Electronics and Ham Radio Fleamarket.
Buy Sell or Swap all things nerdly.
Held the third Sunday of each month April thru October.
Rain or Shine covered space is available for all sellers.
In the Albany St Garage and adjacent lot.
On Albany St between Mass Ave and Main St, Cambridge.
$6 Buyers admission from 9AM to 2PM.
$4 with MIT/ Harvard Student ID
Sellers call 617 253 3776 for more information.
Web site: www.swapfest.us
Open to: the general public
Cost: $6
This event occurs on the 3rd Sunday of every month through October 18, 2015.
Sponsor(s): MIT Radio Society, MIT UHF Repeater Assn. , MIT Electronics Research Society
For more information, contact: Mitchell Berger
617-253-3776
w1mx-officers@mit.edu
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Monday, October 19
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MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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The Western Energy Imbalance Market
Monday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Keith Casey, Vice President, Market and Infrastructure Development, California ISO
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
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A Synergistic Approach to Ecological Literacy and Technological Fluency
October 19
12–2 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Education,Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
Tech to Reconnect with Dr. Gabriel Miller, Director of Research & Development, San Diego Zoo Global
With introduction by Dr. Tina Grotzer, associate professor of education at HGSE, a principal investigator at Harvard Project Zero, and a faculty member at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard School of Public Health.
How will future generations connect with the natural world? Human activity has increased rates of species extinction, ecosystem degradation, and natural resource depletion. Simultaneously, students exhibit decreased interest in the crucial STEM disciplines required to address such issues. In response, we are developing a program to revitalize emotional and intellectual connection to natural systems (ecological literacy) through the creation, customization, and practical deployment of scientific and multimedia tools (technological fluency). This two-pronged approach instills both a desire to take action along with an ability to create impact. One of our end goals is to increase empathy with nature while building real-world technical skills. I will outline sample concepts and projects from the zoo, and the audience will be invited to offer new approaches or ideas in a short workshop session.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/synergistic-approach-ecological-literacy-and-technological-fluency#sthash.8Dn8nT1A.dpuf
October 19
12–2 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Education,Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge
Tech to Reconnect with Dr. Gabriel Miller, Director of Research & Development, San Diego Zoo Global
With introduction by Dr. Tina Grotzer, associate professor of education at HGSE, a principal investigator at Harvard Project Zero, and a faculty member at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard School of Public Health.
How will future generations connect with the natural world? Human activity has increased rates of species extinction, ecosystem degradation, and natural resource depletion. Simultaneously, students exhibit decreased interest in the crucial STEM disciplines required to address such issues. In response, we are developing a program to revitalize emotional and intellectual connection to natural systems (ecological literacy) through the creation, customization, and practical deployment of scientific and multimedia tools (technological fluency). This two-pronged approach instills both a desire to take action along with an ability to create impact. One of our end goals is to increase empathy with nature while building real-world technical skills. I will outline sample concepts and projects from the zoo, and the audience will be invited to offer new approaches or ideas in a short workshop session.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/synergistic-approach-ecological-literacy-and-technological-fluency#sthash.8Dn8nT1A.dpuf
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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
Monday, October 19
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Myles Jackson, Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
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/
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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS and Race
Monday, October 19
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Myles Jackson, Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science; Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
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/
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Food waste, hunger, and climate change
Monday, October 19
12:30–1:30 pm
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G-12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer of UTC Building and Industrial Systems and the co-author of the book "Food Foolish" will be speaking about the hidden connection between food waste, hunger and climate change at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
According to Mandyck, hunger, food security, climate emissions and water shortages are anything but foolish topics. He believes the way we systematically waste food in the face of these challenges, however, is one of humankind's most foolish practices. During his presentation,Mandyck will explore the environmental and social opportunities that we can create by wasting less food, as highlighted in his book. Real solutions to feeding the world and preserving its resources can be unlocked in the context of climate mitigation. To learn more, visit FoodFoolishBook.com.
Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Center for Health and the Global Environment
12:30–1:30 pm
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G-12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
John Mandyck, Chief Sustainability Officer of UTC Building and Industrial Systems and the co-author of the book "Food Foolish" will be speaking about the hidden connection between food waste, hunger and climate change at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
According to Mandyck, hunger, food security, climate emissions and water shortages are anything but foolish topics. He believes the way we systematically waste food in the face of these challenges, however, is one of humankind's most foolish practices. During his presentation,Mandyck will explore the environmental and social opportunities that we can create by wasting less food, as highlighted in his book. Real solutions to feeding the world and preserving its resources can be unlocked in the context of climate mitigation. To learn more, visit FoodFoolishBook.com.
Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Center for Health and the Global Environment
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After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
Monday, October 19
4:00PM
MIT, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Allison Macfarlane, George Washington University; former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
MIT’s 2015 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. This event is free and open to the public.
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After Fukushima: Making Nuclear Energy Safer
Monday, October 19
4:00PM
MIT, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
MIT Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Allison Macfarlane, George Washington University; former Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
MIT’s 2015 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. This event is free and open to the public.
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Naked Body Language: Dance is Time and Gesture is Meaningless
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Dance, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Karole Armitage, 2015-2016 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance Company
Conversation with Richard Colton, founder and director, Summer Stages Dance at The Institute of Contemporary Art
COST nFree and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Karole Armitage is renowned for pushing boundaries to create contemporary works that blend dance, music, and art. At this event, Armitage will explore how meaning is made in dance without words, plots, or story to explore material from theoretical physics to a personal search for meaning. Please register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-karole-armitage-lecture
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Dance, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Karole Armitage, 2015-2016 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance Company
Conversation with Richard Colton, founder and director, Summer Stages Dance at The Institute of Contemporary Art
COST nFree and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Karole Armitage is renowned for pushing boundaries to create contemporary works that blend dance, music, and art. At this event, Armitage will explore how meaning is made in dance without words, plots, or story to explore material from theoretical physics to a personal search for meaning. Please register online.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-karole-armitage-lecture
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Understanding ISIS
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Michael Hudson, former visiting scholar at the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government and Paul Wood, BBC foreign correspondent and 2015 Shorenstein Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict
SPEAKER(S) Michael Hudson, former visiting scholar at the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government and Paul Wood, BBC foreign correspondent and 2015 Shorenstein Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu
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C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series: The Challenge of Sustainablility
Monday, October 19
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Simon Levin
Professor Simon Levin of Princeton University will present the fourth C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series of the fall semester:
The continual increase in the human population, magnified by increasing per- capita demands on Earth's limited resources, raises the urgent mandate of understanding the degree to which these patterns are sustainable. The scientific challenges posed are enormous; mathematics provides a common language and way to cross disciplines and scales.
What measures of human welfare should be at the core of sustainability, and how do we discount the future and deal with problems of intragenerational and inter-generational equity? How do environmental and socioeconomic systems become organized as complex adaptive systems, and what are the implications for dealing with public goods at scales from the local to the global? How does the increasing interconnectedness of natural and
human systems affect us, and what are the implications for management? What is the role of social norms, and how do we achieve cooperation at the global level?
Mathematical tools help in understanding the collective dynamics of systems from bacterial biofilms to bird flocks and fish schools to ecosystems and the biosphere, and the emergent features that support life on the planet. They also provide ways to resolve the game-theoretic challenges of achieving cooperation among individuals and among nations in providing for our common future.
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 1-190, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Simon Levin
Professor Simon Levin of Princeton University will present the fourth C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series of the fall semester:
The continual increase in the human population, magnified by increasing per- capita demands on Earth's limited resources, raises the urgent mandate of understanding the degree to which these patterns are sustainable. The scientific challenges posed are enormous; mathematics provides a common language and way to cross disciplines and scales.
What measures of human welfare should be at the core of sustainability, and how do we discount the future and deal with problems of intragenerational and inter-generational equity? How do environmental and socioeconomic systems become organized as complex adaptive systems, and what are the implications for dealing with public goods at scales from the local to the global? How does the increasing interconnectedness of natural and
human systems affect us, and what are the implications for management? What is the role of social norms, and how do we achieve cooperation at the global level?
Mathematical tools help in understanding the collective dynamics of systems from bacterial biofilms to bird flocks and fish schools to ecosystems and the biosphere, and the emergent features that support life on the planet. They also provide ways to resolve the game-theoretic challenges of achieving cooperation among individuals and among nations in providing for our common future.
C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series
The talks will be held on Mondays 5-6 pm except if otherwise noted below.
Refreshments will be served preceding the talks at 4:30 pm. Location 1-190
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/system/files/DSS_Levin_Poster2.pdf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Max Siegel
617-253-7101
cee-dss-seminar@mit.edu
The talks will be held on Mondays 5-6 pm except if otherwise noted below.
Refreshments will be served preceding the talks at 4:30 pm. Location 1-190
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/system/files/DSS_Levin_Poster2.pdf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Max Siegel
617-253-7101
cee-dss-seminar@mit.edu
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Syria and the Right to the Image
Monday, October 19
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Charif Kiwan
Film screening and discussion with Charif Kiwan, Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara
Since 2011, Abounaddara, an anonymous group of Syrian filmmakers, has released a weekly film on the web, spotlighting the lives of individual Syrians in the war. In order to avoid censorship, their short films offer anonymous fly-on-the-wall perspective of
the conflict. Since 2013, they have been campaigning for the ???Right to the Image???: maintaining the dignified image of the Syrian people instead of depictions of bodies and war shown in the more mainstream media.
Their work has been recognized by the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Abounaddara is the recipient of the second Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The exhibition Abounaddara, The Right to the Image is presented at The New School, New York, from October 22 through November 11, 2015, launched by a three-day international conference.
Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/syria-and-right-image
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler@mit.edu
Film screening and discussion with Charif Kiwan, Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara
Since 2011, Abounaddara, an anonymous group of Syrian filmmakers, has released a weekly film on the web, spotlighting the lives of individual Syrians in the war. In order to avoid censorship, their short films offer anonymous fly-on-the-wall perspective of
the conflict. Since 2013, they have been campaigning for the ???Right to the Image???: maintaining the dignified image of the Syrian people instead of depictions of bodies and war shown in the more mainstream media.
Their work has been recognized by the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Abounaddara is the recipient of the second Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The exhibition Abounaddara, The Right to the Image is presented at The New School, New York, from October 22 through November 11, 2015, launched by a three-day international conference.
Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/syria-and-right-image
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler@mit.edu
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Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
Harvard Extension Environmental Club
Monday, October 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Community Hall 105, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-lets-talk-about-water-tickets-18871698759
Cost: $0 - $6.27
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club, in partnership with Boston nonprofit Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents "Let's Talk About Water", featuring international guest speakers:
Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the water management of the Torysa River after galvanizing support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands. Kravčík took his ideas to the national level in 1998, helping to organize a non-partisan national voter education campaign that resulted in unprecedented citizen participation in national elections. People and Water organized the Village and Democracy project in 164 villages in the Levoca mountain region to support democratic processes and build a sustainable open society. Kravčík and People and Water have continued to work toward integrated river basin management in the region via the sustainable development programs “Villages for the Third Millennium”, “Water for the Third Millenium” and “Blue Alternative”. And check out Michal’s Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate
Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on the microbial ecology of soil regeneration, the availability and cycling of nutrients, and how these govern the health, productivity, and resilience of biosystems. Walter is very interested in catalyzing urgent regional action by local communities and land managers to practically and profitably create on-farm microclimates to offset warming and restore rainfalls and to draw down carbon from past emissions safely into our soils and ensure opportunities and stability for all.
Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based solution has been successfully used on different landscapes in Africa and the Americas. Precious was born and raised in one of the communities now implementing restorative grazing.
Light refreshments will be served. Student tickets are FREE (must present valid ID or proof of enrollment) and just $5 for members of the general public.
NOTE: These speakers will also be presenting, along with many others, at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University. Student tickets are only $15 - don’t miss your chance to be part of this extraordinary event! Register at www.tinyurl.com/restoring-water-cycles
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Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
Harvard Extension Environmental Club
Monday, October 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Community Hall 105, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-lets-talk-about-water-tickets-18871698759
Cost: $0 - $6.27
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club, in partnership with Boston nonprofit Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, presents "Let's Talk About Water", featuring international guest speakers:
Michal Kravčík is an internationally recognized Slovak water scientist, ASHOKA fellow, and co-author of A New Water Paradigm: Water for the Recovery of the Climate, which emphasizes hydrologic cycles in addressing climate change. He is also a founding member and chairman of Slovakia’s NGO People and Water. In 1999, Kravčík was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his contributions to the water management of the Torysa River after galvanizing support to halt a dam planned during the Communist era by proposing effective democratic alternatives, including smaller dams, decentralized water management, and restored farmlands. Kravčík took his ideas to the national level in 1998, helping to organize a non-partisan national voter education campaign that resulted in unprecedented citizen participation in national elections. People and Water organized the Village and Democracy project in 164 villages in the Levoca mountain region to support democratic processes and build a sustainable open society. Kravčík and People and Water have continued to work toward integrated river basin management in the region via the sustainable development programs “Villages for the Third Millennium”, “Water for the Third Millenium” and “Blue Alternative”. And check out Michal’s Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate
Walter Jehne is a leading Australian soil and climate scientist and Director of Healthy Soils Australia. He has extensive experience in industry and has worked overseas with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, focusing on the microbial ecology of soil regeneration, the availability and cycling of nutrients, and how these govern the health, productivity, and resilience of biosystems. Walter is very interested in catalyzing urgent regional action by local communities and land managers to practically and profitably create on-farm microclimates to offset warming and restore rainfalls and to draw down carbon from past emissions safely into our soils and ensure opportunities and stability for all.
Precious Phiri is the Founding Director of EarthWisdom Consulting Company. She was formerly a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe where she directed training for villages in the Hwange Communal Lands region that are implementing restorative grazing programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management. She helps rural communities in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food and water security. This nature-based solution has been successfully used on different landscapes in Africa and the Americas. Precious was born and raised in one of the communities now implementing restorative grazing.
Light refreshments will be served. Student tickets are FREE (must present valid ID or proof of enrollment) and just $5 for members of the general public.
NOTE: These speakers will also be presenting, along with many others, at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate’s Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University. Student tickets are only $15 - don’t miss your chance to be part of this extraordinary event! Register at www.tinyurl.com/restoring-water-cycles
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Science and Cooking: Heat Transfer to Capture Flavors
Monday, October 19
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
Josep Roca, (@CanRocaCeller), El Celler de Can Roca
Raül Sillero, El Celler de Can Roca
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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ACT Lecture Series - Rosa Barba: on objects as ideas
Monday, October 19
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rosa Barba
Toward A Philosophy of the Act
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
The Monday night lecture series was launched in 2005. The series draws together artists, cultural practitioners, and scientists from different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and technology.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, TBC
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
6172534415
amm@mit.edu
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Tuesday, October 20
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Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Murck at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Patrick Murck
Join Patrick for a conversation about Bitcoin and Blockchain-based Technologies
About Patrick
Patrick is a lawyer and expert on bitcoin and blockchain-based technologies. He will conduct research into the law and policy implications of bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts.
Previously Patrick was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation where he served at times as General Counsel and Executive Director. Patrick has engaged regulators and policymakers in the US and Europe on bitcoin and the emerging digital economy. He was named among America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel for 2014 by the National Law Journal.
Patrick also serves as President Board member for the BitGive Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on charitable giving and social impact using bitcoin.
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Moral Bioprediction, Bioenhancement, and the Law: A Lecture by Julian Savulescu
Tuesday, October 20
12:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 102, 1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Description
Increasingly, knowledge from biology and neuroscience allows us to identify biological states that are predictive but not determinative of human behavior in certain situations. These are called biomarkers of behavior. Looking at MAOA, a gene variant linked to increased criminal behavior in those who were maltreated as children, Professor Julian Savulescu will ask whether and how such behavioral biomarkers can ethically be used. Does the presence of the gene, or the presence of the gene in the right environment, affect moral or criminal responsibility? If so, does this affect the way we should respond to this group, either before or after they have committed any offence? Further into the future, could biology be modified to reduce the probability of violent offence?
Speakers
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Director of The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Director of The Institute for Science and Ethics, The Oxford Martin School. His areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy; research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research; new forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction; medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas; sports ethics; the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. He is on the Advisory Board for the journal Neuroethics. Savulescu and Bostrom initiated the two year EU ENHANCE project, an interdisciplinary project devoted to studying the ethical implications of human enhancement and to providing detailed recommendations to European policy makers. Oxford led the cognitive enhancement theme. Savulescu is editor of two major collections on enhancement: one, co-edited with Bostrom, entitled Human Enhancement (OUP) and another draws on research from the ENHANCE project, entitled Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley Blackwell, due for publication January 2011).
Before coming to Oxford in 2002 as Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Professor Savulescu was Director of the Ethics Program at the Murdoch Children's Research Unit, University of Melbourne, before which he studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University, followed by a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Singer.
Thomas Cochrane is the Director of Neuroethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, Dr. Cochrane is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Senior Ethics Consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Cochrane received a combined MD and MBA from the Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurology in the Partners Neurology program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and then served as a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Dr. Cochrane’s energies are primarily directed toward education, scholarship, and research in medical ethics and neurology. He teaches medical students in their course on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and directs a Masters-level course in Neuroethics. He has given over a hundred invited lectures and presentations. Dr. Cochrane has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, educational material for medical professionals, ethicists, and laypeople. He co-edited the popular neurology board review book First Aid for the Neurology Boards, and also a book on Medical Ethics and Professionalism, intended for use in training physicians and other medical providers.
Moderator: I. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Dynamics and predictability of hurricane formation, rapid intensification and eyewall replacement
Tuesday, October 20
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
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Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow across the conterminous United States
Tuesday, October 20
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 E Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-level-rise-storms-and-coastal-impacts-with-bus-sergio-fagherazzi-tickets-18916512799
Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 20 as we kick off our fall Rock the Café series with a talk on Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts with Sergio Fagherazzi, Associate Professor in the Earth & Environment Department at Boston University. Prof. Fagherazzi's team is looking closely at our coastlines--their evolution, ecology, hydrology, and the impacts they face in light of climate change and major storm events.
Throughout the fall, CaféSci Boston and local science cafés around the country will be holding earth science-themed (Rock the Café) events in connection with NOVA's upcoming "Making North America" -- a 3-part series about the geological history of our continent.
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Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 20 as we kick off our fall Rock the Café series with a talk on Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts with Sergio Fagherazzi, Associate Professor in the Earth & Environment Department at Boston University. Prof. Fagherazzi's team is looking closely at our coastlines--their evolution, ecology, hydrology, and the impacts they face in light of climate change and major storm events.
Throughout the fall, CaféSci Boston and local science cafés around the country will be holding earth science-themed (Rock the Café) events in connection with NOVA's upcoming "Making North America" -- a 3-part series about the geological history of our continent.
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October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/october-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-18983175188
Join us for the October Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
Join us for the October Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world. Feel free to drop by any time any time between 7:30 and 830 a.m.
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Explaining the Vietnam War
Wednesday, October 21
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Fred Logevall, Harvard University
Explaining the Vietnam War
Wednesday, October 21
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Fred Logevall, Harvard University
Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar
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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Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities
Wednesday, October 21
2:30p–3:30p
MIT, Building 1-150
Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/1Lg6YoH
2:30p–3:30p
MIT, Building 1-150
Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/1Lg6YoH
Speaker: Geoff Aardsma, Enevo
Join Geoff Aardsma, Sales Manager from Enevo, and learn about how technology can help cities achieve maximum efficiency and help us save this environment.
Enevo is a waste management company that provides smart solutions to track, in real time, when garbage bins are full. Their solution provides up to 50% in direct cost savings in waste collection.
This event is organized by the MIT Waste Alliance, and made possible with the support from the GSC Sustainability Fund.
Web site: http://bit.ly/1Lg6YoH
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Life Grants
For more information, contact: Kevin Kung
trashiscash@mit.edu
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Curing Diseases with Financial Innovation
Wednesday, October 21
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building NE30-1154, Broad Institute - First Floor Auditorium, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Andrew Lo
We are very excited to announce that Professor Andrew Lo, the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Founder/CSO of AlphaSimplex Group will be speaking with the MBG community! Professor Lo will discuss the pivotal role of the financial ecosystem in biotechnology innovation--and how new funding vehicles could be designed to funnel billions of dollars into translational biomedical research.
MBG Seminar
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Biotech Group
For more information, contact: James Weis
biotech@mit.edu
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Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs
Wednesday, October 21
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago, and Hunt Allcott, New York University
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Curing Diseases with Financial Innovation
Wednesday, October 21
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building NE30-1154, Broad Institute - First Floor Auditorium, 415 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Andrew Lo
We are very excited to announce that Professor Andrew Lo, the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Founder/CSO of AlphaSimplex Group will be speaking with the MBG community! Professor Lo will discuss the pivotal role of the financial ecosystem in biotechnology innovation--and how new funding vehicles could be designed to funnel billions of dollars into translational biomedical research.
MBG Seminar
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Biotech Group
For more information, contact: James Weis
biotech@mit.edu
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Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs
Wednesday, October 21
4:15-5:30 pm
Harvard, Littauer L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago, and Hunt Allcott, New York University
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Starr Forum: Global Refugee Crisis
Wednesday, October 21
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jennifer Leaning, Nahuel Arenas, Ali Al Jundi, Serena Parekh - Moderated by Anna Hardman
Panelists Include:
Jennifer Leaning is the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Nahuel Arenas joined Oxfam in 2007 and since then has occupied several positions in the organization, leading humanitarian responses in Mozambique, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, South Sudan and supporting Oxfam's response in Haiti.
Ali Al Jundi, a Syrian civil activist, has brought his diverse experience and wide knowledge of the Syrian conflict to his work at Oxfam America as a Syria project officer. He focuses on peacebuilding and empowering the Syrian civil society.
Serena Parekh is assistant professor of philosophy at Northeastern University. Her research interests are in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of human rights.
Moderator:
Anna Hardman has taught at Tufts University since 1995. Her research focuses on urban economics (regulation and the informal sector in housing markets in developing countries, the development and provision of services in peri-urban areas, and neighborhood income distribution) and on migration (remittances and the impact of immigration on housing markets in migrants' home and host communities).
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jennifer Leaning, Nahuel Arenas, Ali Al Jundi, Serena Parekh - Moderated by Anna Hardman
Panelists Include:
Jennifer Leaning is the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Nahuel Arenas joined Oxfam in 2007 and since then has occupied several positions in the organization, leading humanitarian responses in Mozambique, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, South Sudan and supporting Oxfam's response in Haiti.
Ali Al Jundi, a Syrian civil activist, has brought his diverse experience and wide knowledge of the Syrian conflict to his work at Oxfam America as a Syria project officer. He focuses on peacebuilding and empowering the Syrian civil society.
Serena Parekh is assistant professor of philosophy at Northeastern University. Her research interests are in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of human rights.
Moderator:
Anna Hardman has taught at Tufts University since 1995. Her research focuses on urban economics (regulation and the informal sector in housing markets in developing countries, the development and provision of services in peri-urban areas, and neighborhood income distribution) and on migration (remittances and the impact of immigration on housing markets in migrants' home and host communities).
CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_10212015_refugee.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_10212015_refugee.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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A Window Into the Underwater World: Framing Fish at the New England Aquarium
Wednesday, October 21
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Presentations and discussion by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen and Steve Bailey, Curator of Fishes New England Aquarium
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.
Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact: Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888
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Mass Energy Consumers Alliance's 33rd Annual Meeting
Wednesday, October 21
5:30 - 8:30PM
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-energys-33rd-annual-meeting-tickets-18614446310
Join us as we reflect upon the last year, take a look at what's ahead, and honor folks who exemplify our vision of affordable and sustainable energy.
5:30 Check-in, cocktails, & Networking Reception with light hors d'oeuvres
6:30 Remarks by Board President Sandi Bagley and Executive Director Larry Chretien
6:45 Featured Speaker – To be announced soon!
7:15 Energy Leadership Award Presentations
8:00 Dessert & Coffee
Featured Speaker: Greg Watson of the Schumacher Center for a New Economy
Honoring awardees for leadership in the energy sector:
The Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter for a long-standing focus on clean energy advocacy and education, especially recent efforts to make electric vehicles more accessible.
Katy Eiseman and Mass Pipe-Line Awareness Network (MassPLAN) for the important work of organizing communities to resist unnecessary fossil fuel infrastructure.
The city of Melrose, town of Dedham, and Good Energy for green municipal aggregation planning that increases the amount of renewable energy on the grid.
Keith & Monica Mann, cranberry growers in Plymouth, for their eight (8) MW Future Generation Wind project.
Climate Change Action Brookline, for their efforts toward green municipal aggregation and to help hundreds of Brookline residents to switch to clean, renewable electricity, among other outstanding work.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact Pua Higginson with questions: 617-524-3950 x142 or pua@massenergy.org
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Who Needs Rules?
Wednesday, October 21
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: George Church, Kenneth Oye
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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A Window Into the Underwater World: Framing Fish at the New England Aquarium
Wednesday, October 21
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Presentations and discussion by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen and Steve Bailey, Curator of Fishes New England Aquarium
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.
Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact: Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888
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Mass Energy Consumers Alliance's 33rd Annual Meeting
Wednesday, October 21
5:30 - 8:30PM
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-energys-33rd-annual-meeting-tickets-18614446310
Join us as we reflect upon the last year, take a look at what's ahead, and honor folks who exemplify our vision of affordable and sustainable energy.
5:30 Check-in, cocktails, & Networking Reception with light hors d'oeuvres
6:30 Remarks by Board President Sandi Bagley and Executive Director Larry Chretien
6:45 Featured Speaker – To be announced soon!
7:15 Energy Leadership Award Presentations
8:00 Dessert & Coffee
Featured Speaker: Greg Watson of the Schumacher Center for a New Economy
Honoring awardees for leadership in the energy sector:
The Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter for a long-standing focus on clean energy advocacy and education, especially recent efforts to make electric vehicles more accessible.
Katy Eiseman and Mass Pipe-Line Awareness Network (MassPLAN) for the important work of organizing communities to resist unnecessary fossil fuel infrastructure.
The city of Melrose, town of Dedham, and Good Energy for green municipal aggregation planning that increases the amount of renewable energy on the grid.
Keith & Monica Mann, cranberry growers in Plymouth, for their eight (8) MW Future Generation Wind project.
Climate Change Action Brookline, for their efforts toward green municipal aggregation and to help hundreds of Brookline residents to switch to clean, renewable electricity, among other outstanding work.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact Pua Higginson with questions: 617-524-3950 x142 or pua@massenergy.org
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Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Who Needs Rules?
Wednesday, October 21
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: George Church, Kenneth Oye
Join us on Wednesday evenings this October for a four-part series about synthetic biology. Add your voice to the discussions while meeting new people and learning about state-of-the-art science and technology!
Free.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Identity, Culture, and Conflict Resolution
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR New England Association for Conflict Resolution and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Kimberly Leary, Harvard Medical School; Professor Alain Lempereur, Brandeis University, Hugh O'Doherty, Cambridge Leadership Alliance; moderated by Dave Joseph, Public Conversations Project
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.neacr.org/event-1986408
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR New England Association for Conflict Resolution and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Kimberly Leary, Harvard Medical School; Professor Alain Lempereur, Brandeis University, Hugh O'Doherty, Cambridge Leadership Alliance; moderated by Dave Joseph, Public Conversations Project
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.neacr.org/event-1986408
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 21
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Extension ALM in Journalism
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) Fugai Tichawangana, Nieman Fellow '16 and chief digital story teller, Exist Digital, will present "All the President's Men."
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
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Thursday, October 22
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Thursday, October 22 - Friday, October 23 (All day)
Harvard University, Cambridge
The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University. The conference will be concerned with the history of energy and of the environment in any period or region, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including social, cultural, economic, intellectual and environmental history, economics, law, urban studies and the history of science and technology. The History Project is supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, with the object of encouraging a new generation of historians of the economy and economic life.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy2015/index.html
Contact Name: Jennifer Nickerson
histproj@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-4869
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Innovation and the Public Good: Massachusetts and South Africa
Thursday, October 22
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-and-the-public-good-massachusetts-and-south-africa-tickets-16320041684
The challenges South Africa faces in education, health care, economic development and delivery of needed public services can and are being addressed, in part, through innovative technological solutions and the emergence of an innovation economy that is increasingly drawing upon talent from all corners of this young democracy. Massachusetts faces many of the same challenges, and while being a global leader in innovation, our services and solutions for social needs too often remain less than optimal. What can the innovation sector in Massachusetts learn from South Africa, and how can Massachusetts researchers and innovators pilot solutions, at home or in partnership with South Africans, which may benefit all? The proposed symposium witll bring together members of the private, public and academic sectors engaged in innovation and technology development to consider these questions.
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"From Beyond" A Boston MegaGame
Thursday, October 22
11:00am - 7:00pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.megagamesunited.com
"From Beyond" is a Mega Game of epic proportions that combines the best elements of Model United Nations, the board Game Risk, and community storytelling. It is a large scale immersive game, where players represent the many facets of the Nation's of Earth during critical first contact with an unknown alien presence that descends from beyond!
Our November Game is a venture put together by the Boston groups MegaGames United and the Game Makers Guild. The combined power of the designers in these groups have given rise to a behemoth of a game experience.
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Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
Wednesday, October 21
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 7:40 – 9:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Extension ALM in Journalism
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) Fugai Tichawangana, Nieman Fellow '16 and chief digital story teller, Exist Digital, will present "All the President's Men."
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO jerlick@fas.harvard.edu
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Thursday, October 22
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Thursday, October 22 - Friday, October 23 (All day)
Harvard University, Cambridge
The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University. The conference will be concerned with the history of energy and of the environment in any period or region, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including social, cultural, economic, intellectual and environmental history, economics, law, urban studies and the history of science and technology. The History Project is supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, with the object of encouraging a new generation of historians of the economy and economic life.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy2015/index.html
Contact Name: Jennifer Nickerson
histproj@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-4869
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Innovation and the Public Good: Massachusetts and South Africa
Thursday, October 22
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-and-the-public-good-massachusetts-and-south-africa-tickets-16320041684
The challenges South Africa faces in education, health care, economic development and delivery of needed public services can and are being addressed, in part, through innovative technological solutions and the emergence of an innovation economy that is increasingly drawing upon talent from all corners of this young democracy. Massachusetts faces many of the same challenges, and while being a global leader in innovation, our services and solutions for social needs too often remain less than optimal. What can the innovation sector in Massachusetts learn from South Africa, and how can Massachusetts researchers and innovators pilot solutions, at home or in partnership with South Africans, which may benefit all? The proposed symposium witll bring together members of the private, public and academic sectors engaged in innovation and technology development to consider these questions.
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"From Beyond" A Boston MegaGame
Thursday, October 22
11:00am - 7:00pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.megagamesunited.com
"From Beyond" is a Mega Game of epic proportions that combines the best elements of Model United Nations, the board Game Risk, and community storytelling. It is a large scale immersive game, where players represent the many facets of the Nation's of Earth during critical first contact with an unknown alien presence that descends from beyond!
Our November Game is a venture put together by the Boston groups MegaGames United and the Game Makers Guild. The combined power of the designers in these groups have given rise to a behemoth of a game experience.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Peter J. Wallison, co-director of the Program on Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
CONTACT INFO Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Peter J. Wallison, co-director of the Program on Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
CONTACT INFO Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
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AI Teacher
Thursday, October 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 14E-304
Speaker: Takako Aikawa
Takako Aikawa, Senior Lecturer in Japanese, presents The AI (artificial intelligence) Teacher is a highly "interactive" language learning application for learners of Japanese that can simulate the behavior of a language teacher, detecting and correcting users' grammatical mistakes in real time. It can provide linguistic information, for instance phrasal chunking of a sentence (i.e., "bunsetsu analysis") while providing the lexical information (i.e., part-of-speech). It can also provide other information, such as paraphrasing, verb category, katakana readings, etc. Aikawa will give a real-time demonstration.
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 14E-304
Speaker: Takako Aikawa
Takako Aikawa, Senior Lecturer in Japanese, presents The AI (artificial intelligence) Teacher is a highly "interactive" language learning application for learners of Japanese that can simulate the behavior of a language teacher, detecting and correcting users' grammatical mistakes in real time. It can provide linguistic information, for instance phrasal chunking of a sentence (i.e., "bunsetsu analysis") while providing the lexical information (i.e., part-of-speech). It can also provide other information, such as paraphrasing, verb category, katakana readings, etc. Aikawa will give a real-time demonstration.
MIT GSL Brown Bag Lunch Series
Join MIT Global Studies and Languages for our Brown Bag Lunch Series: informal presentations on current research by faculty, lecturers, post-docs, and visiting scholars, giving individual presentations or informal group panels. Light lunch provided.
Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/gsl-brown-bag-lunch-series-haoshiang-liao-takako-aikawa
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler@mit.edu
Join MIT Global Studies and Languages for our Brown Bag Lunch Series: informal presentations on current research by faculty, lecturers, post-docs, and visiting scholars, giving individual presentations or informal group panels. Light lunch provided.
Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/gsl-brown-bag-lunch-series-haoshiang-liao-takako-aikawa
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler@mit.edu
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The Dammed: Getting fish back into American rivers by chipping away at dams
Thursday, October 22
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Becky Kessler, Environmental journalist and Editor, Mongabay
U.S. rivers once teemed with migratory fish making their way between the salty ocean and inland freshwater bodies: alewives, blueback herring, shad, salmon, trout, smelt, eels, lamprey, sturgeon, and others. But the installation of thousands of dams, culverts, and other barriers helped squeeze the fish flow to a trickle. Populations of 24 North Atlantic migratory fish species are now down to less than 10 percent of their historic size, and half are down to less than 2 percent, by one estimate. New England alone has no fewer than 25,000 dams, many of them dating to the 1700s, and more than you might expect in derelict and crumbling condition. Little by little, people are considering taking out some of these dams, with an eye to easing passage for fish, as well as generally improving rivers' health. But dam removal often runs into blockages of its own, and we'll talk about old (bad) and new (better) ways of getting fish over dams when that happens. On the east coast, flagship river restoration is taking place on the Penobscot in Maine, combining several strategies to improve fishes' odds of making it past the 13 dams that once choked its flow: dam removal, dam bypass, and better fish passageways. Enlightenment may be dawning in the U.S., but globally, dusk is descending for many riverine fish and peoples. We'll zoom out and look at the global dam-building frenzy that is transforming entire river networks in a quest for "green" energy, including the Yangtze and Amazon river basins, where roughly 250 dams are being planned or are under construction.
Rebecca Kessler is an editor at the environmental news website Mongabay.com, where she covers all aspects of our changing planet with a particular zeal for the ocean, environmental conflict, and indigenous peoples. A former freelance science and environmental journalist and senior editor at Natural History magazine, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Yale Environment 360, Conservation, Discover, ScienceNOW, ScienceInsider, and Environmental Health Perspectives. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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The Dammed: Getting fish back into American rivers by chipping away at dams
Thursday, October 22
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Becky Kessler, Environmental journalist and Editor, Mongabay
U.S. rivers once teemed with migratory fish making their way between the salty ocean and inland freshwater bodies: alewives, blueback herring, shad, salmon, trout, smelt, eels, lamprey, sturgeon, and others. But the installation of thousands of dams, culverts, and other barriers helped squeeze the fish flow to a trickle. Populations of 24 North Atlantic migratory fish species are now down to less than 10 percent of their historic size, and half are down to less than 2 percent, by one estimate. New England alone has no fewer than 25,000 dams, many of them dating to the 1700s, and more than you might expect in derelict and crumbling condition. Little by little, people are considering taking out some of these dams, with an eye to easing passage for fish, as well as generally improving rivers' health. But dam removal often runs into blockages of its own, and we'll talk about old (bad) and new (better) ways of getting fish over dams when that happens. On the east coast, flagship river restoration is taking place on the Penobscot in Maine, combining several strategies to improve fishes' odds of making it past the 13 dams that once choked its flow: dam removal, dam bypass, and better fish passageways. Enlightenment may be dawning in the U.S., but globally, dusk is descending for many riverine fish and peoples. We'll zoom out and look at the global dam-building frenzy that is transforming entire river networks in a quest for "green" energy, including the Yangtze and Amazon river basins, where roughly 250 dams are being planned or are under construction.
Rebecca Kessler is an editor at the environmental news website Mongabay.com, where she covers all aspects of our changing planet with a particular zeal for the ocean, environmental conflict, and indigenous peoples. A former freelance science and environmental journalist and senior editor at Natural History magazine, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Yale Environment 360, Conservation, Discover, ScienceNOW, ScienceInsider, and Environmental Health Perspectives. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Deep Learning Tech Talk at Boston University
Thursday, October 22
3:00 PM
BU College of Engineering, 110 Cummington Mall, Room 245, Boston
Boston University Research Computing presents Deep Learning with GPU's tech tacks on Thursday October 22, 2015 starting at 3PM.
Who is it for: Undergraduate, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Researchers, and Professors.
Why you should attend: Deep learning is the hottest topic in Machine Learning and it is getting more and more accessible. Learn basics in DIGITS, as well as tips for getting started in this changing field.
Agenda:
Boston University Research Computing presents Deep Learning with GPU's tech tacks on Thursday October 22, 2015 starting at 3PM.
Who is it for: Undergraduate, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Researchers, and Professors.
Why you should attend: Deep learning is the hottest topic in Machine Learning and it is getting more and more accessible. Learn basics in DIGITS, as well as tips for getting started in this changing field.
Agenda:
3:00PM - 3:30PM Drinks and Snacks: 3:00 - 3:30 PM
3:30PM - 3:45PM Welcome and Introductions: Art Mann, Silicon Mechanics
3:45PM - 4:30PM Deep Learning With GPU’s: Barton Fiske, NVIDIA
4:30PM - 5:00PM Q&A, Feedback & Raffle: 4:30 - 5:00 PM
PRESENTATION BY BARTON FISKE B.S.C.S. HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH GROUP, NVIDIA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SILICON MECHANICS
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Myth, Memory, and the Music of the Vietnam War
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights at Harvard.
SPEAKER(S) Doug Bradley, coa-uthor of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place, The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War"
Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, co-author of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place, The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War"
Christian Appy, professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity"
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
DETAILS Building on more 300 interviews with Vietnam veterans, Werner and Bradley reflect on the way that music provides a touchstone for making sense of experiences that, at the time, mostly didn't. The talk will incorporate snippets of songs with particular meaning for veterans, from obvious classics like "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" and "Fortunate Son" to songs that veterans reworked for their own purposes, among them "These Boots Were Made for Walking," "Chain of Fools," and "Purple Haze." Their forthcoming book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of Vietnam, is one of the first oral-history based Vietnam books to incorporate the full range of veteran voices: those who served in all branches of the military; men and women; front line soldiers and those who served in the rear; African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. For more information about We Gotta Get Out of This Place, visit http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/we-gotta-get-out-place
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/myth-memory-and-music-vietnam-war
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights at Harvard.
SPEAKER(S) Doug Bradley, coa-uthor of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place, The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War"
Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, co-author of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place, The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War"
Christian Appy, professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity"
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
DETAILS Building on more 300 interviews with Vietnam veterans, Werner and Bradley reflect on the way that music provides a touchstone for making sense of experiences that, at the time, mostly didn't. The talk will incorporate snippets of songs with particular meaning for veterans, from obvious classics like "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" and "Fortunate Son" to songs that veterans reworked for their own purposes, among them "These Boots Were Made for Walking," "Chain of Fools," and "Purple Haze." Their forthcoming book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of Vietnam, is one of the first oral-history based Vietnam books to incorporate the full range of veteran voices: those who served in all branches of the military; men and women; front line soldiers and those who served in the rear; African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. For more information about We Gotta Get Out of This Place, visit http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/we-gotta-get-out-place
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/myth-memory-and-music-vietnam-war
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Adversarial Robotics: Robotic Strategic Behavior in Adversarial Environments
Thursday, October 22
Thursday, October 22
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Noa Agmon, Bar-Ilan University
Robots act in adversarial environments. It is a fact. Unfortunately, little research has been done on strategic robotic behavior considering the existence of an adversary. This talk summarizes work that we have recently done in the new, emerging, area of Adversarial robotics: Accounting for adversarial presence in robotic tasks. This will be demonstrated by three different problems: multi-robot patrolling, robotic coverage and robot-team formation. We have shown that considering an adversary leads to a more general problem, where operating in neutral environments (as has been done so far) is actually an instance of this problem, that assumes a specific (usually simple, random) adversarial model.
Speaker Bio: Noa Agmon is a faculty member at the Computer Science department at Bar-Ilan University (BIU). Her research focuses on multi-robot systems, while using both theoretical and empirical means for evaluation of team performance guarantees on a variety of robotic tasks, for example multi-robot patrol and robot navigation. She received her PhD (with highest distinction) from Bar-lan University (2009), and her MSc from the Weizmann Institute (2004), and spent two years at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin before accepting the faculty position at BIU, where she established and heads the Security Robotics Lab.
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Noa Agmon, Bar-Ilan University
Robots act in adversarial environments. It is a fact. Unfortunately, little research has been done on strategic robotic behavior considering the existence of an adversary. This talk summarizes work that we have recently done in the new, emerging, area of Adversarial robotics: Accounting for adversarial presence in robotic tasks. This will be demonstrated by three different problems: multi-robot patrolling, robotic coverage and robot-team formation. We have shown that considering an adversary leads to a more general problem, where operating in neutral environments (as has been done so far) is actually an instance of this problem, that assumes a specific (usually simple, random) adversarial model.
Speaker Bio: Noa Agmon is a faculty member at the Computer Science department at Bar-Ilan University (BIU). Her research focuses on multi-robot systems, while using both theoretical and empirical means for evaluation of team performance guarantees on a variety of robotic tasks, for example multi-robot patrol and robot navigation. She received her PhD (with highest distinction) from Bar-lan University (2009), and her MSc from the Weizmann Institute (2004), and spent two years at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin before accepting the faculty position at BIU, where she established and heads the Security Robotics Lab.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Host: Barbara Grosz and Radhika Nagpal
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Giving Voice: A Conversation with Plácido Domingo
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Division of Arts and Humanities, Office for the Arts at Harvard (Learning From Performers), and Cervantes Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
COST Free and open to the public, tickets required. Tickets (limit of two per person) available to students (of any college)
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp
TICKET INFO Tickets for Harvard affiliates available beginning Oct. 13, and to the general public beginning Oct.14.
DETAILS One of the finest tenors of all time, the legendary Plácido Domingo will be celebrated at Harvard during this event moderated by Tamar Herzog Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Professor of History, and Anne C. Shreffler, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. The discussion will focus on Domingo’s extraordinary performances in opera houses and concert stages worldwide; his artistic directorship of the Los Angeles Opera and his career as a revered operatic conductor; his support of emerging singers and artists; his tireless advocacy for Hispanic and Latino arts and culture; and the wide range of humanitarian causes he has supported through many benefit concerts.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/current-lfp-events
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Division of Arts and Humanities, Office for the Arts at Harvard (Learning From Performers), and Cervantes Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
COST Free and open to the public, tickets required. Tickets (limit of two per person) available to students (of any college)
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp
TICKET INFO Tickets for Harvard affiliates available beginning Oct. 13, and to the general public beginning Oct.14.
DETAILS One of the finest tenors of all time, the legendary Plácido Domingo will be celebrated at Harvard during this event moderated by Tamar Herzog Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Professor of History, and Anne C. Shreffler, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. The discussion will focus on Domingo’s extraordinary performances in opera houses and concert stages worldwide; his artistic directorship of the Los Angeles Opera and his career as a revered operatic conductor; his support of emerging singers and artists; his tireless advocacy for Hispanic and Latino arts and culture; and the wide range of humanitarian causes he has supported through many benefit concerts.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/current-lfp-events
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People at the Gates of Sovereignty: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS, Knafel Room 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Leaning, director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University and FXB Professor of Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-tba
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS, Knafel Room 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Jennifer Leaning, director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University and FXB Professor of Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-tba
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I.F. Stone Medal Presentation to Robert Parry
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, One Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Investigative reporter and author Robert Parry, founder and editor of Consortium News; Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR's On Point; Celia Gilbert, I.F. Stone's daughter
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required by Oct. 16
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebninfa000f36f45&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO christine_kaye@harvard.edu; 617.496.6333
DETAILS Join the Nieman Foundation in honoring Robert Parry with the 2015 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. Parry is being recognized for a career distinguished by meticulously researched investigations and reporting that has challenged both conventional wisdom and mainstream media. RSVP required by Oct. 16.
LINK events.r20.constantcontact.com…
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, One Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Investigative reporter and author Robert Parry, founder and editor of Consortium News; Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR's On Point; Celia Gilbert, I.F. Stone's daughter
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP required by Oct. 16
TICKET WEB LINK https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebninfa000f36f45&oseq=&c=&ch=
CONTACT INFO christine_kaye@harvard.edu; 617.496.6333
DETAILS Join the Nieman Foundation in honoring Robert Parry with the 2015 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. Parry is being recognized for a career distinguished by meticulously researched investigations and reporting that has challenged both conventional wisdom and mainstream media. RSVP required by Oct. 16.
LINK events.r20.constantcontact.com…
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From Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor
Thursday, October 22
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
William F. Buckley's public affairs program Firing Line (PBS, 1966-1999) offered a space for no-holds-barred, honest intellectual combat at its finest. The conservative Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view, and thereby become a better liberal or a better conservative from watching the show. There is simply no equivalent on TV today. Conservatives have Fox News, liberals have MSNBC, and in more neutral territory we find C-SPAN. Overall, politically oriented broadcasting has become a vast echo chamber (especially on talk radio), with many tuning in largely to have their views confirmed--and to hear the other side vilified. What happened? How did we get from Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor? And how can we possibly fix things? Hendershot's talk will provide the historical, regulatory, and political context we need in order to begin to address these very difficult questions.
Heather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in CMS/W. Her book on Firing Line is forthcoming in the summer of 2016.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond
Thursday, October 22
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The Harvard Museum of Natural History presents a talk and book signing with Dan Fagin, Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, Carter Institute of Journalism, New York University, on "Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond." What information can be drawn from the study of cancer clusters? Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, will discuss why the story of this small New Jersey town, ravaged by industrial pollution, is not merely a cautionary tale of dumping, deceit, and denial, but is also a saga of deep science and compelling history, with roots extending around the world and across the centuries, from ancient Greece to modern-day China.
“[A] new classic of science reporting…this is, after all, no fairy tale, but a sober story of probability and compromise, laid out with the care and precision that characterizes both good science and great journalism in a territory where both are often reduced to their worst.” -- Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times.
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/connecting-dots-toms-river-and-beyond
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Clinical computational oncology for precision medicine
Thursday, October 22
6-7pm
The Broad Institute, 415 Main Street - Auditorium, Cambridge
Speaker: Eli Van Allen
The ability to create increasingly complex genomic data generated directly from patient tumors may impact our understanding of cancer and affect clinical decisions about cancer treatment. As the quantity of genomic data generated from individual cancer patients greatly expands, innovations will be needed to successfully implement large-scale genomics at the point-of-care. These include new ways to 1) interpret large-scale data from individual patients and 2) understand why patients respond (or don't respond) to existing and emerging cancer therapies such as targeted therapies, chemotherapies, and immunotherapies. In this talk, Dr. Van Allen will explore how the emerging discipline of clinical computational oncology is powering new approaches for the clinical interpretation of large-scale genomic data and how these data are helping physicians understand why certain patients benefit from cancer therapies when others do not. While still in its infancy, this new field of clinical computational oncology may drive the widespread implementation of precision cancer medicine in the years to come.
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Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend - The Opening – “Swoon: The Urban Impact of Collaborative Gestures”
Thursday, October 22
6:30 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium
Callie Curry, aka Swoon, Artist, Activist, Community Developer
introduced by John Peterson, Loeb Curator
More at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/images/content/6/3/v2/637480/Loeb-45th-Reunion-Schedule-PUBLIC-081815.pdf
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Friday, October 23
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Grad Student Conference: The Future of Food Studies
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23 – Sun., Oct. 25, 2015
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Conferences, Education, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Graduate Association for Food Studies with major funding from the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) The conference will feature two keynote speakers: Professor Fabio Parasecoli, acclaimed food studies scholar and coordinator of the Food Studies program at the New School, and Joyce Chaplin, professor of early American history at Harvard University.
COST Free to $20; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK www.graduatefoodassociation.org/#!registration/cfug
CONTACT INFO info@graduatefoodassociation.org
LINK www.graduatefoodassociation.org/#!registration/cfug
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Friday, October 23
Harvard University, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy2015/index.html
The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University. The conference will be concerned with the history of energy and of the environment in any period or region, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including social, cultural, economic, intellectual and environmental history, economics, law, urban studies and the history of science and technology. The History Project is supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, with the object of encouraging a new generation of historians of the economy and economic life.
Contact Name:
Jennifer Nickerson
histproj@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-4869
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-22-040000-2015-10-23-040000/history-energy-and-environment-conference#sthash.6oodXQbk.dpuf
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From Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor
Thursday, October 22
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
William F. Buckley's public affairs program Firing Line (PBS, 1966-1999) offered a space for no-holds-barred, honest intellectual combat at its finest. The conservative Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view, and thereby become a better liberal or a better conservative from watching the show. There is simply no equivalent on TV today. Conservatives have Fox News, liberals have MSNBC, and in more neutral territory we find C-SPAN. Overall, politically oriented broadcasting has become a vast echo chamber (especially on talk radio), with many tuning in largely to have their views confirmed--and to hear the other side vilified. What happened? How did we get from Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor? And how can we possibly fix things? Hendershot's talk will provide the historical, regulatory, and political context we need in order to begin to address these very difficult questions.
Heather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in CMS/W. Her book on Firing Line is forthcoming in the summer of 2016.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu
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Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond
Thursday, October 22
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The Harvard Museum of Natural History presents a talk and book signing with Dan Fagin, Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, Carter Institute of Journalism, New York University, on "Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond." What information can be drawn from the study of cancer clusters? Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, will discuss why the story of this small New Jersey town, ravaged by industrial pollution, is not merely a cautionary tale of dumping, deceit, and denial, but is also a saga of deep science and compelling history, with roots extending around the world and across the centuries, from ancient Greece to modern-day China.
“[A] new classic of science reporting…this is, after all, no fairy tale, but a sober story of probability and compromise, laid out with the care and precision that characterizes both good science and great journalism in a territory where both are often reduced to their worst.” -- Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times.
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/connecting-dots-toms-river-and-beyond
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Clinical computational oncology for precision medicine
Thursday, October 22
6-7pm
The Broad Institute, 415 Main Street - Auditorium, Cambridge
Speaker: Eli Van Allen
The ability to create increasingly complex genomic data generated directly from patient tumors may impact our understanding of cancer and affect clinical decisions about cancer treatment. As the quantity of genomic data generated from individual cancer patients greatly expands, innovations will be needed to successfully implement large-scale genomics at the point-of-care. These include new ways to 1) interpret large-scale data from individual patients and 2) understand why patients respond (or don't respond) to existing and emerging cancer therapies such as targeted therapies, chemotherapies, and immunotherapies. In this talk, Dr. Van Allen will explore how the emerging discipline of clinical computational oncology is powering new approaches for the clinical interpretation of large-scale genomic data and how these data are helping physicians understand why certain patients benefit from cancer therapies when others do not. While still in its infancy, this new field of clinical computational oncology may drive the widespread implementation of precision cancer medicine in the years to come.
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Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend - The Opening – “Swoon: The Urban Impact of Collaborative Gestures”
Thursday, October 22
6:30 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium
Callie Curry, aka Swoon, Artist, Activist, Community Developer
introduced by John Peterson, Loeb Curator
More at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/images/content/6/3/v2/637480/Loeb-45th-Reunion-Schedule-PUBLIC-081815.pdf
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Friday, October 23
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Grad Student Conference: The Future of Food Studies
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23 – Sun., Oct. 25, 2015
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Conferences, Education, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Presented by the Graduate Association for Food Studies with major funding from the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) The conference will feature two keynote speakers: Professor Fabio Parasecoli, acclaimed food studies scholar and coordinator of the Food Studies program at the New School, and Joyce Chaplin, professor of early American history at Harvard University.
COST Free to $20; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK www.graduatefoodassociation.org/#!registration/cfug
CONTACT INFO info@graduatefoodassociation.org
LINK www.graduatefoodassociation.org/#!registration/cfug
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Friday, October 23
Harvard University, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy2015/index.html
The History Project, in cooperation with the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Global History of Energy Project, will hold its fourth conference on October 22-23, 2015 at Harvard University. The conference will be concerned with the history of energy and of the environment in any period or region, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including social, cultural, economic, intellectual and environmental history, economics, law, urban studies and the history of science and technology. The History Project is supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, with the object of encouraging a new generation of historians of the economy and economic life.
Contact Name:
Jennifer Nickerson
histproj@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-4869
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-22-040000-2015-10-23-040000/history-energy-and-environment-conference#sthash.6oodXQbk.dpuf
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Synesthesia - A Window into Brain Development
Friday, October 23
Friday, October 23
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
9:00AM TO 6:00PM
FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUESTED at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40dK0qGyNaaLC6N
Please note: This event will be videotaped and we hope to make some of the content available online afterwards.
8:45am Coffee & Light Breakfast Served
9:00am Welcome & Introduction by Conte Center Director, Takao Hensch, PhD
MORNING LECTURES:
9:00AM TO 6:00PM
FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUESTED at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40dK0qGyNaaLC6N
Please note: This event will be videotaped and we hope to make some of the content available online afterwards.
8:45am Coffee & Light Breakfast Served
9:00am Welcome & Introduction by Conte Center Director, Takao Hensch, PhD
MORNING LECTURES:
"What synesthesia can teach us about development"
Daphne Maurer, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
"Developing & Decoding Synesthesia"
Edward Hubbard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Waisman Center, Director, Educational Neuroscience Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The development of multisensory perception in human infancy & underlying mechanisms of change"
David Lewkowicz, PhD, Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Director, Communication Development Laboratory, Northeastern University
"Pruning circuits through early experience"
Takao Hensch, PhD, Director, Conte Center at Harvard, Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital
1:00 to 2:00pm: Lunch
Sandwiches served (please register!)
AFTERNOON LECTURES:
"Autism & Synesthesia: Do prenatal sex steroids alter neural connectivity in both?"
Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD , Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Director, Autism Research Center, University of Cambridge, UK
"New insights from large-scale analysis of colored-sequence synesthetes"
David Eagleman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine
DISCUSSION PANEL AT CONCLUSION:
In addition to speakers David Lewkowicz, Edward Hubbard, Simon Baron-Cohen and David Eagleman, featuring:
Caroline E. Robertson, PhD; Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Ella Striem-Amit, PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard Department of Psychology
Panel Moderated by:
Daphne Maurer and Takao Hensch
Edward Hubbard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Waisman Center, Director, Educational Neuroscience Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The development of multisensory perception in human infancy & underlying mechanisms of change"
David Lewkowicz, PhD, Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Director, Communication Development Laboratory, Northeastern University
"Pruning circuits through early experience"
Takao Hensch, PhD, Director, Conte Center at Harvard, Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital
1:00 to 2:00pm: Lunch
Sandwiches served (please register!)
AFTERNOON LECTURES:
"Autism & Synesthesia: Do prenatal sex steroids alter neural connectivity in both?"
Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD , Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Director, Autism Research Center, University of Cambridge, UK
"New insights from large-scale analysis of colored-sequence synesthetes"
David Eagleman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine
DISCUSSION PANEL AT CONCLUSION:
In addition to speakers David Lewkowicz, Edward Hubbard, Simon Baron-Cohen and David Eagleman, featuring:
Caroline E. Robertson, PhD; Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Ella Striem-Amit, PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard Department of Psychology
Panel Moderated by:
Daphne Maurer and Takao Hensch
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Food Day Official Kickoff Event at the Statehouse:
Friday, October 23
9:30 – 11:30 AM
Friday, October 23
9:30 – 11:30 AM
Massachusetts State House, 2nd floor Grand Stair Case and Nurses Hall
RSVP at rose.arruda@state.ma.us
The MA Food Plan will be available at www.mafoodplan.org for comments. More than 1,000 people have been involved so far, with input from growers, food processors, consumers, food and agricultural organizations and advocates.
The Massachusetts Food Policy Council with support from MDAR and the MAPC has facilitated the development of the draft MA Food Plan in collaboration with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Franklin Regional Council of Government, and the Massachusetts Workforce Alliance.
This event will continue with another engaging event with “Let’s Talk about Food” (12 – 1 PM) at the Boston Public Market Kitchen.
RSVP at rose.arruda@state.ma.us
The MA Food Plan will be available at www.mafoodplan.org for comments. More than 1,000 people have been involved so far, with input from growers, food processors, consumers, food and agricultural organizations and advocates.
The Massachusetts Food Policy Council with support from MDAR and the MAPC has facilitated the development of the draft MA Food Plan in collaboration with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Franklin Regional Council of Government, and the Massachusetts Workforce Alliance.
This event will continue with another engaging event with “Let’s Talk about Food” (12 – 1 PM) at the Boston Public Market Kitchen.
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Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
Friday, October 23
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Trevor McDougall, Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
"The "potential" property and the "conservative" property; what is the heat content of seawater?"
Houghton Lecture
Supported through the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT who we invite to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months as scientists-in-residence within our Program. During their stay it is customary for each lecturer to offer a short-course or a series of lectures on some topic of wide interest. Houghton Lecturer recommendations are welcome throughout the year. Contact Raffaele Ferrari with your suggestions.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
cliberty@mit.edu
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Brown Bag Lunch with Let's Talk About Food. Topic: The Massachusetts Food Plan
Friday, October 23
12Noon-1:45PM
Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover Street, Boston
Join Let’s Talk about Food for a lunch time discussion about the food systems. During today’s Food Day talk, we discuss The Massachusetts Food Plan, a comprehensive, long term plans for agriculture in our state with John Lebeaux, Massachusetts Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture
Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
Friday, October 23
10:00a–11:00a
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Trevor McDougall, Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
"The "potential" property and the "conservative" property; what is the heat content of seawater?"
Houghton Lecture
Supported through the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT who we invite to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months as scientists-in-residence within our Program. During their stay it is customary for each lecturer to offer a short-course or a series of lectures on some topic of wide interest. Houghton Lecturer recommendations are welcome throughout the year. Contact Raffaele Ferrari with your suggestions.
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Christine Maglio
617-253-6603
cliberty@mit.edu
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Brown Bag Lunch with Let's Talk About Food. Topic: The Massachusetts Food Plan
Friday, October 23
12Noon-1:45PM
Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover Street, Boston
Join Let’s Talk about Food for a lunch time discussion about the food systems. During today’s Food Day talk, we discuss The Massachusetts Food Plan, a comprehensive, long term plans for agriculture in our state with John Lebeaux, Massachusetts Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture
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ACS Seminar: Division of Labor in the Maintenance of the Urban Commons: Collective Function through the Lens of Administrative Data
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Daniel O'Brien, Northeastern University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Scientists have long been intrigued by the “problem of the commons,” or the concept that individuals have little incentive to contribute to the upkeep of shared spaces. A recent government program in American cities provides a new window onto the behavioral dynamics of this process. 311 systems accept requests for non-emergency government services (e.g., graffiti removal), many of which reference issues in the public space, generating a database that documents efforts by residents to maintain the public spaces and infrastructure of the city—or what might be called the urban commons. This talk presents a series of studies that use the accounts of individuals registered with Boston’s 311 system to identify two types of custodians— typical custodians, who report issues only rarely and nearby their homes, and exemplars, who report issues with greater frequency and over a greater geographical range. We will explore their differing motivations for maintaining the neighborhood, and how this determines their contributions to that maintenance. Rather than the traditional story of “cooperators and free-riders,” the results depict a more nuanced division of labor in the maintenance of the urban commons, and one that can be utilized to enhance 311 systems to better encourage and support residents to participate in this process. As such, the work highlights how research on novel administrative data sets can have both scholarly and practical impacts.
LINK https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/83596
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Daniel O'Brien, Northeastern University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Scientists have long been intrigued by the “problem of the commons,” or the concept that individuals have little incentive to contribute to the upkeep of shared spaces. A recent government program in American cities provides a new window onto the behavioral dynamics of this process. 311 systems accept requests for non-emergency government services (e.g., graffiti removal), many of which reference issues in the public space, generating a database that documents efforts by residents to maintain the public spaces and infrastructure of the city—or what might be called the urban commons. This talk presents a series of studies that use the accounts of individuals registered with Boston’s 311 system to identify two types of custodians— typical custodians, who report issues only rarely and nearby their homes, and exemplars, who report issues with greater frequency and over a greater geographical range. We will explore their differing motivations for maintaining the neighborhood, and how this determines their contributions to that maintenance. Rather than the traditional story of “cooperators and free-riders,” the results depict a more nuanced division of labor in the maintenance of the urban commons, and one that can be utilized to enhance 311 systems to better encourage and support residents to participate in this process. As such, the work highlights how research on novel administrative data sets can have both scholarly and practical impacts.
LINK https://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/83596
Editorial Comment: I wonder how many times Elinor Ostrom's name will come up.
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A Free Screening of the film Harvest of Empire
The Diversity Caucus and the Immigration Justice Committee of First Parish in Brookline invite you to a free screening of 'Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America,' a film by Eduardo Lopez based on the landmark book by Juan González.
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/48145023
Our Guest of Honor, Patricia Montes, Executive Director of Centro Presente, will lead a discussion following the film.
The screening will be held in Lyon Chapel (handicap accessible).
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Saturday, October 24
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Food Day
Saturday, October 24
Save The Date!
Get ready to celebrate the 5th Annual Food Day!
Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food, a super grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24, here is the 2014 report and yes, Massachusetts is featured throughout!
Find a Spanish brochure here and more resources at the Food Day website
Across Massachusetts, over 600 events were hosted by individuals and organizations working to make our food system more sustainable, accessible and just. Building stronger relationships with our farmers, providing children with nutritional education and working to ensure all of our residents have access to healthy, nutritious, food were the key themes of our collective actions.
Regional information meetings are being planned for May, if you would like to host one and have others in your community come together, let me know. If you would like to be on an information list, email me.
Listed below are a few Ideas for your activities:
MA schools will take the “Eat Real” 2015 challenge (nearly 400 schools did last year!)
Cooking demonstrations and food education workshops
Host an “Apple Crunch” with community groups or at your office
Farm tours and community activities with your local farmer
Health center staff members hosting local food potlucks
Food system forums, film screenings at town community centers
College campus organizing-dozens of campuses participated across MA!
Please let me know what you are planning to do. Visit the website, www.foodday.org for more information, share the information with your co-workers/friends/farmers/neighbors/community organization…and plan for a meeting share ideas, guidance and community building
Rose Arruda
Urban Agriculture Coordinator
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
251 Causeway St. Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114
Desk: 617-626-1849
Cell: 617-851-3644
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Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend
Saturday, October 24
9am - 2:30pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall
More at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/images/content/6/3/v2/637480/Loeb-45th-Reunion-Schedule-PUBLIC-081815.pdf
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Sunday, October 25
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"JUST EAT IT" A Food Waste Story and Panel Discussion - A National Food Day* Event
Sunday, October 25
2-5 pm
Lincoln Elementary School, 25 Kennard Road, Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-food-day-just-eat-it-food-waste-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-18787284273
featuring
Doug Rauch, Founder/President, Daily Table, Boston
Ashley Stanley, Founder/Executive Director, Lovin' Spoonfuls, Boston
Jim Solomon, Owner, The Fireplace, Brookline
Alden Cadwell, Director, Brookline Public Schools Food Service
Nataka Crayton-Walker, Co-Founder/Farmer, City Growers, Boston
Crystal Johnson, Sr. Env. Planner/Climate Adaptation Strategist (Moderator)
Recently released in the US Just Eat It is an award winning film exploring food waste from field to landfill. Following the film our panel of local experts will discuss the impact of food waste on hunger, resources and the environment.
Join folks from Brookline and beyond to learn, share ideas and become inspired to take action to improve food access, healthy eating and food waste impact.
Reserve your seat now!
Contact us to help with this event and more: bountifulbrookline@gmail.com
And visit our website at http://www.bountifulbrookline.org
*National Food Day promotes real food and addresses issues of food waste and access across America.
Co-hosted by Bountiful Brookline & Brookline Public Schools Food Services
Bountiful Brookline is a sponsored project of Brookline Community Foundation
Friday, October 23
6:30pm
First Parish in Brookline, 382 Walnut Street, Brookline
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/48145023
Our Guest of Honor, Patricia Montes, Executive Director of Centro Presente, will lead a discussion following the film.
The screening will be held in Lyon Chapel (handicap accessible).
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Saturday, October 24
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Food Day
Saturday, October 24
Save The Date!
Get ready to celebrate the 5th Annual Food Day!
Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food, a super grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24, here is the 2014 report and yes, Massachusetts is featured throughout!
Find a Spanish brochure here and more resources at the Food Day website
Across Massachusetts, over 600 events were hosted by individuals and organizations working to make our food system more sustainable, accessible and just. Building stronger relationships with our farmers, providing children with nutritional education and working to ensure all of our residents have access to healthy, nutritious, food were the key themes of our collective actions.
Regional information meetings are being planned for May, if you would like to host one and have others in your community come together, let me know. If you would like to be on an information list, email me.
Listed below are a few Ideas for your activities:
MA schools will take the “Eat Real” 2015 challenge (nearly 400 schools did last year!)
Cooking demonstrations and food education workshops
Host an “Apple Crunch” with community groups or at your office
Farm tours and community activities with your local farmer
Health center staff members hosting local food potlucks
Food system forums, film screenings at town community centers
College campus organizing-dozens of campuses participated across MA!
Please let me know what you are planning to do. Visit the website, www.foodday.org for more information, share the information with your co-workers/friends/farmers/neighbors/community organization…and plan for a meeting share ideas, guidance and community building
Rose Arruda
Urban Agriculture Coordinator
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
251 Causeway St. Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114
Desk: 617-626-1849
Cell: 617-851-3644
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Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend
Saturday, October 24
9am - 2:30pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall
More at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/images/content/6/3/v2/637480/Loeb-45th-Reunion-Schedule-PUBLIC-081815.pdf
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Sunday, October 25
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"JUST EAT IT" A Food Waste Story and Panel Discussion - A National Food Day* Event
Sunday, October 25
2-5 pm
Lincoln Elementary School, 25 Kennard Road, Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-food-day-just-eat-it-food-waste-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-18787284273
featuring
Doug Rauch, Founder/President, Daily Table, Boston
Ashley Stanley, Founder/Executive Director, Lovin' Spoonfuls, Boston
Jim Solomon, Owner, The Fireplace, Brookline
Alden Cadwell, Director, Brookline Public Schools Food Service
Nataka Crayton-Walker, Co-Founder/Farmer, City Growers, Boston
Crystal Johnson, Sr. Env. Planner/Climate Adaptation Strategist (Moderator)
Recently released in the US Just Eat It is an award winning film exploring food waste from field to landfill. Following the film our panel of local experts will discuss the impact of food waste on hunger, resources and the environment.
Join folks from Brookline and beyond to learn, share ideas and become inspired to take action to improve food access, healthy eating and food waste impact.
Reserve your seat now!
Contact us to help with this event and more: bountifulbrookline@gmail.com
And visit our website at http://www.bountifulbrookline.org
*National Food Day promotes real food and addresses issues of food waste and access across America.
Co-hosted by Bountiful Brookline & Brookline Public Schools Food Services
Bountiful Brookline is a sponsored project of Brookline Community Foundation
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Report from and Fund Raising Party for Maasai Stoves and Solar
Sunday, October 25
4:40pm - 7:30pm
Harvard, Pforzheimer House, Holmes Heritage Room, 56 Linnaean Street, Cambridge
Kisioki Moitiko and Robert Lange, ICSEE Maasai Stoves and Solar Project
Report back from Tanzania on the progress with fuel-efficient cookstoves and solar microgrids among the Maasai and other peoples in 14 villages.
Contact RBTVL@aol.com and http://www.internationalcollaborative.org
Editorial Comment: I've known Bob Lange and his work in Tanzania for years now. His is a small-scale, effective appropriate technology effort which co-creates more efficient and less carbon intensive practices for people at the base of the pyramid. Please support his work if you can.
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Monday, October 26
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MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
Monday, October 26
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
Monday, October 26
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Larry Makovich, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
Monday, October 26
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Alessandro Behgini, Associate and Sr. Structural Engineer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
Monday, October 26
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Susanne E. Freidberg, Chair, Department of Geography, Dartmouth
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) John Larson, professor of history, Purdue University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/“american-revelation-liberty-freedom-and-capitalism-revolutionary-generation”
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) John Larson, professor of history, Purdue University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO lkennedy@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/“american-revelation-liberty-freedom-and-capitalism-revolutionary-generation”
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Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
Monday, October 26
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Arnold Worldwide, 10 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-and-walkability-panel-walktechbos-tickets-18739107174
Tech and Walkability: How can we use technology to improve the walking environment in our communities?
WalkBoston is celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, so we’re looking at many different aspects of walkability. In this panel, we’ll take a look at walkability and tech - how they are connected, how they can be used to improve health and communities, and where there is opportunity in the future. Thank you to Arnold Worldwide for hosting our event!
Panelists include:
Tech and Walkability: How can we use technology to improve the walking environment in our communities?
WalkBoston is celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, so we’re looking at many different aspects of walkability. In this panel, we’ll take a look at walkability and tech - how they are connected, how they can be used to improve health and communities, and where there is opportunity in the future. Thank you to Arnold Worldwide for hosting our event!
Panelists include:
Elizabeth Christoforetti (Placelet / MIT Media Lab)
Tim Fendley (Applied Wayfinding / Legible London)
Chris Osgood (City of Boston's Chief of Streets)
Caroline Smith (SeeClickFix)
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Tuesday, October 27
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Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
Tuesday, October 27
7:45 AM to 9:45 AM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre - Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-boston-2030-widett-circle-bostons-next-frontier-for-innovation-tickets-18187575528
The Center for Real Estate and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board presents: Building Boston 2030
Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation and Growth
Widett Circle-off the southeast expressway-is on the brink of major redevelopment. The area once slated to become a temporary stadium for the Boston Olympics could become Boston's next frontier for growth. But now, with Mayor Martin J. Walsh's support, developers are determined to transform it into a new section of the city that offers workforce housing and economic opportunities for new and existing industries.
What does that mean for Widett Circle? Will it become the next Kendall Square-a hotbed for technological innovation? A new place for people to live and work like Fenway? Or maybe an upscale shopping and entertainment center like Assembly Row in Somerville?
Panelists:
Panelists will be announced shortly!
Moderated by:
Peter Howe, Business Editor, NECN
This event is free and open to the public, registration is required.
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UE, OCT 27, 2015 AT 9:00 AM
Innovating for Billions - Conference
Tuesday, October 27
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
MIT Media Lab - 75 Amherst Street. 6th Floor Lecture Hall. Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-for-billions-conference-tickets-18958356956
Morning Session Kumbh@MIT
9am – MIT Media Lab Welcomes Kumbhathon
Opening Remarks from Professor Ramesh Raskar and MIT Team
10am – Panel from Kumbhathon thought leaders
11am – Nashik Government officials present on Smart City Initiative
12pm – Lunch at MIT Media Lab with MIT scientists
Morning Session Kumbh@MIT
9am – MIT Media Lab Welcomes Kumbhathon
Opening Remarks from Professor Ramesh Raskar and MIT Team
10am – Panel from Kumbhathon thought leaders
11am – Nashik Government officials present on Smart City Initiative
12pm – Lunch at MIT Media Lab with MIT scientists
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The Internet of Garbage
Tuesday, October 27
Tuesday, October 27
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong at 12:00 pm
Sarah Jeong
With the international attention on the torrent of Twitter threats sent to Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013 (and the later prosecution of some of the people who sent her those threats), and national attention on the months-long firestorm associated with #Gamergate, “harassment” is a word that is bandied around with increasing frequency. As it becomes more and more obvious that women are disparately impacted by harassment on the Internet, harassment is framed as a civil rights problem, legal solutions are proposed, and vitriol is hurled at platforms for failing to protect female users. There is a pervasive feeling that there is a crisis on the Internet that pits the safety of women against the freedom of speech. Yet the Internet has long grappled with what to do when unwanted speech makes it unusable. The history of the Web—from its oldest forgotten communities to the decades of anti-spam technology—can offer a new lens through which to understand online harassment, along with lessons and caveats.
About Sarah
Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian, Slate, and WIRED. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.
In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong at 12:00 pm
Sarah Jeong
With the international attention on the torrent of Twitter threats sent to Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013 (and the later prosecution of some of the people who sent her those threats), and national attention on the months-long firestorm associated with #Gamergate, “harassment” is a word that is bandied around with increasing frequency. As it becomes more and more obvious that women are disparately impacted by harassment on the Internet, harassment is framed as a civil rights problem, legal solutions are proposed, and vitriol is hurled at platforms for failing to protect female users. There is a pervasive feeling that there is a crisis on the Internet that pits the safety of women against the freedom of speech. Yet the Internet has long grappled with what to do when unwanted speech makes it unusable. The history of the Web—from its oldest forgotten communities to the decades of anti-spam technology—can offer a new lens through which to understand online harassment, along with lessons and caveats.
About Sarah
Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian, Slate, and WIRED. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.
In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.
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Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.
Tuesday, October 27
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Stacey Archfield, U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
Tuesday, October 27
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Riva Kastoryano, Sciences-Po, Paris
Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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Askwith Forum with Lani Guinier
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 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 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
Speaker: Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; author, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
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Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
Tuesday, October 27
Harvard Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
José Andrés, (@chefjoseandres), ThinkFoodGroup
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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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).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
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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Resource
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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
--------------------------------------------------
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
----------------------
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!
---------------------
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
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
********************************************
-----------------------------------------------------
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
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
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.
Tuesday, October 27
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Stacey Archfield, U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program, (Tufts PhD)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
Tuesday, October 27
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Riva Kastoryano, Sciences-Po, Paris
Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu
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Askwith Forum with Lani Guinier
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 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 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
Speaker: Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; author, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
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Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
Tuesday, October 27
Harvard Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 pm
José Andrés, (@chefjoseandres), ThinkFoodGroup
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Opportunity
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
-----------------------------
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.
———————————
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
---------------------
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).
---------------------
Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
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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Resource
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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
--------------------------------------------------
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/
---------------------------------------
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
----------------------
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!
---------------------
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
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
********************************************
-----------------------------------------------------
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
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
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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