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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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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MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar: How to Build a Culture of Innovation Through Design and Systems Thinking
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
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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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
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Monday, October 19
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12pm MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
12pm MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar: How to Build a Culture of Innovation Through Design and Systems Thinking
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
4pm Using the plants and animals of Thoreau’s Concord to communicate climate change research to a wider audience
4pm Understanding the Recent Global Warming Slowdown: Observations, Theories and Modeling
4pm The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and Spillovers
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
5:15pm Reparations for Native American Languages? Churches, Governments, and Cultural Genocide
6pm Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
6:30pm Georgetown University Energy Prize Phone Call Party
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 Garance Franke-Ruta: Women, the Media, and Campaign 2016
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
4:30pm The Role of Nuclear in a Carbon-Constrained World
6pm Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
6pm Bringing Monitoring Technologies for Water Filtration and Power System Infrastructure to Remote Areas
7pm Bob Woodward at First Parish Church
7pm Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
7pm Poverty, Inc. Screening and Q&A
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Wednesday, October 21
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7:30am October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
12pm Don't Look Away: Images of Systematic Torture in the Syrian Regime
12pm Explaining the Vietnam War
12:30pm From Voice to Influence: Preparing for Civic Agency in a Digital Age
2:30pm Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities
4pm Curing Diseases with Financial Innovation
4:15pm Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs
4:15 pm Design of Resource- and Eco-Effective Materials, Processes, and Systems
4:30pm Starr Forum: Global Refugee Crisis
5pm A Window Into the Underwater World: Framing Fish at the New England Aquarium
5:30pm Mass Energy Consumers Alliance's 33rd Annual Meeting
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Who Needs Rules?
6:30pm Identity, Culture, and Conflict Resolution
7pm Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
7pm Integral Ecology: Capitalism, Environments, and the Encyclical
7pm Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
7pm US Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine and Syria: The Power of False Narrative
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
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Thursday, October 22
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
9am Innovation and the Public Good: Massachusetts and South Africa
11am "From Beyond" A Boston MegaGame
11:45am Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again
12pm AI Teacher
12pm The Dammed: Getting fish back into American rivers by chipping away at dams
3pm Deep Learning Tech Talk at Boston University
4pm Myth, Memory, and the Music of the Vietnam War
4pm Adversarial Robotics: Robotic Strategic Behavior in Adversarial Environments
4pm Ocean acidification impacts on future phytoplankton communities: using numerical models to scale up from laboratory and field studies to the global scale.
4pm Giving Voice: A Conversation with Plácido Domingo
4pm People at the Gates of Sovereignty: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
4:10pm Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
4:30pm I.F. Stone Medal Presentation to Robert Parry
5pm From Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor
5:30pm Sustainable Dev. Goals & Socially Responsible Investing: Focus on Inequality
6pm The Importance of Being Dispensable: Downsizing our Global Ambition
6pm Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond
6pm Clinical computational oncology for precision medicine
6:30pm Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend - The Opening – “Swoon: The Urban Impact of Collaborative Gestures”
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Friday, October 23
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Architecture Boston Exposition - registration deadline
Grad Student Conference: The Future of Food Studies
The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Synesthesia - A Window into Brain Development
9:30am Food Day Official Kickoff Event at the Statehouse
10am Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
12pm Brown Bag Lunch with Let's Talk About Food. Topic: The Massachusetts Food Plan
1pm ACS Seminar: Division of Labor in the Maintenance of the Urban Commons: Collective Function through the Lens of Administrative Data
4pm JPAL's Professor Rachel Glennerster: Behavioral Economics in Development
6:30pm A Free Screening of the film Harvest of Empire
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Saturday, October 24
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Food Day
9am Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend
9:30am Public Transit is a Public Good that Deserves and Requires Public Funding
10am Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
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Sunday, October 25
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10am Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
2pm "JUST EAT IT" A Food Waste Story and Panel Discussion - A National Food Day* Event
4:40pm Report from and Fund Raising Party for Maasai Stoves and Solar
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Monday, October 26
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12pm MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
12pm Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
12pm GSD Talks: Technologies of Design: Jun Sato
12pm Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
12:15pm Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
4pm #BlackLivesMatter – A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities
4pm American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation
4:30pm HILT Scholar to Practitioner Speaker Series: "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning"
5:30pm Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
5:30pm Riptide Lecture & Reception
6pm Film Screening: "Dateline – Saigon" featuring Q&A with director Tom Herman, Bob Schieffer and Tom Patterson
6pm Fleeting Moments that Last Forever: Violence of and Against the Everyday
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Tuesday, October 27
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7:45am Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
9am Innovating for Billions - Conference
12pm The Internet of Garbage
1pm ProtoPrint: How to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printing
1pm MA Senator Michael Barrett’s carbon pricing bill, S. 1747, An Act combating climate change, has been set for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
2:15pm The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
3pm Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.
4:30pm Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
5:30pm Askwith Forum with Lani Guinier
6pm What to Expect from the Next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris?
6:30pm Design Symposium: "Informal Robotics"
7pm Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
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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
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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 19
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12pm MASS Seminar - Ulrike Lohman (ETH)
12pm MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar: How to Build a Culture of Innovation Through Design and Systems Thinking
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
4pm Using the plants and animals of Thoreau’s Concord to communicate climate change research to a wider audience
4pm Understanding the Recent Global Warming Slowdown: Observations, Theories and Modeling
4pm The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and Spillovers
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
5:15pm Reparations for Native American Languages? Churches, Governments, and Cultural Genocide
6pm Green Exchange: Let's Talk About Water
6:30pm Georgetown University Energy Prize Phone Call Party
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 Garance Franke-Ruta: Women, the Media, and Campaign 2016
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
4:30pm The Role of Nuclear in a Carbon-Constrained World
6pm Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
6pm Bringing Monitoring Technologies for Water Filtration and Power System Infrastructure to Remote Areas
7pm Bob Woodward at First Parish Church
7pm Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
7pm Poverty, Inc. Screening and Q&A
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Wednesday, October 21
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7:30am October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
12pm Don't Look Away: Images of Systematic Torture in the Syrian Regime
12pm Explaining the Vietnam War
12:30pm From Voice to Influence: Preparing for Civic Agency in a Digital Age
2:30pm Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities
4pm Curing Diseases with Financial Innovation
4:15pm Measuring the Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Programs
4:15 pm Design of Resource- and Eco-Effective Materials, Processes, and Systems
4:30pm Starr Forum: Global Refugee Crisis
5pm A Window Into the Underwater World: Framing Fish at the New England Aquarium
5:30pm Mass Energy Consumers Alliance's 33rd Annual Meeting
6pm Soap Box - Re: Making Life - Who Needs Rules?
6:30pm Identity, Culture, and Conflict Resolution
7pm Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
7pm Integral Ecology: Capitalism, Environments, and the Encyclical
7pm Tricks of the Light: How nanoscale materials shape the world we see
7pm US Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine and Syria: The Power of False Narrative
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series
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Thursday, October 22
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The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
9am Innovation and the Public Good: Massachusetts and South Africa
11am "From Beyond" A Boston MegaGame
11:45am Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again
12pm AI Teacher
12pm The Dammed: Getting fish back into American rivers by chipping away at dams
3pm Deep Learning Tech Talk at Boston University
4pm Myth, Memory, and the Music of the Vietnam War
4pm Adversarial Robotics: Robotic Strategic Behavior in Adversarial Environments
4pm Ocean acidification impacts on future phytoplankton communities: using numerical models to scale up from laboratory and field studies to the global scale.
4pm Giving Voice: A Conversation with Plácido Domingo
4pm People at the Gates of Sovereignty: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
4:10pm Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
4:30pm I.F. Stone Medal Presentation to Robert Parry
5pm From Firing Line to The O'Reilly Factor
5:30pm Sustainable Dev. Goals & Socially Responsible Investing: Focus on Inequality
6pm The Importance of Being Dispensable: Downsizing our Global Ambition
6pm Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond
6pm Clinical computational oncology for precision medicine
6:30pm Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend - The Opening – “Swoon: The Urban Impact of Collaborative Gestures”
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Friday, October 23
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Architecture Boston Exposition - registration deadline
Grad Student Conference: The Future of Food Studies
The History of Energy and the Environment Conference
Synesthesia - A Window into Brain Development
9:30am Food Day Official Kickoff Event at the Statehouse
10am Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
12pm Brown Bag Lunch with Let's Talk About Food. Topic: The Massachusetts Food Plan
1pm ACS Seminar: Division of Labor in the Maintenance of the Urban Commons: Collective Function through the Lens of Administrative Data
4pm JPAL's Professor Rachel Glennerster: Behavioral Economics in Development
6:30pm A Free Screening of the film Harvest of Empire
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Saturday, October 24
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Food Day
9am Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary and Alumni Weekend
9:30am Public Transit is a Public Good that Deserves and Requires Public Funding
10am Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
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Sunday, October 25
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10am Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
2pm "JUST EAT IT" A Food Waste Story and Panel Discussion - A National Food Day* Event
4:40pm Report from and Fund Raising Party for Maasai Stoves and Solar
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Monday, October 26
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12pm MASS Seminar - Tim Cronin (Harvard)
12pm Assessing Global Power Sector Climate Policy Initiative
12pm GSD Talks: Technologies of Design: Jun Sato
12pm Structural Optimization for a New Architecture
12:15pm Obstinate Harvest: Corporate Food and the Technoscience of Supply Chain Sustainability
4pm #BlackLivesMatter – A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities
4pm American Revelation: Liberty, Freedom, and Capitalism in the Revolutionary Generation
4:30pm HILT Scholar to Practitioner Speaker Series: "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning"
5:30pm Tech and Walkability Panel: #WalkTechBOS
5:30pm Riptide Lecture & Reception
6pm Film Screening: "Dateline – Saigon" featuring Q&A with director Tom Herman, Bob Schieffer and Tom Patterson
6pm Fleeting Moments that Last Forever: Violence of and Against the Everyday
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Tuesday, October 27
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7:45am Building Boston 2030 - Widett Circle: Boston’s Next Frontier for Innovation
9am Innovating for Billions - Conference
12pm The Internet of Garbage
1pm ProtoPrint: How to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printing
1pm MA Senator Michael Barrett’s carbon pricing bill, S. 1747, An Act combating climate change, has been set for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
2:15pm The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
3pm Hydrologic Similarity Across the United States: Understanding change, information transfer, and classification.
4:30pm Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics
5:30pm Askwith Forum with Lani Guinier
6pm What to Expect from the Next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris?
6:30pm Design Symposium: "Informal Robotics"
7pm Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
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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
Sawdust Caesar
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/10/sawdust-caesar.html
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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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MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar: How to Build a Culture of Innovation Through Design and Systems Thinking
Monday, October 19
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
Speaker: Andrea Ippolito, Presidential Innovation Fellow, US Department of Veterans Affairs; SDM Alumna
In this webinar, SDM alumna Andrea Ippolito, a presidential innovation fellow, will describe how the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) developed and implemented an innovators network. She will cover:
1) the human-centered design and systems methodologies used to develop the VA Innovators Network;
2) the strategy used to build a culture of innovation designed to help employees develop the best possible services and experiences for veterans and their supporters;
3) the VA Innovation Creation Series, an open innovation system designed to accelerate the development of personalized prosthetics and assistive technologies for veterans with disabilities; and
4) the development and deployment of an open innovation strategy???plus program at the VA using open challenge platforms such as InnoCentive and GrabCAD.
Webinar attendees will learn:
1) how to apply design thinking and systems methodologies to improve the innovation culture within organizations;
2) what open innovation tools organizations can use to harness the power of the crowd and improve innovation output; and
3) ways to build an innovation network at your organization, no matter what your industry.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
In this webinar, SDM alumna Andrea Ippolito, a presidential innovation fellow, will describe how the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) developed and implemented an innovators network. She will cover:
1) the human-centered design and systems methodologies used to develop the VA Innovators Network;
2) the strategy used to build a culture of innovation designed to help employees develop the best possible services and experiences for veterans and their supporters;
3) the VA Innovation Creation Series, an open innovation system designed to accelerate the development of personalized prosthetics and assistive technologies for veterans with disabilities; and
4) the development and deployment of an open innovation strategy???plus program at the VA using open challenge platforms such as InnoCentive and GrabCAD.
Webinar attendees will learn:
1) how to apply design thinking and systems methodologies to improve the innovation culture within organizations;
2) what open innovation tools organizations can use to harness the power of the crowd and improve innovation output; and
3) ways to build an innovation network at your organization, no matter what your industry.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
The MIT System Design & Management Program's Systems Thikning Webinar Series
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Past webinars can be viewed on demand at https://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: Virtual -- http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@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
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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
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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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Speakers Dr. Richard Primack, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU
Henry David Thoreau, the author of the ground breaking book Walden, was a climate change scientist! For the past 14 years, Professor Richard Primack (Boston University) and his team have been using Thoreau’s records from the 1850s and other data sources to document the dramatically earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier ice out at Walden Pond, and the more variable response of migratory birds. And most noteworthy, plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to a warming climate. While primarily a scientific study, Primack’s talk will be supported by beautiful photos and insightful quotes from Thoreau.
This work has received exceptional wide attention in the popular media (http://people.bu.edu/primack/news.html),New York Times and Science, and demonstrates the relevance of Thoreau’s legacy to contemporary issues. Prof. Primack has recently written a popular book about his work: Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods.
Contac: Jennifer Berglund
Email: berglund@bu.edu
Speaker: Claudia Steinwender (HBS)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): International Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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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This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges. Past webinars can be viewed on demand at https://sdm.mit.edu/news-and-events/webinars/
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: Virtual -- http://sdm.mit.edu/how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-through-design-and-systems-thinking/
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@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
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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
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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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Using the plants and animals of Thoreau’s Concord to communicate climate change research to a wider audience
Monday, October 19
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
BU, CAS, Room 226, 621 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Speakers Dr. Richard Primack, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU
Henry David Thoreau, the author of the ground breaking book Walden, was a climate change scientist! For the past 14 years, Professor Richard Primack (Boston University) and his team have been using Thoreau’s records from the 1850s and other data sources to document the dramatically earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier ice out at Walden Pond, and the more variable response of migratory birds. And most noteworthy, plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to a warming climate. While primarily a scientific study, Primack’s talk will be supported by beautiful photos and insightful quotes from Thoreau.
This work has received exceptional wide attention in the popular media (http://people.bu.edu/primack/news.html),New York Times and Science, and demonstrates the relevance of Thoreau’s legacy to contemporary issues. Prof. Primack has recently written a popular book about his work: Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods.
Contac: Jennifer Berglund
Email: berglund@bu.edu
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Understanding the Recent Global Warming Slowdown: Observations, Theories and Modeling
Monday, October 19
4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington
Four years after a plausible modeling explanation by Meehl et al (2011, Nature Climate Change) of a phenomenon that started 16 years ago, the global warming hiatus, as it is often called, has motivated intense research efforts to understand it. Yet instead of the theories converging, we are actually witnessing a divergence of theories, modeling results and even observational products. I will provide a critical review of the current progress, and attempt to reconcile seemingly different pieces of evidence. Issues to be addressed include: whether or not there is observational evidence for the slowdown; whether any perceived slowdown can pass statistical tests; do we need to look below the surface? is it caused by a reduction of radiative forcing from above or by the sequestration of heat below? If the latter, which ocean is doing the sequestering: the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern Ocean, or the Indian Ocean? Post-talk reception to follow in Hoffman Lounge, 4th floor.
EPS Colloquium Series
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-19-200000/eps-colloquium-series#sthash.UCzYKtU8.dpuf
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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and Spillovers
Monday, October 19
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E17-217, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E17-217, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Claudia Steinwender (HBS)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): International Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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
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Reparations for Native American Languages? Churches, Governments, and Cultural Genocide
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Center for the Study of World Religions, 617.495.4495
DETAILS Dr. Richard Grounds, executive director of the Euchee/Yuchi Language Project, will deliver this year's Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice.
Indigenous Peoples in this hemisphere are now in the greatest cultural crisis since 1492 with the real threat of losing their original languages. What are the implications of this loss that is primarily the result of planned cultural genocide perpetuated for over a century?
How could a crisis of this magnitude, now in its final phase, fail to register on the public awareness? What have been the roles of churches and governments in enacting sustained cultural violence intended to destroy Indigenous languages and living cultures?
Given the moral history of language loss and the roles of churches and governments, what are the appropriate responses for social justice?
And what is the case for reparations for Native American languages?
WHEN Mon., Oct. 19, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Center for the Study of World Religions, 617.495.4495
DETAILS Dr. Richard Grounds, executive director of the Euchee/Yuchi Language Project, will deliver this year's Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice.
Indigenous Peoples in this hemisphere are now in the greatest cultural crisis since 1492 with the real threat of losing their original languages. What are the implications of this loss that is primarily the result of planned cultural genocide perpetuated for over a century?
How could a crisis of this magnitude, now in its final phase, fail to register on the public awareness? What have been the roles of churches and governments in enacting sustained cultural violence intended to destroy Indigenous languages and living cultures?
Given the moral history of language loss and the roles of churches and governments, what are the appropriate responses for social justice?
And what is the case for reparations for Native American languages?
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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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Georgetown University Energy Prize Phone Call Party
Monday, October 19
6:30-8:30 pm
Cambridge, City Hall Annex, Second Floor, 344 Broadway, Cambridge
The Cambridge Energy Alliance is sponsoring a phone bank to reach out to people who already indicated interest in helping win the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize for Cambridge. The City is pushing to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
If you can help, please RSVP to http://www.evite.com/event/026ALO325BZFJM7YEEPFLSBB4NOQ5A?utm_source=NA&utm_medium=sharable_invite&utm_campaign=send_sharable_link. For more information about the competition, see http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/winit
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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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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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Garance Franke-Ruta: Women, the Media, and Campaign 2016
WHEN Tue., Oct. 20, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Room 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Garance Franke-Ruta, editor in chief, Yahoo Politics
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Garance Franke-Ruta is editor in chief of Yahoo Politics, based in Washington, D.C. Previously she was a national political reporter at and politics editor of The Atlantic, national web politics editor for The Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site, a senior editor at The American Prospect and a senior writer at The Washington City Paper, D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal. She spent the Fall 2006 semester as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/garance-franke-ruta-speaker-series/
WHEN Tue., Oct. 20, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, Room 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Garance Franke-Ruta, editor in chief, Yahoo Politics
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
DETAILS Garance Franke-Ruta is editor in chief of Yahoo Politics, based in Washington, D.C. Previously she was a national political reporter at and politics editor of The Atlantic, national web politics editor for The Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site, a senior editor at The American Prospect and a senior writer at The Washington City Paper, D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal. She spent the Fall 2006 semester as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/garance-franke-ruta-speaker-series/
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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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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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The Role of Nuclear in a Carbon-Constrained World
Tuesday, October 20
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building E14, sixth floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building E14, sixth floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow
Speaker: Susan Eisenhower, President and CEO of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., Chairman Emeritus of The Eisenhower Institute, and MITEI External Advisory Board Member
In a rapidly changing and increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment, the United States has developed a strategy for meeting the twin challenges of energy security and climate change - with an "all of the above" approach. But do this nation's energy objectives reflect and address what is actually unfolding outside of Washington D.C., as we become increasingly reliant on natural gas, while nuclear plants are being shuttered? Are we adequately preparing ourselves for a green future? Susan Eisenhower will discuss the political realities in the nation's capital, and offer some thoughts about what should be done to bring about a more coherent national approach to one of the country's most important sectors.
Susan Eisenhower is the CEO and Chairman of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI), a Washington D.C.-based consulting company founded in 1985. For 30 years the company has provided strategic counsel on business development, public affairs, and communications projects. EGI has advised Fortune 500 companies, on projects in the United States and Europe, but also in China, Russia, and Central Asia. In addition to her work through EGI, Susan Eisenhower has also had a distinguished career as a policy analyst. She is Chairman Emeritus of The Eisenhower Institute, where she served as president twice.
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/the-role-of-nuclear-in-a-carbon-constra
ined-world-featuring-susan-eisenhower
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
rhowarth@mit.edu
Speaker: Susan Eisenhower, President and CEO of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., Chairman Emeritus of The Eisenhower Institute, and MITEI External Advisory Board Member
In a rapidly changing and increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment, the United States has developed a strategy for meeting the twin challenges of energy security and climate change - with an "all of the above" approach. But do this nation's energy objectives reflect and address what is actually unfolding outside of Washington D.C., as we become increasingly reliant on natural gas, while nuclear plants are being shuttered? Are we adequately preparing ourselves for a green future? Susan Eisenhower will discuss the political realities in the nation's capital, and offer some thoughts about what should be done to bring about a more coherent national approach to one of the country's most important sectors.
Susan Eisenhower is the CEO and Chairman of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI), a Washington D.C.-based consulting company founded in 1985. For 30 years the company has provided strategic counsel on business development, public affairs, and communications projects. EGI has advised Fortune 500 companies, on projects in the United States and Europe, but also in China, Russia, and Central Asia. In addition to her work through EGI, Susan Eisenhower has also had a distinguished career as a policy analyst. She is Chairman Emeritus of The Eisenhower Institute, where she served as president twice.
Web site: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/the-role-of-nuclear-in-a-carbon-constra
ined-world-featuring-susan-eisenhower
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
rhowarth@mit.edu
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This Fall 2015 Collaboration with the Islamic Civilization and Societies features Sarah Chayes, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Books available for sale at event.
Speaker Bio & Details: Ben Armstrong is a Director at WellDone International, which creates technology tools for monitoring remote infrastructure (e.g. water and power systems) in the developing world. He is currently a PhD candidate at MIT studying how technological progress influences employment growth, particularly in the manufacturing economy. Previously, Ben worked at Google Inc. and was an intern at the White House.
Ben will discuss the history of WellDone and the challenges it faces working with mobile technology and infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. WellDone has received awards for its innovation from USAID, Vodafone, the World Bank, the UK's Human Development Innovation Fund, and MIT's Water Club.
Bob Woodward at First Parish Church
Harvard Book Store
Tuesday, October 20
Screening of the award-winning documentary Poverty, Inc. followed by a Q&A with one of the film’s co-producers, Mark Weber. Watch the trailer and learn more at http://www.povertyinc.org/.
Elsa Olivetti joined the Faculty in 2014 as the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia and her PhD in Materials Science from MIT working on development of nanocomposite electrodes for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Her research focuses on improving the environmental and economic sustainability of materials in the context of rapid-expanding global demand.
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Tuesday, October 20
6:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
This Fall 2015 Collaboration with the Islamic Civilization and Societies features Sarah Chayes, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Books available for sale at event.
Editorial Comment: Sarah Chayes was a reporter who quit reporting to help rebuild Afghanistan after our invasion. She knows what happened from the ground up.
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Bringing Monitoring Technologies for Water Filtration and Power System Infrastructure to Remote Areas
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20
6:00pm-7:00pm
MIT, Building E19-319,
MIT, Building E19-319,
RSVP here (dinner included -- please bring your own utensils!)
Speaker Bio & Details: Ben Armstrong is a Director at WellDone International, which creates technology tools for monitoring remote infrastructure (e.g. water and power systems) in the developing world. He is currently a PhD candidate at MIT studying how technological progress influences employment growth, particularly in the manufacturing economy. Previously, Ben worked at Google Inc. and was an intern at the White House.
Ben will discuss the history of WellDone and the challenges it faces working with mobile technology and infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. WellDone has received awards for its innovation from USAID, Vodafone, the World Bank, the UK's Human Development Innovation Fund, and MIT's Water Club.
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Bob Woodward at First Parish Church
Harvard Book Store
Tuesday, October 20
7:00 PM (EDT)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Bob Woodward discusses The Last of the President's Men
$5 tickets on sale October 6 at 9am
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale September 22
This event includes a book signing
Harvard Book Store welcomes investigative journalist and associate editor at The Washington Post BOB WOODWARD for a discussion of his latest book, The Last of the President's Men.
Learn more at http://www.harvard.com/event/bob_woodward/
All pre-sales tickets include a copy of The Last of the President's Men, admission into the event, and a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sales tickets are available online for two weeks only, after which a $5 ticket option will go on sale. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
$5 tickets will also be available at Harvard Book Store and over the phone at 617-661-1515. Unless the event is sold out, any remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of the venue when doors open.
Bob Woodward discusses The Last of the President's Men
$5 tickets on sale October 6 at 9am
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale September 22
This event includes a book signing
Harvard Book Store welcomes investigative journalist and associate editor at The Washington Post BOB WOODWARD for a discussion of his latest book, The Last of the President's Men.
Learn more at http://www.harvard.com/event/bob_woodward/
All pre-sales tickets include a copy of The Last of the President's Men, admission into the event, and a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sales tickets are available online for two weeks only, after which a $5 ticket option will go on sale. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
$5 tickets will also be available at Harvard Book Store and over the phone at 617-661-1515. Unless the event is sold out, any remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of the venue when doors open.
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Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
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.
Sea-Level Rise, Storms and Coastal Impacts, with BU's Sergio Fagherazzi
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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Poverty, Inc. Screening and Q&A
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Center, WCC2019, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Screening of the award-winning documentary Poverty, Inc. followed by a Q&A with one of the film’s co-producers, Mark Weber. Watch the trailer and learn more at http://www.povertyinc.org/.
More at http://hls.harvard.edu/event/poverty-inc-screening-and-qa/
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Wednesday, October 21
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October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
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.
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Wednesday, October 21
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October Boston Sustainability Breakfast
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.
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Don't Look Away: Images of Systematic Torture in the Syrian Regime
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North 100, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Human Rights Program
SPEAKER(S) Stephen J. Rapp, former u.s.ambassador-at-large for war crimes issue; Mouaz Moustafa, executive director, Syrian Emergency Task Force; Tyler Jess Thompson, policy director, United for A Free Syria; Naomi Kikoler, deputy director, Center for Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; James Hooper, managing director, Public International Law & Policy Group
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO gfollett@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS As the humanitarian crisis in Syria deepens, this panel will explore the role of photography in documenting and raising international awareness about torture, mass killings, and other atrocities committed by the Assad regime. An exhibit of 30 images taken by a former Syrian military police photographer, code named “Caesar” and tasked with photographing corpses of victims who died inside facilities run by the Assad regime, will be on display for two weeks following the panel. The images are part of a cache of 55,000 photographs taken between 2011 and 2013, and smuggled out of Syria in 2014
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North 100, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School Human Rights Program
SPEAKER(S) Stephen J. Rapp, former u.s.ambassador-at-large for war crimes issue; Mouaz Moustafa, executive director, Syrian Emergency Task Force; Tyler Jess Thompson, policy director, United for A Free Syria; Naomi Kikoler, deputy director, Center for Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; James Hooper, managing director, Public International Law & Policy Group
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO gfollett@law.harvard.edu
DETAILS As the humanitarian crisis in Syria deepens, this panel will explore the role of photography in documenting and raising international awareness about torture, mass killings, and other atrocities committed by the Assad regime. An exhibit of 30 images taken by a former Syrian military police photographer, code named “Caesar” and tasked with photographing corpses of victims who died inside facilities run by the Assad regime, will be on display for two weeks following the panel. The images are part of a cache of 55,000 photographs taken between 2011 and 2013, and smuggled out of Syria in 2014
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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
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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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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From Voice to Influence: Preparing for Civic Agency in a Digital Age
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
12:30 – 1:30pm
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 702, 7th Floor, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Join Tisch College for a brown-bag lunch discussion with this year’s recipient of the 2015 Tisch Research Prize winner, Professor Danielle Allen.
Allen is a co-editor of the recent book From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age and a member of the Youth Participatory Politics Research Network. She will present and discuss ten fundamental design principles for those seeking to be, or support, change-makers who work with digital tools. The design principles were developed through her work with the MacArthur Foundation research network on youth and participatory politics.
This event is co-sponsored by Boston Civic Media. Please RSVP by emailing Jessica.Byrnes@tufts.edu.
Tufts, Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 702, 7th Floor, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford
Join Tisch College for a brown-bag lunch discussion with this year’s recipient of the 2015 Tisch Research Prize winner, Professor Danielle Allen.
Allen is a co-editor of the recent book From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age and a member of the Youth Participatory Politics Research Network. She will present and discuss ten fundamental design principles for those seeking to be, or support, change-makers who work with digital tools. The design principles were developed through her work with the MacArthur Foundation research network on youth and participatory politics.
This event is co-sponsored by Boston Civic Media. Please RSVP by emailing Jessica.Byrnes@tufts.edu.
LINK activecitizen.tufts.edu
EVENT CONTACT Jessica Byrnes
EVENT SPONSOR Tisch Talks in the Humanities
RSVP INFORMATION Jessica.Byrnes@tufts.edu
ADMISSION Free
DESCRIPTION
EVENT CONTACT Jessica Byrnes
EVENT SPONSOR Tisch Talks in the Humanities
RSVP INFORMATION Jessica.Byrnes@tufts.edu
ADMISSION Free
DESCRIPTION
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Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities
Wednesday, October 21
2:30p–3:30p
MIT, Building 1-150, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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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Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities
Wednesday, October 21
2:30p–3:30p
MIT, Building 1-150, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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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Design of Resource- and Eco-Effective Materials, Processes, and Systems
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
4:15 pm
MIT, Building 1-131, 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Professor Elsa Olivetti
Global demand for materials is immense and rapidly growing; extraction and processing of materials accounts for more than one-third of global carbon flows for human-related activities, on the order of 5.5 Gigatons/year. Direct materials production represents approximately 7% of total US energy consumption. This talk will describe the development of analytical and computational tools that consider the economic and environmental impacts of design, systems, and process choices relevant to materials use. The presentation will discuss recent efforts in computational learning around materials synthesis approaches by creating a predictive synthesis system for advanced materials design and processing. Similar approaches have been leveraged to increase use of industrial byproducts, secondary and renewable materials by explicit incorporation of uncertainty in raw materials.
Professor Elsa Olivetti
Global demand for materials is immense and rapidly growing; extraction and processing of materials accounts for more than one-third of global carbon flows for human-related activities, on the order of 5.5 Gigatons/year. Direct materials production represents approximately 7% of total US energy consumption. This talk will describe the development of analytical and computational tools that consider the economic and environmental impacts of design, systems, and process choices relevant to materials use. The presentation will discuss recent efforts in computational learning around materials synthesis approaches by creating a predictive synthesis system for advanced materials design and processing. Similar approaches have been leveraged to increase use of industrial byproducts, secondary and renewable materials by explicit incorporation of uncertainty in raw materials.
Elsa Olivetti joined the Faculty in 2014 as the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia and her PhD in Materials Science from MIT working on development of nanocomposite electrodes for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Her research focuses on improving the environmental and economic sustainability of materials in the context of rapid-expanding global demand.
Seminar Series: Mechanics and Infrastructure
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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).
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
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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
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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).
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
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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
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
7:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
An Atlantic National Correspondent, Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned many influential articles. His George Polk Award-winning Atlantic cover story on slavery and race, "The Case for Reparations," is one of the most talked-about pieces of nonfiction in recent memory. His new work is Between the World and Me, a slim but powerful book on race and America. In 2014, Coates’s lively Atlantic blog was named by Time as one of the 25 Best in the World. Coates is a former writer for The Village Voice, and a contributor to Time, O, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, he was awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Coates is the Journalist in Residence at the School of Journalism at CUNY. He was previously the Martin Luther King Visiting Associate Professor at MIT. Coates’s visit is being presented in partnership with the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics.
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
An Atlantic National Correspondent, Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned many influential articles. His George Polk Award-winning Atlantic cover story on slavery and race, "The Case for Reparations," is one of the most talked-about pieces of nonfiction in recent memory. His new work is Between the World and Me, a slim but powerful book on race and America. In 2014, Coates’s lively Atlantic blog was named by Time as one of the 25 Best in the World. Coates is a former writer for The Village Voice, and a contributor to Time, O, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, he was awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Coates is the Journalist in Residence at the School of Journalism at CUNY. He was previously the Martin Luther King Visiting Associate Professor at MIT. Coates’s visit is being presented in partnership with the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics.
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Integral Ecology: Capitalism, Environments, and the Encyclical
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Religion
SPONSOR HDS Catholics
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS "Integral Ecology: Capitalism, the Environment, and the Encyclical" is a panel discussion hosted by HDS Catholics on Pope Francis's Encyclical. The panel will include Professor Dan McKanan, Professor Harvey Cox, Professor Catherine Brekus, and PhD candidate Munjed Murad. All are welcome!
WHEN Wed., Oct. 21, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Religion
SPONSOR HDS Catholics
CONTACT studentlife@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS "Integral Ecology: Capitalism, the Environment, and the Encyclical" is a panel discussion hosted by HDS Catholics on Pope Francis's Encyclical. The panel will include Professor Dan McKanan, Professor Harvey Cox, Professor Catherine Brekus, and PhD candidate Munjed Murad. All are welcome!
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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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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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US Mainstream Media Coverage of Ukraine and Syria: The Power of False Narrative
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 21
7 – 9pm
Tufts, Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
Veteran investigative reporter Robert Parry (who will be receiving the Nieman Foundation's I.F. Stone
Award the following day) will critique US mainstream media (Washington Post, N.Y. Times, etc.) coverage of events in Ukraine and Syria.
Tufts, Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
Veteran investigative reporter Robert Parry (who will be receiving the Nieman Foundation's I.F. Stone
Award the following day) will critique US mainstream media (Washington Post, N.Y. Times, etc.) coverage of events in Ukraine and Syria.
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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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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
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
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AI Teacher
Thursday, October 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E14-304, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
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
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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:
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
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Adversarial Robotics: Robotic Strategic Behavior in Adversarial Environments
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.
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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Environmental Science & Engineering
Contact: Helen Amos
Email: hamos@hsph.harvard.edu
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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Sustainable Dev. Goals & Socially Responsible Investing: Focus on Inequality
Thursday, October 22
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.
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
The Budget for All Coalition invites you to a half-day forum
The state of public transit in Eastern Massachusetts
Investments needed for a modern and efficient public transportation system
The impact of public transit privatization on riders, T employees and their unions
The need for re-allocation of our Federal Tax Dollars to mass transit
A role for the Congressional Progressive Caucus? Peoples Budget in mobilizing to improve mass transit
Panelists include:
Phineas Baxandall, Mass Budget & Policy Center
Cathy Ann Buckley, Mass Sierra Club
Representative, T Riders Union at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
Representative, Boston Carmen's Union, Local 589, Amalgamated Transit Union
Cole Harrison, Massachusetts Peace Action
Jonathan King, professor of biology, MIT and Budget for All
Jeremy Mendelson, TransitMatters
Joshua Ostroff, Transportation for Massachusetts
Concetta Paul, Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT)
Kirstie Pecci, Mass PIRG
John Ratliff, Mass. Senior Action
Paul Shannon, Budget for All and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Jack Spence, 350 Massachusetts, Transportation Working Group
"Investing in public transit is essential to building and strengthening the economic and environmental well-being of our communities today and for future generations Community Labor United, The Path to Better Public Transit
The Boston Vegetarian Society will be hosting the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in the RLTAC Gym, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms from 10:00 am – 6:00pm. For more information please contact Evelyn Kimber at info@bostonveg.org / 617-424-8846
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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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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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
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The Internet of Garbage
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.
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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
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
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AI Teacher
Thursday, October 22
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E14-304, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
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
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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:
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
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Adversarial Robotics: Robotic Strategic Behavior in Adversarial Environments
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.
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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Ocean acidification impacts on future phytoplankton communities: using numerical models to scale up from laboratory and field studies to the global scale.
Thursday, October 22
Thursday, October 22
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Steph Dutkiewicz, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The world's oceans have absorbed about 30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions, causing a significant decrease in surface ocean pH. Concerns over the impacts of this “ocean acidification” to marine life have led to a number of laboratory, mesocosm, and field experiments. The most publicized studies concern calcifying organism such as corals and bivalves (e.g. oysters and mussels). However ocean acidification will also affect phytoplankton: the microscopic photosynthesizing organisms that form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes, including the cycling of carbon. Here we provide results from a meta-analysis of experiments that assessed growth rates of different phytoplankton taxa under both current day and elevated pCO2 conditions. These results revealed a significant range of responses. We use a numerical model to explore how these responses at the laboratory scale might scale up to the community and global level. In simulation over a hypothetical 21st century we found that ocean acidification caused sufficient changes in competitive fitness between phytoplankton types to significantly alter community structure. We compared the impact of ocean acidification to other potential stressors of phytoplankton communities (such as warming, and changes to the light environment and nutrient supplies) and found that it will likely have a greater impact at the level of ecological function of the phytoplankton community. Our results suggest that longer time scales of competition- and transport-mediated adjustments are important in predicting the changes to phytoplankton community structure; aspects that are not captured in laboratory or field experiments. Including these effects are essential for our understanding of the future of the marine ecosystem: the large turnover of community functionality suggested by our model could carry profound consequences for all levels of the marine food chain as well as global biogeochemistry.
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Steph Dutkiewicz, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The world's oceans have absorbed about 30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions, causing a significant decrease in surface ocean pH. Concerns over the impacts of this “ocean acidification” to marine life have led to a number of laboratory, mesocosm, and field experiments. The most publicized studies concern calcifying organism such as corals and bivalves (e.g. oysters and mussels). However ocean acidification will also affect phytoplankton: the microscopic photosynthesizing organisms that form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes, including the cycling of carbon. Here we provide results from a meta-analysis of experiments that assessed growth rates of different phytoplankton taxa under both current day and elevated pCO2 conditions. These results revealed a significant range of responses. We use a numerical model to explore how these responses at the laboratory scale might scale up to the community and global level. In simulation over a hypothetical 21st century we found that ocean acidification caused sufficient changes in competitive fitness between phytoplankton types to significantly alter community structure. We compared the impact of ocean acidification to other potential stressors of phytoplankton communities (such as warming, and changes to the light environment and nutrient supplies) and found that it will likely have a greater impact at the level of ecological function of the phytoplankton community. Our results suggest that longer time scales of competition- and transport-mediated adjustments are important in predicting the changes to phytoplankton community structure; aspects that are not captured in laboratory or field experiments. Including these effects are essential for our understanding of the future of the marine ecosystem: the large turnover of community functionality suggested by our model could carry profound consequences for all levels of the marine food chain as well as global biogeochemistry.
Environmental Science & Engineering
Contact: Helen Amos
Email: hamos@hsph.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
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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
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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
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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
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Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation; The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Ari Berman, author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America"; Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Leah Wright Rigueur, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Moderating this event will be Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS The Ash Center cordially invites you to the inaugural session of its Race in American Politics Seminar Series. To help us kick off this series, we will be joined by Ari Berman, the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America; Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Moderating this event will be Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
A light reception will follow at the conclusion of the discussion.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/give-us-ballot-modern-struggle-voting-rights-america
WHEN Thu., Oct. 22, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation; The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Ari Berman, author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America"; Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Leah Wright Rigueur, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Moderating this event will be Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS The Ash Center cordially invites you to the inaugural session of its Race in American Politics Seminar Series. To help us kick off this series, we will be joined by Ari Berman, the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America; Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Moderating this event will be Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
A light reception will follow at the conclusion of the discussion.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/give-us-ballot-modern-struggle-voting-rights-america
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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 https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebninfa000f36f45&oseq=&c=&ch=
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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 https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebninfa000f36f45&oseq=&c=&ch=
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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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Sustainable Dev. Goals & Socially Responsible Investing: Focus on Inequality
Thursday, October 22
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
MFS Investment Management, 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-dev-goals-socially-responsible-investing-focus-on-inequality-tickets-18546501084
BASIC - Boston Area Sustainable Investment Consortium
Inequality takes many forms, from post-incarceration inequality to broad financial inequality. It also has varied and diverse impacts on our society, which is probably why so many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) touch on the topic:
SDG #1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG #8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
SDG #10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG #16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
This BASIC session will use a panel format to:
(i) outline the investment and societal ramifications of inequality, and
(ii) propose potential solutions to reduce inequality.
The panel and will include panelists from MFS Investment Management (Rob Wilson), Walden Asset Management (Carly Greenberg, CFA), and Zevin Asset Management (Sonia Kowal).
BASIC - Boston Area Sustainable Investment Consortium
Inequality takes many forms, from post-incarceration inequality to broad financial inequality. It also has varied and diverse impacts on our society, which is probably why so many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) touch on the topic:
SDG #1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG #8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
SDG #10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG #16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
This BASIC session will use a panel format to:
(i) outline the investment and societal ramifications of inequality, and
(ii) propose potential solutions to reduce inequality.
The panel and will include panelists from MFS Investment Management (Rob Wilson), Walden Asset Management (Carly Greenberg, CFA), and Zevin Asset Management (Sonia Kowal).
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The Importance of Being Dispensable: Downsizing our Global Ambition
Thursday, October 22
Thursday, October 22
6:00pm
Harvard, JFK Jr Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
2015 Glauber Lecture by Barney Frank, United States House of Representatives (1981- 2013)
Chairman, House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011)
Harvard College ‘62
Moderator: Robert Glauber, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Chairman and CEO, NASD (2001 – 2006)
2015 Glauber Lecture by Barney Frank, United States House of Representatives (1981- 2013)
Chairman, House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011)
Harvard College ‘62
Moderator: Robert Glauber, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Chairman and CEO, NASD (2001 – 2006)
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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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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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Architecture Boston Exposition
RSVP at https://www.xpressreg.net/register/abxp115/hallonly/landing.asp?sc=&iq=&o=84262&aban=&EmailID=&VIPCode=&mem=&lang=&hkey=&spk=&deeb=&debt=&demid=&source=&medium=&campaign=
Register by October 23 for free admission to the exhibition hall on November 17-19
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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
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:
"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
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Food Day Official Kickoff Event at the Statehouse
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.
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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
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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
Editorial Comment: I wonder how many times Elinor Ostrom's name will come up.
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RSVP at https://www.xpressreg.net/register/abxp115/hallonly/landing.asp?sc=&iq=&o=84262&aban=&EmailID=&VIPCode=&mem=&lang=&hkey=&spk=&deeb=&debt=&demid=&source=&medium=&campaign=
Register by October 23 for free admission to the exhibition hall on November 17-19
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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
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:
"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
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Food Day Official Kickoff Event at the Statehouse
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.
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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
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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
Editorial Comment: I wonder how many times Elinor Ostrom's name will come up.
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JPAL's Professor Rachel Glennerster: Behavioral Economics in Development
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, FXB G-10, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Behavioral Insights Student Group at the Harvard Chan School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Rachel Glennerster
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jpals-professor-rachel-glennerster-behavioral-economics-in-development-tickets-18909946158
DETAILS Come learn about the evidence for behavioral economics in the field from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's Executive Director, Professor Rachel Glennerster.
Her research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development, the adoption of new agricultural technologies, and improving the accountability of politicians in Sierra Leone; empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh; the behavioral economics of complying with tuberculosis medication in Pakistan; and health, governance, education, and microfinance programs in India. She serves as scientific director for J-PAL Africa, co-chair of J-PAL's education sector, and is a board member of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI). She is lead academic for Sierra Leone for the International Growth Center. Between 2007 and 2010 she served on the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact. Rachel Glennerster helped establish Deworm the World, which has helped deworm 23 million children worldwide. Before joining J-PAL, she worked at the IMF and Her Majesty's Treasury. She has a PhD in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London, and is coauthor of Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases and Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide.Glennerster served as co-chair of J-PAL's Agriculture Sector from 2004-2014.
Light refreshments will be served.
WHEN Fri., Oct. 23, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, FXB G-10, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Behavioral Insights Student Group at the Harvard Chan School
SPEAKER(S) Professor Rachel Glennerster
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jpals-professor-rachel-glennerster-behavioral-economics-in-development-tickets-18909946158
DETAILS Come learn about the evidence for behavioral economics in the field from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's Executive Director, Professor Rachel Glennerster.
Her research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development, the adoption of new agricultural technologies, and improving the accountability of politicians in Sierra Leone; empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh; the behavioral economics of complying with tuberculosis medication in Pakistan; and health, governance, education, and microfinance programs in India. She serves as scientific director for J-PAL Africa, co-chair of J-PAL's education sector, and is a board member of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI). She is lead academic for Sierra Leone for the International Growth Center. Between 2007 and 2010 she served on the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact. Rachel Glennerster helped establish Deworm the World, which has helped deworm 23 million children worldwide. Before joining J-PAL, she worked at the IMF and Her Majesty's Treasury. She has a PhD in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London, and is coauthor of Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases and Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide.Glennerster served as co-chair of J-PAL's Agriculture Sector from 2004-2014.
Light refreshments will be served.
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A Free Screening of the film Harvest of Empire
Friday, October 23
6:30pm
First Parish in Brookline, 382 Walnut Street, Brookline
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
A Free Screening of the film Harvest of Empire
Friday, October 23
6:30pm
First Parish in Brookline, 382 Walnut Street, Brookline
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
http://www.foodday.org/events
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.
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.
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.
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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Public Transit is a Public Good that Deserves and Requires Public Funding
Saturday, October 24
Saturday, October 24
9:30 am - 1:30 pm
SEIU 32BJ, 26 West Street, Boston, 2d Floor,
Space is limited. RSVP at http://fed-invest.brownpapertickets.com/ or http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cD3%2BlRFGJWELD9YA3%2BSPETTe5nZWJa1P
Space is limited. RSVP at http://fed-invest.brownpapertickets.com/ or http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cD3%2BlRFGJWELD9YA3%2BSPETTe5nZWJa1P
Cost: $12 donation requested to cover expenses, no one turned away.
The federal government is threatening us with another decrease in transportation funding as gridlock grips DC. The Commonwealth's investment in public transit is being debated as the Governor calls for privatization.
Come to a forum examining real solutions.
The federal government is threatening us with another decrease in transportation funding as gridlock grips DC. The Commonwealth's investment in public transit is being debated as the Governor calls for privatization.
Come to a forum examining real solutions.
The Budget for All Coalition
The state of public transit in Eastern Massachusetts
Investments needed for a modern and efficient public transportation system
The impact of public transit privatization on riders, T employees and their unions
The need for re-allocation of our Federal Tax Dollars to mass transit
A role for the Congressional Progressive Caucus? Peoples Budget in mobilizing to improve mass transit
Panelists include:
Phineas Baxandall, Mass Budget & Policy Center
Cathy Ann Buckley, Mass Sierra Club
Representative, T Riders Union at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
Representative, Boston Carmen's Union, Local 589, Amalgamated Transit Union
Cole Harrison, Massachusetts Peace Action
Jonathan King, professor of biology, MIT and Budget for All
Jeremy Mendelson, TransitMatters
Joshua Ostroff, Transportation for Massachusetts
Concetta Paul, Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT)
Kirstie Pecci, Mass PIRG
John Ratliff, Mass. Senior Action
Paul Shannon, Budget for All and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Jack Spence, 350 Massachusetts, Transportation Working Group
"Investing in public transit is essential to building and strengthening the economic and environmental well-being of our communities today and for future generations Community Labor United, The Path to Better Public Transit
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
Saturday, October 24
10:00am - 06:00pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Center, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
10:00am - 06:00pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Center, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
The Boston Vegetarian Society will be hosting the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in the RLTAC Gym, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms from 10:00 am – 6:00pm. For more information please contact Evelyn Kimber at info@bostonveg.org / 617-424-8846
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Sunday, October 25
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Sunday, October 25
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
Sunday, October 25
10:00am - 04:00pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Center, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
The Boston Vegetarian Society will be hosting the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in the RLTAC Gym, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms from 10:00 am – 6:00pm. For more information please contact Evelyn Kimber at info@bostonveg.org / 617-424-8846
Sunday, October 25
10:00am - 04:00pm
Roxbury Community College, Reggie Lewis Center, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms, 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
The Boston Vegetarian Society will be hosting the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in the RLTAC Gym, multipurpose rooms, and seminar rooms from 10:00 am – 6:00pm. For more information please contact Evelyn Kimber at info@bostonveg.org / 617-424-8846
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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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"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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GSD Talks: Technologies of Design: Jun Sato
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Through collaborations with architects, workshops with students, and research in his laboratory, Jun Sato develops lightweight, ductile structures and transparent or translucent structures that serve as filters for environmental substances. Recent collaborations include Extreme Nature for the 2008 Venice Biennale and Balloon with architect Junya Ishigami; House NA and Naoshima Pavilion with architect Sou Fujimoto, Sunny Hills Japan with architect Kengo Kuma, and a glass structures seminar and workshop at Stanford University. Currently principal engineer at Jun Sato Structural Engineers Co., Ltd., and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Sato previously worked at Toshihiko Kimura’s office (1995–1999), received the Japan Structural Design Award in 2009, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree at the University of Tokyo in 2013.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/gsd-talks-jun-sato.html
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Through collaborations with architects, workshops with students, and research in his laboratory, Jun Sato develops lightweight, ductile structures and transparent or translucent structures that serve as filters for environmental substances. Recent collaborations include Extreme Nature for the 2008 Venice Biennale and Balloon with architect Junya Ishigami; House NA and Naoshima Pavilion with architect Sou Fujimoto, Sunny Hills Japan with architect Kengo Kuma, and a glass structures seminar and workshop at Stanford University. Currently principal engineer at Jun Sato Structural Engineers Co., Ltd., and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Sato previously worked at Toshihiko Kimura’s office (1995–1999), received the Japan Structural Design Award in 2009, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree at the University of Tokyo in 2013.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/gsd-talks-jun-sato.html
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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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#BlackLivesMatter – A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Mary T. Bassett, commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Welcome and discussion moderation by: David J. Hunter, acting dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Vincent L Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/deans-distinguished-lecture-series-3/
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of the Dean
SPEAKER(S) Mary T. Bassett, commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Welcome and discussion moderation by: David J. Hunter, acting dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Vincent L Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/deans-office/deans-distinguished-lecture-series-3/
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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”
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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”
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HILT Scholar to Practitioner Speaker Series: "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning"
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
SPEAKER(S) Chinmay Kulkarni, assistant professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
CONTACT INFO hilt@harvard.edu
DETAILS Learning with peers helps students reflect, generalize knowledge and apply it more successfully to new problems. How can we scale successful peer learning from the controlled environment of the small classroom to the wild, massive scale of online classes? In his talk, Chinmay Kulkarni will introduce computational systems that structure peer learning at massive scale, and demonstrate their efficacy through the results of randomized controlled experiments with more than 10,000 students.
These systems demonstrate how insights from educational theory can be distilled into interfaces that scale teaching to thousands of learners. For instance, he will describe how students using PeerStudio obtain improvement-oriented feedback on open-ended work in just twenty minutes at any time of day, enabling them to revise and gain mastery. Similarly, the Talkabout system assigns students to small geographically-diverse video discussion groups in real-time, and demonstrates how global diversity can promote reflection and a deeper understanding of concepts.
In classes across disciplines including computer science, psychology, and design, more than 100,000 students on Coursera and EdX have used these systems for peer assessment and discussion.
Finally, Kulkarni hopes to reflect on how the large scale and diversity of online classes can enrich learning at universities, and how computational systems can enable new kinds of learning and creative work.
LINK http://hilt.harvard.edu/scholar-practitioner-speaker-series
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
SPEAKER(S) Chinmay Kulkarni, assistant professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
CONTACT INFO hilt@harvard.edu
DETAILS Learning with peers helps students reflect, generalize knowledge and apply it more successfully to new problems. How can we scale successful peer learning from the controlled environment of the small classroom to the wild, massive scale of online classes? In his talk, Chinmay Kulkarni will introduce computational systems that structure peer learning at massive scale, and demonstrate their efficacy through the results of randomized controlled experiments with more than 10,000 students.
These systems demonstrate how insights from educational theory can be distilled into interfaces that scale teaching to thousands of learners. For instance, he will describe how students using PeerStudio obtain improvement-oriented feedback on open-ended work in just twenty minutes at any time of day, enabling them to revise and gain mastery. Similarly, the Talkabout system assigns students to small geographically-diverse video discussion groups in real-time, and demonstrates how global diversity can promote reflection and a deeper understanding of concepts.
In classes across disciplines including computer science, psychology, and design, more than 100,000 students on Coursera and EdX have used these systems for peer assessment and discussion.
Finally, Kulkarni hopes to reflect on how the large scale and diversity of online classes can enrich learning at universities, and how computational systems can enable new kinds of learning and creative work.
LINK http://hilt.harvard.edu/scholar-practitioner-speaker-series
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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:
Elizabeth Christoforetti (Placelet / MIT Media Lab)
Tim Fendley (Applied Wayfinding / Legible London)
Chris Osgood (City of Boston's Chief of Streets)
Caroline Smith (SeeClickFix)
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:
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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Riptide Lecture & Reception
Monday, October 26
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
BU, Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, Boston
Please join us at "Riptide: An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, 1980 to the present". This lively discussion with the authors of this groundbreaking report and four prominent journalists who covered the disruption over the past 30 years, will take place in the Trustee Ballroom (1 Silber Way, 9th Floor) from 5:30-7 p.m. on Monday, October 26. A reception will immediately follow the event.
BU, Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, Boston
Please join us at "Riptide: An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, 1980 to the present". This lively discussion with the authors of this groundbreaking report and four prominent journalists who covered the disruption over the past 30 years, will take place in the Trustee Ballroom (1 Silber Way, 9th Floor) from 5:30-7 p.m. on Monday, October 26. A reception will immediately follow the event.
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Film Screening: "Dateline – Saigon" featuring Q&A with director Tom Herman, Bob Schieffer and Tom Patterson
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation,” and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center
DIRECTED BY Thomas D. Herman
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Tim Bailey, tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617-495-8209
DETAILS Film screening of Dateline – Saigon, followed by Q&A with Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation”, and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, Acting Director of the Shorenstein Center.
5:30 p.m. – informal reception in Fisher Family Rotunda, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
6:00 p.m. – film screening in Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
Dateline – Saigon is a documentary film directed by Thomas D. Herman and narrated by Sam Waterston. The film profiles five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists – The New York Times’s David Halberstam; The Associated Press’s Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and the legendary photojournalist Horst Faas; and United Press International’s Neil Sheehan. With all the high-stakes drama of All the President’s Men, the film chronicles their controversial and groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War as President Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is dismissed by some as a “nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.” Five young reporters took on a superpower – and who won?
Dateline – Saigon illuminates the difficulties of reporting war by focusing on America’s most important and controversial case study: Vietnam, the war that established many of the ground rules for coverage of wars that followed and ignited an antagonism between the media and the military that unfortunately endures. The parallels to the challenges journalists face in reporting today’s conflicts – and the consequences of not getting the story out – will become disturbingly obvious to the viewer.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/dateline-saigon/
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation,” and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center
DIRECTED BY Thomas D. Herman
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Tim Bailey, tim_bailey@hks.harvard.edu, 617-495-8209
DETAILS Film screening of Dateline – Saigon, followed by Q&A with Thomas D. Herman, film director; Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, former CBS News anchor and host of “Face the Nation”, and first reporter from a Texas newspaper to visit Vietnam; and Tom Patterson, Acting Director of the Shorenstein Center.
5:30 p.m. – informal reception in Fisher Family Rotunda, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
6:00 p.m. – film screening in Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
Dateline – Saigon is a documentary film directed by Thomas D. Herman and narrated by Sam Waterston. The film profiles five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists – The New York Times’s David Halberstam; The Associated Press’s Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and the legendary photojournalist Horst Faas; and United Press International’s Neil Sheehan. With all the high-stakes drama of All the President’s Men, the film chronicles their controversial and groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War as President Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is dismissed by some as a “nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.” Five young reporters took on a superpower – and who won?
Dateline – Saigon illuminates the difficulties of reporting war by focusing on America’s most important and controversial case study: Vietnam, the war that established many of the ground rules for coverage of wars that followed and ignited an antagonism between the media and the military that unfortunately endures. The parallels to the challenges journalists face in reporting today’s conflicts – and the consequences of not getting the story out – will become disturbingly obvious to the viewer.
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/dateline-saigon/
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Fleeting Moments that Last Forever: Violence of and Against the Everyday
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
SPEAKER(S) Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/fleeting-moments-last-forever-violence-and-against-everyday
WHEN Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Mahindra Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
SPEAKER(S) Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
CONTACT INFO humcentr@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0738
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/fleeting-moments-last-forever-violence-and-against-everyday
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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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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
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The Internet of Garbage
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.
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ProtoPrint: How to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printing
Tuesday, October 27
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building N51-310, D-Lab large classroom, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj
Speaker: Sidhant Pai
Protoprint, a Social Enterprise in India that produces 3D printer filaments from waste plastic.
Our speaker, Sidhant Pai, is the CEO and co-founder of ProtoPrint. Sidhant has a degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT. He focuses on low-cost grassroots technology, public policy, climate change, air pollution
Event brought to you by the MIT Waste Alliance in collaboration with D-Lab, with sponsorship from Graduate Student Life Grant (GSLG).
Web site: http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Life Grants, D-Lab
For more information, contact: trashiscash@mit.edu
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building N51-310, D-Lab large classroom, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj
Speaker: Sidhant Pai
Protoprint, a Social Enterprise in India that produces 3D printer filaments from waste plastic.
Our speaker, Sidhant Pai, is the CEO and co-founder of ProtoPrint. Sidhant has a degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT. He focuses on low-cost grassroots technology, public policy, climate change, air pollution
Event brought to you by the MIT Waste Alliance in collaboration with D-Lab, with sponsorship from Graduate Student Life Grant (GSLG).
Web site: http://bit.ly/1Ow5bTj
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Life Grants, D-Lab
For more information, contact: trashiscash@mit.edu
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MA Senator Michael Barrett’s carbon pricing bill, S. 1747, An Act combating climate change, has been set for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
Tuesday, October 27
Tuesday, October 27
1pm
Hearing Room B-1 of the MA State House, Boston
WE NEED A VERY IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT. Sen. Barrett’s bill has been gaining huge momentum. We’re up to 44 co-sponsors -- more than 20% of the State Legislature. A big thank you to the most recent co-sponsors: Sen. Marc Pacheco, Rep. Paul Schmid and Rep. Ken Gordon. Outside the building, Sen. Barrett has been speaking to Democratic Town Committees across the state, with more than 20 endorsing carbon pricing.
Sen. Barrett’s even been invited to speak to his first Republican Town Committee. This thing needs to be bi-partisan and we have a solution that progressives and conservatives agree on. We’re working with businesspeople, religious leaders and concerned citizens who are worried about the impact climate change will have on their kids and grandkids.
That’s why it’s crucial that you come on Tuesday the 27th … and bring as many other supporters as you can.
You may also submit written testimony to the Chairs of the Committee:
Hearing Room B-1 of the MA State House, Boston
WE NEED A VERY IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT. Sen. Barrett’s bill has been gaining huge momentum. We’re up to 44 co-sponsors -- more than 20% of the State Legislature. A big thank you to the most recent co-sponsors: Sen. Marc Pacheco, Rep. Paul Schmid and Rep. Ken Gordon. Outside the building, Sen. Barrett has been speaking to Democratic Town Committees across the state, with more than 20 endorsing carbon pricing.
Sen. Barrett’s even been invited to speak to his first Republican Town Committee. This thing needs to be bi-partisan and we have a solution that progressives and conservatives agree on. We’re working with businesspeople, religious leaders and concerned citizens who are worried about the impact climate change will have on their kids and grandkids.
That’s why it’s crucial that you come on Tuesday the 27th … and bring as many other supporters as you can.
You may also submit written testimony to the Chairs of the Committee:
Senator Benjamin B. Downing (D Pittsfield)
State House, Room 413F, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-1625
Fax:617-722-1523
Email: Benjamin.Downing@masenate.gov
State House, Room 413F, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-1625
Fax:617-722-1523
Email: Benjamin.Downing@masenate.gov
Representative Thomas A. Golden, Jr. (D Lowell)
State House, Room 473B, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-2263
Fax:617-570-6578
Email: Thomas.Golden@mahouse.gov
Please forward this email to as many friends as you’d like.
State House, Room 473B, Boston, MA 02133
Phone:617-722-2263
Fax:617-570-6578
Email: Thomas.Golden@mahouse.gov
Please forward this email to as many friends as you’d like.
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The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer an unprecedented report of the resurrection of the Russian security state—from its Soviet-era transformation to the present day, where Vladimir Putin’s clandestine intelligence agencies wield increasing power over the Internet and dissent. The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. In The Red Web, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan expose both how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of geopolitical warfare—and the Russian government’s battle with the future of the Internet.
LINK http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/red-web
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
SPEAKER(S) Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer an unprecedented report of the resurrection of the Russian security state—from its Soviet-era transformation to the present day, where Vladimir Putin’s clandestine intelligence agencies wield increasing power over the Internet and dissent. The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. In The Red Web, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan expose both how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of geopolitical warfare—and the Russian government’s battle with the future of the Internet.
LINK http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/red-web
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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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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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What to Expect from the Next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris?
Tuesday, October 27
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Harvard, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Brice Lalonde, former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20
Featuring a panel discussion with Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program; Adjunct Professor Muriel Rouyer Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; and Professor Henry Lee, Director of the Energy and Natural Resource Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
We are at a critical stage of the negotiations on climate change: the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP-21) will be held in Paris, early December 2015. As a former UN Assistant Secretary-General (Executive Coordinator of Rio+20) and key international negotiator in various climatic / sustainable development settings who happens to be from France (where the conference will be organized), Mr. Brice Lalonde’s brings a unique perspective on what is at stake and what to expect.
Presented by The Future Society at HKS. Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Science, Technology & Society Program at HKS, and the Energy and Natural Resource Program (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs).
Speaker’s bio: Brice Lalonde is the Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Prior to this appointment Mr. Lalonde served as French Ambassador for climate change, French Minister for the Environment, Chairman of the Round Table for Sustainable Development at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Senior Adviser for the Environment to the French Government. In addition, he held the position of Director of the Paris office of the Institute for a European Environment Policy. Mr. Lalonde has also worked for non-governmental organizations, like Friends of the Earth. He is now Special Advisor on Sustainable Development to the U.N. Global Compact.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-27-220000-2015-10-27-233000/future-society-harvard-kennedy-school-lecture#sthash.91re9qY5.dpuf
We are at a critical stage of the negotiations on climate change: the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP-21) will be held in Paris, early December 2015. As a former UN Assistant Secretary-General (Executive Coordinator of Rio+20) and key international negotiator in various climatic / sustainable development settings who happens to be from France (where the conference will be organized), Mr. Brice Lalonde’s brings a unique perspective on what is at stake and what to expect.
Presented by The Future Society at HKS. Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Science, Technology & Society Program at HKS, and the Energy and Natural Resource Program (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs).
Speaker’s bio: Brice Lalonde is the Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Prior to this appointment Mr. Lalonde served as French Ambassador for climate change, French Minister for the Environment, Chairman of the Round Table for Sustainable Development at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Senior Adviser for the Environment to the French Government. In addition, he held the position of Director of the Paris office of the Institute for a European Environment Policy. Mr. Lalonde has also worked for non-governmental organizations, like Friends of the Earth. He is now Special Advisor on Sustainable Development to the U.N. Global Compact.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-27-220000-2015-10-27-233000/future-society-harvard-kennedy-school-lecture#sthash.91re9qY5.dpuf
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Design Symposium: "Informal Robotics" with Daniela Rus, Conor Walsh, and Robert Wood; Moderated by Chuck Hoberman
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unlike traditional robots, informal robots are light, flexible, and pliant; their fabrication involves the embedding of processors, sensors and actuators within materials such as folded laminates, soft gels, or woven fabric. Intelligence—both computational and material—emerges synergistically from these innovative configurations.This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading practitioners of informal robotics who will present their work in areas including ambulatory, swimming and flying robots, soft exo-suits to enhance mobility, and self-organizing robot collectives.
After these presentations, a moderated discussion will explore how informal robotics is situated within a broader convergence of computation, materials and manufacturing (e.g., metamaterials, programmable matter), and how these trends present opportunities for design at the product, architectural, and urban scales. Following the program, we will have a reception during which researchers and students will demonstrate their original informal robots.
Organized by:
Chuck Hoberman, Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard GSD and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
With speakers:
Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robert Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/informal-robotics.html
WHEN Tue., Oct. 27, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Unlike traditional robots, informal robots are light, flexible, and pliant; their fabrication involves the embedding of processors, sensors and actuators within materials such as folded laminates, soft gels, or woven fabric. Intelligence—both computational and material—emerges synergistically from these innovative configurations.This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading practitioners of informal robotics who will present their work in areas including ambulatory, swimming and flying robots, soft exo-suits to enhance mobility, and self-organizing robot collectives.
After these presentations, a moderated discussion will explore how informal robotics is situated within a broader convergence of computation, materials and manufacturing (e.g., metamaterials, programmable matter), and how these trends present opportunities for design at the product, architectural, and urban scales. Following the program, we will have a reception during which researchers and students will demonstrate their original informal robots.
Organized by:
Chuck Hoberman, Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard GSD and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
With speakers:
Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robert Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/informal-robotics.html
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Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
Tuesday, October 27
Science and Cooking: Viscosity and Polymers
Tuesday, October 27
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
José Andrés, (@chefjoseandres), ThinkFoodGroup
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
The Northeastern University Energy System Society (NU-ESS) welcomes all members of the community who are interested in taking a more active role in energy, sustainability, and environmental issues as both students in the classroom and professionals working in the industry. The conference will address the current and future scenario in clean power, entrepreneurship, energy efficiency opportunities in out built ecology, the grids of the future and energy policies in an interdisciplinary manner. Registration includes panel discussions, workshops, showcase area, breakfast, lunch, and a late afternoon Halloween style cocktail networking reception. For more details, check our website www.neuess.com
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-30-120000/northeastern-university-energy-conference#sthash.o6FbHvri.dpuf
All pre-sales tickets include a copy of Winter Is Coming, admission into the event, and a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sales tickets are available online for two weeks only, after which a $5 ticket option will go on sale. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
$5 tickets will also be available at Harvard Book Store and over the phone at 617-661-1515. Unless the event is sold out, any remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of the venue when doors open.
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Monday, November 2
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More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-03-000000-2015-11-03-011500/floral-rewards-and-bee-havior#sthash.xsT1oAgZ.dpuf
Bryan Voltaggio, (@BryanVoltaggio), Volt
Michael Voltaggio, (@MVoltaggio), Ink
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Tuesday, November 3
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, November 3
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002592/
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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Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
Tuesday, November 3
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray
The presentation draws on findings from a two-year collaborative study of crowdwork--“the process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the ‘crowd,’ in the form of an open call" (Felstiner, 2010). We combine ethnographic and qualitative methods with computational analysis of backend metadata, comparing the cases of India and the United States, to understand the cultural meaning, political implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork. This talk examines how might we use the present day examples of people doing crowdwork as part-time, contingent employment to theorize the “last mile” of technological innovation-via-automation. What are the workforce demands such a restructuring of production suggests? People’s labor often goes unnoticed or unseen because it is embedded in computation and obscured by an API. This produces an ambient workforce: a distributed, always-on, at-the-ready, expansive labor market, dependent on a mix of intense bursts of activity AND a “long tail” of idling. Examined more closely, this bursty/idling pattern belays the different experiences of crowdsourcing: From the employer’s perspective, it is all burst and idle. Workers, on the other hand, turn crowdsourcing into a routine. We argue that before we can establish the legal, economic, and social regulatory regimes to manage crowdwork, we must have a clearer sense of the people doing this work, what it means to them, and how it fits into their daily lives.
About Mary
Mary is a Senior Researcher at MSR. She studied anthropology before receiving her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. She draws on this interdisciplinary background to study how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her most recent book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (NYU Press), which won awards from scholarly societies in Anthropology, Media Studies, and Sociology, examined how lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender young people negotiate and express their identities in rural parts of the United States and the role that digital media play in their lives and political work. Mary served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 2008 until 2010 and, now, holds a seat on that Association's Committee on Public Policy. She maintains an appointment as an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.
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Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning
Wednesday, November 3
12-1pm
Tufts, Crane Room, Paige Hall
Samuel Bell Wednesday
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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).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
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
Harvard Science Center, Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
José Andrés, (@chefjoseandres), ThinkFoodGroup
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Wednesday, October 28
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Assessing NATO's Role in the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Wednesday, October 28
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan 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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Aging Brain Seminar Series: Dr. Philip De Jager
Wednesday, October 28
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-6309, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Philip De Jager
Aging Brain Seminar Series
The Aging Brain Initiative is dedicated to conquering Alzheimer's disease and the dementias of aging through fundamental research into how the brain ages in health and in decline. This multidisciplinary, highly collaborative effort is spearheaded by the Picower Institute and the MIT School of Science. It brings together experts in neuroscience, bioengineering, biology, computer science, artificial intelligence, medicine, health economics and health policy. Their mission is to deliver the basic research that makes possible new tools, technologies and pharmaceuticals to address the challenges of brain aging, always with the aim of moving knowledge quickly from bench to bedside.
Web site: https://picower.mit.edu/cms/events/aging-brain-initiative-seminar-series-with-dr-philip-de-jager/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
For more information, contact: Najat Kessler
617-452-2485
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Two Systems: A Lecture by Sarah Howe
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Sarah Howe, 2015-2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute; poet and editor (United Kingdom)
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Howe will share sequences from her new volume of poems, “Two Systems,” which explores the historical encounter between China and the West, working toward Hong Kong’s present struggle for democracy. The poems use techniques such as the reshaping of found material and poetic “erasures” as a way of giving shape to political uncertainty and cultural amnesia.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sarah-howe-fellow-presentation
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Wednesday, October 28
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Assessing NATO's Role in the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Wednesday, October 28
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan 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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Aging Brain Seminar Series: Dr. Philip De Jager
Wednesday, October 28
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-6309, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Philip De Jager
Aging Brain Seminar Series
The Aging Brain Initiative is dedicated to conquering Alzheimer's disease and the dementias of aging through fundamental research into how the brain ages in health and in decline. This multidisciplinary, highly collaborative effort is spearheaded by the Picower Institute and the MIT School of Science. It brings together experts in neuroscience, bioengineering, biology, computer science, artificial intelligence, medicine, health economics and health policy. Their mission is to deliver the basic research that makes possible new tools, technologies and pharmaceuticals to address the challenges of brain aging, always with the aim of moving knowledge quickly from bench to bedside.
Web site: https://picower.mit.edu/cms/events/aging-brain-initiative-seminar-series-with-dr-philip-de-jager/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
For more information, contact: Najat Kessler
617-452-2485
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Two Systems: A Lecture by Sarah Howe
WHEN Wed., Oct. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Sarah Howe, 2015-2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute; poet and editor (United Kingdom)
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Howe will share sequences from her new volume of poems, “Two Systems,” which explores the historical encounter between China and the West, working toward Hong Kong’s present struggle for democracy. The poems use techniques such as the reshaping of found material and poetic “erasures” as a way of giving shape to political uncertainty and cultural amnesia.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sarah-howe-fellow-presentation
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Next Generation Soft Wearable Robots
Wednesday, October 28
Wednesday, October 28
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Conor Walsh, Harvard Paulson School, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Next generation wearable robots will use soft materials such as textiles and elastomers to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These robots will augment the capabilities of healthy individuals (e.g. improved walking efficiency, increased grip strength) in addition to assisting patients who suffer from physical or neurological disorders. The fundamental premise of this research is that small to moderate levels of assistance, delivered through lightweight and flexible platforms can have significant and meaningful effects for both healthy and physically impaired individuals. This talk will focus on soft wearable robots for the lower and upper extremity that demonstrate the design and fabrication principles required to realize these systems as well evidence of their utility through experiments on human subjects studies. The first is a soft exosuit that that can apply assistive joint torques to synergistically propel the wearer forward and provide support to minimize loading on the musculoskeletal system. This is enabled through the unique use of force-transmitting, conformal textiles that anchor to the body, proximally-mounted cable-based actuation systems, and adaptive control algorithms that use the minimum number of sensors. Advantages of the suit over traditional exoskeletons are that the wearer's joints are unconstrained by external rigid structures, and the worn part of the suit is extremely light, which minimizes the suit's unintentional interference with the body's natural biomechanics. Results will be presented that demonstrate a bilateral exosuit’s ability to reduce the energy cost of walking for healthy persons carrying heavy load and a unilateral exosuit can improve gait mechanics and reduced energy cost for patients poststroke. The second is a soft robotic glove that can be used to restore an impaired patient’s ability to grasp objects during activities of daily living. The glove consists of a wearable textile with attached elastomeric fluid-powered actuators specially designed to match the natural movements of the fingers and thumb. This is achieved by combining elastomeric tubular bladders with anisotropic reinforcements in its wall to determine the resulting deformation upon pressurization. Demonstration of the soft robotic glove improving functional grasp in a muscular dystrophy patient will be shared, as well as preliminary efforts of a control system that can detect the intent of the wearer so as to enable intuitive operation.
Next generation wearable robots will use soft materials such as textiles and elastomers to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These robots will augment the capabilities of healthy individuals (e.g. improved walking efficiency, increased grip strength) in addition to assisting patients who suffer from physical or neurological disorders. The fundamental premise of this research is that small to moderate levels of assistance, delivered through lightweight and flexible platforms can have significant and meaningful effects for both healthy and physically impaired individuals. This talk will focus on soft wearable robots for the lower and upper extremity that demonstrate the design and fabrication principles required to realize these systems as well evidence of their utility through experiments on human subjects studies. The first is a soft exosuit that that can apply assistive joint torques to synergistically propel the wearer forward and provide support to minimize loading on the musculoskeletal system. This is enabled through the unique use of force-transmitting, conformal textiles that anchor to the body, proximally-mounted cable-based actuation systems, and adaptive control algorithms that use the minimum number of sensors. Advantages of the suit over traditional exoskeletons are that the wearer's joints are unconstrained by external rigid structures, and the worn part of the suit is extremely light, which minimizes the suit's unintentional interference with the body's natural biomechanics. Results will be presented that demonstrate a bilateral exosuit’s ability to reduce the energy cost of walking for healthy persons carrying heavy load and a unilateral exosuit can improve gait mechanics and reduced energy cost for patients poststroke. The second is a soft robotic glove that can be used to restore an impaired patient’s ability to grasp objects during activities of daily living. The glove consists of a wearable textile with attached elastomeric fluid-powered actuators specially designed to match the natural movements of the fingers and thumb. This is achieved by combining elastomeric tubular bladders with anisotropic reinforcements in its wall to determine the resulting deformation upon pressurization. Demonstration of the soft robotic glove improving functional grasp in a muscular dystrophy patient will be shared, as well as preliminary efforts of a control system that can detect the intent of the wearer so as to enable intuitive operation.
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
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Book Launch Party for The Power of Resilience by Yossi Sheffi
Wednesday, October 28
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yossi Sheffi
To celebrate the release of his new book, Professor Yossi Sheffi, the author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, will hold a one-hour talk at 5pm with beverages and light refreshments to follow.
Copies of his latest book will be available for purchase at the event.
Book Summary: A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital device decimates the sales of other brands and sends established firms to the brink of bankruptcy. The interconnectedness of the global economy today means that unexpected events in one corner of the globe can ripple through the world???s supply chain and affect customers everywhere.
In this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. Sheffi offers fascinating case studies that illustrate how companies have prepared for, coped with, and come out stronger following disruption from the actions of Intel after the 2011 Japanese tsunami to the disruption in the "money supply chain" caused by the 2008 financial crisis.
Web site: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/book_release_launch_power_resilience_yossi_sheffi
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Transportation & Logistics
For more information, contact: Nancy L Martin
617-253-1547
nlmartin@mit.edu
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Solve Talks at Google: REINVENTING HEALTHCARE
Monday, October 28
5:30p-7:30p
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/solve-talks-at-google-a-thought-leadership-speaker-series-in-the-heart-of-kendall-square-tickets-18214057737
Guests: Rushika Ferdandopulle, CEO of Iora Health, Denny Ausiello, Chairman at Mass General, Heidi Williams, MIT
Politicians have argued about healthcare for decades. But medicine gets more sophisticated. Costs go up. And government spending rises. Is a breaking point coming? Will healthcare have to fundamentally reinvent itself - and how will that reinvention impact doctors and patients?
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On the Road to Paris
Wednesday, October 28
5:30-7:30pm
Tufts, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, 1 The Green, Medford
Dan Reifsnyder, Co-Chair of UNFCCC Climate Negotiations. Hosted by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP)
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Book Launch Party for The Power of Resilience by Yossi Sheffi
Wednesday, October 28
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yossi Sheffi
To celebrate the release of his new book, Professor Yossi Sheffi, the author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, will hold a one-hour talk at 5pm with beverages and light refreshments to follow.
Copies of his latest book will be available for purchase at the event.
Book Summary: A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital device decimates the sales of other brands and sends established firms to the brink of bankruptcy. The interconnectedness of the global economy today means that unexpected events in one corner of the globe can ripple through the world???s supply chain and affect customers everywhere.
In this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. Sheffi offers fascinating case studies that illustrate how companies have prepared for, coped with, and come out stronger following disruption from the actions of Intel after the 2011 Japanese tsunami to the disruption in the "money supply chain" caused by the 2008 financial crisis.
Web site: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/book_release_launch_power_resilience_yossi_sheffi
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Transportation & Logistics
For more information, contact: Nancy L Martin
617-253-1547
nlmartin@mit.edu
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Solve Talks at Google: REINVENTING HEALTHCARE
Monday, October 28
5:30p-7:30p
Google Cambridge, 355 Main Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/solve-talks-at-google-a-thought-leadership-speaker-series-in-the-heart-of-kendall-square-tickets-18214057737
Guests: Rushika Ferdandopulle, CEO of Iora Health, Denny Ausiello, Chairman at Mass General, Heidi Williams, MIT
Politicians have argued about healthcare for decades. But medicine gets more sophisticated. Costs go up. And government spending rises. Is a breaking point coming? Will healthcare have to fundamentally reinvent itself - and how will that reinvention impact doctors and patients?
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On the Road to Paris
Wednesday, October 28
5:30-7:30pm
Tufts, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, 1 The Green, Medford
Dan Reifsnyder, Co-Chair of UNFCCC Climate Negotiations. Hosted by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP)
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, October 28
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events
Cost: $10
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 2: Wednesday, October 28
Connecting the Communities Back to the City, 1960 -- 1990
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Langley Keyes, MIT; Paul Chan, MHIC; Ann Hershfang, WalkBoston; Karilyn Crockett, City of Boston; and moderator Rep. Byron Rushing, Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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
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 2: Wednesday, October 28
Connecting the Communities Back to the City, 1960 -- 1990
Location: MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
With Langley Keyes, MIT; Paul Chan, MHIC; Ann Hershfang, WalkBoston; Karilyn Crockett, City of Boston; and moderator Rep. Byron Rushing, Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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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Architecture Lecture: Eva Diaz, Is "Spaceship Earth" Utopia?
Wednesday, October 28
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Eva Diaz
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and History, Theory and Criticism Group Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #2: ALEWIFE BIOREGIONAL CORRIDOR
Wednesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
TOPIC: Vibrant green corridors that benefit all, locally and regionally
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Architecture Lecture: Eva Diaz, Is "Spaceship Earth" Utopia?
Wednesday, October 28
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Eva Diaz
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and History, Theory and Criticism Group Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #2: ALEWIFE BIOREGIONAL CORRIDOR
Wednesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville
TOPIC: Vibrant green corridors that benefit all, locally and regionally
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Cryptoparty: Imagining What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years
Wednesday, October 28
6-9pm
Parts and Crafts, 577 Somerville Avenue, Somerville
The theme of October's Cryptoparty is Community Jamboree: Imagining what the Internet will look like in 5 years. We need curious cats and experts in the art of the possible to come together and envision the near-future of online communication.
We'll start the discussion with a 30,000 foot overview of three interrelated and important fields relevant to our digital rights: Networking, cryptography, and broadband policy. Each field will be described in concrete terms as they exist in your everyday life and for everyday people.
Networking People connect to the Internet over thousands of miles of copper, fiber optic, and submarine (!) cable. We can use computers and digital communication to reach each other without accessing the Internet, though. Your typical Local Area Network (LAN) is closed to the outside but still good for sharing files and communicating. We'll talk about mesh networking, a network that works by line-of-sight connections of roof antennae. What services do you use on your smartphone or your laptop that could be supported by mesh networks – without the support of the Internet.
Cryptography Puzzles, ciphers, hashes, codes, secrets. Cryptography is a subfield of mathematics used to programmatically scramble messages. Public key cryptography, also called asymmetrical cryptography, uses pairings of public and private keys to encrypt messages between people. You create a public and a private key for yourself. You hide your private key and use your private key to decrypt messages sent to you. A friend uses your public key (hence public!) to encrypt a message to you, so that only you can decrypt the message your friend sent. See September's cryptoparty to learn more about how packet routing in computer networks gets encrypted (cjdns).
Broadband policy Here's where the rubber meets the road. How do we make sure that our privacy and community-driven networks are broadband ready? 1gps! There are 165 community fiber networks in the United States. Learn about them here: http://www.bbpmag.com/search.php.
From there, it's up to everyone present to engage each others about how we secure the right to communicate and share information.
Potluck snacks/BYOB. Kids welcome to join.
Address: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 (http://partsandcrafts.org) Closest MBTA: bus 87, or a walk from Porter Sq/red line. The space is wheelchair accessible.
Parts and Crafts is a makerspace and community workshop in Somerville. On this night, the usually kid-filled space is inviting grown-ups to come participate here. We ask that all grown-ups who use the space keep this in mind and respect the kid-friendly environment.
If you want to prepare before coming, you can find some encryption how-to guides here: https://www.cryptopartyatx.org/?page=1&os=win&js=auto-yes
The theme of October's Cryptoparty is Community Jamboree: Imagining what the Internet will look like in 5 years. We need curious cats and experts in the art of the possible to come together and envision the near-future of online communication.
We'll start the discussion with a 30,000 foot overview of three interrelated and important fields relevant to our digital rights: Networking, cryptography, and broadband policy. Each field will be described in concrete terms as they exist in your everyday life and for everyday people.
Networking People connect to the Internet over thousands of miles of copper, fiber optic, and submarine (!) cable. We can use computers and digital communication to reach each other without accessing the Internet, though. Your typical Local Area Network (LAN) is closed to the outside but still good for sharing files and communicating. We'll talk about mesh networking, a network that works by line-of-sight connections of roof antennae. What services do you use on your smartphone or your laptop that could be supported by mesh networks – without the support of the Internet.
Cryptography Puzzles, ciphers, hashes, codes, secrets. Cryptography is a subfield of mathematics used to programmatically scramble messages. Public key cryptography, also called asymmetrical cryptography, uses pairings of public and private keys to encrypt messages between people. You create a public and a private key for yourself. You hide your private key and use your private key to decrypt messages sent to you. A friend uses your public key (hence public!) to encrypt a message to you, so that only you can decrypt the message your friend sent. See September's cryptoparty to learn more about how packet routing in computer networks gets encrypted (cjdns).
Broadband policy Here's where the rubber meets the road. How do we make sure that our privacy and community-driven networks are broadband ready? 1gps! There are 165 community fiber networks in the United States. Learn about them here: http://www.bbpmag.com/search.php.
From there, it's up to everyone present to engage each others about how we secure the right to communicate and share information.
Potluck snacks/BYOB. Kids welcome to join.
Address: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 (http://partsandcrafts.org) Closest MBTA: bus 87, or a walk from Porter Sq/red line. The space is wheelchair accessible.
Parts and Crafts is a makerspace and community workshop in Somerville. On this night, the usually kid-filled space is inviting grown-ups to come participate here. We ask that all grown-ups who use the space keep this in mind and respect the kid-friendly environment.
If you want to prepare before coming, you can find some encryption how-to guides here: https://www.cryptopartyatx.org/?page=1&os=win&js=auto-yes
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James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency
Wednesday, October 28
7:00pm
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
Lowell Humanities Series Presents James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler had a successful career as a novelist and journalist. He published his first critique of American architecture and urban planning, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Manmade Landscape in 1993. He followed Geography with Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century in 1996. The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition (2001) is Kunstler’s third book in this urban-planning trilogy. In it he examines eight cities—Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston and London—discussing the ways in which their design and architecture have shaped their cultures and successes. For his next work, Kunstler trained his eye on the oil crisis. The bestselling book The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (2005), explores the sweeping economic, political and social changes that will result from the end of access to cheap fossil fuels. A seasoned journalist, Kunstler continues to write for The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and the Op-Ed page where he often covers environmental and economic issues.
BC, Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill
Lowell Humanities Series Presents James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler had a successful career as a novelist and journalist. He published his first critique of American architecture and urban planning, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Manmade Landscape in 1993. He followed Geography with Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century in 1996. The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition (2001) is Kunstler’s third book in this urban-planning trilogy. In it he examines eight cities—Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston and London—discussing the ways in which their design and architecture have shaped their cultures and successes. For his next work, Kunstler trained his eye on the oil crisis. The bestselling book The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century (2005), explores the sweeping economic, political and social changes that will result from the end of access to cheap fossil fuels. A seasoned journalist, Kunstler continues to write for The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and the Op-Ed page where he often covers environmental and economic issues.
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Growing Together: How viruses have shaped human evolution
Wednesday, October 28
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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October Mixer: "Science in the News"
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/october-mixer-science-in-the-news-tickets-18780157958
Join SWE Boston members at a free science seminar presented by Science In The News at Harvard Medical School's Armenise Auditorium! This event will take place from 7-9 pm on Wednesday, October 28th.
New SWE Members to the Boston Section will be on hand to connect and mingle. No prior knowledge is necessary. All are welcome. This event is free! This particular lecture covers the topic "Growing Together: How Viruses have Shaped Human Evolution." The seminar is one of the last in the Fall Series by SITN.
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
This seminar will be held in the Armenise Auditorium at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston. The school is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The closest T stops are the Longwood Medical Area and Brigham Circle stops on the Green Line (the E/Lechmere branch).
Contact/RSVP
This is a casual networking event with no registration fee to attend. Contact Nicole Woon (nicole.woon AT swe DOT org) for the most up-to-date information. We may meet before/after the event for food; if so, it is a pay-for-your-own-meal event. Please RSVP early in case we need to make table reservations. Remember to bring your ID if ordering anything alcoholic, cash to make payment easier, and business cards to remember everyone's names. Hope to see you there!
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Thursday, October 29
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Growing Together: How viruses have shaped human evolution
Wednesday, October 28
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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October Mixer: "Science in the News"
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/october-mixer-science-in-the-news-tickets-18780157958
Join SWE Boston members at a free science seminar presented by Science In The News at Harvard Medical School's Armenise Auditorium! This event will take place from 7-9 pm on Wednesday, October 28th.
New SWE Members to the Boston Section will be on hand to connect and mingle. No prior knowledge is necessary. All are welcome. This event is free! This particular lecture covers the topic "Growing Together: How Viruses have Shaped Human Evolution." The seminar is one of the last in the Fall Series by SITN.
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
This seminar will be held in the Armenise Auditorium at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston. The school is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The closest T stops are the Longwood Medical Area and Brigham Circle stops on the Green Line (the E/Lechmere branch).
Contact/RSVP
This is a casual networking event with no registration fee to attend. Contact Nicole Woon (nicole.woon AT swe DOT org) for the most up-to-date information. We may meet before/after the event for food; if so, it is a pay-for-your-own-meal event. Please RSVP early in case we need to make table reservations. Remember to bring your ID if ordering anything alcoholic, cash to make payment easier, and business cards to remember everyone's names. Hope to see you there!
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Thursday, October 29
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MAPC 2015 Fall Council Meeting
Thursday October 29
Thursday October 29
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
UMass Boston Campus Center, University Drive North, Dorchester
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebldn69ef3d2bda9&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
Don't forget to register for MAPC's annual Fall Council Meeting on Thursday, October 29 at the UMass Boston Campus Center!
We will be honoring one exemplary staff member with the Davidson Achievement Award, as well as awarding one municipal leader from the region with our annual Mann Award for outstanding regional leadership.
We will also be hosting lightning presentations on our work, including climate adaptation in Quincy, local transportation funding, connecting immigrant entrepreneurs in Framingham, reimagining Hall's Corner in Duxbury, lowering municipal energy rates, and planning for equity and quality of life in Chelsea.
We will also hold MPO elections, in which city and town officials will elect members to the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).
UMass Boston Campus Center, University Drive North, Dorchester
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebldn69ef3d2bda9&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
Don't forget to register for MAPC's annual Fall Council Meeting on Thursday, October 29 at the UMass Boston Campus Center!
We will be honoring one exemplary staff member with the Davidson Achievement Award, as well as awarding one municipal leader from the region with our annual Mann Award for outstanding regional leadership.
We will also be hosting lightning presentations on our work, including climate adaptation in Quincy, local transportation funding, connecting immigrant entrepreneurs in Framingham, reimagining Hall's Corner in Duxbury, lowering municipal energy rates, and planning for equity and quality of life in Chelsea.
We will also hold MPO elections, in which city and town officials will elect members to the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).
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Sustainable Diets: Science, Guidance, and Politics
Thursday, October 29
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Tim Griffin, Food, Agriculture & Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
Dietary guidelines are about diets and health, but the ways people eat have many impacts. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) began its work in late 2013, and released its Scientific Report in February 2015. For the first time, the DGAC report included an assessment of the environmental impacts of human diets. Much has been made of the fact that the DGAC included these issues (both in support and in opposition), but the rationale for inclusion is clear: our ability to meet food security goals in the future is directly impacted by our use of resources now. There is a significant scientific assessment that connects dietary patterns to sustainability outcomes, which will be reviewed. The public and political response will also be discussed.
Timothy S. Griffin is an Associate Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. At Friedman, he directs the interdisciplinary graduate program, Agriculture, Food and the Environment, and teaches classes on U.S. agriculture, and agricultural science and policy. His current research focuses on: regional food system, and climate change impacts on agriculture. He served as an Advisor to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, focusing on Sustainability, and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences study Genetically Engineered Crops: Past Experiences and Future Prospects. Before coming to the Friedman School in 2008, he was Research Agronomist and Lead Scientist with the USDA-Agriculture Research Service in Orono, ME, from 2000 to 2008. From 1992 to 2000, he was the Extension Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at the University of Maine, the first such position in the U.S. He graduated from Michigan State University (Ph.D) and the University of Nebraska (B.S. and M.S.)
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The Political Economy of Quagmires
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, postdoctoral research fellow, International Security Program/Middle East Initiative
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6761/political_economy_of_quagmires.html
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“Big data pragmatics!”, or, “Putting computational linguistics in computational social science”, or, if you think these title alternatives could turn people on, turn people off, or otherwise have an effect, this talk might be for you.
Thursday, October 29
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lillian Lee, Cornell University
What effect does language have on people?
You might say in response, "Who are you to discuss this problem?" and you would be right to do so; this is a Major Question that science has been tackling for many years. But as a field, I think natural language processing and computational linguistics have much to contribute to the conversation, and I hope to encourage the community to further address these issues.
This talk will focus on the effect of phrasing, emphasizing aspects that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over another. The issues we'll consider include: Does the way in which something is worded in and of itself have an effect on whether it is remembered or attracts attention, beyond its content or context? Can we characterize how different sides in a debate frame their arguments, in a way that goes beyond specific lexical choice (e.g., "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life")? The settings we'll explore range from movie quotes that achieve cultural prominence; to posts on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, and the arXiv; to framing in public discourse on the inclusion of genetically-modified organisms in food.
Joint work with Lars Backstrom, Justin Cheng, Eunsol Choi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg, Bo Pang, Jennifer Spindel, and Chenhao Tan.
Speaker Bio: Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science at Cornell University, and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the ACL.
Her research interests include natural language processing and computational social science. She is the recipient of the inaugural Best Paper Award at HLT-NAACL 2004 (joint with Regina Barzilay), a citation in “Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004” by Technology Research News (also joint with Regina Barzilay), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; and in 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Her group’s work has received several mentions in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NBC’s The Today Show, and one of her co-authored papers was publicly called “boring” by Youtubers Rhett and Link in a video viewed over 2.1 million times.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Sustainable Diets: Science, Guidance, and Politics
Thursday, October 29
12pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Tim Griffin, Food, Agriculture & Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
Dietary guidelines are about diets and health, but the ways people eat have many impacts. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) began its work in late 2013, and released its Scientific Report in February 2015. For the first time, the DGAC report included an assessment of the environmental impacts of human diets. Much has been made of the fact that the DGAC included these issues (both in support and in opposition), but the rationale for inclusion is clear: our ability to meet food security goals in the future is directly impacted by our use of resources now. There is a significant scientific assessment that connects dietary patterns to sustainability outcomes, which will be reviewed. The public and political response will also be discussed.
Timothy S. Griffin is an Associate Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. At Friedman, he directs the interdisciplinary graduate program, Agriculture, Food and the Environment, and teaches classes on U.S. agriculture, and agricultural science and policy. His current research focuses on: regional food system, and climate change impacts on agriculture. He served as an Advisor to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, focusing on Sustainability, and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences study Genetically Engineered Crops: Past Experiences and Future Prospects. Before coming to the Friedman School in 2008, he was Research Agronomist and Lead Scientist with the USDA-Agriculture Research Service in Orono, ME, from 2000 to 2008. From 1992 to 2000, he was the Extension Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at the University of Maine, the first such position in the U.S. He graduated from Michigan State University (Ph.D) and the University of Nebraska (B.S. and M.S.)
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The Political Economy of Quagmires
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, postdoctoral research fellow, International Security Program/Middle East Initiative
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6761/political_economy_of_quagmires.html
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“Big data pragmatics!”, or, “Putting computational linguistics in computational social science”, or, if you think these title alternatives could turn people on, turn people off, or otherwise have an effect, this talk might be for you.
Thursday, October 29
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lillian Lee, Cornell University
What effect does language have on people?
You might say in response, "Who are you to discuss this problem?" and you would be right to do so; this is a Major Question that science has been tackling for many years. But as a field, I think natural language processing and computational linguistics have much to contribute to the conversation, and I hope to encourage the community to further address these issues.
This talk will focus on the effect of phrasing, emphasizing aspects that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over another. The issues we'll consider include: Does the way in which something is worded in and of itself have an effect on whether it is remembered or attracts attention, beyond its content or context? Can we characterize how different sides in a debate frame their arguments, in a way that goes beyond specific lexical choice (e.g., "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life")? The settings we'll explore range from movie quotes that achieve cultural prominence; to posts on Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, and the arXiv; to framing in public discourse on the inclusion of genetically-modified organisms in food.
Joint work with Lars Backstrom, Justin Cheng, Eunsol Choi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg, Bo Pang, Jennifer Spindel, and Chenhao Tan.
Speaker Bio: Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science at Cornell University, and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the ACL.
Her research interests include natural language processing and computational social science. She is the recipient of the inaugural Best Paper Award at HLT-NAACL 2004 (joint with Regina Barzilay), a citation in “Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004” by Technology Research News (also joint with Regina Barzilay), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; and in 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Her group’s work has received several mentions in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NBC’s The Today Show, and one of her co-authored papers was publicly called “boring” by Youtubers Rhett and Link in a video viewed over 2.1 million times.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia@seas.harvard.edu
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Experimentation and Disclosure of News
Thursday, October 29
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-151, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-151, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yingni Guo (Northwestern)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Theory Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Theory Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
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Race and the Future of Asian American Politics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
SPEAKER(S) Janelle Wong, professor of American studies and director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland
CONTACT INFO emr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Janelle Wong will discuss the racial position of Asian Americans in U.S. politics past and present. She will use survey data and other evidence to explore Asian American political engagement around racialized issues like affirmative action. Will Asian Americans disrupt or reinforce status-quo politics? And is it possible for Asian Americans to prove a transformative force in the U.S. political system?
LINK http://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/race-and-future-asian-american-politics
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Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
Thursday, October 29
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Net Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy, both in the United States and around the world, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies. Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart N. Brotman's Net Vitality Index, released earlier this year, also measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment, gauging the true vitality of a country's Internet ecosystem.
Based on five years of research, the Net Vitality Index is the first holistic analysis of the global broadband Internet ecosystem, identifying the United States, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and France as the top-tier leaders. Unlike the one-dimensional rankings that serve as the basis of most broadband comparative studies, Brotman's composite metric takes into account 52 factors developed independently to evaluate countries on an apples-to-apples basis. Overarching categories assessed encompass applications, devices, networks, and macroeconomic factors.
Brotman is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
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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Balancing Cyber Security and Privacy in the Digital Age
Thursday, October 29
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/balancing-cyber-security-and-privacy-in-the-digital-age-tickets-18779751743
The idea of privacy has undergone significant changes in the digital age, as has the idea of privacy harm. Fearful of British spying, influence, and intervention, the founding fathers granted citizens significant protections in the Constitution. Now, the tables have turned: concerns about what some see as a U.S. dragnet and unwarranted privacy intrusions have compelled other countries to revamp their own privacy protections. Legislation, both at home and abroad, hasn’t kept pace with technological developments, leaving some wondering if privacy as we know it is long dead.
SPEAKERS:
Michael Sulmeyer, Director of Cyber Security Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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Race and the Future of Asian American Politics
WHEN Thu., Oct. 29, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
SPEAKER(S) Janelle Wong, professor of American studies and director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland
CONTACT INFO emr@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Janelle Wong will discuss the racial position of Asian Americans in U.S. politics past and present. She will use survey data and other evidence to explore Asian American political engagement around racialized issues like affirmative action. Will Asian Americans disrupt or reinforce status-quo politics? And is it possible for Asian Americans to prove a transformative force in the U.S. political system?
LINK http://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/race-and-future-asian-american-politics
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Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
Thursday, October 29
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Net Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy, both in the United States and around the world, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies. Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart N. Brotman's Net Vitality Index, released earlier this year, also measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment, gauging the true vitality of a country's Internet ecosystem.
Based on five years of research, the Net Vitality Index is the first holistic analysis of the global broadband Internet ecosystem, identifying the United States, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and France as the top-tier leaders. Unlike the one-dimensional rankings that serve as the basis of most broadband comparative studies, Brotman's composite metric takes into account 52 factors developed independently to evaluate countries on an apples-to-apples basis. Overarching categories assessed encompass applications, devices, networks, and macroeconomic factors.
Brotman is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
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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Balancing Cyber Security and Privacy in the Digital Age
Thursday, October 29
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/balancing-cyber-security-and-privacy-in-the-digital-age-tickets-18779751743
The idea of privacy has undergone significant changes in the digital age, as has the idea of privacy harm. Fearful of British spying, influence, and intervention, the founding fathers granted citizens significant protections in the Constitution. Now, the tables have turned: concerns about what some see as a U.S. dragnet and unwarranted privacy intrusions have compelled other countries to revamp their own privacy protections. Legislation, both at home and abroad, hasn’t kept pace with technological developments, leaving some wondering if privacy as we know it is long dead.
SPEAKERS:
Michael Sulmeyer, Director of Cyber Security Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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Architecture Lecture: Anne Holtrop, Material Gesture
Thursday, October 29
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Anne Holtrop
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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MIT Water Innovation Prize Generator Dinner
Thursday, October 29
6:00-9:00pm
MIT, Stratton Student Center, Lobdell Dining Hall W20-208, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-water-innovation-prize-generator-dinner-tickets-18887164016?aff=es2
Join us for the launch of the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP)
Idea pitch & dinner | Food and drinks provided
Who: MIT & non-MIT undergraduates, graduate students, fellows... all are welcome
At the event, you'll have an opportunity to pitch your water-related idea/research/project, find team members, and learn about the exciting water innovation happening at MIT and the surrounding area. Industry experts will also be in attendance to present real-world water challenges that need your help to solve.
The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a solutions-to-market competition for water startups. Teams will submit entry to the prize in late December and compete for seed funding in the spring. Visit mitwaterinnovation.com for more info. WIP is part of the MIT Water Club.
Space is limited, so RSVP to guarantee your seat!
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Friday, October 30
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MIT Water Innovation Prize Generator Dinner
Thursday, October 29
6:00-9:00pm
MIT, Stratton Student Center, Lobdell Dining Hall W20-208, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-water-innovation-prize-generator-dinner-tickets-18887164016?aff=es2
Join us for the launch of the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP)
Idea pitch & dinner | Food and drinks provided
Who: MIT & non-MIT undergraduates, graduate students, fellows... all are welcome
At the event, you'll have an opportunity to pitch your water-related idea/research/project, find team members, and learn about the exciting water innovation happening at MIT and the surrounding area. Industry experts will also be in attendance to present real-world water challenges that need your help to solve.
The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a solutions-to-market competition for water startups. Teams will submit entry to the prize in late December and compete for seed funding in the spring. Visit mitwaterinnovation.com for more info. WIP is part of the MIT Water Club.
Space is limited, so RSVP to guarantee your seat!
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Friday, October 30
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Northeastern University Energy Conference
Friday, October 30
8:00AM
Northeastern, McLeod Suites, 318 CSC, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://neu.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.aspx?id=1742&cid=140&p=1
Northeastern, McLeod Suites, 318 CSC, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://neu.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.aspx?id=1742&cid=140&p=1
Cost: $15-25
The Northeastern University Energy System Society (NU-ESS) welcomes all members of the community who are interested in taking a more active role in energy, sustainability, and environmental issues as both students in the classroom and professionals working in the industry. The conference will address the current and future scenario in clean power, entrepreneurship, energy efficiency opportunities in out built ecology, the grids of the future and energy policies in an interdisciplinary manner. Registration includes panel discussions, workshops, showcase area, breakfast, lunch, and a late afternoon Halloween style cocktail networking reception. For more details, check our website www.neuess.com
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-10-30-120000/northeastern-university-energy-conference#sthash.o6FbHvri.dpuf
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How to evaluate the importance of the non-conservation of several thermodynamic variables such as entropy
Friday, October 30
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
Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
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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A Chemist’s Solution to Excessive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Catalytic Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous CO2 to Organics
Friday, October 30
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM
Andrew Bocarsly, Princeton University
Abstract: The electrochemical transformation of CO2 to methanol, a process involving 6-electrons and 6-protons requires a thermodynamic energy input of 690kJ/mole under standard conditions, about 5.5 times more energy than the free energy required to split water. But, for this “price” one obtains a liquid fuel that has an enthalpic combustion content, which is about 2.8 times larger than hydrogen. This combined with methanol’s density (compared to hydrogen) provides a volumetric energy density that makes this compound a potential liquid fuel. If one can convert CO2 to larger alcohols or other organics, the energy requirements appear even more appealing.
However, the energy landscape for this type of reactivity is complicated by the large activation barrier associated with the one-electron reduction of CO2. In electrochemical terms, this means that to achieve a reasonable rate of conversion to products requires ~1V of potential beyond that required by thermodynamics. A volt of “overpotential” is an extreme energetic burden. In certain cases, this issue can be overcome either by the choice of electrode materials employed or by introducing a protonated aromatic amine as an electrocatalyst. For example, addition of pyridinium to a platinum electrode based electrochemical cell reduces the overpotential for methanol to ~200mV. Similar advantage can be obtained with aromatic amine catalysts for other C1 species. Even more intriguing, we find that certain electrode material/aromatic amine combinations promote the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, leading to the formation of true fuel and/or chemical feedstock compounds. This electrocatalytic approach can provide commercially useful products, while removing CO2 from the environment, as long as a nonfossil based fuel is utilized as the energy source.
To this end, we have developed a class of photoelectrochemical cells that are light driven and electrocatalytic for the multielectron reduction of CO2. In this system, one or both of the electrodes in the electrochemical reactor is composed of a semiconductor that absorbs visible light, generating a voltage in-situ. In this presentation, the chemical and electrochemical mechanisms that can lead to a practical reaction scheme for the conversion of CO2 to organic products are evaluated.
Biography: Andrew Bocarsly received his Bachelor of Science degree jointly in chemistry and physics from UCLA in 1976, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from M.I.T. in 1980. He has been a member of the Princeton University, Chemistry Department faculty for thirty-four years. He is affiliated with Princeton’s Materials Institute, Princeton’s Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Professor Bocarsly has published over 190 papers in peer reviewed journals and co-authored over a dozen patents. Research in his laboratory is focused on visible light photoelectrochemistry for the conversion of carbon dioxide to alcohols; elevated temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells; cyanogel sol-gel processing; and molecule-based multielectron photoinduced charge transfer processes.
Professor Bocarsly serves as a consultant and contractor to various fuel cell and alternate energy companies. He is a co-founder and President of the Science Advisory Board for Liquid Light Inc., a company formed to commercialize the formation of organic commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide using alternate energy sources. Professor Bocarsly has received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Sigma Xi (Princeton Section) Science Educator Award, and the American Chemical Society-Exxon Solid State Chemistry award. Currently, he sits on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and has edited a volume for Structure and Bonding in the area of fuel cells and batteries, and served as the electrochemistry editor for Methods in Materials Research.
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How to evaluate the importance of the non-conservation of several thermodynamic variables such as entropy
Friday, October 30
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
Houghton Lecture - "Lectures on the Thermodynamics of Seawater and Ice"
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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A Chemist’s Solution to Excessive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Catalytic Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous CO2 to Organics
Friday, October 30
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM
Andrew Bocarsly, Princeton University
Abstract: The electrochemical transformation of CO2 to methanol, a process involving 6-electrons and 6-protons requires a thermodynamic energy input of 690kJ/mole under standard conditions, about 5.5 times more energy than the free energy required to split water. But, for this “price” one obtains a liquid fuel that has an enthalpic combustion content, which is about 2.8 times larger than hydrogen. This combined with methanol’s density (compared to hydrogen) provides a volumetric energy density that makes this compound a potential liquid fuel. If one can convert CO2 to larger alcohols or other organics, the energy requirements appear even more appealing.
However, the energy landscape for this type of reactivity is complicated by the large activation barrier associated with the one-electron reduction of CO2. In electrochemical terms, this means that to achieve a reasonable rate of conversion to products requires ~1V of potential beyond that required by thermodynamics. A volt of “overpotential” is an extreme energetic burden. In certain cases, this issue can be overcome either by the choice of electrode materials employed or by introducing a protonated aromatic amine as an electrocatalyst. For example, addition of pyridinium to a platinum electrode based electrochemical cell reduces the overpotential for methanol to ~200mV. Similar advantage can be obtained with aromatic amine catalysts for other C1 species. Even more intriguing, we find that certain electrode material/aromatic amine combinations promote the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, leading to the formation of true fuel and/or chemical feedstock compounds. This electrocatalytic approach can provide commercially useful products, while removing CO2 from the environment, as long as a nonfossil based fuel is utilized as the energy source.
To this end, we have developed a class of photoelectrochemical cells that are light driven and electrocatalytic for the multielectron reduction of CO2. In this system, one or both of the electrodes in the electrochemical reactor is composed of a semiconductor that absorbs visible light, generating a voltage in-situ. In this presentation, the chemical and electrochemical mechanisms that can lead to a practical reaction scheme for the conversion of CO2 to organic products are evaluated.
Biography: Andrew Bocarsly received his Bachelor of Science degree jointly in chemistry and physics from UCLA in 1976, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from M.I.T. in 1980. He has been a member of the Princeton University, Chemistry Department faculty for thirty-four years. He is affiliated with Princeton’s Materials Institute, Princeton’s Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Professor Bocarsly has published over 190 papers in peer reviewed journals and co-authored over a dozen patents. Research in his laboratory is focused on visible light photoelectrochemistry for the conversion of carbon dioxide to alcohols; elevated temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells; cyanogel sol-gel processing; and molecule-based multielectron photoinduced charge transfer processes.
Professor Bocarsly serves as a consultant and contractor to various fuel cell and alternate energy companies. He is a co-founder and President of the Science Advisory Board for Liquid Light Inc., a company formed to commercialize the formation of organic commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide using alternate energy sources. Professor Bocarsly has received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Sigma Xi (Princeton Section) Science Educator Award, and the American Chemical Society-Exxon Solid State Chemistry award. Currently, he sits on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and has edited a volume for Structure and Bonding in the area of fuel cells and batteries, and served as the electrochemistry editor for Methods in Materials Research.
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Askwith Forum: Everybody's Talking about Equity, But Nobody Knows the Meaning of the Word
WHEN Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 5 – 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
Remarks by: Robert Peterkin, Professor of Practice, Emeritus, HGSE
Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Panelists:
Jennifer Cheatham, Ed.M.’06, Ed.D.’10, Superintendent, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI
Joseph Davis, Ed.M.’00, Ed.D.’08, Superintendent, Ferguson-Florrisant School District, MO
Stephen Zrike, Jr., Ed.M.’03, Ed.D.’10, Receiver of the Holyoke Public Schools, MA
The equity mission of urban school districts — to provide an excellent education to all students — is more difficult than ever to achieve. This Askwith Forum examines the social responsibility superintendents bear in leading their districts in educating underserved students. How can these leaders move their districts beyond providing “equity of access” to achieve “equity of outcomes” with students’ more advantaged peers? Our panel of urban superintendents shares their unique perspectives on this work with Charles Ogletree, and Robert Peterkin closes the evening by examining the implications for future leadership practice.
WHEN Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 5 – 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
Remarks by: Robert Peterkin, Professor of Practice, Emeritus, HGSE
Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Panelists:
Jennifer Cheatham, Ed.M.’06, Ed.D.’10, Superintendent, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI
Joseph Davis, Ed.M.’00, Ed.D.’08, Superintendent, Ferguson-Florrisant School District, MO
Stephen Zrike, Jr., Ed.M.’03, Ed.D.’10, Receiver of the Holyoke Public Schools, MA
The equity mission of urban school districts — to provide an excellent education to all students — is more difficult than ever to achieve. This Askwith Forum examines the social responsibility superintendents bear in leading their districts in educating underserved students. How can these leaders move their districts beyond providing “equity of access” to achieve “equity of outcomes” with students’ more advantaged peers? Our panel of urban superintendents shares their unique perspectives on this work with Charles Ogletree, and Robert Peterkin closes the evening by examining the implications for future leadership practice.
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Fright Factors: The Science of Fear
Friday, October 30
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
What happens in our bodies and minds when we are frightened? Join us for an evening of "speed geeking": short presentations and fast-paced, hair-raising conversations!
Presentations by:
Ki Ann Goosens - Relationship between fear, anxiety, stress (MIT)
Sarah Alger - Frightful Tools (MGH)
Nauchine Hadjikhani - Capturing the Moment of Fear in the Brain (HMS)
Steven Schlozmon - Zombies and the Brain (HMS)
David Thorburn - Film and Fear (MIT)
Refreshments provided.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visit/calendar.html
Open to: 21+ only
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Silent Film Screening with Live Music - FAUST
Friday, October 30
8:00p
MIT, Building 14w-111, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Film Screening of FAUST, a 1926 Silent Film by F. W. Murnau, with live musical accompaniment, created and performed by Martin Marks, with soprano Divya Pillai (G). 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Faust is a visually lavish and mesmerizing film. Director Murnau was at the height of his powers, and his cast included several great European actors???most notably Emil Jannings in the role of Mephistopheles. Murnau???s version departs from Goethe???s in many respects, though the director, like the poet, does heavily emphasize the tragic love story of innocent Gretchen and not-so-innocent Faust. For his accompaniment, film music expert Martin Marks has compiled a wide array of 19th-century pieces, including vocal works by Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Brahms, and Humperdinck. Intermixed with these are incidental ???mood??? pieces that were commonly used in the twenties to accompany silent films.
Web site: mta.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
617-253-3210
mta-request@mit.edu
Fright Factors: The Science of Fear
Friday, October 30
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building N51, MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
What happens in our bodies and minds when we are frightened? Join us for an evening of "speed geeking": short presentations and fast-paced, hair-raising conversations!
Presentations by:
Ki Ann Goosens - Relationship between fear, anxiety, stress (MIT)
Sarah Alger - Frightful Tools (MGH)
Nauchine Hadjikhani - Capturing the Moment of Fear in the Brain (HMS)
Steven Schlozmon - Zombies and the Brain (HMS)
David Thorburn - Film and Fear (MIT)
Refreshments provided.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visit/calendar.html
Open to: 21+ only
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Jennifer Novotney
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu
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Silent Film Screening with Live Music - FAUST
Friday, October 30
8:00p
MIT, Building 14w-111, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Film Screening of FAUST, a 1926 Silent Film by F. W. Murnau, with live musical accompaniment, created and performed by Martin Marks, with soprano Divya Pillai (G). 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Faust is a visually lavish and mesmerizing film. Director Murnau was at the height of his powers, and his cast included several great European actors???most notably Emil Jannings in the role of Mephistopheles. Murnau???s version departs from Goethe???s in many respects, though the director, like the poet, does heavily emphasize the tragic love story of innocent Gretchen and not-so-innocent Faust. For his accompaniment, film music expert Martin Marks has compiled a wide array of 19th-century pieces, including vocal works by Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Brahms, and Humperdinck. Intermixed with these are incidental ???mood??? pieces that were commonly used in the twenties to accompany silent films.
Web site: mta.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
617-253-3210
mta-request@mit.edu
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Sunday, November 1
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Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England
WHEN Sun., Nov. 1, 2015, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Richard W. Judd, Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History, University of Maine
COST $10
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1456&DayPlannerDate=11/1/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS Historian Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years. He traces a succession of cultures through New England’s changing postglacial environment down to the 1600s, when the arrival of Europeans interrupted this coevolution of nature and culture. A long period of tension and warfare, inflected by a variety of environmental problems, opened the way for frontier expansion. This in turn culminated in a unique landscape of forest, farm, and village that has become the embodiment of what Judd calls “second nature”— culturally modified landscapes that have superseded a more pristine “first nature.” Judd will relate significant cultural and ecological changes that have influenced the evolution of the New England landscape over time.
WHEN Sun., Nov. 1, 2015, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Richard W. Judd, Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History, University of Maine
COST $10
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1456&DayPlannerDate=11/1/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS Historian Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years. He traces a succession of cultures through New England’s changing postglacial environment down to the 1600s, when the arrival of Europeans interrupted this coevolution of nature and culture. A long period of tension and warfare, inflected by a variety of environmental problems, opened the way for frontier expansion. This in turn culminated in a unique landscape of forest, farm, and village that has become the embodiment of what Judd calls “second nature”— culturally modified landscapes that have superseded a more pristine “first nature.” Judd will relate significant cultural and ecological changes that have influenced the evolution of the New England landscape over time.
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Urban Male : 'Creating While Being Black in America' A Conversation w/Walter Mosley
Sunday, November 1
Sunday, November 1
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Paramount, 559 Washington Street, Bright Family Screening Room, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-male-creating-while-being-black-in-america-a-conversation-wwalter-mosley-tickets-19086654698
In November of 2013, Future Boston launched our Signature Series, The Urban Male – a panel discussion around the men of color within our city and our investment in their success. Artists, entrepreneurs and innovators are invited to highlight the amazing work being done in this city by men of color. Past dialogues have focused on the topics of: Entrepreneurship, Achievement, Freedom, & Social Investing. Dialogues from past discussions can be found on the homepage of our website.
On November 1st, Join Future Boston & Arts Emerson for an exclusive, but always inclusive - free & open to the public Urban Male Event!
Urban Male: Walter Mosley in Conversation with Malia Lazu.
Join Walter Mosley for a conversation about his recent work graphomania and what it mean to create as a Black Artist in America
Where: The Paramount Theatre | 559 Washington Streeet
When: Sunday, November 1st | 3pm - 5pm
PLEASE RSVP AT THIS LINK
This event is an alignment between Future Boston's Urban Male Series and the 2015 collaboration between ArtsEmerson and Future Boston Alliance for the Fresh Sounds Master Artist in Residence: Walter Mosley: The Obsessive Residency, featuring a variety of special events including film screenings, play readings, a Public Dialogue Series event, book launch of his autobiography, and visual art exhibition October 30 through November 8, 2015 at various locations throughout Emerson College in Boston, MA. All events are free and open to the public with advance reservation by calling the ArtsEmerson box office at 617.824.8400 or by visiting artsemerson.org.
“This residency made possible by Fresh Sound is an incredible opportunity to see a glimpse of a multi-faceted, renowned artist and his expansive body of work,” says Polly Carl, Creative Director. “He truly is a graphomaniac, constantly writing, constantly creating. His numerous awards and recognitions for his fiction box him in as a writer in a lot of people’s minds, and with the Obsessive Residency, we’re bursting that open. His plays, films, and artwork all give insight to what is constantly going on in his mind."
About Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 23 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
He lives in New York City.
About Malia Lazu, Executive Director & Co-Founder Future Boston Alliance
Upon completing a two-year fellowship at MIT, Malia Lazu joins Future Boston with over two decades of experience establishing grass roots involvement in political advocacy and civic engagement. Malia took over
as Executive Director in November 2011 where she serves as chief operations officer of Future Boston,
credited for taking Future Boston from concept into reality. As Executive Director, Malia is responsible for
overseeing all aspects of the organization’s strategic planning, program development, fundraising, and
reporting to the Board of Directors. The passion and success of Malia’s work has earned her a reputation as
one of the most insightful and critical organizers of her generation, and caught the attention of MTV,
Showtime, ABC-TV’s Chronicle, Fox News, and print publications such as Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and
Boston Magazine. In addition to her extensive work advocating for our youth, Malia has managed campaigns
for numerous tastemakers including Grammy Award-winner and famed Civil-Rights Activist Harry Belafonte,
American novelist Walter Mosley, and Peter Lewis, philanthropist and Democratic Party donor.
In November of 2013, Future Boston launched our Signature Series, The Urban Male – a panel discussion around the men of color within our city and our investment in their success. Artists, entrepreneurs and innovators are invited to highlight the amazing work being done in this city by men of color. Past dialogues have focused on the topics of: Entrepreneurship, Achievement, Freedom, & Social Investing. Dialogues from past discussions can be found on the homepage of our website.
On November 1st, Join Future Boston & Arts Emerson for an exclusive, but always inclusive - free & open to the public Urban Male Event!
Urban Male: Walter Mosley in Conversation with Malia Lazu.
Join Walter Mosley for a conversation about his recent work graphomania and what it mean to create as a Black Artist in America
Where: The Paramount Theatre | 559 Washington Streeet
When: Sunday, November 1st | 3pm - 5pm
PLEASE RSVP AT THIS LINK
This event is an alignment between Future Boston's Urban Male Series and the 2015 collaboration between ArtsEmerson and Future Boston Alliance for the Fresh Sounds Master Artist in Residence: Walter Mosley: The Obsessive Residency, featuring a variety of special events including film screenings, play readings, a Public Dialogue Series event, book launch of his autobiography, and visual art exhibition October 30 through November 8, 2015 at various locations throughout Emerson College in Boston, MA. All events are free and open to the public with advance reservation by calling the ArtsEmerson box office at 617.824.8400 or by visiting artsemerson.org.
“This residency made possible by Fresh Sound is an incredible opportunity to see a glimpse of a multi-faceted, renowned artist and his expansive body of work,” says Polly Carl, Creative Director. “He truly is a graphomaniac, constantly writing, constantly creating. His numerous awards and recognitions for his fiction box him in as a writer in a lot of people’s minds, and with the Obsessive Residency, we’re bursting that open. His plays, films, and artwork all give insight to what is constantly going on in his mind."
About Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 23 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
He lives in New York City.
About Malia Lazu, Executive Director & Co-Founder Future Boston Alliance
Upon completing a two-year fellowship at MIT, Malia Lazu joins Future Boston with over two decades of experience establishing grass roots involvement in political advocacy and civic engagement. Malia took over
as Executive Director in November 2011 where she serves as chief operations officer of Future Boston,
credited for taking Future Boston from concept into reality. As Executive Director, Malia is responsible for
overseeing all aspects of the organization’s strategic planning, program development, fundraising, and
reporting to the Board of Directors. The passion and success of Malia’s work has earned her a reputation as
one of the most insightful and critical organizers of her generation, and caught the attention of MTV,
Showtime, ABC-TV’s Chronicle, Fox News, and print publications such as Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and
Boston Magazine. In addition to her extensive work advocating for our youth, Malia has managed campaigns
for numerous tastemakers including Grammy Award-winner and famed Civil-Rights Activist Harry Belafonte,
American novelist Walter Mosley, and Peter Lewis, philanthropist and Democratic Party donor.
Editorial Comment: Walter Mosley is a fine novelist and his continuing characters like Easy Rawlins and Socrates Fortlow are not only popular but say something important about the USA. Mosley's non-fiction essays, too, are well worth reading.
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Garry Kasparov at First Parish Church
Sunday, November 1
Sunday, November 1
7:00 PM (EST)
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Garry Kasparov discusses Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
$5 tickets on sale October 13 at 9am
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale September 29
This event includes a book signing
Harvard Book Store welcomes activist, bestselling author, and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation GARRY KASPAROV for a discussion of his latest book, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.
Learn more at http://www.harvard.com/event/garry_kasparov/
Garry Kasparov discusses Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
$5 tickets on sale October 13 at 9am
Online pre-sales (ticket + book) on sale September 29
This event includes a book signing
Harvard Book Store welcomes activist, bestselling author, and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation GARRY KASPAROV for a discussion of his latest book, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.
Learn more at http://www.harvard.com/event/garry_kasparov/
All pre-sales tickets include a copy of Winter Is Coming, admission into the event, and a $5 coupon for use in the bookstore. Pre-sales tickets are available online for two weeks only, after which a $5 ticket option will go on sale. Books bundled with pre-sale tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
$5 tickets will also be available at Harvard Book Store and over the phone at 617-661-1515. Unless the event is sold out, any remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of the venue when doors open.
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Monday, November 2
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MASS Seminar - Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)
Monday, November 2
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-yuhang-wang-georgia-tech
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
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-yuhang-wang-georgia-tech
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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Gas Hydrates as an Energy Source
Monday, November 2
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Carolyn Ruppel, Chief, US Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project
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.
HKS 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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Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities
Monday, November 2
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andrew Jewett, Associate Professor of History and Social Studies, Harvard,
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Gas Hydrates as an Energy Source
Monday, November 2
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Carolyn Ruppel, Chief, US Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project
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.
HKS 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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Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities
Monday, November 2
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Andrew Jewett, Associate Professor of History and Social Studies, Harvard,
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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The City and Me
Monday, November 2
12:30p–1:30p
MIT, Building 10-105, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jing Du
Join us for the "The City and Me," Jing Du's personal reflection on social and urban development in China. A successful real estate entrepreneur, Jing Du has worked in top real estate firms in China, and currently serves as the co-founder and partner of "TOPCHAIN Real Estate." Jing Du will use case studies to share his thoughts on reusing and revitalizing buildings, capitalizing on virtual resources, and how to profitably expand real estate stocks. Lunch will be served.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Heather Mooney
617-715-2352
hmooney@mit.edu
12:30p–1:30p
MIT, Building 10-105, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Jing Du
Join us for the "The City and Me," Jing Du's personal reflection on social and urban development in China. A successful real estate entrepreneur, Jing Du has worked in top real estate firms in China, and currently serves as the co-founder and partner of "TOPCHAIN Real Estate." Jing Du will use case studies to share his thoughts on reusing and revitalizing buildings, capitalizing on virtual resources, and how to profitably expand real estate stocks. Lunch will be served.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Heather Mooney
617-715-2352
hmooney@mit.edu
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Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainable Energy
Monday, November 2
Monday, November 2
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
BU, CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 226, Boston
BU, CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 226, Boston
Speaker: Dr. Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS
Energy is central to any discussion of the human condition because it is central to the three pillars of sustainability. In the economic dimension, energy is clearly an important motor of macroeconomic growth. In the environmental dimension, fossil fuel energy systems are major sources of environmental stress at global as well as local levels; the most notable example is climate change. In the social dimension, energy is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of many basic human needs and services, and inequities in energy provision and quality often manifest themselves as issues of social justice. Greenhouse gas emissions can be substantially reduced only by replacing fossil fuels with some combination of renewable energy, nuclear energy, and improvements in the efficiency of energy use. How do we do that? This talk explores the importance of energy in our lives and in climate change, and the barriers and opportunities in the transition to low-carbon energy system.
Contact Name Jennifer Berglund
Email berglund@bu.edu
Energy is central to any discussion of the human condition because it is central to the three pillars of sustainability. In the economic dimension, energy is clearly an important motor of macroeconomic growth. In the environmental dimension, fossil fuel energy systems are major sources of environmental stress at global as well as local levels; the most notable example is climate change. In the social dimension, energy is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of many basic human needs and services, and inequities in energy provision and quality often manifest themselves as issues of social justice. Greenhouse gas emissions can be substantially reduced only by replacing fossil fuels with some combination of renewable energy, nuclear energy, and improvements in the efficiency of energy use. How do we do that? This talk explores the importance of energy in our lives and in climate change, and the barriers and opportunities in the transition to low-carbon energy system.
Contact Name Jennifer Berglund
Email berglund@bu.edu
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Tipping in Social Norms: Evidence from the LGBT Movement
Monday, November 2
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nils Wernerfelt (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
Tipping in Social Norms: Evidence from the LGBT Movement
Monday, November 2
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nils Wernerfelt (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
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Calvin Klein
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Calvin Klein is an award-winning fashion icon. He is recognized globally as a master of minimalism and has spent his career distilling things to their very essence. His name ranks among the best-known brands in the world, with Calvin Klein, Inc. reaching over seven billion dollars in global retail sales.
Klein studied at the School of Art & Design and Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After a short time working as a designer, in 1968, he launched Calvin Klein, Inc. with childhood friend, Barry Schwartz.
Whether in fashion, fragrance, beauty or his collections for the home, his work has been subtle, sophisticated and possesses a clarity that redefined modern living, and an American point of view. For him, the challenge is to create new things that fit a modern way of life. “It's about making people look and feel good about themselves and their homes,” he says.
The scope of Calvin Klein’s influence makes him unique among the world’s top designers. On the cutting edge of fashion with his Calvin Klein Collections for women, men, and the home, he reinvented many basic icons of modern dress. He pioneered designer jeans and redefined the idea of underwear and fragrance, making designer quality apparel affordable for virtually anyone; as well as revolutionizing the designer denim and underwear businesses with his overtly sexy advertising campaigns.
His advertising campaigns redefined the way products were marketed to consumers with Klein purchasing multiple ad pages in magazines. One of the most famous was his 1991 Calvin Klein Jeans supplement for Vanity Fair magazine, which totaled over 100 pages.
Time Magazine, in 1996, named Calvin Klein as one of the most influential Americans.
In 1973, Klein won the prestigious Coty American Fashion Critic’s Award, the fashion industry’s Oscar, and was the first designer to consecutively win again in 1974 and 1975. He was the youngest designer ever be elected into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1975.
Klein also received seven awards for outstanding design from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Strikingly tall panes of glass rise from the sidewalk to the third floor at John Pawson’s celebrated Calvin Klein flagship store (1993–1995), fitted into a former bank in uptown Manhattan; interiors for CK stores were designed by Deborah Berke; and in two decades Calvin Klein Home has been a source of inspiration for interior and textile design.
Calvin Klein, Inc. was sold to Philips Van Heusen Corporation in 2003, and Klein remained a creative consultant with the company until 2006.
Klein has one daughter, Marci Klein, a television producer. He resides in New York City.
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/calvin-klein.html
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS Calvin Klein is an award-winning fashion icon. He is recognized globally as a master of minimalism and has spent his career distilling things to their very essence. His name ranks among the best-known brands in the world, with Calvin Klein, Inc. reaching over seven billion dollars in global retail sales.
Klein studied at the School of Art & Design and Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After a short time working as a designer, in 1968, he launched Calvin Klein, Inc. with childhood friend, Barry Schwartz.
Whether in fashion, fragrance, beauty or his collections for the home, his work has been subtle, sophisticated and possesses a clarity that redefined modern living, and an American point of view. For him, the challenge is to create new things that fit a modern way of life. “It's about making people look and feel good about themselves and their homes,” he says.
The scope of Calvin Klein’s influence makes him unique among the world’s top designers. On the cutting edge of fashion with his Calvin Klein Collections for women, men, and the home, he reinvented many basic icons of modern dress. He pioneered designer jeans and redefined the idea of underwear and fragrance, making designer quality apparel affordable for virtually anyone; as well as revolutionizing the designer denim and underwear businesses with his overtly sexy advertising campaigns.
His advertising campaigns redefined the way products were marketed to consumers with Klein purchasing multiple ad pages in magazines. One of the most famous was his 1991 Calvin Klein Jeans supplement for Vanity Fair magazine, which totaled over 100 pages.
Time Magazine, in 1996, named Calvin Klein as one of the most influential Americans.
In 1973, Klein won the prestigious Coty American Fashion Critic’s Award, the fashion industry’s Oscar, and was the first designer to consecutively win again in 1974 and 1975. He was the youngest designer ever be elected into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1975.
Klein also received seven awards for outstanding design from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Strikingly tall panes of glass rise from the sidewalk to the third floor at John Pawson’s celebrated Calvin Klein flagship store (1993–1995), fitted into a former bank in uptown Manhattan; interiors for CK stores were designed by Deborah Berke; and in two decades Calvin Klein Home has been a source of inspiration for interior and textile design.
Calvin Klein, Inc. was sold to Philips Van Heusen Corporation in 2003, and Klein remained a creative consultant with the company until 2006.
Klein has one daughter, Marci Klein, a television producer. He resides in New York City.
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/calvin-klein.html
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Floral Rewards and Bee-havior
Monday, November 2
7:00PM - 8:15PM
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
Daniel Papaj, Professor and Associate Head, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, will discuss “Floral Rewards and Bee-havior.” How does learning shape behavior in bees? What roles do flowers play in influencing bee activity? Researcher Daniel Papaj will speak about floral rewards and discuss nectar guides, buzz pollination, and bee decision-making in that context. He will also share some great video of bees in action. This event is free, but registration is requested. Click here to register.
Contact Name: Pamela Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
617-384-5277
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
Daniel Papaj, Professor and Associate Head, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, will discuss “Floral Rewards and Bee-havior.” How does learning shape behavior in bees? What roles do flowers play in influencing bee activity? Researcher Daniel Papaj will speak about floral rewards and discuss nectar guides, buzz pollination, and bee decision-making in that context. He will also share some great video of bees in action. This event is free, but registration is requested. Click here to register.
Contact Name: Pamela Thompson
pam_thompson@harvard.edu
617-384-5277
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-03-000000-2015-11-03-011500/floral-rewards-and-bee-havior#sthash.xsT1oAgZ.dpuf
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Science and Cooking: Emulsions and Foams
Monday, November 2
7 p.m.
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
7 p.m.
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Bryan Voltaggio, (@BryanVoltaggio), Volt
Michael Voltaggio, (@MVoltaggio), Ink
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Tuesday, November 3
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Boston TechBreakfast
Tuesday, November 3
8:00am - 10:00am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215002592/
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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Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
Tuesday, November 3
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Gray at 12:00 pm
with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray
The presentation draws on findings from a two-year collaborative study of crowdwork--“the process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the ‘crowd,’ in the form of an open call" (Felstiner, 2010). We combine ethnographic and qualitative methods with computational analysis of backend metadata, comparing the cases of India and the United States, to understand the cultural meaning, political implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork. This talk examines how might we use the present day examples of people doing crowdwork as part-time, contingent employment to theorize the “last mile” of technological innovation-via-automation. What are the workforce demands such a restructuring of production suggests? People’s labor often goes unnoticed or unseen because it is embedded in computation and obscured by an API. This produces an ambient workforce: a distributed, always-on, at-the-ready, expansive labor market, dependent on a mix of intense bursts of activity AND a “long tail” of idling. Examined more closely, this bursty/idling pattern belays the different experiences of crowdsourcing: From the employer’s perspective, it is all burst and idle. Workers, on the other hand, turn crowdsourcing into a routine. We argue that before we can establish the legal, economic, and social regulatory regimes to manage crowdwork, we must have a clearer sense of the people doing this work, what it means to them, and how it fits into their daily lives.
About Mary
Mary is a Senior Researcher at MSR. She studied anthropology before receiving her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. She draws on this interdisciplinary background to study how people use digital and social media in everyday ways to shape their social identities and create spaces for themselves. Her most recent book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (NYU Press), which won awards from scholarly societies in Anthropology, Media Studies, and Sociology, examined how lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender young people negotiate and express their identities in rural parts of the United States and the role that digital media play in their lives and political work. Mary served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 2008 until 2010 and, now, holds a seat on that Association's Committee on Public Policy. She maintains an appointment as an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.
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Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning
Wednesday, November 3
12-1pm
Tufts, Crane Room, Paige Hall
Samuel Bell Wednesday
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Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Clean Energy & Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
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Researching and Solving Problems of Water Quantity and Quality at a Nonprofit Research Institute
Tuesday, November 3
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
Michele Cutrofello Eddy, RTI International, Water and Ecosystems Management Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Tufts BS/MS)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Clean Energy & Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
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Researching and Solving Problems of Water Quantity and Quality at a Nonprofit Research Institute
Tuesday, November 3
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
Michele Cutrofello Eddy, RTI International, Water and Ecosystems Management Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Tufts BS/MS)
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability and impacts of tropical waves and Madden-Julian Oscillations
Tuesday, November 3
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-3
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-3
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Geek Heresy: What's Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology
Tuesday, November 3
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Kentaro Toyama
Over the last four decades, America experienced a golden age of digital innovation. Yet during the same span of time, the rate of poverty stayed put, social mobility stagnated, and inequality skyrocketed to levels not seen for a century. How is it that our most advanced technologies failed to impact our deepest social challenges?
This talk presents technology???s Law of Amplification ??? a simple idea that explains why gadgets alone consistently fail to deliver social progress, and why in an age of advanced technology, it???s all the more important to focus on nurturing human wisdom.
Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, he co-founded Microsoft Research India and taught at Ashesi University in Ghana.
Web site: http://thecenter.mit.edu/cent_events/geek-heresy-whats-essential-in-an-age-of-advanced-technology/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
For more information, contact: The Center at MIT
617-244-6030
DalaiLamaCenter@mit.edu
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Kentaro Toyama
Over the last four decades, America experienced a golden age of digital innovation. Yet during the same span of time, the rate of poverty stayed put, social mobility stagnated, and inequality skyrocketed to levels not seen for a century. How is it that our most advanced technologies failed to impact our deepest social challenges?
This talk presents technology???s Law of Amplification ??? a simple idea that explains why gadgets alone consistently fail to deliver social progress, and why in an age of advanced technology, it???s all the more important to focus on nurturing human wisdom.
Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, he co-founded Microsoft Research India and taught at Ashesi University in Ghana.
Web site: http://thecenter.mit.edu/cent_events/geek-heresy-whats-essential-in-an-age-of-advanced-technology/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values
For more information, contact: The Center at MIT
617-244-6030
DalaiLamaCenter@mit.edu
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BASG: Business as a Change Agent
Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-nov-3-business-as-change-agent-tickets-19022589076
Cost: $10-$12
For our forum in November, we’re excited to take another but very different run at the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris. In September we dove into the history of COP and the in’s and out’s of what actually happens there. This month, we welcome several great speakers to lead us in discussion about the business community as a change agent, both an interesting contrast and also an important complement to the legislative nature of COP. The Climate Action Business Association will be co-hosting our event. CABA’s Executive Director, Michael Green, provided an insider look at COP back in September.
We are excited to hear our speakers give an update on how the business community is addressing climate change and creating value with its key stakeholders: customers, investors and employees. We have also asked them to connect their perspectives back to COP by considering the following questions as they provide updates from their vantage points:
How is the business community contributing to a positive outcome at COP?
What will outcomes from COP mean to the business community overall?
What is the worst case scenario and the best case scenario for the outcomes at COP and the businesses or industry you work with?
We’re honored to already have two great speakers confirmed. Nish Murthy is VP Customer Success at WeSpire and Larry Aller runs Business Development, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Next Step Living.
Nish’s focus at WeSpire is helping companies engage and motivate their employees in positive actions (hint: connect with employees around their interests and passions re: sustainability, social purpose, philanthropy etc.) that achieve business impact. Prior to WeSpire, Nish led business development at Intrepid Pursuits and was VP of Strategic Programs at Flashnotes.com. Nish is a tech-marketer, through and through.
Larry is a seasoned clean tech executive and venture investor. His experience in the business community runs deep, including 10 years at Bain and at Next Step Living since 2010. Most recently he has been focusing on solar, energy efficiency (which includes serving on the Massachusetts Net Metering and Solar Policy Task Force) and financing, as well as technology hardware and software. You could say he has a knack for building strong businesses and making society more sustainable.
BASG: Business as a Change Agent
Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-nov-3-business-as-change-agent-tickets-19022589076
Cost: $10-$12
For our forum in November, we’re excited to take another but very different run at the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris. In September we dove into the history of COP and the in’s and out’s of what actually happens there. This month, we welcome several great speakers to lead us in discussion about the business community as a change agent, both an interesting contrast and also an important complement to the legislative nature of COP. The Climate Action Business Association will be co-hosting our event. CABA’s Executive Director, Michael Green, provided an insider look at COP back in September.
We are excited to hear our speakers give an update on how the business community is addressing climate change and creating value with its key stakeholders: customers, investors and employees. We have also asked them to connect their perspectives back to COP by considering the following questions as they provide updates from their vantage points:
How is the business community contributing to a positive outcome at COP?
What will outcomes from COP mean to the business community overall?
What is the worst case scenario and the best case scenario for the outcomes at COP and the businesses or industry you work with?
We’re honored to already have two great speakers confirmed. Nish Murthy is VP Customer Success at WeSpire and Larry Aller runs Business Development, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at Next Step Living.
Nish’s focus at WeSpire is helping companies engage and motivate their employees in positive actions (hint: connect with employees around their interests and passions re: sustainability, social purpose, philanthropy etc.) that achieve business impact. Prior to WeSpire, Nish led business development at Intrepid Pursuits and was VP of Strategic Programs at Flashnotes.com. Nish is a tech-marketer, through and through.
Larry is a seasoned clean tech executive and venture investor. His experience in the business community runs deep, including 10 years at Bain and at Next Step Living since 2010. Most recently he has been focusing on solar, energy efficiency (which includes serving on the Massachusetts Net Metering and Solar Policy Task Force) and financing, as well as technology hardware and software. You could say he has a knack for building strong businesses and making society more sustainable.
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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - November
Join #TechHubTuesday at a special #SheDemos to experience great demos from exciting female Tech Entrepreneurs hosted in partnership with SheStarts. Follow the #TechhubTuesday all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
This month female entrepreneurs and/or startups with a woman on their founding team will be given time to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for beer and wine, network, and take a look around C-space.
Agenda
6:00 - Doors open. Meet people and get your first drinks.
7:00 - 8:00 Presenters Demo\
8:00.... Networking
Interested in demoing your product at #TechHubTuesday? Get in touch at [masked]
Follow us https://twitter.com/TechHubBoston
Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
C-Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech!
Join #TechHubTuesday at a special #SheDemos to experience great demos from exciting female Tech Entrepreneurs hosted in partnership with SheStarts. Follow the #TechhubTuesday all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.
This month female entrepreneurs and/or startups with a woman on their founding team will be given time to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience. The idea is to foster innovation and iteration. It's not about slamming the presenter!
Afterwards, stick around for beer and wine, network, and take a look around C-space.
Agenda
6:00 - Doors open. Meet people and get your first drinks.
7:00 - 8:00 Presenters Demo\
8:00.... Networking
Interested in demoing your product at #TechHubTuesday? Get in touch at [masked]
Follow us https://twitter.com/TechHubBoston
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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).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
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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