hubevents: Energy (and Other) Events

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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.

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Monday, November 2
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11:45am Using Bacteria to Study Prions - Cellular Dynamics Research Talk
12pm MASS Seminar - Yuhang Wang (Georgia Tech)
12pm Gas Hydrates as an Energy Source
12:15pm Of Science and Scientism: Framing Science in the Postwar American Humanities
12:30pm The City and Me
12:30pm Gallery Talk: The Renovation and Expansion Project
2:30pm Deep learning and new approaches to AI
4pm Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainable Energy
4pm Tipping in Social Norms: Evidence from the LGBT Movement
4pm Obfuscation Book Talk
4:45pm Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped
6pm Boston Creates Town Hall
6:30pm The Future of Nature: Making an Impact
6:30pm Calvin Klein
7pm Floral Rewards and Bee-havior
7pm Science and Cooking: Emulsions and Foams

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Tuesday, November 3
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8am Boston TechBreakfast
12pm The International Refugee Crisis and US Immigration Policy
12pm The Evolutionary History of the Danthonioid Grasses – Global Conquest Due to Polyploidy, Leaf Anatomical Adaptation or Climate Change?
12pm Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
12:30pm Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine
1pm Clean Energy & Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
2:15pm Reforms in Ukraine: How to Achieve a Tipping Point
3pm Researching and Solving Problems of Water Quantity and Quality at a Nonprofit Research Institute
3pm Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability and impacts of tropical waves and Madden-Julian Oscillations
4pm Must China Be Faulted for Its Political System?
4:15pm Just Transition: How to Create a Fair and Sustainable Shift to a Low-Carbon Economy
4:30pm Geek Heresy: What's Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology
5pm Transformable: Designing objects that change themselves
5:30pm StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways - Building the Emerald Network
6pm BASG: Business as a Change Agent
6pm #SheDemos Boston: #TechHubTuesday Demo Night
7pm Honoring the Artist: A Gathering of Visual Artists

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Wednesday, November 4
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10am Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Personalities, Politics, and Proliferation
12pm Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning
12pm Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War
12:30pm Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: China's National Patterns in International Perspective
1pm Women in Clean Energy Symposium Webcast (to 11/5/15)
3pm Projecting Energy and Climate for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
3pm xTalks: 21st Century Instructional Design - Task Centered Instruction
4pm Brain Rewards, Plasticity, and Consumption: The Neurobiology of Sustainable Behavior
4pm Dr. Paul Farmer: The Current State of Global Health
4:15pm Climate Tipping Points and Solar Geoengineering
5pm Science and Democracy Lecture: Climate Clubs: The Central Role of the Social Sciences in Climate Change Policy
6:30pm Journalism Panel: How to Cover High-profile Cases
7pm JP Forum: Pricing Carbon to Fight Climate Change
7pm Interrogating Whiteness (Part 1)
7pm From Stargazing to Space Travel: Our brief history into space
7:40pm Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: Reportero

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Thursday, November 5
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12pm Lost Antarctica: Drug Discovery in a Disappearing Land
1pm xTalks: Sanjay Sarma on the MicroMasters Pilot Program: Democratizing Admissions, Globalizing MIT's Reach
1:30pm Watson Analytics LIVE! - Cambridge
3:30pm Prospects for Paris: The Role of Developing Countries
4pm A Company of These Women: Digital Methods and Silence in the Archives of Native Women’s History
4:30pm The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights
5pm From Penguins to Plankton: Impacts of Climate Change on the Marine Ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula
5pm Taming Tibet: Migration, Development, and Landscape Transformation
5pm Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas
5:30pm EnergyBar!
6pm How nature can save us
6pm CCVA Talk: Futurefarmers⎯A Farm Sailed Away and Came Back a Garden
6pm "Beyond ‘Greens vs. the Poor:’ A Way Out of the U.S. Water Crisis”
6pm The Press and the Polls: 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics
6pm The Paris Climate Summit: Prospects for a Global Agreement
6pm Robotics and Grasping
6:30pm Harvard CGBC Inaugural Lecture: Norman Foster
7pm Faculty Speaker Series: Lessons from Ebola
7pm Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis

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Friday, November 6
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8:30am Protecting Critical Infrastructure- ABC Panel Event
9am Theodore H White Seminar on Press and Politics
9am Fall Conference: Sustainability in Scandanavia
10am From the Biomedical to the Wounds Inside: Developing a Framework and Metrics Relevant to the Context of Political Violence
12pm BWH Hackathon- Digital Health
12pm Googling Before Google: A Brief History of Searching
12:15pm Market Governance and Globalization: Different Paths to Development in China and Russia
12:30pm Pro Tour of Wayland MA Passive House
3pm Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
5pm Architecture Lecture: Natasha Schull, Tracking, Sensing, Shifting: The Media of Mood Modulation
6pm City Connect: A Night of Dancing, Drinks and Connecting
7pm Q&A with Walter Mosley and Donna Latson Gittens following the screening
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

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Saturday, November 7
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9am Civic Tech Challenge
12:30pm World Climate
1pm TEDxHarvard College
2pm Somerville Trash Bash
7pm Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change

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Sunday, November 8
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5pm Slow Food Boston Presents Disco Soup Boston! A Food Rescue Dance Party!

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Monday, November 9
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8am Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
8am What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
11:30am Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
12pm MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
12pm Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
12pm Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
12:15pm What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
3:30pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
4pm Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
4:30pm Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
7pm Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
7pm Beauty and the Right to the Ugly

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Tuesday, November 10
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10am Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
12pm Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
12pm Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
12pm Conceptualizing Behavior Change
12:30pm The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
1:15pm Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
4:30pm The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts
6:30pm Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
7pm Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
7pm Renewable Energy Progress --Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry

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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

MA Food Plan
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/29/1442009/-MA-Food-Plan

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Monday, November 2
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Using Bacteria to Study Prions - Cellular Dynamics Research Talk
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Biological Laboratories, Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Ann Hochschild, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
CONTACT INFO mcbevents@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates that are characteristically transmissible. The cause of the fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in mammals, prions are also well known in fungi, where they act as heritable, protein-based genetic elements. However, it is not yet known whether prions exist in bacteria. To begin to address this question, we have recently shown that E. coli cells can propagate a yeast prion, indicating that the basic requirements for protein-based heredity are satisfied in the bacterial domain of life. These findings will be discussed as well as our efforts to develop bacteria-based assays for detecting prion-like behavior.

Editorial Comment: Something tells me that looking at prions may be important in discovering how biological life emerged on this planet. However, I have no real early Earth expertise.

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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)

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

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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

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Gallery Talk: The Renovation and Expansion Project
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
SPEAKER(S) Peter Atkinson, director of facilities planning and management
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Join us for this special, hour-long tour that will stop on all of the Harvard Art Museums’ public floors, led by Peter Atkinson, director of facilities planning and management. You will hear about the history of the building, which is registered on the National Trust for Historic Preservation, as well as learn more about the concepts behind and execution of our eight-year renovation and expansion project.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-the-renovation-and-expansion-project

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Deep learning and new approaches to AI
Monday, November 2
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
MIT, Building 35-225, 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research, Facebook Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering, New York University.
About the speaker: Yann LeCun received the Electrical Engineer Diploma from Ecole Supérieured'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique, and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie. After a postdoc at the University of Toronto, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ in 1988. He became head of the Image Processing Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research in 1996, and joined NYU as a professor in 2003, after a brief period as a Fellow of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton. From 2012 to 2014 he directed NYU's initiative in data science and became the founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science. He was named Director of AI Research at Facebook in late 2013 and retains a part-time position on the NYU faculty.

Since the mid 1980's he has been working on deep learning methods, particularly the convolutional network model, which is the basis of many products and services deployed by companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Baidu, IBM, NEC, AT&T and others for image and video understanding, document recognition, human-computer interaction, and speech recognition.

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Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainable Energy
Monday, November 2
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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

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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

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Obfuscation Book Talk
Monday, November 2
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building 32-123m 32 Vassar Street, Room Kirsch Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/obfuscation-book-talk-tickets-18959472292

MIT Press, in partnership with the MIT Libraries and MIT CSAIL, celebrates the publication of the Press’ 8,000th unique title: Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

With Obfuscation Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum offer us ways to fight today’s pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.

Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users’ search queries and stymie online advertising.

Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet.

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Computer Science at New York University, where she is Director of the Information Law Institute. She is the author of Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. She is one of the developers of the TrackMeNot software.

Panelists:
Stuart Madnick: John Morris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies, MIT Sloan School of Management
Urs Gasser: Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School and Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Moderator:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland: Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Engineering Systems and Director, MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program; Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory

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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped
WHEN Mon., Nov. 2, 2015, 4:45 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard College Effective Altruism, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
SPEAKER(S) Garry Kasparov
COST Free and open to the public; books for sale
DETAILS The stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship—and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.
The ascension of Vladimir Putin—a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB—to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years—as America and the world’s other leading powers have continued to appease him—Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order.
For Garry Kasparov, none of this is news. He has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition to him in the farcical 2008 presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin’s intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with a darker truth: Putin’s Russia, like ISIS or Al Qaeda, defines itself in opposition to the free countries of the world.
As Putin has grown ever more powerful, the threat he poses has grown from local to regional and finally to global. In this urgent book, Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint—only a change of seasons, as the Cold War melted into a new spring. But now, after years of complacency and poor judgment, winter is once again upon us.
Argued with the force of Kasparov’s world-class intelligence, conviction, and hopes for his home country, Winter Is Coming reveals Putin for what he is: an existential danger hiding in plain sight.
There will be book sales!

Garry Kasparov
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985. He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov broke Bobby Fischer’s rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until 2013. His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.
Kasparov’s outspoken nature did not endear him to the Soviet authorities, giving him an early taste of opposition politics. In 1990, he and his family escaped ethnic violence in his native Baku as the USSR collapsed. Kasparov, in his 20th year as the world’s top-ranked player, abruptly retired from competitive chess in 2005 to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy movement. He founded the United Civil Front and organized the Marches of Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. Facing imminent arrest during Putin’s crackdown, Kasparov moved from Moscow to New York City in 2013.
The US-based Kasparov Chess Foundation non-profit promotes the teaching of chess in education systems around the world. Its program already in use in schools across the United States, KCF also has centers in Brussels, Johannesburg, Singapore, and Mexico City. Garry and his wife Dasha travel frequently to promote the proven benefits of chess in education and have toured Africa extensively. Kasparov is the author of two award-winning series of chess books, My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess.
Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on decision-making is available in over 20 languages. He has been a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal since 1991 and is a regular commentator on politics and human rights. He speaks frequently to business audiences around the world on innovation, strategy, decision-making, and achieving peak mental performance. In 2013, he was named a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford-Martin School with a focus on human-machine collaboration and cross-disciplinary futurism.
Kasparov’s eagerly awaited new book, Winter Is Coming: Why Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, will be released in October 2015.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/1666974623549445/

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Editorial Comment: The number of events at Harvard on Russia, the Ukraine, and the territories of the former Soviet Union in just this week of November is making my nose twitch. But it could just be a cold coming on.

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Boston Creates Town Hall
Monday, November 2
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Boston Latin School, 78 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-creates-town-hall-registration-18785638350

This summer was incredibly successful for the Boston Creates community engagement process. After the first town hall in June, the Boston Creates community engagement teams held 118 community conversations in 16 neighborhoods and many in multiple languages. More than 40 focus groups engaged participants representing artistic disciplines and service organizations, as well as individuals in education, creative industries, humanities, tourism and economic development. Close to 3000 people responded to the online community survey, designed to explore how individuals define and engage in creative activities

On November 2nd, the cultural planning team will share the initial findings of the community engagement process with the public. Everyone who lives, works and plays in the city is invited to listen and respond to these initial findings as we begin to understand what we've heard and start identifying key themes and articulating priorities.

Ultimately, it is these themes and priorities that will form the basis of the strategies in the cultural plan and help us strengthen the city by leveraging and enhancing the creative capital of Boston's residents, communities, and organizations.

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The Future of Nature: Making an Impact
Monday, November 2
6:30PM TO 8:00PM
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/massachusetts/explore/ma-future-of-nature.xml?src=r.future
Cost: $10 - $25

Learn how the Nature Conservancy and other nonprofits are using impact investment to prompt social and environmental change. Impact investing is an exciting approach that seeks to attract new resources for critical conservation work with the intention to generate measurable environmental and social impact alongside a financial return. Join us for a networking reception at 5:30pm, followed by 60 minutes of moderated discussion among our knowledgeable panelists and a brief audience Q&A. Featuring Marc Diaz, Managing Director, NatureVest, The Nature Conservancy; Tracy Palandjian, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Social Finance; and David Wood, Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment at Hauser Institute for Civil Society and Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Tickets are $10 for students, $25 general public. Reserve yours today at www.nature.org/future

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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

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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

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

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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The International Refugee Crisis and US Immigration Policy
Tuesday, November 3
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Maria Sacchetti covers immigration for The Boston Globe. A Lawrence native, she has reported on the disappearance of immigrants along the US southern border and secrecy in the immigration system. Her work has led to the release of several immigrants from immigration detention. She covered the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and most recently reported on the refugee crisis in Europe, traveling with photographer Craig F. Walker

http://shorensteincenter.org/maria-sacchetti/

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The Evolutionary History of the Danthonioid Grasses – Global Conquest Due to Polyploidy, Leaf Anatomical Adaptation or Climate Change?

Tuesday, November 3
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, Seminar Room 125, HUH Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Dr. Peter Linder, Systematics and Evolution, University of Zurich

HUH Seminar Series

Contact Name: Barbara Hanrahan
617-495-2365

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-03-170000-2015-11-03-180000/huh-seminar-series#sthash.zkG5xoXr.dpuf

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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/Grayat 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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The Refugee Crisis in the EU: Root Causes, Current Challenges, and Future Implications
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Goldman Room, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR European Study Group, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers State University of New Jersey

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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

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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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Reforms in Ukraine: How to Achieve a Tipping Point
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 2:15 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room S-354 CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Pavlo Sheremeta, director, School of Public Management, Ukrainian Catholic University
LINK www.huri.harvard.edu

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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

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Must China Be Faulted for Its Political System?
WHEN Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This special presentation is part of the series "Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections" with Professor Ci Jiwei. Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium, the Department of Philosophy, and the East Asian Legal Studies Program at the Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER(S) Ci Jiwei, professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO FairbankCenter@fas.havard.edu
DETAILS One enduring legacy of the Cold War for China is an extremely widespread perception, at home and abroad, of its political system as morally inferior and hence in need of fundamental change. At the core of this perception is China’s supposed lack of democracy. Jiwei Ci will examine the political, ideological, and normative stakes in political-system hostility and discuss, as a matter of global justice, what approach to political-system differences is most conducive to peace and democracy.
LINK http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/must-china-be-faulted-its-political-system

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Just Transition: How to Create a Fair and Sustainable Shift to a Low-Carbon Economy

Tuesday, November 3
4:15PM TO 5:45PM
Harvard, Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 4th Floor, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program, the BlueGreen Alliance, and the Energy and Environment PIC for a discussion on transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Speakers will address the potential impacts on workers in the fossil fuel sectors, as well as how environmental groups, labor groups, and policymakers can work together to achieve a fair and sustainable transition.

Featuring Brad Markell, Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council; Rachel Cleetus, Lead Economist and Climate Policy Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists; and Barbara Kates-Garnick, Professor of Practice at The Fletcher School and Interim Director of the Energy, Climate and Innovation Program at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. Moderated by Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Brad Markell is the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council (IUC) and chairs the AFL-CIO energy task force. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Brad was an International Representative with the UAW in Detroit for 15 years, where his duties included helping develop and advance the union's positions on energy and environmental policy, and performing costing and financial analysis for bargaining.

Rachel Cleetus is the lead economist and climate policy manager with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She designs and advocates for effective global warming policies at the federal, regional, state, and international levels. She also analyzes the economic costs of inaction on climate change. Prior to joining UCS, Dr. Cleetus worked as a consultant for the World Wildlife Fund, performing policy-focused research on the links between sustainable development, trade, and ecosystems in Asia and Africa.

Barbara Kates-Garnick is Professor of Practice at The Fletcher School. Most recently she served as the Undersecretary of Energy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where she was responsible for guiding energy policy. She also served as the Co-chair of Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act Implementation Advisory Committee that oversees the implementation of the Commonwealth Global Warming Solutions Act.

Contact Name: David Kalusner
David_Klausner@hks16.harvard.edu

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-03-211500-2015-11-03-224500/just-transition-how-create-fair-and-sustainable-shift-low#sthash.zgaQYQnB.dpuf

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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

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Transformable: Designing objects that change themselves
Tuesday, November 3
5:00pm - 6:30pm
MIT, Building N52-3rd floor, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

interdisciplinary Design Conversations
The International Design Center invites design experts to take part in the interdisciplinary Design Conversations series. The interdisciplinary Design Conversations series brings a prominent figure from industry, research, practice, or other domain to offer thoughts on interdisciplinary themes in design. These talks are meant to foster an ongoing and Institute-wide discourse on the evolving nature of the processes, tools, and outcomes of design in the 21st century. All members of the MIT community are invited to join us as we cultivate an inclusive environment for thinking about and initiating effective design in the world.

Nowhere do the disciplines of art, architecture, and engineering fuse as seamlessly as in the work of inventor Chuck Hoberman, internationally known for his "transformable structures." Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting.

Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice that utilizes transformable principles for a wide range of applications including consumer products, deployable shelters and structures for aerospace. Examples of his commissioned work include the transforming video screen for the U2 360 world tour, the Hoberman Arch installed as the centerpiece for the Winter Olympic Games (2002), as well as exhibits at a number of major museums. In 2008, he co-founded the Adaptive Building Initiative with the global engineering firm, Buro Happold, which has since built a series of dynamic facades and operable roofs in the US, Japan and the Mideast.

Hoberman has over twenty patents for his transformable inventions, and has won numerous awards for his designs. He is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and teaches at the Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Web site: http://idc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Centre
For more information, contact: Deb Payson
617-324-8125
debp@mit.edu

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StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways - Building the Emerald Network
Tuesday, November 3
5:30 - 6:30 pm Emerald Networking Reception (cash bar)
6:30 - 8:00 pm StreetTalk: Connecting our Urban Greenways
Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress St #200, Boston
RSVP at http://www.livablestreets.info/streettalk_connecting_our_urban_greenways_building_the_emerald_network
Cost: $10 general admission; LivableStreets members get in for FREE

The Emerald Network—a vision for 200 miles of seamless shared-use paths across the Metro Boston area is an ambitious goal. With more than 100 miles of the network already built, and 30 miles in design or construction—the remaining 70 miles is a significant, but not impossible gap to fill. What role could the Emerald Network play in not only increasing mobility options for people in the Metro area, but also tackling challenges like economic development, equity, climate change and public health in urban Boston? How do we build it? What are the challenges? How do we get there?

Join us for a StreetTalk* discussion with a panel of experts who will grapple with these questions, chat with the audience and hopefully inspire you to get involved! The StreetTalk will be preceded by a short networking reception.

Our fall StreetTalk will explore what role the Emerald Network can play in not only increasing mobility options for people in the Metro area, but also tackling challenges like economic development, equity, climate change and public health in urban Boston. To learn more see http://www.livablestreets.info/streettalk_connecting_our_urban_greenways_building_the_emerald_network

StreetTalks sell out quickly. What are you waiting for, register today!

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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.

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#SheDemos Boston: #TechHubTuesday Demo Night
Tuesday, November 3
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
C-Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://boston.techhub.com/events/techhubtuesday-demo-night-12

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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Honoring the Artist: A Gathering of Visual Artists
Tuesday, November 3
7PM
Jackie Liebergott Black Box | Emerson/Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston

So often we put ourselves into boxes. Creative people especially find themselves pigeonholed into what their craft is. Actors act; writers write; etc. This celebration breaks down the boxes. Walter Mosley is a prolific visual artist with an incredible attention to detail. Explore his work, celebrating that the limits of creativity cannot be defined.

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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Personalities, Politics, and Proliferation
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Law, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Mansoor Ahmed, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
CONTACT INFO Joshua_Anderson@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS The next MTA event will take place Wednesday, November 4 at 10:00 am in the Fainsod Room. MTA/ISP and Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Research Fellow Mansoor Ahmed will present "Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Personalities, Politics, and Proliferation." This even is open to the public!
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6801/pakistans_pathway_to_the_bomb.html

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Climate Change and Community Vulnerability: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning
Wenesday, November 4
12-1pm
Tufts, Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Samuel Bell

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Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Marvin Kalb, the Shorenstein Center’s founding Director, was also the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. His distinguished journalism career encompasses 30 years of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow bureau chief and anchor of Meet The Press.

His latest book is Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War. Kalb argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Putin did not “suddenly” decide to invade Crimea. He had been waiting for the right moment ever since disgruntled Ukrainians rose in revolt against his pro-Russian regime in Kiev’s Maidan Square. These demonstrations led Putin to conclude that Ukraine’s opposition constituted an existential threat to Russia. Imperial Gamble examines how Putin reached that conclusion by taking a critical look at the recent political history of post-Soviet Russia, and journeying deep into Russian and Ukrainian history to explain what keeps them together and yet at the same time drives them apart.

http://shorensteincenter.org/speaker-series-marvin-kalb/

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Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: China's National Patterns in International Perspective
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute

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Women in Clean Energy Symposium Webcast

Wednesday, November 4 - 1:00PM TO Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 5:15PM
RSVP at http://c3eawards.org/webcast/

The Fourth Annual U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium will be streamed as a live webcast by MIT. The 2015 C3E Symposium is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). The theme of this year's event is Leveraging Megatrends for a Clean Energy Future, and the symposium will feature leading women in the clean energy sector sharing their work on key megatrends, including the energy/water nexus, the transition to a low-carbon future, and clean energy technology frontiers. Melanie Kenderdine, the Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy, will be delivering the keynote address.

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-04-180000-2015-11-05-221500/women-clean-energy-symposium-webcast#sthash.sFfP2lqS.dpuf

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Projecting Energy and Climate for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
Wednesday, November 4

3pm-4pm

MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CYLNZfHxPz_REetignUQ7W9uCHDqXzHzujfx87Ltt7A/viewform

e4Dev Weekly Speaker: Dr. Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Global Policy of Change
Details: Dr. Sergey Paltsev (MIT) will provide an integrated economic and climate projection of the 21st century--not a prediction, as the future will ultimately be determined by actions taken over the next decades that are intended to stabilize our relationship with the planet. Dr. Paltsev will focus on the recently released MIT Joint Program Energy and Climate Outlook which incorporates the emissions targets currently proposed by the international community to address the challenges of climate change. Dr. Paltsev will also consider more ambitious emission mitigation goals and discuss the magnitude of financial transfers to developing countries to incentivize their action and be protected from the impact of measures taken by others. For success in dealing with the climate threat any negotiation of long-term goals and paths to their achievement need to be grounded in a full understanding of the substantial amounts at stake.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Sergey Paltsev is a Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, and Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He is the lead modeler in charge of the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model of the world economy. His research covers a wide range of topics including energy economics, climate policy, taxation, advanced energy technologies, and international trade. Sergey is a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an Advisory Board Member for the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Consortium.

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xTalks: 21st Century Instructional Design - Task Centered Instruction
Wednesday, November 4
3:00p–4:15p
MIT, Building NE-25, Whitehead Auditorium, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge

Speaker: Sanjoy Mahajan
Between the frying pan of the usual, topic-centered instruction (one darn thing after another) and the fire of pure discovery learning, how do you stay cool? Mahajan will describe task-centered instruction; its basis in cognitive science, especially in cognitive-load theory; how it synthesizes the good aspects of the frying pan and the fire to foster long-term learning; and how it helps us make principled choices about technology and residential teaching. Sanjoy Mahajan is Acting Dir of Digital Residential Learning and Visiting Associate Professor of EECS. This event is co-sponsored by the HHMI Education Group.(http://educationgroup.mit.edu/HHMIEducationGroup/)

xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.

Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/sanjoy-mahajan-21st-century-instructional-design-task-centered-instruction
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Office of Digital Learning
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu

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Brain Rewards, Plasticity, and Consumption: The Neurobiology of Sustainable Behavior
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ann-Christine Duhaime, Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Radcliffe Institute Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Did the human brain evolve adaptively to crave more–stuff, stimulation–making it particularly hard for us to do with less? In this talk, Duhaime explores how inherent brain drive and reward systems may influence behaviors affecting the environment. Duhaime is currently examining neuroscience, social science, economics, environmental science, and public health to learn whether considering these neurobiologic factors might help improve the effectiveness of behavioral approaches to mitigating excessive consumption.

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Dr. Paul Farmer: The Current State of Global Health
Wednesday, November 4

4:00 pm

BU, College of General Studies, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Dr. Paul Farmer, a medical anthropologist and cofounder of global health organization Partners in Health, will be the featured speaker at the 25th Anniversary Stanley Stone Lecture Series. Farmer will address the CGS and BU community about the current state of global health. Lecture to take place in the Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, immediately followed by a Q&A session and book signing reception in the Gilbane Lounge (College of General Studies). Lecture and Q&A to take place in the Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, immediately followed by a book signing reception in the Gilbane Lounge (College of General Studies).

Contact Name Tracey Dimant
Phone 617-353-2852
Contact Email tnick@bu.edu
Contact Organization College of General Studies
Fees Free

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Climate Tipping Points and Solar Geoengineering
Wednesday, November 4
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, JFK School, Littauer Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340

For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.

Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054

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Science and Democracy Lecture: Climate Clubs: The Central Role of the Social Sciences in Climate Change Policy
Wednesday, November 4
5:00PM
Harvard, Science Center A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is on the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Cowles Foundation for Research. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1977 to 1979, he was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Nordhaus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an elected Member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering, and is current president of the American Economic Association. His research has encompassed environmental economics, climate change, health economics, augmented national accounting, the political business cycle, and productivity. His latest book is The Climate Casino (Yale Press), published in 2013.

Science and Democracy Lecture Series
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectures/

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Journalism Panel: How to Cover High-profile Cases
Wednesday, November 4
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
EC Boston, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/journalism-panel-how-to-cover-high-profile-cases-tickets-18909280166
Cost: $4

The Boston Globe's Maria Cramer and Kevin Cullen, WBUR's David Boeri, WMEX's Michele McPhee, and Brian Fraga of the Herald News will share their experiences on covering the Bulger, Tsarneav and Hernandez trials.
Light refreshments will be provided.

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JP Forum: Pricing Carbon to Fight Climate Change
Wednesday, November 4

7:00-8:00
First Church, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/665949623540980/

Massachusetts could become the first state to put a price on carbon. Join us on November 4 at the JP Forum to hear about this exciting possibility, as well as other approaches to climate activism. Our panelists, all of whom are actively working to fight climate change, will discuss the need for a price on carbon in Massachusetts and beyond, and how to press the Legislature to make Massachusetts the first state to put it into law. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

This event is co-sponsored by 350 Massachusetts/Better Future Project and
the Coalition for a Clean Energy Future.

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Interrogating Whiteness (Part 1)
Wednesday, November 4
7PM
Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP at https://artsemerson.org/online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=360F47BF-9019-411F-9582-2D912F8E3BF6&sessionlanguage=EN&utm_campaign=Announcement&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=All&utm_content=MosleyAnnounce102515Whiteness&SessionSecurity::correspondencedetail_id=B6D05923-36A3-4331-BF11-357CC3251A80

Co-Presented with the Future Boston Alliance
Featuring Walter Mosley, American novelist and recipient of the PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Join us as celebrated author Walter Mosely interrogates the notion of whiteness and how our assumptions around race, class and economic status contribute to continued systemic oppression.

Followed by Book Launch Party
7:30PM
Paramount Mainstage | Emerson/Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston

Celebrate the release of Walter Mosley’s delightful and unconventional take on an autobiography, The Graphomaniac’s Primer – A Semi-Surrealist Memoir. Published by Black Classic Press.

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From Stargazing to Space Travel: Our brief history into space
Wednesday, November 4
7 - 9pm
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Auditorium, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston

More information at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/

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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: Reportero
WHEN Wed., Nov. 4, 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 Program
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) Jacinto Rodríguez, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Fellow and investigative reporter will present the film "Reportero."
COST Free and open to the public

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Thursday, November 5
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Lost Antarctica: Drug Discovery in a Disappearing Land
Thursday, November 5
12-1pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

James McClintock
The seafloor communities surrounding Antarctica have a long geological history where predation pressure and competition have facilitated the evolution of a rich chemical diversity including compounds with the potential to combat cancer and other human diseases. Rapid environmental change in Antarctica is now threatening biodiversity loss. McClintock has taken this important message to a broad global audience by successfully authoring books.

James B. McClintock is the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. McClintock's research has been funded continuously over the past 25 years by the National Science Foundation and focuses on aspects of marine invertebrate nutrition, reproduction, and primarily, Antarctic marine chemical ecology. Over the past decade his research has also encompassed studies of the impacts of rapid climate change and ocean acidification on Antarctic marine algae and invertebrates. He recently returned from his 14th research expedition to Antarctica where over the past two decades he and his research collaborators have become among the world's authorities on Antarctic marine chemical ecology and drug discovery and have developed an award winning interactive educational outreach website. His book Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land has garnered considerable national and international praise. He has published over 235 scientific publications, edited and written books, and his research has been featured in a variety of public media outlets including NPR's "On Point", National Geographic Magazine, CNN, and the Washington Post, among many others. In 1998 the United States Board on Geographic Names designated the geographic feature "McClintock Point" in honor of his contributions to Antarctic science.

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xTalks: Sanjay Sarma on the MicroMasters Pilot Program: Democratizing Admissions, Globalizing MIT's Reach
Thursday, November 05, 2015
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E-15, Bartos Theater

Speaker: Sanjay Sarma
Dean of Digital Learning and Director of ODL, Professor Sanjay Sarma will speak on the newly announced "MicroMaster's" pilot program that allows learners worldwide to take a semester's worth of courses in its top-ranked, one-year Supply Chain Management (SCM) master's program completely online, then complete an MIT master's degree by spending a single semester on campus. (from MIT News)

"Inverted admission has the potential to disrupt traditional modes of access to higher education," says Sarma, one of the co-leaders of this initiative. "We're democratizing access to a master's program for learners worldwide."

xTalks: Digital Discourses
The xTalks series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.

Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/news-and-events/events/sanjay-sarma-micromasters-pilot-program-democratizing-admissions-globalizing
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Office of Digital Learning
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
(617) 324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu

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Watson Analytics LIVE! - Cambridge
Thursday, November 5
1:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
IBM Cambridge, 1 Rogers Street, Auditorium, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/watson-analytics-live-cambridge-tickets-18193500249

Watson Analytics LIVE! is a live event running in Cambridge on November 5 designed to introduce you to revolutionary approach to analytics that is smart data discovery. Learn from Watson Analytics experts how you can benefit from guided exploration, automated predictive analysis and effortless dashboard creation. See a live demonstration of the power of collaborative analysis combining data from Twitter, Cognos Enterprise Reporting systems, standard relational databases and cloud data storage sources.

Following the demonstration of the solution, spend some time networking with your peers and experts.

Agenda
1:30-2:00pm Registration
2:00-4:00pm Demonstration of power of Watson Analytics
4:00-5:00pm Networking Hour – Ask the Experts

What is Watson Analytics?
Watson Analytics is our cloud based analytics tool that provides quick guided data exploration, automated predictive analysis, and effortless dashboard creation (similar to Tableau or Qlik but unique in its predictive capabilities).
It requires no deep analytics skills or training required and it was intended for users that want to go far beyond Excel, but don’t need extensive data mining or programming training. As one CTO called it, "Analytics for Everyone".

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Prospects for Paris: The Role of Developing Countries
Thursday, November 5
3:30-5:00 pm
BU, Pardee School at 121 Bay State Road, Boston

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Prospects for Paris: The Views of Developing Countries.”

This will be the second of a two-seminar series co-hosted by the Pardee School of Global Studies. Pardee School Dean Adil Najam, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh (LEAD Pakistan and Climate & Development Knowledge Network), and Prof. Robert Timmons (Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine) will discuss the outlook for the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Paris in early December, particularly from the perspective of developing countries.

More information at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/prospects-for-paris-the-views-of-developing-countries/

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A Company of These Women: Digital Methods and Silence in the Archives of Native Women’s History
WHEN Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Maeve Kane, assistant professor of history, University at Albany
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS In “A Company of These Women: Digital Methods and Silence in the Archives of Native Women's History,” Kane will explore three late 18th-century networks of social relationships between indigenous people and the ways in which digital methods can be used to examine the archival erasure of indigenous women.

LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-maeve-kane-lecture

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The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights
Thursday, November 5
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Dr (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School
This Thursday afternoon talk, co-sponsored with MIT Radius, is entitled, "The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights," and will feature Dorothy Roberts, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. This talk will take place on the afternoon of 11/5/15.

Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!

Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series
The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI), with support from SHASS Anthropology, began hosting a Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series on campus on topics related to global health and the medical humanities during the fall 2014 semester.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, Radius
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu

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From Penguins to Plankton: Impacts of Climate Change on the Marine Ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula
Thursday, November 5
5pm
Tufts, Barnum 104, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford

James McClintock

More information at http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/seminars/

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Taming Tibet: Migration, Development, and Landscape Transformation
Thursday, November 5
5:00p
MIT, Building 4-163, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Speaker: Emily Yeh
Emily Yeh is a Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In this talk, based on Taming Tibet (Cornell UP, 2013), Yeh will examine how Chinese development projects in Tibet have served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork between 2000 and 2009, she will trace the transformation of the material landscape of Tibet between the 1950s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, arguing that these transformations advance the project of state territorialization. In particular, she will focus on three key moments of development: agrarian change, Chinese migration, and urbanization.

Presented by The Global Borders Research Collaborative in MIT Global Studies and Languages, in conjunction with MIT Anthropology and MIT History.

Web site: http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/taming-tibet
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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Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas
Thursday, November 5
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Boston University 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room CAS211, Boston

Dr. Laurie W. Rush is the Cultural Resources Manager and Army Archaeologist stationed at Fort Drum, NY. She will discuss efforts to protect cultural properties during military operations, including initiatives following in the wake of the US war in Iraq. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the BU Archaeology Department.

More information at http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/

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EnergyBar!
Thursday, November 5
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/energybar-registration-15734103126

About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
Join us on Thursday, November 5.

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How nature can save us
Thursday, November 5
6 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

M. Sanjayan, Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
We live in the Anthropocene, the age of humans, and not since cyanobacteria transformed Earth’s early atmosphere has one species–Homo sapiens–had such an outsized influence on the diversity of life on the planet. Saving nature in the human age is a challenging proposition, but perhaps a more relevant question might be how nature can save humankind. In an epic journey across 24 countries accompanied by a film crew from PBS and National Geographic, Sanjayan compiled awe-inspiring stories that illuminate the inextricable link between the environment and human beings. In this program, he will discuss his journey and the basic truth it revealed: that saving nature is really about saving ourselves.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard College Conservation Society.

Free and open to the public.

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CCVA Talk: Futurefarmers⎯A Farm Sailed Away and Came Back a Garden
WHEN Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
SPEAKER(S) Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP suggested
TICKET WEB LINK https://form.jotform.com/52885301689971
CONTACT INFO ccva@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding them. Participatory in nature, their work manifests as temporary public art, museum exhibitions, publications, bus tours, public programs and most recently permanent public art.
LINK http://ccva.fas.harvard.edu/futurefarmers⎯a-farm-sailed-away-and-came-back-garden

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"Beyond ‘Greens vs. the Poor:’ A Way Out of the U.S. Water Crisis”
Thursday, November 5

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Northeastern, Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Street, Room 250, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-greens-vs-the-poor-a-way-out-of-the-us-water-crisis-tickets-19274159530

Don’t miss this groundbreaking lecture by the Senior Program Leader on the Human Right to Water at UUSC and key strategist in the global water justice movement. Jones will explore the roots of the current water crisis in the U.S. and point the way beyond the myth of a contradiction between environmental protection and social justice concerns related to water.
This event is free and open to the public and is the keynote speech of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy's (PHRGE) 2015 Human Rights Institute at Northeastern University School of Law.
For more information, please see here: http://www.northeastern.edu/law/academics/institutes/phrge/events/institutes/institute2015.html

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The Press and the Polls: 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics
Thursday, November 5
6:00pm
Harvard Kennedy School, JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jill Lepore will deliver the 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, titled “The Press and the Polls.” The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism will be awarded to Gary Younge the same evening. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. In 2012, she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of several books, most recently The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Her earlier books include: The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan and Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995.

Gary Younge is an author, broadcaster and award-winning columnist for The Guardian. He also writes a monthly column for The Nation magazine and is the Alfred Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute. He is the author of four books, most recently The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream. Younge has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the Tea Party to hip hop culture. He went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and in 2007 he was awarded honorary doctorates by both his alma mater and London South Bank University.

Lepore and Younge will also join Candy Crowley and Peter Hart in a panel discussion on Friday, November 6.

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The Paris Climate Summit: Prospects for a Global Agreement
Thursday, November 5
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

In a few short weeks, the international community will converge in Paris for the 21st installment of the annual United Nations climate summit (COP21). Charged with elaborating an architecture for international climate cooperation beyond 2020, negotiators are expected to conclude an ambitious work stream that has spanned several years and faced countless diplomatic challenges. What can we realistically expect from the Paris climate summit, and what are the positions of some of the most influential actors going into the negotiations?

Please join leading authorities on international climate policy for a timely discussion of the prospects for COP21.

Panelists:
Professor Michael Grubb, University College London
Professor Henry D. Jacoby, MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Valerie J. Karplus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Moderated by: Michael Mehling, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/The%20Paris%20Climate%20Summit.pdf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard University
For more information, contact: CEEPR
617-253-3551
ceepr@mit.edu

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Robotics and Grasping
Thursday, November 5
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Vecna Technologies, 35 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/robotics-interest-group/events/224806894/

There has been a ton of innovation in picking up and putting down objects. We'll hear from Soft Robotics and RightHand Robotics, two companies taking a slightly different approach to robot grasping. We'll also hear about some exciting work out of MIT.

This event will be held very close to the Alewife T stop and the end of route 2.

Rough agenda: 6 - 6:30: Networking and Pizza
6:30 - 7:20: Three Speakers
(1) Carl Vause, Soft Robotics Inc.
(2) Yaroslav Tenzer, RightHand Robotics
(3) Edward Adelson (we are hoping) MIT.
7:20 - 7:30: 1 min pitches from audience. Need help? Looking for a job? Let us know. 7:30 on: More networking.

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Harvard CGBC Inaugural Lecture: Norman Foster
Thursday, November 5
6:30–8 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Norman Foster was born in Manchester. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture.

Established as Foster Associates in 1967 his practice, now known as Foster + Partners, is an international studio for architecture and design with projects on six continents. Over the past five decades the practice has pioneered a sustainable approach to architecture and ecology through a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, museums, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design.

Projects include the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the redevelopment of the Reichstag, the New German Parliament in Berlin; the Great Court of the British Museum in London; the Clark Center at Stanford University, California and the new School of Management at Yale University, Connecticut; Hearst Tower, New York; the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, and airports in Beijing, Hong Kong and London. The practice has also developed sustainable masterplans for cities around the world, including Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and London’s Trafalgar Square in London. Current projects include a new London headquarters for Bloomberg, the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in Philadelphia and several high-rise buildings in New York.

Norman Foster became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999. He has received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York and he is a Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was granted a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, appointed by the Queen to the Order of Merit in 1997 and in 1999 was honoured with a Life Peerage in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, as Lord Foster of Thames Bank.

He has lectured widely, including as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Oxford. He holds Honorary Degrees and Doctorates from the London Institute, Royal College of Art London, University College London, the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Universities of London, Bath, East Anglia, Humberside, Manchester, Oxford, Durham, Robert Gordon Aberdeen, Dundee, Valencia, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, the University of Hong Kong, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Yale University.

More information at http://harvardcgbc.org/inaugural-lecture-lord-norman-foster/

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Faculty Speaker Series: Lessons from Ebola
WHEN Thu., Nov. 5, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Ed Portal
SPEAKER(S) Professor Ashish Jha
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK lessonsfromebola.eventbrite.com
DETAILSThe current Ebola outbreak has made clear, likeno other event in recent history, the frailty of our existing health infrastructure.While responding to current epidemic is of course critical, it is equallyimperative to strategize about what we can do to prepare for – or even prevent -the next global health catastrophe.
Join Professor Ashish Jha at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of the Faculty Lecture Series on November 5 at 7pm. Jha is a Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a director of the Harvard Global Health Institute,and a practicing Internal Medicine physician in the VA Boston Healthcare system.
He’ll discuss how we can build strong, resilient health systems that focus on patients and communities, how this epidemic presents an opportunity to forge partnerships across both borders and disciplines, and how we can demonstrate our commitment to value all human lives equally.
This lecture continues a conversation about the local response to the epidemic, what this means for global governance, and most importantly: How do we prevent the next pandemic?
LINK edportal.harvard.edu

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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Thursday, November 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes one of the leading writers on climate change TIM FLANNERY for a discussion of his latest book, Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis.

A decade ago, Tim Flannery’s #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth’s climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public engagement with the issue of climate change has declined. Opinion is divided between technological optimists and pessimists who feel that catastrophe is inevitable. The publication of this new book is timed for the lead-up to the Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, which aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate from all the nations in the world. This book anticipates and will influence the debates.

Time is running out, but catastrophe is not inevitable. Around the world people are now living with the consequences of an altered climate—with intensified and more frequent storms, wildfires, droughts and floods. For some it’s already a question of survival. Drawing on the latest science, Flannery gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a “third way” of soft geo-engineering. Tim Flannery, with his inimitable style, makes this urgent issue compelling and accessible. This is a must-read for anyone interested in our global future.

Featured event books will be for sale at the event for 20% off. Thank you for supporting this author series with your purchases.
General Info
(617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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Friday, November 6
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure- ABC Panel Event
Friday November 6
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Seaport Boston Hotel & World Trade Center, 1 Seaport Lane, Plaza C Ballroom, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebjrxgf1f358e0a0&oseq=&c=f9aeb3e0-42a5-11e3-aaf4-d4ae5292c47d&ch=f9f16230-42a5-11e3-ab00-d4ae5292c47d

The region's infrastructure is essential to our economic prosperity. Severe weather events, a changing climate, and rising sea levels present a direct threat to our region.
Hear from those who have begun the important task of identifying these risks and developing strategies for investment in resilient infrastructure.
Facilitator: Sandra Lally, Oxford Properties

Featured Panelists:
Frank DePaola, MassDOT
Fred Laskey, MWRA
Thomas Glynn, Massport
Paul Renaud, Eversource

Legislative Perspective: Senator Marc Pacheco and Rep. Frank Smizik (Invited)
Co-Chairs , Global Warming & Climate Change Committee

A Better City
Sarah Shields
sshields@abettercity.org
617-502-6250

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Theodore H White Seminar on Press and Politics
Friday, November 6
9:00am-10:30am
Harvard, Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

A panel of experts continues the conversation after the previous night’s Theodore H. White Lecture on “The Press and the Polls.”

Panelists:
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University; staff writer, The New Yorker; 2015 Theodore H. White Lecturer
Gary Younge, columnist, The Guardian; winner of the 2015 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism
Candy Crowley, former anchor and political correspondent, CNN; Fall Fellow, Harvard Institute of Politics
Peter Hart, founder, Hart Research Associates; pollster for NBC News & The Wall Street Journal
Moderated by Tom Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press

http://shorensteincenter.org/theodore-h-white-seminar-on-press-and-politics-2015/

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Fall Conference: Sustainability in Scandanavia
Friday, November 6
9 am–12:30 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-cgbc-fall-conference-sustainability-in-scandinavia-registration-18384455401

Sustainability in Scandinavia will highlight green buildings and communities across Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and unravel a unique regional practice that integrates technology, culture, and design. Through the presentation of case studies and proven concepts, leading academicians and practitioners from the region will discuss how they’ve pushed the limits of this approach to define and pioneer the cutting edge within an advanced regulatory framework. View agenda.

Hosted by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

More information at http://harvardcgbc.org/2015-fall-conference-sustainability-in-scandinavia/

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From the Biomedical to the Wounds Inside: Developing a Framework and Metrics Relevant to the Context of Political Violence
Friday, November 6
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University
This event will feature Rita Giacaman, from Birzeit University, who will present a talk entitled, "From the Biomedical to the Wounds Inside: Developing a Framework and Metrics Relevant to the Context of Political Violence."

Coffee and pastries will be served. We hope you will be able to join us!

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters@mit.edu

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BWH Hackathon- Digital Health
November 6-8, 2015
Friday, November 6
12PM – 7PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston
RSVP at http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=99b4a0286b0b03e93dcbcf14a&id=1534db99fb

The BWH Hackathon in collaboration with Brigham Innovation Hub and MIT Hacking Medicine will bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today. A hackathon is an event in which clinicians, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, and others collaborate intensively on software projects. This year, our 3rd annual Hackathon, focused on Digital Health, will bring together a diverse, multidisciplinary group to “pitch” problems impacting healthcare, develop solutions over a two-day period, and then present demos of solutions to a panel of judges for recognition and honors.

The event provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with experts in a variety of fields and novices with unbridled passion, pitch an idea for transforming a current health care process and then, together, ‘hack’ or devise a real solution. These solutions could be as straightforward as a wireframe sketch, or might require running to a local store for parts to build a prototype, or reaching out to a physician to ask a pressing question for a mobile app.

Whatever the process may be, the ultimate result could be the beginning of the next big health care transformation. End the weekend with a team, new connections, and prizes with potential access to BWH’s iHub resources, and a hack on its first steps towards disrupting healthcare. Past teams at hackathons just like this one have gone on to found companies, enter business plan competitions (MIT 100K), join an accelerator, and secure venture funding.

Interested? Please apply now and learn more about this year’s BWH Hackathon!

Friday, November 6
Schedule:
12PM -4:30PM learn from experts about innovation, startups, IP law and more
5PM- 7PM – Networking, drinks and pizza
Saturday, November 7
8AM – 10PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
8-9AM – Breakfast
9-10AM – Introduction/Ground Rules/Speaker
10-10:30AM – 1st Round of Pitches
11-11:30AM – 2nd Round of Pitches
11:30AM-12:30PM – Teams Form
12:30-2PM – Lunch
12:30-10PM – Teams work
6:00-8:00PM – Dinner
Sunday, November 8
8AM – 5PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cabot Atrium, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
8-9:00AM – Breakfast
9-9:30AM – Announcements
9:30AM-2:30PM – Teams work on projects
12:30-2PM – Lunch
2-3:30PM – Team presentations
3:30-3:45PM – Judging/Discussion
3:45-4PM – Awards Ceremony / Closing Remarks
4 – 5PM – Reception

Brigham Innovation Hub with MIT Hacking Medicine
http://disruptingmedicine.org
Website: http://eepurl.com/byw4c9

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Googling Before Google: A Brief History of Searching
Friday, November 6

12:00 am to 1:15

BU, History Department, 226 Bay State Road, Room 504, Boston

Speakers Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia
The author of "Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University" ,Johns Hopkins University Press 2015, explores how the eighteenth-century dealt with its "information revolution."

Contact Name James Schmidt
Phone 617 358-1781
Contact Email jschmidt@bu.edu

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Market Governance and Globalization: Different Paths to Development in China and Russia
WHEN Fri., Nov. 6, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Modern Asia Seminar Series; Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Professor Roselyn Hsueh, assistant professor of political science, Temple University
LINK http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/market-governance-and-globalization-different-paths-development-china-and

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Pro Tour of Wayland MA Passive House
Friday, November 6
12:30-5 PM
Wayland, MA (exact location in confirmation email)
RSVP at https://nesea.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=131
Cost: $25 for NESEA Members, $35 for Non-members

Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm for the August Pro Tour of this project, NESEA is thrilled to be able to offer a second Pro Tour of the first Passive House in Wayland, MA!

The tour of this 2,500 sq.ft., foam-free Passive House residence will be led by hosts Mike Dutra and Nicholas Falkoff from Auburndale Builders, and other members from the project team. The tour will conclude with a reception, presentation, and an opportunity to chat with members of the project team. This second tour of the site will take a look at how the project has progressed over three months, including new interior fixtures.

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Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Friday, November 6
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard MARVIN KALB for a discussion of his book Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea in March 2014 stunned the world. The United States and its Western allies reacted by imposing strict economic sanctions on Russia in the naïve hope that Putin would be intimidated and change his policy. At the same time, the United States stressed it would not go to war with Russia over Ukraine.

A sharp deterioration in East-West relations that has followed, raising basic questions about the policies of Putin and the future of Russia. Is Putin's ultimate goal the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the end of Western influence and power in Eastern Europe? Or are his goals more modest simply to retain Russian influence and power in Ukraine?

Kalb argues that world order hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. The only sensible solution lies in both Russia and Ukraine recognizing that their futures are irrevocably linked by the geography, power, politics, and history that Kalb brings to life in Imperial Gamble. Kalb makes the provocative argument that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Putin did not "suddenly" decide to invade Crimea and then instigate a pro- Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine. Once he saw the power of the pro-Western demonstrations in late 2013, he knew that one day soon he would have to take military action to thwart Ukraine's swing to the West. It was, in his mind, just a matter of time. The "Maidan Square" demonstrations posed an existential threat to Russia, and Putin felt they had to be stopped.
Imperial Gamble examines how Putin reached that conclusion by taking a critical look at the recent political history of post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. Kalb also journeys deeper into Russian history to explain more fully the roots of Russian nationalism and why the Russian people support Putin's dangerous and controversial actions in Ukraine.

General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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Architecture Lecture: Natasha Schull, Tracking, Sensing, Shifting: The Media of Mood Modulation
Friday, November 6,
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Natasha Schull, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Computation Group Lecture Series

Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Computation Group Events
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu

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City Connect: A Night of Dancing, Drinks and Connecting
Friday, November 6

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

General Assembly Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston

Come kick off Boston’s City Awake with the ultimate anti-networking party. Join General Assembly and StartingBloc to meet other social changemakers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs in a fun setting filled with drinks, fun, music, and meaningful connections.

Come share your passions, connect with people in the area, and have fun as we help kick off Boston’s City Awake!

About Our Partners
Starting Bloc
StartingBloc is built on the belief that a small, committed group of people can change the world.

They bring together entrepreneurs, activists, educators, and innovators working to create change. They connect them to their tribe and give them access to the resources, co-conspirators, projects and support they need to create the impact they want.

City Awake
City Awake is a coalition building an ecosystem to connect Boston’s social impact community and accelerate the ideas, resources and partnerships best positioned to drive progress. Boston is home to the world’s leading foundations, nonprofits, and social enterprises anchored by an unmatched ecosystem of academic institutions, innovative companies and civil society. City Awake’s mission is to catalyze Boston’s diverse community of for-impact institutions and leaders to maximize their collective impact through increased awareness and community-building.

Website: https://generalassemb.ly/education/city-connect-a-night-of-dancing-drinks-and-connecting/boston/17715

General Assembly
Email: boston@generalassemb.ly
Website: http://www.generalassemb.ly

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Q&A with Walter Mosley and Donna Latson Gittens following the screening
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Friday, November 6
7PM
Bright Family Screening Room | Emerson/Paramount Center, 599 Washington Street, Boston
Co-Presented with The Word Boston

See Walter Mosley’s work translated from gripping novel to a film starring Laurence Fishburne. Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his huge, rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working for the Bounty supermarket, and moving perilously close to invisibility, it is Socrates who throws a lifeline to a drowning man: young Darryl, whose shaky path is already bloodstained and fearsome. In a place of violence and hopelessness, Socrates offers up his own battle-scarred wisdom that can turn the world.

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Saturday, November 7
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Civic Tech Challenge
Saturday, November 7
9:00A-6:00P Hackathon
6:00P-9:00P Presentations & Awards Reception
Microsoft NERD Center, I Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgLNs9SxNtp5HUiv5u_X03mF7X240y74PrCqpkPD9FQ/viewform
Cost: $50

ARE YOU READY?
The Hackathon
9am-5pm: As part of the Generation Citizen action civics program, over 1,500 local students have launched action projects to advocate for change on Greater Boston’s most significant problems. At the Civic Tech Challenge on November 7th, students will team up with developers, designers,marketers, data scientists and creative problem-solvers from Greater Boston’s top tech companies and technology education programs to take their action project to the next level. Hackathon tracks include Data Visualizations, Information Communication Technologies, and Digital Storytelling tools.

The Presentation and Reception
6pm-9pm: At the evening presentation and reception, hackteams of Generation Citizen teens and technologists will present their hacked innovations to a Judging Panel of Greater Boston’s leading innovators, and an audience consisting of an illustrious Host Committee and 200+ guests from Greater Boston’s most influential finance, service, and startup companies. Event honoree, the New Urban Mechanics, will keynote. Delicious food and open beer and wine bar included.

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World Climate
Saturday, November 7
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-climate-registration-18511483345

World Climate is a model-based game that was developed by MIT professor John Sterman and Drew Jones of the nonprofit organization, Climate Interactive. Participants in this simplified version of an international climate change negotioation represent countries that span the development spectrum, and must negotiate to reach an agreement that will curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100.

Mixed Paper will host World Climate in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects. Our goal is to engage the greater Boston community in climate change policy ahead of the major COP21 climate talks happening this December in Paris. We want to encourage all to participate in this crucial and momentous discussion. The event is free and open to all. Thank you for registering!

Please note that by registering, you agree to have your likeness photographed and possibly published in print and/or web material associated with this event. If this is a problem, please let us know prior to registration.

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TEDxHarvard College
Saturday, November 7
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxharvard-college-tickets-18664133927
Cost: $20 - $100

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Somerville Trash Bash
Saturday, November 8
2:00 to 8:00 pm
Aeronaut Brewery, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MfZ-9PFwXo4HVSrcQ4bieEHRNs-Q5t8Dy0OxppFLzqQ/viewform

This is the third annual recycled art festival. Artists can enter the competition, but space is limited. Artists' registration at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-registration-for-trash-bash-2015-tickets-10093089703

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Playing For The Planet: World Music Against Climate Change
Saturday, November 7
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street #2, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playing-for-the-planet-world-music-against-climate-change-tickets-18923005218
Cost: $16-$21

On Saturday, November 7, the twelfth “Playing For The Planet” benefit concert will showcase master musicians from three different musical traditions in a rare evening of pan-cultural improvisation, with all proceeds going to benefit the environmental advocacy group 350MA.org. The performers include flute master Geni Skendo’s “Astronauts of Albania,” the boundary-bending explorations of the String Theory Trio, and the acclaimed Hindustani vocal music of Smt. Shuchita Rao. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at The Community Church Of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston. Admission is $20; $15 students & seniors. For information, please call 781-396-0734, or visit the event website at www.warrensenders.com.

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Sunday, November 8

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Slow Food Boston Presents Disco Soup Boston! A Food Rescue Dance Party!
Sunday, November 8

5:00-10:00PM

Ashley Street YMCA Teaching Kitchen, 54 Ashley Street, East Boston

RSVP at https://sfb.yapsody.com/event/index/19354/disco-soup-boston

Cost: $15

On Sunday, November 8th, Slow Food Boston will host Boston's first Disco Soup, a special event highlighting the issue of food waste. We'll prepare food that would have otherwise gone to a landfill, donate it to a local shelter, hear from expert speakers, eat dinner catered by East Boston Oysters, and boogie! Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased online below.

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Monday, November 9
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Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
Monday, November 9

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)

WGBH , 1 Guest Street, Brighton

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-digital-media-for-stem-learning-climate-education-tickets-17920229890

Communities and creatures around the world feel the impacts of climate change. The Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education will explore how the stories and science behind these impacts are increasingly being integrated into classroom instruction and STEM education contexts, with a focus on digital media.

Held at WGBH’s Brighton, Mass. studio on Monday, November 9, 2015*, this highly-interactive and fast-paced event will examine emerging narratives in climate education, digital media tools and products that show unique potential for educational settings, and promising modes of engagement for students, teachers and schools.

*The Forum will be streamed live (streaming details to come). If you cannot attend in person, but plan to watch the live stream, you do not need to reserve a ticket.

WGBH is the largest content producer for PBS and longtime producer of the acclaimed science documentary series NOVA.
Located in Boston, the hub of the nation's scientific, research, and technological community, WGBH is the perfect place to further the support of digital media in STEM education.

Where to stay? If you’re traveling to the Forum and need a place to stay, rooms are available at the DoubleTree Suites Boston-Cambridge.
A detailed program and list of speakers will soon be available here: https://stemdigitalmedia.wordpress.com/

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What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
Monday, November 9
8–9:45 am
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

A panel discussion with:
Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project
René Castro, former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and chief climate negotiator, United States; Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Jairam Ramesh, former Minister of State for Environment and Forests and chief climate negotiator, India
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Open to the public, breakfast provided. Hosted by the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Event contact: Bryan_Galcik@hks.harvard.edu

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Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Monday, November 9

11:30am to 1:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Social media and social networking sites have become a global pinboard for exposition and discussion of news, topics, and ideas, where social media users increasingly form their opinion about a particular topic by learning information about it from her peers. In this context, whenever a user posts a message about a topic, we observe a noisy estimate of her current opinion about it but the influence the user may have on other users’ opinions is hidden. In this talks, we introduce SLANT, a probabilistic modeling framework of opinion dynamics, which allows the underlying opinion of a user to be modulated by those expressed by her neighbors over time. We then identify a set of conditions under which users’ opinions converge to a steady state, find a linear relation between the initial and steady state opinions, and develop an efficient estimation method to fit the model parameters from historical fine-grained opinion and information diffusion event data. Experiments on data gathered from Twitter, Reddit and Amazon show that our model provides a good fit to the data and more accurate predictions than alternatives.

Speaker Bio: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Manuel develops machine learning and large-scale data mining methods for the analysis, modeling and control of large real-world networks and processes that take place over them. He is particularly interested in problems arising in the Web and social media and has received several recognitions for his research, including an Outstanding Paper Award at NIPS'13 and a Best Research Paper Honorable Mention at KDD'10. Manuel holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain). You can find more about him at http://www.mpi-sws.org/~manuelgr/.

Center for Research on Computation and Society

Contact: Carol Harlow
Email: harlow@seas.harvard.edu

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MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
Monday, November 9
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Bruce Anderson (BU)

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-bruce-anderson-bu
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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Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
Monday, November 9
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. 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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Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday, November 9
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-thought-brown-bag-lunch-on-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-19123008433

Join a brown bag lunch discussion of best practices in sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This event is part of City Awake, Boston’s second annual social impact festival. Facilitators with experience in this sector will guide the conversation, emphasizing renewable energy, research sciences, and natural resource management.

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What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
Monday, November 9
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

Joseph Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Wesleyan University

STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/

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.

Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-171500-2015-11-09-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.m8abAn5A.dpuf

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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Monday, November 9
3:30pm - 4:45pm

Tufts, Fletcher School, Mugar Hall Room 200, 160 Packard Ave, Medford

Food policy author and activist Frances Moore Lappé will offer insights on tough questions—from climate change and population growth to GMOs and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more. Driven by the question “Why hunger despite an abundance of food?” Lappé argues that with sustainable agriculture, we can feed the world and end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s population. She also reasons that most people in the Global North have more in common with the world’s hungry people than they thought.

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Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise

Monday, November 9

4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, STEP Director, Princeton University

EPS Colloquium Series

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-210000/eps-colloquium-series#sthash.6V8XpyUs.dpuf

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Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
Monday, November 9
4.30-6.30
Harvard, Bell Hall (Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Camridge

Prof. Marc Lipsitch (Harvard, Dept. of Epidemiology)
Topic of the talk: A growing trend in experimental virology has been the modification of influenza viruses that are antigenically novel to, and virulent in humans, such that these variant viruses are readily transmissible in mammals, including ferrets which are thought to be the best animal model for influenza infection. Novel, contagious, virulent viruses are potential pandemic pathogens in that their accidental or malevolent release into the human population could cause a pandemic. This talk will describe the purported benefits of such studies, arguing that these are overstated; estimate the magnitude of the risk they create, argue for the superiority of alternative scientific approaches on both safety and scientific grounds, and propose an ethical framework in which such experiments should be evaluated.
Prof. Lipsitch will discuss the science policy, bioethical and biosafety issues raised and the recent developments in this field including the US Government funding pause on such experiments announced by the White House on October 17, 2014.

Speaker’s Bio: Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where his wet lab is located. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He is also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

About The Future Society at HKS:
TFS brings together HKS students interested in the better understanding the profound political consequences of the technological explosion we are going through. We organized speakers’ series, panels, movie screening and study groups.

Presented by The Future Society at HKS and the Harvard Effective Altruism Society welcome, with the support of the Program on Science, Technology and Society, HKS

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Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
Monday, November 9, 2015
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville

Dr. Suzanne Paradis
How is the brain is put together to control the most basic functions of the human body? How are we able to move our arms and legs, to learn and remember, to see and hear? The adult human brain contains a massive network of neurons that communicate with one another to control these tasks. Neurons talk to other neurons through synapses: specialized sites of cell-to-cell contact. Synapses come in two flavors: excitatory, which promotes information propagation through networks, and inhibitory, which prevents it. The billions of neurons in the human brain form trillions of synapses, ensuring proper information flow in the brain.

Many disorders of the nervous system – such as epilepsy and Autism – occur when neurons fail to form appropriate synaptic connections or when communication between neurons breaks down at the synapse. To understand what goes awry in these disorders, we must first understand how synapses are assembled in the typically developing nervous system. Dr. Paradis’ research explores the topic of synapse development and how disruptions to this process might underlie human neurological disorders.

Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.

More at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9

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Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
Monday, November 9
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014 HD video, Dutch and English language, English subtitles, 55 min. Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly was the title of an exhibition in 1981 by the Brazilian-Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, which took a stand against bourgeois taste and values presented at her seminal building SESC Pompéia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with employees of a national organization for social work and medical assistance. “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” became the title of a recent work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh in which she explores the life of an experimental multifunctional community center in the Netherlands from its opening in the 1970s to now, conceiving and implementing a filming methodology that translates architecture premises such as ‘open’, ‘user-led’ and ‘participative’ into cinematic devices. Taking her recent works “From Left to Night” (2015), “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” (2014) and “Bete & Deise” (2012) as a lead, Van Oldenborgh will talk about filmmaking as a perfomative device and of her ongoing engagement in ideas on collectiveness, its intersection with the private and the role cultural production plays in this.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. With these works, which look at the structures that form and hinder us, she participated in various large biennials, and in smaller dedicated shows. Recent presentations include Form Left to Night (2015), solo at The Showroom London, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (2014) in van Abbemuseum 2014; La Javanaise at the 12th Biennial of Cuenca (EC) (2014); Après la reprise, la prise in ‘Art Turning Left’, Tate Liverpool 2013. Van Oldenborgh has exhibited widely including in RAW Material Company Dakar (SN), Generali Foundation Vienna and Museum Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (PL) as well as the 2nd Biennial of Kochi-Muziris 2014, 54rth Venice Biennial 2011, the 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010 and at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009. In 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Heineken Prize for the Arts, presented by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s lecture will be moderated by graduate student, Neil Sanzgiri (ACT) with response by Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Vivek Bald (CMS) and Research Fellow Sandra Rodriguez(MIT Open Documentary Lab/CMS).

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Tuesday, November 10
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Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
Tuesday, 10 November
12:00 pm eastern
Webinar
RSVP at https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=ieeemeetings&service=6&rnd=0.9946288980374539&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeemeetings.webex.com%2Fec0701lsp13%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D3996736091%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000002270b783f1fa0e5ff975d06fedb9468b067e91a83404dc351d0d039ad22b0cfaa%26%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAAKyq_Hj4eoQArkI-1Ym6sThNq9tCfy7yowFRhdOJLCguw2%26%26siteurl%3Dieeemeetings

Presented by Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
IEEE Smart Village has been striving to get basic electrical services to a million people in 5 years, in the most underserved regions of the world, through renewable energy sources. Its ultimate goal is to get electrical services to 50 million people in the next 10 years. However, IEEE Smart Village aims to go beyond just lighting and electrical services. Through its model of partnerships with local NGOs and Entrepreneurs, it strives to create local businesses and local jobs. Through its initiatives in education and community based solutions, it aims to create community development with lasting change. All these initiatives make IEEE Smart Village unique, in the sense that it is going ‘beyond the light bulb’ to create truly Smart Villages around the world. This talk will introduce IEEE Smart Village and its various initiatives to achieve its vision.

The Presenter: Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
Niru obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and further her interests in power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University last summer where she was recognized both as an ‘Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow’ as well as an ‘Emerging Markets Fellow’. Her interests now include the most cost effective methods of making technology accessible to the base of the pyramid. She also works as a storage analyst in the Energy Storage Business Development Group at NextEra Energy Resources in Juno Beach, Florida.

PES WEBINAR SMART VILLAGE - GOING BEYOND THE LIGHT BULB
IEEE Power & Energy Society Women in Power Webinar Series

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Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
Tuesday, November 10
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Richard N. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC. He has served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour. He recently served as creative consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show The Newsroom.

http://shorensteincenter.org/rick-kaplan/

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Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
Tuesday, November 10

12:00 pm
Harvard, Berkman Center, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood at 12:00 pm

with Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood
Lawyers and computer scientists hold very different notions of privacy. Notably, privacy laws rely on narrower and less formal conceptions of risk than those described by the computer science literature. As a result, the law often creates uncertainty and fails to protect against the full range of data privacy risks. In contrast, emerging mathematical concepts provide robust, formal models for quantifying and mitigating privacy risks. An example of such a model is differential privacy, which provides a provable guarantee of privacy against a wide range of potential attacks, including types of attacks currently unknown or unforeseen.

The subject of much theoretical investigation, these new technical methods for privacy protection have recently been making significant strides towards practical implementation. For example, researchers are now building and testing the first generation of tools for differentially private statistical analysis. However, because the law generally relies on very different methods for mitigating risk, a significant challenge to implementation will be demonstrating that the new privacy technologies satisfy legal requirements for privacy protection. In particular, most privacy laws focus on the identifiability of data, or the ability to link an individual to a record in a release of data. In doing so, they often equate privacy with heuristic “de-identification” approaches and provide little guidance for implementing more formal privacy-preserving techniques.

In this talk, Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood will articulate the gap between legal and technical approaches to privacy and present a methodology for formally proving that a technological method for privacy protection satisfies the requirements of a particular law. This methodology involves two steps: first, translating a legal standard into a formal mathematical requirement of privacy and, second, constructing a rigorous proof for establishing that a technique satisfies the mathematical requirement derived from the law. The presenters will walk through an example applying this new methodology to bridge the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and differential privacy. They will conclude the presentation with a discussion of how the methodology could help further the real-world adoption of new privacy technologies.

This talk summarizes early results from ongoing research by Kobbi Nissim, Aaron Bembenek, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, and Salil Vadhan from the Center for Research on Computation and Society, together with Urs Gasser, David O’Brien, and Alexandra Wood from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Further work building from this approach is anticipated to form the basis of a future publication. This research is also part of a broader collaboration through the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, which aims to build legal and technical tools, such as tools for differentially private statistical analysis, to help enable the wider sharing of social science research data while protecting the privacy of individuals.

About Kobbi
Kobbi Nissim is a Professor of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Trained in cryptography, Kobbi always maintains a healthy level of paranoia, and feels the ground is shaky whenever issues of security and privacy are not formally defined and analysed.

Nissim's current work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and presented a precursor of Differential Privacy, a strong definition of privacy in computation that he introduced in 2006 with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. With collaborators, Nissim established some of the basic constructions supporting differential privacy, and studied differential privacy in various contexts, including statistics, computational learning, mechanism design, and social networks. Since 2011, Kobbi has been involved with the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University, developing privacy-preserving tools for the sharing of social science data. Other contributions of Nissim include the BGN homomorphic encryption scheme with Boneh and Goh, and the research of private approximations. In 2013, Nissim received with Irit Dinur the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time award for their PODS 2003 work on privacy. In 2016, he will receive with Dwork, McSherry and Smith the TCC test of time award for their TCC 2006 work on differential privacy.

About Alexandra
Alexandra Wood is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a member of the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University. A lawyer by training, her research explores new and existing regulatory frameworks for data privacy and their compatibility with approaches to privacy emerging from the literature in other fields. Alexandra has also been contributing to the development of new legal instruments, analytical frameworks, and policy recommendations to better support the sharing and use of research data while preserving privacy, utility, transparency, and accountability. Before joining the Berkman Center, she served as a legal fellow with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and as a law clerk with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

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Conceptualizing Behavior Change
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conceptualizing-behavior-change-tickets-19152309072

Come learn about Behavior Change at City Awake! This Food for Thought session will explore how our defaults (habits, environments and mindsets) drive our behavior in the absence of willpower. This can be applied to individual or group change and it can be conscious or forced from outside. We will discuss at a high level, a model for understanding what drives people's behavior and how we can make changes in our behavior or those of others. This conversation will be led by Justin Wright of Habitus Incorporated in conjunction with other Impact Hub members.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.

This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.

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The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Rm, Taubman Building, 5th floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Study Group on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, Center for European Studies; the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Michael Wahid Hanna, senior fellow, Century Foundation; adjunct senior fellow, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place on Tuesday at 12:30 pm at the Kennedy School.
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/crisis-syria-drawing-and-redrawing-boundaries-state-disintegration-and-state-reformation

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Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Kanoko Kamata, HKS MC/MPA '12, executive director, Community Organizing Japan, HKS MC/MPA 2012, Roy and Lila Ash Fellow
Ana Babovic, Founder, Serbia on the Move, HKS MC/MPA Candidate 2016, Ford Foundation Mason Student Fellow
Nisreen Haj Ahmad, co-director of Ahel.org, HKS' MC/MPA2008
Moderator: Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/leading-change-leadership-organizing-and-advocacy-japan-serbia-and-jordan

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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
Tuesday, November 10
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-4
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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The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
4:30–6 pm
Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs discusses the development of a U.S. line on climate change negotiations across the years, with a particular emphasis on recent climate deals and the American approach to discussions in Paris.

Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky, a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs, is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters from 2010-2012. In this position, she was responsible for designing and implementing corporate strategy in Washington, DC and other key capitals around the globe. She also held the Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy.

From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Dobriansky served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. Among her primary achievements, she established and led the US-India, US-China, and US-Brazil Global Issues Fora -- which advanced crucial work and international cooperation on environment, health, development and humanitarian issues. Additionally, she was head of delegation and lead negotiator on US climate change policy.

In February 2007, as the President's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Dr. Dobriansky contributed to the historic devolution of power in Belfast. For her leadership, she received the Secretary of State's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. From 1997-2001, Dr. Dobriansky served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was also the Council's first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

During her more than 25 years in national security affairs, she has held many Senate-confirmed and senior level government appointments including Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, and Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the White House. From 1997-2001, she served on the Presidentially-appointed U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

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Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 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 The 21st century promises to be very different from the 20th century - so why are cities being planned using components that were developed during the last 100 years? In this talk, WOHA Directors share some ideas on what the designers of hyper dense cities of the 21st century could and should be doing to make them great places to live.

The architecture of WOHA, founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, is notable for its constant evolution and innovation. A profound awareness of local context and tradition is intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas, thus creating a unique fusion of practicality and invention. WOHA conceptualizes all aspects of the architectural process, and environmental principles have always been fundamental to the work of the practice, which is guided by a commitment to responsive place-making and to the creation of an invigorating and sustainable architecture.
WOHA’s built projects – throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Australia – range from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. WOHA has won an unprecedented amount of architectural awards for a Southeast Asian practice: they received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 for 1 Moulmein Rise, they collected four awards in the RIBA International Awards of 2011 and 2010 for Alila Villas Uluwatu, School of the Arts, The Met and Bras Basah MRT Station, and they won the 2011 RIBA Lubetkin Prize and the 2010 International Highrise Award for The Met. As an emphatic indication of WOHA’s versatility and global recognition, the practice won two titles in two consecutive years (in four separate categories) at the World Architecture Festival in 2009 and 2010. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, China and Indonesia. A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their work opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and three substantial monographs – WOHA: The Architecture of WOHA and WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 and 2 – have already been published.

Mun Summ Wong is the joint Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated with Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He was a Board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Land Authority and served as member of several Design Advisory Panels for major developments in Singapore. He has mentored students under the National University of Singapore’s Embedded Studio in Practice programme and, together with Richard Hassell, served as Studio Masters for the University’s MSc in Integrated Sustainable Design Masterclass since 2011. He was appointed as Jury Chair in the 2015 Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards.

Richard Hassell is the co-Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2002. He has served as a Board Member of DesignSingapore Council, the Board of Architects as well as the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. He has lectured at many universities, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Western Australia.

LINK: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/wong-mun-summ.html

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Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Daedalus, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge

Interested in crisis management and humanitarian assistance? Join the Harvard Crisis Management Policy Interest Council at Daedalus on November 10th to meet crisis management and humanitarian assistance practitioners, researchers, and students from Harvard, MIT, and Tufts. Appetizers are on us!

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Renewable Energy Progress --Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont

Jeff Deyette, Assistant Director of Energy Research and a senior energy analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA. Mr. Deyette conducts analysis on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. He has written extensively for UCS and various renewable energy industry publications on the consumer, employment, and environmental benefits of increasing renewable energy use.

In this discussion, Mr. Deyette takes up the problem of the fossil fuel industry's resistance to renewable energy, and he gives an update on the progress that is being made across the US, despite that resistance. The Union of Concerned Scientists is a leader in the effort to transition to sustainable energy --and also to promoting an informed public about a wide range of science-related issues.

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations

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Wednesday, November 11
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Bitcoin's future: scalability and protocol modifications
Wednesday, November 11
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Yonatan Sompolinsky , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
The future of Bitcoin depends (also) on its ability to scale and achieve the same transaction volume as other payment methods. At the same time, the security of Bitcoin depends on the synchronization of nodes in its network, which imposes a limit on the amount of transactions it can handle. I will present two protocol modifications that are aimed to improve the scalability of Bitcoin while still maintaining the security of the system, namely, the GHOST protocol, and Inclusive blockchain protocols.If time permits, I will also briefly discuss recent results on the incentives of nodes to follow the Bitcoin protocol (Selfish mining) which also become tougher if block-size is increased and Bitcoin is scaled up.

Bio
Yonatan Sompolinsky is a Computer Science PhD candidate at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2015. He earned his M.Sc in Computer Science (2014), and his B.Sc in Mathematics (2012), from The Hebrew University.

Host: CSAIL Security Seminar

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Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green.
Wednesday, November 11

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EST)
New England College of Business, 10 High Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwashing-its-not-so-easy-to-go-green-tickets-19149165670

With corporate misbehavior flooding media channels, it’s no surprise that today’s educated consumers, investors and job seekers look carefully at the reputation of the firms which they choose to do business. But how can you know if the positive image you see on a corporate website is legitimate or just ‘spin’?
This Innovation Room session explores the dangerous practice of ‘greenwashing’ – the use of marketing and communication tools to present an organization as more environmentally friendly than they really are. Helpful to both consumers, investors, job seekers and HR, compliance, and communication professionals alike, this session will examine:

Why ‘green’? What are job seekers, investors and customers looking for when a business is "green"?

What happens when companies ‘paint’ themselves as being more socially responsible than they are?

How can you verify a company’s ‘true colors’? What tools and resources are available?

As an HR, compliance, or communications professional, what can you do to help your company from ‘coloring outside the lines’ in representing their green practices?

Presented by Michele Jurgens, PhD, Chair of the Master’s Program for Business Ethics and Compliance at New England College of Business. With more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership in strategy, quality, and management consulting, she teaches topics such as corporate social responsibility, international ethics and compliance, accounting and ethics, culture of ethics, and management at the college and at Harvard Extension School. Ms. Jurgens has multiple published works; her research and her most recent publications concern BP’s management of stakeholder relations during the Deepwater Horizon crisis.
Sponsored by New England College of Business.

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Future of Energy

Wednesday, November 11

5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 111 West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Bryony Worthington, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate, House of Lords; Founder and Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign, “Lessons Learned from the Front Line of Policymaking”

Baroness Worthington was a key member of the team that drafted the UK’s landmark Climate Change Act (2007) and helped to set up the Government’s first public awareness campaign on the subject of climate change. Baroness Worthington currently serves as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. She is also the founder and director of Sandbag, a non-profit think tank that conducts research and campaigns for environmentally effective climate policies.

Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman@fas.harvard.edu
- See more at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/foe-worthington#sthash.ORPMhO8E.dpuf

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A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Wednesday, November 11
5pm
Harvard, JF Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his teenage son, has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted upon African Americans.

Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University, will moderate the event with remarks by Kathryn Edin, Distinguished Bloomberg Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.

http://shorensteincenter.org/a-conversation-with-ta-nehisi-coates/

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Future of Energy
Wednesday, November 11
5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 111 West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Bryony Worthington, Founder and Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign; Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate, House of Lords
Baroness Worthington was a key member of the team that drafted the UK’s landmark Climate Change Act (2007) and helped to set up the Government’s first public awareness campaign on the subject of climate change. Baroness Worthington currently serves as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. She is also the founder and director of Sandbag, a non-profit think tank that conducts research and campaigns for environmentally effective climate policies.

Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman@fas.harvard.edu

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Community Impact Lab: Exploring Systemic Causes of Gun Violence
Wednesday, November 11

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub of Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-impact-lab-exploring-systemic-causes-of-gun-violence-tickets-19264106461

Gun violence is a pervasive part of American culture. We encounter gun violence in our schools, where we shop, and on our streets. Join StatusNovi, as we use systems thinking to explore the culture and causes of gun use and gun violence in our communities.

Our event will begin with a breif introduction to systems thinking, and then we will break into groups each with an experienced moderator. Anyone can participate, no previous experience in systems thinking is required. All you need to bring is yourself and your willingness to listen to others and to engage in courageous conversations.

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Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Wednesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitches-pitchers-with-the-boston-institute-for-nonprofit-journalism-tickets-19210651576

An alternative title for this crash course could be: “Mastering the Greater Boston Media Ecosystem,” or “Save Your Money. You Can Do Anything Your Publicist Can Do, But Better.”

Whether hiring a publicist or not, small business managers and owners should know how to navigate the dozens of influential local and statewide sites, stations, and newspapers, as well as the innumerable national outlets that might cover their idea or product.

This is a participatory event, and one unlike any taught by publicists or marketing professors. Hosted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)—and featuring local reporters and editors with experience ranging from Scout Somerville, to Boston Magazine, to DigBoston, to Esquire, to Buzzfeed to Fast Company—we tour you through the media gauntlet from the gatekeeper’s perspective.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School. They will be joined by BINJ Projects Coordinator Emily Hopkins, who is the managing editor of Scout Somerville and Scout Cambridge and a contributor to Storybench, by Dan McCarthy, who has served as an editor at DigBoston and UrbanDaddy, and by other media makers from the BINJ network.

ABOUT BINJ: The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold reporting on issues related to social justice and innovation, and cultivates writers and multimedia producers to assist in that role.

BINJ supports independent publications in various reportorial and organizational capacities, collaborates with partners on sustainable journalism and civic engagement initiatives, and aims to empower promising muckrakers with training and professional compensation.

BONUS: The first 25 attendees at the door will receive a complimentary copy of the first edition of the Boston Bubble, a new premium print quarterly about tech and innovation in Greater Boston that is produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.

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Global Engagement Forum: Watch Party
Thursday, November 12

10am-12pm
MIT, Building 56-116, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge

Details: In September 2015, the United Nations formalized the Sustainable Development Goals, which provide a foundation for action to solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges. PYXERA Global is live broadcasting the Global Engagement Forum to share this tremendous opportunity to harness the capabilities of the private, public, and social sector and accelerate action to make progress towards these goals. Speakers include leaders and organizations from across the three sectors to discuss how best to partner and move from aspiration to achievement.

Speakers include:
MIT Student John Lewandowski – Disease Diagnostic Group, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Winner
Keynotes: Sheryl WuDunn, Stuart Hart, and Sue Norton
Among many others who represent companies and organizations such as: The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen, IFC, IBM International Foundation, and Aspire Food Group.

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Solar Power Comes of Age
Thursday, November 12
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Philip Warburg, Author
Solar power is poised to become a mainstream US power resource, already visible on hundreds of thousands of rooftops, fast taking hold on farms and industrial "brownfields," and spreading across our Western deserts. In addition to exploring the full extent of solar's potential, this talk will examine some of the challenges it poses. How will utilities adapt as "distributed" solar supplants fossil and nuclear plants that have long been their revenue-generating mainstays? What are the wildlife impacts of utility-scale solar fields, and how can those impacts be mitigated? And how will we manage vast new quantities of solar waste as the industry matures? Specific solar projects will be studied; US and European policies will be explored.

Philip Warburg is a lawyer by training and a writer at heart. His work on energy issues dates back to the summer of 1973, when he staffed one of the nation's first challenges to nuclear power in Plymouth, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard College in 1978, he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, where he pioneered legislation to promote renewable energy. Later, as a graduate of Harvard Law School, Phil worked at the Washington-based Environmental Law Institute fostering environmental law reform in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This followed a two-year stint as a freelance reporter on the first Palestinian Intifada and the beginnings of a Middle East peace process in the late 1980s. In 1994, Phil went back to the Middle East, where he advised the Palestinian Authority's drafting of its first environmental legislation and coordinated a World Bank project in Jordan, protecting the Gulf of Aqaba's endangered coral reefs. He then spent several years at the helm of the Tel Aviv-based Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel's leading environmental advocacy group. Returning to his native New England in 2003, Phil became president of the Conservation Law Foundation, the region's oldest and largest environmental watchdog group. There, he found himself in the midst of one of America's most contentious wind farm siting battles—over the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. In Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Phil explored wind power's promise and the challenges facing this transformative technology. In his new book, Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future, Phil looks at inner-city solar projects and the development of solar power in Native American communities. He also examines some of the ways that solar developers are responding to concerns about wildlife protection, and he probes the life-cycle performance of different solar technologies.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University.
Moderator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School
DETAILS The Ash Center cordially invites you to a discussion with Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. Dr. Mendis' talk is entitled: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia and will be moderated by Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/trans-pacific-partnership-future-america’s-economic-role-asia

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World Climate

Saturday, November 7

12:30 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects (BSA), 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-climate-registration-18511483345

World Climate is a model-based game that was developed by MIT professor John Sterman and Drew Jones of the nonprofit organization, Climate Interactive. Participants in this simplified version of an international climate change negotioation represent countries that span the development spectrum, and must negotiate to reach an agreement that will curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100.

Mixed Paper will host World Climate in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects. Our goal is to engage the greater Boston community in climate change policy ahead of the major COP21 climate talks happening this December in Paris. We want to encourage all to participate in this crucial and momentous discussion. The event is free and open to all. Thank you for registering!

Please note that by registering, you agree to have your likeness photographed and possibly published in print and/or web material associated with this event. If this is a problem, please let us know prior to registration.

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Economics of Climate Change: Perspectives From Tufts
Thursday, November 12

1:30-2:45
Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Avenue, Somerville

Kelly Sims Gallagher, Sivan Kartha, and Gilbert Metcalf
GDAE will host a panel discussion with Kelly Sims Gallagher of the Fletcher School, Sivan Kartha of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Gilbert Metcalf of the Tufts Economics Department. Tufts professors and researchers will present a variety of current perspectives related to the economics of climate change. Topics to be addressed include carbon pricing, renewable energy, and equity and efficiency in the design of an international climate regime.

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Storage of nonstructural carbon reserves in forest trees: Relevance in the context of global change
Thursday, November 12
4:00 PM
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall Biolabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Andrew Richardson, Harvard University

OEB Special Seminar

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Structural Color in Nature
Thursday, November 12

4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Prof. Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
Structural color has attracted much attention in a wide variety of disciplines. It originates from the physical interaction of light with nanostructure. Most studies have focused on ordered structures in the natural world which produce iridescent colors that change with viewing angle. However, nature has also used extensively quasi-ordered structures to create weakly iridescent colors. Prof. Cao and her research group at Yale investigated the physical mechanism for coloration of nanostructures with short-range order in bird feather barbs. Inspired by nature, her group developed a simple technique to fabricate large-scale biomimetic films which display isotropic structural color, that is amenable to potential applications in coatings, cosmetics, and textiles. To investigate how the structural color evolves in nature, she and her team conducted the artificial selection on a lab model butterfly to evolve the structural color of wing scales and compared to natural selection. This work reveals the physical mechanism of structural color evolution, which stands in sharp contrast to pigment color evolution.

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Materials Processing Center collaborate to bring a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community are invited.

Refreshments will be served.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
617.253.6850
gfranzet@mit.edu

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Climate Change Diplomacy Week: India in Paris

Thursday, November 12
4:30–6 pm
Harvard, Taubman, Room 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

As part of the "2015 Climate Change Diplomacy Week: The Road to Paris," the former Chief Climate negotiator of India, Jairam Ramesh chronicles his country's approach to the negotiations leading up to the COP 21.

This event series is co-sponsored by the Future of Diplomacy Project, the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, the India and South Asia Program and the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.

Jairam Ramesh, is a 2015 Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and a member of a member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) representing Andhra Pradesh state since June 2004. He held key ministerial portfolios in India during 2006-2014: rural development, drinking water and sanitation, environment and forests, commerce, and power. He was the chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark.Jairam Ramesh has been appointed as a member of a board which provides strategic policy advice to a key UN agency on environmentally-sound technologies for developing nations.

Besides this, in his capacity as an economist and policy expert, he has been the adviser to the prime minister and the finance minister. He has also served in the Planning Commission of India, Ministry of Industry, and the Advisory Board on Energy.

Ramesh has accepted the offer to serve as a member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) which gives strategic policy advice to the Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on the programmatic direction of International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)/

In addition to his political expertise and his training as an economist, Ramesh is a sought-after columnist, journalist and writer. His latest book, "To the Brink and Back: India's 1991 story," was published in September 2015.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/climate-change-diplomacy-week-india-paris-0#sthash.zGa9DYsX.dpuf

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A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic or Otherwise
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Morgan Courtroom
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This lecture is part of a series entitled “Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections” being sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Political Theory Colloquium, the East Asian Legal Studies Program, and the Philosophy Colloquium at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S) Ci Jiwei, professor of philosophy, University of Hong Kong
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

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Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture
Thursday, November 12
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Sheila Kennedy

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.

Web site: MIT Architecture, Professor of the Practice
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

Editorial Comment: Sheila Kennedy has done some very interesting work with solar bags and shades on buildings. She is an architect with an intriguing imagination.

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Friday, November 13
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2015 MIT Energy Hackathon
Friday, Nov 13, 2015 - Sunday, Nov 15, 2015

Venue: multiple venues on MIT campus.

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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15

The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding, Regional Administrator, EPA New England
Curt Spalding serves as the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in New England. For almost 20 years, he served as Executive Director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, a nationally recognized, 20,000-member environmental advocacy and education organization.

Since joining the EPA leadership team in February 2010, Spalding has been leading a holistic approach to finding environmental solutions in New England. He's emphasized efforts in community engagement, sustainability, environmental justice and green economy. Spalding has focused our efforts in the region on three cross-cutting initiatives: climate change, stormwater and community prosperity.

Kenneth Strzepek, Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on Global Change, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Strzepek has spent over 40 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental and economics systems. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and USAID. He was a lead author on the Second and Fifth IPCC Assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He was the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR.

He is an Arthur Maass-Gilbert White Fellow at the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers and received the Department of the Interior Citizen’s Award for Innovation in the applications of Systems Analysis to Water Management. Professor Strzepek is a co-recipient of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment and as a lead author for IPCC, he is a co-recipient of the 2007 Noble Peace Prize.

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The Internet of Cows Hackathon
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM
9:00 AM
MassChallenge, 21 DryDock Avenue Floor 6, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-of-cows-hackathon-tickets-19028152717

BovControl is building the Internet of Cows (IoC), of which a critical aspect will be a new type of "wearable" sensor for data collection in the field. Join us at the MADE Hardware Lab at MassChallenge in the Seaport for a hackathon sprint to conceptualize, prototype, and test the next generation of cattle management hardware.

BovControl will provide all necessary resources: full access to our API, a state-of-the-art hardware lab, specific industry knowledge, pilot ranches for testing, and top-tier consultants for go-to-market strategies.

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Climate Change Policy After Paris: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries

Friday, November 13
11:30 am–1 pm
Harvard, Taubman, Room 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Rene Castro-Salazar is the former Minister of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications of Costa Rica and a 2015 Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

Mr. Castro was appointed by President Laura Chinchilla Minister for Environment, Energy and Telecommunications in August 2011. Mr. Castro was also former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship in 2010. He has extensive experience in public service positions: from 1994 to 1998 Minister of Environment and Energy, from 1982 to 1986 Vice Minister of the Interior. He was also President of the Municipal Council of the City of San Jose.

He has been an Associate Professor at INCAE, a leading schools of Business Administration in Latin America. He has also been a lecturer at Harvard University and other universities. He is the author of a number of books and articles on environmental and infrastructure issues.

Mr. Castro managed the electoral campaign for President Chinchilla. He worked for the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank and other development institutions as an international consultant in Latin America and Europe. He pioneered schemes of “Payment for environmental services” in Costa Rica, performed the first CO2 transaction in the world and led debt-for-nature swap negotiations between various countries. Minister Castro has extensive professional and academic experience all over the world.

He earned a Doctoral Degree at Harvard University, where he also received his Masters Degree. His post-graduate studies concentrated on environment economics and natural resources. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Costa Rica.

Lunch will be provided.

More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/climate-change-policy-after-paris-opportunities-and-risks-developing-countries#sthash.SmV0x8qD.dpuf

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Organizing on Clean Energy: Food for Thought Lunch Discussion

Friday, November 13

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organizing-on-clean-energy-food-for-thought-lunch-discussion-tickets-19280418250

American consumers face an increasingly diverse marketplace when shopping for their electricity. In the recent past, a household was hostage to whatever their local utility was selling them—now, households can choose from rooftop solar, community solar, "green power" purchase programs, and others. What are consumers to make of these choices? And how can companies operate in this space successfully get the attention of these households?

Join Impact Hub members Solstice Initiative and other clean energy companies for a discussion on this topic as part of our ongoing "Food for Thought" series. All are welcome: RSVP here.

Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.

This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.

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Smart Home Robots
Friday, November 13
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lunch: 12:30pm; Talk: 1pm

Chris Jones, iRobot
The Smart Home market is forecast to be a multi-hundred billion dollar market by 2025, with a typical family home containing more than 500 connected devices and sensors by that time. From connected lights and thermostats, to cameras and HVAC circulation vents, to door locks and chore robots. While this market is currently seeing rapid growth with compelling market forecasts, to hit these forecasts and to achieve long-term viability, the ecosystem will need to address growing complexity and usability challenges. It is not practical to assume the average consumer will be willing and able to configure the multitude of low-level interactions between hundreds of diverse connected devices to achieve desired high-level smart home functionality. This talk will outline how incorporating a physical understanding of the home (e.g., maps) built and maintained by home robots can help address these challenges.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Chris Jones is the Director of Strategic Technology at iRobot Corporation. Dr. Jones has over 15 years of experience in robotics research and development. At iRobot his responsibilities are centered on long-term technology planning and strategy and fostering strategic partnerships to advance the state-of-the-art in practical robotics. Prior to joining iRobot in 2005, he was involved in robotics research and development at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich, the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Robotics Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Host: Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS)
Contact: Natasha Baker
Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu

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Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Process Development

Friday, November 13
3:00 PM

BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM

Marion H. Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract: At the end of the materials lifecycle, inventing new technologies to provide sustainable sources of raw materials through recycling is a critical challenge for moving towards a circular economy. Our efforts in this area are based on understanding principles and mechanisms of materials flows. Additionally, we use the principles of green chemistry to inspire the design of novel, sustainable rare earth recovery technologies. This presentation will showcase our research in the recovery of critical rare earth elements from end-of-life products such as motors of electric vehicles, using a combination of modeling and experimental approaches.

Biography: Marion H. Emmert received her PhD from the University of Munster (Germany) working with Professor Gerhard Erker on model polymerization catalysts. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan with Professor Melanie Sanford as a DFG (German Research Foundation) and NSF CCI CENTC postdoctoral fellow, she joined the faculty at WPI in 2011 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, with joint appointments in Materials and Chemical Engineering since 2012.

Her research interest focuses on the development of new, sustainable processes; current projects include non-directed C-H functionalizations, aerobic oxidations at low oxygen concentrations, catalyst development for biomass deconstruction, and recycling processes for rare earth materials.

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Green Exchange: Closing the Loop - Sustainable Design and Consumption

Friday, November 13

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, 51 Brattle Street, 2nd floor, Grossman Common Room, Cambridge

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-closing-the-loop-sustainable-design-and-consumption-tickets-19303995771

Come and join us to exchange perspectives about sustainable consumption.
Event Schedule:
7:00pm-7:15pm Check-In & Refreshment
7:15pm-7:30pm Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
7:30pm-7:45pm Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
7:45pm-8:00pm Break - Refreshment
8:00pm-8:15pm Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
8:15pm-8:30pm Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
8:30pm-8:45pm Q&A
8:45pm-9:00pm Wrap-Up

Please join us and exchange perspectives how we can pursue sustainable design and consumption.

For our distance audience, please watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aZt3j2f4Vub

Speakers Bios
Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
More and more of us want to support businesses doing good for people and the planet. With the DoneGood app, you can easily find businesses in Boston that share your values. More information at http://donegood.co/

Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
Cristina Contreras designs was conceived following the aspiration of creating handcrafted and exclusive design pieces using as a key material reused inner tube. What is started as a hobby, and due to the big success of such as innovative idea, it has become a business that is growing fast. The manufacture process is 100 % handcrafted, using 90% of the materials coming from inner tubes gathered from local bike shops, giving a second life to something perceived as useless. Using carefully designed pieces and the best quality as main principles of the brand, Cristina Contreras Designs targets a wide spectrum of customers from environmentally conscious clients, cyclist fans or exclusive design lovers.The process of understanding the very specific characteristics of the material used as well as how each of ours designs is shaped by human body is what make us call it “bike tire ART!”

Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
Formerly the marketing director at Bootstrap, Igor took the plunge to become a co-founder in 2012. Since then, the Russian-born, Indiana University-educated, self-proclaimed soccer aficionado and freelance filmmaker has been leading the charge in creating an array of logistical systems and overseeing numerous special projects to ensure that BSC grows up gracefully.

Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
Cheryl R. Greenwald works as a full-time Environmental Analyst at Casella Waste Systems. While Casella is headquartered in Rutland, VT, Cheryl's home office is located in Charlestown, MA. Her work takes her to Casella's facilities in six states in the northeast U.S. She is also a part-time graduate student at Harvard University Extension School, expecting to graduate in May 2016 with a Master's degree in Sustainability & Environmental Management. Cheryl embarked on her new career path when she began taking one course per term starting in September 2012, after several years of working full-time after graduating college.

Prior to her current position, Cheryl had the opportunity to intern and thenwork as an Environmental Technician at Harvard University's department of Environmental Health & Safety. Prior to that, she interned at Clean Water Action, working primarily on the Zero Mercury Campaign, and she worked for a notable renewable energy company. Before entering the environmental field in 2012, Cheryl worked as a project manager, as an editor, and in human services. While settling into her job and as she approaches graduation, Cheryl has ended several long-term volunteer commitments, and is researching new volunteer, board, or speaking opportunities that will align with her skills and interests. She also welcomes opportunities to connect, career advice, and news from environmental and sustainability professionals around the world. Contact Cherylat cherylrgreenwald@fas.harvard.edu or www.linkedin.com/in/cherylrgreenwald.

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TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
The Lincoln School 19 Kennard Road Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxbeaconstreet-2015-registration-13110240081

TEDxBeaconstreet is committed to providing free events to the greater Boston community. We are a volunteer army on a tight budget. Most of our expenses are covered by in-kind contributions and support from Superhero partners, grants, and community donors. If you’d like to offset event cost by making a tax-exempt donation, go to bit.ly/tedxbst-donate to help. Thank you!

3 Days of Inspiration: TEDxBeaconStreet 2015 Conference
TEDxBeaconStreet is a unique community event featuring diverse, multi-generational thought leaders from all walks of life. We support contemporary themes and highly interactive learning to facilitate community discussions and envision the impact of emerging ideas. Apply now to attend our fourth annual event.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
7:00pm - 10:00pm: Escape Velocity Launch Party
Venue: Brookline Teen Center
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 12:00pm: TEDxYouthBeaconStreet
12:00pm - 7:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 6:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet continues
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Brookline , MA

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Saturday, November 14
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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15

The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.

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City Awake Social Impact Expo

Saturday, November 1412:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 16th & 17th Floors, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-awake-social-impact-expo-tickets-19174410177

The Social Impact Expo is an opportunity to learn about and connect with the social impact organizations and enterprises working in Boston. As the closing event of the 2015 City Awake Festival, the Expo will feature:
65 non-profit organizations and social enterprises, showcasing their local, national, and international initiatives – and ways for to get involved.

20+ breakout sessions, ranging from roundtable discussions and product demonstrations, to expert office hours and workshops

Music, art, food, drinks, and more!

With hundreds of diverse partners and more than 50 unique events taking place across the city over ten days, the Social Impact Expo provides a snapshot of what the City Awake Festival is all about: shining a light on Boston’s social impact community. The Expo brings together more than 60 non-profit organizations and social enterprises to showcase their initiatives, build connections, raise awareness for their initiatives, and seek out potential advisors, investors, team members, consultants, and more. This is an opportunity for Boston to learn about and get involved with the meaningful work happening in the city, and to connect with the innovators and entrepreneurs doing that work.

Attendance is free and open to the public.

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Monday, November 16
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Challenges in California's Transition to Lower-carbon Energy
Monday, November 16
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jane Long, Chair, California Council on Science and Technology’s California’s Energy Future Committee; Senior Contributing Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; and Visiting Researcher, U.C. Berkeley, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. 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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MASS Seminar - Nicole Feldl (Caltech)
Monday, November 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Nicole Feldl (Caltech)

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-nicole-feldl-caltech
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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Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working int he Digital Academy
Monday, November 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-401, 45 Carlton Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Julia Flanders
Twenty-five years ago, jobs in humanities computing were largely interstitial: located in fortuitous, anomalous corners and annexes where specific people with idiosyncratic skill profiles happened to find a niche. One couldn't train for such jobs, let alone locate them in a market. The emergence of the field of "digital humanities" since that time may appear to be a disciplinary and methodological phenomenon, but it also has to do with labor: with establishing a new set of jobs for which people can be trained and hired, and which define the contours of the work we define as "scholarship."

This talk will look at the evolving landscape of digital humanities professional identity, considering the ways jobs are defined, the kinds of roles and skills they entail, and the different ways they imagine the incumbent's relationship with the domain of technology and "tools." I'll consider some factors that can lead to a strong working ecology and raise questions in conclusion about the kinds of training and education that may be most fruitful.

Web site: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-jobs-roles-skills-tools-working-digital-academy-julia-flanders
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Kelly Hopkins
617-253-3044
khopkins@mit.edu

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What We Talk About when We Talk About Disasters: Early Modern Precedents for 21st-Century Disaster Management
Monday, November 16
12:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Harvard Law School

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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Handmaiden to Extinction: Climate Change and Massive Loss of Ecosystem Services in Coral Reefs, Tropical Great Lakes, and Global Fisheries
Monday, November 16
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
BU, CAS, Room 226, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Speaker Dr. Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU

Contact: Jennifer Berglund
Contact Email: berglund@bu.edu
Contact Organization Department of Earth and Environment

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Economic Opportunity and Health in the United States
WHEN Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, HCPDS, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Atheendar Venkataramani, physician, Harvard Medical School and instructor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Our Monday afternoon Pop Center seminar series covers the most recent and innovative research being conducted in population sciences. These seminars are open to everyone: faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/

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Russia in Syria: Understanding Moscow's Military and Political Endgame
WHEN Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Vera Mironova, research fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Simon Saradzhyan, assistant director of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS The goal of this panel is to better understand the ongoing crisis in Syria and Russia’s role in the conflict. Vera Mironova will discuss the origins of the crisis and how the conflict has evolved and changed over the past few years, drawing on her own fieldwork in Syria, which focused on individual behavior during times of conflict. Simon Saradzhyan will comment on what military and policy actions Russia has taken in the region and how Putin sees involvement in the crisis as serving Russia’s national interests.
LINK http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/russia-syria-understanding-moscows-military-and-political-endgame

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Science and Cooking: Fermentation on Wheels: Food Education and Community Impact
Monday, November 16
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Tara Whitsitt, (@tarawhitsitt), Fermentation on Wheels

More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking

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Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
Monday, November 16
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Pelin Tan
Methodology is not only the means of a system for describing realities; it is a political tool that takes part in the process of knowledge production. From the perspective of an integrated relational practice in the field of urban, pedagogy and contemporary art, Pelin Tan conveys how collective experience of the translocal production of knowledge and of instant alliances leads to the creation of common spaces. How can transversal methodology function within it? As Felix Guattari puts it, rather an analytic method that cuts across multiple fields– is often affiliated with models of knowledge and pedagogy, such as methods of “assemblage”. Both on theoretical and practical levels, such processes could well be vital in enabling the knowledge of everyday life to intervene in institutional bodies, and vital to the flow of alternative pedagogies into different platforms, resulting in the emergence of creative forms of solidarity in extra-territorial spaces. Tan will speak about possibilities and limits of transversal methods in art and spatial realities.

Pelin Tan studied sociology and art history, completing her PhD on socially engaged art in urban space (ITU-Turkey) and her post-doc on the methodology of artistic research at MIT. Tan has received several research grants & residencies such as DAAD (2006-07), The Japan Foundation (2012), IASPIS curatorial (2008), Kitakyushu Contemporary Art Inst. (2015). Tan is an Associate Professor in the department of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University. In spring 2016, Tan begins an appointment as Research Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic, Design Strategies (Spring, 2016).

Tan’s research on artist run spaces and urban justice spans continents– in Europe (2004), Asia and Japan (2012, 2015). She currently co-directs the sci-fi film series “2084” about the future of art with artist Anton Vidokle. Tan has participated in numerous biennales, including the Montreal Biennial (2014), the Bergen Assembly (2013) and most recently, the Istanbul Biennale (2015). She is a member of video collectives Artıkişler and co-founder of videoccupy and the bak.ma digital media archive of political movements in Turkey. In addition, Tan was the curator of Adhocracy– Athens exhibition (May, 2015). Tan’s publications on architecture, urbanism and art include, her recent chapter “Transversal Materialism” featured in 2000+: Urgencies of Architectural Theories (GSAPP, 2015) and Arazi (Sternberg Press, CSPS, Berlin, 2015). Tan is a principal researcher at the “Spatio-Social Analysis of Refugee Camps in Southeast Turkey” (2015 – 2016, MAU) and is currently working together with Ö.Özengi on the research project, Labor in Contemporary Art in Turkey (2013-2016).

Pelin Tan’s lecture will lecture will be moderated by Ursula August (ACT) and Angel Chen (ACT).

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Boston Talks Investigates: In Defense of Food
Monday, November 16
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-talks-investigates-in-defense-of-food-tickets-19121433723
Cst: $12

WGBH brings you the investigate stories that matter to our region. Now, you’re invited to join the conversation at our BostonTalks: Investigates series, featuring in-depth panel discussions with major players, followed by a reception.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy? Watch a preview of the film then join a conversation with Pollan and Dr. David Ludwig about the issues it raises.

You must be 21 to attend.

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Tuesday, November 17
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ABX 2015 (Builders' Expo)

November 17 - 19

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

More information at http://abexpo.com

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Neurotech 2015
Tuesday, November 17
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EST)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neurotech-2015-registration-18660271374

The Neurotech 2015 symposium presents eight talks by neurotechnology pioneers whose cutting-edge innovations are changing the face of neurobiological research from molecules to cognition.

QUESTIONS: Contact Laura Halligan at laurahal@mit.edu

Registration is required and space is limited.

Speakers:
Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution”
Kristin Branson, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Mapping Behavior to Neural Anatomy using Computer Vision and Thermogenetics”
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
“Tools for Anatomical and Functional Analysis of Widely Distributed Brain Networks”
Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia University
“High Speed Optical Imaging of the Awake, Behaving Brain”
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Soft, Bioresorbable Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain”
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“New Tools for Illuminating Neuronal Functions”
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado Denver
“Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
Lawrence Wald, Harvard/MGH
"New Directions in MR Hardware and Acquisition”

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Media and International Politics: What's Next? - A Conversation with the Joan Shorenstein Fellows
Tuesday, November 17
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge

David Ensor is the former director of Voice of America, the official external broadcast institution of the U.S. Government which provides multimedia programming to international audiences.
Marie Sanz is currently the bureau chief of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Lima, Peru, covering also Chile and Bolivia. Over her 25-year career as a foreign correspondent for AFP, she has reported at length from Latin America, Africa, the United States and Europe.
Paul Wood is a BBC world affairs correspondent, most recently based in Beirut. For the past four years he has covered the Syrian uprising, making a number of trips across the border from Lebanon and Turkey, often covert. He has reported first-hand on the growth of the insurgency, the siege in Homs, and the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria.

http://shorensteincenter.org/media-international-politics-fellows/

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The Periodic Table of Criticality and its Relationship to Product Design

Tuesday, November 17
1:00PM TO 2:30PM
Harvard, Cruft 309, 15 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Tom Graedel, Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale University

“Criticality” is the quality, state, or degree of being of the highest importance, and is of particular interest in the case of metals and other resources. A comprehensive methodology comprised of three dimensions – Supply Risk, Environmental Implications, and Vulnerability to Supply Restriction – has been created to quantify the degree of criticality of the metals of the periodic table. The methodology is designed to help corporate, national, and global stakeholders conduct risk evaluation and to inform resource utilization and strategic decision-making. It also has the potential to inform product design from a sustainability perspective, as will be illustrated and discussed.

Environmental Science & Engineering Lecture Series
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/85361

Contact Name: Helen Amos
amos@fas.harvard.edu

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-17-180000-2015-11-17-193000/environmental-science-engineering-lecture-series#sthash.bA4aS82O.dpuf

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Urban Heat Island and Health Impacts: The Role of Land-Based Mitigation Strategies
Tuesday, November 17
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

Kevin Lane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Climate & Energy Institute Fellow, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

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 of regional scale climate variability
Tuesday, November 17
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: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-5
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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Louis C. Elson Lecture: Angélique Kidjo
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, abutting 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Angélique Kidjo
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice/
TICKET INFO Free tickets available at the Harvard Box Office beginning Nov. 3
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK www.music.fas.harvard.edu

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Lecture 1 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: Boundaries
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"

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Reflections from Baghdad

Wednesday, November 18
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Cindy Jebb, West Point

Security Studies Program, Wednesday Seminar

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah@mit.edu

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"From the Troposphere to the Stratosphere: Physical and Chemical Details Linking Chemistry and Radiative Forcing

Wednesday, November 18
4:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall - Geology Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge

Frank Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Abstract: Tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol affect climate and are known to harm human health and ecosystems. The processing rate of gas-phase reactive carbon compounds is directly coupled to formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosol in the troposphere. I will discuss how well novel bottom-up and top-down observations of the reactive carbon budget agree within the context of anthropogenic influence and the ability to predict amounts of ozone and aerosol.

Solar radiation management (SRM), a geoengineering approach to modify Earth’s climate on a global level, has been receiving growing attention. Although most work has focused on introduction of sulfate aerosol into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation at the surface, a number of other materials have also been considered. To date, the detailed chemical and physical properties of these materials have mostly been treated in a simplified manner. As an example of the role physicochemical detail plays in understanding consequences of SRM, I will discuss the implications of a more detailed treatment of titania (TiO2), including the role of different titania polymorphs.

Climate Seminar
http://eps.harvard.edu/event/climate-seminar-3

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-18-210000-2015-11-18-220000/climate-seminar#sthash.tv9EbMI9.dpuf

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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
Wednesday, November 18
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

Scott Barrett, Columbia University, and Astrid Dannenberg, Kassel University

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340

For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.

Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054

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Lecture 2 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Stories"
WHEN Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"

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Massachusetts: THE Hub for Social Innovation Panel
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, Ladd Room, 2nd floor, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-the-hub-for-social-innovation-panel-tickets-19122995394

Please join us for an exciting conversation and exploration of the emerging social innovation ecosystem in the state of Massachusetts. Participants include some of our region’s leading non-profit, for-profit “B” corporations, and civic entrepreneurs – as well as those working to develop and engage the broader ecosystem in Boston and beyond.

This will be a great opportunity to discuss how we can move this effort forward together. We hope you will plan to join us!

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Chaper of the Social Enterprise Alliance and TWheelock College Department of Leadership and Policy

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TiE-Boston Solar Energy Deep-Dive
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
East Arcade Conference Center, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?PG=1521972182300&P=15219721911429920300

Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has grown significantly in the US and globally in the past decade driven by significant cost reduction in module prices, policy incentives and creative business models. This is a great success story in the clean / renewable energy sector. However, with just about 1% of the US electricity supply based on solar energy, there is significant potential for solar and renewables to significantly reduce the impact of fossil fuels in the energy supply chain.

The TiE-Boston Deep Dive event on Solar Energy, will present perspectives of the status of solar energy and some thoughts on what will influence the future deployment of solar energy in the US. To get a better appreciation of where things stand and what needs to be done going forward, TiE-Boston has assembled a great set of speakers to address various topics.

The speakers include:
Vikram Aggarwal, CEO, EnergySage
Andrew Belden, Solar Program Director, MassCEC
Colin Smith, Solar Research Analyst, Greentech Media
Rob Stoner, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Institute, & Director, MIT Tata Center
Frank van Mierlo, CEO, 1366 Technologies
Alison Ernst, Senior Manager Investments, MassCEC

This program has been organized by the TiE Boston Cleantech Special Interest Group and will be moderated by Vivek Soni.

The event will include perspectives on:
Customer expectations for solar energy
Current deployment in MA and in the US
Impact of storage
Drivers for significant future deployment
Technologies that will make a difference
Investor considerations going forward
Click here to register

TiE-Boston
617.225.0419
Email: tieadmin [at] boston.tie.org
Website: boston.tie.org

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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, November 18
5:30p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events

Cost: $10

Program 3: The New Economy: Eds & Meds, 1980s -- Today
With Anthony Pangaro, Millennium Partners; Barbara Rubel, Tufts University; Kathy Spiegelman, Northeastern University; Peter Kiang, UMass Boston; and moderator Kairos Shen, former BRA.

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.

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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Youth Voices: Perspectives on Climate Change
Wednesday, November 18

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)

Northeastern, 250 Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-voices-perspectives-on-climate-change-tickets-19303911519

Climate change is likely the most consequential global issue of the 21st century. Youth perspectives are often absent from conversations about climate change and its impacts. PHRGE and Global Potential believe that it is imperative to involve youth as full collaborators during conversations and negotiations about how to shape a more sustainable and eco-friendly world. Come join us on November 18th.

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EARTHOS CONVERSATION #3: ROXBURY MEMORY TRAIL SMARTPHONE APP
Wednesday, November 18
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Earthos Lab, 1310 Broadway, Ground Floor, Somerville

TOPIC: Interactive Digital Media platforms such as smartphone apps that can help us collectively steward and participate in sustaining places.

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Innovation in Media // Panel and Networking

Wednesday, November 18

6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Boston University Questrom School of Business, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditorium/Atrium, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-in-media-panel-and-networking-tickets-19082885424

With constant disruption in Media due to new technology and changing consumer needs, how does the New York Times fight to stay ahead of the curve? How has CBS refined its content delivery to appeal to a modern audience? How has Spotify revolutionized the distribution of music with its platform? Hear answers to these important questions from a group of amazing panelists and learn what they think about the BIG question facing all facets of the industry: what’s next?

This landmark event unites top innovators and thought leaders in Media to discuss how new ventures are shaping the future of the industry, and how established incumbents are evolving to stay relevant. In order to stay up to date and continue to innovate, it’s important for innovators and entrepreneurs to understand changes that have occurred in the past to be able to translate them to meet future demands.

Panelists:
Martin Nisenholtz // Founder of New York Times Digital, Adjunct Professor and Advisor to Digital Media Companies
Josh Karpf // Global Director, Social Marketing at Spotify
Amy Young // Vice President, Video On Demand and Content Distribution, Network Sales at CBS
Rob Ciampa // Chief Marketing Officer, Pixability

Panel // 6:30-7:30pm
Reception // 7:45-9:00pm

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ISIS: Inside the Mind of a Terrorist
Wednesday, November 18
7pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge

Abdel Bari Atwan
How did the Islamic State come to control almost half of Syria and at least one-third of Iraq? What motivates those who carry out the brutal executions that we see posted on the Internet and what is prompting American and European nationals to join them? In Islamist State: The Digital Caliphate, renowned Arab scholar, Abdel Bari Atwan addresses these questions head-on. Atwan is one fo the Middle East's most informed commentators and he will provide a clear outline of ISIS's organization, leadership and methods of recruitment. Can anyone be mentally conditioned to become a terrorist?

More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org

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Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series: Citizen Four
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 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 Program
"From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film"
SPEAKER(S) Wonbo Woo, Nieman Fellow '16 and producer for NBC News
COST Free and open to the public

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Looking for Good News About Global Warming
Thursday, November 19
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Daniel Grossman, Environmental journalist, National Geographic News Watch Editor
Daniel Grossman has reported for 15 years about the impacts of global warming around the world, from Greenland's Ice Sheet to Peru's rain forest. Recently he's also begun reporting on efforts to reduce carbon, especially in northern Europe, where people are responsible for only half as much carbon dioxide as residents of the U.S. He'll talk about his reporting on climate impacts and a reporting trip last summer to Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

Daniel Grossman is an award-winning print journalist and radio and web producer with 20 years of experience. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a B.S. in physics, both from MIT. He is a 2008 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. He was awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he studied climate science. He has reported from all seven continents including from within 800 miles of both the south and north poles. Dan has written for the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover, Audubon and Scientific American, among other national publications. He has been interviewed on environmental topics more than a dozen times on national radio programs including The World, Here and Now and Living on Earth. He has produced three extensive micro-websites on environmental topics. He is coauthor of A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists (Rutgers University Press: 2006).

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"Courage First": Dissent, Debate, and the Origins of U.S. Responsiveness to Mass Killing
WHEN Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Amanda J. Rothschild, research fellow, International Security Program
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6775/courage_first.html

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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Scott Barrett, Columbia University
LINK https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340

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Lecture 3 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Changes"
WHEN Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"

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Boston Cleanweb Tech Night

Thursday, November 19

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-cleanweb-tech-night-tickets-19303373911

As part of MassCEC’s Boston Cleanweb Meetup Series, please join us for a panel discussion focused on bridging the developer and cleantech communities and highlighting exciting opportunities in the field of Cleanweb.

Engage in an interesting conversation about the applications of information technology, and build connections with individuals working in energy production, grid-modernization, energy efficiency, and water technology.

Cleanweb is a category of cleantech that intersects with and leverages the capability of big data, the internet, social media and mobile technologies to address energy and natural resource consumption and environmental challenges. Cleanweb goes beyond the typical images associated with clean technology and power generation – PV panels or wind turbines – to include the broad range and huge potential of all types of digital media and information technology

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Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Robert D. Ballard, founder and director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, Graduate School of Oceanography/URI; founder and president of the Ocean Exploration Trust and senior scientist emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS What does the future of ocean exploration look like? Deep-sea explorer Robert D. Ballard, famous for the discovery of hydrothermal vents, “black smokers,” and the wreck of the RMS. Titanic, will discuss the history and future of ocean exploration technologies. From the earliest manned deep-diving submarines to the latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems that use satellite technology to transmit data in real time, technology has increasingly made interactive ocean exploration a reality. Ballard will highlight past scientific achievements in ocean exploration and outline the opportunities ahead for using advanced tele-presence technologies.

LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ocean-exploration-technologies-past-present-and-future

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Architecture Lecture: Julien de Smedt, A Post-Urban Agenda
Thursday, November 19
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Speaker: Julien de Smedt

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group 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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An Evening of Performance and Politics: Sliver of a Full Moon
WHEN Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Introduction by Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated by Daniel Carpenter, director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University
Maggie McKinley, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Mary Kathryn Nagle, playwright
Angela Riley, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Professor of Law and director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA School of Law
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sliver-full-moon-reading-discussion
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS “Sliver of a Full Moon” is a powerful reenactment of the historic congressional reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2013—a movement that restored the authority of tribal governments to prosecute non-Native abusers who assault and abuse Native women on tribal lands. The story follows five Native women who took a stand and two Native men, including Congressman Tom Cole, who stood with them to win this victory. The reading of the play will feature compelling monologues from the voices of long-time Native women’s advocates, leaders, and survivors. The cast includes four courageous Native women who stepped forward to share publicly their stories of abuse, professional actors, and current Harvard students.
A panel discussion will follow the performance. Register online.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sliver-full-moon-reading-discussion

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Big Boys Gone Bananas
Thursday, November 19
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor

This is a true David and Goliath story about a pair of Swedish filmmakers and a banana corporation. Dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation, and the price of free speech. (It's also a story about a country and it's media who refuse to knuckle-under to US corporate extortion. And of course that country is decidedly not the US.)

Big Boys Gone Bananas! is the sequel to Fredrik Gertten's award-winning documentary, /*Bananas!** that /recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. It was a groundbreaking legal battle for Dole's use of a banned pesticide, which was known by the company to cause sterility. The plantation workers claimed they had been poisoned by pesticides such as DBCP (also known as Nemagon, which was banned in the US in 1979, and which Dow Chemical had recalled). Dole had been ordered in Nicaraguan courts to compensate the victims, but failed to do so. So the case was taken to America; Bananas! tells that story.

Big Boys Gone Bananas shows how Dole sued and harassed The LA Film Festival, Gertten, and others - trying to prevent Bananas! from ever
being shown.

See trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LikhNC5T34

Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
free film & free door prizes
[donations are encouraged]
feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed

*UPandOUT film series* - see http://rule19.org/videos

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What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Thursday, November 19

7:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1653416858240304/

Tim DeChristopher, Wen Stephenson, Marla Marcum, Jay O’Hara
We are facing catastrophic climate change and yet our political system is incapable of responding. The powerful fossil fuel industry is blocking policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and continuing to build fossil fuel infrastructure even though science is clear that we should keep coal, oil and gas in the ground.

A growing movement for Climate Justice is adopting nonviolent direct action and strategies of active resistance. What will you do to protect the earth and one another? At this program, we will celebrate the publication of Wen Stephenson’s new book and hear from three leaders featured in the book who have co-founded the new Climate Disobedience Center. http://www.climatedisobedience.org/

Tim DeChristopher, climate activist and co-founder of Peaceful Uprising, also known as “Bidder 70,” served 21 months in 2012 and 2013 in prison for bidding on oil and gas leases in Utah to block their development. (http://www.timdechristopher.org/)

Wen Stephenson, Nation correspondent and author of the new book, What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice (http://www.thenation.com/authors/wen-stephenson/)

Marla Marcum, co-founder, Better Future Project and 350Mass., and co-founder, Climate Summer.

Jay 0’Hara, Quaker, and captain of the Henry David T, a lobster boat that blockaded coal ship, the Energy Enterprise, in front of the Somerset, MA coal plant.

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Roundtable: New England Pipeline and Transmission Infrastructure: Recent Developments & Recent Studies
Friday, November 20
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (EST)
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/1120-roundtable-new-england-pipeline-and-transmission-infrastructure-recent-developments-recent-tickets-19052584794
Cost: $35 - $65.00
Livestream: https://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/

New England Pipeline and Transmission Infrastructure: Recent Developments & Recent Studies
Convener/Moderator: Dr. Jonathan Raab, Raab Associates, Ltd
Agenda
9:00 Welcome and Introductions — Dr. Jonathan Raab
9:05 New England Pipeline and Transmission: Recent Developments
Massachusetts State Senator Ben Downing
Connecticut Deputy DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes
10:15- Break
10:45 New England Pipeline and Transmission: Recent Studies
Richard Levitan, Levitan & Associates
Tanya Bodell, ENERGYZT & Joe Dalton, GDF SUEZ
Paul Hibbard, Analysis Group & Melissa Hoffer/Rebecca Tepper, MA AGO
12:30 Adjourn

Registration policy:
The Roundtable registration policies introduced last Fall will continue:
We are capping attendance and requiring pre-registration.
There is a fee for this Roundtable of $65 for non-Sponsors (There is a discounted fee of $35 for government or non-profit employees, students, retirees, and low-income individuals).
Register https://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/ for live-streaming ($50) or on-demand streaming (available for $40 after the Roundtable)
Both in-person attendance and live webstreaming will continue to be free for sponsors, but sponsors will have to pre-register like everyone else.

Twitter: #RaabRT Website: www.RaabAssociates.org

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Fog and the maintenance of ecosystems: mist connections
Friday, November 20

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Kathleen Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Environmental Science & Engineering

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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Friday, November 20
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University JOSEPH HENRICH for a discussion of his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter.
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.

Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.

Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Event Series: Friday Forum
Harvard Book Store's Friday Forum series takes place on Friday afternoons during the academic year as a way to highlight scholarly books in a wide range of fields, with a particular focus on local scholars. Friday Forums take place at 3pm in Harvard Book Store.

General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

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The True Cost Documentary Screening and Panel on Sustainable Fashion
Friday, November 20

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)

Harvard College Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-true-cost-documentary-screening-and-panel-on-sustainable-fashion-tickets-19304084035

"THE TRUE COST" DOCUMENTARY SCREENING + PANEL ON SUSTAINABLE FASHION
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club invites you to a special screening of "The True Cost" documentary followed by an expert panel on sustainable fashion, on Friday, November 20th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Harvard College Student Organization Center at Hilles (59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA), Community Hall 105. Discover the true social and environmental costs of the fast fashion industry and hear from industry experts and academics who will share their insights on the challenges and opportunities of making fashion truly sustainable. Light refreshments will be served. Reserve your FREE ticket online at http://sustainfashion.eventbrite.com

Featuring panelists:
SARA ZIFF
Sara Ziff is the Founder and Executive Director of the Model Alliance (MA), a nonprofit labor group for models working in the American fashion industry. She has worked as a model for numerous magazines and brands, including Calvin Klein, Chanel, GAP and Tommy Hilfiger. In 2009, she produced the award-winning feature documentary, Picture Me, which chronicles her and other models’ experiences in their industry. In 2013, Ziff spearheaded and oversaw efforts to extend labor protections to child fashion models in the State of New York. She has also collaborated with international labor rights groups to raise awareness for labor rights issues in Bangladesh's garment industry, and she is producing a film, Tangled Thread, on this subject. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and she is a M.C. M.P.A. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School.

DR. CATHERINE BENOIT NORRIS
Dr. Catherine Benoit Norris has over 10 years of experience in sustainability research and global compliance conducting work at the intersection of environmental management; life cycle assessment; social sciences and business administration. She directed and coordinated research for leading sustainability centers (CIRAIG, The Sustainability Consortium). She assesses supply chain social impacts, conducts human rights due diligence and advises strategic management and engagement with global corporations in several sectors including footwear and apparel, retail, consumer products, mining and metals and agriculture. Catherine has years of expertise in international sustainability initiatives involving external stakeholders. She is an expert of the Global Social Compliance Programme "Equivalence Assessment process", a member of the Sustainability Purchasing Leadership Council strategic advisory committee, a member of the technical review committee of the Global Initiative for Sustainability Rating, a member of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Crops expert panel and an advisor to the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.Catherine teaches about social responsibility in product supply chains at Harvard Extension school. She is the lead editor of the Guidelines for S-LCA that were published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Life Cycle Initiative in May 2009. She co-created the first database for Social LCA, the Social Hotspots Database used by 200 organizations including Google, Volkswagen, BASF and BMW.

BONNIE SIEFERS
Bonnie is CEO/Founder/Designer, Jonano, A Division of Sami Designs, and Founder/Editorof ecoCouture Magazine. Her background in visual arts provides the basis for her vision and practice as an emerging fashion designer. Skilled in all elements of fashion, Ms. Siefers is an award winning designer invested in the creation of eco fashion and trademarked eco fabrics. The Scandinavian/American fashion brand Jonäno was founded in 2006 by Ms. Siefers. Jonäno is an eco fashion house that developed the concept of ‘organic essentialism’ that underpins the collection; an advocate of slow fashion, Jonäno believes that style and quality are essential to sustainable design. The company’s mission is to create cohesive collections that attract both those devoted to style and fashion, as well as the environmentally conscious consumers. The company’s philosophy is shaped by the designer’s passion for the environmental movement, sociology, and world affairs. Since 2006, Bonnie Siefers has been committed to the eco fashion movement, never compromising on quality of design nor quality of fabrics in her garments, she coined the phrase “ecoCouture.” Through experimental combination of print, texture, and silhouette, Ms Siefers creates collections that are feminine, sophisticated, and edgy. Her work appeals to young professional women who find luxury in fine details and quality.Originally from the American North East, Ms. Siefers studied in Stockholm and Paris, lending to her unique European/American design aesthetic. She currently works in Istanbul and Pittsburgh where she resides. She founded and is editor and chief of EcoCouture Magazine and acts as a spokesperson, public speaking about sustainable textiles and eco fashion at expositions and conferences.

KATHRYN HILDERBRAND
Kathryn Hilderbrand is a master tailor, designer and business entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience working in the fashion industry. Owner of an upscale tailoring shop, Stitched., on Cape Cod and Founder/Designer of label,GreenLinebyK, Hilderbrand founded Good Clothing Company in 2015 to create small runs of production for designers. As a fashion activist, she has served on the Brands Team with Fashion Revolution Day USA and is passionate about bringing clothing manufacturing back to the United States.

Presented by the Harvard Extension Environmental Club.

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Saturday, November 20
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Building Sustainable Security
Saturday, November 20
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2364974
Cost: $10 - $25

Confirmed Speakers
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor, author, *Because We Say So
Michael McPhearson, Executive Director, Veterans For Peace
Harris Gruman, Co-Chair, RaiseUp Massachusetts; SEIU
Carl Williams, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Cassandra Bensahih, Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
Barbara Madeloni, President, Masachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
Susan Redlich, 350 Massachusetts divestment core team
Jimmy Tingle, Humor for Humanity
Will Hopkins, New Hampshire Peace Action

In the name of national security, our coun?try's policies are causing multiple, systemic crises. These include climate catastrophe, extreme inequality, constant wars, deep-seated racism, mass incarceration, and a militarized culture.

Only large social movements can remove these barriers to genuine security and construct a society based on Sustainable Security.

This conference will explore three pillars of sustainable national and
world security:
A fairly-shared global prosperity based on economic, social, and racial justice
Emergency action to address climate change and build a new, fossil-fuel-free energy system
A Foreign Policy for All based on even-handed diplomacy, ending our disastrous military interventions, abolition of nuclear weapons, and reclaiming war resources for the urgent needs that face our world

More information at http://masspeaceaction.org/events/sustainable-security-conf

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Sunday, November 22
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HBs Tech Conference
Sunday, November 22
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-conference-21-tickets-19090668704
Cost: $27.27

What is the Tech Conference?
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 20 years, the Tech Conference (formerly Cyberposium) is the largest student-run MBA technology conference in the world. The conference facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society. The Tech Conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s Tech Club.

Who attends the Tech Conference?
Each year, the Tech Conference seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common passion to deliver technology’s greatest promises. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, founders, entrepreneurs, Wall Street and technology analysts, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from over 25 leading MBA programs around the world.

What is Tech Conference 21 all about?
Given this is the 21st year of the conference, there’s quite some history surrounding the conference. Many of the speakers that have spoken at the Tech Conference (or rather, its predecessor, Cyberposium) in the past got a lot more famous and a lot more successful after the conference, not because of the conference, but because conference organizers managed to bring to campus those people who saw the future and built it. Jeff Bezos came when Amazon was just a bookstore. Marissa Mayer came when she was still at Google, before she was selected as the CEO of Yahoo and became one of the most prominent CEOs in tech. Elon Musk came in 2005 before Tesla became the first American carmaker to IPO in decades and before NASA surrendered American leadership in space to SpaceX. Travis Kalanick came last year, before he closed that monstrous round that valued Uber at $18 billion.

The goal of this year’s conference is to continue the tradition of bringing industry leaders to HBS not only whose past stories would inspire and educate, but who are leading organizations that will likely dominate the next decade in technology. This year’s speakers can not only see the future, they are actively building it.

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Monday, November 23
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MASS Seminar - Nadine Unger (Yale)
Monday, November 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Nadine Unger (Yale)

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-nadine-unger-yale
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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Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Structure and Function

Monday, November 23

12:10PM

Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston

Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab, Harvard

Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.

Arnold Arboretum Seminar Series
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/

More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-23-171000/arnold-arboretum-seminar-series#sthash.6LSPdmrD.dpuf

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The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic
Monday, November 23
12:15–2 pm,
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

Stu Marvel (Emory University)

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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Biogeographic influences on grassland community structure and function
Monday, November 23
12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab

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Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories
Monday, November 23
2-3pm
BU, Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Boston
Refreshments served at 1:45

P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, CISE Resident Scholar
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are time-varying. To enhance their usage, demand will need to be adjusted to meet supply, rather than the other way around as is traditional. This raises several issues lying at the confluence of economic behavior and elasticity, demand pooling, implicit or explicit storage, information availability, privacy, adaptation and control. This talk will propose several designs and architectures, strategies and theories for demand response.

[Joint work with Rahul Singh, Abhishek Halder, Ke Ma, Jaeyong An, Gaurav Sharma, Xinbo Geng, Anupam Thatte and Le Xie.]

P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011 he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Currently he is at Texas A&M University, where he is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.

Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was a Guest Chair Professor and Leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.

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Science and Cooking: Modernist Cuisine
Monday, November 23
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Nathan Myhrvold, (@ModernCuisine), former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, author of “Modernist Cuisine”

More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking

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Tuesday, November 24
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Bulletin 17C and Advances in Flood Frequency Analysis for the United States
Tuesday, November 24
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

Jery R. Stedinger, Professor, Cornell University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Monday, November 30
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Dr. Temple Grandin: Livestock Behavior & Welfare: Experience, Research, and the Impact on My Life and Teaching
Mon-Tues, Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015
Tufts, Medford and Grafton campuses and livestreamed

Animal Matters Seminar Series with Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction
More information at http://vet.tufts.edu/center-for-animals-and-public-policy/capp-workshops-and-seminars/

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MASS Seminar - Roisin Commane (Harvard)
Monday, November 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)

Speaker: Roisin Commane (Harvard)

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-roisin-commane-harvard
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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Health and Climate Benefits of Different Energy-efficiency and Renewable Energy Choices
Monday, November 30
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Jonathan Buonocore, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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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Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera
Monday, November 30
12:15–2 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.

John P. McCaskey, Columbia University

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, December 1
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Boston TechBreakfast: Akili Software, Inc., Attollo Tech, and More!
Tuesday, December 1
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6

Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)

Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Akili Software, Inc.: Savii Care - Michelle Harper
Attollo Tech: upace - Rachel Koretsky
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words

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Thursday, December 3
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Using pollen analysis for monitoring ancient and modern environments
Thursday, December 3
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

Guy Robinson, Department of Natural Science, Fordham University
Paleoecology is the science of learning about ecosystems and environments of the distant past. Much of the paleoecological work at Fordham examines the proposition that our Paleolithic ancestors caused the extinction of the largest land animals late in the last Ice Age. To explore this controversial question, we examine fossil pollen, spores and microscopic charcoal from cores out of lakes and bogs. With radiocarbon dates we piece together narratives of environmental change, landscape fire, large animal density, and human arrival on prehistoric landscapes. The other side of our work is to measure current atmospheric pollen; what's in the air from day to day is a matter of public health. Fordham operates the only certified aeroallergen monitoring station in New York City and another in Armonk, in the northern suburbs. Dr. Robinson manages both these stations. With help from the NYC Dept of Health, he has been able to show that allergy medication sales at New York City pharmacies will increase sharply just after a peak in pollen counts of certain tree species.

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EnergyBar!
Thursday, December 3
5:30pm – 8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville

About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.

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The Great Debate on Climate
Thursday, December 3

6:30 - 8:00
ASEAN, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford

Bill Moomaw and Bruce Everett
What is the most desirable outcome for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris? GDAE Co-Director Bill Moomaw and Professor Bruce Everett will go head to heafessd on this topic in this year's Great Debate. This will be the 15th debate between the two, and the stakes have never been higher than now.

Climate Change Adaptation: Methods and Case Studies
Tuesday, December 1
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

Paul Kirshen, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston (Cofounder of Tufts WSSS Program)

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Wednesday, December 2
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Webinar: Creating Value from Your School's Sustainability and Climate Commitment
Wednesday, December 2

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST

RSVP at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2244741319029017345

Many Colleges and Universities across the U.S. have committed to sustainability, whether investing in energy efficiency projects, creating curriculum, or reporting to AASHE STARS. Unfortunately many of these same schools are leaving significant value on the table and are struggling to figure out how to achieve their sustainability goals, let alone larger commitments of climate neutrality to the ACUPCC.

Join Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS), a 501(c)3 non-profit led by Hunter Lovins, for a free webinar about how your school can build a sustainability program that will not only exceed your goals and commitments, but deliver tangible value to students, faculty, and administration alike.

In this webinar you will learn:
The business case for how institutions of higher education can pursue sustainability to lower costs, increase enrollments, and deliver outstanding value
How to create a strategic roadmap to achieve climate neutrality at your institution
Resources to help finance and implement sustainability at any organization

To learn more about how NCS is helping organizations implement genuine sustainability, visit our website at www.natcapsolutions.org. If you have any questions, please email Peter Krahenbuhl at peter@natcapsolutions.org or call us at 720.684.6580

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Solve Talks at Google: ARE WE SHARING TOO MUCH?
Wednesday, December 2
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: Robin Chase, Co-founder of Zipcar and Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
Uber allows us to share cars. Airbnb lets us share homes. What's next? And will sharing end up giving too much power to platform creators? We'll look at the future - and perils - of so much sharing.

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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub

Wednesday, December 2
5:30p–8:30p
MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events
Cost: $10

Program 4: Wednesday, December 2
What's Next?
With John Barros, City of Boston; Marc Draisen, MAPC; Cassandria Campbell, Fresh Food Generation; and moderator David Luberoff, Boston Area Research Initiative.

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.

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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Monday, December 7
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Flowering plants mediating transmission of a common bumble bee pathogen
Monday, December 7
12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

Lynn Adler, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Science and Cooking: Top Chef
Monday, December 7
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Tom Colicchio, (@tomcolicchio), “Top Chef” judge and chef/owner, Craft Hospitality
Mei Lin, (@meilin21), “Top Chef” season 12 winner
Gail Simmons, (@gailsimmons), “Top Chef” judge, culinary expert, and Food & Wine magazine Special Projects Director

More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking

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Tuesday, December 8
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Preparing for the Next Sandy
Tuesday, December 8
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

Alan Blumberg, George Meade Bond Professor & Director of The Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.

More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/

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Thursday, December 10
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Paris 2015: What’s next?
Thursday, December 10
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford

William Moomaw, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

An interdisciplinary panel will discuss the climate negotiations and possible outcomes of the COP 21 summit in Paris which aims to reach a global agreement to keep global warming under 2°C.

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A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaig
Thursday, December 10
5:30 pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston

RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender

Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute
Comment: Suzanna Danuta Walters, Northeastern University
Suffragists coordinated a visual campaign to promote their cause and counter caricatures that depicted them as masculine. In the 1880s, they increased their efforts to establish a positive public image of their movement. Suffrage leaders—especially Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—began to change the way they represented themselves and fellow prominent figures. In the 1890s, as press committees took control of visual propaganda, suffragists honed their visual strategies to transform the imagery of political womanhood in the mainstream press.
The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.
Registration for the series is required.
Registered participants may access the papers online at the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
For more information, please call 617-495-8647 or email seminars@masshist.org.

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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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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Energy (and Other) Events - November 1, 2015

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