Energy (and Other) Events - November 15, 2015

NOTICE:  I will be traveling over Thanksgiving and probably will not be publishing on Sunday, November 22 and, possibly, Sunday, November 29.  However, this edition includes all the events I've found that look interesting through the end of December.  Have a great Thanksgiving and remember that gratitude is a powerful, powerful feeling.

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

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Monday, November 16
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12pm  MASS Seminar - Nicole Feldl (Caltech)
12pm  Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools:  Working in the Digital Academy
12pm  FOOD POWER: Access. Workers. Animals.
12pm  Challenges in California's Transition to Lower-carbon Energy
12:15pm  What We Talk About when We Talk About Disasters: Early Modern Precedents for 21st-Century Disaster Management
4pm  Human-Computer Interaction Research in the Wild
4pm  Handmaiden to Extinction: Climate Change and Massive Loss of Ecosystem Services in Coral Reefs, Tropical Great Lakes, and Global Fisheries
4pm  Tracing the Evolution of Oxygen on the Archean Earth
4pm  Economic Opportunity and Health in the United States
4pm  Security States, Failed States, Islamic States: The Causes and Consequences of the Crisis of Arab Statehood
4:15pm  Russia in Syria: Understanding Moscow's Military and Political Endgame
5:30pm  A Conversation about the US Global Development Lab
5:30pm  The Life Equation
5:30pm  The Veteran Entrepreneur Series
6pm  Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference
6pm  Engaging the Cambridge Environmental Community: Health Risks of Climate Change
6pm  Demo Day: A Celebration of Northeastern University Student Innovation
7pm  Science and Cooking:  Fermentation on Wheels: Food Education and Community Impact
7pm  Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
7pm  Boston Talks Investigates: In Defense of Food

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Tuesday, November 17
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ABX 2015 (Builders' Expo)
9am  Small Business Emergency Preparedness
9am  Neurotech 2015
11am  Robots for Humans
11am  Free 3D Printing Seminar for Entrepreneurs
12pm  Media and International Politics:  What's Next? - A Conversation with the Joan Shorenstein Fellows
1pm  The Periodic Table of Criticality and its Relationship to Product Design
3pm  Urban Heat Island and Health Impacts: The Role of Land-Based Mitigation Strategies
3pm  Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability of regional scale climate variability
3:30pm  Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries
4:30pm  A Conversation with Senator William "Mo" Cowan
5:15pm  Louis C. Elson Lecture: Angélique Kidjo
5:30pm  Lecture 1 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between:  Boundaries
5:30pm  Askwith Forum: If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together.
6pm  From Athens to the Anthropocene: Crisis, Affect, and Epoch
6pm  The European Migration Crisis
7pm  Life's a Beach: The Unauthorized Biography of a Sand Grain

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Wednesday, November 18
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12pm  Designing a Better Future for Adult Learners:  A Cross-Country Collaboration
12pm  Reflections from Baghdad
12pm  Leveraging Tech to Disrupt Education and Spur Entrepreneurship in Egypt
4pm  How the brain learns and executes motor skills
4pm  From the Troposphere to the Stratosphere: Physical and Chemical Details Linking Chemistry and Radiative Forcing
4:10pm  Race, Public Opinion, and the Fight Over Reparations in the Age of Obama
4:15pm  Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
5:30pm  Lecture 2 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Stories"
5:30pm  Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green.
5:30pm  Massachusetts: THE Hub for Social Innovation Panel
5:30pm  TiE-Boston Solar Energy Deep-Dive
5:30pm  Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
6pm  Emerging TechTalks: Innovation within Big Data, Cloud Computing and Wearables!
6pm  Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
6pm  Youth Voices: Perspectives on Climate Change
6pm  International Energy Today: Transition and Transformation
6pm  Engaging the Cambridge Faith Community: Health Risks and Climate Change
6pm  EARTHOS CONVERSATION #3:  ROXBURY MEMORY TRAIL SMARTPHONE APP
6:30pm  Innovation in Media // Panel and Networking
7pm  ISIS:  Inside the Mind of a Terrorist
7pm  Science Research Public Lecture Series: "Energy for 1 x 6 Billion"
7:40pm  Wednesday Night Journalism Movie Series:  Citizen Four

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Thursday, November 19
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12pm  Looking for Good News About Global Warming
12:15pm  "Courage First": Dissent, Debate, and the Origins of U.S. Responsiveness to Mass Killing
12:30pm  Europe in the Grip of a Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from the Region
3pm  New Ledes: The Media and Criminal Justice Reform
3pm  21st Century Identification Systems: Data, Politics, Protection [through Saturday, November 21]
5pm  How to Integrate Photovoltaics in Historical Built Environments?
5pm  Steven Pinker on "The Past, Present, and Future of Violence"
5:30pm  Lecture 3 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Changes"
5:30pm  Boston Cleanweb Tech Night
6pm  Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
6pm  Taking Action on the Syrian Refugee Crisis
6pm  Architecture Lecture: Julien de Smedt, A Post-Urban Agenda
6pm  MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize Generator Dinner
6pm  Boston New Technology November 2015 Product Showcase #BNT59
6:30pm  An Evening of Performance and Politics: Sliver of a Full Moon
6:30pm  Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Expose 9/11 Myths
6:30pm  The Future of Money: Artificial Intelligence in Finance
7pm  Big Boys Gone Bananas
7pm  What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other:  Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

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Friday, November 20
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8am  CyberVision Boston
9am  Roundtable: New England Pipeline and Transmission Infrastructure: Recent Developments & Recent Studies
12pm  Fog and the maintenance of ecosystems: mist connections
3pm  Self-Organized Bio-Nano Interfaces: From Surfaces to Biologically Integrated Hybrid Materials
3pm  The Secret of Our Success:  How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
6pm  The True Cost Documentary Screening and Panel on Sustainable Fashion

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Saturday, November 21
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9am  Building Sustainable Security
10am  #HackWinter 2015 Kickoff

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Sunday, November 22
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8am  HBs Tech Conference

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Monday, November 23
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12pm  MASS Seminar - Nadine Unger (Yale)
12:10pm  Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Structure and Function
12:15pm  The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic
12:15pm  Death by Demography: A Theory of the Politics of State Collapse
2pm  Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories
7pm  Science and Cooking:  Modernist Cuisine

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Tuesday, November 24
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12pm  Privacy in a world of IoT, self driving cars, and a climate crisis
3pm  Bulletin 17C and Advances in Flood Frequency Analysis for the United States
7pm  From Academia to Industry with Dr. James E. Bradner, President , Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

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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

Social Physics:  How Good Ideas Spread - the Lessons from a New Science
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/11/social-physics-how-good-ideas-spend.html

Net Smart:  How to Thrive Online

http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/11/net-smart-how-to-thrive-online.html

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Monday, November 16
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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 in the 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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FOOD POWER: Access. Workers. Animals.
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School's Wasserstein Hall, #1019, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, #1019, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Food Law Society HLS SALDF
SPEAKER(S)  Lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project founder and director
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO aleone@jd16.law.harvard.edu
DETAILS   Come hear Food Empowerment Project founder Lauren Ornelas discuss her groundbreaking work to promote healthy food access, support workers, and protect animals. www.foodispower.org
Want a preview? See Ornelas's stirring TEDx Talk on the power of food choices: www.youtube.com…
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/648933361915749/

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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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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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Human-Computer Interaction Research in the Wild
Monday, November 16
4:00 p.m.
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Dworkin ground floor lobby

The Intelligent Interactive Systems Group at Harvard pursues a broad range of topics at the intersection of interaction design, applied machine learning and social computing. Two of the areas of particular interest to us---organic crowdsourcing and methodologies for behavioral research at scale---both leverage intrinsic motivations of large numbers of unpaid online volunteers to accomplish large tasks. In this talk, I will share one sample project from each of the two areas.

The Idea Hound project exemplifies our contributions to the largely unexplored area of "organic" crowdsourcing, an approach to human computation in which intrinsically motivated people contribute to algorithmically coordinated human computation workflows as a byproduct of performing activities that they find inherently valuable. In contrast to earlier peer production systems like Wikipedia, organic crowdsourcing relies on algorithmic rather than social mechanisms for coordinating work, which enables productive use of even the smallest human contributions. Unlike conventional crowdsourcing, organic crowdsourcing leverages participants' intrinsic motivation to attract free, high quality contributions from knowledgable participants.

LabintheWild.org is a platform we have developed for conducting behavioral experiments with unpaid online volunteers. Volunteers from all over the world participate in LabintheWild studies in exchange for interesting personalized feedback. Over the past three years, LabintheWild has attracted nearly 3 million distinct visitors from over 200 countries and resulted in over 1 million completed experimental sessions. We have validated this platform by demonstrating that results obtained on LabintheWild match those obtained in traditional laboratory settings. LabintheWild has made it possible for us to conduct research that would not have been feasible with traditional methods. I will summarize the findings from several experiments conducted on LabintheWild and I will synthesize the emerging set of best practices for designing studies that attract intrinsically motivated participants and for ensuring validity of the data.

Bio:  Krzysztof Gajos is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Krzysztof is broadly interested in intelligent interactive systems, a research area that bridges artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Recent projects pursued by his group contributed to diverse areas such as personalized adaptive user interfaces, systems for supporting collective creativity, organic crowdsourcing, large-scale experimentation in the wild, and learning technologies.

Prior to arriving at Harvard, Krzysztof was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his M.Eng. and B.Sc. degrees from MIT. In the Fall of 2005, he was visiting faculty at the Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana, where he taught Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Krzysztof is a coeditor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. He is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship.

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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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Tracing the Evolution of Oxygen on the Archean Earth

Monday, November 16

4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, GM 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Agassiz Lecturer Dr. Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Abstract: A remarkably coherent ensemble of evidence points to a significant accumulation of atmospheric oxygen for the first time in Earth’s history beginning ca. 2.45 Ga, the so-called Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Briefly, this includes the disappearance of detrital pyrite, uranitite and siderite from fluvial and deltaic deposits, an increase in the retention of iron in paleosols, an enrichment of Cr and U in iron formations, and perhaps most importantly, the disappearance of sedimentary sulphur isotope mass-independent (S-MIF) anomalies indicative of atmospheric SO2 processing in the absence of appreciable ozone. However, several trace element and isotopic proxies have recently suggested oxidative weathering hundreds of millions of years earlier1-2. The superposition of pre-GOE signals for oxidative weathering at a time of global anoxia represents a conundrum for which the most accepted explanation is that pre-GOE oxidative weathering is the result of transient oxygenation events driven by ‘oxygen oases’ in the marine realm. Lalonde and Konhauser3 recently proposed an alternative model, that being intense O2generation – and immediate consumption – at sub-meter scales by benthic oxygenic photosynthesis in the terrestrial realm. Despite the absence of a UV-protective ozone layer in the Archean, a terrestrial phototrophic biosphere may have existed in various sheltered environments, including biological soil crusts and freshwater microbial mats covering riverbed, lacustrine, and estuarine sediments. We calculate that the rate of O2production via oxygenic photosynthesis in these ecosystems provides sufficient oxidising potential to mobilise sulphate and a number of redox-sensitive trace metals from land to the oceans while the atmosphere itself remained anoxic with its attendant S-MIF signature. An intriguing question that follows from this hypothesis is if cyanobacteria were conceivably metabolising at modern rates on land by perhaps 3.0 Ga, what happened in the hundreds of million years between the first, rare signals of oxidative weathering and the first significant accumulation of atmospheric oxygen, i.e., the GOE? While the exact confluence of factors controlling the success of Earth’s earliest oxygenic phototrophs remains an open question, several factors may have depressed areal coverage or photosynthetic efficiency of cyanobacteria, and thus masked their potential presence prior to the GOE, including the lack of colonisable surface area for oxidative weathering.

EPS Colloquium Series

Editorial Comment:  I've been fascinated with the early Earth atmosphere and the chemical to biological leap since high school.  I probably won't go to this lecture but I'm happy that it is happening.

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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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Security States, Failed States, Islamic States: The Causes and Consequences of the Crisis of Arab Statehood
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building-5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  A seminar with Rami Khouri, MEI non-resident senior fellow; senior fellow, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy, American University of Beirut; syndicated columnist.
Moderated by Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations, HKS.
DETAILS  The speaker will discuss the core, enduring crisis of rickety and unvalidated statehood in the Arab world, whose latest symptom is the "Islamic State" that existing Arab states seem unable or unwilling to confront. The underlying drivers of violence, refugees and other stresses in the region are likely to increase rapidly in view of declining oil prices. How did we get here, and what do we have to do to get out of here?
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6805/security_states_failed_states_islamic_states.html

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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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A Conversation about the US Global Development Lab

Monday, November 16

5:30 to 7:00 PM 

MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Mr. David Ferguson, Director of the Center for Development Innovation in the U.S. Global Development Lab at the U.S. Agency for for International Development (USAID).

David Ferguson is Director of the Center for Development Innovation in the U.S. Global Development Lab. The Center is responsible both directed and open innovation approaches to sourcing and accelerating solutions that have the potential to be transformative in bettering the lives of millions of people. Before joining USAID, he worked on international development at the nexus of development, technology, and the private sector. His first career was 27 years at AT&T where he created and ran AT&T’s Professional Services Division, developing it into a US$200M profitable entity. He was based in Hong Kong for seven years and focused on the developing markets of China, India, and Indonesia, for telecommunications investment opportunities. He built seven joint ventures during this period. He began his career with AT&T at Bell Labs.

His technical expertise includes open and directed innovation methodology, ICT for development, economic growth through private sector engagement, and government technology and telecommunications policy and regulation.

Mr. Ferguson holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

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The Life Equation

Monday, November 16
5:30-7 p.m.
BUSM Instructional Building, Room L-210, 715 Albany Street, Boston

Big data is coming to global health.
But who should decide who lives and dies:
Doctors on the front lines or a mathematical formula?

Join emmy-winning filmmaker Rob Tinworth as he discusses the ethics surrounding data-driven health care. He will screen clips from his film ‘The Life Equation ‘ a documentary film that follows extraordinary people making impossible choices.

Light refreshments provided

Sponsored by the BUSM Office of Enrichment

More information at http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2015/11/13/nov-16-the-life-equation/

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The Veteran Entrepreneur Series
Monday, November 16
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
District Hall, 75 Northern Ave., Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-veteran-entrepreneur-series-tickets-18012579109

The Veteran Entrepreneur Series Keynote and Breakout Sessions

The Venture Caf Foundation and Suburban Integrated Facilities Resources proudly present the second event in the series called The Veteran Entrepreneur on November 16th, 2015 at the District Hall Innovation Center in downtown Boston, MA. This programming series aims to continue joint efforts to connect, inspire, and support military veterans in their efforts to start businesses, while also focusing more deeply on the broad issues facing the veteran community. From homelessness to healthcare, veterans and those supporting them seek to be leaders in uncovering innovative solutions to tackle society-wide issues. In addition to offering a forum to help veterans navigate the start-up stage, the night will include a frank discussion on veterans issues, bringing together aspiring and established entrepreneurs with the greater Boston community to advance dialogue and establish actions. Military veterans have skills and experiences that are unique in many ways - we aim to honor their service byinvigorating their stake in the start-up and innovation economy and addressing ways to improve quality of life for our returning service men and women. 

SCHEDULE: 5:30pm-6:25pm: Networking & Information Tables 

Open networking session with leaders in the start-up community and a chance to interact directly with representatives of leading veteran's organizations in Boston. 

Information Tables: Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Team RWB, Veteran Entrepreneurship Training and Resource Network (VETRN), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Association of the United States Army (AUSA), Ruberto, Israel, Weiner (RIW) 

6:30pm-7:20pm: Keynote with Veteran founders and former Navy SEALS Gabriel Gomez, Adam La Reau, and Paul McCullough of O2X. Hear the story of these three veteran entrepreneurs and how they joined forces to create a first-of-its-kind summit challenge and human performance company, O2X. From SEAL training to start-up, these three veteran entrepreneurs will share experiences and answer questions about their inspiration, their company, and the process of launching O2X to where it is now.

7:30-8:15pm: Breakout Sessions 1. Employment vs. Entrepreneurship Chris King of MA Dept. of Veteran Services &Leland Goldberg of VETRN

 2. Social Entrepreneurship Dan Magoon of Mass Fallen Heroes 

3. Strategies for Funding and Growth Shane Belvin of Nobel Weather Associates 4. Key Legal Questions When Launching a Company Bethany Grazio of RIW 8:15pm: Recap, Closing, & Networking THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS LEAD SPONSOR Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial Program Sponsors RIW Work Staion INFORMATION TABLES: VETRN MFH IAVA Team RWB RIW AUSA VFW 

*All guests must adhere to the Venture Cafe credo. (www.vencaf.org/credo)

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Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference
Monday, November 16

6:00pm 

Harvard, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, JFK Jr Forum, Cambridge

Speaker(s): Drew Faust, Daniel Bodansky, Coral Davenport, Zou Ji, Robert Stavins, Candy Crowley
Moderator(s): Candy Crowley

Drew Faust
President, Harvard University
Daniel Bodansky
Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Coral Davenport
Energy and Environmental Policy Correspondent, New York Times
Zou Ji
Deputy Director, China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy (NCSC)
Robert Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Candy Crowley (Moderator)
Institute of Politics Resident Fellow, Fall 2015
Former Chief Political Correspondent, CNN

This Forum is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first serve and doors will close when capacity is reached.

More at: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/bringing-global-community-table-paris-2015-un-climate-change-conference#sthash.7X9yWPEe.dpuf

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Engaging the Cambridge Environmental Community: Health Risks of Climate Change
Monday, November 16
6:00pm - 8:30pm
MIT, Building 56-154, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3vEaCTeeIIEMoap

The MIT Science Impact Collaborative, led by Professor Lawrence Susskind, is working with the City of Cambridge to enhance public understanding of the health risks associated with climate change.

During the workshop, individuals will participate in a role-play simulation followed by a facilitated discussion of the climate related risks described in Cambridge’s new Climate Vulnerability Assessment.This will be an opportunity for you to shape Cambridge’s climate change planning process

Dinner will be provided.

Registration Required: http://goo.gl/S0Gbzf

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Demo Day: A Celebration of Northeastern University Student Innovation
Monday, November 16
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Northeastern University, Curry Student Center, Indoor Quad & Ballroom, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/demo-day-a-celebration-of-northeastern-university-student-innovation-tickets-19523462201

Come meet the ventures at6pmin the Indoor Quad (Main Floor) of Curry Student Center.Then make your way up to the Ballroomto grab some delicious food and get seated. The Main Event will commence at7pm! A Bit More About Demo Day: Demo Day is the unveiling of multiple startups that have gone through a rigorous seven-week lean developmental program. After being exposed to speakers, coaches and lessons throughout five "bootcamps", these teams will finally be able to present their ventures to a panel of judges and the local community. Each venture is competing for the chance to win cash prizes to help further their progress. During their 2 minute pitch on stage, they will be judged according to many guidelines including the viability of their venture and the progress they have made through the course of the semester. Looking forward to having you check out the revolutionary ventures yourself and cast your vote for Audience Favorite. On top of at all, Katie Rae, Co-Founder and Chairman of Startup Institute, Chairman of TechStars Boston and Founder of Project 11 will be providing the keynote address! So come join us at the Fall 2015 Husky Startup Challenge Demo Day: A celebration of Northeastern University student innovation.You can help us decide which teams will walk away with their share of $5,000 in prize money! Live your Passion! TheNortheastern University Entrepreneurs Club, an exciting student-led effort, was recently ranked the#6 best Entrepreneurs Club in the Worldand we enable aspiring entrepreneurs across campus to pursue their goals by providing valuable resources and support. We support emerging entrepreneurs through networking, hands on educational programs, speaker series, and activities in order to promote the entrepreneurial culture at Northeastern, and help students live their passions! 

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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.madigital 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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Small Business Emergency Preparedness 

Tuesday, November 17

9:00-10:00 am

NGIN Workplace, 201 Broadway, Cambridge

This will be a seminar presented by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in partnership with the Community Development Department.  The seminar will cover a range of emergencies including climate-related events and will focus on both preparing in advance and how to recover quickly.  

For more information, contact Pardis Saffari, psaffari@cambridgema.gov, 617-349-4654. 

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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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Robots for Humans
Tuesday, November 17

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Sami Haddadin , Institute of Automatic Control (IRT) at Leibniz University Hanover (LUH), Germany
Our next robotics seminar will feature Sami Haddadin, who in my view is both technically excellent, and also famous for having the DLR robots punch him at high speeds :) (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUwqngH0bM ). It should be a fantastic talk.

As always, the seminar will be followed immediately by free food and good conversation at the Robotics Lunch.

Hope to see you there.
- Russ

Contact: Russ Tedrake, russt@csail.mit.edu
robotics@mit.edu, seminars@csail.mit.edu

Abstract:  Enabling robots for direct physical interaction and cooperation with humans and potentially unknown environments has been one of robotics research primary goals over decades. I will outline how our work on human-centered robot design, control, and planning may let robots for humans become a commodity in our near-future society. For this, we developed new generations of impedance controlled ultra-lightweight robots possibly equipped with Variable Impedance Actuation, previously at DLR, now in my new lab, which are sought to safely act as human assistants and collaborators at high performance over a variety of application domains. These may e.g. involve industrial assembly and manufacturing, medical assistance, or healthcare helpers in everyone's home, but also neurally controlled assistive devices. A recent generation of lightweight robots was commercialized as the KUKA LBR iiwa, which is considered to be the first commercial representative of this new class of robots. Based on a smart mechatronics design, a robot (let it be a manipulator, humanoid or flying system) has to be quipped with and also learn the skills than enable it to perceive and manipulate its' surrounding. Furthermore, it shall deduct according actions for successfully carrying out its given task, possibly in close collaboration with humans. At the same time the primary objective of a robot's action around humans is to ensure that even in case of malfunction or user errors no human shall be harmed, neither its surrounding be damaged. For this, instantaneous, truly human-safe, and intelligent context based force-sensitive controls and reactions to unforeseen events, partly inspired by the human motor control system, become crucial.

Bio:  Sami Haddadin is Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Automatic Control (IRT) at Leibniz University Hanover (LUH), Germany. Until 2014 he was Scientific Coordinator "Terrestrial Assistance Systems" and "Human-Centered Robotics" at the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2011 and a consulting scientist of Willow Garage, Inc., Palo Alto until 2013. He received degrees in Electrical Engineering (2006), Computer Science (2009), and Technology Management (2008) from TUM and LMU, respectively. He obtained his PhD with summa cum laude from RWTH Aachen in 2011. His research topics include physical Human-Robot Interaction, nonlinear robot control, real-time motion planning, real-time task and reflex planning, robot learning, optimal control, human motor control, variable impedance actuation, neuro-prosthetics, and safety in robotics. He was in the program/organization committee of several international robotics conferences and a guest editor of IJRR. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He published more than 100 scientific articles in international journals, conferences, and books. He received five best paper and video awards at ICRA/IROS, the 2008 Literati Best Paper Award, the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2011, and the 2012 George Giralt Award. He won the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award in 2011 and 2013. He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE/RAS Early Career Award, the 2015 RSS Early Career Spotlight, the 2015 Alfried Krupp Award for Young Professors and was selected as 2015 Capital Young Elite Leader under 40 in Germany for the domain "Politics, State & Society".

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Free 3D Printing Seminar for Entrepreneurs 

Tuesday, November 17
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-3d-printing-seminar-for-entrepreneurs-tickets-19547993575

Entrepreneurs - come enjoy a free lunch while learning about how 3D printing can help your small business do more. Brainstorm, network, and learn about 3D printing! This event is being held at Workbar. Please arrive at 11AM, the event runs until 2. We'll have a video crew filming the event, so attendees will be required to sign an appearance release.

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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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Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries

Tuesday, November 17

3:30 to 5 pm

BU School of Law, Barristers Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/pardee/adaptation-strategies-coping-with-climate-change-and-natural-disasters-in-developed-and-developing-countries/

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming symposium, “Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries,” on  A reception will immediately follow.

Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos will moderate a panel that will include Richard Moss (Senior Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute) and Kira Sullivan-Wiley (Doctoral Candidate, BU Department of Earth & Environment).

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A Conversation with Senator William "Mo" Cowan

Tuesday, November 17

4:30p–5:45p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Refreshments will be served.

Please Join Us For A Special Event What Mo Knows: A Political Life In A Time Of Change
A Conversation About American Politics with former US Senator William "Mo" Cowan
Moderated by MIT Professor Andrea Campbell

Senator Cowan was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to the US Senate in 2013 to complete the term of US Senator (now US Secretary of State) John Kerry. While in Washington, Senator Cowan became widely regarded for his diligence, warm bipartisan collegiality, and sartorial flair. Before joining the Senate, Senator Cowan was a top aide to Governor Deval Patrick having served as Patrick's Chief of Staff and Chief Legal Counsel. Today, Senator Cowan, who is a graduate of Duke University and Northeastern Law School, is the Chief Operating Officer of ML Strategies, a government relations division of Mintz Levin, which is one of America's top law firms.

Senator Cowan will discuss lessons learned during his journey from Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill and his thoughts on contemporary American politics.

Web site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nb3yIHK99YD2pLIca_wLsoOvbKzo8nbs_t7JZ6FMjXo/viewform
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Black Graduate Student Association
For more information, contact:  BGSA
bgsa-exec@mit.edu 

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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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Askwith Forum: If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together.
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT  Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM  Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME  Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL  askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE  617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED  No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS
Moderator: Karen L. Mapp, Ed.M.’93, Ed.D.’99, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Director, Education Policy and Management Program, HGSE
Speakers:
Kaya Henderson, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
Josephine Bias Robinson, Chief, Office of Family and Public Engagement, Office of the Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
In the Race to the Top across our nation’s schools, the drive for reform has been urgent and disruptive. Reform efforts in urban school districts seek to transform the educational experience, but often by doing the work in spite of, or to, communities, instead of listening and collaborating with them. DC Public Schools, under the leadership of Chancellor Kaya Henderson, is demonstrating that positive change can happen when family and community engagement is coupled with and integrated into the efforts to transform and improve the classroom experience. Hear how DC Public Schools are going farther, faster, together with their families to create sustainable improvements in educational outcomes for all their children.

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From Athens to the Anthropocene: Crisis, Affect, and Epoch
WHEN  Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium), Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Reception to follow lecture in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The 26th Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies,
Program of Modern Greek Studies, Department of The Classics,
Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Charles Stewart, professor of anthropology, University College London
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO rapti@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The only certainty in the midst of a crisis is that it will end. Just how and when this ending will come is, however, unknown. Crises therefore intensify thought about the past and the future, but also about time itself. This lecture will consider the periodizing schemes produced in the teeth of the economic crisis currently besetting Greece and compare them with other periodizing schemes produced during crises, such as the idea of the anthropocene currently being elaborated in the face of global warming. The human situation is one where people negotiate change while suspended between past and future. The study of crises throws this predicament into high relief.

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The European Migration Crisis
Tuesday, November 17
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect St, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-european-migration-crisis-tickets-19270403295
Cost: FREE, Donation

According to the International Organization for Migration, almost 600,000 migrants have arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean Sea this year alone, which is only one of the paths that migrants travel to Europe. Resettlement of these migrants has sparked tension in many European countries, causing the urgent need to evaluate current policies in order to accommodate these large numbers of people. What is a migrant? A refugee? An asylum seeker? Where are these migrants coming from? Why are they going to the EU? How have the conflicting domestic and EU level policies helped create the current crisis in managing those flows? What are some of the structural and immediate causes of the current refugee crisis? Join us for a discussion about these questions and more! 

Speakers: Professor Noora Loris research broadly focuses on the political economy of migration, the development of security institutions and international migration control, and the establishment and growth of national identity systems. She is particularly interested in the study of temporary worker programs and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work examines the shifting population movements accompanying state formation in the Persian Gulf, expanding the study of Middle East politics to include historic and new connections with East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Loris current book project examines the development and enforcement of citizenship and immigration policies in the United Arab Emirates, where non-citizens comprise 96 percent of the domestic labor force. This work is based on her dissertation, which was awarded the Best Dissertation Award by the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association in 2014. Prior to joining the faculty of the Pardee School of Global Studies, Professor Lori was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She used to co-run the Human Trafficking workshop at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was also a pre-doctoral fellow at the International Security Program and the Dubai Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has previously taught at the Dubai School of Government where she was an adjunct faculty member and visiting scholar, and at the University of Cambridge for the Heritage Summers program. Her research has been funded by the ACLS/Mellon Foundation and the ZEIT-Stiftung Settling into Motion Fellowship. 

 

Professor Kaija Schilde's research interests involve European and transatlantic security, the political economy of defense and security markets and industries, EU lobbies and interest groups, and the role of private nonstate actors in national and international security. Her book manuscript,Embedded in Brussels: the Political Economy of European Security, is an investigation of the relationship between EU institutions and interest groups, with a focus on security and defense interests, including the formation of EU internal and external security policies such as Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and immigration and border security. Her other research investigates the causes and consequences of military spending cuts, defense reform and force transformation, arms exports under conditions of dependence and austerity, and the international diffusion of domestic and border security practices.She has a government policy background in defense reform and transatlantic security.

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Life's a Beach: The Unauthorized Biography of a Sand Grain
Tuesday, November 17
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Le Laboratorie Cambridge, 650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/lifes-a-beach-the-unauthorized-biography-of-a-sand-grain-with-allen-gontz-professor-of-coastal-tickets-19463756620

Allen Gontz, Professor of Coastal Geology at UMass Boston
Beaches are some of the world's most dynamic ecological environments. Each grain of sand on the beach has a story to tell;a tale of great travels; interactions with other grains and rocks of all sizes;survival through catastrophic events and a record etched on to their surface. The geological significance of even the smallest grain can not be missed. However, when grains of sand accumulate in groups, the real stories get told. Tales of climate change, changing continents and alterations in life on Earth.  The research of Dr. Gontz will take you on a journey that begins to unravel and decipher the stories and puts them into a perspective of todays world and issues facing society today. 

Speaker Bio: Allen Gontz is an Associate Professor of Coastal Geology and Geophysics at UMass Boston. His research interest is in coastal geological evolution and how landscapes change over time. Gontz's lab focuses on the investigation of changes to the landscape within the Quaternary that are primarily the result of changing sea-level and anthropogenic impacts. 

Le Laboratoire, is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of innovators of all kinds discovering at frontiers of science.

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Designing a Better Future for Adult Learners:  A Cross-Country Collaboration
Wednesday, November 18

12pm to 6pm
LearnLaunch at Nutter McClennen & Fish, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-a-better-future-for-adult-learners-a-cross-country-collaboration-tickets-18875223301

Digital Promise’s Adult Learning Initiative in close cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE and the MIT Media Lab is convening a nationwide, multi-city design day to explore how new digital learning opportunities could be designed for under-skilled, under-served adults.

Engage in local DESIGN challenges focused on designing real solutions for adult learners. 

LEARN about adult students, as well as how the market works, who the buyers are and how funding works. 

CONNECT with entrepreneurs, educators, researchers, and investors who can help make your design a reality.

The day will begin with a simulcast panel discussion connecting all the host locations. Teams at the various individual locations will then dive into to the challenge of thinking about and designing solutions for adult learners. The end of the of the day will again be simulcast for an exchange of ideas and responses from all locations.

Collaboration Locations and times:

GSV Labs, Redwood City, CA - 9am - 3pm PST

1776, Washington, DC -- 12pm - 6pm EST

LearnLaunch, Boston, MA -- 12pm - 6pm EST

1871, Chicago, IL -- 11am - 5pm CST

Edge, New York, NY -- 12pm - 6pm EST

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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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Leveraging Tech to Disrupt Education and Spur Entrepreneurship in Egypt
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building-5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S)  A seminar with Victor Willi, senior researcher and former associate director and Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum
Moderated by Steven Brooke, MEI postdoctoral research fellow
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6807/disruptive_potential_of_the_communication_revolution_on_entrepreneurship_in_egypt.html

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How the brain learns and executes motor skills
Wednesday, November 18

4:00 PM
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall Biolabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Bence Ölveczky, Harvard University

OEB Special Seminar

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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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Race, Public Opinion, and the Fight Over Reparations in the Age of Obama
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
SPEAKER(S)  Michael C. Dawson, the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago; Walter Johnson, the Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard University; Leah Wright Rigueur, assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO maisie_obrien@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The Ash Center cordially invites you to the next session of its Race and American Politics Seminar Series. We will be joined by Michael C. Dawson, the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Professor Dawson will examine both liberal and conservative objections to slavery reparations, present recent public opinion data and analysis on support for reparations and slavery apologies, as well as discuss the issue of reparations within the broader racial divide in American public opinion. Walter Johnson, the Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard University will serve as respondent. Moderating this discussion will be Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/reparations-redux-racial-divide-public-opinion-during-early-obama-administration

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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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Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green.
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
New England College of Business, 10 High St, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwashing-its-not-so-easy-to-go-green-tickets-19149165670

Speakers:  Michele Jurgens and Carla Patalano, NE College of Business

How you verify a company's "true colors"

What happens to companies who "paint" themselves as being more socially responsible than they are

What you as an HR, compliance, or communications professional do to help your company from "coloring outside the lines"

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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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Emerging TechTalks: Innovation within Big Data, Cloud Computing and Wearables!
Wednesday, November 18

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

Twitter Cambridge, 141 Portland Street,  Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-techtalks-innovation-within-big-data-cloud-computing-and-wearables-tickets-19425255462

The NSBE Boston Professionals and Black Tech Boston meetup are pleased to present:
Our sponsors Twitter and The Tech Connection are excited to bring together cross-industry entrepreneurs, experts, and innovators on the future of technology!

Michael Lee – Software Engineering Lead | Twitter | Big Data
Michael Lee currently serves as the lead technologist on the Media Monetization and Analytics team at Twitter. In the past, he has worked as a developer at BlackBerry and OMESH Networks.
We all know Twitter from a mobile application, but come learn about the emerging technologies that Twitter is working on behind the tweets.
#BigData #Twitter #BehindTheTweets

Justin White – Chief Technology Officer, Elsen | Entrepreneur
Justin White spent his career developing and implementing software-based solutions for the National Science Foundation, IBM, and the US Government before going off to co-found Elsen - a software firm geared towards enabling hedge funds and financial institutions compute complex data simply.
Join as Justin takes us through his experience in the big data space and his visions to rock the financial services industry!
#BigData #Entrepreneur #SoftwareAsService

Rob Browne –Systems & Solution Engineer | Computing Renaissance man
Rob Browne is a Systems & Solutions Engineer with extensive experience in architecting Data Center and Networking solutions utilizing a wide range of technologies.  He has spent the bulk of his career as a Cisco Systems Engineer working with large service providers that include Comcast, Netflix, and many more.
Learn how innovations in cloud computing and continuous operations have impacted the world as we know it and what we can expect from the future.
#CloudComputing #ITtrends #Networking

Donald Schwartz | Founder of VectorSpect | Wearables Expert
Donald Schwartz, is a 30 year veteran in software marketing and Moodle eLearning support systems. An original Google Glass Explorer, Don is the founder of the Wearables New England Meetup group and the host of a series of events focused on wearables in Healthcare. Most recently, Don was the keynote speaker at the Juniata College, Transhumanism Conference 2015. A strong believer in a wearables future for professionals, Don likes to explore ongoing developments in healthcare, education and the enterprise.
Learn how wearable technologies has impacted the world as we know it and what we can expect in the future.
#Wearables #TrendinginTech #TheFuture

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Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, November 18
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Robert D. Ballard, Founder and Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, Graduate School of Oceanography/University of Rhode Island; Founder and President of the Ocean Exploration Trust and Senior Scientist Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will discuss “Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future.” Hosted by the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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.

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

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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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International Energy Today: Transition and Transformation
Wednesday, November 18
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-energy-today-transition-and-transformation-tickets-19363098549

Whether it is a reversed demand curve due to solar in Germany, the fluctuating supply of hydro in Brazil, or capacity market development in Korea, there is no doubt that the energy industry is currently experiencing unprecedented change. The influence of renewable resources and distributed generation, coupled with game-changing innovations in battery storage and electric vehicles, is having a truly global impact. Join the Young Professionals in Energy and WorldBoston for a panel discussion bringing subject-matter experts together to discuss how various regions of the world are managing change, planning for change, and learning from change. Join the speakers and other young professionals for a happy hour immediately following the 45-minute panel discussion.
The event is open to anyone, however some level of knowledge of energy markets is recommended.

Speakers include*:
Christina Becker-Birck, Director, Meister Consultants Group
Nina Hitchins, Senior Analyst, NERA Economic Consulting
Moderator: Shinu Thomas, Young Professionals in Energy
*Speakers subject to change

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Engaging the Cambridge Faith Community: Health Risks and Climate Change
Wednesday, November 18
6:00pm - 8:30pm
MIT, Building E25 -117, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8C7vxwt8mJTkYUR

The MIT Science Impact Collaborative, led by Professor Lawrence Susskind, is working with the City of Cambridge to enhance public understanding of the health risks associated with climate change.

During the workshop, individuals will participate in a role-play simulation followed by a facilitated discussion of the climate related risks described in Cambridge’s new Climate Vulnerability Assessment.This will be an opportunity for you to shape Cambridge’s climate change planning process

Dinner will be provided.

Registration Required: http://goo.gl/UP0y75

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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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Science Research Public Lecture Series: "Energy for 1 x 6 Billion"
WHEN  Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 7 – 8 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Science Center Hall C, One Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University, Division of Science
SPEAKER(S)  Daniel G. Nocera
COST  Free
CONTACT INFO science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  "Energy for 1 x 6 Billion"
The doubling of global energy need by mid-century and tripling by 2100 is driven by 3 billion low-energy users in the non-legacy world and by 3 billion people yet to inhabit the planet over the next half century. By developing an inexpensive 24/7 solar energy system for the individual, a carbon-neutral energy supply for 1 × 6 billion becomes available.
LINK https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/595

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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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Thursday, November 19
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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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Europe in the Grip of a Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from the Region
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Room S030, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S)  Iphigenia Kanara, fellow, Consul General of Greece in Boston
Marzena Rogalska, fellow, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship, and SMEs, European Commission.
Ludger Siemes, fellow, former head of Political Department, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT INFO hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu

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New Ledes: The Media and Criminal Justice Reform
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, room 100, 1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research & Advocacy
SPEAKER(S)  1. James E. Johnson (Debevoise & Plimpton/Board of Directors, Brennan Center for Justice)
2. Bill Keller (The Marshall Project)
3. Heather Mac Donald (The Manhattan Institute)
4. Brent Staples (The New York Times)
5. Nick Turner (The Vera Institute)
COST  Free
TICKET WEB LINK  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-ledes-the-media-and-criminal-justice-reform-registration-18960183419?ref=ebtnebregn
TICKET INFO  Registration is required
CONTACT INFO Maureen Worth, Program Assistant
mworth@law.harvard.edu
617-496-2430
DETAILS  The stories we hear about criminal justice are changing.
Some of those changes are substantive: if Willie Horton was the iconic criminal justice image of a previous generation, this one’s may be the image of the President sitting down for a candid conversation with inmates at a federal prison. From one perspective, this reflects a dramatic shift in the media’s orientation toward criminal justice – systemic problems receive sustained attention, and the tone of coverage is hospitable to reform. At the same time, the tools of media are transforming in ways that drive the national discussion: the advent of social media and the ubiquity of cellphone video footage of police-civilian encounters are two prime examples of how technology is re-ordering the discussion of criminal justice issues. Yet significant blind spots and biases persist in the media’s treatment of the criminal justice system, limiting the voices and experiences that shape the national discussion and constraining the possibilities for rethinking how we administer criminal justice.
On November 19 and 20, 2015, the Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research & Advocacy at Harvard Law School will host a conference to explore these issues. The conference, “New Ledes: The Media & Criminal Justice Reform,” will bring together perspectives from journalists, advocates, activists, and lawyers. We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation.
LINK http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/new-ledes

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21st Century Identification Systems: Data, Politics, Protection
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 19, 3 p.m. – Sat., Nov. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
WHERE  Thu., Nov. 19: The Charles Hotel
Fri., Nov. 20: Center for Government and International Studies
Sat., Nov. 21: Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Law, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights in collaboration with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the Harvard University South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S)  Keynote address by Nandan Nilekani
COST  Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0CHl2L1p7OuL57D&Q_JFE=0
CONTACT INFO HarvardNIDC@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Over 1.8 billion adults lack an official ID and 48 million children are unregistered at birth. But identification has become the key to having a legally recognized identity and with it the right to access state services and participate in the political process. Global experts from academia, government, business, and civil society come together to discuss the potential of 21st century ID systems to address under documentation. Join us for a two-and-a-half day examination of the scientific, technical, social, and political dimensions of national identification systems. Keynote address by Nandan Nilekani, former chairman and visionary behind India’s Unique Identification system, the largest global biometric project to date.
LINK http://wordpress.sph.harvard.edu/nidc/

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How to Integrate Photovoltaics in Historical Built Environments?
Thursday, November 19

5:00PM - 6:00PM
MIT, Building 5-234

Sustainable energy increasingly becomes more important in our way towards a carbon-free economy. Solar PV is an effective technology, but results in roof landscapes that are randomly covered with rectangular blue panels. From an aesthetic point of view this is not the most desirable situation, especially in the case of historical buildings. The Dutch architecture student Nicole Bakker has written a design manual that provides tools to help you integrate PV in (historical) buildings in a respectful way. 

More information at http://www.nicolebakker.nl

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Steven Pinker on "The Past, Present, and Future of Violence"
WHEN  Thu., Nov. 19, 2015, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Science Center, Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Information Technology, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard College Effective Altruism
SPEAKER(S)  Steven Pinker
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO harvardea@gmail.com
DETAILS  The Past: Contrary to the popular impression view that we are living in extraordinarily violent times, rates of violence at all scales have been in decline over the course of history.
The Present: Human nature comprises faculties that encourage violence, such as dominance and revenge, but also faculties that inhibit it, such as self-control, empathy, and reason. The level of violence in a given society depends on how its norms and institutions affect the balance between them.
The Future: Professor Pinker speculates on which of the historical changes that reduced violence in the past will continue into the future.
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/1515601885430457/

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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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Taking Action on the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Thursday, November 19

6:00pm

Harvard, 79 JFK Street, JFK Jr Forum, Cambridge

Zena Agha, Iraqi-Palestinian poet, writer and public speaker
Mariah Alabdeh, Syrian activist and Director, Women Now for Development
Fouad Faris, Syrian activist and refugee from Aleppo
Douglas Johnson, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Dr. Curt Rhodes, Founder and International Director, Questscope
Marco Werman (Moderator), Host, PRI's The World

Immediately after the Forum, the Carr Center will host a session for students to get involved with refugee relief efforts. More information to follow.

More at: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/taking-action-syrian-refugee-crisis#sthash.nvQazHNI.dpuf

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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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MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize Generator Dinner
Thursday, November 19
6:00-8:00 pm
MIT Stratton Center, Building W20-306, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-food-and-agribusiness-innovation-prize-generator-dinner-tickets-19333136933

Interested in improving the global food and agriculture system?
Have an idea, but need a team, mentor, or access to industry professionals?
Interested in the topic, but don't yet have an idea?

Join us at the MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize Generator Dinner!

This new prize is intended to be the premier food and agribusiness business plan competition for university and graduate students. It is sponsored by Rabobank, a leading institution in agribusiness financing and is supported byJ-WAFS and the MIT Food and Agriculture Club.

The competition will take place in two stages. Teams will submit their entries to the prize in mid-January. Finalists will be matched with an industry mentor who will work with teams to help them develop their final business plan submissions and presentations. Finalists will present their business plans at an Award Ceremony hosted at MIT in the spring and will compete to win $25,000 in total prize money.

The Generator Dinner will be a chance to:
Learn about the challenges in food and agribusiness from the perspective of prominent leaders such as Rajiv Singh, Rabobank’s North America CEO, Professor John Lienhard, Director of the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS), and more!
Meet other students with similar interests to form teams
Eat great food and network with like-minded individuals

This is not a pitch event, and all students with interest in the industry are welcome. The event is also open to students from other universities and industry experts from the Boston area.

Space is limited, so please RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-food-and-agribusiness-innovation-prize-generator-dinner-tickets-19333136933

Visit our website for more information about the prize and future updates:  https://food-ag.squarespace.com/config#/%7C/innovation-prize/

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Boston New Technology November 2015 Product Showcase #BNT59
Tuesday, November 17
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Akamai Technologies, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/226335619/

Akamai staff will be escorting attendees from the lobby up the stairs to the first floor where you'll find our check-in table. Type the first few letters of your name on the screen and tap your name to print your name tag.

Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Questions & Answers.

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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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Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Expose 9/11 Myths
Thursday, November 19
6:30 PM
Watertown Library, 123 Main Street, Watertown

Richard Gage, AIA and Erik Lawyer
Architects and Engineers reveail 9/11 facts and present evidence for the controlled demolition of the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.

One little known fact is that WTC Building 7, a 47-story high-rise NOT hit by a plane also collapsed at free fall acceleration at 5:30pm.

Contact:  Chris Gruener (617)965-6552, chris.gruener@comcast.net
More information at http://www.boston911truth.org

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The Future of Money: Artificial Intelligence in Finance
Thursday, November 19
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-money-artificial-intelligence-in-finance-tickets-19331046681

The disruptive force of new algorithms and big data has reached the financial world. What does this imply for the traditional banking system? What are the scientific underpinnings of the innovations of "Fintech"?  How are crowd and data intelligence going to change the relationship between financial institutions and their costumers? Are traditional portfolio management, decision making, and risk taking going to be replaced by artificial intelligence?

On November 19, a panel of FinTech experts from Switzerland and the US are going to discuss the underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence and examine key questions about its implications.

Event Hashtag: #AIfinance

Panel
Moderated by Sarah Biller, COO of Innovation, State Street Global Exchange
Nader Erfani, FinTech Entrepreneur, Founder of Quantesys
Sridhar Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (TBC)
Adam Broun, COO at Kensho
Andreas Heinrich, Swiss AI lab IDSIA

Program
6 PM Doors Open
6:30 PM Welcome Address by Dr. Felix Moesner, CEO of swissnex Boston
6:40 PM Panel discussion, Q&A
followed by Networking Reception
8:30 PM Doors Close

Speaker Bios
Nader Erfani is the founder and CEO of Quantesys SA, a Fintech company founded in 2009 to scale up the output of a proprietary Algorithm  which successfully predicted the 2008-2009 market swings. Today, Quantesys enables Private Banks to re-engage their clients with tailored online content matching their investor profile. Prior to this Nader worked as Vice President in major Swiss Banks with expertise in Management Information Systems particularly in the realm of Wealth Management. Nader is married with two children and lives near Lausanne in Switzerland.

Sridhar Iyengar, a distinguished engineer, is a technical leader at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Sridhar leads the Cognitive Applications and Solutions Research agenda for IBM with a special focus on Financial Services Cognitive Applications. His technical areas of expertise spans Cognitive Computing, Databases & Data Analytics, Modeling, Middleware and Software Engineering Frameworks. Sridhar is also an industry standards leader and has pioneered several core Architecture, Modeling, Semantic and Data Interchange standards at OMG. Sridhar holds several patents in modeling, metadata management and tools integration and is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide. Sridhar also serves on the OMG Board of Directors and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Sarah Biller is the Chief Operating Officer for Innovation at State Street Bank’s Global Exchange division. She has also represented State Street’s commitment to innovation through interviews in the business media and by speaking at industry events and conferences. Prior to joining State Street, Ms. Biller has been a Principal in the launch of several successful start-ups in the FinTech and Life Sciences sectors. Most recently she was the Co-Founder and President of Capital Market Exchange (CMX), a predictive analytics platform utilizing investor sentiment to help bond investors anticipate near-term changes in spreads. She has also held roles at Fidelity Investments; worked on MCI’s corporate venture team; and launched and led research divisions for Fortune 500 CFO’s and treasurers Corporate Executive Board. Ms. Biller is very active in the FinTech start-up community. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of the FinTech Sandbox, a RoboAdvisor (FinMason) and a trading platform for Bitcoin Options (Alt-Options). She is also supportive of the arts and plays tennis competitively. Ms. Biller studied Finance at West Virginia University and George Washington University.

Adam Broun is COO at Kensho. Prior to joining Kensho, Adam was the CIO of Credit Suisse, covering all three revenue-generating divisions of the bank: Investment Banking, Private Banking, and Asset Management. As CIO, Adam successfully drove the integration of disparate technology teams at Credit Suisse into a cohesive department, while saving over $190 million over a 12 month period (13% of operating expenses). Prior to serving as the CIO, Adam was the Global Head of Information Technology Strategy at Credit Suisse. Adam served as CTO-in-residence for the Partnership Fund for New York City’s 2013 Financial Technology Innovation Lab, and was named to Institutional Investor’s Trading Technology Top 40 for 2013. Adam holds a B.A.(Hons) in Physics and an MA in Physics from Oxford University.A committed global citizen, Adam is on the advisory board of Lend-a-Hand-India, which provides vocational education to over 100 schools in rural India, increasing university enrollment and career opportunities for over 12,000 students. Adam lives in Lexington, MA with his wife and son, where he enjoys flying – he is an instrument-rated private pilot – road cycling, photography, cooking and international travel.

Andreas Heinrich is a PhD student at the Swiss AI lab IDSIA under the supervision of Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber. Originally from Germany, Andreas got his M.Sc. in Physics from TU München. His specialization is computational sciences with a focus on non-linear dynamics and complex systems. Since 2013 he lives in Southern Switzerland and is doing research in Artificial Intelligence. His current focus lies on improving the performance of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). RNNs are connectionist models to process a wide variety of sequential data. They have demonstrated superior performance in sequence classification tasks such as speech recognition, or sequence-to-sequence transformation such as machine translation. Further applications are in reinforcement learning environments such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, or game controllers. Processing financial data is an emerging field that provides new opportunities and challenges. In his free time, Andreas plays piano and has performed with various bands in Europe, the US, Mexico, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines.

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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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Friday, November 20
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CyberVision Boston
Friday, November 20
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cybervision-boston-tickets-18403636773
Cost:  $25 - $50

CyberVision is a daylong workshop tailored to the needs of local critical infrastructure operators/owners, corporate network/information security practitioners and government responders in rehearsing a response to a simulated cyber attack scenario focused on the local community.
This regionally focused workshop will exercise a specific key subset of cyber defense activities, including cutting-edge technology and skills training with hands on key-board solutions, along with policy communication and coordination with policy makers.  

Participants may elect either to be on a cyber defense team or join the effort that will work through the community’s response to a local cyber crisis.

Cyber Defense Teams will be formed from current public and private network defenders, and will be directed in employing commercially-available tools to defend and respond on a simulated cyber range.

Anticipated workshop presentations include topical discussions on cyber safeguards, cyber risk management and business intelligence analysis, regional information sharing initiatives, and regional critical infrastructure considerations.
Top performers will be recognized

https://www.simspace.com/events/

What your ticket includes:
Hands on network defense with other cyber defenders in your region
Access to the online simulated range for 3 weeks (week prior to, week of, and week after event)
Coffee, assorted beverages, and lunch
Networking opportunities
CyberVision Boston T-shirt, Coin, Lanyard and ID

Who may attend:
Practitioners who want to better understand their cyber security risk
Cyber Defenders who want to test their knowledge in a realistic cyber exercise and meet others in the field
Policy, planning, and resiliency decision makers
State & Local Government stakeholder

Device preference – You may bring your own laptop; OR, we can provide a laptop for your use during the event.  The Cyber Range will be loaded with standard cyber defense tools.

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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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Self-Organized Bio-Nano Interfaces: From Surfaces to Biologically Integrated Hybrid Materials
Friday, November 20
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM

Candan Tamerler, University of Kansas
Abstract: Biological material systems promise the possibility of developing innovative materials that simultaneously self-assembled, self-organized and self-regulated; characteristics that are difficult to achieve in purely synthetic systems. Proteins play an essential role in fabrication of biological materials due to their diverse functions ranging from structural to biochemical. The ability to mimic any of these functions can be a game changer in designing hybrid materials. There are several challenges in these strategies including replicating the hierarchical organization of biological materials, organization that provides multi-scale structure/property interdependence. The interfacial interactions become critical in tuning the individual components towards the functional needs. There is a need for strategies that can control self-organization at a molecular level and thus provide programming the biological and inorganic interfaces. In the recent years, there has been a proliferating interest in creating advanced bio-interfaces resolving protein modulated material surfaces that allow as well as enhance favorable interactions with the surrounding biological systems. Smaller protein domains, i.e. peptides, have been utilized as the key fundamental building blocks to mimic the molecular recognition as the basis of molecular scale interactions. Following Nature’s molecular footsteps, we explore tuning peptide directed interactions at the bio- interfaces to create functional bio-hybrid systems. Our approach includes decoding the peptide-material interactions, and using these foundations to develop self-organized and functional hybrid systems. Building upon the modularity of protein domains, we design single to multifunctional chimeric peptides or recombinant fusion proteins. Armed with an extensive array of multifunctional molecular units, we tackle different technological areas built upon designing biomolecular-inorganic interfaces. In this talk, I will describe some of our work on understanding the interactions of peptides with the surfaces as well as provide examples from our studies on different applications. The specific examples will include biofunctionalization of surfaces with bioactive as well as bio-repulsive attributes, protein/peptide based hybrid nanoassenblies for targeting and sensing, nanofibers that are integrated with fluorescence proteins and nanoparticles pairs and bioenabled mineralization. The integration of biological building blocks may allow harnessing the extraordinary diversity and protein functions to generate smart bio-hybrid materials for wide range of applications including sensing and tissue engineering applications.

Biography: Tamerler is Wesley G. Cramer Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Kansas (KU) since 2013. She is among the leadership team in the Bioengineering Program and currently the director of “Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering” track. She is also currently the director of “Biomediated and Biomimetic Materials” in Bioengineered Research Center (BERC) at KU. She was previously a research professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department since 2010, and Assistant Director of the Genetically-Engineered Materials Science & Engineering Center (GEMSEC), an NSF MRSEC, at the University of Washington since 2005. Prior to that, she was a professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and also served as the Chair of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Department at ITU between 2002 and 2010, concurrently holding a Visiting Professor position in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington. While at ITU, Dr. Tamerler founded and served as the Director of the “Molecular Biology-Genetics and Biotechnology Research Center”, a multi-disciplinary initiative that involved faculty from different colleges (2004-2010). She was also instrumental in raising the funds for the construction of the 40,000 sq. ft. building that houses the ITU MOBGAM-Center, as well as for the research conducted within the Center. Dr. Tamerler’s research interests are in bio-enabled materials science, molecular biomimetics, soft-hard interfaces, peptide engineering and bio-nanotechnology. Combining the molecular biology and genetic engineering approaches to materials science, her research focuses on the engineering of biomolecular systems for design, synthesis and biofabrication of materials in wide range of applications. She has published over 100 refereed journal articles, 30 proceedings as well as 7 book chapters. Her publications received over 4200 citations (H-Index: 32). She has multiple national and international patents. She has organized several symposia and conferences including those sponsored by the American Chemical Society, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), and the Materials Research Society (MRS) on “Biological Materials Science”, “Genetically Engineered Materials” as well as on “Bio-Nano Interfaces and Engineering Applications”. Dr. Tamerler has been awarded visiting professor fellowships at the University of Westminster (UK) and the University of Nagoya (Japan) in 2013, and she is a Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

More information at http://www.bu.edu/mse/november-20-candan-tamerler-university-of-kansas/

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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 21
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Building Sustainable Security
Saturday, November 21
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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#HackWinter 2015 Kickoff
Saturday, November 21
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Microsoft, 255 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackwinter-2015-kickoff-tickets-19434943439

Remember last winter in Boston? Of course you do; how could you forget? The historic snow led to problems with public works, infrastructure, and community access to services. Plus, remember the nightmare of public transit and simply getting around town? Out of the mess, a Code for Boston team created the award winning MBTA.ninja, a crowd-sourcing method for reporting transit delays. And it's awesome. But this year, we decided to try to get ahead of things. So #HackWinter 2015 is here! #HackWinter 2015 is a three-and-a-half week app challenge focusing on winter-specific apps that can help our community in the focus areas of Transit, Infrastructure, and Community. Over the next few weeks, we'll be reaching out to Public Works Departments in the Greater Boston Area as well as community groups, public health agencies, and more to serve as problem owners for the challenge. 

Now the important details: These tickets are for the #HackWinter 2015 app challenge kick-off on 10am on Saturday, November 21st at the Microsoft Building on 255 Main Street in Kendall Square in Cambridge. Teams will spend the day forming and collaborating with partner organizations to brainstorm ideas for their projects. Official working time ends at 5pm on the 21st but teams have the next three and a half weeks to work on their project on their own time and at Code for Boston Hack Nights. If you cannot make it to this event, please participate online at the #HackWinter 2015 Devpost site. Final projects will be presented at #HackWinter Demo Night on December 15th at the Venture Cafe at CIC in Kendall Square. Registration information for Demo Night will be publicized later.

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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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Death by Demography: A Theory of the Politics of State Collapse
WHEN  Mon., Nov. 23, 2015, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)  Monica Duffy Toft, Blavatnik School of Government
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6818/death_by_demography.html

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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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Privacy in a world of IoT, self driving cars, and a climate crisis
Tuesday, November 24
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1023, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Chase#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Chase at 12:00 pm

with Robin Chase
Based on her experience as cofounder of Zipcar and Veniam (building a dynamic communications network for the Internet of moving things), Robin Chase will lay out a near term future where communications and software platforms will deliver us smart cities, smart homes, and ubiquitous clean low cost shared transport. On the one hand we have an environmental imperative to get co2 emissions under control, use assets efficiently, deliver thriving sustainable cities. On the other hand, at what cost to privacy? Let's have a solid discussion about how we can create a future that we both need and want.

About Robin
Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is also co-founder and Executive Chairman of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things. Her recent books is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.

She is on the Boards of Veniam, the World Resources Institute, and Tucows. She also served on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and received an honorary Doctorate of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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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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From Academia to Industry with Dr. James E. Bradner, President , Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
Tuesday, November 24
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Northeastern University, 440 Egan Research Center, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-academia-to-industry-with-dr-james-e-bradner-president-novartis-institutes-for-biomedical-tickets-19451496951

Join the NEU Biotech Entrepreneurs as we welcome Dr. James E. Bradner, President , Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) Dr. James E. Bradner is an institute member and associate director of the Center for the Science of Therapeutics (CSofT) at the Broad Institute. An award-winning hematologist, Bradner develops new therapeutic strategies to treat cancer. The focus of his research is the discovery, optimization, and characterization of small-molecule modulators of gene regulatory pathways. A recognized leader in the development of small-molecule compounds, Bradner is also a prominent advocate for open-source drug discovery. In addition to his appointment at the Broad, he is an attending physician in the department of Hematology-Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a member of the affiliated faculty at Harvard Stem Cell Institute of Harvard University, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr.Bradner is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, and the Dunkin Donuts Rising Star Award. Dr. Bradner attends on the Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant and Leukemia Services. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology and the American Chemical Society. Bradner is a scientific founder of Acetylon Pharmaceuticals, SHAPE Pharmaceuticals, and Tensha Therapeutics. He received his M.D. from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1999. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital and hematology-oncology at Dana-Farber. He completed post-doctoral research training at Harvard University and the Broad Institute. Following his talk, there will be a Q&A and networking session where you can meet with Dr. Bradner, as well as the Biotech Entrepreneurs team. This event isFREEfor the entire Northeastern University community. Please RSVP via this EventBrite invitation. Food and refreshments will be provided as well. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Upcoming Events
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Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction

Friday, November 27

1:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building W33, 106 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Join cheering fans at this giant, annual Rube Goldberg event in MIT's Rockwell Cage gymnasium! The engineering will amaze you, the contraptions will astound you, and after the reaction, the Museum's Ganson sculptures will inspire you.
Spectator fee includes same-day Museum admission.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/fat.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: $15
Tickets: http://mit.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.aspx?id=463&cid=36&p=1
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact:  Jennifer Novotney
617-324-7313
novotney@mit.edu

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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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Smarter tools for (Citi)bike-sharing

Monday, November 30

1:00pm to 2:30pm
Harvard, Pierce 213, Brooks Room, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

New York launched the largest bike-sharing system in North America in May 2013. We have worked with Citibike, using analytics and optimization to change how they manage the system. Huge rush-hour usage imbalances the system; we answer both of the questions: where should bikes be at the start of a rush hour and how can we mitigate the imbalances that develop?  Although we focus in this talk on the latter question, we will briefly touch on the analytics we have employed for the former as well, where we developed an approach based continuous-time Markov chains combined with integer programming models to compute daily stocking levels for the bikes, as well as methods employed for optimizing the capacity of the stations.  For the latter problem, we present a 3-approximation algorithm used to target limited available rebalancing resources during rush-hour periods.  The goal is to ensure that users are never too far from a station that
will be rebalanced when looking for a bike or a spot to return one.  We formulate this as a variant of the k-center problem and provide a  linear programming-based algorithm with a performance guarantee of 3.

This is joint work with Shane Henderson, Eoin O'Mahoney, and Ola Svensson.

Theory of Computation Seminar
David Shmoys, Cornell University

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

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An Evening with Temple Grandin: My Life with Animals

Monday, November 3
6:30 - 8:30pm

Tufts, Cohen Auditorium, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford

RSVP at https://secure.touchnet.net/C21525_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=12&SINGLESTORE=true

More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/1049939608363516

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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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Pulverizing Soft Power: New Media and the Problem With Promoting “Japanese Culture"
WHEN  Tue., Dec. 1, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Alexander Zahlten, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming?page=1&type=month&month=2015-09

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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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Seminar on Environmental Contaminants with Bruce Stanton
Tuesday, December 1
4:30 pm

MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

Bruce Stanton is the Andrew C. Vail Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth College and Director of the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, which focuses on arsenic and mercury as environmental contaminants. Stanton’s scientific interests include the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying genetic diseases and how environmental toxins, including arsenic, affect disease progression and outcome.

More information at http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars/

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#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - December 2015
Tuesday, December 1
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
TechHub, 3rd Floor, 212 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhubtuesday-demo-night-december-2015-tickets-16129874890

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 TechHub to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community.   Follow the # all day to see other demos taking place in Bengaluru and then London.

Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each 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, play ping pong or take a look round the space.

Agenda
6:00 - Doors open.  Meet people and get your first drinks.
7:00 - 8:00  Presenters Demo
8:00.... Networking, Ping Pong.....

Interested in demoing your product at #TechHubTuesday? Get in touch at simon.towers@techhub.com

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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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The Relation among Judicial Independence, Separation of Powers, and Corruption: Lecture by Claudia Escobar
WHEN  Wed., Dec. 2, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)  Claudia Escobar, 2015-2016 Robert G. James Scholar at Risk Fellow, Radcliffe Institute
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS  In this lecture, Escobar will speak about her research on how corruption is directly linked to a lack of judicial independence. Her research uses Guatemala as an example, and her approach is based on legal perspectives about how judges in the higher courts are appointed without respecting neither international principles nor judicial independence while enabling political entities and other powerful groups to control the justice system and promoting impunity and corruption.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-claudia-escobar-mejia-fellow-presentation

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Christian Bok reads from The Xenotext: Book 1

Wednesday, December 2

5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building E15-054, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Christian Bok will read from The Xenotext: Book 1, the first book publication after a decade he has spent working on his Xenotext project. From the book description...

Book 1 of The Xenotext is an 'infernal grimoire' that introduces readers to the conceptual groundwork for this project. The book offers a primer in genetics, even as it revisits the pastoral heritage of poetry, updating the orphic idylls of Virgil for a new age of mythic danger -- be it in the beauty of artful biogenesis, if not in the terror of global extinction.

Christian Bok is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bok has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Fina

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact:  Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw@mit.edu 

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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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Public Lecture: Three Ways to Live the High Life: Andean, Tibetan, and East African
Wednesday, December 2
6:00 pm
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Roughly 83 million indigenous people live on Tibetan, Andean, and East African plateaus—high-altitude environments where oxygen is scarce. How do they survive in such harsh places? Physical anthropologist Cynthia Beall will discuss her groundbreaking research on the genetic and physiological adaptations that each of these populations has developed in order to live in thin-air environments and what these adaptations tell us about the ongoing evolution of our species.

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Birdly:  Conception and Creation of a Full Body, Immersive Experience
Wednesday, December 2
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm America/New York (UTC-05:00)
Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 E Kendall Street, Cambridge
Space limited. Please RSVP by sending an email to programs@lelabcambridge.com, with the subject “Max Rheiner”

Opening Night with Max Rheiner
What started as an art/design research project at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) has evolved into a startup. At this special event, Max Rheiner, the creator of Birdly, will outline the story behind his multi-sensory flight simulator, and talk about the methods used in the exploration of the field of full body immersion.

Max Rheiner is a senior lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), who has been teaching in both the bachelors and masters programs for the Department of Interaction Design, since 2006.

He received his Diploma from Zurich University of the Arts in the field of New Media Arts, in 2003. The main areas of discipline that he specialises in are Embodied Interaction and Physical Computing. Of these topics, he conceived and developed the Physical Computing Laboratory for the Department of Interaction Design that has been running since 2006.

His research and artistic interest center on interactive experiences, which utilises methods from Virtual/Augmented Reality and Immersive Telepresence. Moreover, his artistic work has been recognised and exhibited in a number of international and well-renowned venues such as Biennale Venice, Italy, Ars Electronic Linz, Austria, and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.

About Birdly
Birdly is an installation which explores the experience of a bird in flight. It captures the mediated flying experience, with several methods. Unlike a common flight simulator you do not control a machine with joysticks, a mouse, or thousands of buttons: instead you embody a bird, the “Red Kite” to fly intuitively. Birdly mainly relies on sensory-motor coupling. The participant can command the installation with arms and hands which directly correlates to the wings (flapping) and the primary feathers of the bird. Those inputs are reflected in the flight model of the bird and displayed physically by the simulator through nick, roll and heave movements.

“We strap on an Oculus Development Kit and mount Birdly, a full-motion virtual reality rig that simulates flying. It’s one of the most awesome and intuitive VR experiences we’ve ever had, and we chat with Birdly’s creators to learn how it works.”

More information at http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/opening-night-birdly/#sthash.Doun4lFN.dpbs

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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
December 3
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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Mathematics of Big Data: Unifying Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs
Thursday, December 3
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Tufts, Halligan 102, 161 College Avenue Medford

Speaker: Jeremy Kepner, MIT

More information at http://www.cs.tufts.edu/Colloquia.html

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Manufacturing Insect-scale Machines

Thursday, December 3

4:00 pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)

Pratheev Sreetharan, CEO, Vibrant Composites Inc.
A quick look at the insect world reveals that we are still outclassed by nature when it comes to aspects of machine design and manufacturing. A key challenge is the target device scale of millimeters to centimeters, which exists between the realms of MEMS and conventional manufacturing. To address this challenge, we have developed "µMECS" technology, an additive manufacturing process with the potential for mass production. In this talk, I will discuss our techniques and results in creating high performance insect-scale machines. I will also discuss the practical challenges of building a technology business from research results.

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Book Night with Sherry Turkle:  Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Thursday, December 3
4:30 pm

MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is the author of several books, including Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, 1995), and Simulation and Its Discontents (MIT Press, 2009). She is also the editor of three books about things and thinking, all published by the MIT Press: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (2007); Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (2008); and The Inner History of Devices (2008).

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Starr Forum: Religion and Violence

Thursday, December 3
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

A conversation with scholars about religion and its stereotypes.
Speakers:   J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.
Haroon Moghul is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. He is a senior correspondent at Religion Dispatches and columnist at The Muslim Observer. Moghul has spoken widely on Islamic history and culture, contemporary politics in the Muslim world, and radicalism and religious identity.

Moderator:  Stephen Van Evera is Ford International Professor in the MIT Political Science Department. Van Evera works in several areas of international relations: the causes and prevention of war, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. security policy, U.S. intervention in the Third World, international relations of the Middle East, and international relations theory.

Refreshments served
Free and open to the Public

CIS Starr Forum
A public events series on pressing issues in international affairs, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:  617-253-8306
starrforum@mit.edu 

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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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Cambridge Climate Change Vulnerabiilty Assessment 

Thursday, December 3

6:15-8:30 pm

Cambridge Public Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge 

This public meeting will provide an update on the climate change vulnerability assessment, including presentation of results from modeling of storm surge risks associated with sea level rise.

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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.

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Birdly: Conception and Creation of a Full Body Immersive Experience
Thursday, December 3
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/events/226457078/

The Birdly VR flight experience shows you what it is like to fly like a bird and demos are available all week. If you'd like to learn more about the design, please come to this lecture by Max Rheiner, Zurich University of the Arts.

Birdly is an installation which explores the experience of a bird in flight. It captures the mediated flying experience, with several methods. Unlike a common flight simulator you do not control a machine with joysticks, a mouse or thousands of buttons: you intuitively embody a bird, the Red Kite. To evoke this embodiment Birdly mainly relies on sensory-motor coupling. The participant can command the installation with arms and hands which directly correlates to the wings (flapping) and the primary feathers of the bird. Those inputs are reflected in the flight model of the bird and displayed physically by the simulator through nick, roll and heave movement, Birdly started as an art/design research project at the Zurich University of the Arts, which evolved to a startup company. Max Rheiner, Lecturer and Designer of Birdly will show how he and his team started the project and what methods they used to explore the field of full body immersion.

This event contains a lecture only. Birdly will be on display and in operation at Le Laboratoire Cambridge between December 2nd and December 5, 2015. Please check our website for full information on Birdly and for exact hours of operations: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/birdly

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Carbon Pricing Forum
Thursday, December 3
7:30pm
First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington, MA, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington

Each year, Massachusetts send $18 billion out of state to pay for fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas. By putting a price on carbon, we can reduce pollution, encourage the growth of clean energy, protect our health, and keep more of our energy dollars here in Massachusetts. We're working to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to put a price on carbon!

Curious about carbon pricing? Interested in getting involved? Join us for a forum featuring:
Launa Zimmaro, League of Women Voters
Quinton Zondervan, Climate Action Business Association
Marc Breslow, Climate XChange
Cathy Buckley, Massachusetts Sierra Club Chair

Doors will open at 7:00 pm. Free parking is available on the street or across Mass. Ave in lots.

Presented by 350 Mass in association with nine co-sponsoring organizations.

More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/1012587302189680/

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Friday, December 4
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IACS Seminar: Materials Data in the 21st Century: From Mishmash to Moneyball
WHEN  Fri., Dec. 4, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S)  Bryce Meredig, founder and CEO, Citrine Informatics
COST  Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS  The scientific method consists of generating and analyzing data to create knowledge. Indeed, every materials scientist uses data from syntheses, characterization, and models to explain and optimize materials behavior. Yet, despite the centrality of data to progress in materials, the world’s immense body of materials data remains unstandardized, unstructured, and trapped in myriad publications, isolated repositories, and private computers. This disaggregation (the mishmash) not only prevents materials scientists from standing on the shoulders of giants, but also limits our ability to use large-scale data analytics to dramatically accelerate materials modeling, discovery, and manufacture (à la Moneyball).
Citrine Informatics is a team of materials scientists dedicated to uniting all materials data on a single platform within a single data standard, and putting user-friendly, data-driven tools into the hands of all materials researchers. In this talk, we will review the present state of affairs in materials data, notable progress to date, opportunities for the future, and the significant challenges likely to arise along the way.
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/83606

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The Gates of Europe:  A History of Ukraine
Friday, December 4
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University SERHII PLOKHY for a discusssion of his latest book, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine.

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today’s conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine’s territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine’s past in order to understand its present and future.

Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various cultures. The mixing of sedentary and nomadic peoples and Christianity and Islam on the steppe borderland produced the class of ferocious warriors known as the Cossacks, for example, while the encounter between the Catholic and Orthodox churches created a religious tradition that bridges Western and Eastern Christianity. Ukraine has also been a home to millions of Jews, serving as the birthplace of Hassidism—and as one of the killing fields of the Holocaust.

Plokhy examines the history of Ukraine’s search for its identity through the lives of the major figures in Ukrainian history: Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv, whose daughter Anna became queen of France; the Cossack ruler Ivan Mazepa, who was immortalized in the poems of Byron and Pushkin; Nikita Khrushchev and his protégé-turned-nemesis Leonid Brezhnev, who called Ukraine their home; and the heroes of the Maidan protests of 2013 and 2014, who embody the current struggle over Ukraine’s future.

As Plokhy explains, today’s crisis is a tragic case of history repeating itself, as Ukraine once again finds itself in the center of the battle of global proportions. An authoritative history of this vital country, The Gates of Europe provides a unique insight into the origins of the most dangerous international crisis since the end of the Cold War.

This event includes a book signing
This event is free; no tickets are required.

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Health Night at MIT+ Engineering Health Class presentations

Friday, December 4

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street Building E14, Cambridge

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/ReDX-The-Boston-Health-Technology-Meetup/events/226566213/

(i) Teams from Engineering Health Class present semester projects. Cool presentations and demos!
(ii) Break-out sessions, networking and feedback for the teams over tea and snacks. 

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D-Lab Fall Student Showcase & Open House
Friday, December 4
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building N51-350, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Come hear D-Lab students present the projects they've been working on in D-Lab: Development, D-Lab: Waste, D-Lab: Field Research, Design for Scale, D-Lab: Mobility, Prosthetics for the Development World, and Development Ventures.

Web site: d-lab.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): D-Lab
For more information, contact:  Nancy Adams
617 324-6197
nadamsx@mit.edu

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Saturday, December 5
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Science of the Magical
WHEN  Sat., Dec. 5, 2015, 2 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
SPEAKER(S)  Matt Kaplan, author and science correspondent, The Economist
COST  Free with museum admission
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS  Can bird migrations foretell the future? Do phases of the moon hold sway over our lives? Are there sacred springs with curative powers? What is the best way to brew a love potion? In this interdisciplinary talk filled with tales of adventure, science journalist Matt Kaplan, author of The Science of Monsters and Science of the Magical, will explore the rich, lively, and surprising reality behind some of the magical objects, places, and ideas that infuse ancient and modern myths.
LINK https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2454

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Power Wars:  Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
Saturday, December 5
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist CHARLIE SAVAGE for a discussion of his latest book, Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency, offering a penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state

Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George W. Bush's "global war on terror." Yet from indefinite detention and drone strikes to surveillance and military tribunals, Obama ended up continuing-and in some cases expanding-many policies he inherited. What happened?

In Power Wars, Charlie Savage looks inside the Obama administration's national security legal and policy team in a way that no one has before. Based on exclusive interviews with more than 150 current and former officials and access to previously unreported documents, he lays bare their internal deliberations, including emotional debates over the fates of detainees held on torture-tainted evidence and acts of war that lacked congressional authorization. He tells the inside stories of how Obama came to order the killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecedented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret National Security Agency program that collected records of every American's phone calls.

Savage also pieces together the first comprehensive history of how American surveillance secretly developed over the past thirty-five years, synthesizing recent revelations and filling in gaps with new reporting. And he provides lucid explanations of legal dilemmas in a way that non-lawyers can understand. Highlighted by new information about the pivotal aftermath to the failed Christmas underwear bombing and the planning for the Osama bin Laden raid, Savage's own eyewitness reporting at Guantánamo, and detailed accounts of closed-door meetings at the highest levels of government, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Obama's presidency.

This event is free; no tickets are required.

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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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Preparing Boston for Climate Change
December 7
4pm - 5pm
BU, College of Arts & Sciences, Room 226, 685-725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Bud Ris, Senior Climate Advisor, Barr Foundation
Boston is one of the most vulnerable cities in the United States to the effects of climate change. In collaboration with the Green Ribbon Commission, the City is launching a multi-year initiative to identify the neighborhoods and infrastructure that face the greatest risks. A diverse array of solution strategies will be developed for each of these areas. Mr. Ris will review the rationale and anticipated outcomes for this project.

BU Fall Lecture Series: Bud Ris, Senior Climate Advisor, Barr Foundation

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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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The Great Failure of the Anti-Racist Community: How and Why Contemporary Global Antisemitism Has Been Downplayed and Ignored
WHEN  Mon., Dec. 7, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard Faculty Club, Room 10, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
SPEAKER(S)  Professor Neil Kressel
CONTACT INFO info@isgap.org

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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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Self-Improving Microvascular Materials
Tuesday, December 8

4pm
Wyss Institute, 3 Blackfan Circle, Room 521, Boston

Speaker:  Aaron Esser-Kahn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
The unique structures and functions of biological materials arise from the unique processes of patterning and rearrangement they employ - namely morphogenesis. Esser-Kahn seeks to mimic the structures formed by biological systems by mimicking the process which forms them. He will detail his initial efforts to develop a simple synthetic morphogenetic system that repatterns microvascular materials using dynamic covalent chemistry of siloxanes. One hallmark of morphogenetic systems is adaptation and improvement of the materials properties. Esser-Kahn will demonstrate that his synthetic system improves the function of materials by altering microstructure.

More information at http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/499/selfimproving-microvascular-materials-

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Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises' with particular emphasis on the refugees in the Middle East
Tuesday, December 8
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Susan Akram, Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Boston University

A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.

Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:  Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona@mit.edu

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Livable Streets 10-in-1 Street Talk
Tuesday, December 8
6pm - 9pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston

We are excited to announce that we’ll be hosting our annual 10-in-1 StreetTalk at the Old South Meeting House on December 9!

Building on the Meeting House’s long tradition of hosting spirited, thought-provoking discussions, this annual event will feature 10 short-form presentations all designed to highlight innovative ideas to transform our streets.

Registration will open in November. In the meantime, we want you to share your ideas. Is there a topic you’d like to hear about? Are you interested in potentially presenting your ideas?

Help us build our best 10-in-1 yet at http://www.livablestreets.info/2015_10in1_ideas

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The Paradigm of Security: Turning Cyber Threat into Opportunity (Ascent B2B IT Forum)

Tuesday, December 8

6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center,1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-paradigm-of-security-turning-cyber-threat-into-opportunity-ascent-b2b-it-forum-tickets-18955376040

Security is getting scarier. Cyber criminals are becoming more pervasive and major threat groups are on the rise. Data ownership and privacy are hot button issues that impact the entire security equation, but how can companies cope? It is overwhelming!

Gartner predicts that $77 billion may be funneled toward cybersecurity efforts this year, expected to rise to $170 billion by 2020. This represents dramatic growth in digital security efforts over the next 5 years.

Along with the increasing price tag, what are the dangers, collateral costs and remediation implications of cyberattacks for companies? How do security providers, VARs and encryption specialists at today's highly specialized companies make security a competitive advantage versus a threat in 2016 and beyond?

As security breaches escalate, so do the many options that the government, businesses and organizations have to fight cyber-attacks. Should they outsource their security? Use their own methodology? Or automate? And where is Ascent placing its bets on what approaches may win the battle for the enterprise?

Our next B2B IT Forum on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. will focus on these questions and the $170 billion market opportunity for security companies.

Venue: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

As with previous forums, we expect a sold out crowd, and require that you register ahead of time.

Panelists to be announced soon. Beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served.  

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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design
WHEN  Tue., Dec. 8, 2015, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)  Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 2004 Nobel Laureate
COST  $5
TICKET WEB LINK  https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1466&DayPlannerDate=12/8/2015
CONTACT INFO adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS  Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” Quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek has been inspired throughout his career by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature, to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, whose hallmarks are symmetry—harmony, balance, proportion—and economy. In this lecture, Professor Wilczek will share examples from Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, from twentieth century physics to the edge of knowledge today to demonstrate how our ideas about beauty and art are intertwined with our scientific understanding of the cosmos.

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Will Africa Feed China? Book Launch and Discussion
WHEN  Wed., Dec. 9, 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)  Professor Deborah Brautigam, author; Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in International Political Economy; professor of international development and comparative politics; director of international development program and China-Africa Research Initiative; SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
COST  Free and open to the public

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Sleep, circadian rhythms, health and performance
Wednesday, December 9
4:30pm
MIT, Building 32-123/Kirsch Auditorium, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.P.S., Harvard Medical School 

With more than 40 years’ experience in the field of basic and applied research on the physiology of the human circadian timing system and its relationship to the sleep-wake cycle, Dr. Czeisler is interested in the physiology of the hypothalamic circadian pacemaker in humans, photic and non-photic synchronizers of the human circadian pacemaker, temporal dynamics in neuroendocrine systems, homeostatic and circadian factors in the regulation of sleep and alertness, and the application of circadian physiology to occupational medicine/health policy, particularly as it relates to the extended duration work shifts and long work weeks.

Biography:  Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.P.S. is chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine and director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Czeisler has more than 40 years of experience in the field of basic and applied research on circadian disorders.

For more than a decade, Dr. Czeisler served as team leader of the Human Performance Factors, Sleep and Chronobiology Team of NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute, which is responsible for developing sleep-wake schedule guidelines and related countermeasures for use by NASA astronauts and mission control personnel during space exploration. He led the sleep experiment in which Senator John Glenn participated during the STS-95 space shuttle mission in 1998. Just this year, he and his colleagues at BWH received the NASA’s Johnsons Space Center Director’s Innovation Award in Houston, for designing a new solid state lighting system that is being installed on the International Space Station this year to improve the sleep of astronauts.

Dr. Czeisler’s research is focused sleep, circadian rhythms, health and performance in humans. Of particular concern to Dr. Czeisler is the epidemic of sleep deficiency in our society with its wide-ranging implications for health, wellness, and the economy.

He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation and Past President of the Sleep Research Society. Dr. Czeisler, who has over 275 publications, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was elected as an inaugural Fellow of the American Physiological Society. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in neuro- and bio-behavioral sciences and M.D. from Stanford University.

Special Talk from CSAIL and Mind+Hand+Heart: "

 Visit: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/161021

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Seeing the Invisible Ocean: Art at Technology's Cutting Edge

Wednesday, December 9

5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 6C-442, Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge

Presentations and discussion by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen and Allan Adams, Associate Professor of Physics

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen is an acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer who focuses on environmental conservation. Ellenbogen documents marine life to showcase its beauty and to elicit an emotional connection to the underwater world. He aims to inspire social change and action toward protecting the marine environment.
In collaboration with MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams, Ellenbogen will develop high-speed and long-duration camera systems to create images of nature in exquisite (and previously unseen) detail. As part of his residency, Adams and Ellenbogen developed an Underwater Conservation Photography Course at MIT that will challenge students to push technical and aesthetic boundaries, with a goal of marine environmental conservation and positive social change. Ellenbogen's residency will feature a public seminar series on underwater photography throughout fall 2015, culminating in the in-depth course to be offered during IAP 2016.

Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/keith-ellenbogen/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Arts at MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information, contact:  Leah Talatinian
617.252.1888

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Community Shared Solar:  Chapter Round Table
Wednesday, December 9
6pm - 9pm
All Saints Parish Church, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline

Community Shared Solar (CSS) provides homeowners and businesses with the ability to buy solar power. These individuals would not be able to get to solar energy otherwise because they do not qualify for solar panels due to the shape of the roof or the location of the home or business. Chapter leaders who attend this event will be able to learn more about CSS and hear from fellow leaders about their projects and some of the challenges they face.

What the night will look like:
6-7: Informal meal and opportunity to meet and greet.
7-7:30: Go around the room and chapters talk about what they are working on
7:30-8: Panelists present
8-9: Q&A and problem solving

There will be plenty of parking at the church and it is T accessible. The panel for this event is not finalized, but MCAN will finalize the list before the event.

Contact:  Carol Oldham
carololdham@massclimateaction.net

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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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One, Two, Three, Many: Manipulating Quantum Systems One Atom at a Time

Thursday, December 10

4:00 pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)

Selim Jochim, University of Heidelberg
Experiments with ultracold gases have been extremely successful in studying many body systems, such as Bose Einstein condensates or fermionic superfluids. These are deep in the regime of statistical physics, where adding or removing an individual particle does not matter. For a few-body system this can be dramatically different. This is apparent for example in nuclear physics, where adding a single neutron to a magic nucleus dramatically changes its properties. In our work, we deterministically prepare generic model systems containing up to ten ultracold fermionic atoms with tunable short range interaction. In our bottom-up approach, we have started the exploration of such few-body systems with a two-particle system that can be described with an analytic theory. Adding more particles one by one we enter a regime in which an exact theoretical description of the system is exceedingly difficult, until the particle number becomes large enough such that many-body theories provide an adequate approximation.

Our vision is to use our deterministically prepared tunable few-body systems as microscopic building blocks to assemble model systems that might help to gain insight into complex many-body systems in condensed matter or even QCD.

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A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaign
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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RPP Colloquium: The Pastor and the Imam from Nigeria: Interfaith Strategy for Peacebuilding: Prospects and Challenges
WHEN  Thu., Dec. 10, 2015, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE  Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative, the Pluralism Project at Harvard University
CONTACT Liz Lee-Hood
DETAILS  Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series
Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3mFam728ZyOehyB
Formerly rival youth militia leaders engaged in violent strife between Christians and Muslims, Pastor Dr. James Movel Wuye and Imam Dr. Muhammad Nurayn Ashafa, who both serve as Co-Executive Director of the Interfaith Mediation Centre in Kaduna, Nigeria, were subsequently inspired by the teachings of their respective faith traditions to pursue the path of peace. Partnering to establish the Interfaith Mediation Centre in Kaduna, they have been drawing upon religious and spiritual resources to prevent and transform conflict around Nigeria and Africa and across the globe. They will share their experiences and insights on the prospects and challenges of inter-religious peacebuilding in a multi-religious setting in the face of insurgency and violent extremism and offer strategy recommendations.
Organized with generous support from the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities at Harvard University.
Launched by HDS Dean David N. Hempton in 2014, this monthly public series convenes a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard’s Schools and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace. A diverse array of scholars, leaders, and religious peacebuilders are invited to present and engage with the RPP Working Group and general audience. A light dinner is served and a brief reception follows the program.
Join RPP’s mailing list and visit the RPP Initiative at http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/religions-and-the-practice-of-peace

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Wednesday, December 16

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Webinar:  Update from Paris

Wednesday, December 16

7pm - 8pm

Online

This webinar is presented by MCAN's board member, Sonia Hamel, who will be attending the United Nation Conference on Climate Change in Paris. Tune in with us to see what happened at the conference and what it means for Massachusetts!

Please RSVP below and MCAN will send you the login information before the webinar.

Contact:  Carol Oldham

carololdham@massclimateaction.net

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Thursday, December 17

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Boston New Technology December 2015 Product Showcase #BNT60

Thursday, December 17

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston

RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/226731592/

Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community!  Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A.  Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT60 hashtag in social media posts: details here. 

Foley Hoag is in the Seaport West building. Please bring identification and check in at our desk in the lobby. Then, take an elevator to the 13th floor. Enter the glass doors and walk down the hall to your right.

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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