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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
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Monday, November 9
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8am Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
8am What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
11:30am Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
12pm MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
12pm Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
12pm Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
12:15pm What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
1pm Machine Hearing: Recognizing Environmental Sounds
1:30pm Will The New Economy Be Capitalism or Something Else?
3:30pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
4pm Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
4pm Politics of Airport Security: The Tale of the MM Scanner
4:30pm Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
6pm Roadmap to Zero: A conversation with Ed Mazria FAIA
6pm Be the Change: Exploring Graduate Programs in Public Service
6pm Press Pass TV presents: Fly By Light Documentary Screening + Q&A
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
******
-------
Index
--------
******
Full event information follows the Index and notices of my latest writings.
----------------------------
Monday, November 9
----------------------------
8am Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
8am What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
11:30am Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
12pm MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
12pm Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
12pm Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
12:15pm What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
1pm Machine Hearing: Recognizing Environmental Sounds
1:30pm Will The New Economy Be Capitalism or Something Else?
3:30pm World Hunger: 10 Myths
4pm Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
4pm Politics of Airport Security: The Tale of the MM Scanner
4:30pm Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
6pm Roadmap to Zero: A conversation with Ed Mazria FAIA
6pm Be the Change: Exploring Graduate Programs in Public Service
6pm Press Pass TV presents: Fly By Light Documentary Screening + Q&A
6:30pm From the Grassroots to the Global: How to be an Effective Agent of Change!
7pm Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
7pm Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
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Tuesday, November 10
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10am Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
12pm Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
12pm Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
12pm Conceptualizing Behavior Change
12:30pm Mechanisms of the Calcification Response to Ocean Change
12:30pm The Modern Slave Trade: Public Health Impacts
12:30pm The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
1pm Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment
1:15pm Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
3pm Adapting to Climate Variability, Climate Extremes, and Climate Change: Recent experience, future prospects
4pm #BLACKLIVESMATTER in Historical Perspective
4pm Climate at a Crossroads: How Can Paris Kickstart a Zero Carbon, Resilient Economy?
4:15pm Roadmap to a New Arab Future: Negotiating and Managing a New Social Contract and Development Model
4:30pm The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts
7pm Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
7pm Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
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Tuesday, November 10
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10am Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
12pm Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
12pm Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
12pm Conceptualizing Behavior Change
12:30pm Mechanisms of the Calcification Response to Ocean Change
12:30pm The Modern Slave Trade: Public Health Impacts
12:30pm The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
1pm Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment
1:15pm Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
3pm Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
3pm Adapting to Climate Variability, Climate Extremes, and Climate Change: Recent experience, future prospects
4pm #BLACKLIVESMATTER in Historical Perspective
4pm Climate at a Crossroads: How Can Paris Kickstart a Zero Carbon, Resilient Economy?
4:15pm Roadmap to a New Arab Future: Negotiating and Managing a New Social Contract and Development Model
4:30pm The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts
6pm “This Changes Everything” Screening
6:30pm Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day
6:30pm Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
7pm EDFall Gathering in Cambridge
7pm Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
7pm Renewable Energy Progress - Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
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Wednesday, November 11
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4pm Bitcoin's future: scalability and protocol modifications
4pm NECSI Salon: Distributed Disaster Response
5pm Future of Energy
5pm 2,000 Years of European Climate: First results from the SoHP Historical Ice Core Project
5pm A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
5:30pm Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green
5:30pm RAGE: Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior's Symposium on Aggression and Violence
6pm Community Impact Lab: Exploring Systemic Causes of Gun Violence
6pm Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
6:30pm The Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
7pm EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE: What Actions are Needed to Answer Francis' Call?
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Thursday, November 12
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10am Global Engagement Forum: Watch Party
12pm Solar Power Comes of Age
12pm The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia
12:30pm World Climate
1:30pm Economics of Climate Change: Perspectives From Tufts
4pm Storage of nonstructural carbon reserves in forest trees: Relevance in the context of global change
4pm Structural Color in Nature
4pm His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
4:30pm A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic or Otherwise
6pm Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture
7pm World Wide Views on Climate and Energy: Add Your Voice
7pm BASEA Forum: Mass. Solar Policy Update
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Friday, November 13
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2015 MIT Energy Hackathon
MIT Water Summit 2015
The Internet of Cows Hackathon
9:30am Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
11:30am Climate Change Policy After Paris: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries
12pm Organizing on Clean Energy: Food for Thought Lunch Discussion
12pm Organic Aerosol Formation and Properties from Biogenic Sources and Anthropogenic Interactions
12:30pm Smart Home Robots
3pm Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Process Development
3pm Closed-Loop Brain-Machine Interface Architectures
6:30pm Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day
6:30pm Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
7pm EDFall Gathering in Cambridge
7pm Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
7pm Renewable Energy Progress - Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
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Wednesday, November 11
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4pm Bitcoin's future: scalability and protocol modifications
4pm NECSI Salon: Distributed Disaster Response
5pm Future of Energy
5pm 2,000 Years of European Climate: First results from the SoHP Historical Ice Core Project
5pm A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
5:30pm Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green
5:30pm RAGE: Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior's Symposium on Aggression and Violence
6pm Community Impact Lab: Exploring Systemic Causes of Gun Violence
6pm Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
6:30pm The Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
7pm EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE: What Actions are Needed to Answer Francis' Call?
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Thursday, November 12
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10am Global Engagement Forum: Watch Party
12pm Solar Power Comes of Age
12pm The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia
12:30pm World Climate
1:30pm Economics of Climate Change: Perspectives From Tufts
4pm Storage of nonstructural carbon reserves in forest trees: Relevance in the context of global change
4pm Structural Color in Nature
4pm His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
4:30pm A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic or Otherwise
6pm Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture
7pm World Wide Views on Climate and Energy: Add Your Voice
7pm BASEA Forum: Mass. Solar Policy Update
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Friday, November 13
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2015 MIT Energy Hackathon
MIT Water Summit 2015
The Internet of Cows Hackathon
9:30am Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
11:30am Climate Change Policy After Paris: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries
12pm Organizing on Clean Energy: Food for Thought Lunch Discussion
12pm Organic Aerosol Formation and Properties from Biogenic Sources and Anthropogenic Interactions
12:30pm Smart Home Robots
3pm Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Process Development
3pm Closed-Loop Brain-Machine Interface Architectures
6pm "This Changes Everything" Screening
7pm Green Exchange: Closing the Loop - Sustainable Design and Consumption
7pm TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
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Saturday, November 14
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MIT Water Summit 2015
TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
9:30am Hack4Fem Hackathon
12:30pm City Awake Social Impact Expo
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Sunday, November 15
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6pm Ruminating on the New Water Paradigm
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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 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
6pm Engaging the Cambridge Environmental Community: Health Risks of Climate Change
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 Neurotech 2015
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
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
6pm From Athens to the Anthropocene: Crisis, Affect, and Epoch
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, November 9
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Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
Monday, November 9
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
WGBH , 1 Guest Street, Brighton
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-digital-media-for-stem-learning-climate-education-tickets-17920229890
Communities and creatures around the world feel the impacts of climate change. The Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education will explore how the stories and science behind these impacts are increasingly being integrated into classroom instruction and STEM education contexts, with a focus on digital media.
Held at WGBH’s Brighton, Mass. studio on Monday, November 9, 2015*, this highly-interactive and fast-paced event will examine emerging narratives in climate education, digital media tools and products that show unique potential for educational settings, and promising modes of engagement for students, teachers and schools.
*The Forum will be streamed live (streaming details to come). If you cannot attend in person, but plan to watch the live stream, you do not need to reserve a ticket.
WGBH is the largest content producer for PBS and longtime producer of the acclaimed science documentary series NOVA.
Located in Boston, the hub of the nation's scientific, research, and technological community, WGBH is the perfect place to further the support of digital media in STEM education.
Where to stay? If you’re traveling to the Forum and need a place to stay, rooms are available at the DoubleTree Suites Boston-Cambridge.
A detailed program and list of speakers will soon be available here: https://stemdigitalmedia.wordpress.com/
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What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
Monday, November 9
8–9:45 am
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with:
Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project
René Castro, former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and chief climate negotiator, United States; Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Jairam Ramesh, former Minister of State for Environment and Forests and chief climate negotiator, India
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Open to the public, breakfast provided. Hosted by the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Event contact: Bryan_Galcik@hks.harvard.edu
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Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Monday, November 9
11:30am to 1:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Social media and social networking sites have become a global pinboard for exposition and discussion of news, topics, and ideas, where social media users increasingly form their opinion about a particular topic by learning information about it from her peers. In this context, whenever a user posts a message about a topic, we observe a noisy estimate of her current opinion about it but the influence the user may have on other users’ opinions is hidden. In this talks, we introduce SLANT, a probabilistic modeling framework of opinion dynamics, which allows the underlying opinion of a user to be modulated by those expressed by her neighbors over time. We then identify a set of conditions under which users’ opinions converge to a steady state, find a linear relation between the initial and steady state opinions, and develop an efficient estimation method to fit the model parameters from historical fine-grained opinion and information diffusion event data. Experiments on data gathered from Twitter, Reddit and Amazon show that our model provides a good fit to the data and more accurate predictions than alternatives.
Speaker Bio: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Manuel develops machine learning and large-scale data mining methods for the analysis, modeling and control of large real-world networks and processes that take place over them. He is particularly interested in problems arising in the Web and social media and has received several recognitions for his research, including an Outstanding Paper Award at NIPS'13 and a Best Research Paper Honorable Mention at KDD'10. Manuel holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain). You can find more about him at http://www.mpi-sws.org/~manuelgr/.
Center for Research on Computation and Society
Contact: Carol Harlow
Email: harlow@seas.harvard.edu
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MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
Monday, November 9
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Bruce Anderson (BU)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-bruce-anderson-bu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
Monday, November 9
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday, November 9
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-thought-brown-bag-lunch-on-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-19123008433
Join a brown bag lunch discussion of best practices in sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This event is part of City Awake, Boston’s second annual social impact festival. Facilitators with experience in this sector will guide the conversation, emphasizing renewable energy, research sciences, and natural resource management.
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What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
Monday, November 9
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Joseph Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Wesleyan University
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-171500-2015-11-09-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.m8abAn5A.dpuf
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7pm Green Exchange: Closing the Loop - Sustainable Design and Consumption
7pm TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
--------------------------------
Saturday, November 14
-------------------------------
MIT Water Summit 2015
TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
9:30am Hack4Fem Hackathon
12:30pm City Awake Social Impact Expo
-----------------------------
Sunday, November 15
-----------------------------
6pm Ruminating on the New Water Paradigm
-----------------------------
Monday, November 16
-----------------------------
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 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
6pm Engaging the Cambridge Environmental Community: Health Risks of Climate Change
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
-------------------------------
Tuesday, November 17
------------------------------
ABX 2015 (Builders' Expo)
9am Neurotech 2015
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
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
6pm From Athens to the Anthropocene: Crisis, Affect, and Epoch
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
----------------------------
Monday, November 9
----------------------------
Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education
Monday, November 9
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
WGBH , 1 Guest Street, Brighton
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-digital-media-for-stem-learning-climate-education-tickets-17920229890
Communities and creatures around the world feel the impacts of climate change. The Forum on Digital Media for STEM Learning: Climate Education will explore how the stories and science behind these impacts are increasingly being integrated into classroom instruction and STEM education contexts, with a focus on digital media.
Held at WGBH’s Brighton, Mass. studio on Monday, November 9, 2015*, this highly-interactive and fast-paced event will examine emerging narratives in climate education, digital media tools and products that show unique potential for educational settings, and promising modes of engagement for students, teachers and schools.
*The Forum will be streamed live (streaming details to come). If you cannot attend in person, but plan to watch the live stream, you do not need to reserve a ticket.
WGBH is the largest content producer for PBS and longtime producer of the acclaimed science documentary series NOVA.
Located in Boston, the hub of the nation's scientific, research, and technological community, WGBH is the perfect place to further the support of digital media in STEM education.
Where to stay? If you’re traveling to the Forum and need a place to stay, rooms are available at the DoubleTree Suites Boston-Cambridge.
A detailed program and list of speakers will soon be available here: https://stemdigitalmedia.wordpress.com/
-----------------------------------
What’s at Stake in Paris: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks
Monday, November 9
8–9:45 am
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
A panel discussion with:
Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project
René Castro, former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and chief climate negotiator, United States; Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Jairam Ramesh, former Minister of State for Environment and Forests and chief climate negotiator, India
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Open to the public, breakfast provided. Hosted by the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Event contact: Bryan_Galcik@hks.harvard.edu
------------------------------------
Learning Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Monday, November 9
11:30am to 1:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Social media and social networking sites have become a global pinboard for exposition and discussion of news, topics, and ideas, where social media users increasingly form their opinion about a particular topic by learning information about it from her peers. In this context, whenever a user posts a message about a topic, we observe a noisy estimate of her current opinion about it but the influence the user may have on other users’ opinions is hidden. In this talks, we introduce SLANT, a probabilistic modeling framework of opinion dynamics, which allows the underlying opinion of a user to be modulated by those expressed by her neighbors over time. We then identify a set of conditions under which users’ opinions converge to a steady state, find a linear relation between the initial and steady state opinions, and develop an efficient estimation method to fit the model parameters from historical fine-grained opinion and information diffusion event data. Experiments on data gathered from Twitter, Reddit and Amazon show that our model provides a good fit to the data and more accurate predictions than alternatives.
Speaker Bio: Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Manuel develops machine learning and large-scale data mining methods for the analysis, modeling and control of large real-world networks and processes that take place over them. He is particularly interested in problems arising in the Web and social media and has received several recognitions for his research, including an Outstanding Paper Award at NIPS'13 and a Best Research Paper Honorable Mention at KDD'10. Manuel holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain). You can find more about him at http://www.mpi-sws.org/~manuelgr/.
Center for Research on Computation and Society
Contact: Carol Harlow
Email: harlow@seas.harvard.edu
----------------------------------
MASS Seminar - Bruce Anderson (BU)
Monday, November 9
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Bruce Anderson (BU)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-bruce-anderson-bu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
------------------------------------
Where Are We Heading? Pondering the Likelihood of Alternative Carbon Emissions Pathways
Monday, November 9
12:00PM TO 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, will lead the HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series discussion. This series is presented by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Lunch will be provided.
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
------------------------------------
Food for Thought: Brown Bag Lunch on Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday, November 9
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-for-thought-brown-bag-lunch-on-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-19123008433
Join a brown bag lunch discussion of best practices in sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This event is part of City Awake, Boston’s second annual social impact festival. Facilitators with experience in this sector will guide the conversation, emphasizing renewable energy, research sciences, and natural resource management.
-----------------------------------
What is a Scientific Conception of the World?
Monday, November 9
12:15PM TO 2:00PM
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Joseph Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Wesleyan University
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. We want to engage not only those who are working on intersections of science, politics, and public policy, but also those in the natural sciences, engineering, and architecture who have serious interest in exploring these areas together with social scientists and humanists.
There has been growing interest among graduate students and postdocs at Harvard in more systematic discussions related to STS. More and more dissertation writers and recent graduates find themselves working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their respective home disciplines, and they are asking questions that often require new analytic tools that the conventional disciplines don’t necessarily offer. They would also like wider exposure to emerging STS scholarship that is not well-represented or organized at most universities, including Harvard. Our aim is to try to serve those interests through a series of activities throughout the academic year.
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-171500-2015-11-09-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.m8abAn5A.dpuf
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Machine Hearing: Recognizing Environmental Sounds
Monday, November 9
1:00pm - 2:00pm
MIT, Building 46-3189, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Monday, November 9
1:00pm - 2:00pm
MIT, Building 46-3189, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dan Ellis
In addition to communication, hearing is useful for informing us about general events in the world, since any kind of physical contact or abrasion will radiate sound. For computers, however, the automatic detection and recognition of sounds other than speech and music has received relatively little attention. I will briefly review past work in automatic recognition of these so-called environmental sounds, including several recent evaluations.
The current generation of big-data-fueled machine learning classifiers offers the possibility of huge advances over the current state of the art, but demands large numbers of training examples. I'll discuss various responses to this need, look at some results, and consider likely future outcomes.
More at: http://bcs.mit.edu/news-events/events/machine-hearing-recognizing-environmental-sounds#sthash.37rFFd9P.dpuf
In addition to communication, hearing is useful for informing us about general events in the world, since any kind of physical contact or abrasion will radiate sound. For computers, however, the automatic detection and recognition of sounds other than speech and music has received relatively little attention. I will briefly review past work in automatic recognition of these so-called environmental sounds, including several recent evaluations.
The current generation of big-data-fueled machine learning classifiers offers the possibility of huge advances over the current state of the art, but demands large numbers of training examples. I'll discuss various responses to this need, look at some results, and consider likely future outcomes.
More at: http://bcs.mit.edu/news-events/events/machine-hearing-recognizing-environmental-sounds#sthash.37rFFd9P.dpuf
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SYNOPSIS
A group of teenagers board a bus for West Virginia, leaving the streets of Washington, DC to participate in an ambitious peace education program. For the first time in their lives Mark, Asha, Martha, and Corey play in mountain streams, sing under the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past. But as they return to DC, each young person faces an unforgiving series of hurdles and roadblocks that challenge their efforts to build a better life. Through breathtaking visuals from street corners to mountaintops, Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of the chaotic, confusing, and emotional journey to rewrite a young person’s future.
Directed by filmmaker Ellie Walton and produced by HawaH, this new documentary film follows the experience of a select group of youth who participated in this program facilitated by One Common Unity.
You can watch the trailer to the film here: http://bit.ly/flybylighttrailer
Fly By Light has received acclaim at 12 international film festivals across the country, including Bahamas International, Capital City Film Festival, Urban Media Maker’s Film Festival, and winning the Audience Choice Award at BolderLife!
Q&A PANELISTS:
Hawah Kasat, founder/executive director of the nonprofit One Common Unity, has acted as a youth representative to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism and was director of Peaceable Schools at Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. Hawah has been interviewed on XM National Satellite Radio, BBC, CNN, Pacifica Radio Network, NPR, and Al-Jazeera. He has authored four books, produced three documentary films and two music albums, and is the creator/editor of the “Poetry of Yoga” book anthology, which features Grammy award-winning musicians and master teachers. As an artist, author, educator, yoga instructor, and community organizer, he has dedicated his life to teaching about solutions to violence and ways to peace, and has traveled to over 28 countries in the past 10 years to facilitate interactive workshops and dialogues, perform poetry, teach yoga, and speak with those interested in creating a caring, sustainable, and equitable world. He has a degree in peace and educational philosophy from American University and resides in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cara Lisa Berg Powers is an innovative strategic thinker working across a variety of disciplines to build the capacity of communities to create meaningful and lasting change. Before joining the team at Press Pass TV in 2008, Cara founded the Youth Media Institute at Project: Think Different (now amplifyme) and also ran Digital Media programming for the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC). She holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change in addition to a MA in Transformative Media Arts and a BA in Screen Studies and Urban Development/Social Change. In addition to time spent on the Adjunct Faculty at Wheelock College and UMASS Boston, Cara has guest lectured at Worcester State University, Northeastern University, MIT, Simmons College, and Amherst College. She has produced programming for MTV & NBC, and has provided training in media and social change to non-profit leaders like Oxfam and Facing History & Ourselves. Cara has also presented at several conferences, including the Women, Action and Media Conference, the Be the Media Conference, the National Conference for Media Reform, and the Action Coalition for Media Education Conference. She is the recipient of the Empowerment Award from the 2008 Media That Matters Festival, is featured in No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power by Gloria Feldt.Cara’s first book By Any Media Necessary, a guide for engaging youth in change through media is available at byanymedianecessary.com, and you can read her work in the Kinder Braver World Series, published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in partnership with Lady Gaga’s Born this Way Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She is on the Board of her Synagogue, Beth Tikvah and on the Human Rights Commission in Worcester, Massachusetts where she resides with her husband and daughter.
Rose Pavlov is a child specialist and educator, whose research interests range from applied positive psychology and mindfulness based learning with children/youth to international issues such as overcoming devastation and trauma, as well as urban challenges. Her professional experiences have led her to partnerships with UNICEF and WorldVision. She was recipient of “40 Under 40 Rising Stars”, “Young Leaders Pioneering Global Social Change”, “Top 12 People Making a Difference in Central Massachusetts”, and was recently a featured TEDx speaker on “Unlocking Children’s Potential Through Mindfulness”.
Spread the word: Send our panelists questions in advance to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
We’ll be conducting a live chat at https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/
Tweet us @ForumHSPH #traffickingforum
Presented in Collaboration with PRI'S The World & WGBH
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/
Will The New Economy Be Capitalism or Something Else?
Monday November 9
Monday November 9
1:30-2:45pm
Webinar
RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/1063cad78155b08d26446d02a2aa35cfa2dca3a9?hash=5d3df372deb2079f28000c3e0b1c7a69
Panel hosted by YES! Magazine and the New Economy Coalition.
Featuring:
Gar Alperovitz (Next System Project)
Sohnie Black (Fund for Democratic Communities)
John Fullerton (Capital Institute)
Julie Matthaei (Wellesley College)
Keith Harrington (YES! Magazine / Moderator)
Does building a truly just, democratic and sustainable economy mean creating an entirely new system beyond capitalism—or can we reform capitalism to operate according to those values?
This as an important strategic question that new-economy advocates must come to terms with as we attempt to build public understanding of and support for a just and sustainable new system. Indeed, as the first Democratic presidential debate of the season highlighted, “capitalism” can be a politically charged and confusing term. Thus, as with all controversial terms, how we use the “c-word” matters.
Yet, as one might expect from a diverse and growing movement, new-economy advocates have widely differing views on the term. Thus, for example, while Gar Alperovitz may write of an America Beyond Capitalism, we see his friend and colleague John Fullerton promoting a Regenerative Capitalism that nonetheless resonates with Alperovitz's vision in its particulars. Some feel the need to qualify our current system as “corporate” capitalism, while others are happy to call it capitalism, plain and simple. Yet in each case the choice of terminology is a deliberate one, indicating that the differences are not merely semantic, but reflect deeper political and cultural realities that no advocate should ignore.
This New Economy Week panel will serve as a live installment of Keith Harrington’s “Checkerboard Revolution” series of articles for YES! Magazine, which explores big picture strategic issues confronting the emerging new-economy movement (http://www.yesmagazine.org/@@also-by?author=Keith+Harrington). To shed light on this often murky issue, an expert panel will discuss varying views of capitalism from the perspective of theory and practice. The discussion will not necessarily aim to build consensus around a particular definition of capitalism, but will attempt to help participants develop a more strategic understanding of the concepts, beliefs and values we evoke when we use the c-word.
Gar Alperovitz (Next System Project)
Sohnie Black (Fund for Democratic Communities)
John Fullerton (Capital Institute)
Julie Matthaei (Wellesley College)
Keith Harrington (YES! Magazine / Moderator)
Does building a truly just, democratic and sustainable economy mean creating an entirely new system beyond capitalism—or can we reform capitalism to operate according to those values?
This as an important strategic question that new-economy advocates must come to terms with as we attempt to build public understanding of and support for a just and sustainable new system. Indeed, as the first Democratic presidential debate of the season highlighted, “capitalism” can be a politically charged and confusing term. Thus, as with all controversial terms, how we use the “c-word” matters.
Yet, as one might expect from a diverse and growing movement, new-economy advocates have widely differing views on the term. Thus, for example, while Gar Alperovitz may write of an America Beyond Capitalism, we see his friend and colleague John Fullerton promoting a Regenerative Capitalism that nonetheless resonates with Alperovitz's vision in its particulars. Some feel the need to qualify our current system as “corporate” capitalism, while others are happy to call it capitalism, plain and simple. Yet in each case the choice of terminology is a deliberate one, indicating that the differences are not merely semantic, but reflect deeper political and cultural realities that no advocate should ignore.
This New Economy Week panel will serve as a live installment of Keith Harrington’s “Checkerboard Revolution” series of articles for YES! Magazine, which explores big picture strategic issues confronting the emerging new-economy movement (http://www.yesmagazine.org/@@also-by?author=Keith+Harrington). To shed light on this often murky issue, an expert panel will discuss varying views of capitalism from the perspective of theory and practice. The discussion will not necessarily aim to build consensus around a particular definition of capitalism, but will attempt to help participants develop a more strategic understanding of the concepts, beliefs and values we evoke when we use the c-word.
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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Monday, November 9
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, Mugar Hall Room 200, 160 Packard Ave, Medford
Food policy author and activist Frances Moore Lappé will offer insights on tough questions—from climate change and population growth to GMOs and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more. Driven by the question “Why hunger despite an abundance of food?” Lappé argues that with sustainable agriculture, we can feed the world and end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s population. She also reasons that most people in the Global North have more in common with the world’s hungry people than they thought.
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Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
Monday, November 9
4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, STEP Director, Princeton University
EPS Colloquium Series
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-210000/eps-colloquium-series#sthash.6V8XpyUs.dpuf
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World Hunger: 10 Myths
Monday, November 9
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, Mugar Hall Room 200, 160 Packard Ave, Medford
Food policy author and activist Frances Moore Lappé will offer insights on tough questions—from climate change and population growth to GMOs and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more. Driven by the question “Why hunger despite an abundance of food?” Lappé argues that with sustainable agriculture, we can feed the world and end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s population. She also reasons that most people in the Global North have more in common with the world’s hungry people than they thought.
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Expert Judgement and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
Monday, November 9
4:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, STEP Director, Princeton University
EPS Colloquium Series
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-09-210000/eps-colloquium-series#sthash.6V8XpyUs.dpuf
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Politics of Airport Security: The Tale of the MM Scanner
WHEN Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262) 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Mark B. Salter, professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS Airport security is a complex assemblage of policies, people, objects and motives in a tangle of authorities, technologies, and strategy. The rise (and fall) of the mm wave scanner provides insight into this complex space. The 2009 “Underwear Bomb” plot seemed to indicate another weakness in the global airport security system that demanded an immediate and if possible technological fix. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority had been testing mm wave scanners in a small regional airport that might solve the problem: the mm wave scanner. This presentation plots the controversy of the mm wave scanner to understand how technologies and their issues can radically affect security.
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program/seminars-0
WHEN Mon., Nov. 9, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262) 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Mark B. Salter, professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS Airport security is a complex assemblage of policies, people, objects and motives in a tangle of authorities, technologies, and strategy. The rise (and fall) of the mm wave scanner provides insight into this complex space. The 2009 “Underwear Bomb” plot seemed to indicate another weakness in the global airport security system that demanded an immediate and if possible technological fix. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority had been testing mm wave scanners in a small regional airport that might solve the problem: the mm wave scanner. This presentation plots the controversy of the mm wave scanner to understand how technologies and their issues can radically affect security.
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program/seminars-0
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Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
Monday, November 9
4.30-6.30
Harvard, Bell Hall (Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Camridge
Prof. Marc Lipsitch (Harvard, Dept. of Epidemiology)
Topic of the talk: A growing trend in experimental virology has been the modification of influenza viruses that are antigenically novel to, and virulent in humans, such that these variant viruses are readily transmissible in mammals, including ferrets which are thought to be the best animal model for influenza infection. Novel, contagious, virulent viruses are potential pandemic pathogens in that their accidental or malevolent release into the human population could cause a pandemic. This talk will describe the purported benefits of such studies, arguing that these are overstated; estimate the magnitude of the risk they create, argue for the superiority of alternative scientific approaches on both safety and scientific grounds, and propose an ethical framework in which such experiments should be evaluated.
Prof. Lipsitch will discuss the science policy, bioethical and biosafety issues raised and the recent developments in this field including the US Government funding pause on such experiments announced by the White House on October 17, 2014.
Speaker’s Bio: Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where his wet lab is located. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He is also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
About The Future Society at HKS:
TFS brings together HKS students interested in the better understanding the profound political consequences of the technological explosion we are going through. We organized speakers’ series, panels, movie screening and study groups.
Presented by The Future Society at HKS and the Harvard Effective Altruism Society welcome, with the support of the Program on Science, Technology and Society, HKS
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Should We Be Making Potential Pandemic Pathogens in the Lab?
Monday, November 9
4.30-6.30
Harvard, Bell Hall (Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Camridge
Prof. Marc Lipsitch (Harvard, Dept. of Epidemiology)
Topic of the talk: A growing trend in experimental virology has been the modification of influenza viruses that are antigenically novel to, and virulent in humans, such that these variant viruses are readily transmissible in mammals, including ferrets which are thought to be the best animal model for influenza infection. Novel, contagious, virulent viruses are potential pandemic pathogens in that their accidental or malevolent release into the human population could cause a pandemic. This talk will describe the purported benefits of such studies, arguing that these are overstated; estimate the magnitude of the risk they create, argue for the superiority of alternative scientific approaches on both safety and scientific grounds, and propose an ethical framework in which such experiments should be evaluated.
Prof. Lipsitch will discuss the science policy, bioethical and biosafety issues raised and the recent developments in this field including the US Government funding pause on such experiments announced by the White House on October 17, 2014.
Speaker’s Bio: Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where his wet lab is located. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He is also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
About The Future Society at HKS:
TFS brings together HKS students interested in the better understanding the profound political consequences of the technological explosion we are going through. We organized speakers’ series, panels, movie screening and study groups.
Presented by The Future Society at HKS and the Harvard Effective Altruism Society welcome, with the support of the Program on Science, Technology and Society, HKS
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Roadmap to Zero: A conversation with Ed Mazria FAIA
Monday, November 9
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/evtssareg.custinfo?p_event_id=1750
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/evtssareg.custinfo?p_event_id=1750
Cost: $30 ($15 BSA members)
Boston has joined an elite group of cities pledging to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80% or more by 2050. Consider two facts: one, that 73% of Boston’s GHG emissions is attributed to buildings; and two, a typical city renews three quarters of itself through tear down, new building, and renovation about every 30 years, according to leading urban design think tank Architecture 2030.
Together, they point to the need for Boston to seize the next 30-35 year natural renewal cycle and consciously use it to transform all buildings, modes of transportation, energy sources, and activities that currently produce GHG emissions. Given the large percentage of emissions attributed to buildings, the urban form and function of Boston is likely to change in many exciting and positive ways.
What would a roadmap of change look like from 2015 to 2050?
Please join the Boston Society of Architects and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission on November 9th for an evening with the founder of Architecture 2030 and the 2030 Challenge, Ed Mazria FAIA. Hosted by Mike Davis FAIA, the evening will challenge the audience to focus on the pathways for Boston to achieve de-carbonization in three short decades, from building technologies and planning approaches to policy and regulatory innovations. It will include a presentation, conversation between Ed Mazria FAIA and Mike Davis FAIA, and Q&A with the audience.
Edward Mazria FAIA is an internationally recognized architect, author, researcher, and educator who focuses on how to transition the urban built environment to a carbon-free future. He is the founder of the nonprofit think tank Architecture 2030 and the 2030 Challenge, which asks that all new buildings, developments, and major renovations be carbon-neutral by 2030. Ed is the author of the 2015 report Achieving 80 x 50: Reducing Energy Use, Creating Jobs, and Phasing Out Carbon Emissions in New York City’s Buildings.
Boston has joined an elite group of cities pledging to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80% or more by 2050. Consider two facts: one, that 73% of Boston’s GHG emissions is attributed to buildings; and two, a typical city renews three quarters of itself through tear down, new building, and renovation about every 30 years, according to leading urban design think tank Architecture 2030.
Together, they point to the need for Boston to seize the next 30-35 year natural renewal cycle and consciously use it to transform all buildings, modes of transportation, energy sources, and activities that currently produce GHG emissions. Given the large percentage of emissions attributed to buildings, the urban form and function of Boston is likely to change in many exciting and positive ways.
What would a roadmap of change look like from 2015 to 2050?
Please join the Boston Society of Architects and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission on November 9th for an evening with the founder of Architecture 2030 and the 2030 Challenge, Ed Mazria FAIA. Hosted by Mike Davis FAIA, the evening will challenge the audience to focus on the pathways for Boston to achieve de-carbonization in three short decades, from building technologies and planning approaches to policy and regulatory innovations. It will include a presentation, conversation between Ed Mazria FAIA and Mike Davis FAIA, and Q&A with the audience.
Edward Mazria FAIA is an internationally recognized architect, author, researcher, and educator who focuses on how to transition the urban built environment to a carbon-free future. He is the founder of the nonprofit think tank Architecture 2030 and the 2030 Challenge, which asks that all new buildings, developments, and major renovations be carbon-neutral by 2030. Ed is the author of the 2015 report Achieving 80 x 50: Reducing Energy Use, Creating Jobs, and Phasing Out Carbon Emissions in New York City’s Buildings.
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Be the Change: Exploring Graduate Programs in Public Service
Monday, November, 9
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-the-change-exploring-graduate-programs-in-public-service-registration-18909036437
Cost: FREE
Be the Change: Exploring Graduate Programs in Public Service Featuring
Keynote Speaker: Barney Frank, Former Congressman Monday, November 9,
2015 6 - 8:30 p.m. Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House Boston,
MA Join us for an exploration of our diverse graduate programs and how
they can provide the theoretical foundations and practical skills
needed for a successful and meaningful career in government,
nonprofit, and the mission-based private sector. Learn how our alumni
are making their mark in the world and hear about the dynamic research
and advocacy led by our faculty and several vibrant research centers
and institutes housed within McCormack. Whether you are interested in
public policy, public administration, conflict resolution, global
governance and human security, international relations, or aging
policy and services, McCormack can give you the tools to make a real
difference. This event is free and open to the public. Hors d'oeurves
and refreshments will be served.
Monday, November, 9
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-the-change-exploring-graduate-programs-in-public-service-registration-18909036437
Cost: FREE
Be the Change: Exploring Graduate Programs in Public Service Featuring
Keynote Speaker: Barney Frank, Former Congressman Monday, November 9,
2015 6 - 8:30 p.m. Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House Boston,
MA Join us for an exploration of our diverse graduate programs and how
they can provide the theoretical foundations and practical skills
needed for a successful and meaningful career in government,
nonprofit, and the mission-based private sector. Learn how our alumni
are making their mark in the world and hear about the dynamic research
and advocacy led by our faculty and several vibrant research centers
and institutes housed within McCormack. Whether you are interested in
public policy, public administration, conflict resolution, global
governance and human security, international relations, or aging
policy and services, McCormack can give you the tools to make a real
difference. This event is free and open to the public. Hors d'oeurves
and refreshments will be served.
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Press Pass TV presents: Fly By Light Documentary Screening + Q&A
Monday, November 9
Monday, November 9
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
City Year Incm 287 Columbus Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/press-pass-tv-presents-fly-by-light-documentary-screening-qa-tickets-18970097071
with special guest, Hawah Kasat, Filmmaker and One Common Unity Director
Additional Q&A panelists:
Dr. Cara Lisa Berg Powers, Press Pass TV Co-Director
Rose Pavlov, Founder and President/CEO of Ivy Child International
with special guest, Hawah Kasat, Filmmaker and One Common Unity Director
Additional Q&A panelists:
Dr. Cara Lisa Berg Powers, Press Pass TV Co-Director
Rose Pavlov, Founder and President/CEO of Ivy Child International
SYNOPSIS
A group of teenagers board a bus for West Virginia, leaving the streets of Washington, DC to participate in an ambitious peace education program. For the first time in their lives Mark, Asha, Martha, and Corey play in mountain streams, sing under the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past. But as they return to DC, each young person faces an unforgiving series of hurdles and roadblocks that challenge their efforts to build a better life. Through breathtaking visuals from street corners to mountaintops, Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of the chaotic, confusing, and emotional journey to rewrite a young person’s future.
Directed by filmmaker Ellie Walton and produced by HawaH, this new documentary film follows the experience of a select group of youth who participated in this program facilitated by One Common Unity.
You can watch the trailer to the film here: http://bit.ly/flybylighttrailer
Fly By Light has received acclaim at 12 international film festivals across the country, including Bahamas International, Capital City Film Festival, Urban Media Maker’s Film Festival, and winning the Audience Choice Award at BolderLife!
Q&A PANELISTS:
Hawah Kasat, founder/executive director of the nonprofit One Common Unity, has acted as a youth representative to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism and was director of Peaceable Schools at Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. Hawah has been interviewed on XM National Satellite Radio, BBC, CNN, Pacifica Radio Network, NPR, and Al-Jazeera. He has authored four books, produced three documentary films and two music albums, and is the creator/editor of the “Poetry of Yoga” book anthology, which features Grammy award-winning musicians and master teachers. As an artist, author, educator, yoga instructor, and community organizer, he has dedicated his life to teaching about solutions to violence and ways to peace, and has traveled to over 28 countries in the past 10 years to facilitate interactive workshops and dialogues, perform poetry, teach yoga, and speak with those interested in creating a caring, sustainable, and equitable world. He has a degree in peace and educational philosophy from American University and resides in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cara Lisa Berg Powers is an innovative strategic thinker working across a variety of disciplines to build the capacity of communities to create meaningful and lasting change. Before joining the team at Press Pass TV in 2008, Cara founded the Youth Media Institute at Project: Think Different (now amplifyme) and also ran Digital Media programming for the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC). She holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change in addition to a MA in Transformative Media Arts and a BA in Screen Studies and Urban Development/Social Change. In addition to time spent on the Adjunct Faculty at Wheelock College and UMASS Boston, Cara has guest lectured at Worcester State University, Northeastern University, MIT, Simmons College, and Amherst College. She has produced programming for MTV & NBC, and has provided training in media and social change to non-profit leaders like Oxfam and Facing History & Ourselves. Cara has also presented at several conferences, including the Women, Action and Media Conference, the Be the Media Conference, the National Conference for Media Reform, and the Action Coalition for Media Education Conference. She is the recipient of the Empowerment Award from the 2008 Media That Matters Festival, is featured in No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power by Gloria Feldt.Cara’s first book By Any Media Necessary, a guide for engaging youth in change through media is available at byanymedianecessary.com, and you can read her work in the Kinder Braver World Series, published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in partnership with Lady Gaga’s Born this Way Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She is on the Board of her Synagogue, Beth Tikvah and on the Human Rights Commission in Worcester, Massachusetts where she resides with her husband and daughter.
Rose Pavlov is a child specialist and educator, whose research interests range from applied positive psychology and mindfulness based learning with children/youth to international issues such as overcoming devastation and trauma, as well as urban challenges. Her professional experiences have led her to partnerships with UNICEF and WorldVision. She was recipient of “40 Under 40 Rising Stars”, “Young Leaders Pioneering Global Social Change”, “Top 12 People Making a Difference in Central Massachusetts”, and was recently a featured TEDx speaker on “Unlocking Children’s Potential Through Mindfulness”.
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From the Grassroots to the Global: How to be an Effective Agent of Change!
Monday, November 9
Monday, November 9
6:30PM to 8:00PM
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 5th Floor, Meridian Room, Boston
Do you know what a community organizer does? Have you ever wondered how the great social movements of the last century achieved social change? Would you like to learn the basics about how to organize and mobilize people to build power and win victories? Come join Corporate Accountability International and the Boston chapter of AmeriCorps Alums to learn: basic principles of community organizing, how to identify a problem in your community and organize to solve it, and how you can plug into our existing campaigns to make change on a global level. Join us for some light refreshments, good company, and a hands-on, interactive workshop on how to build power and sustain it to win a campaign! (All ages welcome!)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 5th Floor, Meridian Room, Boston
Do you know what a community organizer does? Have you ever wondered how the great social movements of the last century achieved social change? Would you like to learn the basics about how to organize and mobilize people to build power and win victories? Come join Corporate Accountability International and the Boston chapter of AmeriCorps Alums to learn: basic principles of community organizing, how to identify a problem in your community and organize to solve it, and how you can plug into our existing campaigns to make change on a global level. Join us for some light refreshments, good company, and a hands-on, interactive workshop on how to build power and sustain it to win a campaign! (All ages welcome!)
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Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
Monday, November 9, 2015
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Suzanne Paradis
How is the brain is put together to control the most basic functions of the human body? How are we able to move our arms and legs, to learn and remember, to see and hear? The adult human brain contains a massive network of neurons that communicate with one another to control these tasks. Neurons talk to other neurons through synapses: specialized sites of cell-to-cell contact. Synapses come in two flavors: excitatory, which promotes information propagation through networks, and inhibitory, which prevents it. The billions of neurons in the human brain form trillions of synapses, ensuring proper information flow in the brain.
Many disorders of the nervous system – such as epilepsy and Autism – occur when neurons fail to form appropriate synaptic connections or when communication between neurons breaks down at the synapse. To understand what goes awry in these disorders, we must first understand how synapses are assembled in the typically developing nervous system. Dr. Paradis’ research explores the topic of synapse development and how disruptions to this process might underlie human neurological disorders.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
More at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
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Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
Monday, November 9
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014 HD video, Dutch and English language, English subtitles, 55 min. Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly was the title of an exhibition in 1981 by the Brazilian-Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, which took a stand against bourgeois taste and values presented at her seminal building SESC Pompéia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with employees of a national organization for social work and medical assistance. “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” became the title of a recent work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh in which she explores the life of an experimental multifunctional community center in the Netherlands from its opening in the 1970s to now, conceiving and implementing a filming methodology that translates architecture premises such as ‘open’, ‘user-led’ and ‘participative’ into cinematic devices. Taking her recent works “From Left to Night” (2015), “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” (2014) and “Bete & Deise” (2012) as a lead, Van Oldenborgh will talk about filmmaking as a perfomative device and of her ongoing engagement in ideas on collectiveness, its intersection with the private and the role cultural production plays in this.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. With these works, which look at the structures that form and hinder us, she participated in various large biennials, and in smaller dedicated shows. Recent presentations include Form Left to Night (2015), solo at The Showroom London, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (2014) in van Abbemuseum 2014; La Javanaise at the 12th Biennial of Cuenca (EC) (2014); Après la reprise, la prise in ‘Art Turning Left’, Tate Liverpool 2013. Van Oldenborgh has exhibited widely including in RAW Material Company Dakar (SN), Generali Foundation Vienna and Museum Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (PL) as well as the 2nd Biennial of Kochi-Muziris 2014, 54rth Venice Biennial 2011, the 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010 and at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009. In 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Heineken Prize for the Arts, presented by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s lecture will be moderated by graduate student, Neil Sanzgiri (ACT) with response by Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Vivek Bald (CMS) and Research Fellow Sandra Rodriguez(MIT Open Documentary Lab/CMS).
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Tuesday, November 10
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Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
Tuesday, 10 November
12:00 pm eastern
Webinar
RSVP at https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=ieeemeetings&service=6&rnd=0.9946288980374539&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeemeetings.webex.com%2Fec0701lsp13%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D3996736091%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000002270b783f1fa0e5ff975d06fedb9468b067e91a83404dc351d0d039ad22b0cfaa%26%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAAKyq_Hj4eoQArkI-1Ym6sThNq9tCfy7yowFRhdOJLCguw2%26%26siteurl%3Dieeemeetings
Presented by Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
IEEE Smart Village has been striving to get basic electrical services to a million people in 5 years, in the most underserved regions of the world, through renewable energy sources. Its ultimate goal is to get electrical services to 50 million people in the next 10 years. However, IEEE Smart Village aims to go beyond just lighting and electrical services. Through its model of partnerships with local NGOs and Entrepreneurs, it strives to create local businesses and local jobs. Through its initiatives in education and community based solutions, it aims to create community development with lasting change. All these initiatives make IEEE Smart Village unique, in the sense that it is going ‘beyond the light bulb’ to create truly Smart Villages around the world. This talk will introduce IEEE Smart Village and its various initiatives to achieve its vision.
The Presenter: Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
Niru obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and further her interests in power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University last summer where she was recognized both as an ‘Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow’ as well as an ‘Emerging Markets Fellow’. Her interests now include the most cost effective methods of making technology accessible to the base of the pyramid. She also works as a storage analyst in the Energy Storage Business Development Group at NextEra Energy Resources in Juno Beach, Florida.
PES WEBINAR SMART VILLAGE - GOING BEYOND THE LIGHT BULB
IEEE Power & Energy Society Women in Power Webinar Series
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Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
Tuesday, November 10
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Richard N. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC. He has served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour. He recently served as creative consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show The Newsroom.
http://shorensteincenter.org/rick-kaplan/
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Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 pm
Harvard, Berkman Center, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood at 12:00 pm
with Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood
Lawyers and computer scientists hold very different notions of privacy. Notably, privacy laws rely on narrower and less formal conceptions of risk than those described by the computer science literature. As a result, the law often creates uncertainty and fails to protect against the full range of data privacy risks. In contrast, emerging mathematical concepts provide robust, formal models for quantifying and mitigating privacy risks. An example of such a model is differential privacy, which provides a provable guarantee of privacy against a wide range of potential attacks, including types of attacks currently unknown or unforeseen.
The subject of much theoretical investigation, these new technical methods for privacy protection have recently been making significant strides towards practical implementation. For example, researchers are now building and testing the first generation of tools for differentially private statistical analysis. However, because the law generally relies on very different methods for mitigating risk, a significant challenge to implementation will be demonstrating that the new privacy technologies satisfy legal requirements for privacy protection. In particular, most privacy laws focus on the identifiability of data, or the ability to link an individual to a record in a release of data. In doing so, they often equate privacy with heuristic “de-identification” approaches and provide little guidance for implementing more formal privacy-preserving techniques.
In this talk, Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood will articulate the gap between legal and technical approaches to privacy and present a methodology for formally proving that a technological method for privacy protection satisfies the requirements of a particular law. This methodology involves two steps: first, translating a legal standard into a formal mathematical requirement of privacy and, second, constructing a rigorous proof for establishing that a technique satisfies the mathematical requirement derived from the law. The presenters will walk through an example applying this new methodology to bridge the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and differential privacy. They will conclude the presentation with a discussion of how the methodology could help further the real-world adoption of new privacy technologies.
This talk summarizes early results from ongoing research by Kobbi Nissim, Aaron Bembenek, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, and Salil Vadhan from the Center for Research on Computation and Society, together with Urs Gasser, David O’Brien, and Alexandra Wood from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Further work building from this approach is anticipated to form the basis of a future publication. This research is also part of a broader collaboration through the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, which aims to build legal and technical tools, such as tools for differentially private statistical analysis, to help enable the wider sharing of social science research data while protecting the privacy of individuals.
About Kobbi
Kobbi Nissim is a Professor of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Trained in cryptography, Kobbi always maintains a healthy level of paranoia, and feels the ground is shaky whenever issues of security and privacy are not formally defined and analysed.
Nissim's current work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and presented a precursor of Differential Privacy, a strong definition of privacy in computation that he introduced in 2006 with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. With collaborators, Nissim established some of the basic constructions supporting differential privacy, and studied differential privacy in various contexts, including statistics, computational learning, mechanism design, and social networks. Since 2011, Kobbi has been involved with the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University, developing privacy-preserving tools for the sharing of social science data. Other contributions of Nissim include the BGN homomorphic encryption scheme with Boneh and Goh, and the research of private approximations. In 2013, Nissim received with Irit Dinur the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time award for their PODS 2003 work on privacy. In 2016, he will receive with Dwork, McSherry and Smith the TCC test of time award for their TCC 2006 work on differential privacy.
About Alexandra
Alexandra Wood is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a member of the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University. A lawyer by training, her research explores new and existing regulatory frameworks for data privacy and their compatibility with approaches to privacy emerging from the literature in other fields. Alexandra has also been contributing to the development of new legal instruments, analytical frameworks, and policy recommendations to better support the sharing and use of research data while preserving privacy, utility, transparency, and accountability. Before joining the Berkman Center, she served as a legal fellow with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and as a law clerk with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Conceptualizing Behavior Change
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conceptualizing-behavior-change-tickets-19152309072
Come learn about Behavior Change at City Awake! This Food for Thought session will explore how our defaults (habits, environments and mindsets) drive our behavior in the absence of willpower. This can be applied to individual or group change and it can be conscious or forced from outside. We will discuss at a high level, a model for understanding what drives people's behavior and how we can make changes in our behavior or those of others. This conversation will be led by Justin Wright of Habitus Incorporated in conjunction with other Impact Hub members.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.
This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.
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Science by the Pint: Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain
Monday, November 9, 2015
7 PM
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville
Dr. Suzanne Paradis
How is the brain is put together to control the most basic functions of the human body? How are we able to move our arms and legs, to learn and remember, to see and hear? The adult human brain contains a massive network of neurons that communicate with one another to control these tasks. Neurons talk to other neurons through synapses: specialized sites of cell-to-cell contact. Synapses come in two flavors: excitatory, which promotes information propagation through networks, and inhibitory, which prevents it. The billions of neurons in the human brain form trillions of synapses, ensuring proper information flow in the brain.
Many disorders of the nervous system – such as epilepsy and Autism – occur when neurons fail to form appropriate synaptic connections or when communication between neurons breaks down at the synapse. To understand what goes awry in these disorders, we must first understand how synapses are assembled in the typically developing nervous system. Dr. Paradis’ research explores the topic of synapse development and how disruptions to this process might underlie human neurological disorders.
Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.
More at http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/#june9
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Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
Monday, November 9
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, 2014 HD video, Dutch and English language, English subtitles, 55 min. Courtesy Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and the artist.
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly was the title of an exhibition in 1981 by the Brazilian-Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, which took a stand against bourgeois taste and values presented at her seminal building SESC Pompéia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with employees of a national organization for social work and medical assistance. “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” became the title of a recent work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh in which she explores the life of an experimental multifunctional community center in the Netherlands from its opening in the 1970s to now, conceiving and implementing a filming methodology that translates architecture premises such as ‘open’, ‘user-led’ and ‘participative’ into cinematic devices. Taking her recent works “From Left to Night” (2015), “Beauty and the Right to the Ugly” (2014) and “Bete & Deise” (2012) as a lead, Van Oldenborgh will talk about filmmaking as a perfomative device and of her ongoing engagement in ideas on collectiveness, its intersection with the private and the role cultural production plays in this.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. With these works, which look at the structures that form and hinder us, she participated in various large biennials, and in smaller dedicated shows. Recent presentations include Form Left to Night (2015), solo at The Showroom London, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly (2014) in van Abbemuseum 2014; La Javanaise at the 12th Biennial of Cuenca (EC) (2014); Après la reprise, la prise in ‘Art Turning Left’, Tate Liverpool 2013. Van Oldenborgh has exhibited widely including in RAW Material Company Dakar (SN), Generali Foundation Vienna and Museum Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (PL) as well as the 2nd Biennial of Kochi-Muziris 2014, 54rth Venice Biennial 2011, the 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010 and at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009. In 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Heineken Prize for the Arts, presented by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s lecture will be moderated by graduate student, Neil Sanzgiri (ACT) with response by Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Vivek Bald (CMS) and Research Fellow Sandra Rodriguez(MIT Open Documentary Lab/CMS).
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Tuesday, November 10
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Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bulb
Tuesday, 10 November
12:00 pm eastern
Webinar
RSVP at https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=ieeemeetings&service=6&rnd=0.9946288980374539&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeemeetings.webex.com%2Fec0701lsp13%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D3996736091%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000002270b783f1fa0e5ff975d06fedb9468b067e91a83404dc351d0d039ad22b0cfaa%26%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAAKyq_Hj4eoQArkI-1Ym6sThNq9tCfy7yowFRhdOJLCguw2%26%26siteurl%3Dieeemeetings
Presented by Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
IEEE Smart Village has been striving to get basic electrical services to a million people in 5 years, in the most underserved regions of the world, through renewable energy sources. Its ultimate goal is to get electrical services to 50 million people in the next 10 years. However, IEEE Smart Village aims to go beyond just lighting and electrical services. Through its model of partnerships with local NGOs and Entrepreneurs, it strives to create local businesses and local jobs. Through its initiatives in education and community based solutions, it aims to create community development with lasting change. All these initiatives make IEEE Smart Village unique, in the sense that it is going ‘beyond the light bulb’ to create truly Smart Villages around the world. This talk will introduce IEEE Smart Village and its various initiatives to achieve its vision.
The Presenter: Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
Niru obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and further her interests in power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University last summer where she was recognized both as an ‘Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow’ as well as an ‘Emerging Markets Fellow’. Her interests now include the most cost effective methods of making technology accessible to the base of the pyramid. She also works as a storage analyst in the Energy Storage Business Development Group at NextEra Energy Resources in Juno Beach, Florida.
PES WEBINAR SMART VILLAGE - GOING BEYOND THE LIGHT BULB
IEEE Power & Energy Society Women in Power Webinar Series
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Entertainment, News and Politics: From the News Room to "The News Room"
Tuesday, November 10
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Richard N. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC. He has served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour. He recently served as creative consultant on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show The Newsroom.
http://shorensteincenter.org/rick-kaplan/
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Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 pm
Harvard, Berkman Center, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/11/Nissim_Wood at 12:00 pm
with Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood
Lawyers and computer scientists hold very different notions of privacy. Notably, privacy laws rely on narrower and less formal conceptions of risk than those described by the computer science literature. As a result, the law often creates uncertainty and fails to protect against the full range of data privacy risks. In contrast, emerging mathematical concepts provide robust, formal models for quantifying and mitigating privacy risks. An example of such a model is differential privacy, which provides a provable guarantee of privacy against a wide range of potential attacks, including types of attacks currently unknown or unforeseen.
The subject of much theoretical investigation, these new technical methods for privacy protection have recently been making significant strides towards practical implementation. For example, researchers are now building and testing the first generation of tools for differentially private statistical analysis. However, because the law generally relies on very different methods for mitigating risk, a significant challenge to implementation will be demonstrating that the new privacy technologies satisfy legal requirements for privacy protection. In particular, most privacy laws focus on the identifiability of data, or the ability to link an individual to a record in a release of data. In doing so, they often equate privacy with heuristic “de-identification” approaches and provide little guidance for implementing more formal privacy-preserving techniques.
In this talk, Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood will articulate the gap between legal and technical approaches to privacy and present a methodology for formally proving that a technological method for privacy protection satisfies the requirements of a particular law. This methodology involves two steps: first, translating a legal standard into a formal mathematical requirement of privacy and, second, constructing a rigorous proof for establishing that a technique satisfies the mathematical requirement derived from the law. The presenters will walk through an example applying this new methodology to bridge the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and differential privacy. They will conclude the presentation with a discussion of how the methodology could help further the real-world adoption of new privacy technologies.
This talk summarizes early results from ongoing research by Kobbi Nissim, Aaron Bembenek, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, and Salil Vadhan from the Center for Research on Computation and Society, together with Urs Gasser, David O’Brien, and Alexandra Wood from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Further work building from this approach is anticipated to form the basis of a future publication. This research is also part of a broader collaboration through the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, which aims to build legal and technical tools, such as tools for differentially private statistical analysis, to help enable the wider sharing of social science research data while protecting the privacy of individuals.
About Kobbi
Kobbi Nissim is a Professor of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Trained in cryptography, Kobbi always maintains a healthy level of paranoia, and feels the ground is shaky whenever issues of security and privacy are not formally defined and analysed.
Nissim's current work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and presented a precursor of Differential Privacy, a strong definition of privacy in computation that he introduced in 2006 with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. With collaborators, Nissim established some of the basic constructions supporting differential privacy, and studied differential privacy in various contexts, including statistics, computational learning, mechanism design, and social networks. Since 2011, Kobbi has been involved with the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University, developing privacy-preserving tools for the sharing of social science data. Other contributions of Nissim include the BGN homomorphic encryption scheme with Boneh and Goh, and the research of private approximations. In 2013, Nissim received with Irit Dinur the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time award for their PODS 2003 work on privacy. In 2016, he will receive with Dwork, McSherry and Smith the TCC test of time award for their TCC 2006 work on differential privacy.
About Alexandra
Alexandra Wood is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a member of the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project at Harvard University. A lawyer by training, her research explores new and existing regulatory frameworks for data privacy and their compatibility with approaches to privacy emerging from the literature in other fields. Alexandra has also been contributing to the development of new legal instruments, analytical frameworks, and policy recommendations to better support the sharing and use of research data while preserving privacy, utility, transparency, and accountability. Before joining the Berkman Center, she served as a legal fellow with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and as a law clerk with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Conceptualizing Behavior Change
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/conceptualizing-behavior-change-tickets-19152309072
Come learn about Behavior Change at City Awake! This Food for Thought session will explore how our defaults (habits, environments and mindsets) drive our behavior in the absence of willpower. This can be applied to individual or group change and it can be conscious or forced from outside. We will discuss at a high level, a model for understanding what drives people's behavior and how we can make changes in our behavior or those of others. This conversation will be led by Justin Wright of Habitus Incorporated in conjunction with other Impact Hub members.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.
This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.
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Mechanisms of the Calcification Response to Ocean Change
Tuesday, November 10
12:30PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Christina Frieder, University of Southern California
Harvard, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Christina Frieder, University of Southern California
Abstract: Interactions between organic and inorganic processes are fundamental to development and growth. The initiation of shell formation in extant shelled molluscs appears to be an evolutionarily conserved process. Nevertheless, the physiology that coordinates biomineralization can be hindered by adverse environmental conditions, during which shells also retain environmental information that can be probed through geochemistry. Possible solutions that act to enhance resilience of organisms to ocean change will also be discussed and include both chemical mitigation and biological adaptation strategies.
OEB/EPS Geobiology Seminar.
Feel free to bring your lunch.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-10-173000/geobiology-seminar#sthash.NgzqPmBS.dpuf
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-10-173000/geobiology-seminar#sthash.NgzqPmBS.dpuf
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The Modern Slave Trade: Public Health Impacts
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Leadership Studio, Kresge Building, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S) Jacqueline Bhabha, director of research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Dan Vexler, director of programs, The Freedom Fund
Jocelyn Kelly, director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Women in War program
Additional experts will join this panel.
MODERATOR
Phillip Martin, senior investigative reporter, WGBH, and Former National Race and Culture Reporter, NPR
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE The Leadership Studio, Kresge Building, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
SPEAKER(S) Jacqueline Bhabha, director of research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Dan Vexler, director of programs, The Freedom Fund
Jocelyn Kelly, director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Women in War program
Additional experts will join this panel.
MODERATOR
Phillip Martin, senior investigative reporter, WGBH, and Former National Race and Culture Reporter, NPR
TICKET WEB LINK RSVP to attend in person- theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS THE MODERN SLAVE TRADE: Public Health Impacts
Presented in Collaboration with PRI’S The World & WGBH
Live Webcast at https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/ on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
12:30-1:30pm ET
A global scourge, human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that traps millions of people in lives of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Political instability and extremism leave people, especially women and children, vulnerable to predation. In this Forum, anti-trafficking and human rights experts convene to discuss the public health implications of the shadowy world of trafficking. What drives and sustains the industry? How are governments, NGOs, and other agencies fighting trafficking in their communities, including in the U.S.? What interventions work? And why is this issue so important to public health?
Additional experts will join this panel.
CONTACT INFO theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS THE MODERN SLAVE TRADE: Public Health Impacts
Presented in Collaboration with PRI’S The World & WGBH
Live Webcast at https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/ on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
12:30-1:30pm ET
A global scourge, human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that traps millions of people in lives of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Political instability and extremism leave people, especially women and children, vulnerable to predation. In this Forum, anti-trafficking and human rights experts convene to discuss the public health implications of the shadowy world of trafficking. What drives and sustains the industry? How are governments, NGOs, and other agencies fighting trafficking in their communities, including in the U.S.? What interventions work? And why is this issue so important to public health?
Additional experts will join this panel.
Spread the word: Send our panelists questions in advance to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
We’ll be conducting a live chat at https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/
Tweet us @ForumHSPH #traffickingforum
Presented in Collaboration with PRI'S The World & WGBH
LINK https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-modern-slave-trade/
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The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Rm, Taubman Building, 5th floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Study Group on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, Center for European Studies; the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Michael Wahid Hanna, senior fellow, Century Foundation; adjunct senior fellow, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place on Tuesday at 12:30 pm at the Kennedy School.
Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/crisis-syria-drawing-and-redrawing-boundaries-state-disintegration-and-state-reformation
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The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Rm, Taubman Building, 5th floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Study Group on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, Center for European Studies; the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar
SPEAKER(S) Michael Wahid Hanna, senior fellow, Century Foundation; adjunct senior fellow, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place on Tuesday at 12:30 pm at the Kennedy School.
Unless otherwise noted in the event description, CMES events are open to the public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note that events may be filmed and photographed by CMES for record-keeping and for use on the CMES website and publications.
LINK http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/crisis-syria-drawing-and-redrawing-boundaries-state-disintegration-and-state-reformation
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Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Gund, 42-48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Conservation, Master of Design Studies (MDes), Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Sarah Schindler, professor of law and Glassman Faculty Research Scholar, University of Maine School of Law
DETAILS Sarah Schindler will speak on “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment.” Schindler’s talk will address the concept of 'exclusion by design.' Her work seeks to raise awareness and foster discussion about the role of architecture/planning in dividing people within and across communities. Although the law address exclusionary practices such as racial zoning "the exclusionary built environment—the architecture of a place—functions as a form of regulation; it constrains the behavior of those who interact with it, often without their even realizing it."
Her recent articles are creative and insightful additions to local governments and land use law. They include “Architectural Exclusion,” “Banning Lawns,” “Of Backyard Chickens and Front-yard Gardens: The Conflict Between Local Governments and Locavores,” “Regulating the Underground: Secret Supper Clubs, Pop-Up Restaurants, and the Role of Law” and “Unpermitted Urban Agriculture: Transgressive Actions, Changing Norms, and the Local Food Movement.”
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 124 Gund, 42-48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Law
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Critical Conservation, Master of Design Studies (MDes), Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Sarah Schindler, professor of law and Glassman Faculty Research Scholar, University of Maine School of Law
DETAILS Sarah Schindler will speak on “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment.” Schindler’s talk will address the concept of 'exclusion by design.' Her work seeks to raise awareness and foster discussion about the role of architecture/planning in dividing people within and across communities. Although the law address exclusionary practices such as racial zoning "the exclusionary built environment—the architecture of a place—functions as a form of regulation; it constrains the behavior of those who interact with it, often without their even realizing it."
Her recent articles are creative and insightful additions to local governments and land use law. They include “Architectural Exclusion,” “Banning Lawns,” “Of Backyard Chickens and Front-yard Gardens: The Conflict Between Local Governments and Locavores,” “Regulating the Underground: Secret Supper Clubs, Pop-Up Restaurants, and the Role of Law” and “Unpermitted Urban Agriculture: Transgressive Actions, Changing Norms, and the Local Food Movement.”
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Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Kanoko Kamata, HKS MC/MPA '12, executive director, Community Organizing Japan, HKS MC/MPA 2012, Roy and Lila Ash Fellow
Ana Babovic, Founder, Serbia on the Move, HKS MC/MPA Candidate 2016, Ford Foundation Mason Student Fellow
Nisreen Haj Ahmad, co-director of Ahel.org, HKS' MC/MPA2008
Moderator: Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/leading-change-leadership-organizing-and-advocacy-japan-serbia-and-jordan
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
Tuesday, November 10
3:00p–4:00p
MIt, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-4
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Kanoko Kamata, HKS MC/MPA '12, executive director, Community Organizing Japan, HKS MC/MPA 2012, Roy and Lila Ash Fellow
Ana Babovic, Founder, Serbia on the Move, HKS MC/MPA Candidate 2016, Ford Foundation Mason Student Fellow
Nisreen Haj Ahmad, co-director of Ahel.org, HKS' MC/MPA2008
Moderator: Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/leading-change-leadership-organizing-and-advocacy-japan-serbia-and-jordan
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Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series - Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Diurnal variations and predictability of warm-season precipitation over the continents
Tuesday, November 10
3:00p–4:00p
MIt, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State, University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-4
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Adapting to Climate Variability, Climate Extremes, and Climate Change: Recent experience, future prospects
Tuesday, November 10
Tuesday, November 10
3-4:30pm
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room, Geo Museum 3rd floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room, Geo Museum 3rd floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
More information at http://eps.harvard.edu/agassiz-visiting-lecturer-2015
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#BLACKLIVESMATTER in Historical Perspective
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard History Department
SPEAKER(S) Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Elizabeth Hinton
Walter Johnson
Brandon Terry
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Join the conversation!
LINK http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/blacklivesmatter-historical-perspective
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Hall, Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard History Department
SPEAKER(S) Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Elizabeth Hinton
Walter Johnson
Brandon Terry
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Join the conversation!
LINK http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/blacklivesmatter-historical-perspective
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Climate at a Crossroads: How Can Paris Kickstart a Zero Carbon, Resilient Economy?
Tuesday, November 10
4:00PM TO 6:00PM
Integrated Sciences Complex, Third Floor, Atrium, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebrc2i7sbf46b2a2&oseq=&c=&ch
4:00PM TO 6:00PM
Integrated Sciences Complex, Third Floor, Atrium, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebrc2i7sbf46b2a2&oseq=&c=&ch
Featuring Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Register here by November 6. Co-sponsored by Center for Governance and Sustainability, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, School for the Environment, and College of Management.
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-10-210000-2015-11-10-230000/climate-crossroads-how-can-paris-kickstart-zero-carbon#sthash.rkew0FI7.dpuf
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-10-210000-2015-11-10-230000/climate-crossroads-how-can-paris-kickstart-zero-carbon#sthash.rkew0FI7.dpuf
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Roadmap to a New Arab Future: Negotiating and Managing a New Social Contract and Development Model
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, BL-1, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Hafez Ghanem, vice president of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa.
Melani Cammett, professor of government, Harvard University and MEI Faculty Affiliate.
COST Free; RSVP required
CONTACT INFO middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Melani Cammett is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and North Africa and is the author of four books: A Political Economy of the Middle East (with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, 2015); Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (2014), which won the 2015 APSA Giovanni Sartori Book Award and the Honorable Mention of the 2015 APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; The Politics of Nonstate Welfare (coedited with Lauren Morris MacLean, 2014); and Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (2007, 2010). She has received fellowships and awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Comparative Politics Section of the APSA, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Social Science Research Council, and other organizations, has published numerous articles in scholarly and policy journals, and consults for development policy organizations. Her current research focuses on the politics of welfare and development and she has a variety of ongoing projects on governance and the delivery of social services by public, private and nonstate actors in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hafez Ghanem, an Egyptian and French national, is the Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa since March 2, 2015. He is a development expert with more than thirty years of experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision, and management of multinational institutions. Dr. Ghanem leads the World Bank’s engagement with 20 Middle East and North African countries through a portfolio of ongoing projects, technical assistance and grants worth more than US$13 billion. Eradicating extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity through the creation of opportunities are core to his vision for the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Prior to his appointment as Vice President, Dr. Ghanem was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Global Economy and Development program leading the Arab economies project, focused on the impact of political transition on Arab economic development.
Between 2007 and 2012, he served as the Assistant Director-General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
He has many publications in professional journals and was a member of the core team that produced the World Bank’s 1995 World Development Report.
He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Economics from the American University in Cairo and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6749/roadmap_to_a_new_arab_future.html
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, BL-1, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Hafez Ghanem, vice president of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa.
Melani Cammett, professor of government, Harvard University and MEI Faculty Affiliate.
COST Free; RSVP required
CONTACT INFO middle_east_initiative@hks.harvard.edu
DETAILS Melani Cammett is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and North Africa and is the author of four books: A Political Economy of the Middle East (with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, 2015); Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (2014), which won the 2015 APSA Giovanni Sartori Book Award and the Honorable Mention of the 2015 APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; The Politics of Nonstate Welfare (coedited with Lauren Morris MacLean, 2014); and Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (2007, 2010). She has received fellowships and awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Comparative Politics Section of the APSA, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Social Science Research Council, and other organizations, has published numerous articles in scholarly and policy journals, and consults for development policy organizations. Her current research focuses on the politics of welfare and development and she has a variety of ongoing projects on governance and the delivery of social services by public, private and nonstate actors in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hafez Ghanem, an Egyptian and French national, is the Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa since March 2, 2015. He is a development expert with more than thirty years of experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision, and management of multinational institutions. Dr. Ghanem leads the World Bank’s engagement with 20 Middle East and North African countries through a portfolio of ongoing projects, technical assistance and grants worth more than US$13 billion. Eradicating extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity through the creation of opportunities are core to his vision for the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Prior to his appointment as Vice President, Dr. Ghanem was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Global Economy and Development program leading the Arab economies project, focused on the impact of political transition on Arab economic development.
Between 2007 and 2012, he served as the Assistant Director-General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
He has many publications in professional journals and was a member of the core team that produced the World Bank’s 1995 World Development Report.
He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Economics from the American University in Cairo and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6749/roadmap_to_a_new_arab_future.html
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The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
4:30–6 pm
Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs discusses the development of a U.S. line on climate change negotiations across the years, with a particular emphasis on recent climate deals and the American approach to discussions in Paris.
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky, a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs, is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters from 2010-2012. In this position, she was responsible for designing and implementing corporate strategy in Washington, DC and other key capitals around the globe. She also held the Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy.
From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Dobriansky served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. Among her primary achievements, she established and led the US-India, US-China, and US-Brazil Global Issues Fora -- which advanced crucial work and international cooperation on environment, health, development and humanitarian issues. Additionally, she was head of delegation and lead negotiator on US climate change policy.
In February 2007, as the President's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Dr. Dobriansky contributed to the historic devolution of power in Belfast. For her leadership, she received the Secretary of State's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. From 1997-2001, Dr. Dobriansky served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was also the Council's first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
During her more than 25 years in national security affairs, she has held many Senate-confirmed and senior level government appointments including Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, and Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the White House. From 1997-2001, she served on the Presidentially-appointed U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
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The Paris Negotiations and other Environmental Forums: Insights and Impacts
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
4:30–6 pm
Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer-324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs discusses the development of a U.S. line on climate change negotiations across the years, with a particular emphasis on recent climate deals and the American approach to discussions in Paris.
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky, a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs, is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters from 2010-2012. In this position, she was responsible for designing and implementing corporate strategy in Washington, DC and other key capitals around the globe. She also held the Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy.
From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Dobriansky served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. Among her primary achievements, she established and led the US-India, US-China, and US-Brazil Global Issues Fora -- which advanced crucial work and international cooperation on environment, health, development and humanitarian issues. Additionally, she was head of delegation and lead negotiator on US climate change policy.
In February 2007, as the President's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Dr. Dobriansky contributed to the historic devolution of power in Belfast. For her leadership, she received the Secretary of State's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. From 1997-2001, Dr. Dobriansky served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was also the Council's first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
During her more than 25 years in national security affairs, she has held many Senate-confirmed and senior level government appointments including Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, and Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the White House. From 1997-2001, she served on the Presidentially-appointed U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
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“This Changes Everything” Screening
Tuesday, November 10
Tuesday, November 10
6:00PM to 8:30PM
Old Oak Dojo, 14 Chestnut Place, Jamaica Plain
This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Old Oak Dojo, 14 Chestnut Place, Jamaica Plain
This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
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The Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
Explore differences and weigh in on what might be causing them. What makes America's results unique?
Fred Unger, Heartwood Group, Inc.
Fred has managed hundreds of energy efficient construction and development projects, including development and permitting of a 3.3 MW wind project. For the last seven years, he has managed development and operations for BCC Solar, a solar project development company that owns and operates 4 MW of solar projects serving low income communities and is currently building an additional 2.9 MW. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England and previously served as Chair of the Building Energy Conference and Treasurer of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
Mark LeBel, Acadia Center
Mark is a staff attorney at Acadia Center, Boston office, working on transportation (electric vehicles, clean fuels) and electric utility grid modernization. During law school, he was Articles Editor at NYU Environmental Law Journal, and interned at NRDC's Environmental Law Clinic and the Government Civil Litigation Clinic, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, he was an Associate Analyst with NERA Economic Consulting in Boston. Mark holds a JD with honors from NYU School of Law and an AB with honors in Applied Mathematics with a focus in Economics from Harvard College.
Nathan Phelps, Vote Solar
Nathan, Program Manager, focuses on regulatory design for distributed generation. Prior to joining Vote Solar, Nathan was a Senior Economist at the Massachusetts Dept of Public Utilities. Nathan holds an undergraduate degree from Willamette University and a graduate degree from Tufts University.
* If you haven't contacted your Mass. House representative - do it now! Here's how:
1. Call the House Switchboard (617) 722-2000 - ask to be put through to your Representative
2. Say to them: "Raise the caps on net metering before Thanksgiving so solar can continue to grow"
3. Get a friend to do the same and report back to help us keeps tabs - email sean@votesolar.org
More information at http://www.basea.org
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Friday, November 13
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2015 MIT Energy Hackathon
Friday, Nov 13, 2015 - Sunday, Nov 15, 2015
Venue: multiple venues on MIT campus.
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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15
The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding, Regional Administrator, EPA New England
Curt Spalding serves as the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in New England. For almost 20 years, he served as Executive Director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, a nationally recognized, 20,000-member environmental advocacy and education organization.
Since joining the EPA leadership team in February 2010, Spalding has been leading a holistic approach to finding environmental solutions in New England. He's emphasized efforts in community engagement, sustainability, environmental justice and green economy. Spalding has focused our efforts in the region on three cross-cutting initiatives: climate change, stormwater and community prosperity.
Kenneth Strzepek, Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on Global Change, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Strzepek has spent over 40 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental and economics systems. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and USAID. He was a lead author on the Second and Fifth IPCC Assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He was the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR.
He is an Arthur Maass-Gilbert White Fellow at the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers and received the Department of the Interior Citizen’s Award for Innovation in the applications of Systems Analysis to Water Management. Professor Strzepek is a co-recipient of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment and as a lead author for IPCC, he is a co-recipient of the 2007 Noble Peace Prize.
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The Internet of Cows Hackathon
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM
9:00 AM
MassChallenge, 21 DryDock Avenue Floor 6, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-of-cows-hackathon-tickets-19028152717
BovControl is building the Internet of Cows (IoC), of which a critical aspect will be a new type of "wearable" sensor for data collection in the field. Join us at the MADE Hardware Lab at MassChallenge in the Seaport for a hackathon sprint to conceptualize, prototype, and test the next generation of cattle management hardware.
BovControl will provide all necessary resources: full access to our API, a state-of-the-art hardware lab, specific industry knowledge, pilot ranches for testing, and top-tier consultants for go-to-market strategies.
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Ruminating on the New Water Paradigm
Sunday, November 15
Frank Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Abstract: Tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol affect climate and are known to harm human health and ecosystems. The processing rate of gas-phase reactive carbon compounds is directly coupled to formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosol in the troposphere. I will discuss how well novel bottom-up and top-down observations of the reactive carbon budget agree within the context of anthropogenic influence and the ability to predict amounts of ozone and aerosol.
Solar radiation management (SRM), a geoengineering approach to modify Earth’s climate on a global level, has been receiving growing attention. Although most work has focused on introduction of sulfate aerosol into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation at the surface, a number of other materials have also been considered. To date, the detailed chemical and physical properties of these materials have mostly been treated in a simplified manner. As an example of the role physicochemical detail plays in understanding consequences of SRM, I will discuss the implications of a more detailed treatment of titania (TiO2), including the role of different titania polymorphs.
Climate Seminar
http://eps.harvard.edu/event/climate-seminar-3
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-18-210000-2015-11-18-220000/climate-seminar#sthash.tv9EbMI9.dpuf
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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
Wednesday, November 18
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Scott Barrett, Columbia University, and Astrid Dannenberg, Kassel University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
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Lecture 2 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Stories"
WHEN Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
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Massachusetts: THE Hub for Social Innovation Panel
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, Ladd Room, 2nd floor, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-the-hub-for-social-innovation-panel-tickets-19122995394
Please join us for an exciting conversation and exploration of the emerging social innovation ecosystem in the state of Massachusetts. Participants include some of our region’s leading non-profit, for-profit “B” corporations, and civic entrepreneurs – as well as those working to develop and engage the broader ecosystem in Boston and beyond.
This will be a great opportunity to discuss how we can move this effort forward together. We hope you will plan to join us!
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Chaper of the Social Enterprise Alliance and TWheelock College Department of Leadership and Policy
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TiE-Boston Solar Energy Deep-Dive
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
East Arcade Conference Center, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?PG=1521972182300&P=15219721911429920300
Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has grown significantly in the US and globally in the past decade driven by significant cost reduction in module prices, policy incentives and creative business models. This is a great success story in the clean / renewable energy sector. However, with just about 1% of the US electricity supply based on solar energy, there is significant potential for solar and renewables to significantly reduce the impact of fossil fuels in the energy supply chain.
The TiE-Boston Deep Dive event on Solar Energy, will present perspectives of the status of solar energy and some thoughts on what will influence the future deployment of solar energy in the US. To get a better appreciation of where things stand and what needs to be done going forward, TiE-Boston has assembled a great set of speakers to address various topics.
The speakers include:
Vikram Aggarwal, CEO, EnergySage
Andrew Belden, Solar Program Director, MassCEC
Colin Smith, Solar Research Analyst, Greentech Media
Rob Stoner, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Institute, & Director, MIT Tata Center
Frank van Mierlo, CEO, 1366 Technologies
Alison Ernst, Senior Manager Investments, MassCEC
This program has been organized by the TiE Boston Cleantech Special Interest Group and will be moderated by Vivek Soni.
The event will include perspectives on:
Customer expectations for solar energy
Current deployment in MA and in the US
Impact of storage
Drivers for significant future deployment
Technologies that will make a difference
Investor considerations going forward
Click here to register
TiE-Boston
617.225.0419
Email: tieadmin [at] boston.tie.org
Website: boston.tie.org
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, November 18
5:30p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events
Cost: $10
Program 3: The New Economy: Eds & Meds, 1980s -- Today
With Anthony Pangaro, Millennium Partners; Barbara Rubel, Tufts University; Kathy Spiegelman, Northeastern University; Peter Kiang, UMass Boston; and moderator Kairos Shen, former BRA.
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
617-646-0578
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International Energy Today: Transition and Transformation
Wednesday, November 18
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.
#TechHubTuesday Demo Night - December 2015
Tuesday, December 1
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.”
Carbon Pricing Forum
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.
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.
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
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.
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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Thursday, December 10
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Paris 2015: What’s next?
Thursday, December 10
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
William Moomaw, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
An interdisciplinary panel will discuss the climate negotiations and possible outcomes of the COP 21 summit in Paris which aims to reach a global agreement to keep global warming under 2°C.
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A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaig
Thursday, December 10
5:30 pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender
Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute
Comment: Suzanna Danuta Walters, Northeastern University
Suffragists coordinated a visual campaign to promote their cause and counter caricatures that depicted them as masculine. In the 1880s, they increased their efforts to establish a positive public image of their movement. Suffrage leaders—especially Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—began to change the way they represented themselves and fellow prominent figures. In the 1890s, as press committees took control of visual propaganda, suffragists honed their visual strategies to transform the imagery of political womanhood in the mainstream press.
The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.
Registration for the series is required.
Registered participants may access the papers online at the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
For more information, please call 617-495-8647 or email seminars@masshist.org.
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School: Malcolm Wiener Auditorium, Taubman G-1, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.
SPEAKER(S) Kathryn J. Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
H. Luke Shaefer, associate professor of social work and public policy, University of Michigan
David T. Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Join us...as four of the nation's leading poverty scholars come together to delve into the important new book, '$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,' by Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer.
"This essential book is a call to action, and one hopes it will accomplish what Michael Harrington’s 'The Other America' achieved in the 1960's — arousing both the nation’s consciousness and conscience about the plight of a growing number of invisible citizens."
— William Julius Wilson, The New York Times Book Review
LINK http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/coping-extreme-poverty-200-day
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School: Malcolm Wiener Auditorium, Taubman G-1, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.
SPEAKER(S) Kathryn J. Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
H. Luke Shaefer, associate professor of social work and public policy, University of Michigan
David T. Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Join us...as four of the nation's leading poverty scholars come together to delve into the important new book, '$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,' by Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer.
"This essential book is a call to action, and one hopes it will accomplish what Michael Harrington’s 'The Other America' achieved in the 1960's — arousing both the nation’s consciousness and conscience about the plight of a growing number of invisible citizens."
— William Julius Wilson, The New York Times Book Review
LINK http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/coping-extreme-poverty-200-day
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Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS The 21st century promises to be very different from the 20th century - so why are cities being planned using components that were developed during the last 100 years? In this talk, WOHA Directors share some ideas on what the designers of hyper dense cities of the 21st century could and should be doing to make them great places to live.
The architecture of WOHA, founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, is notable for its constant evolution and innovation. A profound awareness of local context and tradition is intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas, thus creating a unique fusion of practicality and invention. WOHA conceptualizes all aspects of the architectural process, and environmental principles have always been fundamental to the work of the practice, which is guided by a commitment to responsive place-making and to the creation of an invigorating and sustainable architecture.
WOHA’s built projects – throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Australia – range from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. WOHA has won an unprecedented amount of architectural awards for a Southeast Asian practice: they received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 for 1 Moulmein Rise, they collected four awards in the RIBA International Awards of 2011 and 2010 for Alila Villas Uluwatu, School of the Arts, The Met and Bras Basah MRT Station, and they won the 2011 RIBA Lubetkin Prize and the 2010 International Highrise Award for The Met. As an emphatic indication of WOHA’s versatility and global recognition, the practice won two titles in two consecutive years (in four separate categories) at the World Architecture Festival in 2009 and 2010. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, China and Indonesia. A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their work opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and three substantial monographs – WOHA: The Architecture of WOHA and WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 and 2 – have already been published.
Mun Summ Wong is the joint Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated with Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He was a Board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Land Authority and served as member of several Design Advisory Panels for major developments in Singapore. He has mentored students under the National University of Singapore’s Embedded Studio in Practice programme and, together with Richard Hassell, served as Studio Masters for the University’s MSc in Integrated Sustainable Design Masterclass since 2011. He was appointed as Jury Chair in the 2015 Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards.
Richard Hassell is the co-Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2002. He has served as a Board Member of DesignSingapore Council, the Board of Architects as well as the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. He has lectured at many universities, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Western Australia.
LINK: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/wong-mun-summ.html
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Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell: Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City
WHEN Tue., Nov. 10, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Graduate School of Design
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS The 21st century promises to be very different from the 20th century - so why are cities being planned using components that were developed during the last 100 years? In this talk, WOHA Directors share some ideas on what the designers of hyper dense cities of the 21st century could and should be doing to make them great places to live.
The architecture of WOHA, founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, is notable for its constant evolution and innovation. A profound awareness of local context and tradition is intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas, thus creating a unique fusion of practicality and invention. WOHA conceptualizes all aspects of the architectural process, and environmental principles have always been fundamental to the work of the practice, which is guided by a commitment to responsive place-making and to the creation of an invigorating and sustainable architecture.
WOHA’s built projects – throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Australia – range from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. WOHA has won an unprecedented amount of architectural awards for a Southeast Asian practice: they received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 for 1 Moulmein Rise, they collected four awards in the RIBA International Awards of 2011 and 2010 for Alila Villas Uluwatu, School of the Arts, The Met and Bras Basah MRT Station, and they won the 2011 RIBA Lubetkin Prize and the 2010 International Highrise Award for The Met. As an emphatic indication of WOHA’s versatility and global recognition, the practice won two titles in two consecutive years (in four separate categories) at the World Architecture Festival in 2009 and 2010. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, China and Indonesia. A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their work opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and three substantial monographs – WOHA: The Architecture of WOHA and WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 and 2 – have already been published.
Mun Summ Wong is the joint Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated with Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He was a Board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Land Authority and served as member of several Design Advisory Panels for major developments in Singapore. He has mentored students under the National University of Singapore’s Embedded Studio in Practice programme and, together with Richard Hassell, served as Studio Masters for the University’s MSc in Integrated Sustainable Design Masterclass since 2011. He was appointed as Jury Chair in the 2015 Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards.
Richard Hassell is the co-Founding Director of WOHA. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, in 2002. He has served as a Board Member of DesignSingapore Council, the Board of Architects as well as the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. He has lectured at many universities, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Western Australia.
LINK: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/wong-mun-summ.html
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EDFall Gathering in Cambridge
Tuesday, November 10
Tuesday, November 10
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
MIT Sloan Building, Rooms E62-223 and E62-233, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
MIT Sloan Building, Rooms E62-223 and E62-233, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mesIgSKfvMU4kAMKw0E24ZdETSB6OkUhWkCmyPJI4Nc/viewform?c=0&w=1
We’ll start the night off with a short introduction from Jason Jay, Director of Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan; Namrita Kapur, Managing Director of the EDF Corporate Partnerships Program, who will talk about EDF’s work with Walmart and others to phase out potentially harmful ingredients from tens of thousands of consumer products; and Sarah Meyers, an EDF Climate Corps and MIT Sloan alum. Their talks will be followed by Q&A and opportunity for networking and conversation.
Refreshments will be served.
You are cordially invited to join the Boston EDF Ambassadors community for an EDFall Gathering on the MIT campus, an opportunity for conversation and connection with like-minded environmentalists.
Hurry! Space is limited, so please RSVP
We’ll start the night off with a short introduction from Jason Jay, Director of Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan; Namrita Kapur, Managing Director of the EDF Corporate Partnerships Program, who will talk about EDF’s work with Walmart and others to phase out potentially harmful ingredients from tens of thousands of consumer products; and Sarah Meyers, an EDF Climate Corps and MIT Sloan alum. Their talks will be followed by Q&A and opportunity for networking and conversation.
Refreshments will be served.
You are cordially invited to join the Boston EDF Ambassadors community for an EDFall Gathering on the MIT campus, an opportunity for conversation and connection with like-minded environmentalists.
Hurry! Space is limited, so please RSVP
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Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Daedalus, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Interested in crisis management and humanitarian assistance? Join the Harvard Crisis Management Policy Interest Council at Daedalus on November 10th to meet crisis management and humanitarian assistance practitioners, researchers, and students from Harvard, MIT, and Tufts. Appetizers are on us!
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Renewable Energy Progress - Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Jeff Deyette, Assistant Director of Energy Research and a senior energy analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA. Mr. Deyette conducts analysis on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. He has written extensively for UCS and various renewable energy industry publications on the consumer, employment, and environmental benefits of increasing renewable energy use.
In this discussion, Mr. Deyette takes up the problem of the fossil fuel industry's resistance to renewable energy, and he gives an update on the progress that is being made across the US, despite that resistance. The Union of Concerned Scientists is a leader in the effort to transition to sustainable energy --and also to promoting an informed public about a wide range of science-related issues.
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations
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Wednesday, November 11
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Bitcoin's future: scalability and protocol modifications
Wednesday, November 11
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yonatan Sompolinsky , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
The future of Bitcoin depends (also) on its ability to scale and achieve the same transaction volume as other payment methods. At the same time, the security of Bitcoin depends on the synchronization of nodes in its network, which imposes a limit on the amount of transactions it can handle. I will present two protocol modifications that are aimed to improve the scalability of Bitcoin while still maintaining the security of the system, namely, the GHOST protocol, and Inclusive blockchain protocols.If time permits, I will also briefly discuss recent results on the incentives of nodes to follow the Bitcoin protocol (Selfish mining) which also become tougher if block-size is increased and Bitcoin is scaled up.
Bio
Yonatan Sompolinsky is a Computer Science PhD candidate at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2015. He earned his M.Sc in Computer Science (2014), and his B.Sc in Mathematics (2012), from The Hebrew University.
Host: CSAIL Security Seminar
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Crisis Management Happy Hour & Networking (and free food!)
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Daedalus, 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Interested in crisis management and humanitarian assistance? Join the Harvard Crisis Management Policy Interest Council at Daedalus on November 10th to meet crisis management and humanitarian assistance practitioners, researchers, and students from Harvard, MIT, and Tufts. Appetizers are on us!
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Renewable Energy Progress - Despite Resistance from the Fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday, November 10
7pm
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont
Jeff Deyette, Assistant Director of Energy Research and a senior energy analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA. Mr. Deyette conducts analysis on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. He has written extensively for UCS and various renewable energy industry publications on the consumer, employment, and environmental benefits of increasing renewable energy use.
In this discussion, Mr. Deyette takes up the problem of the fossil fuel industry's resistance to renewable energy, and he gives an update on the progress that is being made across the US, despite that resistance. The Union of Concerned Scientists is a leader in the effort to transition to sustainable energy --and also to promoting an informed public about a wide range of science-related issues.
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations
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Wednesday, November 11
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Bitcoin's future: scalability and protocol modifications
Wednesday, November 11
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yonatan Sompolinsky , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
The future of Bitcoin depends (also) on its ability to scale and achieve the same transaction volume as other payment methods. At the same time, the security of Bitcoin depends on the synchronization of nodes in its network, which imposes a limit on the amount of transactions it can handle. I will present two protocol modifications that are aimed to improve the scalability of Bitcoin while still maintaining the security of the system, namely, the GHOST protocol, and Inclusive blockchain protocols.If time permits, I will also briefly discuss recent results on the incentives of nodes to follow the Bitcoin protocol (Selfish mining) which also become tougher if block-size is increased and Bitcoin is scaled up.
Bio
Yonatan Sompolinsky is a Computer Science PhD candidate at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2015. He earned his M.Sc in Computer Science (2014), and his B.Sc in Mathematics (2012), from The Hebrew University.
Host: CSAIL Security Seminar
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NECSI Salon: Distributed Disaster Response
Wednesday, November 11
4:00 to 6:00 PM
NE Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway, Cambridge
Wednesday, November 11
4:00 to 6:00 PM
NE Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
Livestream at https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c2evj8nqduqvsftiegu006rbu2c
Speaker: Willow Brugh
Organizations have been dominated by hierarchical control models for thousands of years. In recent years, the power of distributed organizations at performing complex tasks has become increasingly apparent. The strength of centralized decision making systems lies in coordination of large scale efforts with consistency and continuity. However, the structure which inherently leads to these strengths also limits the ability to respond to highly complex information associated with local tasks. These issues arise in the context of disaster response where flexibility to respond to dynamic conditions is essential. At the same time, in disaster response, there remains a need for large-scale coordination of resource distribution.
In this Salon meeting we will explore the success of the Occupy Sandy mutual aid organization as a model for how distributed control systems can be immediately and appropriately responsive in emergency situations. This may allow them to succeed in those complex disaster response tasks where centralized systems generally fail. By combining centralized and networked response, the strengths of each can be utilized for a comprehensive successful response.
Speaker: Willow Brugh
Organizations have been dominated by hierarchical control models for thousands of years. In recent years, the power of distributed organizations at performing complex tasks has become increasingly apparent. The strength of centralized decision making systems lies in coordination of large scale efforts with consistency and continuity. However, the structure which inherently leads to these strengths also limits the ability to respond to highly complex information associated with local tasks. These issues arise in the context of disaster response where flexibility to respond to dynamic conditions is essential. At the same time, in disaster response, there remains a need for large-scale coordination of resource distribution.
In this Salon meeting we will explore the success of the Occupy Sandy mutual aid organization as a model for how distributed control systems can be immediately and appropriately responsive in emergency situations. This may allow them to succeed in those complex disaster response tasks where centralized systems generally fail. By combining centralized and networked response, the strengths of each can be utilized for a comprehensive successful response.
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Future of Energy
Wednesday, November 11
5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 111 West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Bryony Worthington, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate, House of Lords; Founder and Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign, “Lessons Learned from the Front Line of Policymaking”
Baroness Worthington was a key member of the team that drafted the UK’s landmark Climate Change Act (2007) and helped to set up the Government’s first public awareness campaign on the subject of climate change. Baroness Worthington currently serves as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. She is also the founder and director of Sandbag, a non-profit think tank that conducts research and campaigns for environmentally effective climate policies.
Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/foe-worthington#sthash.ORPMhO8E.dpuf
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Wednesday, November 11
5:00PM
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall 111 West, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Bryony Worthington, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate, House of Lords; Founder and Director, Sandbag Climate Campaign, “Lessons Learned from the Front Line of Policymaking”
Baroness Worthington was a key member of the team that drafted the UK’s landmark Climate Change Act (2007) and helped to set up the Government’s first public awareness campaign on the subject of climate change. Baroness Worthington currently serves as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. She is also the founder and director of Sandbag, a non-profit think tank that conducts research and campaigns for environmentally effective climate policies.
Contact Name: Erin Harleman
eharleman@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/foe-worthington#sthash.ORPMhO8E.dpuf
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2,000 Years of European Climate: First results from the SoHP Historical Ice Core Project
WHEN Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Paul A. Mayewski, U. of Maine
Pascal Bohleber, U. of Maine
Alexander More, Harvard University
Michael McCormick, Harvard University
Andrei Kurbatov, U. of Maine
Nicole Spaulding, U. of Maine
Matthew Luongo, Harvard College '17
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-2000-years-european-climate-first-results-sohp-historical-ice-core-project"
WHEN Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Paul A. Mayewski, U. of Maine
Pascal Bohleber, U. of Maine
Alexander More, Harvard University
Michael McCormick, Harvard University
Andrei Kurbatov, U. of Maine
Nicole Spaulding, U. of Maine
Matthew Luongo, Harvard College '17
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/sohp-2000-years-european-climate-first-results-sohp-historical-ice-core-project"
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A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wednesday, November 11
5pm
Harvard, JF Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his teenage son, has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted upon African Americans.
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University, will moderate the event with remarks by Kathryn Edin, Distinguished Bloomberg Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.
http://shorensteincenter.org/a-conversation-with-ta-nehisi-coates/
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Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green
Wednesday, November 11
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EST)
New England College of Business, 10 High Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwashing-its-not-so-easy-to-go-green-tickets-19149165670
With corporate misbehavior flooding media channels, it’s no surprise that today’s educated consumers, investors and job seekers look carefully at the reputation of the firms which they choose to do business. But how can you know if the positive image you see on a corporate website is legitimate or just ‘spin’?
This Innovation Room session explores the dangerous practice of ‘greenwashing’ – the use of marketing and communication tools to present an organization as more environmentally friendly than they really are. Helpful to both consumers, investors, job seekers and HR, compliance, and communication professionals alike, this session will examine:
Why ‘green’? What are job seekers, investors and customers looking for when a business is "green"?
What happens when companies ‘paint’ themselves as being more socially responsible than they are?
How can you verify a company’s ‘true colors’? What tools and resources are available?
As an HR, compliance, or communications professional, what can you do to help your company from ‘coloring outside the lines’ in representing their green practices?
Presented by Michele Jurgens, PhD, Chair of the Master’s Program for Business Ethics and Compliance at New England College of Business. With more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership in strategy, quality, and management consulting, she teaches topics such as corporate social responsibility, international ethics and compliance, accounting and ethics, culture of ethics, and management at the college and at Harvard Extension School. Ms. Jurgens has multiple published works; her research and her most recent publications concern BP’s management of stakeholder relations during the Deepwater Horizon crisis.
Sponsored by New England College of Business.
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Wednesday, November 11
5pm
Harvard, JF Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, written as a letter to his teenage son, has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted upon African Americans.
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University, will moderate the event with remarks by Kathryn Edin, Distinguished Bloomberg Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.
http://shorensteincenter.org/a-conversation-with-ta-nehisi-coates/
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Greenwashing. It's not so easy to go green
Wednesday, November 11
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EST)
New England College of Business, 10 High Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greenwashing-its-not-so-easy-to-go-green-tickets-19149165670
With corporate misbehavior flooding media channels, it’s no surprise that today’s educated consumers, investors and job seekers look carefully at the reputation of the firms which they choose to do business. But how can you know if the positive image you see on a corporate website is legitimate or just ‘spin’?
This Innovation Room session explores the dangerous practice of ‘greenwashing’ – the use of marketing and communication tools to present an organization as more environmentally friendly than they really are. Helpful to both consumers, investors, job seekers and HR, compliance, and communication professionals alike, this session will examine:
Why ‘green’? What are job seekers, investors and customers looking for when a business is "green"?
What happens when companies ‘paint’ themselves as being more socially responsible than they are?
How can you verify a company’s ‘true colors’? What tools and resources are available?
As an HR, compliance, or communications professional, what can you do to help your company from ‘coloring outside the lines’ in representing their green practices?
Presented by Michele Jurgens, PhD, Chair of the Master’s Program for Business Ethics and Compliance at New England College of Business. With more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership in strategy, quality, and management consulting, she teaches topics such as corporate social responsibility, international ethics and compliance, accounting and ethics, culture of ethics, and management at the college and at Harvard Extension School. Ms. Jurgens has multiple published works; her research and her most recent publications concern BP’s management of stakeholder relations during the Deepwater Horizon crisis.
Sponsored by New England College of Business.
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RAGE: Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior's Symposium on Aggression and Violence
WHEN Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
SPEAKER(S) Catherine Dulac
Steven Pinker
Nadine Weidman
Richard Wrangham
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Come hear Catherine Dulac examine the impact of pheromones on aggression; Steven Pinker discuss the decline in violence in humans today; Nadine Weidman outline arguments about whether humans are innately violent; and Richard Wrangham highlight the evolutionary basis of violence in primates.
The presentations will be followed by a Q&A and discussion panel with our speakers.
Food and refreshments will be served!
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/858495860914705/
WHEN Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
SPEAKER(S) Catherine Dulac
Steven Pinker
Nadine Weidman
Richard Wrangham
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Come hear Catherine Dulac examine the impact of pheromones on aggression; Steven Pinker discuss the decline in violence in humans today; Nadine Weidman outline arguments about whether humans are innately violent; and Richard Wrangham highlight the evolutionary basis of violence in primates.
The presentations will be followed by a Q&A and discussion panel with our speakers.
Food and refreshments will be served!
LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/858495860914705/
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Community Impact Lab: Exploring Systemic Causes of Gun Violence
Wednesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub of Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-impact-lab-exploring-systemic-causes-of-gun-violence-tickets-19264106461
Gun violence is a pervasive part of American culture. We encounter gun violence in our schools, where we shop, and on our streets. Join StatusNovi, as we use systems thinking to explore the culture and causes of gun use and gun violence in our communities.
Our event will begin with a breif introduction to systems thinking, and then we will break into groups each with an experienced moderator. Anyone can participate, no previous experience in systems thinking is required. All you need to bring is yourself and your willingness to listen to others and to engage in courageous conversations.
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Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Wednesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitches-pitchers-with-the-boston-institute-for-nonprofit-journalism-tickets-19210651576
An alternative title for this crash course could be: “Mastering the Greater Boston Media Ecosystem,” or “Save Your Money. You Can Do Anything Your Publicist Can Do, But Better.”
Whether hiring a publicist or not, small business managers and owners should know how to navigate the dozens of influential local and statewide sites, stations, and newspapers, as well as the innumerable national outlets that might cover their idea or product.
This is a participatory event, and one unlike any taught by publicists or marketing professors. Hosted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)—and featuring local reporters and editors with experience ranging from Scout Somerville, to Boston Magazine, to DigBoston, to Esquire, to Buzzfeed to Fast Company—we tour you through the media gauntlet from the gatekeeper’s perspective.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School. They will be joined by BINJ Projects Coordinator Emily Hopkins, who is the managing editor of Scout Somerville and Scout Cambridge and a contributor to Storybench, by Dan McCarthy, who has served as an editor at DigBoston and UrbanDaddy, and by other media makers from the BINJ network.
ABOUT BINJ: The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold reporting on issues related to social justice and innovation, and cultivates writers and multimedia producers to assist in that role.
BINJ supports independent publications in various reportorial and organizational capacities, collaborates with partners on sustainable journalism and civic engagement initiatives, and aims to empower promising muckrakers with training and professional compensation.
BONUS: The first 25 attendees at the door will receive a complimentary copy of the first edition of the Boston Bubble, a new premium print quarterly about tech and innovation in Greater Boston that is produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
Community Impact Lab: Exploring Systemic Causes of Gun Violence
Wednesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub of Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-impact-lab-exploring-systemic-causes-of-gun-violence-tickets-19264106461
Gun violence is a pervasive part of American culture. We encounter gun violence in our schools, where we shop, and on our streets. Join StatusNovi, as we use systems thinking to explore the culture and causes of gun use and gun violence in our communities.
Our event will begin with a breif introduction to systems thinking, and then we will break into groups each with an experienced moderator. Anyone can participate, no previous experience in systems thinking is required. All you need to bring is yourself and your willingness to listen to others and to engage in courageous conversations.
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Pitches & Pitchers with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Wednesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Workbar Cambridge, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitches-pitchers-with-the-boston-institute-for-nonprofit-journalism-tickets-19210651576
An alternative title for this crash course could be: “Mastering the Greater Boston Media Ecosystem,” or “Save Your Money. You Can Do Anything Your Publicist Can Do, But Better.”
Whether hiring a publicist or not, small business managers and owners should know how to navigate the dozens of influential local and statewide sites, stations, and newspapers, as well as the innumerable national outlets that might cover their idea or product.
This is a participatory event, and one unlike any taught by publicists or marketing professors. Hosted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)—and featuring local reporters and editors with experience ranging from Scout Somerville, to Boston Magazine, to DigBoston, to Esquire, to Buzzfeed to Fast Company—we tour you through the media gauntlet from the gatekeeper’s perspective.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS: Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas, both of BINJ, have a combined 40+ years of media experience, having written for publications ranging from The Nation, to Esquire, to BuzzFeed. Jason is an award-winning media studies professor who most recently taught at Lesley University, while Chris has lectured extensively at colleges around New England as well as at Columbia Journalism School. They will be joined by BINJ Projects Coordinator Emily Hopkins, who is the managing editor of Scout Somerville and Scout Cambridge and a contributor to Storybench, by Dan McCarthy, who has served as an editor at DigBoston and UrbanDaddy, and by other media makers from the BINJ network.
ABOUT BINJ: The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold reporting on issues related to social justice and innovation, and cultivates writers and multimedia producers to assist in that role.
BINJ supports independent publications in various reportorial and organizational capacities, collaborates with partners on sustainable journalism and civic engagement initiatives, and aims to empower promising muckrakers with training and professional compensation.
BONUS: The first 25 attendees at the door will receive a complimentary copy of the first edition of the Boston Bubble, a new premium print quarterly about tech and innovation in Greater Boston that is produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
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The Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
Wednesday, November 11
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
BU, College of Arts and Sciences - 685-725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B36, Boston
BU, College of Arts and Sciences - 685-725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B36, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hardest-hit-survival-strategies-from-the-frontlines-of-climate-change-tickets-19429334663
Around the world, it is the poorest and most vulnerable people who are hit hardest by climate change. Come join us for a film screening and discussion of Oxfam's "The Hardest Hit", which highlights the hardships endured by these communities as a result of climate change, and ways they've been able to build resilience to protect themselves.
Around the world, it is the poorest and most vulnerable people who are hit hardest by climate change. Come join us for a film screening and discussion of Oxfam's "The Hardest Hit", which highlights the hardships endured by these communities as a result of climate change, and ways they've been able to build resilience to protect themselves.
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EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE: What Actions are Needed to Answer Francis' Call?
Wednesday, November 11
Wednesday, November 11
7-9 PM
St. Ignatius Church, 28 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
St. Ignatius Church, 28 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebn6x8a98e44802c&llr=evkqo7bab
At our 13th Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light examines the question: How should faith communities respond to the climate justice crisis?
Rabbi Katy Allen, President, Jewish Climate Action Network
Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, President & General Minister, MA Conference, United Church of Christ
Christina Leano, Global Campaigns Coordinator, Global Catholic Climate Movement
All are welcome! No charge for admission.
For information contact Vince Maraventano at vince@MIPandL.org or 617-244-0755.
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Thursday, November 12
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Global Engagement Forum: Watch Party
Thursday, November 12
10am-12pm
MIT, Building 56-116, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Details: In September 2015, the United Nations formalized the Sustainable Development Goals, which provide a foundation for action to solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges. PYXERA Global is live broadcasting the Global Engagement Forum to share this tremendous opportunity to harness the capabilities of the private, public, and social sector and accelerate action to make progress towards these goals. Speakers include leaders and organizations from across the three sectors to discuss how best to partner and move from aspiration to achievement.
Speakers include:
MIT Student John Lewandowski – Disease Diagnostic Group, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Winner
Keynotes: Sheryl WuDunn, Stuart Hart, and Sue Norton
Among many others who represent companies and organizations such as: The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen, IFC, IBM International Foundation, and Aspire Food Group.
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Solar Power Comes of Age
Thursday, November 12
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Philip Warburg, Author
Solar power is poised to become a mainstream US power resource, already visible on hundreds of thousands of rooftops, fast taking hold on farms and industrial "brownfields," and spreading across our Western deserts. In addition to exploring the full extent of solar's potential, this talk will examine some of the challenges it poses. How will utilities adapt as "distributed" solar supplants fossil and nuclear plants that have long been their revenue-generating mainstays? What are the wildlife impacts of utility-scale solar fields, and how can those impacts be mitigated? And how will we manage vast new quantities of solar waste as the industry matures? Specific solar projects will be studied; US and European policies will be explored.
Philip Warburg is a lawyer by training and a writer at heart. His work on energy issues dates back to the summer of 1973, when he staffed one of the nation's first challenges to nuclear power in Plymouth, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard College in 1978, he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, where he pioneered legislation to promote renewable energy. Later, as a graduate of Harvard Law School, Phil worked at the Washington-based Environmental Law Institute fostering environmental law reform in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This followed a two-year stint as a freelance reporter on the first Palestinian Intifada and the beginnings of a Middle East peace process in the late 1980s. In 1994, Phil went back to the Middle East, where he advised the Palestinian Authority's drafting of its first environmental legislation and coordinated a World Bank project in Jordan, protecting the Gulf of Aqaba's endangered coral reefs. He then spent several years at the helm of the Tel Aviv-based Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel's leading environmental advocacy group. Returning to his native New England in 2003, Phil became president of the Conservation Law Foundation, the region's oldest and largest environmental watchdog group. There, he found himself in the midst of one of America's most contentious wind farm siting battles—over the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. In Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Phil explored wind power's promise and the challenges facing this transformative technology. In his new book, Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future, Phil looks at inner-city solar projects and the development of solar power in Native American communities. He also examines some of the ways that solar developers are responding to concerns about wildlife protection, and he probes the life-cycle performance of different solar technologies.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University.
Moderator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School
DETAILS The Ash Center cordially invites you to a discussion with Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. Dr. Mendis' talk is entitled: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia and will be moderated by Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/trans-pacific-partnership-future-america’s-economic-role-asia
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World Climate
Saturday, November 7
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects (BSA), 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-climate-registration-18511483345
World Climate is a model-based game that was developed by MIT professor John Sterman and Drew Jones of the nonprofit organization, Climate Interactive. Participants in this simplified version of an international climate change negotioation represent countries that span the development spectrum, and must negotiate to reach an agreement that will curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100.
Mixed Paper will host World Climate in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects. Our goal is to engage the greater Boston community in climate change policy ahead of the major COP21 climate talks happening this December in Paris. We want to encourage all to participate in this crucial and momentous discussion. The event is free and open to all. Thank you for registering!
Please note that by registering, you agree to have your likeness photographed and possibly published in print and/or web material associated with this event. If this is a problem, please let us know prior to registration.
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Economics of Climate Change: Perspectives From Tufts
Thursday, November 12
1:30-2:45
Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Avenue, Somerville
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Sivan Kartha, and Gilbert Metcalf
GDAE will host a panel discussion with Kelly Sims Gallagher of the Fletcher School, Sivan Kartha of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Gilbert Metcalf of the Tufts Economics Department. Tufts professors and researchers will present a variety of current perspectives related to the economics of climate change. Topics to be addressed include carbon pricing, renewable energy, and equity and efficiency in the design of an international climate regime.
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Storage of nonstructural carbon reserves in forest trees: Relevance in the context of global change
Thursday, November 12
4:00 PM
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall Biolabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Andrew Richardson, Harvard University
OEB Special Seminar
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Structural Color in Nature
Thursday, November 12
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
Structural color has attracted much attention in a wide variety of disciplines. It originates from the physical interaction of light with nanostructure. Most studies have focused on ordered structures in the natural world which produce iridescent colors that change with viewing angle. However, nature has also used extensively quasi-ordered structures to create weakly iridescent colors. Prof. Cao and her research group at Yale investigated the physical mechanism for coloration of nanostructures with short-range order in bird feather barbs. Inspired by nature, her group developed a simple technique to fabricate large-scale biomimetic films which display isotropic structural color, that is amenable to potential applications in coatings, cosmetics, and textiles. To investigate how the structural color evolves in nature, she and her team conducted the artificial selection on a lab model butterfly to evolve the structural color of wing scales and compared to natural selection. This work reveals the physical mechanism of structural color evolution, which stands in sharp contrast to pigment color evolution.
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Materials Processing Center collaborate to bring a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community are invited.
Refreshments will be served.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
617.253.6850
gfranzet@mit.edu
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At our 13th Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light examines the question: How should faith communities respond to the climate justice crisis?
The U.N. COP21 climate negotiations in Paris begin Nov.30th. What can we do to make them a success?
Massachusetts isn't meeting its mandated climate change goals. How can we help?
How should faith communities change to effectively respond to the climate justice crisis?
Patrick Carolan, Executive Director, Franciscan Action Network, Keynote Speaker.Rabbi Katy Allen, President, Jewish Climate Action Network
Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, President & General Minister, MA Conference, United Church of Christ
Christina Leano, Global Campaigns Coordinator, Global Catholic Climate Movement
All are welcome! No charge for admission.
For information contact Vince Maraventano at vince@MIPandL.org or 617-244-0755.
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Thursday, November 12
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Global Engagement Forum: Watch Party
Thursday, November 12
10am-12pm
MIT, Building 56-116, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Details: In September 2015, the United Nations formalized the Sustainable Development Goals, which provide a foundation for action to solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges. PYXERA Global is live broadcasting the Global Engagement Forum to share this tremendous opportunity to harness the capabilities of the private, public, and social sector and accelerate action to make progress towards these goals. Speakers include leaders and organizations from across the three sectors to discuss how best to partner and move from aspiration to achievement.
Speakers include:
MIT Student John Lewandowski – Disease Diagnostic Group, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Winner
Keynotes: Sheryl WuDunn, Stuart Hart, and Sue Norton
Among many others who represent companies and organizations such as: The Rockefeller Foundation, Acumen, IFC, IBM International Foundation, and Aspire Food Group.
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Solar Power Comes of Age
Thursday, November 12
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Philip Warburg, Author
Solar power is poised to become a mainstream US power resource, already visible on hundreds of thousands of rooftops, fast taking hold on farms and industrial "brownfields," and spreading across our Western deserts. In addition to exploring the full extent of solar's potential, this talk will examine some of the challenges it poses. How will utilities adapt as "distributed" solar supplants fossil and nuclear plants that have long been their revenue-generating mainstays? What are the wildlife impacts of utility-scale solar fields, and how can those impacts be mitigated? And how will we manage vast new quantities of solar waste as the industry matures? Specific solar projects will be studied; US and European policies will be explored.
Philip Warburg is a lawyer by training and a writer at heart. His work on energy issues dates back to the summer of 1973, when he staffed one of the nation's first challenges to nuclear power in Plymouth, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard College in 1978, he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, where he pioneered legislation to promote renewable energy. Later, as a graduate of Harvard Law School, Phil worked at the Washington-based Environmental Law Institute fostering environmental law reform in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This followed a two-year stint as a freelance reporter on the first Palestinian Intifada and the beginnings of a Middle East peace process in the late 1980s. In 1994, Phil went back to the Middle East, where he advised the Palestinian Authority's drafting of its first environmental legislation and coordinated a World Bank project in Jordan, protecting the Gulf of Aqaba's endangered coral reefs. He then spent several years at the helm of the Tel Aviv-based Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel's leading environmental advocacy group. Returning to his native New England in 2003, Phil became president of the Conservation Law Foundation, the region's oldest and largest environmental watchdog group. There, he found himself in the midst of one of America's most contentious wind farm siting battles—over the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. In Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Phil explored wind power's promise and the challenges facing this transformative technology. In his new book, Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future, Phil looks at inner-city solar projects and the development of solar power in Native American communities. He also examines some of the ways that solar developers are responding to concerns about wildlife protection, and he probes the life-cycle performance of different solar technologies.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University.
Moderator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School
DETAILS The Ash Center cordially invites you to a discussion with Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. Dr. Mendis' talk is entitled: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Future of America’s Economic Role in Asia and will be moderated by Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
LINK http://ash.harvard.edu/event/trans-pacific-partnership-future-america’s-economic-role-asia
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World Climate
Saturday, November 7
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects (BSA), 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-climate-registration-18511483345
World Climate is a model-based game that was developed by MIT professor John Sterman and Drew Jones of the nonprofit organization, Climate Interactive. Participants in this simplified version of an international climate change negotioation represent countries that span the development spectrum, and must negotiate to reach an agreement that will curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100.
Mixed Paper will host World Climate in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects. Our goal is to engage the greater Boston community in climate change policy ahead of the major COP21 climate talks happening this December in Paris. We want to encourage all to participate in this crucial and momentous discussion. The event is free and open to all. Thank you for registering!
Please note that by registering, you agree to have your likeness photographed and possibly published in print and/or web material associated with this event. If this is a problem, please let us know prior to registration.
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Economics of Climate Change: Perspectives From Tufts
Thursday, November 12
1:30-2:45
Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Avenue, Somerville
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Sivan Kartha, and Gilbert Metcalf
GDAE will host a panel discussion with Kelly Sims Gallagher of the Fletcher School, Sivan Kartha of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Gilbert Metcalf of the Tufts Economics Department. Tufts professors and researchers will present a variety of current perspectives related to the economics of climate change. Topics to be addressed include carbon pricing, renewable energy, and equity and efficiency in the design of an international climate regime.
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Storage of nonstructural carbon reserves in forest trees: Relevance in the context of global change
Thursday, November 12
4:00 PM
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall Biolabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Andrew Richardson, Harvard University
OEB Special Seminar
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Structural Color in Nature
Thursday, November 12
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Hui Cao, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
Structural color has attracted much attention in a wide variety of disciplines. It originates from the physical interaction of light with nanostructure. Most studies have focused on ordered structures in the natural world which produce iridescent colors that change with viewing angle. However, nature has also used extensively quasi-ordered structures to create weakly iridescent colors. Prof. Cao and her research group at Yale investigated the physical mechanism for coloration of nanostructures with short-range order in bird feather barbs. Inspired by nature, her group developed a simple technique to fabricate large-scale biomimetic films which display isotropic structural color, that is amenable to potential applications in coatings, cosmetics, and textiles. To investigate how the structural color evolves in nature, she and her team conducted the artificial selection on a lab model butterfly to evolve the structural color of wing scales and compared to natural selection. This work reveals the physical mechanism of structural color evolution, which stands in sharp contrast to pigment color evolution.
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Materials Processing Center collaborate to bring a wide variety of speakers from outside of MIT to meet with faculty and students, and to deliver lectures to which the entire MIT community are invited.
Refreshments will be served.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cmse/
Open to: the general public
Cost: $0
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Materials@MIT
For more information, contact: Gina Franzetta
617.253.6850
gfranzet@mit.edu
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His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) His Highness the Aga Khan
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice
CONTACT INFO sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
His Highness the Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, a global, multiethnic community whose members comprise a wide diversity of cultures, languages, and nationalities. The Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, as Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims in 1957 at the age of twenty. He has emphasized the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith: one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man.
Since taking on his role, the Aga Khan has been committed to improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations, while emphasizing the need to uphold human dignity as well as respect for tolerance and pluralism. His Highness accomplishes this through the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, international, and nondenominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world.
After the lecture there will be a conversation with:
Diana L Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Harvard College Professor; and Director, Pluralism Project at Harvard University.
Please Note:
Tickets are required and cannot be reserved in advance. In-person ticket distribution only at the Harvard Box Office starting Wednesday, November 4th. Limit of two tickets per person.
We ask that all attendees be seated by 3:45 p.m.
This event will be live streamed from the WCFIA website.
LINK http://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/jodidi-2015
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
SPEAKER(S) His Highness the Aga Khan
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice
CONTACT INFO sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
His Highness the Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, a global, multiethnic community whose members comprise a wide diversity of cultures, languages, and nationalities. The Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, as Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims in 1957 at the age of twenty. He has emphasized the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith: one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man.
Since taking on his role, the Aga Khan has been committed to improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations, while emphasizing the need to uphold human dignity as well as respect for tolerance and pluralism. His Highness accomplishes this through the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, international, and nondenominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world.
After the lecture there will be a conversation with:
Diana L Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Harvard College Professor; and Director, Pluralism Project at Harvard University.
Please Note:
Tickets are required and cannot be reserved in advance. In-person ticket distribution only at the Harvard Box Office starting Wednesday, November 4th. Limit of two tickets per person.
We ask that all attendees be seated by 3:45 p.m.
This event will be live streamed from the WCFIA website.
LINK http://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/jodidi-2015
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A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic or Otherwise
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Morgan Courtroom
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This lecture is part of a series entitled “Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections” being sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Political Theory Colloquium, the East Asian Legal Studies Program, and the Philosophy Colloquium at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S) Ci Jiwei, professor of philosophy, University of Hong Kong
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
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Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture
Thursday, November 12
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sheila Kennedy
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.
Web site: MIT Architecture, Professor of the Practice
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: Sheila Kennedy has done some very interesting work with solar bags and shades on buildings. She is an architect with an intriguing imagination.
A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic or Otherwise
WHEN Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Morgan Courtroom
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR This lecture is part of a series entitled “Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections” being sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Political Theory Colloquium, the East Asian Legal Studies Program, and the Philosophy Colloquium at Harvard University.
SPEAKER(S) Ci Jiwei, professor of philosophy, University of Hong Kong
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
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Architecture Lecture: Sheila Kennedy, Graduate Open House Lecture
Thursday, November 12
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sheila Kennedy
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.
Web site: MIT Architecture, Professor of the Practice
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: Sheila Kennedy has done some very interesting work with solar bags and shades on buildings. She is an architect with an intriguing imagination.
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World Wide Views on Climate and Energy: Add Your Voice
Thursday, November 12
Thursday, November 12
7:00 PM (EST)
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-wide-views-on-climate-and-energy-add-your-voice-registration-18798644251
Join fellow engaged citizens to learn about climate and energy issues and share your views. Hear results from a global deliberation in June and compare your answers to the US and global results.
Join fellow engaged citizens to learn about climate and energy issues and share your views. Hear results from a global deliberation in June and compare your answers to the US and global results.
Explore differences and weigh in on what might be causing them. What makes America's results unique?
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BASEA Forum: Mass. Solar Policy Update
Thursday, November 12
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalistm 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Fred Unger leads our discussion for the November BASEA Forum, an update on solar policy in Massachusetts, along with Mark LeBel (Acadia Center) and Nathan Phelps (Vote Solar). We can't tell you today just what will be discussed on November 12th, as things are moving fast on Beacon Hill:
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 2, 2015.....House Speaker Robert DeLeo said "We're taking a serious look at, and hopefully we'll see, the net metering legislation... getting onto the governor's desk." - Colin A. Young, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Fred has helped to develop more than 10 MW of renewable energy. In 2007, Massachusetts had less than that in total installed capacity; we now have 967 MW. Forward looking policy and market factors enabled this tremendous growth, but it is now partially halted by net metering caps. Governor Baker has a bill to lift net metering caps, but it is a Trojan horse that seeks to put future restrictions on solar deployment, rather than simply removing the net metering obstacles.
Which way will the political winds blow before legislators put formal sessions on hold for the year? Expect a lively, roundtable, interactive discussion of the latest solar policy news, what we might see moving forward and lessons learned from the solar industry's policy efforts over the last couple of years. Join in at the Boston Area Solar Energy Association (http://www.BASEA.org) November Forum
Thursday, November 12
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalistm 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Fred Unger leads our discussion for the November BASEA Forum, an update on solar policy in Massachusetts, along with Mark LeBel (Acadia Center) and Nathan Phelps (Vote Solar). We can't tell you today just what will be discussed on November 12th, as things are moving fast on Beacon Hill:
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 2, 2015.....House Speaker Robert DeLeo said "We're taking a serious look at, and hopefully we'll see, the net metering legislation... getting onto the governor's desk." - Colin A. Young, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Fred has helped to develop more than 10 MW of renewable energy. In 2007, Massachusetts had less than that in total installed capacity; we now have 967 MW. Forward looking policy and market factors enabled this tremendous growth, but it is now partially halted by net metering caps. Governor Baker has a bill to lift net metering caps, but it is a Trojan horse that seeks to put future restrictions on solar deployment, rather than simply removing the net metering obstacles.
Which way will the political winds blow before legislators put formal sessions on hold for the year? Expect a lively, roundtable, interactive discussion of the latest solar policy news, what we might see moving forward and lessons learned from the solar industry's policy efforts over the last couple of years. Join in at the Boston Area Solar Energy Association (http://www.BASEA.org) November Forum
Fred Unger, Heartwood Group, Inc.
Fred has managed hundreds of energy efficient construction and development projects, including development and permitting of a 3.3 MW wind project. For the last seven years, he has managed development and operations for BCC Solar, a solar project development company that owns and operates 4 MW of solar projects serving low income communities and is currently building an additional 2.9 MW. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England and previously served as Chair of the Building Energy Conference and Treasurer of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
Mark LeBel, Acadia Center
Mark is a staff attorney at Acadia Center, Boston office, working on transportation (electric vehicles, clean fuels) and electric utility grid modernization. During law school, he was Articles Editor at NYU Environmental Law Journal, and interned at NRDC's Environmental Law Clinic and the Government Civil Litigation Clinic, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, he was an Associate Analyst with NERA Economic Consulting in Boston. Mark holds a JD with honors from NYU School of Law and an AB with honors in Applied Mathematics with a focus in Economics from Harvard College.
Nathan Phelps, Vote Solar
Nathan, Program Manager, focuses on regulatory design for distributed generation. Prior to joining Vote Solar, Nathan was a Senior Economist at the Massachusetts Dept of Public Utilities. Nathan holds an undergraduate degree from Willamette University and a graduate degree from Tufts University.
* If you haven't contacted your Mass. House representative - do it now! Here's how:
1. Call the House Switchboard (617) 722-2000 - ask to be put through to your Representative
2. Say to them: "Raise the caps on net metering before Thanksgiving so solar can continue to grow"
3. Get a friend to do the same and report back to help us keeps tabs - email sean@votesolar.org
More information at http://www.basea.org
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Friday, November 13
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2015 MIT Energy Hackathon
Friday, Nov 13, 2015 - Sunday, Nov 15, 2015
Venue: multiple venues on MIT campus.
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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15
The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding, Regional Administrator, EPA New England
Curt Spalding serves as the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in New England. For almost 20 years, he served as Executive Director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, a nationally recognized, 20,000-member environmental advocacy and education organization.
Since joining the EPA leadership team in February 2010, Spalding has been leading a holistic approach to finding environmental solutions in New England. He's emphasized efforts in community engagement, sustainability, environmental justice and green economy. Spalding has focused our efforts in the region on three cross-cutting initiatives: climate change, stormwater and community prosperity.
Kenneth Strzepek, Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on Global Change, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor Strzepek has spent over 40 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental and economics systems. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and USAID. He was a lead author on the Second and Fifth IPCC Assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He was the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR.
He is an Arthur Maass-Gilbert White Fellow at the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers and received the Department of the Interior Citizen’s Award for Innovation in the applications of Systems Analysis to Water Management. Professor Strzepek is a co-recipient of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment and as a lead author for IPCC, he is a co-recipient of the 2007 Noble Peace Prize.
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The Internet of Cows Hackathon
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM
9:00 AM
MassChallenge, 21 DryDock Avenue Floor 6, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-of-cows-hackathon-tickets-19028152717
BovControl is building the Internet of Cows (IoC), of which a critical aspect will be a new type of "wearable" sensor for data collection in the field. Join us at the MADE Hardware Lab at MassChallenge in the Seaport for a hackathon sprint to conceptualize, prototype, and test the next generation of cattle management hardware.
BovControl will provide all necessary resources: full access to our API, a state-of-the-art hardware lab, specific industry knowledge, pilot ranches for testing, and top-tier consultants for go-to-market strategies.
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Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data
WHEN Fri., Nov. 13, 2015, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, One Brattle Street, Room 402, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Clarence Wardell, Nicole Wong, Nick Sinai
COST Free, but registration is required
TICKET WEB LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
CONTACT INFO katie_miles@hks.harvard.edu, 617.496.8636
DETAILS Panelists:
Clarence Wardell, Presidential Innovation Fellow, working on the Police Data Initiative; Berkman Center affiliate
Nicole Wong. Former positions include: U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer; Legal Director of Products, Twitter; VP & Deputy General Counsel, Google
Nick Sinai, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS, former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer (moderator)
Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and the Center for Public Leadership.
Registration is required. Register at: http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
WHEN Fri., Nov. 13, 2015, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, One Brattle Street, Room 402, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Clarence Wardell, Nicole Wong, Nick Sinai
COST Free, but registration is required
TICKET WEB LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
CONTACT INFO katie_miles@hks.harvard.edu, 617.496.8636
DETAILS Panelists:
Clarence Wardell, Presidential Innovation Fellow, working on the Police Data Initiative; Berkman Center affiliate
Nicole Wong. Former positions include: U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer; Legal Director of Products, Twitter; VP & Deputy General Counsel, Google
Nick Sinai, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS, former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer (moderator)
Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and the Center for Public Leadership.
Registration is required. Register at: http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/criminal-justice-in-the-age-of-big-data/
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Climate Change Policy After Paris: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries
Friday, November 13
11:30 am–1 pm
Harvard, Taubman, Room 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Rene Castro-Salazar is the former Minister of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications of Costa Rica and a 2015 Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Mr. Castro was appointed by President Laura Chinchilla Minister for Environment, Energy and Telecommunications in August 2011. Mr. Castro was also former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship in 2010. He has extensive experience in public service positions: from 1994 to 1998 Minister of Environment and Energy, from 1982 to 1986 Vice Minister of the Interior. He was also President of the Municipal Council of the City of San Jose.
He has been an Associate Professor at INCAE, a leading schools of Business Administration in Latin America. He has also been a lecturer at Harvard University and other universities. He is the author of a number of books and articles on environmental and infrastructure issues.
Mr. Castro managed the electoral campaign for President Chinchilla. He worked for the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank and other development institutions as an international consultant in Latin America and Europe. He pioneered schemes of “Payment for environmental services” in Costa Rica, performed the first CO2 transaction in the world and led debt-for-nature swap negotiations between various countries. Minister Castro has extensive professional and academic experience all over the world.
He earned a Doctoral Degree at Harvard University, where he also received his Masters Degree. His post-graduate studies concentrated on environment economics and natural resources. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Costa Rica.
Lunch will be provided.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/climate-change-policy-after-paris-opportunities-and-risks-developing-countries#sthash.SmV0x8qD.dpuf
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Organizing on Clean Energy: Food for Thought Lunch Discussion
Friday, November 13
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organizing-on-clean-energy-food-for-thought-lunch-discussion-tickets-19280418250
American consumers face an increasingly diverse marketplace when shopping for their electricity. In the recent past, a household was hostage to whatever their local utility was selling them—now, households can choose from rooftop solar, community solar, "green power" purchase programs, and others. What are consumers to make of these choices? And how can companies operate in this space successfully get the attention of these households?
Join Impact Hub members Solstice Initiative and other clean energy companies for a discussion on this topic as part of our ongoing "Food for Thought" series. All are welcome: RSVP here.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.
This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.
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Climate Change Policy After Paris: Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries
Friday, November 13
11:30 am–1 pm
Harvard, Taubman, Room 301, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Rene Castro-Salazar is the former Minister of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications of Costa Rica and a 2015 Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Mr. Castro was appointed by President Laura Chinchilla Minister for Environment, Energy and Telecommunications in August 2011. Mr. Castro was also former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship in 2010. He has extensive experience in public service positions: from 1994 to 1998 Minister of Environment and Energy, from 1982 to 1986 Vice Minister of the Interior. He was also President of the Municipal Council of the City of San Jose.
He has been an Associate Professor at INCAE, a leading schools of Business Administration in Latin America. He has also been a lecturer at Harvard University and other universities. He is the author of a number of books and articles on environmental and infrastructure issues.
Mr. Castro managed the electoral campaign for President Chinchilla. He worked for the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank and other development institutions as an international consultant in Latin America and Europe. He pioneered schemes of “Payment for environmental services” in Costa Rica, performed the first CO2 transaction in the world and led debt-for-nature swap negotiations between various countries. Minister Castro has extensive professional and academic experience all over the world.
He earned a Doctoral Degree at Harvard University, where he also received his Masters Degree. His post-graduate studies concentrated on environment economics and natural resources. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Costa Rica.
Lunch will be provided.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/climate-change-policy-after-paris-opportunities-and-risks-developing-countries#sthash.SmV0x8qD.dpuf
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Organizing on Clean Energy: Food for Thought Lunch Discussion
Friday, November 13
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 17th Floor, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organizing-on-clean-energy-food-for-thought-lunch-discussion-tickets-19280418250
American consumers face an increasingly diverse marketplace when shopping for their electricity. In the recent past, a household was hostage to whatever their local utility was selling them—now, households can choose from rooftop solar, community solar, "green power" purchase programs, and others. What are consumers to make of these choices? And how can companies operate in this space successfully get the attention of these households?
Join Impact Hub members Solstice Initiative and other clean energy companies for a discussion on this topic as part of our ongoing "Food for Thought" series. All are welcome: RSVP here.
Bring your lunch and your questions. Food for Thought discussions at Impact Hub Boston are conversation-based brown bag lunches designed to share our big questions and innovative ideas with colleagues and friends over lunch, with a brief presentation to kick off the conversation.
This event is part of the 2015 City Awake Social Impact festival. Find out more at http://cityawake.is/the-festival/.
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Organic Aerosol Formation and Properties from Biogenic Sources and Anthropogenic Interactions
Friday, November 13
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
Harvard, 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jose Jimenez, UC Boulder
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84561
Contact Name: Yingjun Liu
yliu@seas.harvard.edu
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/84561
Contact Name: Yingjun Liu
yliu@seas.harvard.edu
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Smart Home Robots
Friday, November 13
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lunch: 12:30pm; Talk: 1pm
Chris Jones, iRobot
The Smart Home market is forecast to be a multi-hundred billion dollar market by 2025, with a typical family home containing more than 500 connected devices and sensors by that time. From connected lights and thermostats, to cameras and HVAC circulation vents, to door locks and chore robots. While this market is currently seeing rapid growth with compelling market forecasts, to hit these forecasts and to achieve long-term viability, the ecosystem will need to address growing complexity and usability challenges. It is not practical to assume the average consumer will be willing and able to configure the multitude of low-level interactions between hundreds of diverse connected devices to achieve desired high-level smart home functionality. This talk will outline how incorporating a physical understanding of the home (e.g., maps) built and maintained by home robots can help address these challenges.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Chris Jones is the Director of Strategic Technology at iRobot Corporation. Dr. Jones has over 15 years of experience in robotics research and development. At iRobot his responsibilities are centered on long-term technology planning and strategy and fostering strategic partnerships to advance the state-of-the-art in practical robotics. Prior to joining iRobot in 2005, he was involved in robotics research and development at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich, the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Robotics Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Host: Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS)
Contact: Natasha Baker
Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
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Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Process Development
Friday, November 13
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM
Marion H. Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract: At the end of the materials lifecycle, inventing new technologies to provide sustainable sources of raw materials through recycling is a critical challenge for moving towards a circular economy. Our efforts in this area are based on understanding principles and mechanisms of materials flows. Additionally, we use the principles of green chemistry to inspire the design of novel, sustainable rare earth recovery technologies. This presentation will showcase our research in the recovery of critical rare earth elements from end-of-life products such as motors of electric vehicles, using a combination of modeling and experimental approaches.
Biography: Marion H. Emmert received her PhD from the University of Munster (Germany) working with Professor Gerhard Erker on model polymerization catalysts. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan with Professor Melanie Sanford as a DFG (German Research Foundation) and NSF CCI CENTC postdoctoral fellow, she joined the faculty at WPI in 2011 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, with joint appointments in Materials and Chemical Engineering since 2012.
Her research interest focuses on the development of new, sustainable processes; current projects include non-directed C-H functionalizations, aerobic oxidations at low oxygen concentrations, catalyst development for biomass deconstruction, and recycling processes for rare earth materials.
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Smart Home Robots
Friday, November 13
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Lunch: 12:30pm; Talk: 1pm
Chris Jones, iRobot
The Smart Home market is forecast to be a multi-hundred billion dollar market by 2025, with a typical family home containing more than 500 connected devices and sensors by that time. From connected lights and thermostats, to cameras and HVAC circulation vents, to door locks and chore robots. While this market is currently seeing rapid growth with compelling market forecasts, to hit these forecasts and to achieve long-term viability, the ecosystem will need to address growing complexity and usability challenges. It is not practical to assume the average consumer will be willing and able to configure the multitude of low-level interactions between hundreds of diverse connected devices to achieve desired high-level smart home functionality. This talk will outline how incorporating a physical understanding of the home (e.g., maps) built and maintained by home robots can help address these challenges.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Chris Jones is the Director of Strategic Technology at iRobot Corporation. Dr. Jones has over 15 years of experience in robotics research and development. At iRobot his responsibilities are centered on long-term technology planning and strategy and fostering strategic partnerships to advance the state-of-the-art in practical robotics. Prior to joining iRobot in 2005, he was involved in robotics research and development at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Southern California, the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich, the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Robotics Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Host: Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS)
Contact: Natasha Baker
Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: iacs-info@seas.harvard.edu
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Recovering Rare Earths: Adventures in Sustainable Process Development
Friday, November 13
3:00 PM
BU, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM
Marion H. Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract: At the end of the materials lifecycle, inventing new technologies to provide sustainable sources of raw materials through recycling is a critical challenge for moving towards a circular economy. Our efforts in this area are based on understanding principles and mechanisms of materials flows. Additionally, we use the principles of green chemistry to inspire the design of novel, sustainable rare earth recovery technologies. This presentation will showcase our research in the recovery of critical rare earth elements from end-of-life products such as motors of electric vehicles, using a combination of modeling and experimental approaches.
Biography: Marion H. Emmert received her PhD from the University of Munster (Germany) working with Professor Gerhard Erker on model polymerization catalysts. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan with Professor Melanie Sanford as a DFG (German Research Foundation) and NSF CCI CENTC postdoctoral fellow, she joined the faculty at WPI in 2011 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, with joint appointments in Materials and Chemical Engineering since 2012.
Her research interest focuses on the development of new, sustainable processes; current projects include non-directed C-H functionalizations, aerobic oxidations at low oxygen concentrations, catalyst development for biomass deconstruction, and recycling processes for rare earth materials.
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Closed-Loop Brain-Machine Interface Architectures
Friday, November 13
Friday, November 13
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin-G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin-G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Maryam Shanechi, USC
A brain-machine-interface (BMI) is a system that interacts with the brain either to allow the brain to control an external device or to control the brain's state. While these two BMI types are for different applications, they can both be viewed as closed-loop control systems. In this talk I present our work on developing both these types of BMIs, specifically motor BMIs for restoring movement in paralyzed patients, a BMI for control of the brain state under anesthesia, and finally a new BMI for control of the brain’s neuropsychiatric state. Motor BMIs have largely used standard signal processing techniques. However, devising novel algorithmic solutions that are tailored to the neural system can significantly improve the performance of these BMIs. Here, I develop a novel BMI paradigm for restoration of motor function that incorporates an optimal feedback-control model of the brain and directly processes the spiking activity using point process modeling. I show that this paradigm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art in closed-loop primate experiments. In addition to motor BMIs, I construct a new BMI that controls the state of the brain under anesthesia. This is done by designing stochastic controllers that infer the brain's anesthetic state from non-invasive observations of neural activity and control the real-time rate of drug administration to achieve a target brain state. I show the reliable performance of this BMI in rodent experiments. Finally, I show some of our recent results on the development of a BMI for closed-loop electrical stimulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders in human patients.
Speaker Bio: Maryam Shanechi is an assistant professor and the Viterbi Early Career Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, she was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006 and 2011, respectively. She held postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School and at UC Berkeley from 2011-2013. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, an inaugural Cal-BRAIN award, the NAE FOE invitation, the Popular Science Brilliant 10, and the MIT Technology Review’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for her work on brain-machine interfaces.
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Contact: Kathleen Masse
Email: kath@seas.harvard.edu
A brain-machine-interface (BMI) is a system that interacts with the brain either to allow the brain to control an external device or to control the brain's state. While these two BMI types are for different applications, they can both be viewed as closed-loop control systems. In this talk I present our work on developing both these types of BMIs, specifically motor BMIs for restoring movement in paralyzed patients, a BMI for control of the brain state under anesthesia, and finally a new BMI for control of the brain’s neuropsychiatric state. Motor BMIs have largely used standard signal processing techniques. However, devising novel algorithmic solutions that are tailored to the neural system can significantly improve the performance of these BMIs. Here, I develop a novel BMI paradigm for restoration of motor function that incorporates an optimal feedback-control model of the brain and directly processes the spiking activity using point process modeling. I show that this paradigm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art in closed-loop primate experiments. In addition to motor BMIs, I construct a new BMI that controls the state of the brain under anesthesia. This is done by designing stochastic controllers that infer the brain's anesthetic state from non-invasive observations of neural activity and control the real-time rate of drug administration to achieve a target brain state. I show the reliable performance of this BMI in rodent experiments. Finally, I show some of our recent results on the development of a BMI for closed-loop electrical stimulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders in human patients.
Speaker Bio: Maryam Shanechi is an assistant professor and the Viterbi Early Career Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, she was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006 and 2011, respectively. She held postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School and at UC Berkeley from 2011-2013. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, an inaugural Cal-BRAIN award, the NAE FOE invitation, the Popular Science Brilliant 10, and the MIT Technology Review’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for her work on brain-machine interfaces.
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Contact: Kathleen Masse
Email: kath@seas.harvard.edu
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“This Changes Everything” Screening
Friday, November 13
Friday, November 13
6:00PM to 9:00PM
Tufts University, Olin 012 180 Packard Avenue, Medford
A free screening of the documentary This Changes Everything, open to the public. Following the screening there will be a group discussion hosted by New Economy Tufts and Rethinking Economics.
This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Tufts University, Olin 012 180 Packard Avenue, Medford
A free screening of the documentary This Changes Everything, open to the public. Following the screening there will be a group discussion hosted by New Economy Tufts and Rethinking Economics.
This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
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Green Exchange: Closing the Loop - Sustainable Design and Consumption
Friday, November 13
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, 51 Brattle Street, 2nd floor, Grossman Common Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-closing-the-loop-sustainable-design-and-consumption-tickets-19303995771
Come and join us to exchange perspectives about sustainable consumption.
Event Schedule:
7:00pm-7:15pm Check-In & Refreshment
7:15pm-7:30pm Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
7:30pm-7:45pm Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
7:45pm-8:00pm Break - Refreshment
8:00pm-8:15pm Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
8:15pm-8:30pm Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
8:30pm-8:45pm Q&A
8:45pm-9:00pm Wrap-Up
Please join us and exchange perspectives how we can pursue sustainable design and consumption.
For our distance audience, please watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aZt3j2f4Vub
Speakers Bios
Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
More and more of us want to support businesses doing good for people and the planet. With the DoneGood app, you can easily find businesses in Boston that share your values. More information at http://donegood.co/
Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
Cristina Contreras designs was conceived following the aspiration of creating handcrafted and exclusive design pieces using as a key material reused inner tube. What is started as a hobby, and due to the big success of such as innovative idea, it has become a business that is growing fast. The manufacture process is 100 % handcrafted, using 90% of the materials coming from inner tubes gathered from local bike shops, giving a second life to something perceived as useless. Using carefully designed pieces and the best quality as main principles of the brand, Cristina Contreras Designs targets a wide spectrum of customers from environmentally conscious clients, cyclist fans or exclusive design lovers.The process of understanding the very specific characteristics of the material used as well as how each of ours designs is shaped by human body is what make us call it “bike tire ART!”
Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
Formerly the marketing director at Bootstrap, Igor took the plunge to become a co-founder in 2012. Since then, the Russian-born, Indiana University-educated, self-proclaimed soccer aficionado and freelance filmmaker has been leading the charge in creating an array of logistical systems and overseeing numerous special projects to ensure that BSC grows up gracefully.
Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
Cheryl R. Greenwald works as a full-time Environmental Analyst at Casella Waste Systems. While Casella is headquartered in Rutland, VT, Cheryl's home office is located in Charlestown, MA. Her work takes her to Casella's facilities in six states in the northeast U.S. She is also a part-time graduate student at Harvard University Extension School, expecting to graduate in May 2016 with a Master's degree in Sustainability & Environmental Management. Cheryl embarked on her new career path when she began taking one course per term starting in September 2012, after several years of working full-time after graduating college.
Prior to her current position, Cheryl had the opportunity to intern and thenwork as an Environmental Technician at Harvard University's department of Environmental Health & Safety. Prior to that, she interned at Clean Water Action, working primarily on the Zero Mercury Campaign, and she worked for a notable renewable energy company. Before entering the environmental field in 2012, Cheryl worked as a project manager, as an editor, and in human services. While settling into her job and as she approaches graduation, Cheryl has ended several long-term volunteer commitments, and is researching new volunteer, board, or speaking opportunities that will align with her skills and interests. She also welcomes opportunities to connect, career advice, and news from environmental and sustainability professionals around the world. Contact Cherylat cherylrgreenwald@fas.harvard.edu or www.linkedin.com/in/cherylrgreenwald.
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TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
The Lincoln School 19 Kennard Road Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxbeaconstreet-2015-registration-13110240081
TEDxBeaconstreet is committed to providing free events to the greater Boston community. We are a volunteer army on a tight budget. Most of our expenses are covered by in-kind contributions and support from Superhero partners, grants, and community donors. If you’d like to offset event cost by making a tax-exempt donation, go to bit.ly/tedxbst-donate to help. Thank you!
3 Days of Inspiration: TEDxBeaconStreet 2015 Conference
TEDxBeaconStreet is a unique community event featuring diverse, multi-generational thought leaders from all walks of life. We support contemporary themes and highly interactive learning to facilitate community discussions and envision the impact of emerging ideas. Apply now to attend our fourth annual event.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
7:00pm - 10:00pm: Escape Velocity Launch Party
Venue: Brookline Teen Center
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 12:00pm: TEDxYouthBeaconStreet
12:00pm - 7:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 6:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet continues
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Brookline , MA
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Saturday, November 14
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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15
The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.
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Green Exchange: Closing the Loop - Sustainable Design and Consumption
Friday, November 13
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, 51 Brattle Street, 2nd floor, Grossman Common Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-closing-the-loop-sustainable-design-and-consumption-tickets-19303995771
Come and join us to exchange perspectives about sustainable consumption.
Event Schedule:
7:00pm-7:15pm Check-In & Refreshment
7:15pm-7:30pm Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
7:30pm-7:45pm Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
7:45pm-8:00pm Break - Refreshment
8:00pm-8:15pm Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
8:15pm-8:30pm Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
8:30pm-8:45pm Q&A
8:45pm-9:00pm Wrap-Up
Please join us and exchange perspectives how we can pursue sustainable design and consumption.
For our distance audience, please watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aZt3j2f4Vub
Speakers Bios
Scott Jaconsen, Co-Founder of DoneGood
More and more of us want to support businesses doing good for people and the planet. With the DoneGood app, you can easily find businesses in Boston that share your values. More information at http://donegood.co/
Cristina Contreras, Founder of Cristina Contreras Designs
Cristina Contreras designs was conceived following the aspiration of creating handcrafted and exclusive design pieces using as a key material reused inner tube. What is started as a hobby, and due to the big success of such as innovative idea, it has become a business that is growing fast. The manufacture process is 100 % handcrafted, using 90% of the materials coming from inner tubes gathered from local bike shops, giving a second life to something perceived as useless. Using carefully designed pieces and the best quality as main principles of the brand, Cristina Contreras Designs targets a wide spectrum of customers from environmentally conscious clients, cyclist fans or exclusive design lovers.The process of understanding the very specific characteristics of the material used as well as how each of ours designs is shaped by human body is what make us call it “bike tire ART!”
Igor Kharitonenkov, Co-Founder and Vice President of Bootstrap Compost
Formerly the marketing director at Bootstrap, Igor took the plunge to become a co-founder in 2012. Since then, the Russian-born, Indiana University-educated, self-proclaimed soccer aficionado and freelance filmmaker has been leading the charge in creating an array of logistical systems and overseeing numerous special projects to ensure that BSC grows up gracefully.
Cheryl Greenwald, Former Administrator of Buy Nothing Somerville
Cheryl R. Greenwald works as a full-time Environmental Analyst at Casella Waste Systems. While Casella is headquartered in Rutland, VT, Cheryl's home office is located in Charlestown, MA. Her work takes her to Casella's facilities in six states in the northeast U.S. She is also a part-time graduate student at Harvard University Extension School, expecting to graduate in May 2016 with a Master's degree in Sustainability & Environmental Management. Cheryl embarked on her new career path when she began taking one course per term starting in September 2012, after several years of working full-time after graduating college.
Prior to her current position, Cheryl had the opportunity to intern and thenwork as an Environmental Technician at Harvard University's department of Environmental Health & Safety. Prior to that, she interned at Clean Water Action, working primarily on the Zero Mercury Campaign, and she worked for a notable renewable energy company. Before entering the environmental field in 2012, Cheryl worked as a project manager, as an editor, and in human services. While settling into her job and as she approaches graduation, Cheryl has ended several long-term volunteer commitments, and is researching new volunteer, board, or speaking opportunities that will align with her skills and interests. She also welcomes opportunities to connect, career advice, and news from environmental and sustainability professionals around the world. Contact Cherylat cherylrgreenwald@fas.harvard.edu or www.linkedin.com/in/cherylrgreenwald.
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TEDxBeaconStreet 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
The Lincoln School 19 Kennard Road Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxbeaconstreet-2015-registration-13110240081
TEDxBeaconstreet is committed to providing free events to the greater Boston community. We are a volunteer army on a tight budget. Most of our expenses are covered by in-kind contributions and support from Superhero partners, grants, and community donors. If you’d like to offset event cost by making a tax-exempt donation, go to bit.ly/tedxbst-donate to help. Thank you!
3 Days of Inspiration: TEDxBeaconStreet 2015 Conference
TEDxBeaconStreet is a unique community event featuring diverse, multi-generational thought leaders from all walks of life. We support contemporary themes and highly interactive learning to facilitate community discussions and envision the impact of emerging ideas. Apply now to attend our fourth annual event.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
7:00pm - 10:00pm: Escape Velocity Launch Party
Venue: Brookline Teen Center
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 12:00pm: TEDxYouthBeaconStreet
12:00pm - 7:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
8:30am - 6:00pm: TEDxBeaconStreet continues
Venue: Lincoln School in Brookline 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Brookline , MA
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Saturday, November 14
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MIT Water Summit 2015
November 13th - November 14th
MIT, Bulding E51, 2 Amherst Street Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.mitwatersummit.com
Cost: $5 - $15
The MIT Water Summit is the flagship event of the MIT Water Club. The event incorporates disciplines across MIT's technology, business, and policy communities and brings together leaders and experts to discuss the most compelling issues in the water sector. With this year's Summit taking place only two weeks before the highly anticipated COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris, the conference will confront the challenges faced by the water sector due to our changing climate. Learn more and purchase early bird tickets at: mitwatersummit.com.
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Hack4Fem Hackathon
The Hack4Fem (#Hack4Fem) hackathon is an event where engineers and other technical people will meet with activists working on feminism-related causes to talk and hack on ways to use technology to support feminist activism. We aim to expose problems and challenges that activists face on a regular basis and how technology can help make their efforts easier.
At this event we will feature the following speakers:
Kelley Marie Adams, Program Manager, MIT Violence Prevention and Response
Vienna Rothberg, Program Manager for PLEASURE (Peers Leading Education About Sexuality and Speaking up for Relationship Empowerment)
Dr. Jyoti Sinha, Visiting Scholar, Women's and Gender Studies Department, UMass Boston
Kate Carson, Boston Doula Project
We will have two hands-on workshops to break the ice:
DIY menstrual cups
DIY cloth pads
A feminist is a person who believes in the social and political equality of the sexes, so both men and women are welcome to participate!
For more details, see our schedule on hack4fem.org.
Saturday, November 14
9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
MIT, Building E17-122, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack4fem-hackathon-tickets-18967474226
MIT, Building E17-122, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack4fem-hackathon-tickets-18967474226
At this event we will feature the following speakers:
Kelley Marie Adams, Program Manager, MIT Violence Prevention and Response
Vienna Rothberg, Program Manager for PLEASURE (Peers Leading Education About Sexuality and Speaking up for Relationship Empowerment)
Dr. Jyoti Sinha, Visiting Scholar, Women's and Gender Studies Department, UMass Boston
Kate Carson, Boston Doula Project
We will have two hands-on workshops to break the ice:
DIY menstrual cups
DIY cloth pads
A feminist is a person who believes in the social and political equality of the sexes, so both men and women are welcome to participate!
For more details, see our schedule on hack4fem.org.
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City Awake Social Impact Expo
Saturday, November 14
City Awake Social Impact Expo
Saturday, November 14
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 16th & 17th Floors, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-awake-social-impact-expo-tickets-19174410177
The Social Impact Expo is an opportunity to learn about and connect with the social impact organizations and enterprises working in Boston. As the closing event of the 2015 City Awake Festival, the Expo will feature:
65 non-profit organizations and social enterprises, showcasing their local, national, and international initiatives – and ways for to get involved.
20+ breakout sessions, ranging from roundtable discussions and product demonstrations, to expert office hours and workshops
Music, art, food, drinks, and more!
With hundreds of diverse partners and more than 50 unique events taking place across the city over ten days, the Social Impact Expo provides a snapshot of what the City Awake Festival is all about: shining a light on Boston’s social impact community. The Expo brings together more than 60 non-profit organizations and social enterprises to showcase their initiatives, build connections, raise awareness for their initiatives, and seek out potential advisors, investors, team members, consultants, and more. This is an opportunity for Boston to learn about and get involved with the meaningful work happening in the city, and to connect with the innovators and entrepreneurs doing that work.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, 16th & 17th Floors, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-awake-social-impact-expo-tickets-19174410177
The Social Impact Expo is an opportunity to learn about and connect with the social impact organizations and enterprises working in Boston. As the closing event of the 2015 City Awake Festival, the Expo will feature:
65 non-profit organizations and social enterprises, showcasing their local, national, and international initiatives – and ways for to get involved.
20+ breakout sessions, ranging from roundtable discussions and product demonstrations, to expert office hours and workshops
Music, art, food, drinks, and more!
With hundreds of diverse partners and more than 50 unique events taking place across the city over ten days, the Social Impact Expo provides a snapshot of what the City Awake Festival is all about: shining a light on Boston’s social impact community. The Expo brings together more than 60 non-profit organizations and social enterprises to showcase their initiatives, build connections, raise awareness for their initiatives, and seek out potential advisors, investors, team members, consultants, and more. This is an opportunity for Boston to learn about and get involved with the meaningful work happening in the city, and to connect with the innovators and entrepreneurs doing that work.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
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Sunday, November 15
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Ruminating on the New Water Paradigm
Sunday, November 15
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Helen Snively's House, 1 Fayette Park , Cambridge
RSVP AT http://www.meetup.com/Biodiversity-for-a-Livable-Climate/events/226489188/
If you attended our Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University, you may have found some of the ideas presented about the New Water Paradigm to be incredibly eye-opening but also quite complex! Are you still trying to process some of this information, or do you have any lingering questions? If so, join us for a group discussion in which we'll review what we learned, help each other refine our collective understanding, and explore further questions.
If you didn't attend our conference and are interested in discovering what the New Water Paradigm is all about and how it can help us cool the planet, we encourage you to come!
This will be a potluck-style gathering, so please bring a dish or beverage for sharing!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Cheers,
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
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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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RSVP AT http://www.meetup.com/Biodiversity-for-a-Livable-Climate/events/226489188/
If you attended our Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming conference October 16th-18th at Tufts University, you may have found some of the ideas presented about the New Water Paradigm to be incredibly eye-opening but also quite complex! Are you still trying to process some of this information, or do you have any lingering questions? If so, join us for a group discussion in which we'll review what we learned, help each other refine our collective understanding, and explore further questions.
If you didn't attend our conference and are interested in discovering what the New Water Paradigm is all about and how it can help us cool the planet, we encourage you to come!
This will be a potluck-style gathering, so please bring a dish or beverage for sharing!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Cheers,
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
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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/
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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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.
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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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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Handmaiden to Extinction: Climate Change and Massive Loss of Ecosystem Services in Coral Reefs, Tropical Great Lakes, and Global Fisheries
Monday, November 16
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
BU, CAS, Room 226, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Speaker Dr. Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology, CAS, BU
Contact: Jennifer Berglund
Contact Email: berglund@bu.edu
Contact Organization Department of Earth and Environment
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Economic Opportunity and Health in the United States
WHEN Mon., Nov. 16, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, HCPDS, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Atheendar Venkataramani, physician, Harvard Medical School and instructor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO ksmall@hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Our Monday afternoon Pop Center seminar series covers the most recent and innovative research being conducted in population sciences. These seminars are open to everyone: faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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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
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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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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Engaging the Cambridge Environmental Community: Health Risks of Climate Change
Monday, November 16
6:00pm - 8:30pm
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
MIT, Building 56-154
RSVP at http://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3vEaCTeeIIEMoap
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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Science and Cooking: Fermentation on Wheels: Food Education and Community Impact
Monday, November 16
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tara Whitsitt, (@tarawhitsitt), Fermentation on Wheels
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
Monday, November 16
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Pelin Tan
Methodology is not only the means of a system for describing realities; it is a political tool that takes part in the process of knowledge production. From the perspective of an integrated relational practice in the field of urban, pedagogy and contemporary art, Pelin Tan conveys how collective experience of the translocal production of knowledge and of instant alliances leads to the creation of common spaces. How can transversal methodology function within it? As Felix Guattari puts it, rather an analytic method that cuts across multiple fields– is often affiliated with models of knowledge and pedagogy, such as methods of “assemblage”. Both on theoretical and practical levels, such processes could well be vital in enabling the knowledge of everyday life to intervene in institutional bodies, and vital to the flow of alternative pedagogies into different platforms, resulting in the emergence of creative forms of solidarity in extra-territorial spaces. Tan will speak about possibilities and limits of transversal methods in art and spatial realities.
Pelin Tan studied sociology and art history, completing her PhD on socially engaged art in urban space (ITU-Turkey) and her post-doc on the methodology of artistic research at MIT. Tan has received several research grants & residencies such as DAAD (2006-07), The Japan Foundation (2012), IASPIS curatorial (2008), Kitakyushu Contemporary Art Inst. (2015). Tan is an Associate Professor in the department of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University. In spring 2016, Tan begins an appointment as Research Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic, Design Strategies (Spring, 2016).
Tan’s research on artist run spaces and urban justice spans continents– in Europe (2004), Asia and Japan (2012, 2015). She currently co-directs the sci-fi film series “2084” about the future of art with artist Anton Vidokle. Tan has participated in numerous biennales, including the Montreal Biennial (2014), the Bergen Assembly (2013) and most recently, the Istanbul Biennale (2015). She is a member of video collectives Artıkişler and co-founder of videoccupy and the bak.ma digital media archive of political movements in Turkey. In addition, Tan was the curator of Adhocracy– Athens exhibition (May, 2015). Tan’s publications on architecture, urbanism and art include, her recent chapter “Transversal Materialism” featured in 2000+: Urgencies of Architectural Theories (GSAPP, 2015) and Arazi (Sternberg Press, CSPS, Berlin, 2015). Tan is a principal researcher at the “Spatio-Social Analysis of Refugee Camps in Southeast Turkey” (2015 – 2016, MAU) and is currently working together with Ö.Özengi on the research project, Labor in Contemporary Art in Turkey (2013-2016).
Pelin Tan’s lecture will lecture will be moderated by Ursula August (ACT) and Angel Chen (ACT).
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Boston Talks Investigates: In Defense of Food
Monday, November 16
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-talks-investigates-in-defense-of-food-tickets-19121433723
Cst: $12
WGBH brings you the investigate stories that matter to our region. Now, you’re invited to join the conversation at our BostonTalks: Investigates series, featuring in-depth panel discussions with major players, followed by a reception.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy? Watch a preview of the film then join a conversation with Pollan and Dr. David Ludwig about the issues it raises.
You must be 21 to attend.
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Tuesday, November 17
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ABX 2015 (Builders' Expo)
November 17 - 19
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
More information at http://abexpo.com
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Neurotech 2015
Tuesday, November 17
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EST)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neurotech-2015-registration-18660271374
The Neurotech 2015 symposium presents eight talks by neurotechnology pioneers whose cutting-edge innovations are changing the face of neurobiological research from molecules to cognition.
QUESTIONS: Contact Laura Halligan at laurahal@mit.edu
Registration is required and space is limited.
Speakers:
Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution”
Kristin Branson, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Mapping Behavior to Neural Anatomy using Computer Vision and Thermogenetics”
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
“Tools for Anatomical and Functional Analysis of Widely Distributed Brain Networks”
Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia University
“High Speed Optical Imaging of the Awake, Behaving Brain”
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Soft, Bioresorbable Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain”
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“New Tools for Illuminating Neuronal Functions”
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado Denver
“Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
Lawrence Wald, Harvard/MGH
"New Directions in MR Hardware and Acquisition”
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Media and International Politics: What's Next? - A Conversation with the Joan Shorenstein Fellows
Tuesday, November 17
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
David Ensor is the former director of Voice of America, the official external broadcast institution of the U.S. Government which provides multimedia programming to international audiences.
Marie Sanz is currently the bureau chief of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Lima, Peru, covering also Chile and Bolivia. Over her 25-year career as a foreign correspondent for AFP, she has reported at length from Latin America, Africa, the United States and Europe.
Paul Wood is a BBC world affairs correspondent, most recently based in Beirut. For the past four years he has covered the Syrian uprising, making a number of trips across the border from Lebanon and Turkey, often covert. He has reported first-hand on the growth of the insurgency, the siege in Homs, and the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria.
http://shorensteincenter.org/media-international-politics-fellows/
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The Periodic Table of Criticality and its Relationship to Product Design
Tuesday, November 17
1:00PM TO 2:30PM
Harvard, Cruft 309, 15 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tom Graedel, Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale University
“Criticality” is the quality, state, or degree of being of the highest importance, and is of particular interest in the case of metals and other resources. A comprehensive methodology comprised of three dimensions – Supply Risk, Environmental Implications, and Vulnerability to Supply Restriction – has been created to quantify the degree of criticality of the metals of the periodic table. The methodology is designed to help corporate, national, and global stakeholders conduct risk evaluation and to inform resource utilization and strategic decision-making. It also has the potential to inform product design from a sustainability perspective, as will be illustrated and discussed.
Environmental Science & Engineering Lecture Series
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/85361
Contact Name: Helen Amos
amos@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-17-180000-2015-11-17-193000/environmental-science-engineering-lecture-series#sthash.bA4aS82O.dpuf
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Urban Heat Island and Health Impacts: The Role of Land-Based Mitigation Strategies
Tuesday, November 17
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Kevin Lane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Climate & Energy Institute Fellow, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability of regional scale climate variability
Tuesday, November 17
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-5
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Louis C. Elson Lecture: Angélique Kidjo
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, abutting 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Angélique Kidjo
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice/
TICKET INFO Free tickets available at the Harvard Box Office beginning Nov. 3
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK www.music.fas.harvard.edu
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Lecture 1 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: Boundaries
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
Science and Cooking: Fermentation on Wheels: Food Education and Community Impact
Monday, November 16
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tara Whitsitt, (@tarawhitsitt), Fermentation on Wheels
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Transversal Methodology: Labor, Love, Fear
Monday, November 16
7 - 9pm
MIT, Building E15-001, Weisner Building, act cube, Lower Level, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Pelin Tan
Methodology is not only the means of a system for describing realities; it is a political tool that takes part in the process of knowledge production. From the perspective of an integrated relational practice in the field of urban, pedagogy and contemporary art, Pelin Tan conveys how collective experience of the translocal production of knowledge and of instant alliances leads to the creation of common spaces. How can transversal methodology function within it? As Felix Guattari puts it, rather an analytic method that cuts across multiple fields– is often affiliated with models of knowledge and pedagogy, such as methods of “assemblage”. Both on theoretical and practical levels, such processes could well be vital in enabling the knowledge of everyday life to intervene in institutional bodies, and vital to the flow of alternative pedagogies into different platforms, resulting in the emergence of creative forms of solidarity in extra-territorial spaces. Tan will speak about possibilities and limits of transversal methods in art and spatial realities.
Pelin Tan studied sociology and art history, completing her PhD on socially engaged art in urban space (ITU-Turkey) and her post-doc on the methodology of artistic research at MIT. Tan has received several research grants & residencies such as DAAD (2006-07), The Japan Foundation (2012), IASPIS curatorial (2008), Kitakyushu Contemporary Art Inst. (2015). Tan is an Associate Professor in the department of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University. In spring 2016, Tan begins an appointment as Research Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic, Design Strategies (Spring, 2016).
Tan’s research on artist run spaces and urban justice spans continents– in Europe (2004), Asia and Japan (2012, 2015). She currently co-directs the sci-fi film series “2084” about the future of art with artist Anton Vidokle. Tan has participated in numerous biennales, including the Montreal Biennial (2014), the Bergen Assembly (2013) and most recently, the Istanbul Biennale (2015). She is a member of video collectives Artıkişler and co-founder of videoccupy and the bak.ma digital media archive of political movements in Turkey. In addition, Tan was the curator of Adhocracy– Athens exhibition (May, 2015). Tan’s publications on architecture, urbanism and art include, her recent chapter “Transversal Materialism” featured in 2000+: Urgencies of Architectural Theories (GSAPP, 2015) and Arazi (Sternberg Press, CSPS, Berlin, 2015). Tan is a principal researcher at the “Spatio-Social Analysis of Refugee Camps in Southeast Turkey” (2015 – 2016, MAU) and is currently working together with Ö.Özengi on the research project, Labor in Contemporary Art in Turkey (2013-2016).
Pelin Tan’s lecture will lecture will be moderated by Ursula August (ACT) and Angel Chen (ACT).
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Boston Talks Investigates: In Defense of Food
Monday, November 16
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-talks-investigates-in-defense-of-food-tickets-19121433723
Cst: $12
WGBH brings you the investigate stories that matter to our region. Now, you’re invited to join the conversation at our BostonTalks: Investigates series, featuring in-depth panel discussions with major players, followed by a reception.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy? Watch a preview of the film then join a conversation with Pollan and Dr. David Ludwig about the issues it raises.
You must be 21 to attend.
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Tuesday, November 17
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ABX 2015 (Builders' Expo)
November 17 - 19
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
More information at http://abexpo.com
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Neurotech 2015
Tuesday, November 17
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EST)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neurotech-2015-registration-18660271374
The Neurotech 2015 symposium presents eight talks by neurotechnology pioneers whose cutting-edge innovations are changing the face of neurobiological research from molecules to cognition.
QUESTIONS: Contact Laura Halligan at laurahal@mit.edu
Registration is required and space is limited.
Speakers:
Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution”
Kristin Branson, HHMI Janelia Farm
“Mapping Behavior to Neural Anatomy using Computer Vision and Thermogenetics”
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
“Tools for Anatomical and Functional Analysis of Widely Distributed Brain Networks”
Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia University
“High Speed Optical Imaging of the Awake, Behaving Brain”
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Soft, Bioresorbable Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain”
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“New Tools for Illuminating Neuronal Functions”
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado Denver
“Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
Lawrence Wald, Harvard/MGH
"New Directions in MR Hardware and Acquisition”
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Media and International Politics: What's Next? - A Conversation with the Joan Shorenstein Fellows
Tuesday, November 17
12:00-1:00pm
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
David Ensor is the former director of Voice of America, the official external broadcast institution of the U.S. Government which provides multimedia programming to international audiences.
Marie Sanz is currently the bureau chief of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Lima, Peru, covering also Chile and Bolivia. Over her 25-year career as a foreign correspondent for AFP, she has reported at length from Latin America, Africa, the United States and Europe.
Paul Wood is a BBC world affairs correspondent, most recently based in Beirut. For the past four years he has covered the Syrian uprising, making a number of trips across the border from Lebanon and Turkey, often covert. He has reported first-hand on the growth of the insurgency, the siege in Homs, and the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria.
http://shorensteincenter.org/media-international-politics-fellows/
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The Periodic Table of Criticality and its Relationship to Product Design
Tuesday, November 17
1:00PM TO 2:30PM
Harvard, Cruft 309, 15 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Tom Graedel, Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale University
“Criticality” is the quality, state, or degree of being of the highest importance, and is of particular interest in the case of metals and other resources. A comprehensive methodology comprised of three dimensions – Supply Risk, Environmental Implications, and Vulnerability to Supply Restriction – has been created to quantify the degree of criticality of the metals of the periodic table. The methodology is designed to help corporate, national, and global stakeholders conduct risk evaluation and to inform resource utilization and strategic decision-making. It also has the potential to inform product design from a sustainability perspective, as will be illustrated and discussed.
Environmental Science & Engineering Lecture Series
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/85361
Contact Name: Helen Amos
amos@fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-17-180000-2015-11-17-193000/environmental-science-engineering-lecture-series#sthash.bA4aS82O.dpuf
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Urban Heat Island and Health Impacts: The Role of Land-Based Mitigation Strategies
Tuesday, November 17
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Kevin Lane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Climate & Energy Institute Fellow, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather and Climate at the Regional Scales | Predictability of regional scale climate variability
Tuesday, November 17
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Professor of Meteorology, Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, Penn State University
Special Weather & Climate Lecture Series Fall 2015
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/special-weather-climate-lecture-series-fuqing-zhang-penn-state-5
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Louis C. Elson Lecture: Angélique Kidjo
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, abutting 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Angélique Kidjo
COST Free and open to the public; tickets required
TICKET WEB LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice/
TICKET INFO Free tickets available at the Harvard Box Office beginning Nov. 3
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK www.music.fas.harvard.edu
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Lecture 1 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: Boundaries
WHEN Tue., Nov. 17, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
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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.
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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Wednesday, November 18
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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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Wednesday, November 18
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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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How the brain learns and executes motor skills
Wednesday, November 19
4:00 PM
Harvard, Main Lecture Hall Biolabs Building, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Bence Ölveczky, Harvard University
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
From the Troposphere to the Stratosphere: Physical and Chemical Details Linking Chemistry and Radiative Forcing
Wednesday, November 18
4:00PM TO 5:00PM
Harvard, Haller Hall, Geology Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Frank Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Abstract: Tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol affect climate and are known to harm human health and ecosystems. The processing rate of gas-phase reactive carbon compounds is directly coupled to formation of ozone and secondary organic aerosol in the troposphere. I will discuss how well novel bottom-up and top-down observations of the reactive carbon budget agree within the context of anthropogenic influence and the ability to predict amounts of ozone and aerosol.
Solar radiation management (SRM), a geoengineering approach to modify Earth’s climate on a global level, has been receiving growing attention. Although most work has focused on introduction of sulfate aerosol into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation at the surface, a number of other materials have also been considered. To date, the detailed chemical and physical properties of these materials have mostly been treated in a simplified manner. As an example of the role physicochemical detail plays in understanding consequences of SRM, I will discuss the implications of a more detailed treatment of titania (TiO2), including the role of different titania polymorphs.
Climate Seminar
http://eps.harvard.edu/event/climate-seminar-3
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-18-210000-2015-11-18-220000/climate-seminar#sthash.tv9EbMI9.dpuf
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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
Wednesday, November 18
4:15PM TO 5:30PM
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Scott Barrett, Columbia University, and Astrid Dannenberg, Kassel University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
617-496-8054
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Lecture 2 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Stories"
WHEN Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
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Massachusetts: THE Hub for Social Innovation Panel
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, Ladd Room, 2nd floor, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/massachusetts-the-hub-for-social-innovation-panel-tickets-19122995394
Please join us for an exciting conversation and exploration of the emerging social innovation ecosystem in the state of Massachusetts. Participants include some of our region’s leading non-profit, for-profit “B” corporations, and civic entrepreneurs – as well as those working to develop and engage the broader ecosystem in Boston and beyond.
This will be a great opportunity to discuss how we can move this effort forward together. We hope you will plan to join us!
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Chaper of the Social Enterprise Alliance and TWheelock College Department of Leadership and Policy
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TiE-Boston Solar Energy Deep-Dive
Wednesday, November 18
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
East Arcade Conference Center, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?PG=1521972182300&P=15219721911429920300
Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has grown significantly in the US and globally in the past decade driven by significant cost reduction in module prices, policy incentives and creative business models. This is a great success story in the clean / renewable energy sector. However, with just about 1% of the US electricity supply based on solar energy, there is significant potential for solar and renewables to significantly reduce the impact of fossil fuels in the energy supply chain.
The TiE-Boston Deep Dive event on Solar Energy, will present perspectives of the status of solar energy and some thoughts on what will influence the future deployment of solar energy in the US. To get a better appreciation of where things stand and what needs to be done going forward, TiE-Boston has assembled a great set of speakers to address various topics.
The speakers include:
Vikram Aggarwal, CEO, EnergySage
Andrew Belden, Solar Program Director, MassCEC
Colin Smith, Solar Research Analyst, Greentech Media
Rob Stoner, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Institute, & Director, MIT Tata Center
Frank van Mierlo, CEO, 1366 Technologies
Alison Ernst, Senior Manager Investments, MassCEC
This program has been organized by the TiE Boston Cleantech Special Interest Group and will be moderated by Vivek Soni.
The event will include perspectives on:
Customer expectations for solar energy
Current deployment in MA and in the US
Impact of storage
Drivers for significant future deployment
Technologies that will make a difference
Investor considerations going forward
Click here to register
TiE-Boston
617.225.0419
Email: tieadmin [at] boston.tie.org
Website: boston.tie.org
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Transforming Boston: From Basket Case to Innovation Hub
Wednesday, November 18
5:30p–8:30p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.masshist.org/events
Cost: $10
Program 3: The New Economy: Eds & Meds, 1980s -- Today
With Anthony Pangaro, Millennium Partners; Barbara Rubel, Tufts University; Kathy Spiegelman, Northeastern University; Peter Kiang, UMass Boston; and moderator Kairos Shen, former BRA.
This four-part series will examine the politics, planning, and development in the city from the end of WWII to the present and explore how Boston went from an economic basket case to the innovation hub of America.
Each program begins with a reception at 5:30 pm and is followed by the panel discussion at 6:00 pm. There is a $10 per person fee to attend each program (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members). Register online at www.masshist.org/events or by calling 617-646-0578.
The series is made possible with help from underwriter, The Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF), and contributors, The Boston Area Research Initiative and The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Web site: www.masshist.org/events
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10
Tickets: www.masshist.org/events
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
617-646-0578
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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.
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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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
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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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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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
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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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
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
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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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Scott Barrett, Columbia University
LINK https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340
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Lecture 3 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Changes"
WHEN Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
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Lessons for Climate Negotiations from Lab Experiments: What Doesn't Work and What Does Work
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Scott Barrett, Columbia University
LINK https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/5340
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Lecture 3 of 3: Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between: "Changes"
WHEN Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Linda Greenhouse
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and writes a biweekly op-ed column on law as a contributing columnist. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); and The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, with Michael J. Graetz, will be published in 2016.
A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, November 17th, in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Boundaries"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Stories"
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 p.m.: "Changes"
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Boston Cleanweb Tech Night
Thursday, November 19
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-cleanweb-tech-night-tickets-19303373911
As part of MassCEC’s Boston Cleanweb Meetup Series, please join us for a panel discussion focused on bridging the developer and cleantech communities and highlighting exciting opportunities in the field of Cleanweb.
Engage in an interesting conversation about the applications of information technology, and build connections with individuals working in energy production, grid-modernization, energy efficiency, and water technology.
Cleanweb is a category of cleantech that intersects with and leverages the capability of big data, the internet, social media and mobile technologies to address energy and natural resource consumption and environmental challenges. Cleanweb goes beyond the typical images associated with clean technology and power generation – PV panels or wind turbines – to include the broad range and huge potential of all types of digital media and information technology
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Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Robert D. Ballard, founder and director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, Graduate School of Oceanography/URI; founder and president of the Ocean Exploration Trust and senior scientist emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS What does the future of ocean exploration look like? Deep-sea explorer Robert D. Ballard, famous for the discovery of hydrothermal vents, “black smokers,” and the wreck of the RMS. Titanic, will discuss the history and future of ocean exploration technologies. From the earliest manned deep-diving submarines to the latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems that use satellite technology to transmit data in real time, technology has increasingly made interactive ocean exploration a reality. Ballard will highlight past scientific achievements in ocean exploration and outline the opportunities ahead for using advanced tele-presence technologies.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ocean-exploration-technologies-past-present-and-future
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Architecture Lecture: Julien de Smedt, A Post-Urban Agenda
Thursday, November 19
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Julien de Smedt
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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Thursday, November 19
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-cleanweb-tech-night-tickets-19303373911
As part of MassCEC’s Boston Cleanweb Meetup Series, please join us for a panel discussion focused on bridging the developer and cleantech communities and highlighting exciting opportunities in the field of Cleanweb.
Engage in an interesting conversation about the applications of information technology, and build connections with individuals working in energy production, grid-modernization, energy efficiency, and water technology.
Cleanweb is a category of cleantech that intersects with and leverages the capability of big data, the internet, social media and mobile technologies to address energy and natural resource consumption and environmental challenges. Cleanweb goes beyond the typical images associated with clean technology and power generation – PV panels or wind turbines – to include the broad range and huge potential of all types of digital media and information technology
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Ocean Exploration Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
WHEN Wed., Nov. 18, 2015, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Robert D. Ballard, founder and director of the Center for Ocean Exploration, Graduate School of Oceanography/URI; founder and president of the Ocean Exploration Trust and senior scientist emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.3045
DETAILS What does the future of ocean exploration look like? Deep-sea explorer Robert D. Ballard, famous for the discovery of hydrothermal vents, “black smokers,” and the wreck of the RMS. Titanic, will discuss the history and future of ocean exploration technologies. From the earliest manned deep-diving submarines to the latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems that use satellite technology to transmit data in real time, technology has increasingly made interactive ocean exploration a reality. Ballard will highlight past scientific achievements in ocean exploration and outline the opportunities ahead for using advanced tele-presence technologies.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ocean-exploration-technologies-past-present-and-future
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Architecture Lecture: Julien de Smedt, A Post-Urban Agenda
Thursday, November 19
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Julien de Smedt
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Fall 2015 Architecture and Architectural Design Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Group
For more information, contact: Hannah Loomis
617-253-7494
hloomis@mit.edu
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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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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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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
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
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
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.
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
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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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
Friday, November 20
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cybervision-boston-tickets-18403636773
Cost: $25 - $50
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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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
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.
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 20
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Building Sustainable Security
Saturday, November 20
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2364974
Cost: $10 - $25
Confirmed Speakers
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor, author, *Because We Say So
Michael McPhearson, Executive Director, Veterans For Peace
Harris Gruman, Co-Chair, RaiseUp Massachusetts; SEIU
Carl Williams, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Cassandra Bensahih, Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
Barbara Madeloni, President, Masachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
Susan Redlich, 350 Massachusetts divestment core team
Jimmy Tingle, Humor for Humanity
Will Hopkins, New Hampshire Peace Action
In the name of national security, our coun?try's policies are causing multiple, systemic crises. These include climate catastrophe, extreme inequality, constant wars, deep-seated racism, mass incarceration, and a militarized culture.
Only large social movements can remove these barriers to genuine security and construct a society based on Sustainable Security.
This conference will explore three pillars of sustainable national and
world security:
A fairly-shared global prosperity based on economic, social, and racial justice
Emergency action to address climate change and build a new, fossil-fuel-free energy system
A Foreign Policy for All based on even-handed diplomacy, ending our disastrous military interventions, abolition of nuclear weapons, and reclaiming war resources for the urgent needs that face our world
More information at http://masspeaceaction.org/events/sustainable-security-conf
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Sunday, November 22
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HBs Tech Conference
Sunday, November 22
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-conference-21-tickets-19090668704
Cost: $27.27
What is the Tech Conference?
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 20 years, the Tech Conference (formerly Cyberposium) is the largest student-run MBA technology conference in the world. The conference facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society. The Tech Conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s Tech Club.
Who attends the Tech Conference?
Each year, the Tech Conference seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common passion to deliver technology’s greatest promises. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, founders, entrepreneurs, Wall Street and technology analysts, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from over 25 leading MBA programs around the world.
What is Tech Conference 21 all about?
Given this is the 21st year of the conference, there’s quite some history surrounding the conference. Many of the speakers that have spoken at the Tech Conference (or rather, its predecessor, Cyberposium) in the past got a lot more famous and a lot more successful after the conference, not because of the conference, but because conference organizers managed to bring to campus those people who saw the future and built it. Jeff Bezos came when Amazon was just a bookstore. Marissa Mayer came when she was still at Google, before she was selected as the CEO of Yahoo and became one of the most prominent CEOs in tech. Elon Musk came in 2005 before Tesla became the first American carmaker to IPO in decades and before NASA surrendered American leadership in space to SpaceX. Travis Kalanick came last year, before he closed that monstrous round that valued Uber at $18 billion.
The goal of this year’s conference is to continue the tradition of bringing industry leaders to HBS not only whose past stories would inspire and educate, but who are leading organizations that will likely dominate the next decade in technology. This year’s speakers can not only see the future, they are actively building it.
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Monday, November 23
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MASS Seminar - Nadine Unger (Yale)
Monday, November 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Nadine Unger (Yale)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-nadine-unger-yale
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Structure and Function
Monday, November 23
12:10PM
Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston
Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab, Harvard
Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
Arnold Arboretum Seminar Series
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-23-171000/arnold-arboretum-seminar-series#sthash.6LSPdmrD.dpuf
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The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic
Monday, November 23
12:15–2 pm,
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Stu Marvel (Emory University)
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Biogeographic influences on grassland community structure and function
Monday, November 23
12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab
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Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories
Monday, November 23
2-3pm
BU, Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Boston
Refreshments served at 1:45
P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, CISE Resident Scholar
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are time-varying. To enhance their usage, demand will need to be adjusted to meet supply, rather than the other way around as is traditional. This raises several issues lying at the confluence of economic behavior and elasticity, demand pooling, implicit or explicit storage, information availability, privacy, adaptation and control. This talk will propose several designs and architectures, strategies and theories for demand response.
[Joint work with Rahul Singh, Abhishek Halder, Ke Ma, Jaeyong An, Gaurav Sharma, Xinbo Geng, Anupam Thatte and Le Xie.]
P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011 he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Currently he is at Texas A&M University, where he is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.
Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was a Guest Chair Professor and Leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
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Science and Cooking: Modernist Cuisine
Monday, November 23
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Nathan Myhrvold, (@ModernCuisine), former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, author of “Modernist Cuisine”
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Tuesday, November 24
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Friday, November 20
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store welcomes professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University JOSEPH HENRICH for a discussion of his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter.
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.
Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Event Series: Friday Forum
Harvard Book Store's Friday Forum series takes place on Friday afternoons during the academic year as a way to highlight scholarly books in a wide range of fields, with a particular focus on local scholars. Friday Forums take place at 3pm in Harvard Book Store.
General Info (617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com
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The True Cost Documentary Screening and Panel on Sustainable Fashion
Friday, November 20
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Harvard College Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-true-cost-documentary-screening-and-panel-on-sustainable-fashion-tickets-19304084035
"THE TRUE COST" DOCUMENTARY SCREENING + PANEL ON SUSTAINABLE FASHION
The Harvard Extension Environmental Club invites you to a special screening of "The True Cost" documentary followed by an expert panel on sustainable fashion, on Friday, November 20th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Harvard College Student Organization Center at Hilles (59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA), Community Hall 105. Discover the true social and environmental costs of the fast fashion industry and hear from industry experts and academics who will share their insights on the challenges and opportunities of making fashion truly sustainable. Light refreshments will be served. Reserve your FREE ticket online at http://sustainfashion.eventbrite.com
Featuring panelists:
SARA ZIFF
Sara Ziff is the Founder and Executive Director of the Model Alliance (MA), a nonprofit labor group for models working in the American fashion industry. She has worked as a model for numerous magazines and brands, including Calvin Klein, Chanel, GAP and Tommy Hilfiger. In 2009, she produced the award-winning feature documentary, Picture Me, which chronicles her and other models’ experiences in their industry. In 2013, Ziff spearheaded and oversaw efforts to extend labor protections to child fashion models in the State of New York. She has also collaborated with international labor rights groups to raise awareness for labor rights issues in Bangladesh's garment industry, and she is producing a film, Tangled Thread, on this subject. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and she is a M.C. M.P.A. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School.
DR. CATHERINE BENOIT NORRIS
Dr. Catherine Benoit Norris has over 10 years of experience in sustainability research and global compliance conducting work at the intersection of environmental management; life cycle assessment; social sciences and business administration. She directed and coordinated research for leading sustainability centers (CIRAIG, The Sustainability Consortium). She assesses supply chain social impacts, conducts human rights due diligence and advises strategic management and engagement with global corporations in several sectors including footwear and apparel, retail, consumer products, mining and metals and agriculture. Catherine has years of expertise in international sustainability initiatives involving external stakeholders. She is an expert of the Global Social Compliance Programme "Equivalence Assessment process", a member of the Sustainability Purchasing Leadership Council strategic advisory committee, a member of the technical review committee of the Global Initiative for Sustainability Rating, a member of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Crops expert panel and an advisor to the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.Catherine teaches about social responsibility in product supply chains at Harvard Extension school. She is the lead editor of the Guidelines for S-LCA that were published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Life Cycle Initiative in May 2009. She co-created the first database for Social LCA, the Social Hotspots Database used by 200 organizations including Google, Volkswagen, BASF and BMW.
BONNIE SIEFERS
Bonnie is CEO/Founder/Designer, Jonano, A Division of Sami Designs, and Founder/Editorof ecoCouture Magazine. Her background in visual arts provides the basis for her vision and practice as an emerging fashion designer. Skilled in all elements of fashion, Ms. Siefers is an award winning designer invested in the creation of eco fashion and trademarked eco fabrics. The Scandinavian/American fashion brand Jonäno was founded in 2006 by Ms. Siefers. Jonäno is an eco fashion house that developed the concept of ‘organic essentialism’ that underpins the collection; an advocate of slow fashion, Jonäno believes that style and quality are essential to sustainable design. The company’s mission is to create cohesive collections that attract both those devoted to style and fashion, as well as the environmentally conscious consumers. The company’s philosophy is shaped by the designer’s passion for the environmental movement, sociology, and world affairs. Since 2006, Bonnie Siefers has been committed to the eco fashion movement, never compromising on quality of design nor quality of fabrics in her garments, she coined the phrase “ecoCouture.” Through experimental combination of print, texture, and silhouette, Ms Siefers creates collections that are feminine, sophisticated, and edgy. Her work appeals to young professional women who find luxury in fine details and quality.Originally from the American North East, Ms. Siefers studied in Stockholm and Paris, lending to her unique European/American design aesthetic. She currently works in Istanbul and Pittsburgh where she resides. She founded and is editor and chief of EcoCouture Magazine and acts as a spokesperson, public speaking about sustainable textiles and eco fashion at expositions and conferences.
KATHRYN HILDERBRAND
Kathryn Hilderbrand is a master tailor, designer and business entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience working in the fashion industry. Owner of an upscale tailoring shop, Stitched., on Cape Cod and Founder/Designer of label,GreenLinebyK, Hilderbrand founded Good Clothing Company in 2015 to create small runs of production for designers. As a fashion activist, she has served on the Brands Team with Fashion Revolution Day USA and is passionate about bringing clothing manufacturing back to the United States.
Presented by the Harvard Extension Environmental Club.
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Saturday, November 20
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Building Sustainable Security
Saturday, November 20
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2364974
Cost: $10 - $25
Confirmed Speakers
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor, author, *Because We Say So
Michael McPhearson, Executive Director, Veterans For Peace
Harris Gruman, Co-Chair, RaiseUp Massachusetts; SEIU
Carl Williams, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Cassandra Bensahih, Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
Barbara Madeloni, President, Masachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
Susan Redlich, 350 Massachusetts divestment core team
Jimmy Tingle, Humor for Humanity
Will Hopkins, New Hampshire Peace Action
In the name of national security, our coun?try's policies are causing multiple, systemic crises. These include climate catastrophe, extreme inequality, constant wars, deep-seated racism, mass incarceration, and a militarized culture.
Only large social movements can remove these barriers to genuine security and construct a society based on Sustainable Security.
This conference will explore three pillars of sustainable national and
world security:
A fairly-shared global prosperity based on economic, social, and racial justice
Emergency action to address climate change and build a new, fossil-fuel-free energy system
A Foreign Policy for All based on even-handed diplomacy, ending our disastrous military interventions, abolition of nuclear weapons, and reclaiming war resources for the urgent needs that face our world
More information at http://masspeaceaction.org/events/sustainable-security-conf
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Sunday, November 22
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HBs Tech Conference
Sunday, November 22
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-conference-21-tickets-19090668704
Cost: $27.27
What is the Tech Conference?
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 20 years, the Tech Conference (formerly Cyberposium) is the largest student-run MBA technology conference in the world. The conference facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society. The Tech Conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s Tech Club.
Who attends the Tech Conference?
Each year, the Tech Conference seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common passion to deliver technology’s greatest promises. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from the tech/media industries as well as the VC and startup communities. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, founders, entrepreneurs, Wall Street and technology analysts, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from over 25 leading MBA programs around the world.
What is Tech Conference 21 all about?
Given this is the 21st year of the conference, there’s quite some history surrounding the conference. Many of the speakers that have spoken at the Tech Conference (or rather, its predecessor, Cyberposium) in the past got a lot more famous and a lot more successful after the conference, not because of the conference, but because conference organizers managed to bring to campus those people who saw the future and built it. Jeff Bezos came when Amazon was just a bookstore. Marissa Mayer came when she was still at Google, before she was selected as the CEO of Yahoo and became one of the most prominent CEOs in tech. Elon Musk came in 2005 before Tesla became the first American carmaker to IPO in decades and before NASA surrendered American leadership in space to SpaceX. Travis Kalanick came last year, before he closed that monstrous round that valued Uber at $18 billion.
The goal of this year’s conference is to continue the tradition of bringing industry leaders to HBS not only whose past stories would inspire and educate, but who are leading organizations that will likely dominate the next decade in technology. This year’s speakers can not only see the future, they are actively building it.
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Monday, November 23
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MASS Seminar - Nadine Unger (Yale)
Monday, November 23
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Nadine Unger (Yale)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-nadine-unger-yale
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Structure and Function
Monday, November 23
12:10PM
Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston
Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab, Harvard
Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
Arnold Arboretum Seminar Series
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-11-23-171000/arnold-arboretum-seminar-series#sthash.6LSPdmrD.dpuf
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The 'Nature' of Queer Families: Tracking the Socio-Technics of the Fertility Clinic
Monday, November 23
12:15–2 pm,
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Stu Marvel (Emory University)
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Biogeographic influences on grassland community structure and function
Monday, November 23
12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
Elisabeth Forrestel, Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab
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Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories
Monday, November 23
2-3pm
BU, Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Boston
Refreshments served at 1:45
P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, CISE Resident Scholar
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are time-varying. To enhance their usage, demand will need to be adjusted to meet supply, rather than the other way around as is traditional. This raises several issues lying at the confluence of economic behavior and elasticity, demand pooling, implicit or explicit storage, information availability, privacy, adaptation and control. This talk will propose several designs and architectures, strategies and theories for demand response.
[Joint work with Rahul Singh, Abhishek Halder, Ke Ma, Jaeyong An, Gaurav Sharma, Xinbo Geng, Anupam Thatte and Le Xie.]
P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. From 1985-2011 he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Currently he is at Texas A&M University, where he is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering.
Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was a Guest Chair Professor and Leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
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Science and Cooking: Modernist Cuisine
Monday, November 23
7 pm
Harvard Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Nathan Myhrvold, (@ModernCuisine), former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, author of “Modernist Cuisine”
More information at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Tuesday, November 24
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Privacy in a world of IoT, self driving cars, and a climate crisis
Tuesday, November 24
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.
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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Monday, November 30
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Dr. Temple Grandin: Livestock Behavior & Welfare: Experience, Research, and the Impact on My Life and Teaching
Mon-Tues, Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015
Tufts, Medford and Grafton campuses and livestreamed
Animal Matters Seminar Series with Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction
More information at http://vet.tufts.edu/center-for-animals-and-public-policy/capp-workshops-and-seminars/
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MASS Seminar - Roisin Commane (Harvard)
Monday, November 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Roisin Commane (Harvard)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-roisin-commane-harvard
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Health and Climate Benefits of Different Energy-efficiency and Renewable Energy Choices
Monday, November 30
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Buonocore, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera
Monday, November 30
12:15–2 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
John P. McCaskey, Columbia University
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, December 1
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Boston TechBreakfast: Akili Software, Inc., Attollo Tech, and More!
Tuesday, December 1
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Akili Software, Inc.: Savii Care - Michelle Harper
Attollo Tech: upace - Rachel Koretsky
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
Bulletin 17C and Advances in Flood Frequency Analysis for the United States
Tuesday, November 24
3:00 to 4:00 pm unless listed otherwise
Tufts University, Nelson Auditorium, 112 Anderson Hall, Medford campus
Followed by a catered reception in Burden Lounge 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Jery R. Stedinger, Professor, Cornell University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
More information at http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/seminars/
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Monday, November 30
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Dr. Temple Grandin: Livestock Behavior & Welfare: Experience, Research, and the Impact on My Life and Teaching
Mon-Tues, Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015
Tufts, Medford and Grafton campuses and livestreamed
Animal Matters Seminar Series with Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction
More information at http://vet.tufts.edu/center-for-animals-and-public-policy/capp-workshops-and-seminars/
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MASS Seminar - Roisin Commane (Harvard)
Monday, November 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Roisin Commane (Harvard)
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar [MASS]
A student-run weekly seminar series. Topics include research concerning atmospheric science, and climate. The seminars usually take place on Mondays in 54-915 from 12.00-1pm. 2015/2016 co-ordinators: Marianna Linz (mlinz@mit.edu), John Agard (jvagard@mit.edu), and Dan Rothernberg (darothen@mit.edu). mass@mit.edu reaches the list. (term-time only)
Web site: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/mass-seminar-roisin-commane-harvard
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Marianna Linz
617-253-2127
mlinz@mit.edu
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Health and Climate Benefits of Different Energy-efficiency and Renewable Energy Choices
Monday, November 30
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Buonocore, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
HKS Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/seminar.html
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-8693
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Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera
Monday, November 30
12:15–2 pm
Harvard, Pierce 100F, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
John P. McCaskey, Columbia University
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
Shana_Rabinowich@hks.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, December 1
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Boston TechBreakfast: Akili Software, Inc., Attollo Tech, and More!
Tuesday, December 1
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://bit.ly/1q7U6I6
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Akili Software, Inc.: Savii Care - Michelle Harper
Attollo Tech: upace - Rachel Koretsky
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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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
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/
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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#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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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
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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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
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.
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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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
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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EnergyBar!
Thursday, December 3
5:30pm – 8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
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The Great Debate on Climate
Thursday, December 3
6:30 - 8:00
ASEAN, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Bill Moomaw and Bruce Everett
What is the most desirable outcome for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris? GDAE Co-Director Bill Moomaw and Professor Bruce Everett will go head to heafessd on this topic in this year's Great Debate. This will be the 15th debate between the two, and the stakes have never been higher than now.
EnergyBar!
Thursday, December 3
5:30pm – 8:30pm
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
About EnergyBar: EnergyBar is a monthly event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand our growing regional clean technology community.
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The Great Debate on Climate
Thursday, December 3
6:30 - 8:00
ASEAN, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Bill Moomaw and Bruce Everett
What is the most desirable outcome for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris? GDAE Co-Director Bill Moomaw and Professor Bruce Everett will go head to heafessd on this topic in this year's Great Debate. This will be the 15th debate between the two, and the stakes have never been higher than now.
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Birdly: Conception and Creation of a Full Body Immersive Experience
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
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
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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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Friday, December 4
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
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.
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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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
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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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
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
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
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/
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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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
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
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
December 9
6pm - 9pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston
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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Thursday, December 10
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Paris 2015: What’s next?
Thursday, December 10
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
William Moomaw, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
An interdisciplinary panel will discuss the climate negotiations and possible outcomes of the COP 21 summit in Paris which aims to reach a global agreement to keep global warming under 2°C.
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A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaig
Thursday, December 10
5:30 pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender
Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute
Comment: Suzanna Danuta Walters, Northeastern University
Suffragists coordinated a visual campaign to promote their cause and counter caricatures that depicted them as masculine. In the 1880s, they increased their efforts to establish a positive public image of their movement. Suffrage leaders—especially Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—began to change the way they represented themselves and fellow prominent figures. In the 1890s, as press committees took control of visual propaganda, suffragists honed their visual strategies to transform the imagery of political womanhood in the mainstream press.
The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.
Registration for the series is required.
Registered participants may access the papers online at the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
For more information, please call 617-495-8647 or email seminars@masshist.org.
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Reverse Global Warming Conference help!!!
The upcoming conference on Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming to be held Friday – Sunday, October 16-18, 2015 at Tufts University in Medford is calling for volunteers to
Email the link to our conference website to friends, family and colleagues who might be interested in attending:
http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/
Distribute flyers at local events or hang them on community bulletin boards to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Help with set up and managing the registration table during the conference on either Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, or Sunday October 18th.
Volunteers with cars to shuttle our conference speakers to and from the airport.
Identify additional speaking opportunities for our international conference visitors from Australia (Walter Jehne), Slovakia (Michal Kravcik), and Zimbabwe (Precious Phiri). Their bios are listed at http://bio4climate.org/conferences/conferences-2015/tufts-2015-restoring-water-cycles/speakers/, so if anyone is affiliated with an organization who might like to host Walter, Michal and Precious as guest speakers, please contact Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4climate.org)
Inquiries related to volunteering in any of these capacities can be sent to lacey.klingensmith@bio4climate.org
Editorial Comment: I went to last year's conference on Restoring Soil Carbon to Reverse Global Warming and it was one of the first conferences which showed how we can actually do something to stop and even reverse climate change I've been to. All the discussions I see on climate change concentrate on sources of greenhouse gases. This is about the only group I know of which is concentrating on sinks, ways to remove carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, naturally, by using and enhancing existing ecological systems. This year's conference is on water cycles and water systems and, having seen a preview of some of the presentations and speakers, I believe it will be as good as if not better than last year's conference. If you want to add you energy to stopping climate change, this is one very good way to do so.
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Food For Free in Cambridge is seeking a number of volunteers for our biggest fundraising event of the year! By helping out at the Party Under the Harvest Moon, you can help us raise $60,000 in one night for our Food Rescue & Delivery work.
WHEN & WHERE:
Friday, October 16th
MIT's Morss Hall | 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
WHOM WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
folks with professional kitchen/restaurant industry experience (or confident home cooks who are willing to follow food handling instructions from our caterer)
friendly, outgoing folks who are comfortable using tablets/smartphones, and ideally willing to use their own devices while volunteering (though we have some available)
1-2 volunteer photographers (email me directly to inquire about this one!)
general helpers for a range of tasks, including coat check, setup, cleanup, etc.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/9M47Tn6J832D/
Thanks for helping make this fundraising event a success, to ensure access to healthy food for all in our communities.
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Marc Rosenbaum, a long-time energy efficiency practitioner and engineer, is teaching a 10 week in-depth course for professionals who are serious about transformative energy upgrades to residential and commercial buildings. He'll cover the pertinent building science, techniques for superinsulating foundations, walls, windows, and roofs, appropriate mechanical systems. There will be a weekly in-depth case study as well. Please join him, and pass this on to anyone who might benefit. Here's the link:
https://www.heatspring.com/courses/deep-energy-retrofits
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Keeping A Promise for Solar Teaching in Indonesia (from Richard Komp)
Last May, after I spent a month teaching groups of students in in Sumatra, Indonesia. I promised them I would come back for a second set of courses next Spring. Since then the part-Indonesian woman who had financed the project has had a slight reversal of fortune (the stock market has not been kind to her lately). While the costs of the course and materials and my stay in Indonesia are still covered, I will have to arrange for the cost of my own travel arrangements. In the next trip I will be teaching in a school run by a Christian family where most of the students are Muslims and staying at a Buddhist monastery, where I will also be giving seminars. All these people expect me back.
I will be traveling directly from Managua, Nicaragua to, and inside, Indonesia, then back to here in Maine. This is a distance longer than a round the world trip I have the trip from Managua to Los Angeles covered by frequent flier miles but still have the rest of the travel to pay for. While air fare in Indonesia is cheap (and with a questionable safety record), I have some long distance flights on airlines like Singapore Air. While they have five classes of accommodations in their two stories Airbus 380, I travel downstairs in “steerage”, the lowest class. I also have to get back from Los Angeles to Maine; so I calculate I will need about $2600 from Skyheat Associates to cover all the expenses.
I am asking for your help!
Please think of donating money to a special Skyheat program to cover all these expenses. Skyheat doesn’t have any arrangements for paying by credit card, and PayPal won’t deal with me (a long old story) so you will have to send checks to Skyheat at the address below. Skyheat Associates is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity (IRS # 31-1021520) and all your donations will be tax exempt. You can go to our www.mainesolar.org website and read my report on the first Indonesial trip on the International work page. Please feel free to pass this request on to anybody you think might be interested.
Thank your for your help,
Rich
Richard Komp PhD, Director
Skyheat Associates
PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643
207-497-2204, cell 207-450-1141
www.mainesolar.org, sunwatt@juno.com
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Internship at Trustees Boston
If you (or know any students who) want to make an impact connecting the community to green space, gardening and local food in Boston, we have an internship ready to hire! Trustees – Boston is filling two internship positions for this fall: Communications & Social Media and Event Management.
We have a great lineup of programming coming this fall including our Fall Festival & Plant Sale, the Great Pumpkin Float, the Children’s Harvest Festival (at the Boston Children’s Museum) and a Holiday Lantern Walk (and more!). With support from Programming Managers, these interns will play an integral role both in making them happen as well as ensuring a wide cross-section of the Boston community has access to these great opportunities to get to know the importance of urban greenspace!
Please direct any questions to Ashley Hampson at ahampson@ttor.org or 617-542-7696 ext. 2112.
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Cambridge Community Calendar: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/calendar
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: https://www.facebook.com/nerdniteboston
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