Harvard
Creating an Enduring Commons
Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow
Tuesday, June 29, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast) at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
Lewis Hyde's talk will be drawn from a book he has just finished, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. One thesis of the book is that the founding generation in the United States hoped to establish a cultural commons of art and ideas, a lively public domain of created works that all of us use because nobody controls it. What has become apparent in recent years is that the founders did not leave us with any good way to protect this commons. The public domain has turned out to be highly vulnerable to private capture. How might this vulnerability be reduced? How might an unguarded public domain be converted into a rule-governed and thus durable cultural commons?
About Lewis
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World(1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde is currently at work on a book about our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce.
A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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Other
Tech Tuesday
MA Technology Leadership Council
Event Details
• Date: 6/29/10
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6-8pm
• Audience: Tech
• Description: If you're looking for talent, clients or to just spread the word about what you are doing, join us for this Tech Tuesday. You'll have an opportunity for a fast-pitch shout-out to the audience of fellow geeks, tech savvy professionals, DIY-ers, and other industry luminaries at this high energy informal gathering.
New in 2010 - Office Hours
In addition, we are continuing our 2010 Entrepreneurial Series with Office Hours. The short sessions with well known industry connectors will provide premier access for Entrepreneurs in search of advice on how to move their idea and or company forward. Office hours are reserved time slots and you must apply in advance to reserve your spot.
http://masstlc.homestead.com/eventscalendar.html
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Gubernatorial Forum on the Environment, June 29, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston
RSVP to smoser@envrionmentalleague.org.
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Transition House Greening Kickoff – Presentation of plans to green the emergency shelter for families experiencing domestic violence and fundraising event; called The Green Door Campaign. June 29, Athenaeum Building, 1st floor, 215 First St., Cambridge. Music, cocktails, food, silent auction. See http://www.transitionhouse.org for more info.
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Links to events at over 30 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://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Energy (and Other) Events - June 20, 2010
MIT
Monday, June 21, 2010
"Pollution Transport, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Climate Change in the Himalaya"
Speaker: Dr. Arnico K. Panday, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: 54-915
EAPS Special Seminar
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
For more information, contact:
Roberta Allard
253-3382
allard@mit.edu
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June 24, 2010
11:00am - 1:00 pm
Demonstration of Electric Smart Car
http://www.smartusa.com/electricdrive/?ref=hp
Stata Amphitheater MIT
Cambridge, MA
Introducing the smart for two electric drive vehicle to MIT.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Perspectives on Energy and Climate Policy Research
Time: 1:00p–5:30p
Location: E51-Wong Auditorium
Please join us JUNE 24 at an Afternoon Symposium to honor and pay tribute to Co-Founder and Co-Director Professor Henry D. "Jake" Jacoby of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The afternoon will consist of a series of guest lectures on the topic:
"Perspectives on Energy and Climate Policy Research"
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Frances Goldstein
617 253-2682
fkg@mit.edu
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Harvard
Yardswap — Harvard Freecycle Event
WHEN
Tue., June 22, 2010, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Science Center Overpass Lawn
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Special Events, Working@Harvard
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
FAS Green Program, Harvard Law School Green Team, Harvard Recycling, Harvard Office for Sustainability
CONTACT INFO
sustainability@harvard.edu
NOTE
Late spring cleaners, unite! Don’t trash your office and home leftovers, freecycle them! Both office supplies for Harvard reuse and items from home are welcome at this event. File folders, cabinets, printers/cartridges, books, movies, music, housewares, games, sports equipment, art supplies, and clothes welcome.
Please, NO: TVs, computers, large electronics, or large furniture.
Please bring items to donate on the day of the event between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
All leftover items will be donated to local charities.
http://green.harvard.edu/events
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Haiti: Sustaining the Response
WHEN
Thu., June 24, 2010, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
O'Keefe Auditorium, Blake Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Center for Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
SPEAKER(S)
David Henderson, Division of Global Psychiatry, MGH; Laurence Ronan
Durant Fellowship in Refugee Medicine, MGH
CONTACT INFO
jason_harlow@harvard.edu
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/globalhealth/
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Other
diybio june meetup 7:00 PM Tuesday 22 June 2010 at Sprout
Howdy Garagistas,
Do you like yogurt? This Tuesday, June 22, Vaughn Tan is bringing by a culture of 1000-year old yogurt that originated from India (and was handed-down by the mythical Harold McGee). We'll chat about biotech in the kitchen and the practicalities of culturing your own yogurt, and have little samples of Vaughn's strain for you to take home should you wish.
So please join us at Sprout* on June 22 at 7:00 PM EST.
Coming up, on July 1 Marcus Gay will present a DIY prototype of an algae photobioreactor he helped develop at a local biofuel startup company, and on July 20th participants from a biotech + game conference ("play + DNA") are invited to join us for a meetup.
Hope to see you for some conversation and yogurt on this Tuesday.
* Sprout is located at 339R summer St, Somerville, MA 02144 http://thesprouts.org We also have the opportunity to use Lorem Ipsum Books in Inman square for our meetup - would this be preferable?
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Tuesday, June 22
6:30 to 7:30 P.M.
Cambridge Public Library Children's Room, 3rd floor, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Eager to cut your home's electric bills? Want to teach your kids how to save energy?
Six King Open students wrote and illustrated a book, "Energy Lite," to help families do this.
The Cambridge Public Library invites you to a book launch and reception recognizing these young local authors and activists, the Sprouts of Hope. The Sprouts of Hope are a community-based Roots & Shoots group. We hope members of the Cambridge community will join us to celebrate the library's acquisition of this one-of-a-kind book and the corresponding electricity usage monitors (Kill A Watt meters) donated by The Sprouts of Hope. The book and meter will be available for check out from the main library and branch libraries.
Learn how to use a Kill A Watt meter to measure how much energy your family uses. Then have fun using the book "Energy Lite" and learn how making small changes can make a big difference.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information about this event, please call 617-349-4038.
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Tuesday, June 22, 6:30pm
King Corn
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway
Followed by discussion and refreshments.
Description: In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. The trailer can be viewed at www.kingcorn.net.
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Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, June 26th
12:30—5:00 p.m.
Attic air-sealing Saturday, June 19th 9-2
Cambridge YWCA Emergency Family Shelter
3 Bigelow Street, Cambridge
• Pitch in to help 10 homeless families who live at the shelter
• Lower vast energy bills for the shelter so it can help the families more
• Learn skills that can save you $$ at home
• Fight climate change
• Share food & celebrate after a job well done
• No skills necessary – training on the job!!
Work includes:
• An easy and cheap way to fix old vinyl replacement windows so they easily close again
• Air-sealing an incredibly leaky attic
• Using caulk and sprayfoam to stop air leaks
• Saving water and electricity
• Installing programmable thermostats
• Masonry, plastering, and more
If you want to take part in the attic air-sealing, check the box on the form, or if Emailing or calling, let us know.
Sign up today by web, email or phone!!
www.heetma.com
heet.cambridge@gmail.com
617-491-6761
Organized by HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team), a Cambridge-based co-op that brings neighbors together to weatherize our homes and take the energy future into our own hands.
Co-sponsored by Cambridge Energy Alliance
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Somerville Climate Action & Transition Somerville present
SOMERVILLE CLIMATE WEEK!
Tuesday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Somerville Welcomes Climate Riders! Tues. 6/22 to Sun. 6/27
Somerville hosts six New England Climate Summer Student Riders who are spending
their summer biking from town to town. The goal: to raise awareness about the climate
crisis and energize communities to do something about it! They will attend public
events, meet with community leaders, and lend a hand to make Somerville a climate-
friendly city! A gigantic THANK-YOU to First Church Somerville who will be housing the
students!
Meet the students and hear their
story at the following locations:
> Wednesday 12:00 to 6:00pm
Davis Square Farmer's Market
> Thursday 6:00 to 9:00pm
Somerville Living Green Festival *
> Saturday 9:00am to 1:00pm
Union Square Farmer's Market
> Saturday 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Somerville Community Growing Center **
* Climate riders will talk with attendees about the state of our climate, their climate summer project,
and the need for science-based legislation.
** Climate riders will facilitate a grassroots organizing training session
Somerville Living Green Festival! Thur. 6/24 6 - 9 pm Argenziano School,
290 Washington Street, Union Square
Learn to live green! Topics will include saving energy & money, gardening, eating local,
reducing waste, learning about green building, reducing toxics. Energy-efficiency
workshop in Spanish. Presentation by Climate Student Riders at 7:00pm. Kids crafts!
Co-sponsored by the City of Somerville’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment
Grassroots Organizing Training! Sat. 6/26 2 – 4 pm at the Somerville
Community Growing Center
The Climate Riders have been trained in renowned community organizer Marshall
Ganz’s organizing model and will be sharing these skills at this training. Come learn
how to be a new or more effective community organizer!
Screening of A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish, Sat. 6/26
7 – 9 pm at First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue. A film about ocean
acidification, climate change, and solutions. Co-sponsored by First Church Somerville,
Somerville Climate Action, and Ocean River Institute.
Student Goodbye Ride-Off – Sun. 6/27 2:00pm Bike-off with the students part
of the way to their next town! Leave from First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue.
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Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area (http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Monday, June 21, 2010
"Pollution Transport, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Climate Change in the Himalaya"
Speaker: Dr. Arnico K. Panday, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: 54-915
EAPS Special Seminar
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
For more information, contact:
Roberta Allard
253-3382
allard@mit.edu
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June 24, 2010
11:00am - 1:00 pm
Demonstration of Electric Smart Car
http://www.smartusa.com/electricdrive/?ref=hp
Stata Amphitheater MIT
Cambridge, MA
Introducing the smart for two electric drive vehicle to MIT.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Perspectives on Energy and Climate Policy Research
Time: 1:00p–5:30p
Location: E51-Wong Auditorium
Please join us JUNE 24 at an Afternoon Symposium to honor and pay tribute to Co-Founder and Co-Director Professor Henry D. "Jake" Jacoby of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The afternoon will consist of a series of guest lectures on the topic:
"Perspectives on Energy and Climate Policy Research"
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Frances Goldstein
617 253-2682
fkg@mit.edu
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Harvard
Yardswap — Harvard Freecycle Event
WHEN
Tue., June 22, 2010, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Science Center Overpass Lawn
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Environmental Sciences, Special Events, Working@Harvard
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
FAS Green Program, Harvard Law School Green Team, Harvard Recycling, Harvard Office for Sustainability
CONTACT INFO
sustainability@harvard.edu
NOTE
Late spring cleaners, unite! Don’t trash your office and home leftovers, freecycle them! Both office supplies for Harvard reuse and items from home are welcome at this event. File folders, cabinets, printers/cartridges, books, movies, music, housewares, games, sports equipment, art supplies, and clothes welcome.
Please, NO: TVs, computers, large electronics, or large furniture.
Please bring items to donate on the day of the event between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
All leftover items will be donated to local charities.
http://green.harvard.edu/events
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Haiti: Sustaining the Response
WHEN
Thu., June 24, 2010, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
O'Keefe Auditorium, Blake Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Center for Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
SPEAKER(S)
David Henderson, Division of Global Psychiatry, MGH; Laurence Ronan
Durant Fellowship in Refugee Medicine, MGH
CONTACT INFO
jason_harlow@harvard.edu
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/globalhealth/
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Other
diybio june meetup 7:00 PM Tuesday 22 June 2010 at Sprout
Howdy Garagistas,
Do you like yogurt? This Tuesday, June 22, Vaughn Tan is bringing by a culture of 1000-year old yogurt that originated from India (and was handed-down by the mythical Harold McGee). We'll chat about biotech in the kitchen and the practicalities of culturing your own yogurt, and have little samples of Vaughn's strain for you to take home should you wish.
So please join us at Sprout* on June 22 at 7:00 PM EST.
Coming up, on July 1 Marcus Gay will present a DIY prototype of an algae photobioreactor he helped develop at a local biofuel startup company, and on July 20th participants from a biotech + game conference ("play + DNA") are invited to join us for a meetup.
Hope to see you for some conversation and yogurt on this Tuesday.
* Sprout is located at 339R summer St, Somerville, MA 02144 http://thesprouts.org We also have the opportunity to use Lorem Ipsum Books in Inman square for our meetup - would this be preferable?
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Tuesday, June 22
6:30 to 7:30 P.M.
Cambridge Public Library Children's Room, 3rd floor, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Eager to cut your home's electric bills? Want to teach your kids how to save energy?
Six King Open students wrote and illustrated a book, "Energy Lite," to help families do this.
The Cambridge Public Library invites you to a book launch and reception recognizing these young local authors and activists, the Sprouts of Hope. The Sprouts of Hope are a community-based Roots & Shoots group. We hope members of the Cambridge community will join us to celebrate the library's acquisition of this one-of-a-kind book and the corresponding electricity usage monitors (Kill A Watt meters) donated by The Sprouts of Hope. The book and meter will be available for check out from the main library and branch libraries.
Learn how to use a Kill A Watt meter to measure how much energy your family uses. Then have fun using the book "Energy Lite" and learn how making small changes can make a big difference.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information about this event, please call 617-349-4038.
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Tuesday, June 22, 6:30pm
King Corn
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway
Followed by discussion and refreshments.
Description: In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. The trailer can be viewed at www.kingcorn.net.
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Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, June 26th
12:30—5:00 p.m.
Attic air-sealing Saturday, June 19th 9-2
Cambridge YWCA Emergency Family Shelter
3 Bigelow Street, Cambridge
• Pitch in to help 10 homeless families who live at the shelter
• Lower vast energy bills for the shelter so it can help the families more
• Learn skills that can save you $$ at home
• Fight climate change
• Share food & celebrate after a job well done
• No skills necessary – training on the job!!
Work includes:
• An easy and cheap way to fix old vinyl replacement windows so they easily close again
• Air-sealing an incredibly leaky attic
• Using caulk and sprayfoam to stop air leaks
• Saving water and electricity
• Installing programmable thermostats
• Masonry, plastering, and more
If you want to take part in the attic air-sealing, check the box on the form, or if Emailing or calling, let us know.
Sign up today by web, email or phone!!
www.heetma.com
heet.cambridge@gmail.com
617-491-6761
Organized by HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team), a Cambridge-based co-op that brings neighbors together to weatherize our homes and take the energy future into our own hands.
Co-sponsored by Cambridge Energy Alliance
-----------------------------------
Somerville Climate Action & Transition Somerville present
SOMERVILLE CLIMATE WEEK!
Tuesday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Somerville Welcomes Climate Riders! Tues. 6/22 to Sun. 6/27
Somerville hosts six New England Climate Summer Student Riders who are spending
their summer biking from town to town. The goal: to raise awareness about the climate
crisis and energize communities to do something about it! They will attend public
events, meet with community leaders, and lend a hand to make Somerville a climate-
friendly city! A gigantic THANK-YOU to First Church Somerville who will be housing the
students!
Meet the students and hear their
story at the following locations:
> Wednesday 12:00 to 6:00pm
Davis Square Farmer's Market
> Thursday 6:00 to 9:00pm
Somerville Living Green Festival *
> Saturday 9:00am to 1:00pm
Union Square Farmer's Market
> Saturday 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Somerville Community Growing Center **
* Climate riders will talk with attendees about the state of our climate, their climate summer project,
and the need for science-based legislation.
** Climate riders will facilitate a grassroots organizing training session
Somerville Living Green Festival! Thur. 6/24 6 - 9 pm Argenziano School,
290 Washington Street, Union Square
Learn to live green! Topics will include saving energy & money, gardening, eating local,
reducing waste, learning about green building, reducing toxics. Energy-efficiency
workshop in Spanish. Presentation by Climate Student Riders at 7:00pm. Kids crafts!
Co-sponsored by the City of Somerville’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment
Grassroots Organizing Training! Sat. 6/26 2 – 4 pm at the Somerville
Community Growing Center
The Climate Riders have been trained in renowned community organizer Marshall
Ganz’s organizing model and will be sharing these skills at this training. Come learn
how to be a new or more effective community organizer!
Screening of A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish, Sat. 6/26
7 – 9 pm at First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue. A film about ocean
acidification, climate change, and solutions. Co-sponsored by First Church Somerville,
Somerville Climate Action, and Ocean River Institute.
Student Goodbye Ride-Off – Sun. 6/27 2:00pm Bike-off with the students part
of the way to their next town! Leave from First Church Somerville, 89 College Avenue.
-------------------------------------------------
Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area (http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Sunday, June 13, 2010
MIT
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
2010 Knight News Challenge: Winners Announcement Ceremony
Speaker: Alberto Ibarguen, Knight Foundation
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: 10-250
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, will announce the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. The winners represent the cutting-edge of technology for news, shaping the future of communities and media.
The announcement will feature "lightning sessions" from the 2010 winners.
Learn more about the Knight News Challenge at http://newschallenge.org.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617.324.0490
awhit@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentations by 2010 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize Winners and InvenTeams
Time: 1:00p–3:30p
Location: 32-123
Attend presentations and demonstrations by the winners of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes at MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the California Institute of Technology, as well as several high school InvenTeams.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.45.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Introduction of the Inventing merit badge
Time: 3:30p–4:00p
Location: 32-123
Attend a presentation by the Lemelson-MIT Program and the Boy Scouts of America introducing the Inventing merit badge
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 6:00p–8:45p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street, Stata Center, 1st Floor
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will exhibit their invention prototypes.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentation by the 2010 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Winner
Time: 7:30p–8:15p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
2010 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability winner, BP Agrawal, will discuss his innovations including a rainwater harvesting system, mobile health clinics and cultural implementations
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 5:30p–8:30p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will exhibit their invention prototypes.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Lemelson-MIT Awards Ceremony
Time: 6:30p–8:00p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
This public ceremony will honor the work of inventors improving our world. The 2010 Lemelson-MIT Award winners will be recognized, including a special presentation by the 2010 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Reporting a black hole : A journalist's experiences from Chhattisgarh in Central Tribal India
Speaker: Shubhranshu Choudhary
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: 2-105
A talk by Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder CGnet (a community news platform dealing with Chhattisgarh issues).
The talk will be preceded by a short screening of a documentary film titled ?India's Hidden War,? made in 2007 by a team of which Shubhranshu was a part and screened in a program called Unreported World on Channel 4 in the UK.
Web site: http://aidboston.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): AID-MIT
For more information, contact:
Ramya Aja
aid-mit-exec@mit.edu
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 at the Museum of Science, Boston
Time: 10:00a–5:00p
Location: Museum of Science, Boston
Cheer on over 200 high school students in an all-day design challenge that explores the invention process. Come meet Marvel Comics artist Nick Dragotta, and professional toy designer Ingrid Dragotta, as they teach the creative process of making your own inventions. Families are encouraged to attend!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Harvard
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist Talk as GriefingLisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Tuesday, June 15, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Games are a radically transnational medium: as Martin Lister writes in New Media: An Introduction, “even before Pokémon, the videogame was perhaps the most thoroughly transnational form of popular culture, both as an industry (with Sony, Sega ad Nintendo as the key players) but also at the level of content—the characters and narratives of many videogames are evidence of relays of influence between America and Japan.” Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these games and other forms of networked social life such as Second Life and Chatroulette takes increasingly racist and racialized forms. The Patriotic Niggas, a group of griefers who delight in "breaking" Second Life and Habbo Hotel by filling public space with garbage, are assuredly not African American, but resort to offensive racist languages as the shortest route to their goal: the disruption of online community and social life. This essay will recap the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a public sphere.
About Lisa
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
She is the author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet" (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (Routledge, 2000).
She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Womens Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled "Digital Race: An Anthology" (Routledge, forthcoming), and she is working on a new monograph on social inequality in virtual worlds, tentatively entitled "Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds, or, Why World of Warcraft needs a Civil Rights Movement."
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Building Bodies and Brains for Autonomous Robots
WHEN
Thu., June 17, 2010, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
Room 521, Wyss Institute
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
Daniela Rus, visiting scholar Wyss Institute; professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, MIT; co-director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Center for Robotics
NOTE
In this talk, Daniela Rus will discuss the challenges of building brains and bodies to create mobile autonomous systems that can interact in new ways with the physical world, on the ground, in water, and in the air. She will focus on recent progress in Self-Organizing Robots, which constitute distributed networks of robots that can sense, actuate, compute and communicate in support of adaptive self-organization. The nodes in such networks can include static sensors, mobile sensors, robots, animals, and humans. Such systems combine the most advanced concepts in perception, communication, and control to create computational systems capable of large-scale interaction with the environment, extending the individual capabilities of each network component to encompass a much wider area, range of data, and control capabilities.
LINK
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/66/wyss-visiting-scholar-daniela-rus
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Other
Monday night, June 14th
7pm
The first Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp
The Nonprofit Center
89 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-439-3142
Please sign up at http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Boston-Slow-Money/
The first half of the evening will focus on the Slow Money movement and principles and the second half will be a Slow Money showcase. Presenters will include David Warner from City Feed and Supply, Jessie Benhazl from Green City Growers, Dorothy Suput of The Carrot Project, Julia Frost of CHIVE Sustainable Event Design & Catering, and Glynn Lloyd from City Fresh Foods - City Growers.
We suggest a donation of $10 at the door, or better yet become a member of the Slow Money Alliance for just $25 and admission is free.
The Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp aims to provide a collaborative forum for Boston's locavore, social investing, and local economy communities to channel capital toward building a sustainable, equitable food system.
The idea is to create a critical mass of people and organizations committed to channeling capital to sustainable ag related enterprises in our area. Our MeetUps will offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their business plans and for attendees to consider making investments. We envision an environment where all participants learn something from the process.
Hope to see you there!
Eric Becker
eric@cleanyield.com
(617) 395-9966
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GreenPort Forum
Where Does Our Water Come From?
Tuesday, June 15 at 7:00pm
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St.
Recent problems in the water supply to Boston have highlighted the need for urban residents to understand where our basic resources, such as the water we drink, come from. How sustainable is the Cambridge water supply? How might it be affected by climate change? What can we do to conserve and help assure the long term availability of fresh water in Cambridge?
Sam Corda, Managing Director of the Cambridge Water Department, will present on these issues and more, followed by a roundtable discussion.
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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Bikes Not Bombs
GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL!
June 20th, 2010. Noon to 5:30
in the park in front of the Stony Brook T station, Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, 02130
Links to events at over 30 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://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
2010 Knight News Challenge: Winners Announcement Ceremony
Speaker: Alberto Ibarguen, Knight Foundation
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: 10-250
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, will announce the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. The winners represent the cutting-edge of technology for news, shaping the future of communities and media.
The announcement will feature "lightning sessions" from the 2010 winners.
Learn more about the Knight News Challenge at http://newschallenge.org.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617.324.0490
awhit@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentations by 2010 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize Winners and InvenTeams
Time: 1:00p–3:30p
Location: 32-123
Attend presentations and demonstrations by the winners of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes at MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the California Institute of Technology, as well as several high school InvenTeams.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: N/A
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.45.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Introduction of the Inventing merit badge
Time: 3:30p–4:00p
Location: 32-123
Attend a presentation by the Lemelson-MIT Program and the Boy Scouts of America introducing the Inventing merit badge
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 6:00p–8:45p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street, Stata Center, 1st Floor
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will exhibit their invention prototypes.
Web site: http://www.eurekafest.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Presentation by the 2010 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Winner
Time: 7:30p–8:15p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
2010 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability winner, BP Agrawal, will discuss his innovations including a rainwater harvesting system, mobile health clinics and cultural implementations
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - InvenTeams Showcase
Time: 5:30p–8:30p
Location: 32, Stata Student Street
The 2010 InvenTeams, teams of high school students nationwide, will exhibit their invention prototypes.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 - Lemelson-MIT Awards Ceremony
Time: 6:30p–8:00p
Location: 32-123, Kirsch Auditorium
This public ceremony will honor the work of inventors improving our world. The 2010 Lemelson-MIT Award winners will be recognized, including a special presentation by the 2010 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Reporting a black hole : A journalist's experiences from Chhattisgarh in Central Tribal India
Speaker: Shubhranshu Choudhary
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: 2-105
A talk by Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder CGnet (a community news platform dealing with Chhattisgarh issues).
The talk will be preceded by a short screening of a documentary film titled ?India's Hidden War,? made in 2007 by a team of which Shubhranshu was a part and screened in a program called Unreported World on Channel 4 in the UK.
Web site: http://aidboston.org
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): AID-MIT
For more information, contact:
Ramya Aja
aid-mit-exec@mit.edu
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
EurekaFest 2010 at the Museum of Science, Boston
Time: 10:00a–5:00p
Location: Museum of Science, Boston
Cheer on over 200 high school students in an all-day design challenge that explores the invention process. Come meet Marvel Comics artist Nick Dragotta, and professional toy designer Ingrid Dragotta, as they teach the creative process of making your own inventions. Families are encouraged to attend!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Lemelson-MIT Program
For more information, contact:
Michael Perry
617.452.2170
mperry@mit.edu
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Harvard
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist Talk as GriefingLisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Tuesday, June 15, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast).
Games are a radically transnational medium: as Martin Lister writes in New Media: An Introduction, “even before Pokémon, the videogame was perhaps the most thoroughly transnational form of popular culture, both as an industry (with Sony, Sega ad Nintendo as the key players) but also at the level of content—the characters and narratives of many videogames are evidence of relays of influence between America and Japan.” Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these games and other forms of networked social life such as Second Life and Chatroulette takes increasingly racist and racialized forms. The Patriotic Niggas, a group of griefers who delight in "breaking" Second Life and Habbo Hotel by filling public space with garbage, are assuredly not African American, but resort to offensive racist languages as the shortest route to their goal: the disruption of online community and social life. This essay will recap the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a public sphere.
About Lisa
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
She is the author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet" (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (Routledge, 2000).
She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Womens Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled "Digital Race: An Anthology" (Routledge, forthcoming), and she is working on a new monograph on social inequality in virtual worlds, tentatively entitled "Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds, or, Why World of Warcraft needs a Civil Rights Movement."
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Building Bodies and Brains for Autonomous Robots
WHEN
Thu., June 17, 2010, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
Room 521, Wyss Institute
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S)
Daniela Rus, visiting scholar Wyss Institute; professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, MIT; co-director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Center for Robotics
NOTE
In this talk, Daniela Rus will discuss the challenges of building brains and bodies to create mobile autonomous systems that can interact in new ways with the physical world, on the ground, in water, and in the air. She will focus on recent progress in Self-Organizing Robots, which constitute distributed networks of robots that can sense, actuate, compute and communicate in support of adaptive self-organization. The nodes in such networks can include static sensors, mobile sensors, robots, animals, and humans. Such systems combine the most advanced concepts in perception, communication, and control to create computational systems capable of large-scale interaction with the environment, extending the individual capabilities of each network component to encompass a much wider area, range of data, and control capabilities.
LINK
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewevent/66/wyss-visiting-scholar-daniela-rus
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Other
Monday night, June 14th
7pm
The first Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp
The Nonprofit Center
89 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-439-3142
Please sign up at http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Boston-Slow-Money/
The first half of the evening will focus on the Slow Money movement and principles and the second half will be a Slow Money showcase. Presenters will include David Warner from City Feed and Supply, Jessie Benhazl from Green City Growers, Dorothy Suput of The Carrot Project, Julia Frost of CHIVE Sustainable Event Design & Catering, and Glynn Lloyd from City Fresh Foods - City Growers.
We suggest a donation of $10 at the door, or better yet become a member of the Slow Money Alliance for just $25 and admission is free.
The Greater Boston Slow Money MeetUp aims to provide a collaborative forum for Boston's locavore, social investing, and local economy communities to channel capital toward building a sustainable, equitable food system.
The idea is to create a critical mass of people and organizations committed to channeling capital to sustainable ag related enterprises in our area. Our MeetUps will offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their business plans and for attendees to consider making investments. We envision an environment where all participants learn something from the process.
Hope to see you there!
Eric Becker
eric@cleanyield.com
(617) 395-9966
-----------------------------
GreenPort Forum
Where Does Our Water Come From?
Tuesday, June 15 at 7:00pm
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St.
Recent problems in the water supply to Boston have highlighted the need for urban residents to understand where our basic resources, such as the water we drink, come from. How sustainable is the Cambridge water supply? How might it be affected by climate change? What can we do to conserve and help assure the long term availability of fresh water in Cambridge?
Sam Corda, Managing Director of the Cambridge Water Department, will present on these issues and more, followed by a roundtable discussion.
For more information, contact Steve Wineman at swineman@gis.net
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Bikes Not Bombs
GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL!
June 20th, 2010. Noon to 5:30
in the park in front of the Stony Brook T station, Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, 02130
Links to events at over 30 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://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Energy (and Other) Events - May 30, 2010
MIT
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
EARTH SYSTEM INITIATIVE YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS
Speaker: Janelle Thompson, Doherty Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 54-915
LAND AND SEA: MICROBIAL PROCESSES FROM CORALS TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Microorganisms drive global cycles of carbon and energy and are integral to the health of living systems at scales from the microscopic to the geologic. Research in our Microbial Ecology and Engineering Lab aims to understand how microbial communities influence the integrity of perturbed environments at multiple scales. Our projects include exploring how shifts in microbial activity mediate the balance between health and disease in reef-building corals; and studying the nature and engineering applications of microbial populations isolated from subsurface carbon sequestration sites, which remarkably can grow in supercritical carbon dioxide conditions. We also are developing a model system of a well-characterized sea anemone and its? associated microbial community to help us understand the role microbes play in acclimatizing ?hosts? to different environments. These three unique ?problem spaces? are unified by our view of microbial systems as integral to the functioning of living systems at every scale.
NOTE: Reception to follow at 5pm
THE ESI YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS is a series of occasional talks by our young faculty affiliates. The goal is to foster cross-departmental community and new collaborative research relationships by having them present their very latest work to colleagues in other departments.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth System Initiative
For more information, contact:
Kurt Sternlof
kurtster@mit.edu
(617) 253-6895
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
The National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan for Saudi Arabia
Speaker: Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al Saud (Vice President for Research Institutes, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-270
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is embarking on a major effort to advance its position in science and technology in order to expand its economy, address problems of national importance, and improve the quality of life of its people. This is motivated by the desire to shift the economy of the Kingdom away from one based on natural resources towards one driven by knowledge and innovation, with strong knowledge-based industries that develop and make use of the Kingdom's human talent. This effort involves establishing an effective national innovation system that engages research and development (R&D), education, and economic institutions in a strategically coordinated and productive way. This led to the establishment of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP). The plan calls for the Kingdom to join
the technologically advanced industrialized nations by 2025. The responsibility of planning and managing the execution of NSTIP was assigned to the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). KACST is both the Saudi Arabian national science agency and its national laboratories. KACST is an independent organization administratively reporting to the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): ASO, ESD
For more information, contact:
Arab Students Organization
arab-comm@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Current Status & Development of Biofuel in China
Speaker: Prof. LIU Dehua, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Time: 3:00p–4:30p
Location: 3-343
MIT CEER China Energy and Environment Talk Series
The world is actively seeking alternatives for highly in-demand petroleum. Biofuel, as a renewable energy, has been drawing more and more attention in recent years. China's total energy consumption already occupies the second place in the world and Chinese central government pays special attention to the development of biofuels. According to the "Mid and Long Term Development Plan of Renewable Energies", by 2020, the annual consumption of bioethanol and biodiesel will reach 10 million tons and 2 million tons respectively in China. This lecture will focus on the current status and development of biofuel in China. Prof. Liu?s group is taking the leading role in the research of biofuel (especially biodiesel) in China and some research progress from his group will be shared.
Dr. Dehua Liu received his Bachelor degree and Ph.D degree in 1986 and 1991 respectively in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Process Engeering, Chinese Academy of Science from 1991 to1993, and visited Purdue University from 1994 to1995 as a visiting professor. Since1999, he has been working in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University as a full professor. Currently his group is mainly engaged in biorefinery of renewable resources for the production of biofuel and bio-based products.
Web site: http://ceer.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT China Energy and Envrionment Research Group
For more information, contact:
LIU Hengwei
liu.ccs@gmail.com
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Friday, June 04, 2010
The Need for Cost-Reducing, Low-Carbon Technologies in the post-Copenhagen World
Time: 3:15p–5:00p
Location: 10-250
Join this panel for an invigorating update on the energy activities happening at MIT. Hear from faculty as they share their dreams for the world?s energy future. Alumni not attending reunions are welcome to attend, but seating is limited. Please email alumnienergy@mit.edu if you?d like to attend. Or, register for Tech Reunions online no later than midnight tonight.
Panelists: Daniel Enderton PhD ?09, Executive Director, Sustainable Energy Revolutions Program, MIT, Moderator; Professor Jeff Grossman, Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering; Professor Sarah Slaughter, Coordinator, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative; and Professor Mujid Kazimi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES).
For more on these faculty please visit:
Professor Jeff Grossman http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/jcg/
Professor Sarah Slaughter http://slaughte.scripts.mit.edu/
Professor Mujid Kazimi http://meche.mit.edu/people/?id=48
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Christine L. Tempesta
tempesta@mit.edu
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Harvard
Models of Global Health Education
WHEN
Wed., June 2, 2010, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
Massachusetts General Hospital, Ether Dome, Bulfinch Building - 4th floor, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Education, Health Sciences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Center for Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
SPEAKER(S)
Neal Nathanson, associate dean for global health programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; David Henderson, MGH Division of Global Psychiatry; David Bangsberg, MGH Center for Global Health; Al Mulley
MGH Division of General Medicine; Pat Lee, MGH Division of General Medicine
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Other
Nerdnite May 31: beer n’ hackin’
Hello Boston nerds and friends of nerds,
Wrap up your Memorial Day grilling early and come out to the Middlesex for a nerdy kick-off to summer. The Nerdnite barbecue is cookin’ up a ton of nerd-o-licious info about beer brewing and internet chicanery. We hope you’ll join us at 8pm on Monday May 31. As always, musical entertainment will be courtesy of DJ Claude Money.
The talks:
1. Preparing for the next prohibition: a primer on brewing your own beer.
by Desika Narayanan
Desika likes snowboarding, playing basketball, brewing beer and doing astronomy. Unfortunately (for him), he sucks at the first three enough that he only gets paid to do the latter. Fortunately (for you), he practices the penultimate enough that he’s able to give this talk. He’ll tell you exactly how to put sugar, yeast and water in a bucket and turn it into the sweet, sweet, delicious alcohol that your brain loves so much. And the best part is that what comes out tastes like a million times better than bud light. (Disclaimer: This is coming from an Indian [dot not feather] bred in the south on natty light.)
2. Attack of the Packets!: A brief history of Internet Denial of Service attacks.
by Karthik Arumugham
Karthik has been active in the Internet network engineering community for the past 11 years, both in operations as well as research and development. He currently works as a consultant in the fields of IP networking and security, Unix systems engineering, and software development. Karthik strongly agrees with the notion of hosting geeky talks in the presence of good beer!
Be there and be square
Monday May 31 8pm
Middlesex Lounge
315 Mass Ave, Cambridge
$5
www.boston.nerdnite.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52318050296
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Tuesday, June 1
Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental
Invertebrate Fisheries
7 p.m. in the NE Aquarium's Harborside Learning Lab
Andrew L. Rhyne, Research Scientist, New England Aquarium and
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Roger Williams University, RI
The invertebrate ornamental fishery in Florida, with increasing catches over a more diverse array of species, is poised for collapse. The last decade has seen aquarium hobbyists shift their display preference from fish-only tanks to miniature reef ecosystems that include many invertebrate species, creating increased demand without proper oversight. The once small ornamental fishery has become an invertebrate-dominated major industry supplying five continents.
Andrew L. Rhyne used eggs collected from queen triggerfish at the New England Aquarium in Boston, and copepod cultures to successfully rear four queen triggerfish to sub-adulthood, and all four are now feeding on dry food.
Register at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/854720890?view=Detail&id=102601
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Where's the Bus 2.0?
• Date: 6/3/10
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6-8pm
• Audience: Developers, T Riders, Cool People
• Description: On March 24th, MBTA General Manager Rich Davey announced that this summer the MBTA would be unlocking real-time bus location data for every bus in the MBTA system. On June 3rd at 6pm, we will be announcing our next steps as we unlock real-time bus information for developers and for riders.
Climate Legislative Panel Discussion
Cambridge Public Library, Central Branch- 449 Broadway, Lewis Room
Thursday, June 3rd
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Please join us for a discussion on federal climate policies currently on the table to regulate greenhouse gases and the potential impacts of these bills. Rob Garrity, the Executive Director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) will moderate a distinguished panel of experts who will break down potential climate bills, legislative regulatory tools, and how these bills would impact greenhouse gas emissions.
Sign up for this free event http://wheresthebus.eventbrite.com/
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Cambridge River Festival
Saturday, June 5
on Memorial Drive from JFK Street to Western Avenue
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Upcoming:
Save the date for a follow up meeting on Thursday, June 10th at the Cambridge Public library, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
The Climate Legislative Panel Discussion is sponsored by: Green Decade Cambridge, Cambridge Energy Alliance, and Cambridge-Somerville for Change.
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Three Of New England's Most Creative Singers Join Voices Against Climate Change
Saturday, June 12 — 7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Mili Bermejo, Warren Senders, Dominique Eade
On Saturday, June 12, three singers from widely varied musical traditions will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the Latin jazz stylings of the Mili Bermejo/Dan Greenspan duo, Hindustani classical vocalist Warren Senders, and the brilliant jazz singer Dominique Eade. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information and ticket purchasing, please go to the event website: http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?page_id=1158
Videos and more information at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/27/870422/-Singing-For-The-Planet-MA-Climate-ActionNow-With-Video!
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
EARTH SYSTEM INITIATIVE YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS
Speaker: Janelle Thompson, Doherty Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 54-915
LAND AND SEA: MICROBIAL PROCESSES FROM CORALS TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Microorganisms drive global cycles of carbon and energy and are integral to the health of living systems at scales from the microscopic to the geologic. Research in our Microbial Ecology and Engineering Lab aims to understand how microbial communities influence the integrity of perturbed environments at multiple scales. Our projects include exploring how shifts in microbial activity mediate the balance between health and disease in reef-building corals; and studying the nature and engineering applications of microbial populations isolated from subsurface carbon sequestration sites, which remarkably can grow in supercritical carbon dioxide conditions. We also are developing a model system of a well-characterized sea anemone and its? associated microbial community to help us understand the role microbes play in acclimatizing ?hosts? to different environments. These three unique ?problem spaces? are unified by our view of microbial systems as integral to the functioning of living systems at every scale.
NOTE: Reception to follow at 5pm
THE ESI YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS is a series of occasional talks by our young faculty affiliates. The goal is to foster cross-departmental community and new collaborative research relationships by having them present their very latest work to colleagues in other departments.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth System Initiative
For more information, contact:
Kurt Sternlof
kurtster@mit.edu
(617) 253-6895
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
The National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan for Saudi Arabia
Speaker: Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al Saud (Vice President for Research Institutes, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-270
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is embarking on a major effort to advance its position in science and technology in order to expand its economy, address problems of national importance, and improve the quality of life of its people. This is motivated by the desire to shift the economy of the Kingdom away from one based on natural resources towards one driven by knowledge and innovation, with strong knowledge-based industries that develop and make use of the Kingdom's human talent. This effort involves establishing an effective national innovation system that engages research and development (R&D), education, and economic institutions in a strategically coordinated and productive way. This led to the establishment of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP). The plan calls for the Kingdom to join
the technologically advanced industrialized nations by 2025. The responsibility of planning and managing the execution of NSTIP was assigned to the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). KACST is both the Saudi Arabian national science agency and its national laboratories. KACST is an independent organization administratively reporting to the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): ASO, ESD
For more information, contact:
Arab Students Organization
arab-comm@mit.edu
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Current Status & Development of Biofuel in China
Speaker: Prof. LIU Dehua, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Time: 3:00p–4:30p
Location: 3-343
MIT CEER China Energy and Environment Talk Series
The world is actively seeking alternatives for highly in-demand petroleum. Biofuel, as a renewable energy, has been drawing more and more attention in recent years. China's total energy consumption already occupies the second place in the world and Chinese central government pays special attention to the development of biofuels. According to the "Mid and Long Term Development Plan of Renewable Energies", by 2020, the annual consumption of bioethanol and biodiesel will reach 10 million tons and 2 million tons respectively in China. This lecture will focus on the current status and development of biofuel in China. Prof. Liu?s group is taking the leading role in the research of biofuel (especially biodiesel) in China and some research progress from his group will be shared.
Dr. Dehua Liu received his Bachelor degree and Ph.D degree in 1986 and 1991 respectively in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Process Engeering, Chinese Academy of Science from 1991 to1993, and visited Purdue University from 1994 to1995 as a visiting professor. Since1999, he has been working in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University as a full professor. Currently his group is mainly engaged in biorefinery of renewable resources for the production of biofuel and bio-based products.
Web site: http://ceer.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT China Energy and Envrionment Research Group
For more information, contact:
LIU Hengwei
liu.ccs@gmail.com
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Friday, June 04, 2010
The Need for Cost-Reducing, Low-Carbon Technologies in the post-Copenhagen World
Time: 3:15p–5:00p
Location: 10-250
Join this panel for an invigorating update on the energy activities happening at MIT. Hear from faculty as they share their dreams for the world?s energy future. Alumni not attending reunions are welcome to attend, but seating is limited. Please email alumnienergy@mit.edu if you?d like to attend. Or, register for Tech Reunions online no later than midnight tonight.
Panelists: Daniel Enderton PhD ?09, Executive Director, Sustainable Energy Revolutions Program, MIT, Moderator; Professor Jeff Grossman, Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering; Professor Sarah Slaughter, Coordinator, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative; and Professor Mujid Kazimi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES).
For more on these faculty please visit:
Professor Jeff Grossman http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/jcg/
Professor Sarah Slaughter http://slaughte.scripts.mit.edu/
Professor Mujid Kazimi http://meche.mit.edu/people/?id=48
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Christine L. Tempesta
tempesta@mit.edu
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Harvard
Models of Global Health Education
WHEN
Wed., June 2, 2010, 2 – 4 p.m.
WHERE
Massachusetts General Hospital, Ether Dome, Bulfinch Building - 4th floor, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Education, Health Sciences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Center for Global Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
SPEAKER(S)
Neal Nathanson, associate dean for global health programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; David Henderson, MGH Division of Global Psychiatry; David Bangsberg, MGH Center for Global Health; Al Mulley
MGH Division of General Medicine; Pat Lee, MGH Division of General Medicine
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Other
Nerdnite May 31: beer n’ hackin’
Hello Boston nerds and friends of nerds,
Wrap up your Memorial Day grilling early and come out to the Middlesex for a nerdy kick-off to summer. The Nerdnite barbecue is cookin’ up a ton of nerd-o-licious info about beer brewing and internet chicanery. We hope you’ll join us at 8pm on Monday May 31. As always, musical entertainment will be courtesy of DJ Claude Money.
The talks:
1. Preparing for the next prohibition: a primer on brewing your own beer.
by Desika Narayanan
Desika likes snowboarding, playing basketball, brewing beer and doing astronomy. Unfortunately (for him), he sucks at the first three enough that he only gets paid to do the latter. Fortunately (for you), he practices the penultimate enough that he’s able to give this talk. He’ll tell you exactly how to put sugar, yeast and water in a bucket and turn it into the sweet, sweet, delicious alcohol that your brain loves so much. And the best part is that what comes out tastes like a million times better than bud light. (Disclaimer: This is coming from an Indian [dot not feather] bred in the south on natty light.)
2. Attack of the Packets!: A brief history of Internet Denial of Service attacks.
by Karthik Arumugham
Karthik has been active in the Internet network engineering community for the past 11 years, both in operations as well as research and development. He currently works as a consultant in the fields of IP networking and security, Unix systems engineering, and software development. Karthik strongly agrees with the notion of hosting geeky talks in the presence of good beer!
Be there and be square
Monday May 31 8pm
Middlesex Lounge
315 Mass Ave, Cambridge
$5
www.boston.nerdnite.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52318050296
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Tuesday, June 1
Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental
Invertebrate Fisheries
7 p.m. in the NE Aquarium's Harborside Learning Lab
Andrew L. Rhyne, Research Scientist, New England Aquarium and
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Roger Williams University, RI
The invertebrate ornamental fishery in Florida, with increasing catches over a more diverse array of species, is poised for collapse. The last decade has seen aquarium hobbyists shift their display preference from fish-only tanks to miniature reef ecosystems that include many invertebrate species, creating increased demand without proper oversight. The once small ornamental fishery has become an invertebrate-dominated major industry supplying five continents.
Andrew L. Rhyne used eggs collected from queen triggerfish at the New England Aquarium in Boston, and copepod cultures to successfully rear four queen triggerfish to sub-adulthood, and all four are now feeding on dry food.
Register at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/854720890?view=Detail&id=102601
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Where's the Bus 2.0?
• Date: 6/3/10
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6-8pm
• Audience: Developers, T Riders, Cool People
• Description: On March 24th, MBTA General Manager Rich Davey announced that this summer the MBTA would be unlocking real-time bus location data for every bus in the MBTA system. On June 3rd at 6pm, we will be announcing our next steps as we unlock real-time bus information for developers and for riders.
Climate Legislative Panel Discussion
Cambridge Public Library, Central Branch- 449 Broadway, Lewis Room
Thursday, June 3rd
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Please join us for a discussion on federal climate policies currently on the table to regulate greenhouse gases and the potential impacts of these bills. Rob Garrity, the Executive Director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) will moderate a distinguished panel of experts who will break down potential climate bills, legislative regulatory tools, and how these bills would impact greenhouse gas emissions.
Sign up for this free event http://wheresthebus.eventbrite.com/
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Cambridge River Festival
Saturday, June 5
on Memorial Drive from JFK Street to Western Avenue
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Upcoming:
Save the date for a follow up meeting on Thursday, June 10th at the Cambridge Public library, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
The Climate Legislative Panel Discussion is sponsored by: Green Decade Cambridge, Cambridge Energy Alliance, and Cambridge-Somerville for Change.
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Three Of New England's Most Creative Singers Join Voices Against Climate Change
Saturday, June 12 — 7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Mili Bermejo, Warren Senders, Dominique Eade
On Saturday, June 12, three singers from widely varied musical traditions will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the Latin jazz stylings of the Mili Bermejo/Dan Greenspan duo, Hindustani classical vocalist Warren Senders, and the brilliant jazz singer Dominique Eade. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information and ticket purchasing, please go to the event website: http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?page_id=1158
Videos and more information at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/27/870422/-Singing-For-The-Planet-MA-Climate-ActionNow-With-Video!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Energy (and Other) Events - May 23, 2010
MIT
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Complex Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets (Joint with Energy & Environmental Economics Seminar)
Speaker: Mar Reguant-Rido (MIT)
Time: 10:30a–12:00p
Location: E52-244, Please note day and time change
Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/5563
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop (Sponsored by Analysis Group)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Our Energy Future: Inventing Tomorrow's Technologies
Speaker: Professor Vladimir Bulovic, MIT Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Time: 6:30p–8:30p
Location: 66-110
Prof. Bulovic leads the Lab of Organic and Nanostructured Electronics and is the co-director of the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center, the MIT Solar Revolutions Project, and co-leads the MIT Energy Studies Program. Professor Bulovic?s research interests include studies of physical properties of organic and inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and the development of novel optoelectronic organic & hybrid nano-scale devices. He has authored over 80 published research articles and 45 U.S. patents in areas of organic and nanostructured light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, chemical sensors, and programmable memories. He is a founder of QD Vision, Inc. in Watertown, MA, a quantum dot optolectronics company, and Kateeva, Inc. of Menlo Park, California USA, a printed organic electronics startup. Prof. Bulovic is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Carrier Award for Scientist and Engineers, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Ruth and Joel Spira Award, the Bose Award, the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was named to Technology Review TR100 List.
SCHEDULE
6:30 - 7:00 Registration & Networking, with refreshments
7:00 - 8:15 Prof. Vladimir Bulovic
8:15 - 9:00 Networking, with refreshments
9:00 Continued at The Muddy, with cash bar
Web site: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=44521&groupI
D=146
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10 for students, $15 for MITCOB members and guests, $25 for others
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, MIT Club of Boston Energy
For more information, contact:
617 669 5358
sfthomas@alum.mit.edu
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Inorganic Seminars Series: Changhoon Lee - Nocera Group - MIT
Time: 4:15p–5:15p
Location: 6-120
Inorganic Seminars Series 2009-2010
Students Seminars
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemistry
For more information, contact:
Najat Kessler - Department of Chemistry
617-452-2931
najatk@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: The Nocera Group is working on the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry (http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/dgn/www/research/index.html).
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Others
Monday, May 24
Sustainable Seafood Isn’t Just for People
Michelle Cho and Jennifer Goldstein
Sustainable Fisheries, Conservation Department, New England Aquarium
7 p.m.
NE Aquarium's Harborside Learning Lab
More and more people are asking where their seafood is coming from and how it was caught or raised. But this question is also being asked about the seafood that we feed to the countless animals that we care for. In 2009, the New England Aquarium's Conservation Department completed an internal study of the species fed to the Aquarium's animals. Learn about these species and the challenges of balancing sustainability with the needs of the Aquarium's most finicky eaters with wild fisheries specialists Jennifer Goldstein and Michelle Cho
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/854720890?view=Detail&id=102581
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2010 GoGreen Awards
The City of Cambridge invites you to
celebrate business and institutional leaders who have taken action to create a more sustainable city.
City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Reception: 5:30PM Program: 6:15 to 7PM
Chat with experts who can help you save money, go greener, and enhance your image.
GUEST SPEAKER: Julia Wolfe, zero waste planner for Save That Stuff, a waste management company that helps 3000+ businesses and institutions collect recyclables, vegetable oil and other recoverable materials.
Thank you to Grendel’s Den Restaurant and Bar for providing refreshments.
RSVP to 617-349-4604 or randers@cambridgema.gov
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Financing Your Solar Project
May 27, 2010 at 6–8:00 PM
4th floor meeting room at City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway
Sponsored by City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Energy Alliance
RSVP http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZL2SYZN
This is an excellent opportunity for Cambridge citizens to learn about renewable energy programs and resources available to develop local projects. Larry Chretien, Executive Director of the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance will provide an update on net metering and investment opportunities in Massachusetts. In addition, a panel of local contractors and program providers will share their expertise to help residents and businesses take advantage of robust incentives and resources to develop renewable energy projects.
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Upcoming:
Three Of New England's Most Creative Singers Join Voices Against Climate Change
Saturday, June 12 — 7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Mili Bermejo, Warren Senders, Dominique Eade
On Saturday, June 12, three singers from widely varied musical traditions will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the Latin jazz stylings of the Mili Bermejo/Dan Greenspan duo, Hindustani classical vocalist Warren Senders, and the brilliant jazz singer Dominique Eade. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information and ticket purchasing, please go to the event website: http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?page_id=1158
Editorial Comment: I've heard Dominique Eade sing a few times, always with great enjoyment, jammed years ago at parties with Warren Senders, and know Mili Bermejo by her fine reputation and from running into her at the local stores from time to time. They are three great musicians and teachers united for an important cause. If you can, please come to the concert.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Complex Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets (Joint with Energy & Environmental Economics Seminar)
Speaker: Mar Reguant-Rido (MIT)
Time: 10:30a–12:00p
Location: E52-244, Please note day and time change
Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/5563
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop (Sponsored by Analysis Group)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Our Energy Future: Inventing Tomorrow's Technologies
Speaker: Professor Vladimir Bulovic, MIT Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Time: 6:30p–8:30p
Location: 66-110
Prof. Bulovic leads the Lab of Organic and Nanostructured Electronics and is the co-director of the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center, the MIT Solar Revolutions Project, and co-leads the MIT Energy Studies Program. Professor Bulovic?s research interests include studies of physical properties of organic and inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and the development of novel optoelectronic organic & hybrid nano-scale devices. He has authored over 80 published research articles and 45 U.S. patents in areas of organic and nanostructured light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, chemical sensors, and programmable memories. He is a founder of QD Vision, Inc. in Watertown, MA, a quantum dot optolectronics company, and Kateeva, Inc. of Menlo Park, California USA, a printed organic electronics startup. Prof. Bulovic is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Carrier Award for Scientist and Engineers, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Ruth and Joel Spira Award, the Bose Award, the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was named to Technology Review TR100 List.
SCHEDULE
6:30 - 7:00 Registration & Networking, with refreshments
7:00 - 8:15 Prof. Vladimir Bulovic
8:15 - 9:00 Networking, with refreshments
9:00 Continued at The Muddy, with cash bar
Web site: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=44521&groupI
D=146
Open to: the general public
Cost: $10 for students, $15 for MITCOB members and guests, $25 for others
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, MIT Club of Boston Energy
For more information, contact:
617 669 5358
sfthomas@alum.mit.edu
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Inorganic Seminars Series: Changhoon Lee - Nocera Group - MIT
Time: 4:15p–5:15p
Location: 6-120
Inorganic Seminars Series 2009-2010
Students Seminars
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemistry
For more information, contact:
Najat Kessler - Department of Chemistry
617-452-2931
najatk@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: The Nocera Group is working on the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry (http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/dgn/www/research/index.html).
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Others
Monday, May 24
Sustainable Seafood Isn’t Just for People
Michelle Cho and Jennifer Goldstein
Sustainable Fisheries, Conservation Department, New England Aquarium
7 p.m.
NE Aquarium's Harborside Learning Lab
More and more people are asking where their seafood is coming from and how it was caught or raised. But this question is also being asked about the seafood that we feed to the countless animals that we care for. In 2009, the New England Aquarium's Conservation Department completed an internal study of the species fed to the Aquarium's animals. Learn about these species and the challenges of balancing sustainability with the needs of the Aquarium's most finicky eaters with wild fisheries specialists Jennifer Goldstein and Michelle Cho
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/854720890?view=Detail&id=102581
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2010 GoGreen Awards
The City of Cambridge invites you to
celebrate business and institutional leaders who have taken action to create a more sustainable city.
City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Reception: 5:30PM Program: 6:15 to 7PM
Chat with experts who can help you save money, go greener, and enhance your image.
GUEST SPEAKER: Julia Wolfe, zero waste planner for Save That Stuff, a waste management company that helps 3000+ businesses and institutions collect recyclables, vegetable oil and other recoverable materials.
Thank you to Grendel’s Den Restaurant and Bar for providing refreshments.
RSVP to 617-349-4604 or randers@cambridgema.gov
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Financing Your Solar Project
May 27, 2010 at 6–8:00 PM
4th floor meeting room at City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway
Sponsored by City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Energy Alliance
RSVP http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZL2SYZN
This is an excellent opportunity for Cambridge citizens to learn about renewable energy programs and resources available to develop local projects. Larry Chretien, Executive Director of the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance will provide an update on net metering and investment opportunities in Massachusetts. In addition, a panel of local contractors and program providers will share their expertise to help residents and businesses take advantage of robust incentives and resources to develop renewable energy projects.
--------------------------------
Upcoming:
Three Of New England's Most Creative Singers Join Voices Against Climate Change
Saturday, June 12 — 7:00 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Mili Bermejo, Warren Senders, Dominique Eade
On Saturday, June 12, three singers from widely varied musical traditions will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the Latin jazz stylings of the Mili Bermejo/Dan Greenspan duo, Hindustani classical vocalist Warren Senders, and the brilliant jazz singer Dominique Eade. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information and ticket purchasing, please go to the event website: http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?page_id=1158
Editorial Comment: I've heard Dominique Eade sing a few times, always with great enjoyment, jammed years ago at parties with Warren Senders, and know Mili Bermejo by her fine reputation and from running into her at the local stores from time to time. They are three great musicians and teachers united for an important cause. If you can, please come to the concert.
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