[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Feb 6 19:29:56 PST 2011
MIT
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Monday, February 07, 2011
System Design Thinking and Its Application to High-Speed Free-Space
Optical Communication System for Japanese Bullet Trains
Speaker: Shinichiro Haruyama, Professor, The Graduate School of System
Design and Management Keio University
Time: 11:00a–12:00p
Location: E51-145
Complex system design requires not only technological knowledge and
skill but also careful consideration of how the technologies will be
used in our society.
In the talk, I will first introduce a lecture at Keio University
called "ALPS (Active Learning Project Sequence)" which teaches system
design thinking.
I will then talk about its application to high-speed free-space
optical communication system for Japanese bullet trains. We developed
a new ground-to-train free-space optical communication system. We made
a prototype in 2010 that was able to perform stable high-speed
communication even when a train is running at high speed and does fast
handover between laser transceivers on the ground. This is a joint
research between Keio University and Railway Technical Research
Institute of Japan Railway Company.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division
For more information, contact:
Stefanie Koperniak
skoperni at mit.edu
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Monday, February 07, 2011
The Humanities' Choice Knowledge Economy or Culture of Interpretation?
Speaker: Yves Citton
Time: 2:00p–4:00p
Location: E40-496
Prof. Yves Citton will give a talk on the knowledge economy
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI, Comparative Media Studies, Foreign Languages and
Literatures
For more information, contact:
Erin Baumgartner
253-8813
embaum at mit.edu
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Monday, February 07, 2011
A Technical Review of Oxy-Coal Combustion: Characterization and
Fundamentals
Speaker: Lei Chen, MIT, Dept. Mechanical Engineering
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-343
Center for Energy and Propulsion Research Seminar Series
Oxy-fuel combustion has generated significant interest since it was
proposed as a carbon capture technology for newly built and
retrofitted coal-fired power plants. Research, development and
demonstration of oxy-fuel combustion technologies has been advancing
in recent years; however, there are still fundamental issues and
technological challenges that must be addressed before this technology
can reach its full potential, especially in the areas of combustion in
oxygen-carbon dioxide atmospheres and potentially at elevated
pressures. This talk presents a technical review of oxy-coal
combustion covering the most recent experimental and simulation
studies, while numerical models for sub-processes are also used to
examine the differences between combustion diluted by nitrogen and
carbon dioxide.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): RGD Lab
For more information, contact: Patrick Kirchen
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Science Policy Lunch
Speaker: Professor Robert Yaffe
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: RSVP to Burhan Saifaddin (bks at mit.edu) for location
We are pleased to announce that Professor Robert Jaffe will be joining
us for our next monthly SPI lunch. Please reply to this email (bks at mit.edu
) to RSVP for lunch at 12:00-1:00 PM on Tuesday February 8th.
Professor Jaffe has been involved in science policy work on rare
earths required for energy technologies.
Professor Jaffe teaches a class on "Physics of Energy" for
undergraduates and is currently writing a book on this subject. His
research specialty is the physics of elementary particles and quantum
field theory, and he is best known for his research on the quark
substructure of matter and on the dynamical effects of the quantum
vacuum (Casimir Effects) on micron scales.
Web site: web.mit.edu/spi
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Science Policy Initiative, GSC Funding Board
For more information, contact:
Burhan Saifaddan
bks at mit.edu
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Engineering IT-Enabled Electricity Services
Speaker: Marija Ilic, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 66-110
MITEI Seminar Series
A year-long series of seminars given by leaders in the energy field
sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative.
The main concern in this talk is a possible IT framework for enabling
deployment of new hardware technologies into the existing system at
value. We explain how the proposed IT framework could evolve in
synchrony with the existing utility control centers and their
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). We illustrate how
such an IT approach could improve performance of different evolving
power grid architectures. In particular, we show how carefully
architected IT enables electricity service at value and according to
choice. This is done without damaging continuity of services defined
according to terms between the service providers and users. We
illustrate dynamic deployment of wind and solar power, responsive
demand, including PHEVs, according to the value they bring to those
needing them. Most importantly, the overall operations and planning
process becomes much more manageable and simpler when enabled by the
right IT.
Web site: http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/it-enabled.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jameson Twomey
617-324-2408
jtwomey at mit.edu
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February 09, 2011
9:00a–10:30a
Sue Tierney will be a guest lecture on the current state and direction
of Federal energy and climate policy in 11.369 "Energy Policy for a
Sustainable Future" taught by Dr. Raab. Dr. Tierney is currently
Managing Principal at Analysis Group. Previously, she served as the
Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy under
President Bill Clinton; Secretary for Environmental Affairs in
Massachusetts under Governor William Weld; and Commissioner at the
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities under Governor Michael
Dukakis.
Category: lectures/conferences: science/engineering
Speaker: Sue Tierney, Principal at the Analysis Group, former
Assistant Secretary for Policy at the DOE.
Location: 4-145
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Club
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact Elena Alschuler elena12 at mit.edu
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Lack of Learning- My First Year Back in the Pentagon
Speaker: Mike Gilmore, OSD DOTE
Time: 12:00p–1:30p
Location: E40-496
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet at mit.edu
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Making Sense of Community Gardens
Speaker: Laura L. Lawson Professor & Chair, Department of Landscape
Architecture Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time: 12:30p–2:00p
Location: 9-450
Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series
Weekly Lecture Series of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Laura J. Lawson is the Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of
numerous publications, including Greening Cities, Growing Communities:
Learning from Seattle?s Urban Community Gardens (with Jeffrey Hou and
Julie M. Johnson; University of Washington Press, 2009, winner of the ?
Great Places 2010 Book Award?) and City Bountiful: A Century of
Community Gardening in America (University of California Press, 2005).
She is also Director of the East St. Louis Action Research Project
(ESLARP), which was honored in 2009 as a recipient of the inaugural
Larine Y. Cowan ?Make A Difference Award.? Her knowledge of community
gardens has developed from academic interest as well as personal
experience as coordinator of Berkeley Youth Alternatives? Community
Garden Patch.
The Spring 2011 DUSP Speaker Series explores how each invited scholar-
practitioner (or practitioner-scholar) has "made sense" out of a
complex socio-spatial phenomenon. In addition to conveying the
substance of their work, the speakers have been asked to reflect on
how they do what they do, bringing to life the ways that planners and
designers use qualitative methods in their scholarship and/or practice.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn at mit.edu
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Speaker: Esther Duflo (MIT)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E51-376
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Development & Environment Seminar
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Liquid Metal Batteries: a new approach to large-scale energy storage
for the grid
Speaker: Dr. David Bradwell, MIT
Time: 5:00p–6:00p
Location: 4-231
MIT Energy Club Lecture Series
Large-scale storage of electrical energy has long been sought after as
a potential solution to various electrical grid related issues. As
regions install high level of wind and solar power generators, the
intermitted nature of these renewable is problematic to the achieving
broad-scale deployment. Grid-scale energy storage is being considered
by utilities and power generators as one solution; however, high
capital costs and limited lifespan hinders current deployment efforts.
A liquid metal battery has been proposed as a solution for grid-scale
energy storage. Utilizing three liquid layers that float on top of one
another, this high temperature battery has the capability of operating
at high current densities, using low cost materials, and can be simple
to assemble due to it?s self-segregating properties.
Bio: David Bradwell earned a B.Sci. in Engineering Physics at Queen?s
university before enrolling in the M.Eng. program in the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2005. Following this,
David enrolled in the PhD. program in the same department, and
graduated this past fall. He continues his work on the liquid metal
battery project as a visiting scientist. In 2010, David was selected
to the Technology Review TR35 as one the top innovators of 35 years of
age or younger.
Web site: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/lecture-series/liquid-metal-batteries-a-new-approach-to-large-scale-energy-storage-for-the-grid
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Generator Dinner, The Future of Exploration Student Showcase
Time: 6:00p–8:00p
Location: Stata Center 4th Floor, R&D Common Room
To the next generation of explorers:
In celebration of MIT?s 150th Anniversary, the exploration community
at MIT will be hosting a symposium, The Future of Exploration: Earth,
Air, Ocean and Space to be held on April 26 and 27.
The Student Showcase will bring together the best student ideas in the
exploration of Earth, Air, Ocean and Space. We want you and your team
to tell us: In the next 50 years where will we go? What will we do
there? How will we get there?
Competitors will have the chance to win up to $4,000 for their
innovative proposals in three rounds of competition. Finalists will
pitch their ideas to a panel of astronauts and distinguished explorers
as part of the Exploration Symposium.
On February 9, we will be hosting free Generator Dinners where
interested students can come and learn more about the competition,
have their questions answered, find teammates, and discuss exploration
ideas. RSVP to pjames at mit.edu is appreciated but not required.
Read about the event, key dates and competition guidelines at http://explore.mit.edu
We look forward to hearing from you,
Student Showcase Committee
Web site: http://explore.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT 150 Exploration Student Showcase
For more information, contact:
Peter James
6177152261
pjames at MIT.EDU
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Organic Syntheses, Inc. Lectures: John P. Wolfe, University of
Michigan; Tim Swager, MIT
Speaker: John P. Wolfe, University of Michigan
Tim Swager, MIT
Time: 4:00p–6:00p
Location: 6-120
Wolfe Lecture Title: New Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions for the
Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocycles
Swager Lecture Title: Top-Down Chemistry: Functionalization and
Application of Nano-Carbon Materials
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemistry
For more information, contact:
Chemistry Department
617-253-1879
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime
Gun Tracing
Speaker: Brian Knight (Brown)
Time: 4:30p–6:00p
Location: at Harvard Knafel Building Room K354 (1737 Cambridge Street)
State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime
Gun Tracing
Web site: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/819
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT/Harvard Seminar on Positive Political Economy
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Civic Media Session: "Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and
Civics"
Speaker: Nick Grossman, Nigel Jacob, and Max Ogden
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
Location: E14-633
Civic Media Sessions
Hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, these open sessions
highlight cutting-edge media research and tools for community and
political engagement.
Cities are vibrant, complicated organisms. A still-working 200 year
old water pipe might rest underground next to a brand new fiber optic
cable, and citizens blithely ignore both if they are working well.
Cities are constantly rewriting themselves, redeveloping neighborhoods
and replacing infrastructure, but deliberative structures like school
boards and city council meetings continue to run much the way they
have for generations. In what ways can information systems rewrite our
understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old
problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
Nick Grossman is Director of Civic Works at OpenPlans. He oversees
development of new products around smart transportation, open
municipal IT infrastructure, participatory planning, and local civic
engagement.
Nigel Jacob serves as the Co-Chair of the Mayor's Office of New Urban
Mechanics, a group within City Hall focused on delivering
transformative services to Boston's residents. Nigel also serves as
Mayor Menino's advisor on emerging technologies. In both of these
roles Nigel works to develop new models of innovation for cities in
the 21st century.
Max Ogden is a fellow at Code for America and develops mapping tools
and social software aimed at improving civic participation and
communication. This year Max is working with Nigel and the Office of
New Urban Mechanics to create technologies that better enable
education in Boston's Public Schools.
Web site: http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-session-bustling-with-informat
ion-cities-code-and-civics
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Future Civic Media
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
(617) 324-0490
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Watson on Jeopardy : The Turing Test Breaks the 4th Wall
Speaker: Erin McLean et als
Time: 6:00p–7:00p
Location: 56-114
On Feb. 14, a machine will compete shoulder to shoulder against 2 of
the most successful competitors in TV game show history in a trivia
contest which is widely considered to be a test of general
intelligence. Come hear from one of the developers in the IBM DeepQA
project that gave us this remarkable system.
Also, Erin McLean, winner of the Jeopardy College Challenge, will give
us some tips and tricks on how to beat Watson. Being a walking
wikipedia is not enough; there is some strategy involved that may give
us an advantage against our silicon-based opponents.
Web site: www.ibmwatson.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Entrepreneurs Club
For more information, contact:
Kurt Keville
klk at mit.edu
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
IDEAS and MIT Global Challenge: What Innovations in Information
Technologies Could Empower Migrant and Temporary Workers?
Time: 7:00p–8:30p
Location: 4-153
Over 86 million people around the world are migrant or temporary
workers. A range of services and applications could help them identify
employment and education opportunities, stay connected with their
communities, and find the resources they need for a mobile lifestyle.
What's already out there and what could those projects look like?
This year, Monster Worldwide is putting money towards a specific IDEAS/
Global Challenge award for student-led ideas for how information
technologies can empower temporary workers.
On Thursday, February 10, join us and bring friends -- as we lead a
discussion about the latest innovations in job search technology,
learn what other programs exist at the moment, explore gaps that exist
in current technologies and then, break up into groups to brainstorm
possible innovations.
**If you're working on an idea or have skills to pitch, this is your
opporutnity to pitch it to the crowd. Drop Kate and Lars a note with
your 20 words about your idea: globalchallenge (at) mit (dot) edu. **
Let us know if you're planning on coming -- and we'll send you some
materials and links ahead of time. globalchallenge (at) mit (dot) edu
And, of course, there will be snacks!
Web site: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/125
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Service Center, IDEAS Competition, MIT Global
Challenge
For more information, contact:
Kate Mytty
5-5474
kmytty at mit.edu
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Human Diversity and Social Order Forum: The Fruits of Diversity
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E14, Media Lab Complex
Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Series
February and March bring a series of forums to examine how the
inherent and occasionally difficult diversity of humans shapes their
lives, their creativity, and the political and social context of their
existence. Titles include: The Fruits of Diversity, Diversity on the
World Stage, Minorities in the United States, and Education in the
United States.
http://mit150.mit.edu/events/human-diversity-series
The Fruits of Diversity: Celebrating enrichment of language,
architecture, visual arts, and music when diverse cultures come to
know and appreciate one another.
Speakers
* Chair: Adele Naude Santos, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture
and Planning
* Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the
Americas Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
* Donal Fox, Artist, Music and Theater Arts Section; MLK Visiting
Scholar, MIT
* Walter Hood, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and
Environmental Planning, University of California
Web site: http://mit150.mit.edu/events/fruits-diversity
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT150 Office
For more information, contact:
human-diversity-forums at mit.edu
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Tour of the EnerNOC Facility
Time: 9:00a–11:00a
Location: Boston, MA
EnerNOC is a world class energy management service company that
assists commercial, institutional and industrial organizations use
energy more intelligently and cost effectively while generating cash
flow that benefits the bottom line. EnerNOC provides a wide array of
energy management solutions including demand response services for
maintaining grid stability and maximizing revenue for organizations,
energy-use monitoring and greenhouse gas tracking tools to facilitate
energy savings and carbon footprint management across the enterprise.
In the tour we will learn how the EnerNOC team executes demand
response events and manages a "virtual" power plant with up to 3
Gigawatts of electricity at customer locations. We will also learn
more about the real-time process of remote triggering of electric
consumption reduction, backup generation and performance monitoring of
customer energy use. The tour will comprise a presentation by members
of the EnerNOC team, followed by a tour of the facility.
To sign up for this tour, use the link below:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGVaQnltVGJCclFNWXB4U21acDlQSVE6MA
#gid=0
Web site: www.enernoc.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: Daniel Apo
djapo at mit.edu
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Building Technology Lecture Series: Sustainability Research at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
Speaker: Dr. Klaus Sedlbaue, Director
Time: 12:30p–2:00p
Location: 7-431, AVT
Building Technology Spring Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Kathleen Ross
617 253 1876
kross at mit.edu
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Making Movies, Making Science
Speaker: MIT DV Lab
Time: 6:00p–7:45p
Location: N51, MIT Museum
Challenge your views of the world around you with video screenings
from MIT's DV Lab. See what happens when documentary film production
takes on a social scientific outlook. Eight short films offer
innovative perspectives on science and technology-related issues both
at MIT and beyond.
Presented as part of Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
Web site:http://mit.edu/museum/programs/programdescriptions.html#dvlab
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museum at mit.edu
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Harvard
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CRCS Seminar: Cybersecurity Challenge
Steven Bellovin, Columbia University
CRCS Lunch Seminar
Date: Monday, February 7, 2011
Time: 11:30am - 1:-00pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119
Speaker: Steven Bellovin, Columbia University
Title: Cybersecurity Challenge
Abstract: From more or less any perspective, we have failed in our
attempts to build secure systems. We argue that given one
uncontroversial assumption -- that bug-free code is impossible, if
only because we cannot construct bug-free specifications -- this is
unlikely to change. Doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting a different result is one class definition of insanity, but
that's what security people have been doing. Instead, we outline a
fundamentally different approach to security, called resilient system
design.
Bio: Steven M. Bellovin is a professor of computer science at
Columbia University<http://www.cs.columbia.edu>, where he does
research on networks, security, and especially why the two don't get
along. He joined the faculty in 2005 after many years at Bell Labs<http://www.bell-labs.com
> and AT&T Labs Research<http://www.research.att.com>, where he was
an AT&T Fellow<http://www.research.att.com/viewAwardCategory.cfm?
id=1>. He received a BA degree from Columbia University<http://www.columbia.edu
>, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill<http://www.cs.unc.edu>. While a graduate
student, he helped create Netnews; for this, he and the other
perpetrators were given the 1995 Usenix<http://www.usenix.org>
Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)<http://www.usenix.org/about/flame.html
>. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering<http://www.nae.edu/
> and is serving on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board<http://www.cstb.org
> of the National Academies<http://www.nationalacademies.org>, the
Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory
Committee<http://www.dhs.gov/xres/committees/gc_1163542152895.shtm>,
and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee<http://vote.nist.gov/TGDC.htm
> of the Election Assistance Commission<http://www.eac.gov/>; he has
also received the 2007 NIST/NSA National Computer Systems Security
Award<http://www.acsac.org/2006/ncss-pr.html>.
Bellovin is the co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security:
Repelling the Wily Hacker<http://www.wilyhacker.com>, and holds a
number patents on cryptographic and network protocols. He has served
on many National Research Council<http://sites.nationalacademies.org/nrc/index.htm
> study committees, including those on information systems
trustworthiness, the privacy implications of authentication
technologies, and cybersecurity research needs; he was also a member
of the information technology subcommittee of an NRC study group on
science versus terrorism. He was a member of the Internet Architecture
Board<http://www.iab.org> from 1996-2002; he was co-director of the
Security Area<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/sec/trac/wiki> of the
IETF<http://www.ietf.org> from 2002 through 2004.
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Monday, February 7
12 p.m.
A Conversation with Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC
Universal
Nye ABC, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Kennedy School of Government
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Monday, Feb. 7, 12pm-1:30pm
Dan Schrag, Harvard
“Towards a U.S. Energy Policy”
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
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"Past Tense: Historians and Politics." A Talk About Writing by Jill
Lepore
WHEN Mon., Feb. 7, 2011, 7:30 – 8:50 p.m.
WHERE Thompson Room, Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose,
Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Writers at Work
SPEAKER(S) Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American
History, staff writer at The New Yorker, and author
COST Free
CONTACT INFO hww at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Part of the Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series, which is co-
sponsored by the Harvard College Writing Program, the Harvard
Extension School, the Harvard Review, the Harvard College Program in
General Education, and the Harvard College Women's Center. The series
seeks to bring together students, faculty, and others in the Harvard
community and the public to think about the transformational power of
writing in people's lives and in the world.
LINK http://writingprogram.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&pageid=icb.page300428
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Tuesday, February 8
12 p.m.
"Making the Digital Fourth Estate: Redefining the Role of a Free Press
for the 21st Century." Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for
Digital Journalism, Columbia University; former director of digital
content for Guardian News and Media.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275, Kennedy School of Government
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Millions, Billions, Zillions: Why (In)numeracy MattersBrian Kernighan,
Berkman Fellow & Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Tuesday, February 8, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar at cyber.law.harvard.edu
)
This event will be webcast <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast
> live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
Technology has buried us in an avalanche of numbers and graphs and
charts, many of which claim to present the truth about important
issues. At the same time, our personal facility with numbers has
diminished, leaving us at the mercy of quantitative reasoning and
presentation that is often wrong and sometimes not disinterested.
Numeracy is basic numeric self-defense: how to assess the numbers
presented by other people, and how to produce sensible numbers of
one's own. In this talk, I'll explore some of the central ideas, with
plenty of examples.
About Brian
Brian Kernighan received his PhD from Princeton in 1969, and was in
the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000. He is
now in the Computer Science Department at Princeton. His research
areas include programming languages, tools and interfaces that make
computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users. He is also
interested in technology education for non-technical audiences.
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2011 Alvin F. Poussaint Visiting Lecture. “Achieving Health in the
U.S.: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement”
WHEN Tue., Feb. 8, 2011, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Rotunda, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership
SPEAKER(S) Paula A. Johnson, HMS, HSPH ’85, chief, Division of
Women's Health, executive director, Connors Center for Women's Health
and Gender Biology Brigham and Women's Hospital; associate professor
of medicine Harvard Medical School
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Please RSVP to veronica_meade-kelly at hms.harvard.edu;
617.432.4698
NOTE Reception to follow.
LINK http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/upcoming_events.html
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Edward O. Wilson To Receive "Thoreau Prize"
WHEN Tue., Feb. 8, 2011, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Geological Lecture Hall
Harvard Museum of Natural History
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Environmental Sciences,
Humanities, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR PEN New England's Henry David Thoreau Prize
SPEAKER(S) Edward O. Wilson
COST Free & open to the public
CONTACT INFO Karen Wulf: 617.519.0882
NOTE The "Henry David Thoreau Prize" is awarded for Literary
Excellence in Nature Writing.
LINK www.pen-ne.org
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Green Conversations: "World on the Edge"
WHEN Wed., Feb. 9, 2011, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Science Center D,
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Lester R. Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute
CONTACT INFO Lisa Matthews: matthew at fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.8883
NOTE Lester R. Brown is the founder and president of the Earth Policy
Institute and founder of the Worldwatch Institute. He is the recipient
of numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United
Nations Environment Prize, Japan's Blue Planet Prize, and 25 honorary
degrees. He is the author or co-author of 50 books, most recently,
"World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse."
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/lesterbrown
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The Anti-Immigrant Right & the Future of Political Polling
WHEN Wed., Feb. 9, 2011, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center for Democratic Governance and
Innovation
SPEAKER(S) Matt A. Barreto
COST Free
CONTACT INFO Bruce Jackan: bruce_jackan at hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.7548
NOTE In 2010 Republicans received a swell of support that returned
their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, however they fell
short of taking the Senate. Beyond the 60 seat GOP pickup in the
House, the big news story of Election 2010 was the Democrats holding
on the Senate, against all odds, and to the bewilderment of most
pollsters.
What explains the Democrats success, and the polls failure in multiple
U.S. Senate contests? Quite simply: the Latino vote. Research from
Latino Decisions shows very clearly that the extreme anti-immigrant
stance taken by many Republicans drove down their share among Latino
voters to historic lows, and that further, traditional pre-election
and exit polls failed to accurately predict or capture this pattern.
For example, in Nevada where Harry Reid scored a surprise victory over
Sharron Angle, not one single poll offered Spanish language
interviews. Data compiled by Barreto shows quite convincingly that
Latino voters were driven away from the Republican party by the anti-
immigrant theme in 2010, and that methodologically pre-election polls
and exit polls had many, many failings. In 2010 and beyond, failing to
understand the Latino vote means we fail to understand American
elections.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/The-Anti-Immigrant-Right-the-Future-of-Political-Polling
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Raising Our Sights: Fighting for a Progressive Vision in Sharply
Contested Terrain
WHEN Thu., Feb. 10, 2011, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Faculty Club, Theatre Room
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Labor & Worklife Program, HLS
SPEAKER(S)
Miles Rapoport, president, Demos
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BC
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Noam Chomsky On The Struggle in The Promised Land
When: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: Boston College Robsham Theater, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut
Hill
Noam Chomsky will be giving a lecture at Boston College regarding the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The event is sponsored by the MSA
(Muslim Student Association) and we will be charging $10 per person.
We are raising the money to help the flood victims in Pakistan.
Tickets will be on sale on Monday, January 31st at Robsham theater in
Boston College. If you cannot come and buy a ticket at Boston College,
please call them at (617)552-4002. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168344066537964
Note: Visitor parking in the garages on campus is free after 5pm third
floor and above, check for details here:
http://www.bc.edu/offices/transportation/visitor.html
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How Climate in South Asia is Becoming a Water Issue
February 11, 2011 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
CGIS Knafel Building, K262 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
Contact Name: Megan Rajbanshi mrajbans at fas.harvard.edu (617)
496-4862
South Asia Initiative Water Seminar, so-sponsored by the Harvard
University Center for the Environment
Speaker: Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for
the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Professor of International
Relations and Geography & the Environment.Boston University
Chaired by: John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental
Health, HSPH; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental
Engineering, SEAS
Climate Change has usually been viewed as a ‘carbon management’
challenge, but our failure to mitigate global climate change is
ushering in the necessity of adaptation to climate change. In South
Asia – as elsewhere, but possibly more than in many other places –
this means that climate change will increasingly become a water
management challenge. Neither the global politics of climate change
nor institutions within South Asia seem to be prepared for this. This
seminar will broadly discuss the challenges of climate change,
development and security with a particular focus on what this means
for South Asia as a region and for water as an issue.
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Brandeis
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Department of Physics Colloquium
4:00pm, Abelson 131
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131
Self-Assembly of Photonic Nanostructures: Beyond Crystalline Sphere
Packings
Eric Dufresne, Yale University
Visible light is scattered strongly by dielectric materials with
structure on length scales around a few hundred nanometers. With
careful design of geometry and selection of dielectric constants,
these photonic materials can direct the flow of light with stunning
results, including the vivid structural colors on the blue feathers of
a jay and the green eye-spots on a butterfly’s wings. In this talk, I
will describe our recent investigations into alternative strategies
for the design and assembly of photonic materials. We find some of
our inspiration from biology, where we have examined the mechanisms of
color production and self-assembly across hundreds of species of birds
and insects. Crystalline and amorphous photonic nanostructures appear
to be formed by the arrested phase separation of proteins in birds and
the bending of lipid membranes in insects. On another front, we are
developing strategies based on recent advances in the synthesis of
uniform nanoparticles with unusual geometries. In particular, I will
describe the development of field-switchable photonic crystals based
on dumbbell shaped polymer nanoparticles. Together, these approaches
provide rich alternatives to the canonical path of self-assembly of
photonic crystals from spherical particles.
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Tufts
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The Future of Energy Demand and Supply Possibilities: A Review of BP's
Energy Outlook 2030
February 09, 2011 2:00p–3:00p
The BP Energy Outlook 2030 projects that primary energy use will grow
by about 40% from 2010 to 2030, with 93% of the growth coming from non-
OECD countries, especially from emerging economies such as China,
India, Russia and Brazil. At the same time, however, BP projects that
energy intensity, a measure of energy use per unit of economic output,
will improve, especially as the emerging economies make improvements
in energy efficiency. BP also predicts large growth in the role of non-
fossil fuel energy sources such as nuclear, hydro and wind. Natural
gas is also projected to be the fastest growing fossil fuel over the
next 20 years and coal and oil to lose market share. More information
on the report is available at: www.bp.com/Energyoutlook2030
Paul Appleby, who works in London, England with BP as the Head of
Energy Economics, will discuss the Energy Outlook 2030 report and the
key areas of focus such as energy intensity, growth of non-OECD
countries, fuel substitution, biofuels and global environmental
policy. Paul holds an MPhil from Cambridge University in Economics.
Also present will be Paul Jefferiss, Head of Policy at BP, who holds a
MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts
University and Phd from Harvard University.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Paul Appleby, Head of Energy Economics, BP
Location: Mugar 200, The Fletcher School Tufts University Medford, MA
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events, Tufts Center for
International Environment & Natural Resource Policy
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra at tufts.edu
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Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute Lecture
February 9, 2011 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
"Plenitude: How and why millions of Americans are creating a time-
rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy."
Cabot 702 – The Fletcher School 160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford, MA
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/
Contact Name: Lauren Denizard lauren.denizard at tufts.edu 617-627-3530
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Other
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Monday, February 7 from 6PM-8:30PM*
* Skillshare: Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, Blocks and
Fears*
The NonProfit Center, downtown Boston, 89 South Street, Suite 700,
Boston, MA 02111-2670
Presented by Hillary Rettig, author of "The Lifelong Activist: How to
Change the World Without Losing Your Way."
After the workshop, participants typically feel energetic and
empowered and eager to go home and make some of the changes we?ve
discussed. Many later report making more progress on their goals than
they have in a long time.
*RSVP: *http://www.sojust.org/calendar/15899136/
Fee: $5 in advance, $10 at the door
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IGNITE BOSTON 8 (GLOBAL IGNITE WEEK)
• Date: 2/7/2011
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6pm - 9pm
• Audience: Entrepreneurs, technologists, DIYers, creative
professionals and enthusiastic knowledge-seekers
• Twitter: @igniteboston
• Description: Ignite (ignite.oreilly.com) events are high-energy
evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to
get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local
volunteers who are connected through the global Ignite network, Ignite
is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections in
each city. #gigbos
Register: http://igniteboston8.eventbrite.com/
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Cambridge Cooperative Sustainability Lecture Series Presents:
“Keeping Our Water Systems Public”
Denise Hart
Monday February 7th at 6:30
Denise Hart is the New England Director, organizing, supervising staff
and coordinating initiatives to protect our water and food resources
in the public interest. She joined Food & Water Watch in 2008 after
spending eight years organizing in southern New Hampshire to stop a
bottled water company from setting up shop in her rural community (not
one bottle sold yet!) and changing state laws to better protect
groundwater as a public trust. This experience changed her into a
passionate advocate for advancing policy to establish water as a human
and ecological right and keeping water accessible, clean, and managed
sustainably in the public interest. Denise is a member of the board of
directors of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund and Save Our
Groundwater, and serves on the New Hampshire Citizens Trade Policy
Commission of the state legislature that investigates and recommends
policy changes about the impacts of international trade agreements.
She previously worked for many years as a writer and communications
specialist producing many articles and two documentaries on topics
such as sustainability, green building and the humanities for regional
and national audiences.
Location: Cambridge Cooperative Club @ 64 Wendell Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Contact: Bridget Molloy (303)-506-6790 bridget.molloy1 at gmail.com
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Green Your Condo, Save Your Money, & Help Your Planet, too.*
Learn how “green” investments in your condo can make it more
sustainable and add value to your home.
Tuesday, February 8th
6:30pm-8:30pm
171 Huron Avenue, Coldwell Banker Office
At this seminar you will learn about energy efficiency and smart
living starting with small steps to take within your condo like
installing weather stripping, then moving onto larger steps for your
entire condo building like getting a free building-wide energy
assessment or even installing solar. We will also cover how to cash in
on the incentives/rebates, as well as the attractive 0% financing
available through local banks and NSTAR. Come learn how to make your
condo greener, more energy efficient, and save yourself and neighbors
money each month.
Presenters
Sustainable Life Solutions
Next Step Living
S&H Construction
Cambridge Portuguese Credit Union
Attendees will have the opportunity to win raffle prizes of green gear
and purchase Smart Strips powerstrips with the utility discount
already included.
Co-sponsored by CEA and Coldwell Banker agents Amy Tighe and Robin
Miller.
RSVP to outreach at cambridgeenergyalliance.org
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Science by the Pint: Science by the Pint is back in full force for its
second season at a new venue, the Tavern in the Square in Porter
Square. Science by the Pint is SITN’s own science cafe – a fun,
informal event where scientists mingle with the general public to talk
about their research, why they do it, and how it affects the world.
Join us the second Tuesday of each month from 7-9pm.
In our next Science by the Pint, Elizabeth Thomas and her colleagues
from Brown University will chat about their work studying climate
change in the recent past and present. Join them for some great food
and drinks, with a chance to win gift certificate prizes at the end!
When: Tuesday, February 8th, from 7-9PM
Where: Tavern on the Square, Porter Square
Visit the science cafes webpage <http://www.sciencecafes.org/> for
more info!
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Wed., Feb. 9, 2011
7 – 8:30 p.m.
World on the Edge: Preventing Environmental and Economic Collapse
Lester Brown
Internationally renowned environmentalist Lester Brownhas been
assessing the health of the earth’s ecosystems for more than two
decades. Over that time he has seen increasing signs of breakdown
until we are now facing issues of near overwhelming complexity and
unprecedented urgency. Can we change direction before we go over the
edge? In his new book World On The Edge, Brown attempts to illuminate
a path toward preventing environmental and economic collapse.
First Parish in Cambridge, Mass Ave & Church Street
Cambridge Forum: 617.495.2727
http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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TOM HAYDEN: AFGHANISTAN, OBAMA, THE PEACE MOVEMENT, AND THE LONG WAR
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When: Monday, February 7, 2011, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: First Parish Church ? 3 Church St. - Barn Room (upstairs)
Harvard Square T (take Church St exit) Cambridge
Antiwar activist and author Tom Hayden. will speak on the Long War,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen and the effect on domestic
programs and civil liberties at home.
After over fifty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden
is still a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Pakistan, for erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and
reforming politics through a more participatory democracy.
He currently writes for The Nation and organizes, travels and speaks
constantly against the current wars as founder and Director of the
Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City. He also recently
drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco
ordinances to end all taxpayer subsidies for sweatshops. "Tom Hayden
changed America", writes Nicolas Lemann of The Atlantic. He created
"the blueprint for the Great Society programs", writes former
presidential adviser Richard Goodwin. He was "the single greatest
figure of the 1960s student movement" according to a New York Times
book review. During his time in Sacramento, he was described as "the
conscience of the Senate" by the Sacramento Bee's political analyst.
The Nation magazine recently named him one of the 50 greatest
progressives of the 20th century.
Hayden's talk will introduce the Afghanistan/Pakistan War Forum Series.
$5 donation requested; no one turned away.
Sponsored by the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force.
ujpcoalition at gmail.com
617-383-4UJP
www.justicewithpeace.org
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Boston Flash Mob 1st Rehearsal!
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Cambridge, MA
Event Details
It's finally time for Boston Flash Mob's first rehearsal! The
Rehearsal is going to be at The Dance Complex in Boston. The address
is José Mateo Ballet Theatre 400 Harvard St. Cambridge, MA 02138 The
first rehearsal is limited to the first 35 people that sign up. *If
you are not committed please do not sign up because we have limited
rehearsal space and time. Let me make this clear this will be the best
and biggest Flash Mob ever! Sign up quick!
Register: http://bostonflashmob5.eventbrite.com/
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The Boston Collaborative for Food & Fitness Invites you to attend
Collaboration and Community Building: Understanding the basic elements
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness
bcffinfo at bphc.org
617.534.2672
Limited Capacity: First Come, First Serve
Call or email today to reserve your space
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
WEDNESDAY 6:30-8:30PM
TOBIN COMMUNITY CENTER 1483 Tremont St., Boston
In this session participants will: Gain understanding of how to build
a strong neighborhood coalition Identify and analyze key neighborhood
constituencies and institutions (e.g., residents, youth, merchants,
churches)
Learn and share strategies for building effective collaborations with
neighborhood organizations and institutions
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*THE POWER OF EARN-A-BIKE Stories from Nevis Island and Boston*
Wednesday, February 9th, 7:00pm
at: Bikes Not Bombs Hub, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
Join us for a unique presentation that will highlight Bikes Not Bombs?
Earn-A-Bike youth projects in the Island of Nevis and here in Boston!
This past summer, International Programs Director David Branigan
visited the Earn-A-Bike project in Nevis. David will show a short film
shot during his visit and discuss the strengths and challenges
of the program, the increased involvement of government agencies, and
the tremendous potential for the expansion in the next 2-3 years.
Youth Programs Coordinator Elijah Evans, who visited the Earn-A-Bike
Nevis project in 2009, will take a look into the historical, political
and cultural context of Nevis, and what the implications are today.
Elijah is also a graduate of the Earn-A-Bike program in Boston, which
he now oversees. Elijah will discuss the power of Earn-A-Bike to
impact young people, the connections between the Earn-A-Bike programs
in Nevis and Boston, and a vision for the future.
Finally, we'll hear from a panel of Youth Instructors who have
graduated from BNB's youth programs in Boston and now teach their
younger peers. These young people will share their personal
experiences with Earn-A-Bike and the program?s impact on their lives.
This event is free and open to the public. It is a potluck so please
consider bringing something to share.
For more information, contact Allie Hunter at allie at bikesnotbombs.org
or 617-522-0222.
Event info: http://bikesnotbombs.org/nevis-eab
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Hear about Google's cool new tool: Ngram
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Google - 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA
58 Hacks and Hackers going
Google’s Ngram Viewer The Google Books Ngram Viewer lets people track
how phrases in books have waxed and waned throughout the centuries.
Building on top of the 15 million books that libraries and publishers
have given to Google for scanning, it provides a simple and quick
visual interface for illustrating trends in usage.
http://meetupbos.hackshackers.com/
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2/10/2011
Discussion/Signing with Sheldon Krimsky
Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil
Liberties.
Our ongoing fascination with TV forensics dramas has brought DNA into
daily conversation. Krimsky and Simoncelli reach beyond pop culture to
discuss how obtaining and using DNA has become common in criminal
investigations. They discuss the civil-rights concerns raised by
dragnets, in which DNA is obtained from hundreds (or thousands) of
people in an effort to match to a crime, including the often
surreptitious acquiring of DNA from family members of suspected persons.
Time: 07:00 PM-08:00 PM
Location: Level 3, Harvard Coop Bookstore, Harvard Square
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THE 2ND ANNUAL LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM
Sustainability: Through the Lens of Water
An exploration of global and local issues that connect business,
society, and the environment
Friday, February 11, 2011
8:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Registration begins at 8:00 A.M.
The Murray Room in Yawkey Athletic Center
RSVP to lc at bc.edu
Agenda at http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/csom_sites/lfc/pdf/Draft%20Agenda%20Sustainability%20Symposium.pdf
Cost: $50
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NO WAR, NO WARMING!
Friday, February 11, 2011, 7-9 PM
Photonics Bldg, Room 206, Boston University
8 St. Mary's Street, Boston
just off Comm. Ave., close to the BU Central T Stop (Green Line B)
Suggested donation, $5.00
Featured Speakers:
Barry Sanders, author of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of
Militarism, examines the environmental impact of US military practices
and declares military activity, from fuel emissions to radioactive
waste to defoliation campaigns, as the single-greatest contributor to
the worldwide environmental crisis.
Dr. Maggie Zhou, biologist, member of Massachusetts Coalition for
Healthy Communities and Climate SOS, will discuss the climate justice
perspective, international climate conferences in Cancun, Copenhagen/
Cochabamba, and the race to militarism vs. peace.
Co-Sponsors:
Boston UNAC (United National Antiwar Committee), United for Justice with
Peace, Alliance for Democracy-Boston/Cambridge & North Bridge Chapters,
Peace & Justice Task Force of Watertown Citizens for Environmental
Safety,
Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, Massachusetts Global
Action, Boston University Antiwar Coalition
For further information, contact Boston UNAC at BostonUNAC at gmail.com
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Upcoming
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Greenpeace Boston Chapter - Arctic Sunrise Tour
Date: February 14th @ 6:00 PM
Description: Boston, MA - Coal Free Future Tour
Description: We are very excited to announce that Greenpeace's ship,
the Arctic Sunrise, is sailing into Boston in February. This is the
last stop of the Coal Free Future Tour.
Greenpeace is continuing its fight against the coal industry with a
ship tour to highlight places like Massachusetts, where people across
the commonwealth are standing up to the coal industry. We are joining
this fight by raising awareness about the true cost of coal and the
impacts of burning coal on our planet and the devastating effect on
people’s health.
If you are interested in any of the following events please register
on this page so we can keep you clued in to important updates and
information!
March and Rally at the State House - Friday 2/18
Join us as we march to the State House to deliver the message to Gov.
Patrick that we appreciate his work on clean energy. We challenge the
governor to be an even stronger leader by shutting down the Salem
Harbor coal plant by 2012.
Open Boat tours - Come down to Rowes Wharf at the Boston Harbor and
take a tour of the Arctic Sunrise! - the schedule is as follows:
Wed 2/16 - Open Boat 12 - 6
Sat 2/19 - Open Boat 10 - 4
Sun 2/20 - Open Boat 10 - 4
Mon 2/21 - Open Boat 10 - 4
Let us know if you are interested in attending one of our events, and
we'll contact you with details.
We are also still looking for volunteers throughout the ship’s stay to
help with tours and other activities. If you can volunteer some of
your time please contact David Lands at dlands at greenpeace.org
Please include your full name, phone number, and email address so that
we can let you know the details of this exciting opportunity!
Location: Rowes Wharf, Boston Harbor
http://members.greenpeace.org/event/view/4022/
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*GreenPort Forum: How to Start a Green Business.* Creating green jobs
and developing a green economy are essential to preventing a climate
catastrophe. How can we actually build the new economy? This Forum
will offer nuts and bolts information about how to create successful
new green businesses. With panelists Susan Labandibar/, /President of
the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston; Chris Basler,
Cambridge Community Development Department; Stephen Leonard, Senior
Vice President, Cambridge Savings Bank; and a representative from
ACCION USA to speak about "sprout loans" for new home based
businesses. *
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7:00pm.
Cambridgeport Baptist Church, 459 Putnam Av, Cambridge (corner of
Magazine St. and Putnam Ave)
*For more information contact Steve Wineman at swineman at gis.net *
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How Cuba Survived Peak Oil – A showing of the film The Power of
Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil,
Tuesday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Cambridge Senior Center, 806 Mass. Ave.
Sponsored by Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group.
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Boston Social Enterprise Community: TechnoServe Mixer and Information
Night!
Thursday, February 17, 2011 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Venture Cafe, CIC, One Broadway, Cambridge MA
Event Details
Interested in international development, social enterprise, or social
entrepreneurship?
JOIN US at the Venture Cafe event featuring TechnoServe on February
17! TechnoServe alumni, TNS prospectives, and friends of TNS will be
there to hang out, relax and chat about social enterprise,
international development, and social entrepreneurship over FREE beer,
wine and snacks at the Venture Cafe in Cambridge!
Venture Cafe is graciously hosting a mixer and information night to
help connect socially-focused entrepreneurs, including Boston-area
graduate schools. TechnoServe is an incredibly impactful summer
internship opportunity, particularly for MBA and other graduate
students. MIT's SEID club has also helped us to plan and organize
this event, so we hope to see many Sloanies there in particular!
The idea is for former people associated with TechnoServe to connect
with each other and with future people to be associated with
TechnoServe. We've all lived, worked or volunteered in Africa,
Central America, South America, or Asia with TNS and we'd love to
share our experiences. We look forward to seeing you all there!
The Venture Cafe is a unique and truly awesome space for Boston's
entrepreneurial and innovation communities. Read more about them
below, but they are doing amazing things for their targeted
communities in Boston. HUGE thank you to them -- they are providing
space for our event as well as providing drinks and snacks!
About SEID (http://seid.mit.edu/):
Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID) is a student-
led organization at the MIT Sloan School of Management that seeks to
drive sustainable global development through entrepreneurship. Our
members create new ventures and engage with existing organizations in
emerging markets addressing critical global issues. We harness the
power of business to develop innovative market-based solutions to the
current challenges in the world.
About The Venture Cafe (http://www.venturecafe.net/about/):
The Venture Café was created to provide a resource for the Boston
entrepreneurial and innovation communities. Our mission is to enable
fresh and useful conversations.
Cambridge is a fountain of innovative spirit, spirit that needs a
framework to reach its full potential. The Venture Café serves as a
nexus for helping innovators and entrepreneurs find one another and
collaborate to bring their dreams to reality.
Even in this digital world, it’s important to have a physical space.
Shared physical spaces provide common meeting ground and a forum for
semi-serendipitous encounters that often foster brainstorming and
drive creativity. Meeting in person establishes the trust that’s so
crucial to working together, particularly on risky, underfunded
projects. The Venture Café can provide the framework upon which
numerous experimental “applications” can be nurtured and launched.
Please email Caroline Lundberg at caroline.lundberg at gmail.com if you
have any questions. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you at the
event!
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1272745817
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February 18, 2011
FERC Policies and New England;
Smart Power and the Future of Electric Utilities; and Massachusetts'
and Boston's New Clean Energy and Climate Plans for 2020
Raab Associates presents:
The 121st New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP
155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
We start off the new year and our 17th Roundtable season with a
trifecta of exciting topics. FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur will
kick-off our 121st Roundtable with a discussion of FERC's new policy
directions on a variety of issues that will impact New England,
ranging from capacity markets and transmission to both renewable and
demand-side resources. As the former acting CEO at National Grid,
Commissioner LaFleur knows New England well and is well-positioned to
provide relevant and insightful comments for its regulators, market
participants, and other stakeholders.
Next up is Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of a new and provocative book
entitled Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future
of the Electric Utilities. Currently a principal at the Brattle
Group, Peter worked in top-level positions in energy policy at U.S.
DOE and the White House, and is also quite familiar with New England,
having spent many years at Charles River Associates in Boston. In
keeping with our "restructuring" focus, Peter's new book envisions the
need for a very different utility industry and regulatory structure if
we are to succeed in transforming the electricity system to meet
climate and other public policy objectives.
Our final panel will feature Massachusetts' and Boston's "hot-off-the-
press" and nationally-ground-breaking Clean Energy and Climate Plans.
These plans will become the primary vehicles for ensuring a wide range
of energy and climate goals, including lowering energy costs,
increasing energy independence, growing clean energy jobs, and
reducing emissions. The plans consolidate existing policies and
programs, as well as present important proposed new developments
spanning electricity supply, efficient buildings, and transportation.
Governor Patrick's Massachusetts Clean Energy & Climate Plan for 2020,
just released in December, will be presented jointly byUndersecretary
for Energy, Phil Giudice, and Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dr.
David Cash, both at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and
Environmental Affairs. Jim Hunt, Chief of Environmental and Energy
Services at the City of Boston, will then present the City's
forthcoming climate plan. The soon-to-be-released report is based on a
year-long stakeholder and community engagement process, culminating in
a comprehensive plan and set of recommendations to Mayor Menino,
entitled Sparking Boston's Climate Revolution.
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Performance Workshop Opportunity for the Boston/Cambridge Community!
VOLUNTEERS WANTED FEBRUARY 18-21
TO PARTICIPATE IN BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER'S
NEW LUBBERLAND NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY PRODUCTION -- "MANNING"
CHOREOGRAPHED BY BREAD AND PUPPET FOUNDER PETER SCHUMANN
AT MIT (The Cube in the Wiesner Building, 20
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Ames Street, Cambridge)
(no experience necessary...)
The <http://breadandpuppet.org/lubberland-national-dance-company>
Lubberland National Dance Company, a branch of the <http://breadandpuppet.org/
> Bread & Puppet Theater, has produced dances with political themes
in response to current events, including 10 No-No-No Dances against
Israel's war on Lebanon (2006), 27 Dirt-Cheap Money Dances, with Marx
quotations in response to the financial crisis (2009), and 7 Dances
for Gaza in commemoration of the victims killed on the Gaza
humanitarian aid flotilla (2010).
The Company's latest work-in-progress is called "Manning", and
concerns <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/wikileaks-cables-bradley-manning
> Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old soldier who has spent the last
eight months in solitary confinement in a brig in Virginia, accused of
providing WikiLeaks with classified Defense Department documents.
The approximately eight dances are tentatively titled:
1) 23 Hours-A-Day-Intensive-Solitary-Confinement Dance in a 6' x 12'
Cell
2) Banned-From-Exercise + Denied Pillow + Sheet Dance
3) Guards-Check-Private-Manning-Every-5-Minutes Dance
4) The Brig's Spokesman's "poppycock" Dance Saying His Treatment is
"firm,
fair and respectful"
5) The American Academy of Psychiatry's
"Isolation-Can-Be-As-Clinically-Distressing-As-Physical-Torture Dance
6) Civilized Society's Anti-Torture Dance
7) Manning's, "We're-screwed-as-a-society-if-nothing-happens" Dance
8) Manning's
"Public-reaction-to-the-video-of-the-helicopter-massacre-in-Baghdad-
gave-me-
great-hope" Dance
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These dances are choreographed by Peter Schumann and taught by Maura
Gahan and do not require prior dance experience. We are looking for
10-20 persons to take part in two days of rehearsals before a public
performance on Monday, February 21. Participants should bring
comfortable clothes to move in for rehearsals, along with a notebook,
musical instruments, water, snacks and/or meals. For the performance,
participants will wear all white clothes.
Schedule:
Friday, Feb. 18th: Load-In & Meet Participants (TBA)
Saturday, Feb. 19th: Rehearse 10am-1pm; Break 1-2pm; Rehearse 2-5pm
Sunday, Feb. 20th: Rehearse 10am-1pm; Break 1-2pm; Rehearse 2-5pm
Monday, Feb. 21st: Warm-up 5pm; Performance 7pm
All rehearsals and performance will take place in E15-001 (the Cube in
the
Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street)
This special workshop is presented in cooperation with 4.360
Performance Workshop: Art, Technology, and Live Space, taught by John
Bell. Funded by a Director's Grant from the Council for the Arts at
MIT, and a grant from the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
For more information contact John Bell johnbell at mit.edu 617-599-3250
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