[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events
George Mokray
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MIT
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Market Response Modeling: Quantifying the Technology and Policies
Needed to Drive Global Zero-Carbon-Emission Building Infrastructure
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Otto, President, Robust Systems and Strategy LLC
Time: 12:30p–2:00p
Location: 7-431, AVT
Building Technology Spring Lecture Series
Buildings consume 38% of energy use globally, far more than the
industrial, transportation or any other sector. Yet, unlike these
other sectors, we have available today the technology to reduce
building energy consumption to near net zero and thereby eliminate
their net carbon contribution. Zero energy consuming buildings exist
in all applications and in all climates, they work. We are not facing
an unsolvable problem in creating energy efficient building
technologies. We face a problem of creating demand for, delivering,
purchasing, and operationally maintaining very energy efficient
buildings. To quantify and explore industrial policy scenarios, a
large scale simulation modeling effort was constructed, to simulate
the impact on the global building stock of the construction and
operation decisions of individual building owners and stakeholders.
The results of any scenario simulated out to 2050 were compared with
levels necessary to achieve global carbon reduction and stabilization.
We also quantified that all current incentive programs used throughout
Europe, the US and elsewhere to incentivize building owners to upgrade
to more energy efficient materials and systems have little to no
impact. Instead, we compute that whole-building incentive programs and
building codes are uniformly necessary. These results will be reviewed.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Building Technology Program
For more information, contact:
Kathleen Ross
617 253 1876
kross at mit.edu
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Electronics for Energy Efficiency
Speaker: Jason Stauth
Time: 3:00p–4:00p
Location: 38-401A
EECS Special Seminar
The growing demand for energy will result in dramatic changes to the
way we generate and manage energy. This provides unprecedented
motivation to explore technologies that can facilitate more efficient
energy conversion, reduced consumption and waste, and support lower
carbon energy sources. This talk will present a research framework for
next-generation electronics for energy efficiency that merges efforts
in highly-integrated power electronics, communications electronics,
and embedded systems techniques. Future research areas include
applications in automotive, energy storage, and distributed energy
generation. Research themes include resonant and digital techniques
that leverage high-energy-density passives and deep integration in
modern semiconductor technologies. A commercial effort in distributed
power management for photovoltaic systems will be discussed that
combines efforts in power electronics, power-line communications, and
networked instrumentation. This effort includes development of a novel
resonant switched-capacitor power converter that can achieve effective
conversion efficiency of 99.5% and can substantially improve lifetime
energy capture in photovoltaic systems.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): EECS HQ
For more information, contact:
Mira Whiting
617-253-4657
mira at mit.edu
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March 7, 2011
3:45pm / 4:15pm
Kolker Room, 26-414
"More Precious than Gold: Critical Elements for New Energy Technologies"
Robert Jaffe, MIT
I will report on a recently completed study jointly sponsored by the
APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) and the Material Research Society
(MRS). The twin pressures of increasing demand for energy and
increasing concern about anthropogenic climate change have stimulated
research into new sources of energy and novel ways to harvest,
transmit, store, transform or conserve it. At the same time, advances
in physics, chemistry, and material science have enabled researchers
to identify chemical elements with properties that can be finely tuned
to their specific needs and to employ them in new energy-related
technologies. Elements like dysprosium, gallium, germanium, indium,
lanthanum, neodymium, rhenium, or tellurium, which were once
laboratory curiosities, now figure centrally when novel energy systems
are discussed. Many of these elements are not at present mined,
refined, or traded in large quantities. However new technologies can
only impact our energy needs if they can be scaled from laboratory, to
demonstration, to massive implementation. As a result, some previously
unfamiliar elements will be needed in great quantities. We refer to
these elements as energy-critical elements (ECEs). Although the
technologies in which they are employed and their abundance in the
Earth’s crust vary greatly, ECEs have many features in common. The
purpose of the POPA/MRS study was to evaluate constraints on
availability of energy-critical elements and to make recommendations
that can help avoid these obstructions.
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Water Footprint Analysis of Electricity Generation
Speaker: Michael Rutberg, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-343
Center for Energy and Propulsion Research Seminar Series
The interconnection between water and energy systems, or "water-energy
nexus," is an area of increasing concern in many arid parts of the
world. Withdrawal and consumption of water at electricity generation
plants, mainly for cooling purposes, is a significant component of the
water-energy nexus in the US and elsewhere. The existing field data on
US power plant water use, however, is of limited granularity and poor
quality, hampering efforts to track industry trends and project future
scenarios. Furthermore, there is a need for a common quantitative
framework on which to evaluate the potential of the many technologies
that have been proposed to reduce water use at power plants. To
address these deficiencies, we have created a system-level generic
model (SGM) of water use at power plants that applies to a wide
variety of generation technologies. The SGM is a computationally
inexpensive analytical model that approximately reflects the physics
of the key processes involved and requires a small number of input
parameters; the outputs are water withdrawal and consumption intensity
in liters per kilowatt-hour. This talk will first give a brief
introduction to the water-energy nexus, focusing on water use at power
plants, then describe the SGM and its application to water footprint
data analysis and technology evaluation.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): RGD Lab
For more information, contact:
Patrick Kirchen
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Jiang Yang: "Shaping Information and Social Dynamics in Social Media:
Incentive and Culture"
Monday, March 07, 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: MIT Media Lab, E14-633
Speaker: Jiang Yang
Digital social media is revolutionizing the way people socialize and
create/share information. Understanding and shaping this revolution
calls for a new hybrid of research in technology, design, media,
sociology, business, and economics. Yang will address how the two
primary motifs in social media space—information and social dynamics
—have been shaped by the complex interaction between incentive design
and cultural context. In particular, in this talk she will discuss
findings from several settings, including online forums, community
based Q&A sites, and crowdsourcing websites. She will demonstrate that
integrating diverse research methods is particularly desired to
understand the full picture.
Understanding the co-evolvement between system design and
participators’ human, social, and cultural factors can lead to
discovering the major dimensions in the social media design space.
Yang's goal is to identify and construct this design space to help in
evaluating, suggesting, and guiding new design features. Finally, she
will describe a few work-in-progress projects that extend her prior
studies and design new social-information experiences for users.
Biography:
Jiang Yang is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of
Information, specializing in human-computer interaction and social
computing. She studies information and social dynamics in online
social media, focusing on how system designs interact with human,
social, and cultural factors. Her research involves developing hybrid
research methodology to understand, evaluate, and design social media
systems. Jiang received her master's degree in financial engineering,
and bachelor's degree in information systems and communication from
the University of Science and Technology of China, and has interned in
IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and eBay Labs.
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Collision 2 Lecture Series: Laurent Grasso
Speaker: Laurent Grasso
Time: 7:00p–9:00p
Location: E15-070, Bartos Theater
Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet
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The ACT Monday night lecture series Collision 2: When Artistic and
Scientific Research Meet draws together artists and scientists from
different disciplines to discuss artistic methodologies and forms of
inquiry at the intersection of art, architecture, science and
technology.
This series is part of AR - Artistic Research, a yearlong
collaboration between the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
and Siemens Stiftung, Munich, co‑curated by ACT Director Ute Meta
Bauer and Siemens Stiftung Curator of Visual Arts Thomas D. Trummer.
The lecture series is also part of the related ACT course 4.365/4.366
From Bauhaus to Our House.
The lecture series is free and open to the public.
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology presents its Monday night
lecture series, Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet
Science & Fictions
Laurent Grasso, artist, Paris, France
Respondent: Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology
Laurent Grasso will discuss the ideas and processes behind hisHAARP
project (High Frequency Active Auroral research) eponymous of a
research base in Gakona, Alaska. One side of this project was to
display a scale reconstitution of the antenna array?s in the Palais de
Tokyo, Paris, in 2009. He will also present, theStudies into the Past
series, and the exhibition The Horn Perspective that took place at the
Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2009. This exhibition partly deals with
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson?s discoveries on cosmic microwaves
(remains of the big bang) through The Horn Antenna. In 2008, Laurent
Grasso was awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize and in 2010 he
was featured at The European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Manifesta
8, Murcia, Spain.
Web site: http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
For more information, contact:
Laura Chichisan Pallone
617-253-4415
clauraa at mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Supply Chain Innovation & Leadership Series
Roger Bloemen, Vice President Global Supply Chain, Solutia
“From Business Strategy to Supply Chain Strategy”
Time: 12-1pm
Location: E51-325
Roger Bloemen is Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Solutia. He
has degrees in Bio Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Business
Administration from University of Leuven, Belgium. Roger has an
executive MBA from Stanford University and gives frequent lectures on
Supply Chain strategy at key business schools around the world. Last
year Solutia won the Belgian Pics Supply Chain award.
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Prof. Sheila Kennedy's lecture on PV Design applications
March 08, 2011 12:00p–1:00p
Sheila Kennedy, MIT Professor of the Practice of Architecture, will
present design work that explores the new nexus of adaptable/
responsive design, soft ware, ?soft? solar materials and flexible
electronics. This talk will focus on the challenges and opportunities
of accelerating the wide spread use of organic thin film and
generation 3 CIGs based solar cells. Drawing on the intersection of
material research from coursework at MIT and real-world demonstration
projects from her practice at KVA MATx, www.kvarch.net Kennedy will
discuss how design innovation in architecture and building materials
is creating new form factors and applications for solar energy,
changing the configuration of public space in the built environment,
and driving innovation in the creative economy. Keywords:
architecture, innovation, flexible photovoltaics, flat to form
manufacturing, craft and technical hybrids, prototyping.
With lunch.
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: MIT Faculty Profile: Sheila Kennedy, AIA http://sap.mit.edu/resources/portfolio/kennedy/
Location: 56-167
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact Ines N.S Gaisset
ines_g at mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Transportation at MIT Seminar: "System Design in an Uncertain World:
Decision Support to Mitigate the Impacts of Convective Weather on Air
Traffic"
Speaker: Richard DeLaura, MIT Lincoln Lab
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-270
Transportation at MIT Seminar Series
Transportation at MIT and the MIT Transportation Club are pleased to
announce the continuation of the Transportation Seminar Series. All
seminars this spring will be held in 3-270 on Tuesdays at 4pm.
This series will feature presentations by faculty researchers at MIT,
as well as invited guest speakers from beyond the Institute. Please
save the date for the following confirmed speakers:
3/15 Daniela Rus, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3/29 Noelle Eckley Selin, MIT Engineering Systems Division; Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
4/5 Daniel Roos, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering
Systems Division
4/12 Youssef Marzouk, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics
4/26 Jesse Kroll, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical
Engineering
5/3 Joan Ogden, University of California (Davis), Environmental
Science and Policy
Web site: http://transportation.mit.edu/live/news/1175-spring-2011-transportati
on-seminar-series
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free Admission to MIT and General Public
Sponsor(s): Transportation at MIT
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Fearing
6172533366
transportation at mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Speaker: Mike McGehee, Associate Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular
Photovoltaics, Stanford 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.
Organic solar cells and dye sensitized solar cells are very promising
because they can be deposited rapidly in roll-to-roll coating machines
without expensive vacuum chambers or high temperature processing.
Since they can be lightweight and flexible, it may soon be possible to
roll them onto rooftops at a cost several times lower than is now
possible with silicon or cadmium telluride solar cells. Since organic
semiconductors do not contain any rare or toxic elements, such as
indium, cadmium or tellurium, organic solar cells could be used to
provide the world with a significant fraction of its electricity.
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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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Legatum Lecture: 2010 Prosperity Index
Speaker: Dr. Ashley Thomas Lenihan & Jiehae Choi
Time: 5:00p–6:00p
Location: 32-144, Dessert Reception to follow
How do you define prosperity? We invite global economists, future
policymakers, and transformative thinkers to join us and learn about
the Legatum Prosperity Index. This quantitative tool is the world's
only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing. The Index produces
rankings based on the foundations of prosperity for 110 nations and
covering more than 90% of the world's population.
Web site: http://legatum.mit.edu/choilecture
Open to: the general public
Cost: none
Sponsor(s): Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
For more information, contact:
Agnes Hunsicker
617-324-2768
agnesh at mit.edu
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Has the Climate Change Debate Become Intractable?
March 09, 2011 11:45a–1:00p
Professor Hoffman will discuss the results of his work on breaking
down the debate on climate change and understanding its deeper
cultural, economic and political aspects. It is at this deeper level
that individual and group acceptance or rejection of climate science
lies. And solutions to breaking through to a social consensus on the
issue lie at this level.
Lunch Provided
Category: lectures/conferences
Speaker: Andy Hoffman, visiting professor
Location: E62-276
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Campus Events
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact Elaine T Lim
elim1 at mit.edu
Editorial Comment: I saw Dr Hoffman speak on this topic last week and
he has some pertinent things to say about the public debate on climate
change.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Patterns of Knowledge: Phase Transitions and Early Growth of Language
Wikipedia Networks
Speaker: Dr. Gergana Bounova is a postdoctoral research associate at
MIT. She is living and working in Berkeley, CA, and is also associated
with the Biostatistics group at UC Berkeley.
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: E51-325
Abstract: Wikipedia is the largest free encyclopedia on the internet
where users contribute and edit articles over time. Since 2001 over 18
million articles (3.5 million in English) have been contributed in
about 280 languages. Wikipedia has become the de-facto reference
knowledge capture platform online and there is substantial interest in
understanding both its structure and evolution over time from a
system's perspective. In this presentation I will summarize our recent
work on the evolution of language Wikipedias as networks. 177 language
Wikipedias (ex: French, Russian, etc.) are modeled as networks of
articles connected by thematic hyperlinks. We study phase transitions
in these 177 networks as they develop a giant component and become
almost fully connected. Critical density and other metrics are
correlated and compared to their corresponding random graph values. We
also discuss patterns at large, concerning both the diversity and the
commonality in the growth of language Wikipedias. Preliminary results
on the existence of a "stable Wikipedia network topology" are discussed.
Sponsored by MIT Engineering Systems Division and New England Complex
Systems Institute (NECSI).
Food will be available at 11:30; lecture begins at noon.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division
For more information, contact:
Stefanie Koperniak
skoperni at mit.edu
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Humanitarian Speaker Series
Jason Phillips, Deputy Vice president, Field Operations, International
Rescue Committee
“Humanitarian Action in a Changing World: an NGO Practitioner’s
View”
Time: 12-1pm
Location: E51-315
Jason Phillips currently works in New York as the Deputy Vice
President- Field Operations, for the International Rescue Committee
(IRC), one of the largest and oldest humanitarian private voluntary
organizations in the United States. He supports 25 countries in the
areas of logistics, finance, human resource, administration,
information technology, security management and strategic planning. He
also supervises the organization's international logistics operations.
Jason moved back to the United States after spending over 9 years
living in and managing humanitarian operations in Africa. He has
worked as IRC's Country Director in Sierra Leone and Kenya, and as a
Program Coordinator in Kenya. Prior to joining IRC, Jason worked with
the American Refugee Committee (ARC) in Uganda and Southern Sudan.
Prior to entering the humanitarian field Jason was a lecturer in the
Political Science departments at Gettysburg College and The Johns
Hopkins University. He also worked in the Private Placement and
Leveraged Buyout department of Smith Barney, Harris Upham and Co, an
investment bank, upon graduation from college.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Forensics, Detectors amd Deterrence: Integrating Technology with
Policy to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
Speaker: Tom Bielefeld, Belfer Center, JFK School of Government,
Harvard University
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
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Building Suburbia: Seven Suburban Landscapes, Or Only Two?
Speaker: Dolores Hayden Professor of Architecture and Urbanism/
Professor of American Studies Yale University
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.
Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Professor
of American Studies. She is an urban historian and architect,
president of the Urban History Association, and the author of many
books about the history of the built environment in the United States.
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (2003) and
A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004) are the most recent.
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. The subject matter ranges across all of the intellectual
domains of the Department, and each topic engages the terrain of more
than one DUSP program group. Please join us as we collectively make
sense of contending efforts to plan post-Katrina New Orleans, the
multiple rationales for community gardens and urban greening, the
institutional management of poverty by the microfinance industry, the
complex evolution of American suburbia, and the challenges of
designing 21st century communities to serve low-income households.
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, March 09, 2011
"Water-associated diseases along the Nile River" - or - Why the World
Health Organization (WHO) needs your help
Speaker: William Jobin, Blue Nile Associates
Time: 2:30p–3:30p
Location: 48-316
Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology Seminar series
Weekly presentations from local and international researchers in the
fields of hydrology and environmental fluid mechanics.
The several dams, reservoirs, irrigation systems and cataracts along
the Nile River from Uganda to Egypt are home to the most important
water-associated diseases in Africa, namely malaria, Snail Fever,
River Blindness, and a new one: Rift Valley Fever. We?ll take a tour
down the river starting at Lake Victoria in Uganda, and cover the
nature of these tropical diseases, and the habitat requirements of the
mosquitoes, aquatic snails and blackflies which spread them. Then we
will look at the role that engineers and hydrologists have had in
their control. Since construction of the Panama Canal in 1910 and
creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1945, engineers have had
an important role in controlling these diseases, but in recent years
they have gradually been displaced by medically-oriented physicians at
WHO in Geneva. Then a growing financial crisis at WHO has disabled
most of their original broad-based strategies, and has reduced the WHO
effort to repeatedly offering medication to people already infected.
Thus we might be able to assist WHO in tackling these diseases, by
proposing preventive measures which are relatively permanent. Examples
will be given of dams and irrigation systems which have caused
epidemics, and also of dams and other hydraulic structures which have
eliminated important foci of these diseases. These examples might help
us to develop design parameters for disease prevention, and could
suggest research on new environmental control methods.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Sheila Anderson
617-258-5554
sherah at mit.edu
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Environmental Inspections in Mexico
Speaker: Andrew Foster (Brown)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E51-376
Environmental Inspections in Mexico
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, March 09, 2011MacVicar Day 2011
"Energy Education Showcase: Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders"
Time: 2:30p–5:00p
Location: 32-155
Each year, MacVicar Day honors the memory of Margaret MacVicar '64,
Sc.D. '67, MIT's first Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student
Life, by recognizing the significant achievements made at MIT to
enhance undergraduate education and by exploring the next steps forward.
From 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, a panel of MIT faculty who teach subjects
within the Energy Studies program will share their insights into the
benefits and challenges of such interdisciplinary teaching and the
goals and pedagogies of their specific subjects, highlighting the rise
of energy literacy at MIT. A question and answer period will follow
the panel remarks.
From 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Energy Student Groups and Energy UROP
participants will display posters in the Stata TSMC Lobby where
refreshments will be served.
All are welcome!
Web site:http://web.mit.edu/provost/macvicar/macvicarday2011.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MacVicar Fellows, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, Office
of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
For more information, contact:
Leann Dobranski
253-3371
leann at mit.edu
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Science, Technology, Policy Crossroads
Time: 4:00p–7:00p
Location: The Broad Institute - 5 Cambridge Center
This year?s symposium will comprise a introductory statement by a DC
senior policy practitioner, a panel discussion by senior faculty
members in the field of science and technology policy from both MIT
and Harvard, break-out sessions on a variety of policy questions, and
a reception with time for socializing and networking. The focus of
this year?s Crossroads symposium is biotechnology policy. However,
biotech will serve only as an example or basis for the deeper
questions of how science, technology and policy can and should interact.
Web site: http://stpcrossroads.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): TPSS, Science Policy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Nathaniel R Twarog
ntwarog at MIT.EDU
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Civic Media Session: "Civic Tools: The Latest from the Center for
Future Civic Media"
Speaker: Featuring C4FCM's groundbreakers
Time: 5:00p–7:00p
Location: 32-141
In this annual tradition, see open-to-the-public demos of the latest,
greatest civic media tools from researchers at the MIT Center for
Future Civic Media, the leader in cutting-edge community-based
technology.
You'll see ways to hack bus data, how to make your own high-res map
imagery on the cheap, brand new techniques for making websites that
can call regular phones, and lots more.
Web site: http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-session-civic-tools-the-latest-from-the-center-for-future-civic-media
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Future Civic Media
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
(617) 324-0490
awhit at mit.edu
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar: Material structure in the
nano-world: The nanostructure problem and modern scattering methods
for solving it
Speaker: Prof. Simon Billinge, Columbia
Time: 4:00p–5:15p
Location: 66-110
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series
Sponsored by CMSE, DMSE, and MPC. To receive announcements about this
series and other events of interest to the MIT materials community,
subscribe to the matseminars mailing list at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/matseminars
To solve society's most pressing problems, such as sustainable energy,
we will need transformative, rather than evolutionary, technologies.
Many of these depend on finding materials with properties that are
substantially improved over existing candidates, and we are
increasingly turning to complex materials to find them. Complex
materials have complicated structures, large unit cells, and multiple
chemical species. They are often nanostructured: nanoparticulate,
nanoporous, or having nanoscale chemical or electronic inhomogeneities
or nanoscale structural distortions. A great challenge in researching
these materials is to characterize their structure. Apart from the
issue that the structure is inherently complicated, structures on the
nanoscale cannot be solved using our tried and trusted technique of
crystallography, the so-called nanostructure problem. We don't have
robust tools for solving the structure of precisely the complex
nanomaterials that we want to engineer. I will describe some of the
promising scattering techniques that are emerging.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for
Materials Science & Engineering, Materials Processing Center,
Materials at MIT
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sloan Automotive Laboratory Spring 2011 Seminar Series
Speaker: Prof. Wai Cheng, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 37-212
Sloan Automotive Laboratory Spring 2011 Seminar Series
Seminar on topics related to engines, fuels, vehicle behavior, broader
transportation energy questions presented by graduate students,
faculty, researchers, and special guest speakers of the Sloan
Automotive Laboratory.
Topic: Revisiting Methanol as an Alternative Transportation Fuel
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering Dept.
For more information, contact:
Janet Maslow
3-4529
jsabio at mit.edu
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Strategies for Managing and Improving Amtrak Service in the Northeast
Corridor
Speaker: Joseph Boardman, Amtrak President & CEO
Time: 12:00p–2:00p
Location: W20-307
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
This speaker series brings at least three speakers each semester to
the MIT campus to talk about their expertise in fields that are
studied by members of the Transportation Students Group, including
transit, airlines, high speed rail, and intelligent transportation
systems.
Part of the CTL sponsored Distinguished Speakers Series. Light lunch
provided.
Web site: http://ctl.mit.edu/distinguished-speakers
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
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Friday, March 11, 2011
The Evanescent: Tasting
Speaker: Amy Trubek, "Tasting and Attentiveness: Nature or Culture?"
and Brad Weiss, "In Tastes, Lost and Found"
Time: 2:30p–5:00p
Location: 56-114
Sensing the Unseen
A session of "Sensing the Unseen," a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the
Comparative Study of Cultures, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and sponsored by MIT Anthropology. With discussant
commentary by Rachel Black (BU) and Steven Shapin (Harvard). Join us
for a multi-sensory experience!
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/evanescent.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: none
Sponsor(s): Anthropology
For more information, contact:
Amberly Steward
617-253-3065
asteward at mit.edu
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Friday, March 11, 2011
New Concepts in Molecular and Energy Transport Within Carbon
Nanotubes: Thermopower Waves and Stochastically Resonant Ion Channels
Speaker: Michael S. Strano, Chemical Engineering, MIT
Time: 3:00p–4:00p
Location: 66-110
Chemical Engineering Department Seminar Series
See speakers, talk titles, and dates at http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/seminar.html
Our laboratory has been interested in how carbon nanotubes can be
utilized to illustrate new concepts in molecular and energy transfer.
In the first example, we predict and demonstrate the concept of
thermopower waves for energy generation. Coupling an exothermic
chemical reaction with a thermally conductive CNT creates a self-
propagating reactive wave driven along its length. We realize such
waves in MWNT and show that they produce concomitant electrical pulses
of high specific power >7 kW/kg. Such waves of high power density may
find uses as unique energy sources. In the second system, we fabricate
and study SWNT ion channels for the first time and show that the
longest, highest aspect ratio, and smallest diameter synthetic
nanopore examined to date, a 500 μm SWNT, demonstrates oscillations in
electro-osmotic current at specific ranges of electric field, that are
the signatures of coherence resonance, yielding self-generated
rhythmic and frequency locked transport. The observed oscillations in
the current occur due to a coupling between stochastic pore blocking
and a diffusion limitation that develops at the pore mouth during
proton transport.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/seminar.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering Department
For more information, contact:
Melanie Miller
617-253-6500
melmils at mit.edu
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Harvard
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March 7 | Monday | Seminar
US AID and the Social Entrepreneur
8:00-9:00 am| Fainsod Room (3rd floor, Littauer Building)
Hear about the conditions and challenges associated with starting and
managing ventures in a variety of countries. M-RCBG Senior Fellow Alan
Trager will moderate, and breakfast will be served. This seminar is co-
sponsored by the Kokkalis Program.
Nancy Wildfeir-Field, Regional Alliance Advisor for Europe and Eurasia
US Agency for International Development (US AID)
Please RSVP to jennifer_nash at harvard.edu
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March 7 | Monday | ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Where do New Energy Technologies Come From? Using Patent Data to
Identify the Importance and Sources of Knowledge Flows from Other
Industries
12:00 – 1:30 pm| Weil Hall (ground floor, Belfer Building), Kennedy
School
Greg Nemet
Visiting Scholar
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March 7
Climate, Hazards, Economy and Society: A System of Systems
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in
Computational Physics, Dean, Schmid College of Science, Vice
Chancellor for Special Projects, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
12:00 p.m. Taubman 301 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
Contact Name: Christopher Kim cskim at chapman.edu
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The Atlantic Herring Fishery and the Threat of Industrial Midwater
Trawliing
Greg Wells of the Pew Environmental Group and the Herring Alliance
will be discussing his work to protect and restore ocean wildlife and
ecosystems in the northeast United States, from Virginia to Maine, by
reforming the Atlantic herring fishery.
March 7
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Pound Hall, Room 332, Harvard Law School
Contact Name: Derek Brain derekjbrain at gmail.com
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Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping
TechnologiesSusan Landau, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at
Harvard University & CRCS
Tuesday, March 8, 12:00 pm
Griswold Hall Room 110, Harvard Law School
RSVP required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar at cyber.law.harvard.edu
)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast
) and archived on our site shortly after.
This talk is part of a lens on privacy and security, which will
highlight various talks this semester that focus on issues related to
privacy and security in digitally networked environments
The United States has moved large portions of business and commerce,
including the control of critical infrastructure, onto IP-based
networks. This reliance on information systems leaves the U.S. highly
exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack, yet U.S. law enforcement
remains focused on building wiretapping systems within communications
infrastructure. By embedding eavesdropping mechanisms into
communications technology itself, we build tools that could easily be
turned against us.Indeed, such attacks have already occurred. In a
world that has Al-Qaeda, nation-state economic espionage, and
Hurricane Katrina, how do we get communications security right?
About Susan
Susan Landau is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
at Harvard University for the 2010-2011 academic year. Her book,
Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping
Technologies will be published by MIT Press in February 2011; she is
also the co-author, with Whitfield Diffie, of the 1998 Privacy on the
Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. From 1999-2010
Landau was at Sun Microsystems, first as Senior Staff Engineer and
then as Distinguished Engineer. There she concentrated on the
interplay between security and public policy, and she briefed
government officials in both Washington and Europe on such disparate
issues as security risks in surveillance mechanisms, digital rights
management, and cryptographic export control. In 2009 she testified
for the House Science Committee on Cybersecurity Activities at NIST's
Information Technology Laboratory. Landau is currently a member of the
Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, established by
the Center for Strategic and and International Studies, and serves on
the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National
Research Council and on the advisory committee for the National
Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science
and Engineering. Before joining Sun, Landau was a faculty member at
the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. Landau is the
recipient of the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an ACM
Distinguished Engineer.
About the Privacy and Security Lens
In spring 2011, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University and the Center for Research on Computation and Society
(CRCS) at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
(SEAS) will highlight a series of talks that will focus on issues
related to privacy and security in digitally networked environments.
Events associated with this “lens” will seek to foster discussion
and explore novel solutions to digital security and privacy issues,
and aim to surface and engage with some of the technological, legal,
political, economic, and behavioral tensions at work within these
topics. This cross-disciplinary initiative will build on current CRCS
and BCIS collaborative efforts, and seek to bring multiple
perspectives and approaches to these issues.
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To Tell The Truth: Combining Corporate Financial and Sustainability
Reporting on a Global Scale
WHEN Tue., Mar. 8, 2011, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Kennedy School of Government
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
SPEAKER(S) Robert K. Massie, former president of Ceres, co-founder of
the Global Reporting Initiative, Hauser senior visiting fellow
Steve Lydenberg, Hauser senior research fellow
TICKET INFO Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Maryann Leach: 617.495.1114
LINK http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/events/
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The Science and Technology of the Deepwater Horizon Incident
Join members of the BP's Deepwater Production and Gulf Coast
Restoration teams for a discussion on the technical and scientific
issues of oil production in deep water systems such as those in the
Gulf of Mexico, including responding to and remediating oil spills.
March 9
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Belfer Center Library (3rd Floor, Littauer Building)
Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
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March 9 | Wednesday | Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
How Many Economists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? A Natural
Field Experiment on Technology Adoption
4:10-5:30| Littauer 382, Kennedy School
David Herberich
University of Chicago
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Future of Energy: "Responsible Stewardship of U.S. Offshore Oil and
Natural Gas Development"
WHEN Wed., Mar. 9, 2011, 5 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Northwest Building B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Michael R. Bromwich, director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and Enforcement
CONTACT INFO Brenda Hugot: bhugot at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Bromwich is overseeing the fundamental restructuring of the
former Minerals Management Service, which was responsible for
overseeing oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf.
Bromwich was previously a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C.,
and New York offices of Fried Frank, where he headed the firm's
Internal Investigations, Compliance and Monitoring practice group.
From 1994 to 1999, Bromwich served as inspector general for the
Department of Justice. As inspector general, he headed the law
enforcement agency principally responsible for conducting criminal and
administrative investigations into allegations of corruption and
misconduct involving the 120,000 employees of the Department of Justice.
LINK http://environment.harvard.edu/michael-bromwich
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There and Back Again: Deep-Sea Exploration to the Earth's Most Extreme
Habitats
March 9, 2011
6:00pm
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
The majority of our biosphere consists of deep ocean, but to date we
have explored very little of it. Indeed, just thirty years ago
scientists discovered entirely new ecosystems thriving on chemicals
from within the Earth (rather than from sunlight). Harvard biologist
Peter Girguis, Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at
Harvard, will highlight some of these amazing deep-sea explorations
and discuss current research, including the role of deep-sea microbes
in mitigating oil spill disasters. Free and open to the public.
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March 10, 2011
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Neural Mechanisms of Attention
Location: Northwest B103 (at the end of Everett Street, Cambridge)
Name: Eric Knudsen
Speaker Affiliation: Stanford University
Attention allows us to select the most important information at any
moment in time and to enhance and differentially process that
information while ignoring other information. This amazing capacity is
essential to nearly all cognitive processes. But, how does attention
work at the level of cells and circuits? We are addressing this
question by studying circuits that contribute to attention in birds.
We have identified a midbrain network, including structurally
specialized cholinergic, GABAergic and glutamatergic circuits, that
perform many of the fundamental computations underlying attention,
including filtering for stimulus salience, competitive selection of
the most salient stimulus, and top-down enhancement of the quality of
information. We study the properties of these circuits both in vivo
and in brain slice preparations. I will discuss our current
understanding of how the computations performed by these circuits
contribute to attention.
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'Failed States' and Development Aid: The Impact of Labels in Global
Interventionism
WHEN Thu., Mar. 10, 2011, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Perkins Room, Rubenstein-415, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Teresa Cravo, associate, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5431/failed_states_and_development_aid.html
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Citizens United v. Democracy?
WHEN Thu., Mar. 10, 2011, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Austin Hall 111, Harvard Law School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
SPEAKER(S) Joshua Cohen, Martha Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in
Society; professor of political science, philosophy, and law, Stanford
University
CONTACT INFO ethics at harvard.edu
NOTE Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available.
LINK http://ethics.harvard.edu/component/content/article/40-general-content/164-currentlecture
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Nanoporous Black Silicon by Liquid Etch: Optics, Photovoltaics and
Photoelectrochemistry
March 11, 2011
4:00pm
Contact Name: Brenda Hugot
bhugot at fas.harvard.edu
Maxwell Dworkin G115 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Featuring Howard Branz,Principal Scientist in the National Center for
Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Northeastern
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Barnett Lectureship
The Challenge of Sustainability
Guest Speaker: Professor Richard N. Zare, Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University
Reception: 3:30 - 4:00 PM, Raytheon Amphitheater, 240 Egan
Lecture: 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Raytheon Amphitheater, 240 Egan, Boston, MA
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Tufts
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The Global Development And Environment Institute Presents
The 2011 Leontief Prize for
Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought
“Towards a New Economics of Climate Change”
Award recipients and lecturers:
Lord Nicholas Stern
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham
Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School
of Economics
Author of the “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change”
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Dr. Martin Weitzman
Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Author of “On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic
Climate Change”and other landmark papers in environmental economics.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 5:00-7:30 pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus, Tufts University
Ceremony and addresses will be followed by a reception.
This event is free and open to the public.
Directions to Tufts Medford Campus can be found on the web at: http://www.tufts.edu/home/maps/
For more information about the event, contact Lauren Denizard at
617-627-3530 Or visit our Web site: www.gdae.org
Lord Nicholas Stern Dr. Martin Weitzman
Co-sponsored with:
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); The Tufts Institute of the
Environment (TIE);
Energy, Climate, and Innovation Program (ECI), Center for
International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), Fletcher
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*Monday, March 7 from 6PM-8:30PM* ***SoJust Skillshares are the 1st
Monday of every month - mark your calendar!***
*Skillshare: Fundraising - Getting Past the Fear of Asking* *
*by Robbie Samuels, SoJust Co-Founder and Trainer/Consultant at
www.RobbieSamuels.com
at The NonProfit Center by South Station
*Do you want to raise money to support the causes and organizations
you care about?* **This engaging coaching session focuses on getting
past the fear of asking and how to avoid some common mistakes. Learn
an easy way to sort through contact lists and build a strong prospect
list based on the 3 Cs of fundraising: capacity, connection and
commitment. Learn specific language for how to make a strong ask,
based on the relationship-building tips shared in *Art of the
Schmooze*, and ten tips that will make your next fundraising plan a
success. "If you are afraid to ask for money, kick yourself out of the
way and let the cause talk."
RSVP: http://www.sojust.org/events/16373242/
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The topic of the March Growing Green Innovators in Business Network
(GIBN) Conversation will be Evidence for Sustainability: Trends in
Benchmarking and Reporting and the call will be held on Tuesday March
8 at 2pm ET. To join the call, please RSVP to info at digin.org. The call-
in number is: (760) 569-9000 and the code is: 160031#.
And please remember that Growing GIBN Conversations will be held on
the 2nd Tuesday of every month in 2011. These calls will focus on the
topics that are most compelling to you -- a network of green
innovators in business -- and draw on your experience and ideas. Some
of these topics may be a continuation of the themes that emerged
during Solutions Labs events. Others may be suggested during the
conversations or during other GIBN calls and events. Please feel free
to propose topics.
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NESEA's Building Energy Conference
March 8-10, 2011, in Boston, MA.
BuildingEnergy is the only conference where architects, designers,
planners, builders, policymakers, manufacturers, and installers work
together to determine what's possible. Conference sessions range from
emerging trends in renewable energy to deep energy retrofits of
commercial and residential buildings. The Trade Show features 160
exhibitors with the latest sustainable technologies and products.
http://www.nesea.org/be11/
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Mass Innovation Night
• Date: 3/9/2011
• Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
• Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
• Audience: Innovators, entrepreneurs, social media mavens, job
seekers, students, seekers of inspiration and knowledge
• Twitter: @massinno or #bostonazurehack
• Description: Mass Innovation Night is a free monthly product
launch party and networking event. Every month ten companies introduce
new products and the social media community blogs, tweets, posts video
and pictures, and in general helps increase the buzz around innovative
new products.
RSVP http://massinnovationnights.com/event-rsvp
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Hattie Nestel, Anti Nuclear Activist, Presents a 40 min Power Point
presentation, followed by a question/answer session.
When: Thur March 10, 7 pm
Where: Peter Ames' Home,
90 Ivy St. Brookline, 02448
Peter's telephone number is 617 731-0512
Sponsored by Brookline PeaceWorks
Amy's telephone number 617 738-8029
T Directions:
Cleveland Circle Green Line, get off at St Mary's stop, the first stop
when you come up from underground,
Walk 2 short blocks up St Mary's Street, towards Cambridge, and turn
left onto Ivy Street. Peter's home is 1/2 block down.
(for driving check http://www.mapquest.com)
Did you know:
if there was a Chernobyl type melt down at Vermont Yankee, the Quabbin
Resevoir would be irradiated and would not be able to supply water to
the city of Boston?
Hattie with Francis Crowe and the Women of the Shut It Down affinity
group of Citizen's Awareness Network, offering their reasons for
shutting down Vermont Yankee at Windham County Court.
Hattie is an activist extraordinaire, participating many times in
civil disobedience at Vermont Yankee, as well as peace walks through
Vermont cities, and an Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free
Future, from London to Geneva, April to June 2008.
See her website for more info:
http://peacehq.tripod.com/OSHN/hn-home.html
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Neighborhood Weatherization Skill-Share
Sunday, March 13th, 10am-3pm, 41 Brent St., Codman Sq, Dorchester
Making windows less drafty
The federal government hasn't cut carbon yet, and the state's energy
efficiency programs don't go far enough, so let's do it ourselves!
· Learn skills you can take back to your own home
· Share lunch and celebrate with friends and neighbors
· Help toweatherize the home of two long-time community activists
The work list includes sealing air leaks in basement and attic, making
windows and doors less drafty, and using a blower door to measure
energy savings.
Sign up on-line or by calling 857-544-6846. Co-organized with Home
Energy Efficiency Team (HEET), a Cambridge-based co-op bringing
neighbors together to weatherize our homes and take the energy future
into our own hands.
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March 13th
11 am
GRACE ROSS
"Main Street Smarts: Who Got Us Into this Economic Mess and How We Get
Through It"
Grace will explore the story of Main Street, what we've experienced
and the challenges for reversing the economy for the regular people of
Massachusetts. She will explore the need to reengage in a political
process that is supposed to be for the people. In the long term ramp
up to the market crash and the immediate foreclosure crisis the people
were force fed the mythology of free markets and supply side
economics, we need to equip ourselves with the tools to fight back
against these lies.
Grace Ross brings 25 years of experience working with the grassroots
and creating policy change from the municipal all the way up to the
national and international political arenas. Among her many campaigns
Grace is currently actively involved with the Mass Alliance Against
Predatory Lending, fighting to keep people in their homes.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US
Rev. Jason Lydon, Minister
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 266-6710
(617) 266-0449 (fax)
info (at) commchurch.org
http://www.communitychurchofboston.org
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Driving to 1 Million Electric Vehicles by 2015
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Challenges of Electric Vehicle Integration
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Technology Program updates and to learn about the challenges involved
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fire in the Heart: White Activists for Racial Justice
Harvard sociologist Mark Warren uncovers the dynamic processes through
which some
white Americans become activists for racial justice [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=7wih55cab&et=1104449747173&s=217&e=001DKbjUrRpB-6qAw6qZKRL7KAVDV0WrVEmgcUbqXnEa001hLPAUovvX9XZ-TW6bHJfKF71lXjDKHKqIKMQBxcWEZ2E2Bhv_iKdmpDupikTbBIuNfwKlyAO0Gt0DaoKUZb10k7u-f7UmvDhqCKY7i0Cbw==
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Cambridge Forum
The First Parish in Cambridge
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
www.cambridgeforum.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=7wih55cab&et=1104449747173&s=217&e=001DKbjUrRpB-5of3dakCr4HiT9q0asS8mXVVrIZ2V0AiOVVCWtQPhlVVoqnsAB2Wyg9g2ss9e8SnYH6MZ-HEIh_DNzdYvWpakjY4yowi5qI56hR7jLEXodZQ==
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Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast.
Edited CDs are
available by contacting Cambridge Forum [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=7wih55cab&et=1104449747173&s=217&e=001DKbjUrRpB-5of3dakCr4HiT9q0asS8mXVVrIZ2V0AiOVVCWtQPhlVVoqnsAB2Wyg9g2ss9e8SnYH6MZ-HEIh_DNzdYvWpakjY4yowi5qI56hR7jLEXodZQ==
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or calling 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their
entirety on the Forum Network.
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Gragger/Noisemaker! The Workmen's Circle's 4th Annual Radical Purim
Party Celebrating Economic Justice!
Saturday, March 19th, 8pm - midnight
At Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain
Sliding scale $10-20
*Bloco AfroBrazil*
*DJ Annie R U Ok*
*And a unique, never-before-seen Purim shpiel (play)*
We will honor work that is being done locally to protect workers'
rights and fight back against bad employers. The Gragger, the Jewish
noisemaker, is traditionally used to drown out the name of our foes -
join us to make some serious noise in a rowdy call for justice and joy!
Live music! Costume contest! Cash bar! Performance!
Contact Leah for more info: leah at circleboston.org
www.circleboston.org
Leah Madsen
Program and Membership Organizer
Boston Workmen's Circle
leah at circleboston.org
617-566-6281
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Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy for Multifamily Residential
Buildings Workshop – Saturday, March 19, Cambridge City Hall Annex
A morning workshop for owners of multifamily residential buildings on
energy efficiency and renewable energy options and opportunities
Sponsored by the Cambridge Energy Alliance, Massachusetts Rental
Housing Association, and City of Cambridge
For more info, contact John Bolduc, jbolduc at cambridgema.gov,
617-349-4628
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Urban Gardening Book Club
We'll be discussing the book Farm City, by Novella Carpenter, and how
it relates to community and urban food production at Roxbury Community
College on 3/22 at 6:00 pm (Academic Bldg 3). All are welcome! We'll
be selecting the next book at the meeting, but if you're interested
and unable to make it, feel free to send me your suggestions in
advance. Free to contact me with any additional questions.
The event is supported by the Boston Gardener's Council and The
Roxbury Community College Service Learning Garden Project. In
addition, event information is available on the page below:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143456282386051
Thank you very much!
Stephanie
--
Stephanie Bostic
MS in Agriculture, Food & the Environment 2010
Tufts University
Blogging about food and fiber: http://groundcherry.wordpress.com
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Eco-Municipalities Talk - Wednesday, March 23, 7:00 pm, Cambridge Main
Library Auditorium
Speakers: Peter Britt, Sustainability Coordinator, Portsmouth, NH
John Bohenko, City Manager, Portsmouth, NH; Sarah James from the
Institute for Eco-Municipality Education & Assistance will give a
brief introduction about eco-municipalities.
In November, 2007, Portsmouth, New Hampshire formally decided to
become an Eco-Municipality, when its City Council passed a resolution
declaring that the following four sustainability objectives would
guide its municipal operations:
1. Reduce dependence on fossil fuels, underground metals, and minerals
2. Reduce dependence upon synthetic chemicals and other unnatural
substances.
3. Reduce encroachment upon nature.
4. Meet human needs fairly and efficiently
An Eco-Municipality uses a comprehensive, integrated approach to
creating a sustainable city.
Find out how Portsmouth became an Eco-Municipality and how the city
takes the systems approach to sustainability now.
Sponsored by the office of Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis, the Cambridge
Renewable Energy Team (CREATe), and the Cambridge Energy Alliance.
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Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk Univesity
“WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, and Our Right to Know”
with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (former WikiLeaks staffer) and Herbert
Snorasson (former WikiLeaks staffer); moderator Wendy Ballinger (Ford
Hall Forum Board member)
Thursday, March 24, 8-9:00 am [special breakfast forum]
Moot Court Room, Suffolk University Law School
Although Herbert Snorasson and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, both former
staffers at WikiLeaks, cannot enter the United States for fear of
arraignment, they join us live by video fromIceland and Germany to
answer questions about the necessity of and danger in leaking state
secrets. With Wendy Ballinger, Treasurer and former Executive
Director of Ford Hall Forum, Snorasson and Domscheit-Berg discuss why
their newest venture, OpenLeaks, is superior to Assange’s WikiLeaks
model and other various “Leaks” sites launching around the world. The
two will tell us how and why they became involved with WikiLeaks,
particularly their idea on the public’s right to know versus global
security. Signed copies of the book will be sold following the
presentation.
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*Compelling Conversation with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Civil Rights Activist and Former Champion Boxer
Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.*
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a formidable boxer who had won the
European Light Welterweight Championship for two years in a row and
knocked out Emile Griffith in the first round when his promising
career was cut short. In 1966, he was falsely arrested for the murder
of three white people in a bar. Sentenced to a triple life-sentence,
Carter always maintained his innocence. Subjected to a nineteen-year
travesty of justice, he was finally set free in 1985 by a federal
court. His story was immortalized in a Bob Dylan song and made into a
Hollywood movie starring Denzel Washington.
Carter has chronicled his own life in two books, _The Sixteenth
Round_, and 2011?s _Eye of_ _the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to
Freedom_. He now devotes much of his time to speaking out on behalf
of the wrongly convicted.
*Bunker Hill Community College**in A300 Auditorium*
250 New Rutherford Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02129-2995
Free but you need to register for tickets at the website below*
*
Compelling Conversations Speaker Series
<http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/cc/index.php>
Directions
http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/inside/64
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Think Global, Act Local:
A Community Climate Action Roundtable
Thursday, March 24, 6pm-7:30pm, Suffolk University, 73 Tremont St.
All politics are local but many problems are global. How do
neighborhood-based groups form effective partnerships with larger
organizations to bring global issues home and amplify grassroots
voices? Join BostonCAN and representatives from other neighborhood-
based and national sustainability organizations as we discuss stories
of successful collaboration between community-based organizations and
national groups that highlight best practices. Speakers will include
Cindy Luppi from Clean Water Action discussing stopping coal power in
eastern Mass and Mela Bush from Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
onimproving mass transit in Dorchester.
Free and open to the public. Snacks provided. RSVP at on-line https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115453565198269
or by calling 857-544-6846.
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Babson Energy and Environmental Conference
Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future
Register Now at http://beec2011conference.eventbrite.com/
Register now to attend the 5th Annual Babson Energy and Environmental
Conference on March 31st, 2011 at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of
Business.
This year’s theme is “Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future”, and
we will explore how innovation and entrepreneurship will play a
pivotal role in shaping the new green economy in the years to come. We
will hear severalexciting keynotes from high profile entrepreneurs:
• Dr. Bart Riley, Co-Founder, A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE)
• Sheeraz Haji, CEO, Cleantech Group
• Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director, Nth Power
• Kathy Brown, Senior Vice President – Public Policy Development and
Corporate Responsibility, Verizon
Other featured speakers
• Leonard Schlesinger, President, Babson College
• Mark Donohue, Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Babson
College
• Peter Rothstein, President, New England Clean Energy Council
• Cynthia Curtis, Chief Sustainability Officer, CA Technologies
• Rob Pratt, Chairman & CEO, GreenerU
• Clint Wilder, Senior Editor, Clean Edge & Author, The Clean Tech
Revolution
• Chuck McDermott, General Partner, Rockport Capital
• Jeramy Lemieux, Head of Climate Savers, Diversey, Inc.
• Greg Dixon, SVP of Marketing, EnerNOC
• Kathy Loftus, Global Leader for Sustainability Engineering,
Maintenance & Energy Management, Whole Foods
• Michael Bakas, Senior Vice President – Renewable Energy, Ameresco
• Robert Gough, Founder, Port Meadow Tech
• Bob Reese, President/ Co-Founder, Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery
• Jonathan Nash, Director of Business Development, NewStream
• Patrick Cloney, Executive Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
• David O’Connor, Senior Vice President for Energy and Clean
Technology, ML Strategies, LLC
• Kim Stevenson, Manager of New Technologies, CT Clean Energy Fund
And Many More!
Our engaging panel sessions will focus on several main topics:
• Innovations in Cleantech and Renewable Energy
• Sustainable Business Practices
• Financing Strategies
• New Energy Policy & Implications
• Responsible Consumption and Disposal of Food, Water & Waste
Our Entrepreneurs Showcase will give a glimpse of some of the newest
innovators in the industry. Further, you will have the opportunity to
listen to panelists from Enernoc, WholeFoods, Massachusetts Clean
Energy Center, CA Technologies, Diversy and many more. Our goal is to
show that sustainable business practices are not at odds with creating
profit and growing a company.
The world needs more entrepreneurs and leaders focused on preserving
the earth’s resources while building a more sustainable future. We
hope that you will join us for this exciting event, and be inspired to
become part of the next wave of change!
For additional information, please contact Jatin Ahuja (jahuja1 at babson.edu
), Adam Ostaszewski (aostaszewski1 at babson.edu) and Joel Robbins (jrobbins1 at babson.edu
)
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Digital Media and Popular Uprisings
March 31, 2011
6-8 p.m.
Lesley University
University Hall Amphitheater
1815 Mass. Ave.
2nd Flr.
Cambridge, MA 02140
Google Map: http://bit.ly/edM4fz
The importance of digital media in building the recent wave of popular
uprisings in the Middle East has been widely heralded in the global
press. But how are social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and
digital communication devices like texters, cell phones and PDAs really
being used on the ground to help organize millions of people towards a
common goal - democracy. And is it true that these movements for
democracy in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and beyond are completely
spontaneous and being organized on the fly with the help of modern
technology? Or is there more to the story?
Lesley University and Open Media Boston have invited three experts on
digital media and grassroots organizing to speak to these and related
issues. Each brings a unique perspective to the discussion.
Ethan Zuckerman is co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices
and senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Jillian York is a writer and freedom of expression activist who studies
Internet controls and online activism, with a focus on the Arab world.
She is a project coordinator at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society.
Suren Moodliar is a coordinator of Massachusetts Global Action and an
organizer of the Majority Agenda Project. He is deeply interested in
networks and social change.
The panel will be chaired by Jason Pramas, Editor/Publisher of Open
Media Boston, www.openmediaboston.org, and introduced by a
representative of Lesley University.
Doors will open at 5:45 p.m. There will be light refreshments served in
the Atrium just outside the Amphitheater. The event is free and open to
the public.
For more information, or press inquiries, please email
info at openmediaboston.org.
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The Sociology Department at Northeastern University is hosting our 2nd
annual globalization symposium on March 31, with a focus on global
commodity chains, neoliberalism, and human rights. The evening
session, in particular, will explore issues related to politics and
activism surrounding global commodities such as coffee, coca cola,
drugs, arms, as well as clothing and apparel.
What: Global Commodities, Chained and Unchained- 2nd Annual Conference
on Globalization at Northeastern University
When: March 31, 2011
Panel 1- 2:45 to 4:30pm (Global Commodity Chains- a Critical Approach)
Panel 2- 6:00 to 8:00pm (Global Commodity Chains and Human Rights)
Where: Northeastern University, 20 West Village F
For more Information, see: http://globalcommodities2011.blogspot.com/
Conference Description:
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern
University is pleased to host its 2nd annual conference on
globalization. We are excited to bring together a group of prominent
scholars to discuss their recent research on global commodity chains
and to critically assess the political and cultural implications of
neoliberal globalization.
Presenters at the evening session, including Carolyn Nordstrom (Notre
Dame University), Robert Ross (Clark University), Edward Fischer
(Vanderbilt University) and Robert Foster, will discuss the
interconnections between commodity chains and human rights and the
potential paths of resistance available to populations marginalized
within the current neoliberal order.
Presenters at the afternoon session, including Catherine Dolan (Oxford
University), Andrew Schrank (University of New Mexico), Robert Foster
(University of Rochester) and Damla Isik (Western Connecticut State
College), will draw on their ethnographic field work to discuss
critical approaches to global commodity chain research and theory.
This event is free and open to the public. The Department of Sociology-
Anthropology at Northeastern hopes you can join us for what promises
to be an exciting, politically inspirational, and intellectually rich
encounter. For more information on the conference, including times and
location, please visit our blog at http://globalcommodities2011.blogspot.com
.
Hope to see you there!
Jeffrey S. Juris
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Northeastern University
www.networkingfutures.com
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place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food
system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food,
farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health,
environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of
organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on
week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let
everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of
subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and
other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/studios
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the
Boston Area http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://sustainability.mit.edu/
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://pechakuchaboston.org/blog/
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
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