[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - September 22, 2013
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Sep 22 11:11:35 PDT 2013
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, September 23
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12pm "UK Power Market Reforms—Perfect Storm, or Perfect Opportunity?"
12:10pm "Testing the Limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world."
12:15pm "Making Democracy in the Patent System: Comparing the Life Form Patent Battles in the US and Europe"
12:30pm Technology Transfer for Adaptation: An Analysis of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Adaptation Funds
2pm Media Lab Conversations Series: Mark Bauman
4pm Gene Patenting, the Supreme Court's Myriad Decision, and the Future of Biotechnology: A Panel Discussion
4pm Fukushima and Beyond : Nuclear Regulation in the US
4pm Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies over the Lifecycle
4:15pm Barwick Colloquium Series: Music and Neoliberal Capitalism
5:30pm Moral, Political, Scientific: What is Thoughtful Engineering?
7pm "Elasticity: Dessert = Flavor + Texture."
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Tuesday, September 24
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8am Committee for the Advancement of Sustainability
10am Media Lab Conversations Series: Daniel Suarez
10am Water Quality - A Stakeholder Science Forum
12pm "John Kerry's Mission Impossible: Reimagining U.S. Policy in the Middle East."
12:30pm Curated by the Crowd: collections, data, and platforms for participation in museums and other institutions
12:30pm America’s Role in the Making of Japan’s Economic Miracle
3:30pm "Climate Change Legislation, 2009-10: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward"
4pm Networked Impact with Ginny Hunt
4pm Why the West Fears Islam: Inquiry on Muslims in Liberal Democracies - A Transatlantic Comparison
6pm The Metropolitan Revolution
7pm Brilliant Blunders:
From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
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Wednesday, September 25
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10am 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference
12pm Navy Ship Building: A Look at the Littoral Combat Ship
12pm "Testing the Limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world."
12:10pm Correlated signals and causal transport in ocean circulation
1pm Engineering for All America”: Thoreau, Melville, and the Science of Surveying
3:15pm From Ritual Music to Ballads: Mountain Music of Caucasus Georgia
3:15pm HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events/Panel: The U.S. Healthcare System in 2013
3:30pm Nanostructured Block Copolymers for All-Solid Lithium Batteries
4pm Character Analysis
4pm Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Structures
4pm Computing and Embedded Systems in the Age of Nanotechnology and the Data Deluge
4:10pm “The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries.”
6pm 20 Questions with Mario Livio
6:30pm Future Energy - Investor Feedback Forum
6:30pm SITN Lecture - Antibiotic Resistance: Super drugs for superbugs.
6:30pm "A Place at the Table" screening & panel discussion.
7pm A Conversation with Bruce Katz
7:30pm Katsura Sunshine presents Japanese Rakugo comic story-telling in English
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Thursday, September 26
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1pm Inside the Scholar's Studio: A Conversation with Reza Aslan
4pm Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication
5pm Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity"
5:30pm "Dutch Mountains"
6:30pm The Menino Legacy: Down to the Wire
7pm Melting Ice, Rising Seas, Shifting Shorelines: The New Reality
7pm Urban Films: 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
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Friday, September 27
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11am Advanced Digital Control Techniques in Power Electronics - from Smartphones to Solar Photovoltaics
11:45am A World Class Supply Chain that Delivers Sustainable and Profitable Growth
1pm The Good News on Climate Change
5:30pm "Second Hand Spaces"
6pm The Ideation Framework
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Saturday, September 28
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9am Hull Wind Tours
10am Boston Fermentation Festival
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Sunday, September 29
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7pm Locking Down on KXL: Tim DeChristopher and the Westborough 8
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Monday, September 30
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12pm "Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
2:30pm Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
4pm Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
6pm 14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
6pm Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
7pm "Diffusion & Spherification"
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, October 1
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8am Boston TechBreakfast
8am Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
12:30pm Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
4pm Himalaya: Mountains of Life
4pm Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
5:30pm Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
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Event Details
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Monday, September 23
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"UK Power Market Reforms—Perfect Storm, or Perfect Opportunity?"
Monday, September 23, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Jonathan Brearley, Former Director of Electricity Market Reform, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (2009 – July 2013)
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
Lunch will be provided.
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"Testing the Limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world."
Monday, September 23
12:10p.
Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Lecture Hall, 1300 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
Ailene Ettinger
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"Making Democracy in the Patent System: Comparing the Life Form Patent Battles in the US and Europe"
Monday, September 23, 2013
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan, Ford School)
STS Circle at Harvard Lecture
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts at hks.harvard.edu
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
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Technology Transfer for Adaptation: An Analysis of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Adaptation Funds
Monday, September 23, 2013
12:30-1:45 PM
Tufts, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Crowe Room (Goddard 310), Medford
(a light lunch will be served – no RSVP, first-come first-served)
with Laura Kuhl, Predoctoral Research Fellow, CIERP
Technology transfer for adaptation is a critical but understudied issue. In this talk, Laura Kuhl will discuss the findings of a recent paper, co-authored with Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher, which analyzes Global Environment Facility-funded adaptation projects. Kuhl and Gallagher find that there is significantly more technology transfer occurring in adaptation projects than might be expected. Furthermore, the technologies being transferred are different from those transferred for climate mitigation, and the geographic pattern of transfer is different as well. Rather than the use of modern and advanced technologies, adaptation projects tend to utilize traditional technologies; and while technology transfer for climate mitigation tends to follow a north-south (and increasingly south-north and south-south) pattern, technology transfer for adaptation often consists of domestic diffusion of existing local technologies.
Laura Kuhl is a doctoral candidate at The Fletcher School, focusing on environmental policy and development economics. She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship in Water and Diplomacy. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation. She received her MALD from Fletcher in May 2011. Her master’s thesis research addressed climate change, disaster risk reduction and flooding in Honduras. She also completed a certificate in Water: Systems, Science and Society through the interdisciplinary graduate certificate program at Tufts. She received her BA in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from Middlebury College in 2007.
Open to the public. Convened as part of the Energy, Climate, and Innovation Research Seminar Series of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher.
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Mark Bauman
Monday, September 23, 2013
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mark Bauman
Media Lab Conversations Series
See details at http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2013/09/23/media-lab-conversations-series-mark-bauman
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:
Jess Sousa
events-admin at media.mit.edu
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Gene Patenting, the Supreme Court's Myriad Decision, and the Future of Biotechnology: A Panel Discussion
WHEN Mon., Sep. 23, 2013, 4 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Austin 100, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, & Bioethics and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Moderated by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School, this event will focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision that naturally occurring DNA cannot be patented. Will this be a boon for patients and a burden for biotech companies? Will sufficient incentive remain for innovation? Will there be any practical change at all? Panelists will include Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and I. Glenn Cohen and Ben Roin, faculty co-directors of the Petrie-Flom Center.
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Fukushima and Beyond : Nuclear Regulation in the US
Monday, September 23, 2013
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: NRC Commissioner William Magwood
Following the nuclear accident that occurred at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the international community have come together to decide how to best respond to this challenge. What were the lessons learned? What is the current level of safety of US nuclear plants and what can be improved ? Come hear from one of the six NRC Commissioners - William Magwood- about the position of the US NRC on the issues of nuclear safety and regulations.
Energy Lectures Series
The Energy Lectures Series brings experts from the industry, the public sector and academia to share their insights and visions on important energy topics.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
Aziz Abdellahi
aziz_a at mit.edu
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Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies over the Lifecycle
Monday, September 23, 2013
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-151, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Stefanie Stantcheva (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Finance/Labor Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Barwick Colloquium Series: Music and Neoliberal Capitalism
WHEN Mon., Sep. 23, 2013, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Davison Room, Music Library, behind 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Timothy Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO musicdpt at fas.harvard.edu
LINK www.music.fas.harvard.edu
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Moral, Political, Scientific: What is Thoughtful Engineering?
Monday, September 23, 2013
5:30p–6:30p
Reception at 5pm
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Prof. of Early American History, Harvard University
This lecture is the inaugural event for the MIT Benjamin Franklin Project: Benjamin Franklin, Science & Public Culture. The Project is dedicated to the memory of Pauline Maier and William Kenan Jr., Professor of History at MIT.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering Department
For more information, contact:
Faika Weche
617-253-3197
fweche at mit.edu
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"Elasticity: Dessert = Flavor + Texture."
Monday, September 23
7pm
Harvard, Science Center C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Bill Yosses, White House Pastry Chef
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Tuesday, September 24
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Committee for the Advancement of Sustainability
September 24, 2013
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
The future is upon us. Will Massachusetts continue to lead the nation in energy efficiency through the adoption of a new stretch code? Will Cambridge be the first city in the nation to require zero net energy buildings? Can Boston adapt to the myriad impacts of global climate change, including more severe weather events and rising sea levels? On Tuesday, September 24, at 8:00 am at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston), CAS welcomes Quinton Zondervan of Green Cambridge, Jim Newman of Linnaen Solutions, and all interested parties, as we explore these questions.
To learn more about the Committee for the Advancement of Sustainability, visitarchitects.org/committees/committee-advancement-sustainability.
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Daniel Suarez
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
10:00am - 11:30am
MIT, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Daniel Suarez writes Sci-Fi thrillers focused on technology-driven change. His books, Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, and Influx were informed by his nearly two decades as a systems analyst designing mission-critical software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. He is a past speaker at TED Global, NASA Ames, the Long Now Foundation, and the headquarters of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. An avid gamer and technologist, he lives in Los Angeles, California.
This talk will be webcast.
Join us on Twitter: #MLTalks
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Water Quality - A Stakeholder Science Forum
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
10:00a–12:30p
MIT, Building E38-300, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
The MIT Sea Grant Stakeholder Forums provide an opportunity for our funded researchers to present their research and current findings to their peers and the public. Audience members and other presenting researchers are encouraged to ask questions and engage in dialogue. The goal of the series is to promote peer-to-peer networking, to connect research to those who can benefit from and apply the findings of MIT Sea Grant funded research, and for MIT Sea Grant to receive input on outreach programs whose goal is to deliver economic, social, and environmental benefits.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:
Darius Collazo
dcollazomit at gmail.com
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"John Kerry's Mission Impossible: Reimagining U.S. Policy in the Middle East."
Tuesday, September 24
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with David Rohde, investigative journalist for Thomson Reuters and author of Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East.
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Curated by the Crowd: collections, data, and platforms for participation in museums and other institutions
September 24, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/9/metalab#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
hosted by metaLAB's Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Battles and Pablo Barría Urenda
Curarium is a collection of collections, an “animated archive,” designed to serve as a model for crowdsourcing annotation, curation, and augmentation of works within and beyond their respective collections. A web-based platform, Curarium aims to construct sharable, media-rich stories and elaborate arguments about individual items as well as groups of items within a corpora.
The first project to be ingested into Curarium is Villa I Tatti’s Homeless Paintings of the Italian Renaissance collection, a unique archive of photographs of “homeless” paintings assembled by art historian Bernard Berenson. Taking the collection and its metadata out of VIA and putting it into Curarium will allow engagement with a wider audience, which will then identify, classify, describe and analyze the objects in the collection, as well as reconstruct the stories of objects that have either disappeared or been destroyed.
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Schnapp is the Faculty Director of metaLAB, and a Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design. He is the author twenty-five books and several hundred essays, and in addition to playing a leadership role in the area of digital humanities since the early 1980s, he has pursued curatorial collaborations with the Triennale di Milano, the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. His Trento Tunnels project — a 6000 sq. meter pair of highway tunnels in Northern Italy repurposed as a history museum– was featured in the Italian pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture and at the MAXXI in Rome in RE-CYCLE.
About Matthew
Matthew Battles is the Associate Director of metaLAB and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The author ofLibrary: an Unquiet History and Widener: Biography of a Library, he has written widely on the cultural and intellectual history of collections. He managed the publication program at Harvard’s Houghton Library, designing scholarly publications and exhibition catalogs and helping to design and stage exhibitions; he also served as senior scholarly editor for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
About Pablo
Pablo Barría Urenda holds a degree in Architecture by the Federico Santa María Technical University in Valparaíso, Chile, and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is interested in the intersection between design and digital media, and has worked with metaLAB as an interface designer in a number of projects including Teaching with Things and Homeless Paintings.
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America’s Role in the Making of Japan’s Economic Miracle
WHEN Tue., Sep. 24, 2013, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Steet, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Yusaku Horiuchi, associate professor of government and Mitsui Chair in the Study of Japan, Dartmouth College
Michael Beckley, assistant professor of political science, Tufts University
Jennifer Miller, visiting assistant professor of history, Dartmouth College
CONTACT INFO wnehring at wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
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"Climate Change Legislation, 2009-10: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward"
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Harvard, WCC 2004, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Join Professor Jody Freeman in a discussion about past climate negotiations and where we go from here, with:
Lorie Schmidt, EPA, formerly House Energy & Commerce Committee Staff
Chris Miller, AJW, Inc., formerly Senior Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Reid, and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Staff
Bart Kempf, Latham & Watkins, formerly Senate Agriculture Committee Staff
Environmental Policy Speaker Series
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Environmental Law Program and the Harvard Environmental Law Society
Contact Name: Kate Konschnik
kkonschnik at law.harvard.edu
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Networked Impact with Ginny Hunt
WHEN Tue., Sep. 24, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Faculty Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambirdge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Ginny Hunt, Fall 2013 IOP Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE As a society, we are undergoing one of the most significant macrolevel shifts in our lifetimes: the shift from centralized hierarchies to decentralized networks. We’re just starting to see how this affects governments, cultures, industries, and individuals. The study group explores fundamental elements of the networked world and how emerging digital trends have led to political and civic innovation. In spite of progress, we lack solutions for the world’s most pressing civic problems from poverty to education inequality to failing infrastructure. The study group will also consider unsolved civic problems and how lessons from the networked world can be used to tackle society’s greatest challenges.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/networked-impact-led-ginny-hunt
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Why the West Fears Islam: Inquiry on Muslims in Liberal Democracies - A Transatlantic Comparison
WHEN Tue., Sep. 24, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Center for European Studies (CES), 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Part of the fall 2013 study group series on “Muslims and Democratic Politics: A Comparative and Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry” co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies
SPEAKER(S) Jocelyne Cesari, lecturer on Islamic studies, Harvard Divinity School; moderated by Pippa Norris, lecturer in comparative politics, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6120/why_the_west_fears_islam.html
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The Metropolitan Revolution
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Bruce Katz, director of the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses his recent book, "The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy," co-authored with Jennifer Bradley.
"...A revolution is stirring in America. Across the nation, cities and the leaders who govern them are taking on the big issues that Washington won't- or can't- solve. They are reshaping our economy and fixing our broken political system.
"The Metropolitan Revolution is a national movement taking root in New York City, where efforts are under way to diversify the city's vast economy; in Portland, where sustainability solutions are being exported to other cities around the world; in Northeast Ohio, where worker-innovators are using the skills of the industrial age to invent cutting-edge materials, tools, and processes; in Houston, where a modern settlement house helps immigrants climb the employment ladder; in Miami, where leaders are forging strong ties with Brazil and other nations; in Denver and Los Angeles, where leaders are breaking political barriers and building world-class metropolises; and in Boston and Detroit, where innovation districts are powering economies for the next century. Katz and Bradley highlight success stories to share lessons and catalyze action." (Brookings Press)
Web site: http://metrorevolution.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Bettina Urcuioli
617-253-1933
bma at mit.edu
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Brilliant Blunders:
From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
September 24, 2013
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Mario Livio discusses his new book
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Wednesday, September 25
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4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Massachusetts State House, Great Hall, 24 Beacon Street Boston MA 02113
RSVP at http://sustainableeconomyconferenceclimatechange.eventbrite.com
How Resilient is Massachusetts?
Addressing Climate Change
The actions of Massachusetts in building resilience to the consequences of climate change will shape our ability to adapt and prosper now and in the long term.
Across the United States extreme weather and other climate impacts are affecting communities and businesses. To contribute to climate change resilience, the 4th Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference brings together multi-sector leaders to explore both short term tactics and long-term strategies.
Network with and learn from Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this exclusive dialogue that looks at current issues, emerging solutions and markets that can contribute to Massachusetts' climate change resilience.
Agenda
10:00 am - 10:10 am Opening Remarks
Crystal Johnson, Founder and Senior Environmental Planner and Strategist, ISES
10:15 am – 11:15 am Dialogue I: Energy System Resilience in a Changing Climate
What new strategies, technologies, companies and jobs are contributing to Massachusetts achieving its nation-leading energy goals? Is energy resilience possible? By when and with what technologies and practices? Join diverse multi-sector energy leaders in this critical discussion. This dialogue provides an understanding of key issues concerning the Massachusetts energy sector.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator Benjamin B. Downing
Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (Moderator)
Steven Clark
Assistant Secretary of Energy, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Alicia Barton
CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Michael Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Howard Herzog
Senior Research Engineer, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT Energy Initiative
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Dialogue II: How is Massachusetts Building Climate Change Resilience?
A dynamic dialogue with Massachusetts Thought Leaders who will share and reflect on current issues pertaining to how Massachusetts is preparing for building resilience in a changing climate.
Conversation Leaders:
Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge
Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change (Moderator)
John Kassel
President, Conservation Law Foundation
Mathew Patsky
CEO, Trillium Asset Management
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Closing Remarks
State Representative Frank I. Smizik
Chair,House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Networking Reception
Event Contact Info
ISES - Integrative Sustainability & Environmen
Email: Crystal at ISESplanning.com
(617) 416-4915
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Navy Ship Building: A Look at the Littoral Combat Ship
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Buidling E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rear Admiral Samuel J. Perez, Jr. US Dept.of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
SSP Wednesday Seminar Program
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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"Testing the Limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world."
Wednesday, September 25
Noon.
Harvard, Herbaria Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Ailene Ettinger
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Correlated signals and causal transport in ocean circulation
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus), Cambridge
Speaker: Thomas Haine (Johns Hopkins)
We present a framework for interpreting the time-lagged correlation of oceanographic data in terms of physical transport mechanisms. Previous studies have inferred aspects of ocean circulation by correlating fluctuations in temperature and salinity measurements at distant stations. Typically, the time-lag of greatest correlation is interpreted as an advective transit time and hence the advective speed of the current. We relate correlation functions directly to the underlying equations of fluid transport. This is accomplished by expressing the correlation functions in terms of the Green???s function of the transport equation. The result is a framework to interpret time-lagged correlation functions from oceanographic timeseries data. The approach provides insight into the generic task of interpreting correlation information in terms of causal mechanisms.
Sack Lunch Seminars EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate department -- A student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning climate, geophysical fluid dynamics, biogeochemistry, paleo-oceanography/climatology and physical oceanography. The seminars usually take place on Wednesdays from 12.10-1pm. 2013/2014 co-ordinator: Kyle Armour (karmour at mit.edu)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact:
Kyle Armour
karmour at mit.edu
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Engineering for All America”: Thoreau, Melville, and the Science of Surveying
WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 1 – 3 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell-Dworkin Building, 2nd floor lounge, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Exhibitions, Humanities, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Collection of Scientific Instruments, Harvard Department of the History of Science
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Chura
NOTE The seminar will be followed by a tour of Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. The seminar will discuss connections between engineering and literature, how science and aesthetics cooperated in mid-nineteenth century intellectual culture, and how our national literature was shaped by a synthesis of interlinked, cross-disciplinary forms of knowledge. Please RSVP to Sujata Bhatia atsbhatia at seas.harvard.edu.
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From Ritual Music to Ballads: Mountain Music of Caucasus Georgia
WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Grossman Common Room, 51 Brattle Street, Cambridge, 2nd floor
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
SPEAKER(S) Aurelia Shrenker, musicologist and Fulbright Scholar
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO rodriguez at dcemail.harvard.edu
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HUCTW 25th Anniversary Events/Panel: The U.S. Healthcare System in 2013
WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers
SPEAKER(S) Andrea Caceres, health care negotiations specialist, HUCTW; David Cutler, professor of applied economics, Harvard University; Nancy Turnbull, associate dean for education programs and senior lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau at huctw.org
LINK www.huctw.org
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Nanostructured Block Copolymers for All-Solid Lithium Batteries
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
3:30p–4:45p
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Nitash P. Balsara (University of California, Berkeley)
MIT Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST) Polymer Seminar Series
PPST sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Brad Olsen at bdolsen at mit.edu. All talks take place on Wednesdays.
Web site: http://polymerscience.mit.edu/?page_id=1267
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST)
For more information, contact:
Gregory Sands
(617) 253-0949
ppst-www at mit.edu
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WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Theater
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) David Levine, 2013-2014 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, ECLA of Bard
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8212
NOTE David Levine is an artist whose work explores the conditions of performance and spectatorship across a variety of media, including theater, video, pedagogy, and visual arts. His most recent American project, Habit, transposed theatrical realism to a gallery setting, where spectators followed the ever-shifting drama through windows of a specially built house. He is the director of the studio component at ECLA of Bard, a liberal arts university in Berlin, where he is also a professor.
LINK https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-david-levine-fellow-presentation-2
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Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Structures
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
4:00 p.m.
Boston College, Higgins 310, Physics Department, Newton
Cornel Sultan, Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech
Tensegrity structures are assemblies of stretched tendons and disjoint bars that originated in the abstract art of the 1900’s. Today they are perceived as promising structural systems in areas ranging from space applications to bioengineering. In this talk the artistic context of the late 1800s and early 1900s is briefly revisited and tensegrity’s invention by artist Kenneth Snelson is discussed.
The presentation then focuses on tensegrity deployment (i.e. how they can be folded/unfolded). A deployment strategy inspired by the way biological organisms control motion via tendons and muscles is presented. First, the equations of motion are derived using analytical mechanics (i.e. Lagrange equations). Then, transition between folded and unfolded configurations is achieved ensuring quasi-static evolution. The tendon force variation is numerically solved for such that the system trajectory in the configuration space stays close to a continuous set of equilibrium configurations. Finally, some disadvantages of this deployment strategy and ideas that can be used to alleviate them are briefly discussed.
http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/cas/physics/news-and-events/seminars-colloquia/09-25-13_coll_Sultan.html
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Computing and Embedded Systems in the Age of Nanotechnology and the Data Deluge
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
4:00 pm
BU, Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 211, Boston
Refreshments will be served outside Room 339 at 3:45 p.m.
URL:http://www.bu.edu/ece/files/2013/07/Massoud.pdf
With Professor Yehia Massoud, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract: The ever increasing demand for high performance and pervasiveness in computing systems, which has been exacerbated by the need for collecting and monitoring large amounts of data, coupled with the more stringent requirements in terms of power consumption, size, and yield, imposes a paradigm shift in the design process of computing and embedded systems. This shift in the design process requires leveraging innovations in modeling, optimization and signal processing techniques, as well as nanotechnology. In this talk, I will provide an overview of our research efforts on analog/RF design automation, nanophotonic and carbon-based interconnect, and compressive sensing and how we are utilizing such technologies to provide significant improvements in power consumption, performance, integration, and reliability of computing and embedded systems.
About the Speaker: Yehia Massoud is a Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at WPI. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is editor of the Mixed Signal Letters and an associate editor of the IEEE TVLSI and IEEE TCAS-I. He served as the theme leader for Novel Interconnects and Architectures in the SRC Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) as well as an elected member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the DAC fellowship, the Synopsys Special Recognition Engineering Award, and Best Paper Awards at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design and the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology. He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences.
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“The Impact of Environmental Regulation on U.S. Oil Refineries.”
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
4:10pm - 5:30pm
Harvard, Room L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Richard Sweeney, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k96249
Contact Name: Jason Chapman
Jason_Chapman at harvard.edu
For further information, contact Professor Stavins at the Kennedy School (617-495-1820), Professor Weitzman at the Department of Economics (617-495-5133), or the course assistant, Jason Chapman (617-496-8054), or visit the seminar web site.
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20 Questions with Mario Livio
WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Science, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
SPEAKER(S) Mario Livio, astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute; moderated by Homi K. Bhabha with questions by Janet Browne, Anna Henchman, Robert Kirshner, Lisa Randall
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO humcentr at fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.0738
NOTE Mario Livio discusses his recent book "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe."
Download a precirculated paper for this event: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Brilliant%20Blunders%20--%20Excerpt.pdf
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/mario-livio-ibrilliant-blundersi
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Future Energy - Investor Feedback Forum
Wednesday, September 25
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://futureenergyboston.eventbrite.com
Future Energy, an Ultra Light Startups brand sponsored by Shell GameChanger, is a series of events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges.
At each Future Energy event, 8 startups present to a panel of energy and cleantech venture capital investors for feedback, advice, and networking. The audience votes on the best presenters who win prizes and media attention to help launch their business.
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Investors, Media. Service Providers, Open to all
Twitter: @crisdeluca #ulsboston
Applications to pitch can be submitted at http://ultralightstartups.com/future-energy/application-form/
Register using the promocode MSNERD for 50% off registration ticket
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SITN Lecture - Antibiotic Resistance: Super drugs for superbugs.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30 PM
Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Bosto
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/NerdFunBoston/events/136910792/
Fall is here! And it's time once again for Science in the News' flagship series of fall lectures. Join us at Harvard Medical School at Longwood for the first of the series, Antibiotic Resistance: Super drugs for superbugs.
For those of you not familiar with SITN's lecture format, lectures are free, accessible, and open to the public. All lectures are given entirely by graduate students at Harvard and focus on hot topics in science research and news.
All lectures are on Wednesdays starting at 7 PM at the . A team of three graduate students each present a 30-40 minute segment, with breaks for questions and refreshments. The lectures last for about two hours, and are often followed by lab tours.
They will have light refreshments before the lecture (coffee, tea, cookies, etc.)
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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"A Place at the Table" screening & panel discussion.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
6:30p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway in the Lecture Hall (lower level), Cambridge
Panelists:
Congressman Jim McGovern (Massachusetts 2nd district), a hunger advocate who is featured in the film.
Ashley Stanley, founder and executive director of Lovin' Spoonfuls, a food rescue.
Stephanie Everett, a SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) alumni and former Chief of Staff at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.
The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Kalloch, Campaign Alliances Manager for Oxfam America, a global leader for food justice.
About the film: In Participant Media’s A Place at the Table, a Magnolia Pictures release, directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. Ultimately, A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides — as they have in the past — that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
Please contact alannamallon at gmail.com with questions.
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A Conversation with Bruce Katz
WHEN Wed., Sep. 25, 2013, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Building, Starr Auditorium, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Joint Center For Housing Studies
SPEAKER(S) Bruce Katz
NOTE Founding director of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, Bruce Katz is the author of the new book "The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy," a distillation of his word on the emerging metropolitan-led "next economy" and its practitioners around the country working to produce more and better jobs driven by innovation, exports and sustainability.
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Katsura Sunshine presents Japanese Rakugo comic story-telling in English
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
7:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sunshine Katsura
Sunshine is the first-ever Western Rakugo storyteller in the history of the "Kamigata" Rakugo tradition, based in Osaka, and only the second ever in the history of Japan.
Rakugo is a 400-year-old tradition of comic storytelling in Japan. A minimalistic performance art, Rakugo features a lone storyteller dressed in kimono, kneeling on a cushion, who, using only a fan and a hand towel for props, entertains the audience with a comic monologue followed by a traditional story.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact:
Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
fll-events at mit.edu
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Thursday, September 26
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Inside the Scholar's Studio: A Conversation with Reza Aslan
WHEN Thu., Sep. 26, 2013, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion
SPONSOR Office of Development and External Relations, and Andover-Harvard Theological Library
CONTACT alums at hds.harvard.edu, 617.495.1778
NOTE HDS doctoral student Jason Smith, MTS '13, will interview his fellow alumnus Reza Aslan, MTS '99, about his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, his now infamous experience on Fox News, and what it means for people of faith and scholars of religion. Light refreshments will be provided.
Reza will be signing books in the lobby of Andover Hall from 2 to 2:30pm. The Coop will be on site selling books.
For more information, please contact 617.495.1778 or alums at hds.harvard.edu.
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Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication
Thursday, September 26, 2013
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G449, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Farnam Jahanian , NSF, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Advances in computer and information science and engineering (CISE) are catalyzing a societal transformation. We are witnessing unprecedented growth of scientific and social data, deep integration of the cyber and physical worlds, wireless connectivity at broadband speeds, and seamless access to resources in the cloud. These advances are transforming the way we work, play, communicate, learn, and discover. Foundational research is an integral part of a comprehensive innovation ecosystem with the capacity to yield new benefits for society. Investments in ambitious, long-term research and infrastructure, as well as in the development of a computing and information technology workforce, enable these advances and are a national imperative.
This talk will focus on technological advances and emerging trends that are shaping our future and accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation across all science and engineering disciplines. It will also describe how these trends inform priorities and programs at National Science Foundation. CISE research provides a foundation for economic competitiveness and is critical to advancing our national priorities, such as sustainability, smart transportation, disaster resilience, education and life-long learning, public safety, and national security.
Farnam Jahanian leads the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). He guides CISE, with a budget of over $850 million, in its mission to uphold the Nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research in computer and information science and engineering and of transformative advances in cyberinfrastructure.
Dr. Jahanian is on leave from the University of Michigan, where he holds the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professorship and served as Chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 – 2011 and as Director of the Software Systems Laboratory from 1997 – 2000. His research on Internet infrastructure security formed the basis for the Internet security company Arbor Networks, which he co-founded in 2001 and served as Chairman until its acquisition in 2010. Dr. Jahanian holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS.
Contact: seminars at csail.mit.edu
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Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity"
Thursday, September 26, 2013
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media
CMS/W Colloquium Series
New media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge ??? by examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact:
Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw at mit.edu
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"Dutch Mountains"
Thursday, September 26, 2013
5:30p–7:20p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Francine Houben, Founding Architect, Mecanoo Architects, Delft
Francine Houben directs her Mecanoo team with the ambition to design buildings with a strong respect for context: physically, historically and environmentally. In the lecture "Dutch Mountains" she will present her vision and the philosophy behind her work. She will take you along her increasingly international portfolio featuring also the recently opened Library of Birmingham integrated with the REP Theater in the UK; and the Dudley Municipal Offices in Boston and Wei-Wu-Ying Centre for the Arts in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, both under construction.
Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
617-253-7791
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The Menino Legacy: Down to the Wire
Thursday, September 26
6:30-8 pm
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
with
Lawrence S. DiCara (partner, Nixon Peabody), Joan Vennochi (associate editor and op-ed columnist, The Boston Globe), Mary Anne Marsh (principal, Dewey Square Group)
and John Nucci (VP of Government Relations & Community Affairs, Suffolk University);
discussion moderated by Paul Grogan (President, The Boston Foundation) and introductions by James McCarthy (President, Suffolk University)
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University kicks off its 2013 Fall series of lectures with undoubtedly the key local political discussion of the season. Boston's mayoral primary will have just ended two days before, giving the public barely over a month to determine which of the two finalists can best assume the seat proudly held for five terms by Mayor Thomas Menino, the City of Boston's longest running mayor.
When Menino announced last March that he would not seek reelection, his decision opened the floodgates to create a lengthy roster of mayoral candidates -- at one point 24 total -- and set the stage for a tumultuous and confusing campaign season. Now down to the wire after the primaries, the final election shall prove to be a pivotal one for the city. The outcome will not only determine how Boston best proceeds in serving its citizens. The results of this race will also set the tone for all those in the Commonwealth and beyond who frequent Boston as their place of work and play.
Paul Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation, moderates Ford Hall Forum's The Menino Legacy: Down To The Wire which includes the following participants: Lawrence S. DiCara, partner at Nixon Peabody, former Boston City Council president and mayoral candidate; Joan Vennochi, associate editor and op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe; Mary Anne Marsh, Democratic strategist and commentator; and John Nucci,Suffolk University's Vice President for Government and Community Affairs, former Boston City Council member and mayoral candidate. All these panelists have distinguished themselves as civic opinion-shapers. Suffolk University's James McCarthy will be on hand to introduce the evening's proceedings.
Further background information on the participants:
Paul Grogan is President and CEO of The Boston Foundation. He served as Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard University, and was President and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Grogan holds a master’s degree in administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was awarded a Bicentennial Medal from Williams College for his leadership in inner-city revitalization efforts. Grogan is a founder and director of The Community Development Trust, a director of New Profit Inc., and a trustee of Brandeis University. He previously served on the Boards of Williams College, FSG Social Impact Advisors, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Lawrence S. DiCara is a partner at Nixon Peabody where he practices real estate and administrative law. He has taught at Harvard, Boston University, and the UMass. DiCara is a former member and president of the Boston City Council and has served as a member of the Democratic State Committee for over 40 years. He is also former president of the Boston Latin School Association, the Greater Boston Council, Boy Scouts of America, and the Boston Theatre District Association. In recent years, he has received the Father of the Year Award from the American Diabetes Association and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Boys/Girls State Foundation.
Joan Vennochi is an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe. She writes regularly about national and local politics and covers issues relating to business, law, and culture. Before joining the op-ed page, she wrote a column on the Globe's business page. Vennochi was City Hall bureau chief, State House bureau chief, and covered national politics. She began her career at the Globe as a researcher on the Spotlight Team, the newspaper's investigative unit; later, she shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the team for local investigative reporting. Vennochi received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University and her J.D. from Suffolk Law School.
Mary Anne Marsh is a principal at Dewey Square Group and has more than 20 years of experience in public policy, communications, and electoral politics. Her experience includes providing strategic counsel to many national grassroots organizations for dozens of public policy campaigns and media relations to Fortune 500 companies. Marsh has also worked with numerous political clients such as John Kerry, Edward M. Kennedy, and Shannon O’Brien. She directed Victory ’92 for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and is a Democratic political analyst on FOX News. Her commentary and analysis can be heard on a variety of national and local media.
John Nucci is the Vice President of Government Relations and Community Affairs at Suffolk University and has been a prominent elected official in Boston for over 20 years. Nucci served for six years on the Boston School Committee, including four years as president, and was an at-large member of the Boston City Council for four years. He has been the elected Clerk of the Suffolk County Criminal Superior Court for the past 11 years. In addition to his elected positions, Nucci served for more than 20 years at Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) in Boston. He teaches in the graduate-level public administration program at Suffolk, is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University, and is a lifelong resident of East Boston.
James McCarthy is the ninth president of Suffolk University, beginning his tenure at the University in February 2012. He is committed to building a cohesive campus community, enhancing experiential learning, implementing new models of education, and using technology to complement the traditional Suffolk education. Before joining Suffolk University, President McCarthy served for five years as provost and senior vice president at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He was most recently the dean of the School of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire. McCarthy has engaged in sociological research through Princeton University, the International Statistical Institute London, and Trinity College Dublin, and in a multitude of countries. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. for Indiana University, and an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org.
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin at comcast.net
Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris at suffolk.edu.
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Melting Ice, Rising Seas, Shifting Shorelines: The New Reality
Thursday, September 26
7 pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar/2074695493
John Englander, author, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
*Book signing to follow
Experts say the sea is rising. What will this mean for those of us on the coast? Author John Englander paints a compelling picture that we have now entered an era where sea level rise, is combing with new storm patterns for an unprecedented assault on our shorelines. With prophetic timing his book, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis, was published one week before Hurricane Sandy and describes a super storm hitting Atlantic City and New York. Englander has a fresh perspective that is based on rock-solid geology yet is stunning and entertaining. Discover what “intelligent adaption” steps can take be taken to protect assets now and for future generations.
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Urban Films: 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Thursday, September 26, 2013
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 3-133
This Palestinian-Israeli-French co-production presents a deeply-personal first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Filmed by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son Gibreel, the collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the story unfolds---structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras---we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and unparalleled record of life in the West Bank. Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. Winner, World Cinema/Directing, Sundance; Special Jury and Audience Award, IDFA; Nominated for Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature. 90 minutes; Hebrew and Arabic w/English subtitles.
Urban Planning Film Series
A mostly-weekly series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Web site: urbanfilm.org
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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Friday, September 27
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Advanced Digital Control Techniques in Power Electronics - from Smartphones to Solar Photovoltaics
Friday, September 27, 2013
11:00am
MIT, Building 36-428, Haus Room, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Abstract: Thanks to the tremendous advancements of Moore’s Law, digital control has become a cost-effective option in power electronics, and is now gaining widespread adoption in industry. Digital control offers increased reconfigurability and flexibility, as well as improved robustness to process variations and temperature effects. Today, the most common power electronics solutions simply implement a standard analog feedback loop in the digital domain. Digital control, however, offers far more exciting opportunities than that; it enables entirely new control techniques that yield greatly improved performance. In this talk, I will present two such techniques, with applications in solar photovoltaics and low-voltage CMOS power delivery.
The first part of the talk will introduce Digital Dithering Ripple Correlation Control, a new control technique for maximum power point tracking in solar photovoltaics. By leveraging the existing ripple produced by dithering between adjacent duty ratios in a digital pulse-width modulator, we have experimentally demonstrated a 10x improvement in tracking speed/accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art, resulting in increased energy capture. The control technique is particularly well-suited for low-power, low-cost applications, and for emerging areas such as solar-powered mobile platforms.
In the second part, I will present a digital asymmetric interleaving technique for multi-phase power converters. We have shown that by adjusting the relative phase shifts between converters according to operating conditions, a significant ripple reduction can be achieved compared to conventional techniques. We will illustrate with an example of a low-voltage power management IC (180 nm CMOS) where a 2.5x reduction in input capacitance compared to existing solutions is possible. The technique shows great promise to reduce the size and cost of power converters used in portable electronics, where multiple independent voltage domains are used to power various parts of the system.
Bio: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski received dual B.S. degrees in physics, electrical engineering and computer science in 2005, the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2012, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is affiliated with the Power and Energy Systems group. He performs research in the area of power electronics. His research interests include renewable energy applications, energy harvesting, CMOS power management, and advanced control of power converters. In 2013, he received the Google Faculty Research Award for his work on data center power delivery. He is the co-author of two IEEE prize papers.
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A World Class Supply Chain that Delivers Sustainable and Profitable Growth
Friday, September 27, 2013
11:45a–1:00p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever
Unilever's vision is to double the size of its business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact. The supply chain, through its unique model of leveraging global scale whilst maintaining local agility through a set of world class capabilities, is proving to be a true competitive advantage for the business. Learn how the supply chain is at the heart of Unilever's world renown sustainability program and is driving the frontiers of sustainability and positive social impact to make the world a better place.
Distinguished Speakers Series
Every semester two students from the MIT Transportation Students Group, which is a coalition of graduate students in the Master of Science in Transportation program and the PhD program in transportation, organize the CTL Distinguished Speaker Series in Transportation. This speaker series brings at least three speakers to MIT's campus in Cambridge each semester from fields that are studied by members of the Transportation Students Group, including transit, airlines, high speed rail, and intelligent transportation systems.
A light lunch will be served.
Web site:http://ctl.mit.edu/events/distinguished_speaker_series_pier_luigi_sigismondi
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Center for Transportation & Logistics
For more information, contact:
Sarah Smith
x3-4592
sajsmith at mit.edu
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The Good News on Climate Change
WHEN Fri., Sep. 27, 2013, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Nye ABC, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Harvard University Center for the Environment
SPEAKER(S) Christiana Figueres, executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
CONTACT INFO bryan_galcik at harvard.edu
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"Second Hand Spaces"
Friday, September 27, 2013
5:30pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Inaqi Carnicero, Architect; Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
AD - Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact:
Cristina Parreno
617-253-3742
cparreno at mit.edu
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The Ideation Framework
Friday, September 27, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8326279125/es2/
How can you effectively learn if people will use (or buy) a new product idea before you built it? Josh Wexler, CEO of the Occom Group, will share the process that they use to help anyone (7th graders to C-level executives) validate new product ideas before they are built. He will tell the story of how a first time entrepreneur went from an idea to a fully functioning prototype that he then used to test with potential customers in about 2 days. Josh will discuss how this process drives clarity among a team and reduces the technical and overall risk of a project. Participants will be guided through a number of exercises to practice the process.
Brought to you by the i-Lab and Empower.
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Saturday, September 28
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Hull Wind Tours
Saturday, September 28
9-4pm
Hull 1, 100 Main Street, Hull
With over 17,000 MWhs of production since December 2001, Hull Wind 1 has served as a model community wind project for the nation.
Please join Executive Director of Action for Clean Energy, Andy Stern at Hull's first wind turbine, located at Hull High School for a 1 hour presentation/tour of Hull Wind 1.
Several local colleges will be in attendance and other environmental groups are encouraged to participate in this event.
Harvard 9am
MIT 10
BU 11
Suffolk 12p
Brandeis 1p
Tufts 2p
Emerson 3p
contact Andy Stern
astern at hotmail.com
510.673.2440
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Boston Fermentation Festival
Saturday, September 28
10am-2pm
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Hall, 45 Brookside Avenue, Jamaica Plain
The free event will offer workshops and demonstrations of fermented foods, such as kimchi, cheese, pickle; and lectures by leading fermentation
specialists. Attendees will be able to listen to live music, eat at food trucks, and sample and purchases fermented foods, handmade fermentation rocks, and fermentation books from over a dozen vendors.
For more information, visit www.eglestonfarmersmarket.org/fermentation and
www.facebook.com/bostonferments or call (248) 219-8779
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Sunday, September 29
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Locking Down on KXL: Tim DeChristopher and the Westborough 8
Sunday, September 29
7pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://westborough8.eventbrite.com
Cost: $25 for the general community and $10 for students
What role will you play, as the time we have left to prevent society from being locked into climate disaster diminishes? And what role is it that these times demand?
After two years in jail for disrupting an oil and gas auction, Tim DeChristopher (http://www.bidder70.org) has arrived in Boston.
On September 29th, Tim will host a fundraiser and movement-building event with the Westborough 8, eight youth who chained and superglued themselves earlier this year into the MA office of TransCanada to protest the company locking their generation into climate disaster by building the Keystone XL pipeline (http://www.january7th.wordpress.com).
Tim and the Westborough 8 will reflect on the role of civil disobedience in the climate justice movement and the choice facing each and every one of us as Obama’s moment of decision on the Keystone XL pipeline quickly approaches.
Tickets for the event will be $25 and can be purchased at the door or on eventbrite. If you would like to attend the event but feel that the cost of the tickets presents a serious hardship for you, please email us at info at justandstable.org.
Proceeds from the event will go to covering the legal and action costs for the Westborough 8, which total $5190. Any additional funds will be donated to the four activists with Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands facing felony charges for their lock-down against the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline, which in 2010 spilled more than 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River.
If you can't attend the event but still want to help out the Westborough 8, please visit our donation page: https://www.wepay.com/donations/ma-tar-sands-solidarity
Thank you!
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Monday, September 30
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"Twenty Years of Electricity Market Reform: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?"
Monday, September 30, 2013
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Theresa Flaim, Energy Resource Economics
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
louisa_lund at hks.harvard.edu
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Welfare Gains from Optimal Pollution Regulation
Monday, September 30, 2013
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Jose Miguel Abito (Wharton)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa at mit.edu
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Roundtable on Syria: Causes, Dynamics, and Prospects
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
SPEAKER(S) Bassam Haddad, director, Middle East Studies Program, George Mason University; Amr Al Azm, associate professor, Middle East History and Anthropology, Shawnee State University; active member of the Syrian opposition and member of the executive committee, the Day After Project
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus, History Department, will moderate the discussion.
This event is off the record; the use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3458
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14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 6 p.m.
WHERE Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) J. Ronald Terwilliger
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE J. Ronald Terwilliger is chairman of the Enterprise Community Partners Board of Trustees, vice chairman Enterprise Community Investment, and chairman emeritus of Trammel Crow Residential, the largest developer of multi-family housing in the United States. He is past chairman of the Urban Land Institute and the immediate past chairman of the international board of directors of Habitat for Humanity. Terwilliger is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy and Harvard Business School. Through philanthropic gifts, he established the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing in 2007 and created the Enterprise Terwilliger Fund, which is expected to create 2,000 affordable homes annually. His legacy gift to Habitat for Humanity International will help 60,000 families access improved housing conditions. In 2009, he was given the Person of the Year Award by the National Housing Conference.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/14th-annual-john-t-dunlop-lecture.html
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Archipelago-Town: A sustainable model for urban growth
Monday, September 30, 2013
6:00p–7:15p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: conrad-bercah
Archipelago Town-lines: an app proposing a new urban growth model gleaned from an architect's traveling notes
Three "archipelago-towns" - Berlin, Beirut, Venice - reveal their hidden urban geometry, their rites and culture, and the possible future of urban growth and de-growth.
A work by conrad-bercah, architect.
CAU Fall Lecture Series
Web site: http://cau.mit.edu/lecture/archipelago-town-sustainable-model-urban-growth
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Center for Advanced Urbanism
For more information, contact:
Prudence Robinson
617-324-7045
pru at mit.edu
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"Diffusion & Spherification"
WHEN Mon., Sep. 30, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) José Andrés, ThinkFood Group, minibar, Jaleo
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Each talk will begin with a 15-minute lecture by a Faculty member of the course, which will discuss one of the scientific topics from that week's class.
For a sample of what is to come, an archive of past talks (from 2010, 2011, and 2012) can be viewed at YouTube.com/Harvard
The popular public lecture series grew out of a collaboration between the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Alícia Foundation in Spain. A related Harvard College course, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter," which will be offered to undergraduates for the fourth time in the fall of 2013, uses food and cooking to explicate fundamental principles in applied physics and engineering. Blending haute cuisine with laboratory research, the chefs and food experts teach alongside Harvard faculty members. In addition to lectures and readings, lab work is an integral part of the course, and students perform experiments on topics including heat transfer, viscosity and elasticity, and crystallization and entropy.
This year, for the first time, a version of the Science & Cooking course will also be offered through HarvardX, Harvard University's newest online learning initiative. Registration for SPU27x, the massively open online course (MOOC), is open now at harvardx.harvard.edu.
The Science & Cooking Lecture Series does not replicate the content of either the Harvard College course or the HarvardX online course; rather, these public events are simply meant to inform and inspire with a fresh perspective on culinary science. For more information, visit seas.harvard.edu….
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/cooking
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Nerd Nite
Monday, September 30, 2013
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge
$5
Talk 1 – “Science and Art: Bedfellows” by Alberta Chu
Talk 2 - “Genomics Social Networking” by Murray Robinson, PhD
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com/2013/09/12/nerd-nite-93013/
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Tuesday, October 1
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Boston TechBreakfast
10/1/2013
8:00 am - 10:30 am
Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/128096822/
Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly breakfast in Baltimore, Columbia, DC, and Northern Virginia where entrepreneurs, techies, developers, designers, business people, and interested people see showcases on cool new technology in a demo format and interact with each other. "Show and Tell for Adults" is what we usually say. No boring presentations or speakers who drone on. This is a "show and tell" format where we tell people to show me, don't tell me about the great things they are working on. Each TechBreakfast begins at 8:00am and goes until 10:00am (although people usually hang around later). This event is FREE! Thank our sponsors when you see them!
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Extreme Weather and the Small Business Bottom Line: A business breakfast and interactive panel discussion
October 1, 2013
8:00 to 10:00AM. Doors will open at 7:30
The Non Profit Center, 89 South Street, near South Station, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8059308609
Cost: $15
What is the cost to your business when extreme weather strikes?
If the last thirty years are any indication of the future, it looks like Boston could be in for more flooding. Sea levels in Boston are rising at three to four times the global average1. Annual precipitation has increased ten percent.2 The amount of rain that falls during severe weather events has increased 74%3 What does this mean for our small business community?
Boston’s leading climate adaptation experts will brief the small business community on possible near-term climate change effects in our city.
Speakers Include:
Julie Wormser Executive Director, Boston Harbor Association. The Boston Harbor Association’s 2013 report, “Preparing for the Rising Tide,” examines a “floodable zone” response to sea level rise on Boston’s waterfront. Ms. Wormser engages with business owners, developers and residents of the waterfront community around climate change issues. Ms. Wormser has a long history of leadership in prominent environmental organizations. Most recently, she served as New England Regional Director of the Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund. She also managed regional policy programs for the Appalachian Mountain Club and The Wilderness Society.
David Gleason Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Tech Networks of Boston. Mr. Gleason brings 30 years of information systems planning, development and support to non-profit IT. He has personally worked with every aspect of computer technology, from wiring networks, installing servers, and writing software to managing software development teams. As the Director of IT for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, David experienced the destruction and flooding of New York during Hurricane Sandy. In the aftermath of the storm, Planned Parenthood opened their doors to other local non-profits who were not as fortunate.
Jim Newman Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions. Linnean Solutions is a co-author of a report for the Boston Society of Architects called “Building Resilience in Boston.” Mr. Newman has over 20 years of experience in environmental planning services and tracks energy, environmental, and community impacts for companies, non-profit, and governmental organizations. He previously served as Director of Strategy and Business Development at BuildingGreen, LLC, publishers of Environmental Building News. Mr. Newman led research and production of the Cost of LEED report for BuildingGreen and was the project manager for the EPA-funded Green Guideline Specifications project.
Carl Spector Director of Climate and Environmental Planning, City of Boston. Mr. Spector is the Director of Climate and Environmental Planning for the City of Boston. Mr. Spector develops and coordinate climate and sustainability policy and programs for the city, including “Sparking Boston’s Climate Revolution,” and “A Climate of Progress. Mr. Spector also helps develop and implement climate adaptation programs and building energy reporting and disclosure requirements. Mr. Spector has a long history as a writer, EPA scientist, and environmental leader in Boston.
Panel Moderated By:
Laury Hamel Executive Director, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts and President of the Longfellow Sports Clubs. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Hammel has founded numerous groups to bring together businesses, community leaders and individuals to help independent businesses adopt sustainable business practices and to build resilient local economies. These include the Sustainable Business Network, Business for Social Responsibility and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Laury is the author of the book, Growing Local Value.
Space is limited to 80 participants. Please register now as tickets will not be available at the door.
A continental breakfast will be served.
Contact Michael Green, Climate Action Liaison Program Coordinator.Michael.Green at climateactioncoalition.org 617-303-0150
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Art in the Age of the Ubiquitous Image
October 1, 2013
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/10/crabapple#RSVP
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
Two hundred years ago, artists had the monopoly on image making. Now, every parade or disaster is accompanied by ten thousand twitpics. In a world where mobile technology has made images instantaneous and ubiquitous, what does visual art have left to say? Drawing on her experiences doing illustrated journalism around Guantanamo Bay and the Greek economic crisis, Molly Crabapple speak about the role of art in a world captured by a million cameras.
About Molly
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer living in New York. Her work engages subculture, politics, and rebellion. Crabapple’s 2013 solo exhibition, Shell Game, a series of large-scale paintings about the revolutions of 2011, led to her being called “Occupy’s greatest artist” by Rolling Stone, and “an emblem of the way that art could break out of the gilded gallery” by The New Republic. She is the third artist in the last decade to draw Guantanamo Bay.
Crabapple is a columnist for VICE and has written for The Paris Review, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, and Der Spiegel. Her published books include Discordia (with Laurie Penny; Random House, 2012) on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (IDW 2012). Her illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood will be published by Harper Collins in 2015.
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Himalaya: Mountains of Life
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
4:00pm
Harvard, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Lecture Hall B029, Cambridge
Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur will share breathtaking photographs and stories from their new book, Himalaya: Mountains of Life, to spark a conversation about why the preservation of this land is so important, not just for us, but for the future of all life on Earth. Following their presentation, a panel of distinguished Harvard professors, representing the arts, humanities, and environmental disciplines, will lead a discussion with the authors on the interconnectedness of art and the humanities in building awareness of and potential solutions to global environmental challenges.
For additional information visit the HMSC website: http://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/himalaya-mountains-life-kamal-bawa-distinguished-professor-conservation-biology
Jointly-sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Office of the Arts at Harvard, and the Office for Sustainability at Harvard.
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Documentary Film Screening: Left on Pearl
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE CGIS S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers and the Harvard College Women's Center
SPEAKER(S) Filmmaker Susie Rivo
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO adrienne.landau at huctw.org
NOTE On March 6, 1971, International Women's Day marchers seized a Harvard building at 888 Memorial Drive, declaring it a Women's Center and holding it for ten days. This watershed action led to the founding of the longest continuously operating community Women’s Center in the U.S.
On Oct. 1, The 888 Women’s History Project and filmmaker Susie Rivo are holding a free work-in-progress screening of their documentary film about this little-known but highly significant chapter in Boston women’s history. This screening will coincide with an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to raise the money to finish the film.
LINK www.leftonpearl.org
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Askwith Forum - edX: Reinventing Education
WHEN Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Amber DiNatale
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Lecture, Special Events
NOTE Speaker: Anant Agarwal, president, edX; professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction: James Ryan, dean and professor, HGSE
Anant Agarwal will talk about reinventing education through edX, a nonprofit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, the mission of which is to expand access to education for everyone, enhance teaching and learning on campus and online, and advance teaching and learning through research. EdX offers MOOCs (massively open online courses) and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI). Along with offering online courses, edX researches how students learn and how technology can transform learning – both on campus and worldwide.
To receive the Askwith Forums e-newsletter for up-to-date information,
please email askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu with the subject line “Opt-in.”
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America: Empire or Umpire, and at What Cost ?
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Elizabeth Hoffman, San Diego State University
SSP Wednesday Seminar Program
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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[MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Mike Stern, a graduating PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, will be giving a talk on carbon capture as a way of combating rising carbon emissions.
Energy 101 lecture series
Series on the basics of various fields in energy
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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Rethinking Narratives and Systems for Innovation: Innovation Any Time, Any Place by Anybody
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai
Please join us for our next fall seminar. Dr. VA Shiva is a visiting researcher at the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. He is a systems scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and author across the fields of media and medicine.
SSRC Seminar: Conversations on Sociotechnical Systems
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact:
Jacqueline Paris
jparis at mit.edu
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"Getting to Net Zero"- A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 2
6:30 PM
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Please join Mayor Henrietta Davis, city public officials, and a diverse group of speakers to discuss Net Zero: the challenges and opportunities for our city.
To RSVP, go here: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/4619238903?s=17280101
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
WHEN Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Graham Allison
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.495.2727, director at cambridgeforum.org
NOTE Harvard’s Graham Allison discusses his new biography (co-authored with Robert Blackwell) of Lee Kuan Yew, “the power behind the throne” in modern Asian political leadership. The 89-year-old founding father of modern Singapore, Lee has been a mentor to every Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has counseled every U.S. president since Nixon. This concise book extracts the essence of Lee Kuan Yew’s visionary thinking about the critical global issues of our time, including the future of China, the fate of U.S.-China relations, India’s murky prospects, and Europe’s deep problems. How is leadership exercised from the position of adviser that Lee occupies?
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Let's Talk About Food Festival: Can New England Feed Itself? How Close Can We Get to Sustainability?
Thursday, October 3
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Forum, Trinity Church in the City of Boston, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://cannewenglandfeeditself-eorg.eventbrite.com
We talk about local and sustainable. Shop at the Farmers Markets and buy sustainable seafood. Yet today, much of our food still comes from other regions and countries. We often don’t know where it comes from and how it is grown.
What would it really take for New England to feed itself? Is it even possible? What would it mean for our eating habits, the landscape and the local economy? Can our farmland even keep up with the population?
On Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm, we’ll explore all of these questions at a Town Hall Forum at Trinity Church in Copley Square. This forum is part of the 2013 Let's Talk About Food Festival, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.
Distinguished list of speakers at the event include:
Chef and Wholesome Wave CEO Michel Nischan, a James Beard Award-winning chef, author and restaurateur who has become a catalyst for change in the sustainable food movement.
U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (ME), a long-time advocate for local farms
Gregory Watson, Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture
Amanda Beal, director of the By Land and By Sea Project and a member of Food Solutions New England.
Brian Donohue, Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University
Timothy Griffin, Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Glynn Lloyd, Co-Founder of City Growers and CEO of City Fresh Foods
John Piotti, Executive Director of Maine Farmland Trust
This event is free but we ask people to register in advance at http://www.LetsTalkAboutFood.com
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Chris Matthews
Thursday, October 3
7:00 PM
Cambridge Main Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Join the political discussion with Chris Matthews, former top aide to legendary Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. and host of MSNBC's Hardbal, as he talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. Co-sponsored by Porter Square Books
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Breaking Bread Together: A Conversation on Food, Ethics, and Community
Friday, October 4, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston
RSVP at http://breakingbreadtogether-eorg.eventbrite.com
Food is so much more than what we eat. Food is both sustenance and celebration- the way we weave together a community, the way we feed ourselves and our families, and the way we sustain our neighbors in need.
How do food justice, ethics and faith come together? How do we ensure a sustainable food system that provides enough for everyone? Can we get beyond emergency food solutions? Is genetic engineering of food necessary - or does it go beyond what Nature intended? Does that matter? And how do faith-based communities play a role?
On Friday, October 4, Join us for a community-wide conversation about food and ethics. Our panelists will include:
Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and the author of Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread, Massachusetts' only statewide anti-hunger organization committed to providing all people sustainable, reliable access to nutritious food
Urvashi Rangan, Ph. D, the director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports and their national spokesperson in the area of sustainable production/consumption practices.
The Reverend Patrick C. Ward, Associate Rector for Worship and Communications at Trinity Church in Boston
We hope to see you there!
*This event is free but we ask people to register in advance
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Green Buildings Open House
Saturday, 05 October, 2013
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
See www.nesea.org/gboh for list of houses
NESEA's annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH) is the biggest sustainable energy event in the northeastern United States. GBOH is an opportunity for the public to learn about energy improvements in their communities, and connect with NESEA members who are often behind the designs, upgrades, and products seen on the tour. In 2012, nearly 10,000 people toured 500 homes, businesses, and public buildings. 95% reported meet their goals – whether learning about sustainable building, meeting practitioners, or getting inspired! Please visit www.nesea.org/gboh for more information.
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Boston Local Food Festival
4th Annual Boston Local Food Festival
Sunday, 06 October, 2013
11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston
What You'll Find at the Festival
Freshly harvested produce and seafood from farmers and fishermen
Scrumptious, $6 servings, featuring locally grown foods
Entertaining demonstrations and competitions by chefs and other food experts
Lively local music of many cultural tastes
Engaging exhibitions and playful activities for the kid in all of us
Interactive workshops featuring local food leaders
Food-inspired arts and crafts
Recycling and sustainable practices for minimal waste
See more at: http://bostonlocalfoodfestival.com/about-the-festival/#sthash.zLticdKu.dpuf
Event Contact Katrina Kazda
Email: katrina at sbnmass.org
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Money & Power: A Debate
with Hedrick Smith (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The New York Times) and Yaron Brook (President, Ayn Rand Institute);
moderated by Rachael Cobb (Chair, Suffolk University's CAS Government Dept.)
Thursday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Modern Theatre, Suffolk University
Associate Professor Rachael Cobb (Chair, SU CAS Government Dept.) moderates a critical debate between former New York Times journalist Hedrick Smith and Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook on money and power. Smith argues that a pro-business power shift in Washington and a change in the American business ethos away from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder capitalism has created a harmful economic divide in America. Brook counters that today’s mess is a product, not of capitalism, but of empowering the government to restrict free enterprise and dole out favors to preferred groups. Smith offers ideas for reviving middle class power and prosperity, while Brook tells us how laissez-faire capitalism offers individuals on all levels of ability the greatest promise of prosperity in this incredible debate on wealth and power in the 21st century.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org.
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin at comcast.net
Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris at suffolk.edu.
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About Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University:
Ford Hall Forum is the nation's oldest free public lecture series. The Forum provides an open venue for sharing opinions and discussing controversial points of view. It advances the First Amendment through freedom of expression, encouraging attendees to engage directly with speakers. Ford Hall Forum discussions illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking orators from a broad range of perspectives. These experts participate for free, and in settings that promote a culture of involvement in a non-partisan environment.
The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the Boston area with the generous support from state agencies, foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. In its 104th year of programming, the Forum continues to build upon its partnership with Suffolk University. Suffolk is now housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where the original Ford Hall once stood.
Ford Hall Forum programs are made possible through the generous contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including Compass Eight, The Fred & Marty Corneel Fund, Helen Rees Literary Agency, Iron Mountain, LCMG Certified Public Accountants, The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, North Hill, Penny Pimentel, The Pfizer Foundation, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince Lobel & Tye, Suffolk University, and WBUR 90.9 FM.
For more information on Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, visit www.fordhallforum.org. Information about Suffolk University’s partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen Norris, (617) 573-8450, mnorris at suffolk.edu.
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Energy Upgrade Work Party
Second Church of the Nazarene, Dorchester
Saturday, September 28th
9:00am-1:30pm
44 Moultrie St
Dorchester
A stop on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, Second Nazarene Church in Dorchester needs an energy upgrade. Join HEET and Co-op Power to help the church reduce energy bills and energy use. The church has a dirt-floor basement that is exhaling a lot of cold air and moisture into the building. Learn how to install a vapor barrier in the basement inexpensively and easily. A variety of other work will also be taught.
Sign up here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFUteWN0Q1BEVHluZnRJb0RrSE5wM1E6MA#gid=0)
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[MIT Energy Club] 101 Lecture Series: Carbon Capture
October 02, 2013
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 3-133
Mike Stern, a graduating PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, will be giving a talk on carbon capture as a way of combating rising carbon emissions.
Sponsored by: MIT Energy Club
Admission: Open to the public
For more information: Contact MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu
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The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
5:00p--6:30p
MIT, Building 10-250,
Speaker: Chase Madar, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with Chase Madar
The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantanamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing
About the speakers:
Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso). He tweets @ChMadar.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum at mit.edu
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Sea Ice, Climate and Observational Mathematics
Thursday, October 10
7 pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at upport.neaq.org/site/Calendar/806848331
MIT Lorenz Center Lecture
Professor John Wettlaufer, A.M. Bateman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Geophysics and Physics, Yale University and Professor of Applicable Mathematics, Oxford University
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center’s 3rd Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT recently launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry. By emphasizing curiosity-driven research, the center fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works. To better understand this intricate system, we seek theories that predict observations regionally and globally, from human to geologic time scales. But what are the relevant observations? And how do we construct useful and realistic theories?
This year’s lecturer, John Wettlaufer, has grappled with these questions by creating a mathematical observatory and focusing its telescopes on Arctic ice and climate. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the physics of ice and its role in climate. Register here.
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Gideon's Promise and Peril: Meeting the Mandate for Indigent Defense
Friday, October 11th, 2013
Harvard Law School, WCC 2036 Milstein East Cambridge, MA
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Court ruled state courts were obligated to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who could not otherwise afford it. The logic of this unanimous decision has had far-reaching implications for the way we think about justice in the United States and held such promise to those of us dedicated to the fairness of our judicial system. On October 11th, we will gather here at Harvard Law School for an all-day conference: "Gideon's Promise and Peril: Meeting the Mandate for Indigent Defense."
More information at http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org
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Honk! FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
October 11 through 14, 2013
a wide variety of events planned
in Somerville & Cambridge
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
(Somerville & Cambridge, MA) Time to mark the calendar for the eighth annual HONK! Festival (www.honkfest.org) which will take place from October 11-14 throughout the neighborhoods of Somerville and Cambridge. Founded in 2006 in Davis Square by members of the Somerville-basedSecond Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band (www.secondlinebrassband.org), HONK! is a rousing socio-political music spectacle which features social activist street bands from all over who come together to share their different approaches to merry making while also instigating positive change in their communities.
This year several new national and international groups will be featured, as well as returning festival favorites, some who are local and several who come from afar. In the works are many concerts, one very large parade, some mini parades, a roundtable discussion, and much more. The preliminary HONK! schedule, which will be finalized in early September, can be found at www.honkfest.org/schedule/. This year ALL events will be free!. The festival is rain or shine and open to all.
As of this writing, a few late summer/early fall activities are in place, for those who would like to get involved early on:
HONK! Kickstarter campaign: details can be found at www.honkfest.org/kickstarter. This year's goal is to reach $12,000 by early October. Last year, HONK! far exceeded its Kickstarter campaign. Individuals can donate and subscribe to receive notices by going through the HONK! website.
HONK! Volunteer Appreciation Pep Rally: tentatively scheduled for the evening of September 15 at Sprout, 339R Summer St. near Davis Square, Somerville (www.thesprouts.org). More information will be available after Labor Day weekend.
For more background information on HONK!'s origins, visit www.honkfest.org/about/.
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Energy Upgrade Work Party
Emmanuel Church of Boston
October 13th - Time TBA, around 1pm-5pm
15 Newbury Street
Boston
Emmanuel Church of Boston has the most beautiful Sanctuary and chapel we've ever been in. As an additional plus, the artist who builds the Bread and Puppets' puppets has a studio in the basement. A truly amazing place to be. We'll teach you how to install pipe insulation, and how to save energy in many other ways.
Sign up here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdrVnFLeW1neWtxVjNMSVl6WE1DOVE6MA#gid=0)
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The Road Ahead for Planetary Environmentalism: An Appreciation of Professor Bill Moomaw
Friday, October 18
3:00-4:30 PM
ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School , 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
Registration required at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/Events/RegisterOctober182013
A talk by Professor Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Followed by a reception in the Hall of Flags at 4:30 to honor Professor Moomaw
Open to the public. Convened by the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and The Fletcher School to honor the distinguished career of William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy. Professor Moomaw recently stepped down as Director of CIERP, which he founded in 1992, and will retire at the end of this academic year.
Robert Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (Science, August 13, 2004). Socolow recently served on two committees of the National Academies: “America's Energy Future” and “America's Climate Choices.” He received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics in l964 from Harvard University.
"Planetary environmentalism" is an evolving perspective on the human condition, which sees a planet of modest size straining to absorb the aggregate activity of our irrepressible species. The science is incomplete but sobering, and the public is rightly skeptical of simple solutions. We have barely begun to think about what is required to conduct a multi-generational project.
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
October 19
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street, Foxborough
RSVP at Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The October 19 workshop will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 116 South Street in Foxborough. Register at
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e81d32ua44d430ff&llr=s4blzzbab
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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Sensing Wonder, Serious Play: Ecology and Children’s Literature
October 25, 2013
Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by Harvard University's American Studies Program the will explore children’s literature through an ecocritical lens, giving priority to the ways in which these texts illustrate the relationship between nature and children. The Conference is accepting paper submissions through September 15 – visit the website for more information.
http://www.sensingwonder.us
Contact Name: ecoconferenceharvard at gmail.com
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7th Biennial Cambridge City Council Candidates' Night on Environmental and Energy (E/E)
Wednesday, 30 October, 2013
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Cambridge Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Attend the 7th biennial energy and environmental issues forum for Cambridge City Council candidates sponsored by Green Cambridge.
Event Contact Info
Quinton Zondervan
Email: president at greencambridge.org
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Crowds and Climate: Mobilizing Crowds to Develop Ideas and Take Action on Climate Change
November 6-8, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
More information at http://www.climatecolab.org/conference2013
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Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
November 16
St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Would you like to do what you can to decrease your use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy?
MIP&L's Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more, showing you how to evaluate 24 questions that will give you a comprehensive view of your house of worship's energy us and the largest opportunities for savings.
In this half-day session conducted by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org) you will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint
How to find no-cost and low cost projects that can have a big impact on your electricity and heating bills
How to evaluate energy using equipment and systems to determine whether they should be updated
Incentives, rebates and other financial help available through utility companies
How to get solar panels with no upfront cost
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Doors open at 8:30am and the program starts at 9am.
You will receive a set of worksheets to help you evaluate opportunities for saving energy and a CD with all the workshop materials and other helpful resources.
The November 16 workshop will be held at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, 1073 Tremont St, Roxbury. Registration will be available soon and if you are interested in attending this one, emailjimnail at mipandl.org to be notified when registration opens.
Who should attend: Parishes are encouraged to send two members from their environment committee, property committee or Vestry. Other members who are interested are also welcome.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei at wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
Boston Area Computer User Groups http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Civic Journal http://www.rwinters.com
http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/calendar/mit_events_template
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
http://green.harvard.edu/events
http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
http://boston.nerdnite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.eventbrite.com/
http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
More information about the Act-MA
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