[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - February 23, 2014
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Feb 23 12:10:20 PST 2014
Energy (and Other) Events is a weekly mailing list published most Sundays covering events around the Cambridge, MA and greater Boston area that catch the editor's eye.
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, February 24
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8:30am PACE + Resiliency Forum
9am "Sonar Inside Your Body - Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks"
12pm What controls the Brewer-Dobson Circulation?
12pm "Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
12pm "Dynamics of Tropical Forest Evolution."
1pm Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
2pm “Into the Wild: Exploring host-gut microbe dynamics in wild, nonhuman primates”
3pm "Species interactions: from microevolution to macro ecology"
3pm Laverne Cox, Artist In Residence
4pm "New Solutions to Challenges in Medicine and Energy Inspired by Microbial Natural Products."
4pm The Psychology of Scarcity
5pm Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory
5:30pm Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
6pm Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture
7pm The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Herbie Hancock in Person
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, February 25
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11:45pm Old Statutes, New Problems
12pm “BuzzFeed: The New Newsroom...Is It the Future?”
12pm Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
12:30pm How Gender Diversity Became Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan
2:30pm Mission Coherence and Contestation in Organizations
3pm Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
4pm Race, Politics, and the Constitution of Difference
4pm Next Generation Soft Wearable Robots
4:15pm Kosovo and the Politics of Human Rights
4:30pm Anne Gearan, Diplomatic Correspondent at The Washington Post
6pm MassChallenge Sampler: Funding Success
6:30pm Growth Lessons from Silicon Valley to Boston
7pm It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
7pm Playing to Engage: How to Revitalize Society
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Wednesday, February 26
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10am Inequality for All Screening and Forum
11am Handel & Haydn lecture/demo of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
11:45am A New Climate Agreement in 2015: Opportunities and Challenges
12:15pm Small Screens, Big Changes: Frontiers in Mobile Technology for Nutrition and Health
3pm Artist Talk + Panel on Fukushima Activism, Postwar Pop, Intermedia Art and Global Hip-Hop
4pm Synthetic: How Life Got Made
4pm "Gas-driven Fracturing – Influence of Gas Composition and State"
4:15pm SSRC Seminar: Enterprise Evaluation of the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange
6pm Building Earth-like Planets: From Gas to Dust to Ocean Worlds
6pm Global Warming: The Risk and How to Confront It
6pm Google’s Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen discuss The New Digital Age
6pm The Unknown Known: Film Screening and Discussion Featuring Director Errol Morris
6:30pm Dirt! The Movie
7pm Post-Sustainability: Thinking Big
7pm Environment, and Plasticity lecture
8pm LIVE HIP-HOP from Tokyo, Japan
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Thursday, February 27
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8:30am Greenovate Boston Meet-up for Small Businesses: Greening your Bottom Line
11am Scientific Imaging for Artwork & Other Cultural Heritage Materials
3pm Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
4pm Herbie Hancock: "The Ethics of Jazz - Cultural Diplomacy"
4pm Wearable Haptic Technologies for Telexistence, Telecommunication, and Medical Applications
4pm 2014: Gender, Media and the Permanent Campaign
4pm "Following Images to Environmental History: Oil Spectacles and New Deal Home Gardens, Two Case Studies"
5:30pm MIT Big Data Challenge - Transportation in the City of Boston
6:30pm Shigeru Ban : Works and Humanitarian Activities
Friday, February 28
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9am The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents: Evolution of Capacity (and Energy) Market
11:30am A Conversation with US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
12pm Aircraft-based Measurements of Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Operations in the Bakken, the Barnett, and the Marcellus Formations
5:30pm "Material/Immaterial"
7pm "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" - Film Screening
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Saturday, March 1
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9am Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
10am Countersurveillance Hackathon Cambridge
Symposium: Political Dialogue and Civility in an Age of Polarization
7:30pm Concert for the Silver Maple Forest
7:30pm Green Business Allies: Make a Difference Party
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Monday, March 3
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12pm 3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
12:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
3pm Technology and Education in the Age of Film
4:30pm France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
5pm Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
7pm Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
7pm ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
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Tuesday, March 4
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8:30am The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
10am Building Energy: keynote by Gina McCarthy, EPA
12pm The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
12pm Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
12:30pm How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
4:15pm Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
5:30pm The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
6pm SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
6pm Sustainable Food Fix
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
Climate Change at the Crossroads: Scientists, Skeptics and the Media
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/climate-change-at-crossroads-scientists.html
Green Growth: Grameen Shakti
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/20/1279207/-Green-Growth-Grameen-Shakti
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Monday, February 24
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PACE + Resiliency Forum
Monday, February 24th
8:30-11:00am
Atlantic Wharf's Fort Point Room, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.usgbcma.org/civicrm/event/register?id=568&reset=1
Coffee & snacks will be provided.
How can Massachusetts be a leader in the financing of efficiency, renewables, and disaster resiliency?
Join us for an informative program on PACE financing legislation being introduced at the State House which will include a resiliency component. This will be a forum full of stakeholders looking at how state policy can unleash funds to strengthen our communities.
State Senator Brian Joyce will present his legislation to enhance the ability of entities - municipalities, institutions, and building owners - to access money for efficiency, renewables and resiliency improvements.
Final details of the program are being determined. Speakers include Dave Carey of Harcourt Brown & Carey (who drafted the initial PACE legislation in MA) and Laura Canter of MassDevelopment (among others) who will address:
Protecting property from disasters
Enhancing building energy efficiency
Stimulating renewable energy deployment in MA
The USGBC MA Chapter is proud to support this initiative and we call upon all green building and sustainable communities stakeholders to join us in advocating for this important policy development. Thank you to our co-sponsors Energi, Inc. and Boston Properties.
Contact Grey Lee greylee at usgbcma.org if you are interested in supporting this advocacy work. Join us for an exciting morning program & discussion of PACE + Resiliency!
We look forward to seeing you there.
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"Sonar Inside Your Body - Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks"
Monday, February 24
9:00AM - 10:30AM
442 Dana Research Center, 442 120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Prof. Tommaso Melodia, EE, SUNY Buffalo
Abstract:
Wirelessly networked systems of implantable sensors and actuators could enable revolutionary new applications with a potential to advance the medical treatment of major diseases of our times. Yet, most "body area networks" research to date has focused on communications among devices interconnected through traditional electromagnetic radio-frequency (RF) waves (often along the body surface); while the key challenge of enabling networked intra-body miniaturized sensors and actuators that communicate through body tissues is largely unaddressed. The main obstacle is posed by thephysical nature of propagation in the human body, which is composed primarily of water - a medium through which RF electromagnetic waves do not propagate well.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our ongoing work exploring a different approach, i.e., establishing wireless networks through human
tissues by means of acoustic waves at ultrasonic frequencies. We will start off by discussing fundamental aspects of ultrasonic propagation in human tissues and their impact on wireless protocol design at different layers of the protocol stack. We will then discuss our research on designing and prototyping ultrasonic
networking protocols through a closed-loop combination of mathematical modeling, simulation, and experimental evaluation. Specifically, we will discuss three intertwined research activities, i.e, (i) ultrasonic propagation and channel modeling in human tissues; (ii) prototyping on software-defined radios of distributed physical/medium access control layer solutions for impulse-based ultrasonic networks; (iii) distributed and asynchronous cross-layer control and resource allocation algorithms based on stochastic modeling of ultrasonic interference.
Bio:
Tommaso Melodia is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and coauthored a paper that was recognized as the ISI Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Computer Science for February 2009 and of an ACM WUWNet 2013 Best Paper Award. He was the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for IEEE Globecom 2013 and the Technical Program Committee Vice Chair for Information Systems for IEEE INFOCOM 2013. He serves in the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Computer Networks (Elsevier). His current research interests are in modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of networked communication systems, with applications to ultrasonic intra-body networks, cognitive and cooperative networks, multimedia sensor networks, and underwater networks.
Website: http://ece.neu.edu
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What controls the Brewer-Dobson Circulation?
February 24, 2014
12pm-1pm
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Edwin Gerber (NYU)
The Brewer-Dobson Circulation describes the slow overturning circulation of the stratosphere, which transports mass up into the tropics and then poleward until it returns to the troposphere. In concert with chemical processes, it sets the distribution of stratospheric ozone and water vapor, which have significant impacts on surface climate. An idealized atmospheric model allows us to explore the impact of tropospheric and stratospheric processes on the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, both in terms of the residual mean overturning of mass and the transport of trace species such as ozone.
The residual mean circulation is understood through the lens of the “downward control principal” (Haynes et al. 1991), where the circulation, at least in the steady state, can be explained as a response to mechanical wave driving, effected primarily by planetary-scale Rossby waves and small-scale gravity waves. The use of interactive models, however, allows us to explore reverse “control” by the mean flow and diabatic processes on the wave driving. Interactive models also reveal strong interactions between the Rossby and gravity waves driving, the latter which must be parameterized in most atmospheric models. These interactions may in part explain a vexing concern in the field in recent years, where it has appeared that models agree on the overall amplitude and increasing trend of the Brewer Dobson Circulation, but provide little consensus on which waves (i.e. resolved Rossby waves or parameterized gravity waves) are doing the work.
MASS Seminar
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/mass-seminar-edwin-gerber-nyu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu
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"Tailoring Energy Deployment Policies to Support Innovation in Specific Energy Technologies"
Monday, February 24, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
with Joern Huenteler, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Louisa_Lund at hks.harvard.edu
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"Dynamics of Tropical Forest Evolution."
Monday, February 24
12pm
Harvard, Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Christine Bacon
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Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
Monday, February 24, 2014
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Harvard, Center for Research on Computation and Society, 60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Michael Luca, Harvard Business School
Online marketplaces often contain information not only about products, but also about the people selling the products. In an effort to facilitate trust, many platforms encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves. However, these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers’ race, gender, age, or other aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Airbnb.com. Using a new data set combining pictures of all New York City landlords on Airbnb with their rental prices and information about quality of the rentals, we show that non-black hosts charge approximately 12% more than black hosts for the equivalent rental. These effects are robust when controlling for all information visible in the Airbnb marketplace. These findings highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly-routine mechanism for building trust.
The talk is based on the following paper coauthored with Benjamin Edelman: http://bit.ly/1mmoZGf
Speaker Bio:
Michael Luca is an assistant professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit. He teaches the Negotiations course in the MBA elective curriculum. Professor Luca applies econometric methods to field data in order to study the impact of information in market settings. He investigates the types and features of information disclosure that are most effective, the way in which information disclosure is produced and designed, and how these phenomena affect market structure. In his research, Professor Luca considers rankings, expert reviews, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws. His current work focuses on crowdsourced reviews, analyzing a variety of companies including Yelp, Amazon, and Airbnb. His findings have been written and blogged about in such media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Harvard Business Review, PC World Magazine, and Salon. Professor Luca received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from SUNY Albany. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked as a health-care actuary for major insurers.
Contact: Carol Harlow
Email: harlow at seas.harvard.edu
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“Into the Wild: Exploring host-gut microbe dynamics in wild, nonhuman primates”
Monday, February 24, 2014
2:00pm
Geological Museum, Haller Hall (Room 102), 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dr. Katherine Amato (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder)
HEB Colloquium Series
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"Species interactions: from microevolution to macroecology"
Monday, February 24, 2014
3:00pm - 4:00pm
MCZ 101 Seminar Room, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
" with Joseph Tobias, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Beverages and snacks will be provided
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Laverne Cox, Artist In Residence
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Farkas Hall, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Foundation, Office for the Arts
SPEAKER(S) Laverne Cox
COST Admission is free and open to the public; seating is first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity.
CONTACT INFO Robert_Mitchell at harvard.edu
NOTE Laverne Cox, the celebrated actress who plays Sophia Burset, the imprisoned African American, transgender woman in the critically acclaimed Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black," will discuss her life and career in an on stage interview session with Harvard University students.
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"New Solutions to Challenges in Medicine and Energy Inspired by Microbial Natural Products."
Monday, February 24
4pm
MIT, Building 56-114 (the tallest building on campus)
Jason Sello
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The Psychology of Scarcity
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Sendhil Mullainathan, professor of economics, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO ksmall at hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Lauro De Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization
SPEAKER(S) Giacomo Lichtner, Victoria University of Wellington
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://rll.fas.harvard.edu
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Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Monday, February 24, 2014
5:30p–7:00p
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-M15, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Web site: http://economics.mit.edu/files/9520
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Applied Theory Workshop (Joint MIT/Harvard)
For more information, contact: econ-cal at mit.edu
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Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture
Monday, February 24, 2014
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Founders of Art Reoriented New York and Munich
Aga Khan Lecture Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
For more information, contact: Jose Luis Arguello
253-1400
akpiarch at mit.edu
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Herbie Hancock in Person
WHEN Mon., Feb. 24, 2014, 7 – 8:40 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Film Archive
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
DIRECTED BY Ivan Dixon
COST $12 special event tickets
TICKET INFO http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/general_info.html#admission
NOTE Beginning with its provocative title, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is perhaps the most powerfully political look at US race relations in the early 1970s to have received a theatrical release. Directed by Ivan Dixon, the film tells a credible tale of a Black CIA agent who rebels against his role as a racial token and uses his training in counterrevolutionary tactics to organize a guerrilla group in Chicago to fight racism. The story proved so controversial that United Artists was content to let The Spook Who Sat by the Door sink out of sight, although it did attract an avid following among scholars and fans of African-American cinema, as did the soundtrack by Herbie Hancock. Hancock’s use of funk and Afrofuturism provide a powerful voice for Black Pride in the film, which has lately been rediscovered to take its place alongside the canon of the 1970s American New Cinema.
LINK http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2014janmar/hancock.html#spook
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Nerd Nite
Monday, February 24, 2014
8 pm
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Presentations from MIT Water Club (http://waterclub.mit.edu/wp/):
"Membrane Desalination: Past, Present, and Future, " by Leo Banchik and "Ceramic Water Filter Design for Developing Countries," by Amelia Servi
It’s like the Discovery Channel with beer.
Nerds gather, drink, and listen to presentations on subjects that are ostensibly of great interest to nerds everywhere. Our esteemed volunteer presenters give 20-30 minute talks on a variety of nerdy topics. Our beloved DJ Claude Money of Soulelujah fame shows his nerdy side by selecting rare and not so rare 45s from his vast record collection to spin before, between, and after talks. Be there and be square!
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Tuesday, February 25
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Old Statutes, New Problems
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
SPEAKER(S) Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and director, Environmental Law Program at Harvard Law School
COST Free; RSVP to MRCBG at hks.harvard.edu
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
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“BuzzFeed: The New Newsroom...Is It the Future?”
Tuesday, February 25
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Speaker Series with Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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How Gender Diversity Became Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Eunmi Mun, assistant professor of sociology, Amherst College; moderated by Mary Brinton, Hrdy Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2013-14), and Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO wnehring at wcfia.harvard.edu
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
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Mission Coherence and Contestation in Organizations
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Suraj Prasad (Sydney)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: econ-cal at mit.edu
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Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT, Building 24-121,
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Sponsor: MIT Energy Club
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Race, Politics, and the Constitution of Difference
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE A lecture in three parts. A Q+A and reception will immediately follow each talk.
Tuesday, 2/25 - Between Society and Polity: Race as a Filter in Modern Politics
Wednesday, 2/26 - The Spectre of Race in the Comparative Method
Thursday, 2/27 - The Nation-State and Marginalized Populations: A New Research Agenda for African-American Studies
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Next Generation Soft Wearable Robots
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
MIT, Building 32-G882, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Conor Walsh , Harvard University
Abstract: Next generation wearable robots will use soft materials such as textiles and elastomers to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These robots will augment the capabilities of healthy individuals (e.g. improved walking efficiency, increased grip strength) in addition to assisting patients who suffer from physical or neurological disorders. This talk will focus on two different projects that demonstrate the design, fabrication and control principles required to realize these systems. The first is a soft exosuit that that can apply assistive joint torques to synergistically propel the wearer forward and provide support to minimize loading on the musculoskeletal system. Unlike traditional exoskeletons which contain rigid framing elements, the soft exosuit is worn like clothing, yet can generate significant moments at the ankle and hip to assist with walking.
Future versions of the exosuit will monitor the 3D kinematics and kinetics of the wearer using soft stretchable sensors that do not interfere with the natural mechanics of motion. Advantages of the suit over traditional exoskeletons are that the wearer's joints are unconstrained by external rigid structures, and the worn part of the suit is extremely light, which minimizes the suit's unintentional interference with the body's natural biomechanics. The second part of the talk will focus on the preliminary development of a soft robotic glove for hand rehabilitation that consists of a wearable textile with attached elastomeric fluid-powered actuators specially designed to match the natural movements of the fingers and thumb.
A component of the research is to develop the knowledge and techniques required to design soft multi-material fluid-powered actuators. These actuators, powered by pneumatic or hydraulic means, are of particular interest to the robotics community because they are lightweight, inexpensive, easily fabricated with emerging digital fabrication techniques and capable of producing complex three-dimensional outputs with simple control inputs. This is accomplished via a multi-step molding process where some combination of fillers (e.g. cloth, paper, particles and fibers) is integrated into a soft elastomeric matrix to create anisotropy in the bulk material properties. Upon pressurization, embedded channels or chambers in the soft actuator then expand in directions with the lowest stiffness and give rise to linear, bending, and twisting motions.
Bio: Conor is Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also the founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, industrial design, medical and business communities to develop smart medical devices and translate them to industrial partners in collaboration with the Wyss Institute's Advanced Technology Team. His educational interest is in the area of medical device innovation where he mentors student design teams on projects with clinicians in Boston and in emerging regions such as India. Conor received his B.A.I and B.A. degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 2003, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2010. He has been the recipient of over a dozen invention, entrepreneurship, and student mentoring awards including the MIT $100K business plan competition, Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Fellowship, and the MIT Graduate Student Mentor of the Year.
Contact: Ramanarayan Vasudevan, ramv at csail.mit.edu
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Kosovo and the Politics of Human Rights
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Cabot Room, Busch Hall, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Southeastern Europe Study Group
SPEAKER(S) John Cerone, Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
COST free
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Prodromou, elizabethprodromou at gmail.com
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/1867
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Anne Gearan, Diplomatic Correspondent at The Washington Post
Tuesday, February 25
4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 102, Cason Seminar Room, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Women and Public Policy Program.
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MassChallenge Sampler: Funding Success
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
One Marina Park Drive, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/masschallenge-sampler-funding-success-tickets-10318207035
The MassChallenge Sampler: An Accelerator Mini-Series
All startups need money- but what kind? When are you ready to pitch?
Learn when you are ready and what type of fundraising is right for your early-stage startup and the key steps to preparation.
Fundraising experts will cover key concepts for startups to know when they are ready to begin fundraising and the most important preparation tools when gearing up for the following sources of funding:
Bootstrapping
Crowdfunding
Angel funding
Venture Capital
Friends and families
Join us for an Unpanel event, where you will have the opportunity to hear from all panelists followed by breakout groups so that you can get more time with the expert of your choice.
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Growth Lessons from Silicon Valley to Boston
Tuesday, February 25
6:30pm
Paypal Boston, 1 International Place (5th Floor), Boston
Startup = Growth. Make it happen
Wealthfront is coming to Boston, and we'd like to meet you. Join us for a discussion on growth, product, and market success with Adam Nash, Wealthfront CEO (formerly at LinkedIn, eBay, Apple, and Greylock Ventures.) We'll provide the drinks and snacks, and you come ready to represent the Boston tech scene. This is Silicon Valley meets Boston, and we want to be friends.
We are also lucky to have 2 "lightning talks" from some of the best growth practitioners in Boston. We'll hear from Jeff Steeves, who led acquisition marketing at Wayfair.com and Zorian Rotenberg, head of Sales and Marketing at Insight Squared.
Thanks to Paypal for hosting our group, and please RSVP for yourself and a guest accurately— there is limited space and we'd like to order enough to drink.
#growthlessons
Speakers
Adam Nash, CEO of Wealthfront, @adamnash
Adam Nash, Wealthfront's Chief Executive Officer, is a proven advocate for development of products that go beyond utility to delight customers. Adam joined Wealthfront from Greylock Partners, where he was an Executive-in-Residence. Prior to Greylock, he was VP of Product Management at LinkedIn, where he built the teams responsible for core product, user experience, platform and mobile. Adam has held a number of leadership roles at eBay, including Director of eBay Express, as well as strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems and Apple. Adam holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Jeff Steeves, Former VP Marketing, Wayfair, @jsteeves
Jeff Steeves is a Boston based entrepreneur and the former VP of Marketing at Wayfair.com. He joined Wayfair in 2009, and was responsible for Customer Acquisition, Loyalty, and Retention programs and helped grow the business to nearly $1B in sales. Prior to joining Wayfair, Jeff was a venture capitalist with Fidelity Ventures and Prism VentureWorks where he focused on investments in software, Internet, and digital media.
Zorian Rotenberg, VP Sales and Marketing, Insight Squared, @zorian
Zorian leads Sales and Marketing for Insight Squared. He is a 4X startup exec, most recently the CMO at AppAssure Software which was acquired by Dell. Zorian was previously a VP at Veeam Software where he founded and managed the global Inbound Marketing & Demand Generation Group, the CEO of StarWind Software, and led sales and business development at Acronis Inc.
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
danah boyd
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome social media scholar and youth advocate DANAHBOYD for a discussion of her latest book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boydfinds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity.
Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
"In explaining the networked realm of teens, boyd has the insights of a sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and the savvy of a technologist. For parents puzzled about what their kids are doing online, this is an indispensable book."—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs
General Info: (617) 661-1515
info at harvard.com
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Playing to Engage: How to Revitalize Society
WHEN Tue., Feb. 25, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room 110, Barker Center
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Brian Waniewski, Institute of Play; with roundtable discussion moderated by Shari Tishman, Harvard Graduate School of Education
TICKET WEB LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
CONTACT INFO rapti at fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics
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Wednesday, February 26
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Inequality for All Screening and Forum
Wednesday, February 26
10am-1pm
Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston
MA State Representative Jay R. Kaufman with event co-hosts* Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Raise Up Massachusetts, Crittenton Women's Union, Massachusetts Communities Action Network, Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, Massachusetts Interfaith Worker Justice, Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action, Progressive Massachusetts, Restaurant Opportunities Center of Boston, SEIU 32 BJ District 615, Massachusetts Association for Community Action/MASSCAP, Budget for All, and United for a Fair Economy invite you to a screening of Robert Reich's award-winning documentary film Inequality for All.
This special Massachusetts screening is part of a national 50-state capital tour to mark the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Inequality for All tackles one of the most serious issues of our time: the widening income inequality in our nation and its consequences. To view the movie trailer visit: www.inequalityforall.com.
In a post-screening forum, a panel of experts will engage the audience in a discussion of, e.g., structural causes and manifestations of income inequality; racial, gender and class-related barriers to economic opportunities; the consequences of deteriorating anti-poverty and social safety net programs that stabilize struggling families; and the devastating, long-term impact of the widening income gap on our entire economy. In addition, there will be a focus on policies to address the widening economic gap and proposals to advance economic fairness, opportunity and stability.
For questions or more information please contact:
Anthony Sacco, Office of State Rep. Jay Kaufman: anthony.sacco at MAHouse.gov
Georgia Katsoulomitis, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute: GKatsoulomitis at mlri.org
Alexandre Galimberti, Restaurant Opportunities Council: alex at rocunited.org
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Handel & Haydn lecture/demo of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
11:00a–12:30p
MIT, Building 14W-111, Killian Hall, 60 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Susana Ogata AND Ian Watson
Over the next few years Handel and Haydn Society Assistant Concertmaster Susanna Ogata and fortepianist Ian Watson will record Beethoven's complete Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano. This performance/demonstration will include movements from Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 in A Major ("Kreutzer") and No. 4 in A Minor, performed on original instruments. http://www.beethoven-project.com
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
For more information, contact: Clarise Snyder
mta-request at mit.edu
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A New Climate Agreement in 2015: Opportunities and Challenges
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
11:45am - 1:00pm
WAPPP conference room, Taubman 102, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Robert Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The countries of the world have agreed to agree-on a new international climate agreement, by late 2015, at the annual UN climate-change conference, to be held in Paris. This agreement will be very different from the Kyoto Protocol-the only existing multilateral agreement on climate change. The core challenge will be to balance participation (in general more is better, but some participants are more important than others); ambition (that is, how far countries are willing to go in reducing emissions); and compliance (whether the agreement is structured such that countries will do what they say they will).
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Small Screens, Big Changes: Frontiers in Mobile Technology for Nutrition and Health (Wednesday Seminar Series)
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Tufts, Jaharis, Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Charles Teague (LoseIt!), Nick Patel (Wellable) and Neal Lesh (Dimagi), moderated by Lisa Gualteri (TUSM)
Contact: Charlene Stevens
charlene.stevens at tufts.edu
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Artist Talk + Panel on Fukushima Activism, Postwar Pop, Intermedia Art and Global Hip-Hop
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
3:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building E25-111, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events (Feb. 26-27) including live music and panel discussions
Artist Talk with Zeebra (Japanese hip-hop emcee) and MIT Professor Ian Condry, followed by presentations:
Marie Abe (BU) "Sounding Against Nuclear Power in Post-Fukushima Japan"
Miki Kaneda (Harvard) "Sonic Encounters Between Art and the Everyday in 1960s Japan"
Hiromu Nagahara (MIT) "The Politics of Pop Music Before J-Pop"
Murray Forman (NEU) "Move the Planet: Post-National Hip-Hop Diaspora"
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler at mit.edu
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Synthetic: How Life Got Made
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:00pm
Radcliffe Institute, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Sophia Roosth
During the fellowship year, Sophia Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Speaker Bio:
Sophia Roosth is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the 20th- and 21st-century life sciences, examining how biology is changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works.
During the fellowship year, Roosth is completing her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made.” In this work, Roosth asks what happens to “life” as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge. Grounded in an ethnographic study of synthetic biologists, she documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, taxonomic, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age.
Roosth was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She received her doctorate from the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. Roosth’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her recent publications have appeared in journals including American Anthropologist, Critical Inquiry, Differences, Representations, and Science in Context.
Part of the 2013–2014 Fellows Presentation Series
Host: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Contact: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/contact
Phone: (617) 496-8239
Email: info at radcliffe.harvard.edu
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"Gas-driven Fracturing – Influence of Gas Composition and State"
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:00pm
301 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Derek Elsworth, Penn State University
Abstract: Gaseous stimulants offer some advantages in the “hydraulic” fracturing of low permeability reservoirs over traditional water-based fluids. These include conserving water as a resource, avoiding the activation of clays with added water and in potentially sequestering greenhouse gases and in utilizing competitive sorption for the improved recovery of the hydrocarbon reserve. In addition, the energetics of the gas stimulant may be advantageous in developing networks of increased complexity. Experimental observations are presented of the influence of gas composition and state on the breakdown pressures and evolving fracture complexity of fractures driven by gas – as an analog to hydraulic fracturing in situ for hydrocarbon recovery – for example in gas shales. Gas-fracturing experiments on finitelength boreholes indicate that the breakdown pressure is a strong function of fracturing fluid composition and state – converse to the principle of effective stress. Breakdown stress is shown to correlate with fluid exclusion or invasion into the borehole wall as a function of interfacial characteristics. Interfacial tension, in turn, is modulated by fluid state, as sub- or supercritical, and thus gas type and state influence the breakdown pressure. We explore linkages in the resulting fracture complexity that is indexed by breakdown pressure.
Solid Earth Physics Seminar and SEAS Applied Mechanics Colloquium
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SSRC Seminar: Enterprise Evaluation of the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:15p–5:30p
MIT, Building E38-615, 292 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Andrea Ippolito, SSRC Research Assistant
Please join us for our next spring seminar. Andrea Ippolito will discuss the student-lead enterprise evaluation of the MA HIway using the enterprise strategic analysis for transformation (ESAT) and enterprise architecting (EA) methodologies. Light refreshments will be served.
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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Building Earth-like Planets: From Gas to Dust to Ocean Worlds
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:00pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Linda Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution
How do planets form, and what makes them habitable? Where might life be found beyond our solar system? Linda Elkins-Tanton, an expert in planet formation and evolution, will discuss how the violent impacts that are the “final act” of a planet’s creation may not always wipe out water and carbon from the early growth period. Enough of these all-important elements may have existed to make many rocky planets and exoplanets habitable, increasing the likelihood that life might exist elsewhere among the Milky Way’s 17 billion Earth-sized planets.
A Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
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Global Warming: The Risk and How to Confront It
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:00pm - 7:30pm
MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
MIT student group, Fossil Free MIT, presents The Climate Change Speaker Series with MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel
Ever wonder what climate change means for you, or what you can really do about it? Join Fossil Free MIT this Spring for a star-studded series of interactive discussions with some of the world's pioneering academics, advocates and activists, who are shaping today's global climate change conversation.
For our inaugural event, we are delighted to welcome MIT Professor of Atmospheric Science, Kerry Emanuel. Emanuel is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on the climate science of tropical cyclones. He was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2006 and is the author of Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes and of What We Know About Climate Change.
Free and open to the public. Learn More. Share with friends on Facebook.
Mark your calendar for more upcoming talks in our series: Polar explorer and climate campaigner, Parker Liautaud (April 2); world-famous climate scientist, James Hansen (April 15). Please check back on our website soon for more details and further speaker listings.
More information at http://www.fossilfreemit.org/
fossilfree at mit.edu
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Google’s Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen discuss The New Digital Age
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6 – 7:15pm
Tufts, Cohen Auditorium, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
Billions of people are coming online in the next decade. Their physical lives, human rights, and civic relationships will be forever altered. In THE NEW DIGITAL AGE: Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen tackle some of the most interesting questions about our future: how will technology change privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism? How will technology improve our lives? What new disruptions can we expect?
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The Unknown Known: Film Screening and Discussion Featuring Director Errol Morris
WHEN Wed., Feb. 26, 2014, 6 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Ash Center
SPEAKER(S) Errol Morris, filmmaker and author; Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship
COST Free and open to the public
NOTE Join us for a screening of "The Unknown Known," Errol Morris’ latest documentary film profiling former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Following the screening, Morris will participate in a discussion, moderated by Archon Fung, on the expansion of presidential power and the potential threats it poses to our democracy’s compact between the chief executive, Congress, the courts, and the people. In The Unknown Known, Rumsfeld gives in to a unique interview with the Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris. Whether you think Rumsfeld is a patriot or a liar, he’s never less than mesmerizing.
Seats are limited and will be first come first serve. Pizza and beverages will be provided.
LINK http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/Challenges-to-Democracy/Events/The-Unknown-Known
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Dirt! The Movie
Wednesday, February 26
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Boston Natural Areas Network, 62 Summer Street, 2nd Floor, Downtown Crossing, Boston
Registration required by contacting 617-542- 7696 or email dana at bostonnatural.org
All programs are free and open to the public.
A panel discussion with soil specialists will immediately follow the film with special guests:
Bruce Fulford, President, City Soil and Greenhouse, LLC
Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Associated Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Dan Kittredge, Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association
Explore the magical world of soil in this insightful and timely film. Following the history and current state of the living organic matter, “Dirt! The Movie” takes a humorous and substantial look at the glorious and often unappreciated material beneath our feet. Join Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, associate professor at Boston University School of Public Health, and others for a panel discussion following the screening.
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Post-Sustainability: Thinking Big
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
MFA, Remis Auditorium, 161
Tickets http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/post-sustainability-thinking-big
Cost: $15 (MFA members, seniors, and students), $18 Nonmembers
Esther Steinberg Memorial Architecture Lecture
Mitchell Joachim, architect and designer; TED Fellow; co-president Terreform ONE
In 2008, Wired magazine selected Mitchell Joachim as one of the 15 people "the next president should listen to," and Rolling Stone honored him as among the 100 people who are changing America. Joachim is inspiring and creating the next generation of cities by answering the question: What are the most stimulating solutions to global climate change? His extraordinary projects have included homes grown from native trees, structural elements made out of fungi, and soft “self-healing” cars. As he told the Huffington Post, "Don't swallow the pill that someone else gave you. We can create a better city."
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
Ticket policies
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Environment, and Plasticity lecture
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Boston's Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healthy-brains-genes-environment-and-plasticity-registration-9882994302
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
The brain is an astonishing organ. It enables us to speak, solve problems, create new ideas, and consider abstract thoughts. Scientists have identified critical periods for brain development when we are young. A recent surprise, though, is the finding that the brain has remarkable plasticity, even in our golden years. Join us for a journey into the brain to discover how our parents and life experiences influence its growth, and how we can nurture its healthful development. Explore what is possible when we apply our boundless ingenuity to bolster ourselves, restore our reserves, and improve our future.
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LIVE HIP-HOP from Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
8:00p–1:00a
Middlesex Lounge, Central Square, Cambridge
Music, Culture and Transformation
A two-day series of events Feb. 26-27
Live Hip-Hop from Tokyo featuring Zeebra & Miss Monday, plus local faves WTF
8pm WTF (Wallys Tuesday Funk, local funk jazz band)
9pm Miss Monday (hip-hop emcee and reggae legend from Tokyo)
10pm Guest DJ set by Zeebra (Tokyo-based emcee and international recording artist)
11p - 1a international dance party with DJ Ian C. and more . . .
Please note: 18+ event, 18-20 year-olds - please RSVP to Kevin McLellan (poet at mit.edu)
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler at mit.edu
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Thursday, February 27
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Greenovate Boston Meet-up for Small Businesses: Greening your Bottom Line
Thursday, February 27, 2014
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
Boston Society of Architects Space, 290 Congress Street, 2nd Floor, Pearl Room, Boston
Join us for a small business meet-up to learn how many small businesses across the city are taking advantage of programs and incentives to improve their bottom line, meet new customer demands for more environmentally-friendly products and services, and help Boston reach its climate action goals. You'll also have the opportunity to provide feedback for small business programs and services that will help shape the 2014 Climate Action Plan Update.
Climate Action Liaison Coalition (CALC) is a pilot program designed for environmentally concerned business owners. It helps them to take direct, targeted action to end the climate crisis. We enable local small business leaders to implement initiatives within their businesses to increase preparedness and resilience to climate change, enhance their long term sustainability, and advocate more efficiently for robust environmental policy.
http://www.climateactioncoalition.org
Greenovate Boston is a community-driven movement to get all Bostonians involved in reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, as outlined in the City’s Climate Action Plan. By laying out the necessary steps to reduce the causes of and to prepare for climate change, the Climate Action Plan gives Greenovate Boston a framework for building a greener, healthier, and more prosperous city.
http://www.greenovateboston.org
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Scientific Imaging for Artwork & Other Cultural Heritage Materials
Thursday, February 27, 2014
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 14N-132, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Carla Schroer
New scientific imaging tools offer the capability to see distinctive details on a 16th century rare book cover, a manuscript, or a work of art, that can't be seen with the naked eye. Please join the MIT Libraries Curation and Preservation Services Department for a fascinating look at how this technology can help us to learn more about our cultural heritage materials, and how to best preserve them.
Carla Schroer, of the non-profit Cultural Heritage Imaging, will discuss the new empirical capture and analysis tools Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), Algorithmic Rendering (AR), and image-based Structure from Motion (SFM) generation of textured 3D geometry. These techniques will be explored in the context of the emerging science of "Computational Photography." Computational Photography extracts and synthesizes information from image sequences to create a new type of image containing information not found in any single image in the sequence.
This technology is in use in many areas from major art museums to remote archaeological sites to fields in the natural sciences. http://culturalheritageimaging.org/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Jana Dambrogio
jld at mit.edu
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Oilfield Technology : How innovation changes the game
Thursday, February 27, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 3-333
Speaker: Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger
In this Energy Club Lectures Series, Julius Kusuma of Schlumberger will discuss Schlumberger's innovative oilfield technologies.
Energy Lectures Series
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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Herbie Hancock: "The Ethics of Jazz - Cultural Diplomacy"
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:00 PM
Sanders Theater/Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy, Cambridge
The 2014 Norton Lectures - Presented by Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Series of Six Lectures: February 3 - March 31, 2014
Set 3 - CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE VOICE OF FREEDOM
Upcoming Lectures
March 10, 2014 Set 4 - INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
March 24, 2014 Set 5 - BUDDHISM AND CREATIVITY
March 31, 2014 Set 6 - ONCE UPON A TIME…
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C.C. Stillman (Harvard 1898). Incumbents are in residence through their tenure of the Chair, and deliver six lectures.
The term "poetry" is interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts. Previous holders of the Chair include Gilbert Murray (1926-27), T.S. Eliot (1932-33), Igor Stravinsky (1939-40), Paul Hindemith (1949-50), Ben Shahn (1956-57), Leonard Bernstein (1972-73), Frank Stella (1982-84), John Cage (1988-89), and Luciano Berio (1992-93).
Event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available at Sanders Theatre starting at noon on the day of each lecture.
Tickets also available online starting at noon on the day of each lecture at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu (handling fee applies). Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets valid only until 3:45 pm.
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Wearable Haptic Technologies for Telexistence, Telecommunication, and Medical Applications
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32D-463, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Dzmitry Tsetserukou
Wearable haptic technology is a category of devices incorporating electronic technology and haptic actuators for presentation of tactile stimuli (force, vibration, pressure, temperature) to the wearer. Wearables emerge as biggest trend in consumer electronics. The talk will focus on four mainstream projects employing wearable interfaces with haptic feedback: telexistence system NAVIgoid, VR simulator NurseSim, haptic display LinkTouch, and emotional communication system iFeel_IM!.
NAVIgoid consists of a master wearable robot (ProInterface with head mounted display) and intelligent mobile robot. The developed interface allows the operator to use their body posture and gestures for controlling the mobile robot and at the same time to feel remote objects through sense of touch.
NurseSim is a novel VR simulator for nurses to train them how to carry an unconscious person and maintain posture correctly. User wears a haptic exoskeleton and lifts body of care-receiver in simulated 3D environment. Haptic display generates torques so that wearer experiences realistic sensation of the patient weight.
LinkTouch is an innovative wearable haptic device with a five-bar linkage mechanism for presentation of 2-DoF force feedback at the fingerpad. The application of LinkTouch for a wrist-worn device capable of online blood pressure measurement will be demonstrated.
MIT Skoltech Initiative Seminar
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/sktech/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Skoltech Initiative
For more information, contact: Brett Minassian
617-324-8169
brettm at mit.edu
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2014: Gender, Media and the Permanent Campaign
WHEN Thu., Feb. 27, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Littauer 166, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute of Politics
SPEAKER(S) Shira Center, Spring 2014 IOP Fellow; David Weigel, political reporter for Slate
NOTE The media business has changed drastically over the last decade, transforming the way voters get political news and how reporters deliver it. How do female vs. male pols fare in the hyperactive cycle filled with memes, listicles and tweets? Confirmed Guest: David Weigel, political reporter for Slate.
LINK http://iop.harvard.edu/2014-gender-media-and-permanent-campaign-led-shira-t-center-1
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Master Class with David Malan: The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
WHEN Thu., Feb. 27, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Askwith Lecture Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Information Technology, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Education
SPEAKER(S) David Malan, senior lecturer on computer science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Karen Brennan, assistant professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO laurie_forcier at gse.harvard.edu, 617.495.3401
NOTE Master Class is a new series at HGSE celebrating inspiring teaching at Harvard. This new series will provide the opportunity for the Harvard community to learn from an inspiring Harvard teacher, and then discuss their approach to the art of teaching. Our first featured master teacher is David Malan, senior lecturer on computer science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Malan will first teach a mini-class and then Brennan will lead a reflective discussion.
LINK http://www.gse.harvard.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D109211511
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"Following Images to Environmental History: Oil Spectacles and New Deal Home Gardens, Two Case Studies"
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College
Presented by the Workshop on The Environment and the American Past
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/docketevents.html
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MIT Big Data Challenge - Transportation in the City of Boston
Thursday, February 27, 2014
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Join us at 5:15pm to view screening of the visualization submissions!
MIT, Stata Center, Building 32, Room: 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP (and see who is coming) at https://bdchallengeevent.eventbrite.com
The first MIT BIG DATA CHALLENGE ended on January 20th, 2014 and now its time to announce the WINNERS for the prediction and visualization challenges. Prizes totaling $10K.
Hear from the winning teams on what they did and lessons learned.
Invited Guest Speaker: NIGEL JACOB from the City of Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Visualization Judging Panel will provide feedback and announce the winners:
Vineet Gupta, Transportation Planning Director, City of Boston
Haris Koutsopoulos, Research Associate and Professor of Transport Science, MIT
Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab, MIT
Mona Vernon, Emerging Technology, Thomson Reuters
Martin Wattenberg, Google, Cambridge Lab
This event is open to the community.
For more information About the Challenge: http://bigdatachallenge.csail.mit.edu/
For more information MIT Big Data Initiative: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
Questions about the Event please contact: Susana Kevorkova, skevorkova at csail.mit.edu
Co-sponsored by: Bigdata at CSAIL and Transportation at MIT
Challenge Partner: City of Boston
Data Partners: Creative CMT, GNIP, MBTA, Telenav, Twitter
Susana Kevorkova, Assistant to Elizabeth Bruce & Big Data Initiative at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
w. 617.324.8424
c. 323.528.6013
http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
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Shigeru Ban : Works and Humanitarian Activities
Thursday, February 27, 2014
6:30pm
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Shigeru Ban, Architect, Tokyo
The 8th Goldstein Lecture in Architecture, Engineering, and Science
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim at mit.edu
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Friday, February 28
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The New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents: Evolution of Capacity (and Energy) Market Design in New England
Friday, February 28, 2014
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
Dr. Sam Newell, Principal, The Brattle Group
Bill Mohl, President, Entergy Wholesale Commodities
Julien Dumoulin-Smith, Exec. Director, U.S. Electric Utility/IPP Group, UBS Investment Bank
Don Sipe, Partner, PretiFlaherty
Come hear about the competing proposals filed last Friday at FERC by ISO New England and NEPOOL for changes to New England's capacity market design. Dr. Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development at ISO New England, will describe ISO's proposed market rule changes developed through its strategic planning initiative to address resource performance in the wholesale market and to implement Pay for Performance in the Forward Capacity Market. Peter Fuller, Director of Regulatory Affairs at
NRG Energy/GenOn, will then describe an alternate proposal supported by NEPOOL. The ISO submitted both proposals together, in what is known as a "jump ball" filing, for FERC to decide.
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To provide a broader context for these proposals, we will begin with a panel to discuss the evolution of both capacity and energy market design in New England, including a comparison with other regions. This panel will explore the intended role of capacity markets vis-a-vis energy markets, including where things stand now, and what types of improvements may (or may not) be warranted. We have assembled an excellent panel with deep and broad expertise and experience on this topic.
Free and open to the public with no advanced
registration!
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A Conversation with US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
WHEN Fri., Feb. 28, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
WHERE Aldrich Hall 112, Harvard Business School, 35 Harvard Way, Allston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, HBS US Competitiveness Project
SPEAKER(S) A conversation with US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), chair, Senate Appropriations Committee, about getting things done in DC, transportation and infrastructure issues and other priorities, and women’s leadership roles in the US Senate
COST Free
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Aircraft-based Measurements of Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Operations in the Bakken, the Barnett, and the Marcellus Formations
Friday, February 28, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Paul Shepson, Purdue
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminars
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"Material/Immaterial"
Friday, February 28, 2014
5:30pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Vincent James, Architect, VJAA, Minneapolis
Architecture Lecture Series
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim at mit.edu
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"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" - Film Screening
Friday, February 28, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Fifth Annual WOMEN TAKE THE REEL Film Festival.
WOMEN TAKE THE REEL is a FREE film festival that celebrates women's contributions to the film industry, their voices and their stories.
MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies and Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies celebrate Black Herstory month and the fifth annual Women Take the Reel film festival with a screening of...
"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" directed by Shola Lynch
Angela Davis joins the Communist Party, protests with the Black Panthers, and becomes a principle spokesperson for the burgeoning prison reform movement. As a result, she finds herself fighting to keep her job, and in the national media spotlight characterized by her many detractors as a dangerous subversive menace, and by her supporters as a strong leader challenging authority and boldly advocating for "Power to All People." On August 7th, 1970 Angela is implicated in the politically motivated kidnapping and murder of a judge in a brazen daylight shootout at the Marin County, CA courthouse. Angela flees California, convinced she will not be given a fair trial and is placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. After a national manhunt she is captured two months later in New York City. Charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, Angela is put on trial in one of the most sensational court cases of its time. After a two-year legal battle, an all white jury acquits her on all charges in 1972. You know her name. Now, you will finally know her story.
101 minutes. Free and open to the public.
Q&A with MIT Professor Sandy Alexandre to follow.
Web site: web.mit.edu/wgs
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, Comparative Media Studies|Writing, Office of Minority Education, Political Science, Literature, Linguistics & Philosophy and History.
For more information, contact: The Friendly WGS Staff
617-253-8844
wgs at mit.edu
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Saturday, March 1
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Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Workshop
Saturday, March 1
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 River Road, Topsfield
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=s4blzzbab&oeidk=a07e8sp7hkpc2a4f02a
Sign up for a Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop to be eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan and reduce energy costs!
Would you like to save money for your parish? Did you know that the average parish in the diocese spends over $20,000 on energy costs annually but that savings of 20-30% are possible? Do you know Diocesan grant and loan funds are available to assist with energy efficiency improvements that can help achieve these savings? As importantly, reducing your energy use also cares for God’s creation by reducing the greenhouse gases your parish produces.
The Diocese’s Creation Care Initiative can help your parish learn how to reduce its energy use and cost, evaluate potential energy savings projects then purchase needed supplies and equipment.
The harvest has been plentiful! Since the grant program launched in 2011, we have granted nearly $600,000 in Green Grants to 69 congregations, and all have representatives that attended SHOWs to learn the whys and hows of sustainability and reducing carbon footprints. In 2014, we will have another round as we use the resources our diocese’s Together Now campaign has raised.
Consider this: whether you intend to apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan or not, determining the size of your carbon footprint is the first step in energy savings and caring for creation. One of the first steps to being eligible to apply for a Green Improvement Grant or Green Loan is to attend a SHOW workshop.
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 apply for a Green Grant or Green Loan
There is $10 per person fee to attend the workshop, payable during online registration through PayPal or by check. Light refreshments are included. Registration begins at 8:30 and the program starts at 9.
When you register, you will receive an easy-to-use spreadsheet to calculate your parish’s energy use and cost; you are encourage to fill it out and bring it to the workshop. You may also download the spreadsheet here: http://www.mipandl.org/MIPL_resources/MIPL_HOWUtiUseCost.xls
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.
Location Information: Trinity Church is located just off I-95 at 124 River Road in Topsfield. Click here for directions. The workshop will take place in the Vestry Room/Worship Room space, which is in the office wing. There will be signs to direct you! The space is completely handicap-accessible.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 27TH
Contact Esther Powell
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
617.482.4826 x421
epowell at diomass.org
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Countersurveillance Hackathon Cambridge
Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EAT)
MIT Media Lab, Center For Civic Media, 75 Amherst, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/countersurveillance-hackathon-cambridge-tickets-10302010591
The MIT Media Lab Codesign Studio team is organizing, hosting, participating in, and supporting several countersurveillance DiscoTechs (short for “Discovering Technology”) during the spring of 2014, mostly on March 1st and 2nd.
Cool! What’s a DiscoTech?
Our DiscoTechs follow the model developed by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition:
A DiscoTech is a community-based, community-organized, multimedia workshop and fair. At a DiscoTech, participants learn more about the impacts and possibilities of technology, and take part in fun, interactive and media-based workshops. Discotech workshops are designed to demystify technology and create a space where we can inform and engage our community [...] A Discotech utilizes the unique skills and expertise within each community, and morphs to adapt to changing needs. [Seehttp://detroitdjc.org/zines]
Our countersurveillance DiscoTechs are free, open, multi-site events, with confirmed locations in Boston, San Francisco, Palestine, and additional locations TBA (as well as online). This registration page is for the Cambridge event.
What will happen at the Countersurveillance DiscoTechs?
At the countersurveillance DiscoTechs, we’ll focus on creating welcoming spaces where a wide range of people (not just techies and activists!) will feel welcome exploring, learning about, and sharing each others’ experiences with surveillance. At the same time, we’re inviting community organizations, technologists, developers, and designers to come to the DiscoTechs to sprint/hack on projects together. There will be speakers and workshops. We’ll dive in deep to understand surveillance tools, systems, and histories. We’ll also get hands-on with tools and approaches that can strengthen our communities’ privacy, safety, and security. We’ll break down structural inequality in surveillance regimes that disproportionately target people of color, working people, immigrants, and activists. Our goals will be to understand surveillance in everyday life, and to work hands-on with community-based organizations to strengthen countersurveillance strategies and tools.
Awesome! How can I participate?
In Cambridge? We'd love to see you at the event. Just register above. A full list of locations can be found at the DiscoTech page of the Codesign website. If you don't see a place near you, we'd love to support you in starting one where you are!
Projects to be Hacked:
TBD, based on project partners and the codesign studio.
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Symposium: Political Dialogue and Civility in an Age of Polarization
WHEN Sat., Mar. 1, 2014
WHERE Harvard Law School, Austin North, Austin Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Negotiation Law Review
SPEAKER(S) TBA
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO sgonski at jd15.law.harvard.edu
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Concert for the Silver Maple Forest
Saturday, March 1, 2014
7:30pm
The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist, 404 Concord Avenue, Belmont
Tickets: http://www.belmontcoalition.org
Donation $25 or $27 at the door
Featuring: The Loomers
with food baby opening
Contact Save the Silver Maple Forest
https://www.facebook.com/savethesilvermapleforest
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Green Business Allies: Make a Difference Party
Saturday, March 1, 2014
7:30 PM
Trish's House, 29 Elm Street (left door), Somerville (near Porter Square)
Cost: $15.00/per person
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/green-business-allies/events/166326272/
Make A Difference Party
This multi-meetup event is an opportunity to connect, socialize, and dream with other passionate souls that want to make a difference in the world.
Inspired by a story I was recently told by a man that met someone at one of my dance parties that is now helping him launch his green invention in the world, I thought what a great idea to set a more specific intention for a gathering. I know many of you (like myself) are passionate, multi-talented and have a vision of what the world could be. Let’s gather and meet each other!!
Do you like to share you ideas for a better world?
Are you a social or green entrepreneur?
Are you an artist, musician, or performer that has a mission?
Do you have a passion, gift or business that would love to partner with a cause?
Are you part of a non-profit?
Do you have a dream of a project you would like to bring to the world?
Are you a philanthropist or love volunteering to help others?
This is a social event rather than a formal networking meeting….a chance to build relationships and connect on multiple levels. In my experience being curious and open minded can create opportunities you would have never logically thought of….. You never know where the connection and conversation can lead you!
We will be providing the yummy appetizers with gluten free and vegan choices (you don’t need to bring something to share like our dance parties) as well as non-alcoholic beverages. There will be no Dj at this event so there will be a more conducive environment for talking.
Be sure to bring your cards.
Bring your own beer and wine.
Feel free to bring guests!
For questions email Trish or call her at [masked].
This is a multi-meetup group event. We are requesting a $15 contribution. You can pay online or at the door.
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Monday, March 3
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3D Fabrication of Textile Devices: From Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Geneviève Dion, Assistant Professor, Director, Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory at Drexel University
The Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory is dedicated to advancing the fields of wearable technology and cutting-edge textiles, by laying the foundation for modular and flexible production intended for a variety of high performance applications. 3D knit fabrication holds remarkable potential for innovative and customizable design solutions, offering a future of many opportunities including sustainable methods of production and rapid prototyping. We explore 3D knit fabrication methods to create forms requiring little to no assembly after being knitted and experiment with new yarns to design innovative textile devices. Multidisciplinary research, with strong support from industry partnerships, enables us to investigate new materials and fabricate seamless forms that empower designers and researchers to invent and prototype products that can be readily scaled up for production.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio at wyss.harvard.edu
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ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Monday, March 3, 2014
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), MIT; and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica (IIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund at hks.harvard.edu
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Technology and Education in the Age of Film
Monday, March 03, 2014
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building 10-105, Bush Room, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: David Mindell
This talk will trace the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. Mindell will focus on what became known as the 'audiovisual' industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today's digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today's debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies. For more information please visit odl.mit.edu/xtalks.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/david-mindell-technology-and-education-in-the-age-of-film/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles at mit.edu
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France's Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comedie Francaise
Monday, March 03, 2014
4:30p–5:30p
MIT, Building 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Maurice Samuels, Professor, Yale
This talk examines one of the most stunning cases of Jewish integration in the golden age following emancipation: Rachel Felix, who became France's most celebrated actress in the 1830s and 40s with her electrifying performances as the heroines of Racine and Corneille at the Comedie Francaise. The daughter of poor, Yiddish-speaking peddlers, Rachel single-handedly revived the neoclassical theatrical tradition while at the same time maintaining (some would say flaunting) her Jewish identity. Reading the critical response to Rachel from the time, Samuels explores how she offered a model for the way French universalism, embodied in the neo-classical tradition, could be enabled rather than hindered by Jewishness.
MIT Research Seminar in French and Francophone Studies
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Foreign Languages & Literatures, Comedie Francaise Registers Project
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-253-4771
lhickler at mit.edu
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Paper Engineering Page Turns for Music Scores
Monday, March 03, 2014
5:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 14E-109, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Erin Gee, Jana Dambrogio
Composer and vocalist Erin Gee and MIT Libraries conservator Jana Dambrogio will demonstrate a practical, low-tech way to transform the pages of your performing music scores into a continuous sheet that is easy to handle during performances. Erin will perform the voice part from her piece for voice and ensemble, Mouthpiece X, to show how the enhanced score functions. Jana will demonstrate how you can do this with your own music. Reception follows.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Libraries
For more information, contact: Munstedt, Peter A
617-253-5636
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Monday, March 3, 2014
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome EMILY PARKER, former member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning staff, for a discussion of her book Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, Emily Parker provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China, Cuba and Russia.
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become the most prominent opposition figure since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of Twitter and Facebook, this is impossible. Or as one blogger put it: "Now I know who my comrades are." Social media helps people overcome feelings of powerlessness, leading to the rise of a new kind of citizen.
Emily Parker details how prominent dissidents and ordinary citizens use the Internet to expose injustices and challenge authority. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are is a testament to the power of community in the face of repression.
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ACT Lecture - John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul: Transfigured Night
Monday, March 03, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul
Joh productions n Akomfrah's Transfigured Night is a two-screen installation and reinterpretation of Richard Dehmel's poem Verklarte Nacht that reflects on postcolonial histories. Exploring the many facets of migration, human experience, and political struggle, Akomfrah and Gopaul's films, gallery installations, documentaries, TV, and video works challenge and redefine traditional modes of filmmaking.
John Akomfrah, OBE, and Lina Gopaul co-founded the seminal film and video group Black Audio Film Collective and the more recent production company Smoking Dogs Films. Their collaborative and long-standing partnership has won them over thirty-five international awards and over one hundred official film festival selections. Akomfrah and Gopaul's extensive filmography includes The March (2013), Stuart Hall Project (2012), The Nine Muses (2010), Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (2009), Riot (1999), Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997), and Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993).
This lecture is presented in collaboration with the MIT Visiting Artists Program and in connection to the Cinematic Migrations Symposium on March 6-7, 2014.
Complementing the lecture series and symposium, the Harvard Film Archive will be showing several films directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. See http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa for details.
Experiments in Thinking, Action, and Form: Cinematic Migrations
Cinematic Migrations, as a conjoined designation, poses the notion of "migrations" in relation to "the cinematic" in an intentionally porous juxtaposition, conceived to allow a wide range of questions, interpretations and permutations to emerge. During this initial phase, the work of John Akomfrah, currently with Smoking Dogs Films and previously with Black Audio Film Collective, provides a focal point for examination, in conjunction with presentations of filmmakers, artists, and scholars participating in the related lecture series.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/projects/cinematic-migrations/
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning
For more information, contact: Laura Anca Chichisan
617-253-5229
act at mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 4
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
Keynotes:
Living Building Institute’s Amanda Sturgeon at 9am
EPA’s Gina McCarthy To Give Remarks at BE14 at 9:30am
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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The Sustainable Business Network of MA's LOCAL FOOD TRADE SHOW
March 4, 2014
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Registration Fees:
FREE for Massachusetts and New England Specialty Crop Producers (See USDA definition here)
$100 for All Other Exhibitors (Local Food Aggregators, Distributors, and Non-Specialty Local Food Producers)
$25 for Attendees (Buyers and Others)
Connecting Wholesale Buyers and Producers of Local Food
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is excited to announce its third Local Food Trade Show. This event is sponsored by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event are Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Health Care Without Harm.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate trade between local buyers and producers of specialty crop food products and includes expert panels on overcoming barriers to selling and buying local products, as well as open floor trading.
The 2014 Local Food Trade Show will attract:
Massachusetts and New England-based specialty and non-specialty crop growers, fishermen, and value-added producers who are looking to connect to interested wholesale buyers
Massachusetts and New England-based buyers, including college and healthcare institutions, restaurants, retail grocers and more
Other organizations that support or do business with food growers, producers or buyers
Event Itinerary:
7:30am - 9:45am Set-up for Exhibitors
7:30am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am - 9:45am Seminar #1 (Buyer Seminar)
9:45am - 12:00pm Open Floor Trading
12:15pm - 1:30pm Seminar #2 (Producer Seminar)
Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for $11.00 and will be available to pick up from 11:30am until 1:30pm
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The MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series presents:
An Interview and Open Discussion with John Wiehoff, CEO of C.H. Robinson
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
12pm
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30am. The talk will begin at noon and will run until 1pm.
MIT, Building E51-315, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
C.H. Robinson CEO John Wiehoff will visit MIT to share some of the dynamics in the challenging transportation and logistics services marketplace, as well as some of the future challenges and opportunities in the industry. This session will be conducted in an interview and open discussion format, which provides an exciting engagement with this industry leader.
Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson is one of the world's largest third party logistics (3PL) providers, with 2012 gross revenues of $11.4 billion. The company provides freight transportation and logistics, outsource solutions, produce sourcing, and information services to over 42,000 customers through a network of offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
To learn more about this event, see: http://ctl.mit.edu/events/mit_ctl_global_leadership_lecture_series_john_wiehoff_ceo_ch_robinson
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Dafna Linzer, managing editor, MSNBC.com
Tuesday, March 4
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Shorenstein Center Speaker Series
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation
March 4, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/lakhani#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems, however, is whether disclosures take place only after final innovations are completed or whether disclosures relate to intermediate solutions and advances. Karim Lakhani will present experimental evidence showing that implementing intermediate versus final disclosures does not just create quantitative tradeoffs in shaping the rate of innovation. Rather, it qualitatively transforms the very nature of the innovation search process. Intermediate disclosures have the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solutions, but curtails experimentation and wider search. He will discuss comparative advantages of systems implementing intermediate versus final disclosures.
This talk is based on the paper "How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation."
About Karim
Karim R. Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be accessed through innovation contests. Currently Professor Lakhani is investigating incentives and behavior in contests and the mechanisms behind scientific team formation through field experiments on the TopCoder platform and the Harvard Medical School.
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Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard in Conversation about Art Education and Popular Feminism
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Education, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Judy Chicago and Jane Gerhard
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-judy-chicago-in-conversation
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The Missing Link of the Agricultural Revolution: A View from Northeast China
WHEN Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Case Study Room – CGIS South S020, Center for Government and International Studies South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University FAS Standing Committee on Archaeology
SPEAKER(S) Gideon Shelach
CONTACT INFO sca at fas.harvard.edu
NOTE The lecture will be followed by a reception in the CGIS South Concourse.
LINK http://archaeology.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68827&pageid=icb.page396550
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SCIENCE with/in/sight: 2014 Koch Institute Image Awards
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 76-156, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 500 Main Street, Cambridge
Editorial Comment: Yes, that Koch.
with/in/sight
The Koch Institute's with/in/sight public lecture series features the insights that emerge when powerful forces come together. We explore the intersections where science meets engineering, clinical practice meets urgent patient need, entrepreneurial drive meets venture capital, and imaging technology meets artistic vision. We invite you to explore new vistas with us as we work together to bring cancer solutions within sight.
Tonight's Program:
Celebrate the opening of the 2014 Image Awards Exhibition in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. From cancer biology and computer science to neuroscience and nanotechnology, this whirlwind tour of life sciences research at MIT has something for everyone. Researchers from across the Institute will present the science and stories behind their winning images, with plenty of time for questions, conversation, and networking.
Web site: http://ki.mit.edu/news/events/withinsight/march-2014
Open to: the general public
Cost: free, please register in advance
Tickets: http://science-withinsight-2014.eventbrite.com/?aff=mitevents
Sponsor(s): Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For more information, contact: Vanessa Alviti
617-324-2169
valviti at mit.edu
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Sustainable Food Fix
Tuesday, March 4th
6-9PM
Cambridge Innovation Center Venture Café, 5th Floor, One Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mar-4-basg-sustainable-food-fix-getting-the-food-system-we-want-we-need-tickets-10483896617
Cost: $10-$12
Our food system is extraordinarily complex with a myriad of stakeholders motivated by varying concerns of climate change, personal health, local economic development, social justice, financial returns, and other factors. What does the local landscape of food look like for us in New England and what does the future hold in terms of innovative partnerships and disruptive supply chain solutions?
Come hear from leaders, who will share a broad perspective of the food system.
Holly Fowler Co-founder & Managing Director, Northbound Ventures, LLC
Holly is a strategic advisor on sustainable agriculture, energy, water, waste, health, and stakeholder engagement to clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, national health care networks, public school districts, colleges and universities, city and state governments, and non-profit organizations. From 2008-2013, she was the Senior Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility for Sodexo North America, where she led training and innovation, identification and implementation of best practices, and deployment of a proprietary dashboard for measuring site-level impacts at over 500 locations.
Edith Murnane
Director of the Office of Food Initiatives, City of Boston
Edith will highlight recent successes of the City of Boston's food agenda to increase access to healthy and affordable food, to expand Boston's capacity to produce, distribute and consume local food through urban agriculture, and to build a strong local food economy through financing and supporting local food retail and distribution businesses.
Alex Linkow, Program Director, Fair Food Fun
Alex will share how the Fair Food Fund, an impact capital fund from Fair Food Network, is supporting food system enterprises that connect small and medium-sized, sustainable farms in the Northeast with the growing demand for local, sustainably-produced food.
Stacia Clinton, RD. LDN. Healthy Food in Health Care Program Regional Director, Health Care Without Harm
Stacia will discuss her experience using clinician advocacy, market-based strategies, and policy efforts to improve the food system through involvement with regionally-based and national organizations. She is a Regional Healthy Food in Health Care Program Director for the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm guiding local and sustainable institutional purchasing and program development for the six-state New England region.
Tim Griffin
Associate Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Tim will present the future of agriculture in New England and the potential for diverse stakeholders to collaborate in creating a sustainable regional food system. Timothy Griffin received his Ph.D. in crop and soil science from Michigan State University. Dr. Griffin is a faculty steering committee member for the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts. His primary research interest is the intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems.
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Wednesday, March 5
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Oganizing Repression: Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri
Security Studies Progam Wednesday seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: 617-253-7529
valeriet at mit.edu
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Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
11:45am - 1:00pm
L-332, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
The panel, “Career Opportunities in Energy and Environment” will provide an overview of different career options in public-service oriented energy and environment. Speakers include:
Michael Buonocore, MPP ‘11, is Senior Manager of Real-Time and Dispatch Operations, EnerNOC
Moses Esema, MPP-MBA ’14, formerly Consultant with World Bank, Clean Energy and Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Rick Kjelberg, MPA ’13, Ogin, Inc. (formerly known as FloDesign Wind Turbine), Process Manager, Business Development
Henry Lee, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Feel free to bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided.
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Wind driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO2
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
12:10p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Jonathan Lauderdale (MIT)
Uncertainty about the causes of natural atmospheric carbon dioxide variations in the past demonstrates our incomplete grasp of fundamental processes that govern the climate. The Southern Ocean residual overturning circulation is thought to play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Using a coarse resolution configuration of MITgcm and its coupled biogeochemistry code, an ensemble of idealized perturbations to external forcing and internal physics of the Southern Ocean is examined revealing a striking positive correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the rate of Southern Ocean overturning: stronger or northward-shifted westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere result in increased residual circulation, greater upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters and oceanic outgassing, which increases atmospheric pCO2 by ~20 uatm; weaker or southward-shifted winds lead to the opposing result. The ocean carbon inventory in our model studies varies through contrasting changes in the diagnosed saturated, disequilibrium, soft-tissue and carbonate reservoirs, each varying by O(10-100) PgC, all of which contribute to the net anomaly in atmospheric CO2, elucidating the processes that link circulation, nutrient distributions and biological productivity.
Oceanography and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series
The MIT Oceanography and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series is 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. Students are encouraged to lunch with the speaker. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen DiNisco
617-253-2127
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Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism: Candy Crowley
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School,79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Award Ceremonies, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Candy Crowley, chief political correspondent, CNN
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO alison_kommer at hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.1329
LINK www.shorensteincenter.org
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US Launch of *impossible* with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
March 5, 2014
6:30pm ET
Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/03/impossible#RSVP
Since September, the public has been experimenting with an app that relies on the goodness of humankind. Called *impossible*, it leverages the idea of a gift economy through social media to grant wishes. Users interact by posting wishes—such as a desire to learn Spanish or to find a jogging buddy—and other *impossible* users who can grant those wishes based on skills and proximity connect to grant the wish.
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social entrepreneur, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder and CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, Rosemary Leith, Berkman Center Fellow, Judith Donath, Berkman Center Fellow, Jonathan Zittrain, Director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Professor at Harvard Law School, and moderator Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
In an interactive discussion, the group will discuss the feasibility of a social media platform that relies on themes related to human cooperation, reciprocity, and kindness. Read more about *impossible* and its origins in The Telegraph and Wired UKand of course, download it in the iTunes app store.
About the Participants
Lily Cole is a fashion model, actress and social entrepreneur. An advocate for socio-political and environmental issues, she has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Two years ago, she began developing impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Rosemary Leith is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she works with Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, and acts as a Director of Herdict. She is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on health, education and democracy working with underserved countries and communities to make them full members of online society.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Judith Donath synthesizes knowledge from fields such as urban design, evolutionary biology and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for on-line communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and formerly director of the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab, she is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social communication. She created several of the earliest social applications for the web, including the original postcard service and the first interactive juried art show. Her work with the Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the MIT Museum.
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Landscape Design as Ecological Art
March 5, 2014
7:00-8:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Darrel Morrison, FASLA, Preeminent Designer of Native Plant Landscapes. Explore how ecology can inform landscape design--creating environments that are experientiallty rich, ecologically sound, and "of their place"--while they are dynamic systems that change over time.
Events are free and open to all.
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Framing Military Occupation
WHEN Wed., Mar. 5, 2014, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, Mass Avenue at Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Alice Rothchild, American Jews for a Just Peace, and a panel of human rights delegates
COST FREE
CONTACT INFO 617-495-2727, director at cambridgeforum.org
NOTE What does life in the Middle East feel like on the ground? Physician Alice Rothchild of American Jews for a Just Peace – Boston leads a panel discussion on living under military occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Panelists from the AJJP Health and Human Rights Project present their observations of daily life in the West Bank and East Jerusalem made during their visits as part of human rights delegations over the past decade.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, March 6
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Building Energy
March 4-6 2014
Seaport WTC, Boston
RSVP at https://events.thepulsenetwork.com/Attendee/Default.aspx?C=70000145&M=20000005&Mode=HTML
Cost: $49 to $649
50% off trade show passes with promo code: BIGTHINKERS14
BuildingEnergy (BE) is the most established, most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high-performance building conference and trade show in the northeastern United States.NESEA members drive the content from questions that come up in their professional lives.
More information at http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Wyss Colloquium: Secrets of swarm architecture: deciphering construction rules in ant colonies
Thursday, March 6, 2014
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Harvard, Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Guy Theraulaz, Ph.D., Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
The amazing ability of social insects to solve everyday-life problems, also known as "swarm intelligence" has received a considerable attention the past twenty years. One of the most famous feats of insect societies is their ability to build impressive nest architectures. Not only their characteristic scale is typically much larger than the size of individual insects but some of these nests can also be highly complex. The amazing evolution of construction techniques used by ants, wasps, bees and termites has provided a whole set of innovations in terms of architectural designs that proved to be efficient to solve problems as various as controlling nest temperature, ensuring gas exchanges with the outside environment or adapting nest architecture to growing colony size. The big question is: how these efficient designs emerge from the combination of millions of local building actions performed by individual workers? And how do insects interact with each other to coordinate their building actions? To investigate these issues, we focused on the early stages of nest construction in the garden ant Lasius niger. This experimental paradigm was used to disentangle the coordinating mechanisms at work and characterize individual behaviors (transport and assemblage of construction material) and the stigmergic interactions involved in the coordination of building actions. We then developed a 3D model implementing the mechanisms detected on the individual level and showed that they correctly explain the construction dynamics and the spatial patterns observed at the collective level for various conditions. Our model showed that the evaporation rate of a building pheromone was a highly influential parameter on the shape transition of the resulting structures. The model also revealed that complex helicoidal structures connecting nearby chambers emerge from a constant remodeling process of the nest architecture.
Contact: Alison Reggio
Email: alison.reggio at wyss.harvard.edu
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“Do Partisan Media Matter for Democracy Today?”
Thursday, March 6
4-6 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kevin Arceneaux, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University; and Natalie Stroud, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Moderator: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard Kennedy School.
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/news-events/calendar/
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Starr Forum: "The Network"
Thursday, March 06, 2014
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speakers:
Eva Orner, Academy and Emmy Award winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles
Fotini Christa, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT
Filming screening and discussion
A documentary set behind the scenes at the largest television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan.
"Eva Orner's documentary, The Network, tours Afghanistan's first independent TV operation and shows a burgeoning media organization still gaining its look and its polish. ... the movie provides an angle on a country remaking itself after Taliban rule." New York Times
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_030614_orner.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: starrforum at mit.edu
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Friday, March 7
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2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge - General Admission
MassDiGI
Friday, March 7, 2014, Saturday, March 8, 2014
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM (EST)
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-massdigi-game-challenge-general-admission-registration-10137817485
NOTE: The deadline for general admission registration is Friday, February 28 at 5pm ET!
The MassDiGI Game Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition event that helps aspiring game developers launch new games. The Game Challenge will be held on March 7-8, 2014 at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. Featuring industry mentors, panel discussions, keynote talks and more - you won’t want to miss this! The Game Challenge will feature:
Competitive Game Challenge w/ Desirable Prizes: Enter your game concept or prototype in one of three levels (Indie, College and High School) and in one of two categories (Best Entertainment Game or Best Serious Game). The grand-prize winning College team will receive full access to the 2014 MassDiGI Summer Innovation Program. In addition, winners in each category will receive cash and experiential prizes, industry mentorship, game promotion/PR opportunities and much more.
Robust Mentorship Program: One of the highlights of our 2013 event was the over 30 industry volunteers who met with competing teams on a one-on-one basis to provide valuable insight and critique on each team’s game concept. This year, participating teams will have a chance to sign-up for mentor meetings in the expertise areas of Art, Design, Business and Technology.
Educational Programming: Day 1 of the Game Challenge will feature sessions to help teams fine-tune their pitch for the judging committee. Mini-sessions will focus on the topics of art, design, business and technology.
Indie Game Showcase: What would a Game Challenge be without a few games to play! The Massachusetts Indie community is full of extremely talented individuals with great ideas on the cutting edge of game development. Teams and general attendees will have a chance to network with and, more importantly, play some of the great Indie games created in our own backyards.
Whether you are a small developer looking to breakout or a student exploring job opportunities, after attending the 2014 MassDiGI Game Challenge you’ll be guaranteed to walk away with valuable new connections and a better understanding of this exciting industry.
REGISTER EARLY!
Registration for both competing teams and general attendees is limited, so we encourage all interested parties to sign up as early as possible.
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Cinematic Migrations Symposium
March 6-7
MIT, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinematic-migrations-symposium-tickets-10575308031
Cinematic Migrations is an ongoing research project, seminar, and lecture series that generates a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema's transmutations over time, stemming from its fractured ontology and its worldwide and circuitous shifts. These include the integrations of its form into online video, film, and television diffusion, spatial installations, performance and dance, as well as its appearance in many formats and portable devices.
The Cinematic Migrations Symposium developed as a culmination of the first two years of investigations. Invited guests will discuss facets of what the Cinematic Migrations framework suggests in relation to their work as artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars, as well as in relation to the work of John Akomfrah.
Speakers
Renée Green
Artist, filmmaker, writer, ACT Professor & Director
John Akomfrah, OBE, & Lina Gopaul
Filmmakers, Smoking Dogs Films, (UK)
Arthur Jafa
Cinematographer & producer
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Fred Moten
Philosopher, poet & Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
Gloria Sutton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northeastern University
Free and open to the public.
Learn more about the symposium at http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/cinematic-migrations-critical-conversations/
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Black Carbon tendencies in the Arctic : Transport, source contribution and deposition
Friday, March 7, 2014
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sangeeta Sharma, Research Chemist, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&formid=D296...
Host: Rachel Chang
Email: rchang at seas.harvard.edu
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Renewables Globally: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Friday, March 07, 2014
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst (corner of Hayward & Amherst), Cambridge
Agenda:
2:30-3 Networking and refreshments,
3-4 Program,
4-4:30 Networking
RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Speaker: Prof. David Faiman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Director of Israel's National Solar Energy Center; Moderated by Prof. Richard K. Lester, Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Chair, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
New fossil-fuelled electricity generating (FFEG) plants continue to be built world-wide in spite of serious concern about their negative environmental impact. For geographically small countries, like Israel, the impact is mainly on health - as a result of particulate and chemical emissions. For larger countries such as China and the USA, greenhouse gases are a major global concern. The presentation will discuss the technical and economic feasibility of ceasing the construction of all new FFEGs and providing for the world???s growing electricity needs using wind and photovoltaic power generation. The examples of Israel and the USA will be singled out for quantitative discussion.
David Faiman (PhD Univ. of Illinois 1969), a former theoretical physicist (Oxford, CERN, Weizmann Institute), joined Ben-Gurion University in 1976 and established its department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics at the university's Sede Boqer campus. In 1993 he was appointed director of Israel???s National Solar Energy Center, which the government established at Sede Boqer. His solar research activities have spanned a range from solar radiation measurements to device and system testing, with particular emphasis on concentrator photovoltaics.
Web site:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free- please RSVP
Tickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rPRf7YIPJr9YM7O2eK6Cq0CZ2HrpzH5HF5CU3Z4AOZw/viewform
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Israel Program, Industrial Performance Center, MIT's Undergraduate Energy Club
For more information, contact: David Dolev
617-324-5581
mit-israel at mit.edu
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Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
Friday, March 07, 2014
5:30 pm
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of Barcelona City Council
Book talk by Vicente Guallart: The Self Sufficient City
"Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet."
The Self-sufficient City outlines a blueprint for the world to come,a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to became productive again. His new book relies on ideas and projects for transforming the urban habitat, based on the principles of local self-sufficiency and global connectivity.
Architecture Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by The Center for Bits and Atoms and the Architectural Design Discipline Group Lecture Series.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture, Center for Bits and Atoms
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim at mit.edu
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Saturday, March 8
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2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference
Saturday, March 8, 2014
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Northeastern University Student Center, Curry Center, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-massachusetts-urban-farming-conference-tickets-7547919029
The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance urban farming issues ranging from farming techniques and
business models to climate change adaptation and food security. The UFC contributes to short-term and long-term state-wide strategic planning for a sustainable food system in Massachusetts.
Network with Massachusetts' diverse, multi-sector stakeholders in this dynamic event that looks at current issues, emerging practices and programs, and markets that
can contribute to Massachusetts' urban farming sector resiliency.
For vendor or general information, contact Rose Arruda at MDAR; Rose.Arruda at state.ma.us
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Crystal Johnson at Crystal at isesplanning.com
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Tufts Clean Energy Conference
Saturday, March 8
10am - 7:30pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-energy-conference-tickets-4912941741
Cost: $15-40
More Information at http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com
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Wounds of Waziristan, film screening, with director
Saturday, March 8, 2014
2:00pm
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
A Pakistani-American journalist, Madiha Tahir, films people in the tribal areas of Pakistan who live under the constant presence of US drones and in the wake of their destruction.
Sponsors: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Eastern Mass Anti-Drone Network Task force of UJP, Boston UNAC, Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia, and Mass Global Action.
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Sunday, March 9
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Tufts Clean Energy Conference
Sunday, March 9
10am - 7:30pm
Tufts, Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tufts-energy-conference-tickets-4912941741
Cost: $15-40
More information at http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com
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Monday March 10
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Container Gardening with Native Plants
Monday March 10
6 to 7:30 pm
Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Facility, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
No space or time for an in-ground garden? No problem! Join this workshop led by Dan Jaffe of New England Wild Flower Society for advice on how to successfully grow native New England plants in pots. Now’s the time to start planning for the growing season! Registration required: call 617-349-6489 or e-mail fpr at cambridgema.gov.
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Tuesday, March 11
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Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
12:00 - 12:45 p.m., Eastern Time,
55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Lyons, Principal Technical Advisor in Transportation Planning, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe
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A Roadmap to Cyberpeace
March 11, 2014
12:30pm ET
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/03/francois#RSVP
This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.
Camille François, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Camille François argues that we should reflect upon the notion of ‘cyberpeace’, giving guidelines to separate war-time cyber activities from peace-time cyber activities, clarifying the operations and legal framework.
This project questions "cyberwar" (the concept, its reality and its legal framework) and examines its relationship to the idea of peace. What is cyberwar, and where does this notion comes from? Doctrinally, the ‘cyber’ realm grew between conceptions of war and peace. We will explore how these blurry lines translated in operations (ex. NSA/USCYBERCOM) and legal frameworks. We will attempt to address the consequences of the framing, and think about why this matters.
About Camille
Camille François joined the Berkman Center as a fellow to work on the legal, political and ethical frames of cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyberpeace. She also studies how academic institutions address Internet policy issues.
Camille is both a Fulbright Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies. She helped structure the School of Public and International Affairs program in Cybersecurity and worked for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), organizing the Expert Workshop on Privacy in Cyberspace at the agency's headquarters. In 2013, she won first place for Columbia at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 National Challenge in Cyber Policy.
She previously worked for Google in Europe, managing research on market insights, key policy and privacy trends.
In her home country of France she has worked mainly in politics, serving two years in the Parliament as a legislative aide and holding leadership positions in national and local campaigns. She also participated in the main research project on religious politics in the French suburbs, published by the think tank L'Institut Montaigne.
Camille is a free culture advocate: she served on the board of Students for Free Culture, created its French chapter, researched for the Open Video Alliance, and co-founded two Paris-based free cultural start-ups. She enjoys helping out with projects exploring the impact of technology on war and peace, and recently joined the organizing team of the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU Law School.
She holds a Master's degree in International Public Management from Sciences-Po Paris University, and a Master's degree in International Security from the Columbia School of Public and International Affairs. She completed her Bachelor at Sciences-Po Paris, with a year as a visiting student at Princeton University, and received legal education at Paris II - Sorbonne Universités.
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BostonCHI: Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
IBM Center for Social Business, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bostonchi-hosts-michael-muller-crowdsourcing-inside-the-enterprise-tickets-10598212539
Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland discuss their research on Crowdsourcing Inside the Enterprise: New opportunities for collaborative innovation
Abstract
This research is a collaborative effort between Michael Muller, Werner Geyer, Todd Soule, all of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA , and John Wafer of IBM, Dublin, Ireland.
Crowdfunding is a relatively recent Internet phenomenon, in which an innovator can propose a project and solicit investments from the public. More than 450 crowdfunding sites are now in operation around the world, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rockethub, Kiva, and Donors Choose. Successfully-funded projects span much of human aspiration and intention, including charity, creativity, community service, new business initiatives, and financial rate-of-return.
We describe an experiment in crowdfunding inside IBM. Our project, I Fund IT (previously "1x5"), has been run four times -- twice in research organizations, and twice in an IT organization. Major outcomes include: employee proposals that addressed diverse individual and collective needs; high participation rates; extensive inter-departmental and international collaboration, including the discovery of large numbers of previously unknown collaborators; and the development of goals and motivations based on collective concerns at multiple levels of project groups, communities of practice, and the organization as a whole. Moving crowdfunding "behind the firewall" is transformative, highlighting opportunities for new forms of collaboration among employees and between employees and upper management. We conclude with our current understanding of success factors, best practices, and implications for theory and design.
Bio
Michael Muller works in the Collaborative User Experience group of IBM Research, and the IBM Center for Social Software. His work focuses on metrics and analytics for enterprise social software applications, and emergent social phenomena in social software. Earlier IBM work involved activity-centric computing and communities of practice.
Michael is an internationally recognized expert in participatory design and participatory analysis. His work in this area includes the development of methods (CARD, PICTIVE, participatory heuristic evaluation) and theory (ethnocritical heuristics), as well as the creation of taxonomies and encyclopedic descriptions of participatory methodology in handbook chapters. Michael contributed expertise on participatory and qualitative analysis to a recent book from the National Academy of Science, as part of a three-year membership in a human-systems integration committee.
Michael is active in IBM's inventor community. He is head of the Invention Development Team for the Collaborative User Experience group, and was recently recognized as an IBM Master Inventor.
Evening Schedule
6:30 – 7:00 Networking over pizza and beverages
7:00 – 8:30 Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 CHI Dessert and more networking!
IBM is hosting us and providing pre-meeting food.
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Wednesday, March 12
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Mass Innovation Nights MIN60
March 12, 2014
6pm-8:30pm
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Are you ready for Mass Innovation Nights #60? We promise it will be an event not to be missed! We're back in Kendall Square at the Microsoft NERD center (Microsoft New England R & D Center). A great collection of new products await you.
Check out the new PRODUCTS
VOTE for your favorite product launcher to present (VOTE HERE!)
RSVP to attend (it is free to attend)
See who else is planning on attending (click the ATTENDEES tab)
Help spread the word - blog, tweet (using the #MIN60 hashtag), Like, and post!
Support local innovation, network and have fun at the same time.
See more at: http://mass.innovationnights.com/events/mass-innovation-nights-min60#sthash.A41V5o1w.dpuf
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Thursday, March 13
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Olafur Eliasson Artist Lecture: “Holding hands with the sun”
Thursday, March 13
5:00 p.m.
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free and open to the public but reservations strongly recommended:http://artsm.it/eliasson
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Friday, March 14
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“The Art and Science of Solar Lights”
Olafur Eliasson with Harald Quintus-¬Bosz, Chief Technology Officer, Cooper Perkins
Friday, March 14
6:00 p.m.
MIT Museum, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Free with MIT Museum admission
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum
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Thursday, March 20
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MIT Water Night 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
5:00 pm
MIT Walker Memorial Hall
More information at http://waterclub.scripts.mit.edu/wp/events/event/mit-water-night-2014/
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Friday, March 21
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"Transit Equity"
Friday, March 21
6:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
John A. Powell, professor of law, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and executive director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak about transit equity's key role in Boston's upcoming transportation visioning. To attend this free event, emailrsvp at architects.org with "Traffic 3/21" in the subject line. Seats are extremely limited. Reserve yours today!
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The 2014 CF/LANR Colloquium
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday March 21-23, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA USA.
This event will mark the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of cold fusion by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989.
While mainstream science institutions have refused to acknowledge the field, the breakthrough energy science has developed in part through the International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) which has held eighteen events that bring scientists together from around the world to discuss their findings. The next ICCF-19 is scheduled for March 2015, which makes the 2014 LANR/CF Colloquium one of the year’s top cold fusion meetings.
Sponsored by JET Energy, Inc. and Nanortech, companies headed by Dr. Mitchell Swartz, the CF/LANR Colloquium is the sixth such event held since 2005 that discusses both the scientific and engineering aspects of cold fusion, also called lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), including theory, physics, electrochemistry, material science, metallurgy, physics, and electrical-engineering.
JET Energy and Nanortech produced theNANOR-device demonstrated at MIT during the 2012 Cold Fusion 101 course, which ran continuously for five months and was open-to-the-public. The NANOR is a tiny, dry, pre-loaded with hydrogen fuel, nano-material, two-terminal component that generate excess energy gain. Massachusetts State SenatorBruce Tarr witnessed the event, and is now a supporter of the pioneer technology.
2014 Colloquium speakers include Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz, Larry Forsley, Frank Gordon, Pamela Mosier-Boss, George Miley, Tom Claytor, Mel Miles, John Dash, Yiannis Hadjichristos, Yeong Kim, Brian Ahern, Robert Smith, John Fisher, Vladimir Vysotskii,Yasuhiro Iwamura, and Charles Beaudette.
Contact: http://coldfusionnow.org/2014-lanrcf-colloquium-marks-25th-anniversary-of-new-energy-breakthrough/
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Net Neutrality and the Future of Internet Access
Tuesday, March 25
7-9:00pm
Tufts University’s Tisch Library, Room 304, 35 Professors Row, Medford
Free and open to the public
Panelists Include:
Candace Clement, Advocacy & Organizing Manager, Free Press
Daniel Lyons, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School
Cara Lisa Berg Powers, Co-Director, Press Pass TV
David Talbot, Chief Correspondent, MIT Technology Review
Moderator: Nina Huntemann, Associate Professor, Suffolk University
What do you know about net neutrality? What services will consumers have access to in the future? What does the future hold for open media in the US?
Net Neutrality allows for an Open Internet, which “is the Internet as we know it, a level playing field where consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use, and where consumers are free to decide what content they want to access, create, or share with others.”-Federal Communications Commission
On Jan. 14, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order.
In translation, Net Neutrality is temporarily dead (for now). For these serious reasons, Somerville Community Access Television has organized a special event to have a conversation on this current issues that will impact many Internet users, far and wide, who use the web each day.
The event is co-sponsored by Wicked Local Somerville, Arlington Community Media, Inc., Cambridge Community Television, Boston Neighborhood Network, and Massachusetts Pirate Party.
More information at http://www.scatvsomerville.org/netneutrality/
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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 http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei 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
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events/calendar/
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
High Tech Events: http://harddatafactory.com/Johnny_Monsarrat/index.html
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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