[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - October 26, 2014
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Oct 26 11:54:09 PDT 2014
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, October 27
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11:30am Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: The Ornithologist
11:45am Data Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Humanitarian Sector
12pm MASS Seminar - Morgan O'Neill (MIT)
12pm Energy storage: Its value to the grid and ongoing policy challenges to deployment and support of renewable energy
12pm The Glass Cage: Automation and US
12:15pm Ecologies of Paradox: A Typology of Scientific Surprise in the Anthropocene
1pm Election Day Preview: The Vote in Massachusetts
2:30pm Price Discrimination in Political Advertising on Television: The Efficacy and Efficiency of Regulation
4pm Beyond Sunnis and Shiites: Understanding the Violent Recalibration of Arab State, Sect, Tribe and Citizen
4pm Ebola: From Real Needs in West Africa to Fear and Fumbling in the US
4pm Industrial Urbanism: MIT Symposium on Cities and Industries
4:30pm Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives: Past & Future Fights of the Homo Sapiens, Stewardship of Earth’s Natural Systems: the Next Front in Protecting Global Health
4:30pm Stewardship of Earth’s Natural Systems: the Next Front in Protecting Global Health
6pm Climate Change on Trial: The Lobster Boat Blockade
6pm Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
7pm Computational Creativity
8pm Nerd Nite
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Tuesday, October 28
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ABX 2014 [Architecture Boston Expo]
12pm Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate.
12pm The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance
12pm Harvard Lighting Fair
12:30pm Transforming Businesses into Co-Operatives - Bringing the New Economy to Scale
2:45pm Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
3pm Official City of Cambridge Hearing on the Clear Cutting of the Silver Maple Forest with local scientists and new information
3pm BCSEA Webinar: Solar Sauce and Zero-Carbon Coffee - How BC's Food and Beverage Industry Can Save Money and Reduce Its Climate Impact
3:30pm Compton Lecture: Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
4pm Planetary Systems in 4D
4pm Scientific Utopia: Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scientific Research
4pm Examining Ebola Interdisciplinary Panel
4:15pm 25th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall's Collapse: The Peaceful Revolution that Sparked the Fall
4:30pm Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
6pm Hong Kong Protests: Democracy in Action?
6pm Life Beyond Earth - Mars and Exoplanets
6pm A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
6pm Increasing Your Creative Capacity
6pm Boston Green Drinks - October Happy Hour
6pm MassChallenge - Skolkovo Demo Day
6:30pm HEET’s Help for Houses of Worship Workshops
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Wednesday, October 29
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12pm Germany and Europe Facing the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS
12pm Economic Interdependence and War
1pm ABX Design Charrette: Living with Water
6pm The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
6pm Green Exchange: Power Plants POV on Energy Efficiency
6:30pm Global Energy Shortage: Are Laws on the Right Side?
7pm Fat vs. Sugar: The culture of American dieting
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Thursday, October 30
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9am Swedish Cleantech Tour arrives to Boston!
11:45am The Future of Plug-In Cars: The Role of Regulatory Policy
12 Biodiversity and land conservation at the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
12:15pm Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution: The Roots and Resolution of the Conflict
3pm Turning Agricultural Waste into Fuel Pellets in India
3:30pm Authorship in a Digital World: How to Make It Thrive
4pm Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial Populations in the Wild
4pm Ecosystem Tipping Points, Chemical Ecology, and the Death Spiral of Coral Reefs
4pm What Should We Do about Fossil Fuel CO2?
4:15pm How Wonder Woman Got into Harvard
5:30pm Askwith Forum: The End of Race-Based College Admissions
5:30pm The 39th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture “21st Century War: the Continuum of Pain and Other Sequelae”
6pm Exploration and Innovation at the Museum of Science @IBM
6pm Food as Medicine Symposium
7pm The Bees and the Seas: Finding Similarities in Conservation Goals
7pm Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities
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Friday, October 31
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8am UK US CYBER SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
12pm Ice Age Puzzles
12pm Studying Aerosols, One Particle at a Time
12pm MASS Seminar - Cecilia Bitz (University of Washington)
12pm LIDS Fall Symposium - Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding from Emergency to Development
12:30pm Connecting Energy Supply Chain Planning with Traffic Network Equilibrium
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Saturday, November 1
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8am Harvard Business School Cyberposium 2014
1pm Climate Leadership Summit Day 1
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Sunday, November 2
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1pm Climate Leadership Summit Day II
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Monday, November 3
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9am Energy Management Seminar
12pm MASS Seminar - Jonathan Reid (Bristol)
12pm How important is energy storage for decarbonization?
12:15pm Emerging “Global Health” Institutions in Africa: Technologies and Significations
1pm Investigating Normal: Art, Design, and Adaptive Technologies
1pm Clean Energy and Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: Past & Future Fights of the Homo Sapiens, Environmental Dynamics of Human Evolution
6pm Unique Biometric ID: Creating a Large Scale Digital Ecosystem Using the Aadhaar Experience
6pm Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture - What Constitutes Excellence in Islamic Geometric Design? Historical and Contemporary Best Practice
7pm "Obsessive Political Correctness:" A talk by playwright Eve Ensler
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Tuesday, November 4
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: PencilBlue, Epoque, Attopedia, CloudStock, ProtonMail
10am Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture - WORKSHOP - A Practical Introduction to Islamic Geometric Design Workshop
12pm Anatomy of a Man-Made Disaster: Thirty Years Later, Remembering the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
12:30pm Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
6pm Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited”
6pm BASG: The Sharing Economy
6:30pm "The Library of Alexandria: Rebirth and Revolution”
7pm Reading/Signing -Steven Pinker and Susan Pinker
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, October 27
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: The Ornithologist
WHEN Mon., Oct. 27, 2014, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) João Pedro Rodrigues, 2014-15 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-joao-pedro-rodrigues-fellow-presentation
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Data Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Humanitarian Sector
Monday, October 27
11:45am – 1:00pm
MIT, Building E62-550, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Co-Organized with MIT's Operations Management Club - Lunch will be provided
Lawrence Wein: Lawrence M. Wein is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Abstract: This talk will briefly discuss six projects in the humanitarian sector: (1) allocating food aid for undernutrutioned children using data from a randomized trial in sub-Saharan Africa, (2) allocating food aid for undernutritioned children using data from a nutrition project in Guatemala, (3) analyzing the nutrition-disease nexus in the case of malaria, (4) allocating aid for health interventions to minimize childhood mortality, (5) assessing the impact of U.S.'s failure to use local and regional food procurement on childhood mortality, and (6) deriving individualized biometric identification for India's universal identification program.
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MASS Seminar - Morgan O'Neill (MIT)
Monday, October 27
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Morgan O'Neill
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
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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Energy storage: Its value to the grid and ongoing policy challenges to deployment and support of renewable energy
Monday, October 27
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Paul Denholm, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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The Glass Cage: Automation and US
Monday, October 27
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Northeastern University School of Law, 240 Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Street, Boston
RSVP at https://events.attend.com/?form_id=1383764446/#/form/register/1383764446/0
Cost: $5
Nicholas Carr
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.
Nicholas Carr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows, and the best-selling The Big Switch and Does It Matter? Former executive director of the Harvard Business Review, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and Wired. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Ecologies of Paradox: A Typology of Scientific Surprise in the Anthropocene
Monday, October 27
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Zoe Nyssa, Harvard, HUCE/STS Fellow
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle
Contact Name: sts at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-27-161500-2014-10-27-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.9swO7Emc.dpuf
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Election Day Preview: The Vote in Massachusetts
Monday, October 27
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Institute of Politics Conference Room, Room 166 Littauer Building, 79 JF Street, Cambridge
Jim O’Sullivan, Political Reporter, Boston Globe
Gabrielle Gurley, Senior Associate Editor, Commonwealth Magazine
On November 4th, Massachusetts will elect a new Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, and 6th District Congressman. Veteran reporters O’Sullivan and Gurley will share their observations on the election season and their views on the candidates. They will also field audience questions.
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Price Discrimination in Political Advertising on Television: The Efficacy and Efficiency of Regulation
Monday, October 27
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sarah Moshary (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Beyond Sunnis and Shiites: Understanding the Violent Recalibration of Arab State, Sect, Tribe and Citizen
WHEN Mon., Oct. 27, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) A seminar with Rami Khouri, senior fellow at MEI and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6451/beyond_sunnis_and_shiites.html
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Ebola: From Real Needs in West Africa to Fear and Fumbling in the US
WHEN Mon., Oct. 27, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K-262, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Sechler, associate medical director, Last Mile Health, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Ashish K. Jha, director for the Harvard Global Health Institute, professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health; Stefanie Friedhoff, journalist and former programming director at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO dhicks at wcfia.harvard.eduy
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Industrial Urbanism: MIT Symposium on Cities and Industries
Monday, October 27
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor, Room 648, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/industrial-urbanism-mit-symposium-on-cities-and-industries-tickets-12722692917
The aim of this symposium is to explore the future relationships between city and industry along three themes with a focus on their spatial implications:
Changing Technologies
Panelists:
Professor Marty Schmidt, Provost MIT
Professor Sanjay Sarma, Director of Digital Learning, MIT
Professor Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator/respondent: Tim Love, Founding Principal, Utile
Changing Manufacturing
Panelists:
Professor Fiona Murray, Associate Dean of Innovation, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Dr. Ted Acworth, Founder & CEO, Artaic
Alex Klatskin, General Partner, Forsgate Industrial Partners
Moderator/respondent: Professor Alexander D’Hooghe, Director, Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT
Changing Cities
Panelists:
Professor Amy Glasmeier, DUSP MIT
Neil McCullagh, Executive Director, The American City Coalition
Dr. Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center
Moderator/respondent: Professor Dennis Frenchman, DUSP MIT
Prospects and Future Directions
Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor and Department Head, DUSP MIT
Dr. Tali Hatuka, Head of the Laboratory of contemporary Urban Design, Tel Aviv University
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Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives: Past & Future Fights of the Homo Sapiens, Stewardship of Earth’s Natural Systems: the Next Front in Protecting Global Health
Monday, October 27
4:30pm - 6:00pm
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Samuel Myers (Harvard)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan at mit.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-27-200000-2014-10-27-220000/planets-and-life-human-and-planetary-perspectives#sthash.82ZVPyEj.dpuf
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Stewardship of Earth’s Natural Systems: the Next Front in Protecting Global Health
Monday, October 27
4:30 - 6:00
MIT, Building 2-105, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Samuel Myers (Harvard)
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Climate Change on Trial: The Lobster Boat Blockade
Monday, October 27
6-7:30p
MIT, Building 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speakers: Jay O'Hara, Ken Ward, Sam Sutter, Marla Marcum
More information: FossilFreeMIT.org
Abstract: Last summer, Jay O'Hara and Ken Ward anchored their lobster boat in the path of a 40,000 ton coal freighter on its way to deliver coal to the largest coal plant in the Northeast. At their trial last month, they argued that their actions were necessary to prevent the greater danger of climate change, leading District Attorney Sam Sutter to drop their criminal charges because "Climate change is one of the gravest crises the planet has ever faced." At this panel discussion hosted by Fossil Free MIT, come hear the incredible story and take part in a conversation about the role of civil disobedience in defense of the climate.
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Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
Monday, October 27
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/deans-food-system-challenge-kickoff-tickets-13316480953
Join HLS Dean Martha Minow and keynote speaker Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, in officially kicking off the 2015 Deans' Food System Challenge. The Challenge invites creative and entrepreneurial students to develop innovative ideas to improve the health, social, and environmental outcomes of the food system in the United States and around the world.
Students will have the opportunity at the Kickoff to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard and begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this challenge in one of four categories:
Producing Sustainable, Nutritious Food
Innovating in Food Distribution and Markets
Improving Our Diet
Reducing Food Waste
The Challenge is co-sponsored by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School and Dean Julio Frenk of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team, and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on the Challenge and programming can be found here.
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Computational Creativity
Monday, October 27
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Allston Education Portal, 175 North Harvard Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/computational-creativity-public-lecture-by-harvard-graduate-school-of-education-professor-karen-registration-13332199969
Public lecture by Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Karen Brennan
Computers and computational media are omnipresent in modern life. But we experience computation primarily as consumers -- pointing, clicking, dragging, and browsing -- rather than as creators -- designing, making, tinkering, and producing. In this free public lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Karen Brennan will explore the communities, tools, and practices that support K-12 teachers and young learners as they explore the shift from computational consumption to computational creation, using the Scratch programming language as a central example.
Karen Brennan is an Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning communities -- in and out of school, online and face-to-face -- can support young people’s development as computational creators. She completed her PhD at the MIT Media Lab, where she was a member of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group.
For questions or for more information, visit www.edportal.harvard.edu, call 617-496-5022 or, email allston_edportal at harvard.edu.
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Nerd Nite
Monday, October 27
8PM
Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cost: $5
Featuring speakers from Awesome Foundation Boston:
Talk 1 - Matt Silvia on the Animatronic Monster Suit
Talk 2 - Corinne Espinosa on The Good Bank
More information at http://boston.nerdnite.com
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Tuesday, October 28
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ABX 2014 [Architecture Boston Expo]
Tuesday, October 28 - Thursday, October 30
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
RSVP at http://abexpo.com/
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Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate.
Tuesday, October 28
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/dahlia-lithwick/
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The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance
Tuesday, October 28
12:00 pm
Langdell Library 4th Floor Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School; no RSVP necessary (map)
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
With Susan Crawford and other special guests
Harvard Law School Visiting Professor and co-director of the Berkman Center Susan Crawford joins Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, MA, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston and Harvard Business School Professor and Chief of Staff to Mayor Menino, Mitchell Weiss, for a lively discussion around her new book, The Responsive City. The talk will be moderated by Harvard Law School Professor and co-founder and Director of the Berkman Center Jonathan Zittrain.
Lunch will be served and the author will be available for book signing.
About the Responsive City
The Responsive City is a compelling guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help municipal leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive and economically resilient cities. The book is co-authored by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, director of Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Susan Crawford, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
About Susan
Susan Crawford is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a co-director of the Berkman Center. She is the author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and a contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She is a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation.
Ms. Crawford was formerly a (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010). As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. In December of 2012, Yale University Press published her book, Captive Audience: Telecom Monopolies in the New Gilded Age. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010); one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011) and TIME Magazine’s Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech (2013). She is a member of the board of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC).
Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.
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Harvard Lighting Fair
October 28, 2014
12–3 pm
Harvard, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard Sustainability is pleased to announce a return visit of the Energy Saving Lighting Fair to coincide with the Freecycle and Farmers Market taking place on Tuesday, October 28. We invite you to learn about current LED lighting and energy management devices for the home. NSTAR customers can also enjoy special discounted pricing on a variety of product for the home, thanks to NSTAR and Mass Save.
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Transforming Businesses into Co-Operatives - Bringing the New Economy to Scale
Tuesday, October 28
12:30pm ET
Webinar
RSVP at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6939268933243324162
Want to help regular people build wealth through democratic ownership? A great strategy to do this is to form co-ops. The Cooperative Development Institute (http://www.cdi.coop/) (CDI) says we can build democratically-owned wealth quickly by converting existing businesses into cooperatives. Join us on this webinar to learn how:
Webinar speakers assisted in the creation of the Island Employee Cooperative (https://www.facebook.com/IECDIS), formerly a privately owned business on Deer Isle, Maine, that transformed into the largest worker cooperative in Maine and the second largest in New England. This transformation marks the first time multiple businesses of significant size and scope merged and converted into a coop making it a landmark in the new economy movement.
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Tuesday, October 28
2:45p–4:00p
Harvard, Harvard Hall 104
Speaker: David Atkin (UCLA)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Development Economics Seminar
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Official City of Cambridge Hearing on the Clear Cutting of the Silver Maple Forest with local scientists and new information
3pm
Cambridge Ridge and Latin Sschool, 831 Broadway, basement, Cambridge
From Rozann Kraus
Travel safety leader and Founder of the Dance Complex
"I am again refusing to eat solid food until the carnage of the Silver Maple Forest in the state owned Alewife Reservation in Belmont and Cambridge is stopped!"
Only the Governor can halt the madness!
Call 617 725-4005, or http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/#email
subject : Silver Maple Forest, Cambridge and Belmont
Rozann Kraus of Cambridge, Founder of Dance Complex and leading travel safety non-profit organization, TROMP, is returning to her second hunger strike to be in effect until the carnage has ended against the forest environment of the DCR owned Alewife Reservation within the borders of Belmont and Cambridge.
Please enforce the environmental protection laws which will prevent the destruction that the development will incur. This is the role of Government. Please forward this message to your friends, family and colleagues and ask them to call Governor Patrick in my behalf and yours
SUMMARY: O'Neill development (PA) and Prudential (local) are clear cutting a 15 acre Silver Maple Forest in the middle of Alewife floodplain and a regional vital resource for climate change protection. It's a flood plain, good only for flora, fauna and for cleaning the air we breath. The permits were granted based on 50 yr old data. Efforts to halt the process were vetoed by Gov Patrick because affordable housing was promised (60 of 298 units). The land will NOT support a building with its clay and muck soils, and the loss of the trees will cause serious flooding, say hydrologists in the abutting Arlington, Belmont and Cambridge communities. Already 13 people have been arrested as conscientious objectors. Two deer were tragically killed as displaced and disoriented animals. Many more will follow.
For more info call: FAR at 617 415-1884.
http://www.friendsofalewifereservation.org/
Greencambridge.org, Belmontcoalition.org
Prudential has been a financial partner in the plan to level the forest area. "Prudential's Global Sustainability Committee created a proprietary manual of Sustainable Standard Operating Guidelines (SSOGs), which take a bottom-line approach to identify efficient solutions for lighting, water, temperature settings, management of vacant space and self-assessments for potential environmental certifications. The guidelines enable property management teams to quickly identify cost-effective methods to reduce each property's environmental impact without performing detailed costly analyses for every project."
Two official offers to purchase the land by the national Trust for Public Land have been ignored. While court injunctions are in process, the forest is being clear cut.
That's why Deval Patrick must stop the widespread cutting of many 80 year old flood protection, silver maple trees.
Rozann Kraus
TROMP Founder
P.O. Box 390823
Cambridge MA 02139
Rozann at trompcambridge.org
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BCSEA Webinar: Solar Sauce and Zero-Carbon Coffee - How BC's Food and Beverage Industry Can Save Money and Reduce Its Climate Impact
Tuesday, October 28
3pm
RSVP at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/711924642
Hosted by Guy Dauncey with Guest Speaker Christine VanDerwill.
Climate Smart has identified $100 million in potential savings by 2020 for B.C. food & beverage businesses that reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.
A 5% annual reduction in carbon emissions from B.C.’s food and beverage sector would reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 250,000 tonnes.
Christine VanDerwill, Client Relations Manager, leads the business engagement team at Climate Smart Business, a Vancouver-based social enterprise. Climate Smart offers a comprehensive, group-based training program, certification and tools for small/medium enterprises (SMEs) to measure and profitably reduce their carbon emissions associated with energy, transport, and waste. Christine helps local government and corporate partners develop strategic campaigns to engage value chains, suppliers and stakeholders in carbon, (greenhouse gas) management and leverage market drivers to accelerate climate action.
Christine holds a MA in International Studies from Simon Fraser University (SFU) and served as a research assistant at SFU's Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT). In addition to an extensive background in business development, Christine brings international field experience to her work and was involved in the development of avoided deforestation projects in Southern Peru, coordinating carbon market activities with stakeholders, partner NGOs, and certification organizations.
To date, Climate Smart has trained over 775 businesses, resulting on average in annual carbon reductions of five per cent in participating businesses – businesses that are also growing, adding employees at an average rate of 2.7 per cent per year.
There is no charge for this Webinar, but you must register to attend.
See Climate Smart's report Carbon Emissions in BC's Food and Beverage Industry (6.3MB PDF) for an advance look at this Webinar's topic:
https://climatesmartbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CS-Food-and-Beverage-Sector-Industry-Brief-digital.pdf
See BCSEA's previous webinars at http://www.bcsea.org/past-webinars
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Compton Lecture: Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Tuesday, October 28
3:30p–5:00p
MIT, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
MIT welcomes Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to campus on Tuesday, October 28, for the fall 2014 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, "Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research".
Web site: http://compton.mit.edu/speakers/francis-collins/
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Institute Events, Office of the President
For more information, contact: Institute Events
617-253-4795
info-events at mit.edu
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Planetary Systems in 4D
Tuesday, October 28
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 37-252, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Rebekah Dawson, University of California, Berkeley
MIT Astrophysics Colloquium
Web site: http://space-live.mit.edu/events/all
Open to: the general public
Cost: no charge
Tickets: n/a
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
For more information, contact: Debbie Meinbresse
617-253-1456
meinbres at mit.edu
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Scientific Utopia: Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scientific Research
Tuesday, October 28
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
MIT Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium,
Speaker: Brian Nosek, University of Virginia and Center for Open Science , University of Virginia
An academic scientist’s professional success depends on publishing.
Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore negative results.
These incentives inflate the rate of false effects in published science. When incentives favor novelty over replication, false results persist in the literature unchallenged, reducing efficiency in knowledge accumulation. I will briefly review the evidence and challenges for reproducibility and then discuss some of the initiatives that aim to nudge incentives and create infrastructure that can improve reproducibility and accelerate scientific progress.
Brian Nosek is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia and is co-founder of both the Center for Open Science and Project Implicit.
This talk is part of the Brains, Minds & Machines Seminar Series 2014-2015
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv at csail.mit.edu
Relevant URL: http://cbmm.mit.edu/event/special-seminar-brian-nosek-university-virginia/
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Examining Ebola Interdisciplinary Panel
Tuesday, October 28
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-163, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
We are envisioning a multidisciplinary panel in which each speaker presents for no more than 15 minutes (depending on the number of participants). We'd then open up the forum for a moderated discussion among the panelists, and take questions from our audience. Our hope is to provide up-to-date information about the biology of the disease, discuss the infrastructural dimensions of the pandemic and its impact on public health and security, analyze contemporary "disaster preparedness" and biosecurity practices (as well as discourses about them), and to contextualize the current crisis in historical and cross-cultural perspectives. It is also important for us to discuss how the emergency is unfolding in the media.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT Prehealth Advising Global Education and Career Development Office
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters at mit.edu
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25th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall's Collapse: The Peaceful Revolution that Sparked the Fall
WHEN Tue., Oct. 28, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for European Studies
SPEAKER(S) Siegbert Schefke and Uwe Schwabe, former East German dissidents; moderated by Mary Elise Sarotte, Harvard University
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2755
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Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Tuesday, October 28
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, One Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Dawisha, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Director of the University's Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.
Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin's kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle's use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and Putin's Palace near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin's KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Emma Kaminskaya
617-324-2793
Ekaminsk at mit.edu
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Hong Kong Protests: Democracy in Action?
WHEN Tue., Oct. 28, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) C. M. Chan, Harvard Kennedy School, MPA/MC ‘15, legal counsel, Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Limited
William C. Kirby, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Hand Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, HBS
Heather Pickerell, Harvard College '15
Moderated by Anthony Saich, director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/hong-kong-crisis-origins-and-implications
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Life Beyond Earth - Mars and Exoplanets
Tuesday, October 28
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building N51, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Christopher Carr, Research Scientist, MIT
Vlada Stamenkovic, Postdoctoral Associate, Habitability Labs, MIT
Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Begun in 2005, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.
Fall 2014 Soap Box: How to Make Life and Influence Planets
Discover the origins of life on earth and how life itself can drastically alter the landscape of our planet. Then learn what prospects lie ahead of finding habitable planets and even other types of life outside of the Earth. Come with questions, share your thoughts, and leave with new knowledge and understanding.
Web site: http://mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, MIT Museum
For more information, contact: Andrew Hong
617-324-7313
andhong at mit.edu
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
WHEN Tue., Oct. 28, 2014, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, HKS Starr Auditorium, Belfer Bldg. 2nd Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Film, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HKS Environment & Natural Resources Program & Energy & Environment Professional Interest Council
SPEAKER(S) 53-min film preceded by panel with Cristine Russell, science writer/HKS senior fellow; Chloe Maxmin '15, co-founder, Divest Harvard; Mick Powers, HKS MPP2, Australian lawyer & environmental activist
COST Free
CONTACT INFO amanda_sardonis at harvard.edu
DETAILS Refreshments will be served.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6471/fierce_green_fire.html
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Increasing Your Creative Capacity
Tuesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard innovation lab, 125 Western Avenue, Lobby Area, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/increasing-your-creative-capacity-tickets-13792819695
Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But how exactly does one increase their ability to think and act creatively?
In this session, award winning educator and artist Art Sherwyn will walk through the creative process and illustrate methods for training the intellect how to gain passage into the world of creative thought; within this world will lie the tools for creative problem solving and invention with focus on using these techniques to drive innovation within your own venture.
Art will also share the unique alignment the arts have with the human side of entrepreneurship and connection to the stability and longevity of your venture and quality of life. This workshop will provide very practical information which is easily adaptable. It is designed to be highly participatory and hands-on.
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Boston Green Drinks - October Happy Hour
Boston Green Drinks
Tuesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-october-happy-hour-tickets-13705103333
With only a week until midterm elections, let's inspire each other to vote for sustainability!
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Keep sending feedback to Lyn at bostongreendrinks.com for ideas about speakers or content for the future and mark your calendar for drinks on the last Tuesday of every month. Also, if you RSVP and can't make it, e-mail us to let us know.
Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
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MassChallenge - Skolkovo Demo Day
Tuesday, October 28
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
MassChallenge Event Space, 23 Drydock Avenue, Floor 6, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/masschallenge-skolkovo-demo-day-tickets-13002174855
Watch top Russian tech startups compete for opportunities in the U.S. startup ecosystem
For the past eight weeks, the most promising startups out of Skolkovo Foundation's IT Cluster have received expert mentorship from some of the top mentors in the MassChallenge program.
On October 28, they will pitch their ideas to a panel of experts, hoping to win spots in the MassChallenge 2015 semifinals and Silicon Valley's Tim Draper University of Heroes.
You are invited to hear their pitches & connect with MassChallenge, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Skolkovo Foundation, and Draper University as we explore the potential of Russian entrepreneurship.
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HEET’s Help for Houses of Worship Workshops
Tuesday, October 28
6:30 pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
Organizations interested in participating in the Help for HOWs program should RSVP at
http://www.heetma.org/help-for-houses-of-worship/workshops-help-for-houses-of-worship/
to attend one of these informational sessions:
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Wednesday, October 29
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Germany and Europe Facing the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS
WHEN Wed., Oct. 29, 2014, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
SPEAKER(S) Thomas Bagger, head of policy planning, German Foreign Office, Berlin
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO atownes at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is co-sponsored by the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany.
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Economic Interdependence and War
Wednesday, October 29
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: DALE COPELAND, University of Virginia
SSP Wednesday Seminar Series
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/index.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
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ABX Design Charrette: Living with Water
Wednesday, October 29
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
ABX Conference, Hall C (far corner!), Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/abx-design-charrette-living-with-water-tickets-13225109659
It's a familiar refrain: if Superstorm Sandy had hit a few hours earlier (or later), Boston, too, would have flooded. Scientists know that seas are rising, storm severity is increasing, and that coastal cities need to grapple with an increasingly wet world. “Living With Water,” resilient design from the Netherlands and elsewhere, is part of the solution.
On Sandy's second anniversary, join us for a hands-on design workshop to imagine what this might mean at a variety of locations where the city meets the sea. The working session of the charrette is from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, followed by a reception and discussion from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
We are seeking for 100 participants from a wide range of backgrounds: architects, planners, residents, property managers, scientists, engineers, neighborhood activists, and interested citizens and others. Participants will use Living With Water ideas and your own experience and knowledge to reimagine one of three sites in Boston to accommodate five feet of sea level rise while maintaining or enhancing its value as a vibrant place to live, work, and play.
This charrette is one component of a slate of ABX workshops about resiliency, and complements a larger design competition organized by the City of Boston, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Coastal Zone Management, The Boston Harbor Association, and the Boston Society of Architects.
This event is free and open to the public, though space is limited and registration is required to reserve your spot. Please only reserve a spot if you will come.
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The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
Wednesday, October 29
6:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall Room 2012, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Reception to follow book launch in the HLS Pub, Wasserstein Hall
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2014/10/thecomingswarm#RSVP
Author Molly Sauter in discussion with Laurie Penny
In her new book, The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. Together in conversation with journalist and activist Laurie Penny, Molly will discuss the use of disruptive tactics like DDoS, online civil disobedience, and the role of the internet as a zone of political activism and speech. There will be a book signing following the discussion.
About Molly
Molly Sauter is a research affiliate at the Berkman Center, and a doctoral student at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT, where she is an affiliate researcher at the Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab. Her research is broadly focused on hacker culture, transgressive digital activism, and depictions of technology in the media. Her research is situated in socio-political analyses of technology and technological culture. She is author of The Coming Swarm, an analysis of the history and development of activist distributed denial of service actions, published by Bloomsbury. She blogs at oddletters.com and tweets @oddletters.
About Laurie
Laurie Penny was born in London in 1986 and is not dead yet. She is, in no particular order, a writer, a journalist, a public speaker, an activist, a feminist, a reprobate and a geek. She is Contributing Editor of New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at The New Inquiry. Her fourth book, Unspeakable Things, was published by Bloomsbury (US/UK) in 2014.
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Green Exchange: Power Plants POV on Energy Efficiency
Wednesday, October 29
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard University, 51 Brattle Street, Grossman Common Room (2 floor), Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-exchange-power-plants-pov-on-energy-efficiency-tickets-13886186959
Our HEEC member Victor Wei will share his experience as an engineer working to improve efficiency and uptime at power plants. We will review historical and future trends in the industry along with the challenges of generating electricity. We will also discuss different renewable technologies, the key role of energy storage, and real world best practices.
Victor Wei has spent the last 5 years working directly with end users and engineering firms in the energy industry to improve efficiency, reduce maintenance, and prevent down time. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
After the presentation and discussion at the Grossman Common Room, we will be gathering at John Harvard's Brewery and Ale House around 7:30 for a bite to eat - join us anytime!
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Global Energy Shortage: Are Laws on the Right Side?
Wednesday, October 29
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Day Pitney LLP - Law Firm - Boston Office, 1 International Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-energy-shortage-are-laws-on-the-right-side-tickets-13397487245
Come join Boston International for an academic discussion surrounding the energy regulatory landscape in the United States and abroad. Our current trend towards a global energy crisis presents unique regulatory challenges for countries attempting to incentivize energy development. Professor Steven Ferrey of Suffolk Law School and Andrew Bobenski of John Hancock Financial Services will join us for the evening to discuss what laws regarding energy development look like here at home, and overseas. Networking time will be set aside before and after the panel discussion.
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Fat vs. Sugar: The culture of American dieting
WHEN Wed., Oct. 29, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Harvard Medical School, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science in the News
CONTACT INFO sitnboston at gmail.com
DETAILS Science in the News (SITN) is a graduate student organization at Harvard University. We host interactive lectures on various science topics in the spring and fall. This lecture is a part of our fall lecture series, which are on Harvard’s Longwood campus. It consists of several PhD students presenting current research on a particular topic. Our seminars are open to audience members of any age, though a high school level of science education would be beneficial.
LINK http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Thursday, October 30
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Swedish Cleantech Tour arrives to Boston!
Thursday, October 30
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
Wilmerhale, 60 State Street, Floor 26, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/swedish-cleantech-tour-arrives-to-boston-tickets-13352346227
The Swedish Cleantech Tour is proud to announce a special opportunity to meet Sweden's most promising cleantech companies. Eager to expand, these companies are entering the US market by introducing innovative solutions that will generate high demand in this emerging industry.
The event will take place on Thursday, October 30th, at 60 State Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
It all starts at 9.00 am with a complimentary breakfast, followed by a series of presentations from the participating cleantech companies, which include Arsizio, Midsummer, Climeon, Recondoil, Infrafone and Watty. Other participating companies will be announced shortly. The event will conclude with a networking lunch at 12:30 pm, which will be an excellent opportunity to continue the conversation, and gain further insight into the Nordic cleantech movement.
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The Future of Plug-In Cars: The Role of Regulatory Policy
WHEN Thu., Oct. 30, 2014, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, HKS
SPEAKER(S) John Graham, dean, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (2001-06)
CONTACT INFO mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
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Biodiversity and land conservation at the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
October 30
12:00-1:00pm
Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Rd Tufts University, Medford
Patricia Swain, Ph.D., Natural Community Ecologist, Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
The overall goal of the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP), part of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, is the protection of the state's wide range of native biological diversity, particularly the vertebrate and invertebrate animals and native plants that are officially listed as rare in Massachusetts. The talk will focus on conservation through identifying, tracking, managing, and regulating rare species and identifying and mapping NHESP priority natural communities. Land use history, climate change, and other influences on native biodiversity will be part of the discussion.
Patricia Swain's job as natural community ecologist for NHESP means working state wide with the rarest and most imperiled natural communities in Massachusetts and the best examples of the more common types. Patricia is currently revising The Classification of Natural Communities of Massachusetts that was first produced in 2001; since then they have been adding new types and adjusting the original descriptions so that a clean version (with illustrations and a key) seems like a useful product. Patricia has been the Natural Community Ecologist for MassWildlife's Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program since 1987. Before that she was a stay at home mom and part time academic, teaching occasional ecology and biology classes at the local university and technical college. She graduated from Tufts with a Biology major, and obtained her MS and PhD degrees in Ecology from the University of Minnesota.
Contact environmentalstudies at tufts.edu
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Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution: The Roots and Resolution of the Conflict
WHEN Thu., Oct. 30, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Asia Center
SPEAKER(S) Professor David Zweig, chair professor of social science, and director of the Center on Environment, Energy, and Resource Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
LINK http://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events
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Turning Agricultural Waste into Fuel Pellets in India
Thursday, October 30
3:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mukund Deogaonkar, CEO of Oorja/First Energy
Do you want to learn how to turn unmanaged agricultural waste into valuable cooking fuel? Listen to Mukund Deogaonkar, CEO of Oorja/First Energy, about how he took his company to half a million customers in India. This talk is brought to you by e4Dev and MIT Waste Alliance, with support from the MIT Graduate Student Council. RSVP at bit.ly/WasteAlliance_2014_lecture1
Web site: http://bit.ly/WasteAlliance_2014_lecture1
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Council, e4Dev, Graduate Student Council Sustainability Fund
For more information, contact: Kevin Kung
trashiscash at mit.edu
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Authorship in a Digital World: How to Make It Thrive
Thursday, October 30
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Lamont Library Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship-in-a-digital-world-how-to-make-it-thrive-registration-13100725623
The internet has had disruptive effects on many aspects of the ecosystem in which authors reach readers. The roles of publishers, retailers, libraries, and universities, and other participants in this ecosystem are evolving rapidly. Amazon.com, in particular, has been the source of considerable controversy in its dealings with authors and publishers.
In order for authors to navigate these turbulent waters, they need to be strategic in their partnerships and careful in contracting. Copyright is supposed to help even authors with no legal expertise, but how good a job does it do? Could some changes in that law help authors reach readers more effectively? Looking beyond the law, what steps can authors take now to realize the full impact of their writings?
With these questions in mind, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society are co-sponsoring the Authors Alliance in bringing a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing authors in the digital age to the Harvard campus.
The discussion will be preceded by remarks from Katie Hafner, a journalist, the author of six books, and a member of the Authors Alliance and advisory board.
Jonathan Zittrain will moderate a panel that will include:
Rachel Cohen, a Cambridge-based author and creative writing professor at Sarah Lawrence College;
Robert Darnton, university librarian at Harvard and member of the Authors Alliance advisory board;
Ellen Faran, director of MIT Press;
Mark Fischer, a copyright lawyer at Duane Morris LLP;
Katie Hafner, a journalist, memoirist, and nonfiction writer;
Alison Mudditt, director of UC Press;
Sophia Roosth, a Harvard historian of science; and
Pamela Samuelson, Authors Alliance co-founder and law professor at U.C. Berkeley.
A reception will follow will the panel.
The event will be webcast and recorded. Details on the webcast will be posted here and at http://authorsalliance.org prior to the event.
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Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial Populations in the Wild
Thursday, October 30
4pm
MIT, Building 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Martin Polz, Polz lab
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Ecosystem Tipping Points, Chemical Ecology, and the Death Spiral of Coral Reefs
Thursday, October 30
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316,
Speaker: Dr. Mark Hay of Georgia Tech.
Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
Join us for a weekly series of environmental topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parsonsseminars/home
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, Parsons Laboratory, Parsons Lab
For more information, contact: Rebecca Fowler
617-253-7101
ceed at mit.edu
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What Should We Do about Fossil Fuel CO2?
Thursday, October 30
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Boston University, School of Management Auditorium, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
Wally Broecker, Newberry Professor in Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund at bu.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-30-200000-2014-10-30-213000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.NgL223OR.dpuf
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How Wonder Woman Got into Harvard
Thursday, Oct 30
4:15 pm
Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lecture by Jill Lepore BI ’00, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, will be published in October.
Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. In this illustrated lecture, Lepore lifts that veil of secrecy to reveal that Wonder Woman’s past lies at Harvard and Radcliffe.
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Askwith Forum: The End of Race-Based College Admissions
WHEN Thu., Oct. 30, 2014, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Jodie Smith-Bennett
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-495-8059
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Moderator: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M.'97, associate professor of education, HGSE
Speakers:
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law, Georgetown Law
Richard Rothstein, research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California Berkeley School of Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring upheld the Michigan ban on affirmative action and further fueled ongoing debates about whether race should be considered in college admission decisions across the United States. Should selective college admissions policies replace race-based affirmative action with preferences for high achieving students from disadvantaged places or low family wealth, without regard to race? Does race-based affirmative action create needless political barriers to progressive policy for the future? Join Sheryll Cashin, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the widely acclaimed book, Place, Not Race, and Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the role of race and class in the future of college campuses.
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The 39th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture “21st Century War: the Continuum of Pain and Other Sequelae”
WHEN Thu., Oct. 30, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Carl Walter Amphitheatre, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Boston Medical Library
SPEAKER(S) Chester ‘Trip’ Buckenmaier III, program director, Defense and Veteran Center for Integrative Pain Management, US Army; Rollin M. Gallagher, national program director, Pain Management Veterans Health Administration
COST Free and open to the public; registration required by Oct. 10
CONTACT INFO BostonMedLibr at gmail.com
DETAILS Send full name, email address, and phone number to BostonMedLibr at gmail.com.
LINK https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=9802
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Exploration and Innovation at the Museum of Science @IBM
October 30
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
IBM Innovation Center, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www-304.ibm.com/events/idr/idrevents/detail.action?meid=19324&ieid=12335&from=find
With state-of-the-art exhibitions and larger-than-life attractions, The Museum of Science offers their visitors an unparalleled educational and entertainment experience. Through their National Center for Technological Literacy, they have delivered award-winning K-12 engineering curriculum to nearly 6 million students. And with a new institution-wide initiative on food (cooking, nutrition, farming, and more), they are striving to be the nation’s premier science center when it comes to food science.
Thanks to the Discoverers Committee, enjoy cocktails & hors d’oeuvres while Ioannis Miaoulis, Museum president and director, speaks about how the Museum is transforming the nation’s relationship with science and technology.
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Food as Medicine Symposium
Thursday, October 30
6–9 pm
Harvard Law School, WCC 2012, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Hosted by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Join us for the 2nd Annual Food is Medicine Symposium! For critically and chronically ill people, food is medicine. The provision of nutritious, healthy food is crucial part of outcome-driven, cost-effective health care. Speakers will address innovative partnerships between public health insurers and food providers, cutting-edge research in the field, and opportunities to integrate food into routine health care. Be part of this important emerging dialogue!
Contact: sdowner at law.harvard.edu
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/food-medicine-symposium#sthash.MXObW4pg.dpuf
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The Bees and the Seas: Finding Similarities in Conservation Goals
Thursday, October 30
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
New England Aquarium, Simons IMAX Theatre, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105502&view=Detail
Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich, founder and chief scientific officer, The Best Bees Company, and Dr. Randi Rotjan, associate scientist, New England Aquarium
*Book signing to follow
The urban gardening movement is well aware of the importance of pollinators, native plants and water conservation, but the oceans are not a regular part of the conversation. The story is the same (but reversed) for ocean enthusiasts, who are well versed in issues of water conservation, pollution and overfishing, but the terrestrial environment is often ignored. Here’s a chance to finally talk about both the bees and the seas—how the “green” and “blue” movements have aligned goals and mutual interests. It may come as a surprise, but most of the actions needed to promote honeybee pollinators are the same actions necessary for healthy oceans. Come find out why, and your local honey will taste twice as sweet.
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Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities
Thursday, October 30
7:00 - 9:00 pm (note special time)
MIT, Building 32-123 (Stata Center), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Abstract
This Communications Forum special event will explore the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the sciences and humanities, and the ways that knowledge is obtained. The panelists will be historian, novelist, and columnist James Carroll; philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein; author and physicist Alan Lightman; and biologist Robert Weinberg. Seth Mnookin, Associate Director of the Forum, will moderate.
Speakers
James Carroll is a historian, novelist, and journalist. His works of nonfiction include An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award, and Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary. Writing frequently about Catholicism in the modern world, Carroll has a prize-winning column in The Boston Globe. He is Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University in Boston.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist and the author of ten books, including, most recently, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. She has taught at a number of universities and most recently was a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship and fiction, including a MacArthur Fellowship.
Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and essayist. In astrophysics, he has made fundamental contributions to gravitation theory, the behavior of black holes, and radiation processes in extreme environments. His 1993 novel Einstein’s Dreams was an international bestseller, and in 2000, his book The Diagnosis was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. He is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and teaches in the Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Robert A. Weinberg is one of the world’s leading molecular biologists and the discoverer of the first gene known to cause cancer. His work focuses on the molecular and genetic mechanisms that lead to the formation of human tumors, and his recent work has examined how human cancer cells metastasize. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Weinberg is Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Seth Mnookin is Associate Director of the MIT Communications Forum and Acting Director of MIT's Gradute Program in Science Writing. His most recent book, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, was published in 2011.
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Friday, October 31
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UK US CYBER SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
The UK Science & Innovation Network, Boston
Friday, October 31
8:00 AM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
British Consulate-General Boston, One Broadway, 7th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-us-cyber-security-symposium-tickets-13356665145
9am Session 1: Policy: Regualtions and Standards
11:30am Session 2: Case Studies and the Industry Landscape
1:45pm Session 3: Innovation: Technology and Research
4pm Closing Reception
Speakers include Andy Ellis (Akamai), Angela Sasse (UCL), Bill Roscoe (Oxford), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), Joseph Bonneru (Princeton), Nigel Smart (Bristol), Robert Ghaner-Hercock (BT), and more
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Ice Age Puzzles
Friday, October 31
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 685 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston University Seminar Series on Climate Change
George Denton, Libra Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine
Contact Name: Jennifer L. Berglund
berglund at bu.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-10-31-160000-2014-10-31-170000/boston-university-seminar-series-climate-change#sthash.REGrZQWW.dpuf
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Studying Aerosols, One Particle at a Time
Friday, October 31
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Jonathan Reid
Speaker Bio: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/~chjpr/JPR.html
Contact: Adam Bateman
abateman at seas.harvard.edu
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MASS Seminar - Cecilia Bitz (University of Washington)
Friday, October 31
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Cecilia Bitz
MASS Seminar
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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LIDS Fall Symposium - Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rebuilding from Emergency to Development
WHEN Fri., Oct. 31, 2014, 12 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West AB (2nd Floor of WCC)
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Law, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Law and International Development Society
SPEAKER(S) 12 - 1 p.m.: lunch and keynote speaker: Donald Kaberuka, president, African Development Bank
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.: Panel 1: Driving Economic Growth and Building Institutions After Conflict
2:45 - 3:30 p.m.: Rebuilding the Rule of Law and Maintaining Security in Post-Conflict Afghanistan, Mohammad Omer Daudzai, Interior Minister, Afghanistan
3:45 - 5:00 p.m.: Panel 2: Developing Stability and Security: Post-Conflict Security Sector and Justice Reform
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.: Evening reception (Hark South)
COST Free and open to the public; RSVP suggested
TICKET WEB LINK https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i1iedPu6Pd4NsFod1oZDUFZ6Nm2e91FmJecHHK7Gjyk/viewform
LINK http://www3.law.harvard.edu/orgs/lids/2014-symposium/
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Connecting Energy Supply Chain Planning with Traffic Network Equilibrium
Friday, October 31
12:30pm
MIT, Building 24-115, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Food at 12:15pm
Professor Yueyue Fan, UC Davis
With growing electric vehicle demand, the connection between transportation and energy is becoming stronger. Besides the commonly acknowledged physical and functional interdependence between the two systems, in this talk I will discuss some fundamental theories that transcend across the two fields. Specifically, I will discuss some of the modeling effort for supporting renewable energy infrastructure planning under uncertainties. The interdependency between different stakeholders in the system is captured in an energy supply chain network, where new entrants of renewable investors compete with existing generators for natural resources, transmission capacities, and demand markets. Through reformulation, the stochastic energy supply chain planning problem can be converted to solving many traffic network equilibrium problems. Establishing such a connection helps broaden the impact of transportation science to other disciplines.
Yueyue Fan is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Davis. She is also a faculty member in Applied Mathematics and Transportation Technology and Policy programs at UC Davis. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California in 2003. Dr. Fan’s research centers around decision making under uncertainty and dynamics, with applications in transportation and energy system modeling. She lead system modeling track in the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEP) program at UC Davis.
Contact Tracy Zhang (tzhang at mit.edu) or Abdelkrim Doufene (doufene at mit.edu)
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Saturday, November 1
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Harvard Business School Cyberposium 2014
Saturday, November 1
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Business School, Spangler Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/harvard-business-school-cyberposium-2014-tickets-12816886653
Cost: $37.92-48.47
Held at Harvard Business School for the past 19 years, Cyberposium is the largest MBA technology conference in the country. Each year Cyberposium seeks to engage business leaders in provocative dialogue about technology and its impact on business and society. Past speakers include Elon Musk, Marissa Meyer, Jerry Yang, as well as CEOs of Sony America, Intuit, Research in Motion, Uber, and Pandora.
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Climate Leadership Summit Day 1
Saturday, November 1
1:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-149, 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
It is a series of climate-focused workshops and discussion sessions on innovative visioning, strategic development, and skills run by Fossil Free MIT and Rainforest Action Network. There will be sessions from 1-6pm both days. Attendees are free to come to any and all sessions.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Rebeeca Romatoski
617-2558472
romo at mit.edu
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Sunday, November 2
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Climate Leadership Summit Day II
Sunday, November 2
1:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-149, 4-153, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
It is a series of climate-focused workshops and discussion sessions on innovative visioning, strategic development, and skills run by Fossil Free MIT and Rainforest Action Network. There will be sessions from 1-6pm both days. Attendees are free to come to any and all sessions.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Fossil Free MIT
For more information, contact: Rebeeca Romatoski
617-2558472
romo at mit.edu
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Monday, November 3
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Energy Management Seminar
November 3
9am-4pm
Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Road, Newton Centre
RSVP contact Colby May at colby at consultlit.com
COST: $50 per person, or $75 total for multiple representatives of any one institution.
GreenFaith in collaboration with Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light is hosting an Energy Management Seminar for those involved in managing large religious facilities and their energy systems. Learn about efficiency rebates and incentives and advanced conservation and efficiency strategies. Network with others to share challenges, ideas and solutions!
For Facility Managers, Sustainability Directors, CFO's and everyone involved in energy management.
SPEAKERS:
Jerry Lawson, Director, US EPA ENERGY STAR for CONGREGATIONS
NGrid and NStar representatives on incentives and rebates for religious facilities in MA
Colby May Certified Energy Manager – Founder of LIT Consultants
Rev. Fletcher Harper – Executive Director, GreenFaith
TOPICS:
Incentives, Grants & Rebate
Financing efficiency retrofit projects
Advanced HVAC & HVAC Control Practices
Advanced Lighting
Building Envelop
Benchmarking Tools
Smart Meters & More
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MASS Seminar - Jonathan Reid (Bristol)
Monday, November 3
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Jonathan Reid, Bristol
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Web site: http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/events/calendars/mass
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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How important is energy storage for decarbonization?
Monday, November 3
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS); Professor of Public Policy (HKS)
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Emerging “Global Health” Institutions in Africa: Technologies and Significations
Monday, November 3
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Richard Rottenburg (University of Halle, Anthropology
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Contact Name: sts at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-11-03-171500-2014-11-03-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.2az0T2Nf.dpuf
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Investigating Normal: Art, Design, and Adaptive Technologies
Monday, November 3
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 32-144, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sara Hendren
6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology Lecture Series
This public lecture is part of the class 6.811 Principles & Practice of Assistive Technology. PPAT is a 12-unit, interdisciplinary, project-based course in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to develop a practical product or solution that helps them live more independently. The course also includes lectures on principles of successful AT design, perspectives from people with disabilities and AT makers and users, design processes and human factors, and social, economic, and ethical perspectives on disability.
Exoskeletons, robotic limbs, all-terrain wheelchairs: "assistive technologies" usually refer to prosthetics and medical aids --- tools, devices, and other gear that either restore or augment the functioning of body parts. Historically, these have been designed for people with diagnosable disabilities. In this lecture, Sara Hendren examines functional and cultural tools that investigate the "normal" body and mind --- high-tech, low-tech, digital or analog --- and how these technologies assist with visible and invisible needs, externalize hidden dynamics, and create capacities far beyond or outside ordinary functionality.
Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and assistant professor of design at Olin College of Engineering. She writes and lectures on adaptive and assistive technologies, prosthetics, inclusive design, and related ideas, and she has just launched the Adaptation + Ability design lab at Olin. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad and is held in the permanent collection at MOMA (NYC), and her writing and design work have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Atlantic Tech, FastCo Design, and on National Public Radio (US), among others. She runs the Abler web site (www.ablersite.org).
Web site: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/PPAT
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Assistive Technology Club
For more information, contact: William Li
assistivetech-contact at mit.edu
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Clean Energy and Sustainable Affordable Housing Symposium and Expo
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Monday, November 3
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM (EST)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-and-sustainable-affordable-housing-symposium-and-expo-tickets-13289488217
Please join the City of Boston, MassHousing, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for a symposium to share ideas, ask questions, get answers, and hear the latest info on energy efficiency, clean and renewable energy and water conservation for affordable housing properties in Massachusetts. Plus, clean energy and water conservation vendors will be demonstrating their new technologies.
Welcome and Kickoff:
Aaron Gornstein, Undersecretary for Housing and Community Development
Energy and Water in Massachusetts' Multifamily Buildings:
WegoWise has the richest dataset of multifamily energy and water use in the Commonwealth. Come hear about what they're learning.
Energy and Water Management:
Best Practices from the Field, Case Studies, Panel Discussion. Bring your questions!
Closing Remarks:
Alicia Barton, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Networking and Technology Expo:
New Technologies and Vendors for Multifamily Properties
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Planets and Life Series: Past & Future Fights of the Homo Sapiens, Environmental Dynamics of Human Evolution
Monday, November 3
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Richard Potts (Smithsonian)
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan at mit.edu
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Unique Biometric ID: Creating a Large Scale Digital Ecosystem Using the Aadhaar Experience
WHEN Mon., Nov. 3, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS S010, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; co-founder of Infosys; author of "Imagining India"
CONTACT INFO sainit at fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/sai-annual-mahindra-lecture/
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Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture - What Constitutes Excellence in Islamic Geometric Design? Historical and Contemporary Best Practice
Monday, November 3
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Eric Broug, Author and educator, UK
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
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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"Obsessive Political Correctness:" A talk by playwright Eve Ensler
Monday, November 3
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
C. Walsh Theatre, S55 Temple Street, Suffolk University, Boston
RSVP at http://www.fordhallforum.org/programs/opc
Eve Ensler, playwright and activist, will talk about her newest work, “Obsessive Political Correctness,” with Joyce Kulhawik, arts and entertainment critic. The pair will then take questions from the audience.
Ensler created “The Vagina Monologues” and works worldwide to prevent violence against women through art. More info:
http://www.fordhallforum.org/programs/opc
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Tuesday, November 4
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Boston TechBreakfast: PencilBlue, Epoque, Attopedia, CloudStock, ProtonMail
Tuesday, November 4
8:00 AM
Microsoft Technology Center (4th Floor Longfellow), 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/155723062/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
PencilBlue - Blake Callens
Epoque - Adam Butler
Attopedia - Dheera Venkatraman
CloudStock - Ann Calvin
ProtonMail - Andy Yen
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Lecture - WORKSHOP - A Practical Introduction to Islamic Geometric Design Workshop
Tuesday, November 4
10:00a–1:00p
MIT, Building E25-117, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Eric Broug, Author and educator, UK
Using only a pencil, a straight edge, and a pair of compasses, learn how to make patterns using the same techniques used by craftsmen for centuries. Learn how they used polygonal grids to design and scale their compositions. We will be making two patterns: one from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, another from the Al-Mustansariyya madrasa in Baghdad.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Aga Khan Program Documentation Center
For more information, contact: Jose Luis Arguello
253-1400
akpiarch at mit.edu
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Anatomy of a Man-Made Disaster: Thirty Years Later, Remembering the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
WHEN Tue., Nov. 4, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Exhibitions, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Pablo Bartholomew, photojournalist
DETAILS In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have yet to be fully compensated. Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, then aged 29, who arrived at the scene recounts his experiences of what it was like covering the disaster and its aftermath.
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/anatomy-of-a-man-made-disaster-thirty-years-later-remembering-the-bhopal-gas-tragedy/
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
WHEN Tue., Nov. 4, 2014, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Christine Yano, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, and professor of anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited"
WHEN Tue., Nov. 4, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
SPEAKER(S) Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine
COST Free and open to the public; seating is limited
CONTACT INFO 617.495.0738; humcentr at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS
November 4, Lecture 1: “Are There Criteria of Extreme Violence?”
November 5, Lecture 2: “Objective and Subjective Cruelty: A Relevant Distinction in the Globalized World?”
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/étienne-balibar-violence-civility-and-politics-revisited
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BASG: The Sharing Economy
Tuesday, November 4
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
The Venture Cafe, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-the-sharing-economy-november-4-2014-tickets-13533768867
Cost: $10 -$12
In partnership with Northbound Ventures, BASG presents: The Sharing Economy
It’s hot, it’s very cool, and it is decidedly disruptive. And it’s creating quite the controversy. The Sharing Economy holds great promise and faces great challenges.
Come meet, hear, and engage with:
Emily Stapleton, General Manager, Alta Bicycle Share, Inc. (Operator of Hubway Bicycle System)
Emily will focus on shared transportation and public/private partnerships. Hubway bike share system is a collaboration between the municipalities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline. She also has experience in public sector transit at Transport for London and public sector logistics, as a consultant to the US Department of Defense. Emily received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Harvard College.
Molly Cohen, Law Fellow in Nonprofit Law, Office of the General Counsel at New York University
Molly Cohen and Corey Zehngebot wrote a terrific article in the Boston Bar Journal (April, 2014) entitled, “What’s Old Becomes New: Regulating the Sharing Economy.” Molly is a student at the Harvard Law School and a Law Fellow at NYU. She has been helping municipalities regulate the shared economy companies with a sense for balancing the safety and welfare of the public with the potential for economic development opportunities. Molly has examined the legal issues raised by the sharing economy along with the plea for the legal community to be proactive rather than reactive given the tremendous environmental, social and economic benefits of this activity. Molly will talk about whether the serious legal and regulatory issues created by the sharing economy’s rapid emergence might best be addressed by embracing concurrent regulatory innovation.
Katie Shultz, Lead Host & Community Manager, Impact Hub Boston
Impact Hub Boston is a coworking space and community for folks working on social entrepreneurship and for social good in Boston and beyond. Previously, Katie worked at a variety of non-profits - including a watershed protection group in Alabama and with conservation agriculture projects in South Sudan - and most recently carried her passion for sustainability to the People's Climate March in NYC. Katie will discuss coworking, at Impact Hub Boston and beyond, which takes the "Sharing Economy" to new Office Space - and offers equal opportunities for groans, laughter, and broad-based connections.
Mike Brown, Co-founder, GearCommons
GearCommons is a Boston-based startup for peer-to-peer sharing of outdoor gear. Mike is a MassChallenge Alumnus, a winner of the Tufts University $100k Business Plan Competition, a successful crowdfunder on Kickstarter, and is an avid ice climber. He is an engineer with his Masters Degree in Engineering Management from Tufts University. Mike will tell us about GearCommons.
Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!
Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using a modified IGNITE-style format, our speakers share their experiences and then we open the discussion to the group.
We’ll end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local events. Hope to see you there!
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"The Library of Alexandria: Rebirth and Revolution"
Tuesday, November 4
6:30p
MIT, Building, 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
with Dr. Ismail Serageldin
The MIT Egyptian Student Association (ESA) is delighted to invite you to a special lecture at MIT titled "The Library of Alexandria: Rebirth and Revolution," followed by a discussion session with the Founding Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Dr. Ismail Serageldin.
Web site: https://www.facebook.com/events/729718097081641/
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): Egyptian Student Association
For more information, contact: Mohamed Siam
clubegypt-board at mit.edu
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Reading/Signing -Steven Pinker and Susan Pinker
Tuesday, November 4
7:00pm
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
We are delighted to welcome Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Steven Pinker The Sense of Style and his sister - Susan Pinker The Village Effect, a developmental psychologist from Montreal. They will be reading and signing their new books in a rare duo
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Radcliffe Institute Fellow's Presentation Series: Programmable DNA Compartments as Artificial Cells on a Chip
WHEN Wed., Nov. 5, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) RoyBar-Ziv, Radcliffe Institute Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow and Weizmann Institute of Science
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-roy-bar-ziv-fellow-presentation
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Wearable Robotics for a Sustainable Ageing
Wednesday, November 5
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Nicola Vitiello
Abstract: Ageing population affects society welfare sustainability. The ageing of the population is one of the most critical challenges current industrialized societies will have to face in the next years, and threatens the sustainability of our social welfare. In 40 years from now, nearly 35% of the European population will be older than 60, hence the urgency to provide solutions enabling our ageing society to remain active, creative, productive, and – above all – independent. Among many diseases, gait disorders and upper-limb impairment are common and often devastating companions of ageing, leading to reductions in quality of life and increased mortality.
In the next years, ageing-related upper- and lower-limb impairment and disability will lead to a tremendous increase of the number of people needing assistance in their fundamental activities of daily living. In this scenario, people will become increasingly reliant on technology to meet their own needs to live active, fulfilling, and independent lives. Wearable robotics can be an enabling technology for establishing a sustainable welfare.
This presentation will introduce the results achieved by the team of wearable robotics of the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in the last years. In particular, the following devices will be presented: the NEUROExos elbow powered exoskeleton, the hand exoskeleton HANDEXOS, the sensorized foot insoles, and the pelvis orthosis developed within the framework of the CYBERLEGs project.
Speaker Bio:
Nicola Vitiello received the M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering (cum laude) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2006, and from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007. He also received the Ph.D. degree in biorobotics from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2010. He is currently an Assistant Professor with The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is the author or co-author of 30 ISI/Scopus papers and 30 peer-review conference proceedings papers. He has served as the Scientific Secretary of the EU FP7 CA-RoboCom project, and he is currently the Project manager of the EU FP7 CYBERLEGs Project. His main research interests include the development of wearable robotic devices for human motion assistance and rehabilitation and of robotic platforms for neuroscientific investigations.
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
Contact: LaShanda Banks
Email: lbanks at seas.harvard.edu
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Developing Health Innovation Beyond Traditional Borders
Wednesday, November 5
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E62-233, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum
Dr. Richards-Kortum's research group is developing miniature imaging systems to enable better screening for oral, esophageal, and cervical cancer and their precursors at the point-of-care. More recently, her group has worked to develop novel, low-cost sensors to detect infectious diseases at the point-of-care, including cryptosporidium, malaria, and Tuberculosis.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Tata Center for Technology and Design
For more information, contact: Gail Monahan
(617) 253-1341
gmonahan at mit.edu
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Starr Forum: The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Wednesday, November 5
5:30p–7:00p
MIT Building E15-070, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mary Sarotte, Noam Chomsky
Book talk with the author Mary Sarotte on her recent book "The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall" and discussion on 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Introduction and some commentary by Noam Chomsky
More about the Book
(http://www.amazon.com/The-Collapse-Accidental-Opening-Berlin/dp/0465064949)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum at mit.edu
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Boston Under Water: Climate Change in Our City
Wednesday, November 5
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Good Life, 28 Kingston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-under-water-climate-change-in-our-city-tickets-13290615589
Cost: $15.00
Join Ceres, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land for a young professionals happy hour and discussion of the impacts of climate change on Boston's landscape. Brian Swett, Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space for the City of Boston, will discuss the City's efforts in addressing the potential impact of rising sea levels, particularly through green infrastructure and clean energy planning. Ceres, The Nature Conservancy, and The Trust for Public Land will be on hand to answer questions on how our organizations are working to make Boston a climate-smart city. We look forward to sharing information about how you can become more engaged with our organizations.
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Ebola: Mutation, Markets, and the Military
Wednesday, November 5
6:30-8:00
ASEAN
with the Global Health Group, Africana Club, and UN Club
PTSD Awareness & Veteran's Day Event
Wednesday, November 5
7:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 2-105, 2 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Ayal Beer
Come hear from Ayal Beer honor Veteran's Day in American and also examine some differences between mental health services and issues that arise in Israel vs. America. He will explore the follow questions:
How is Israeli society impacted psychologically from wars? How do soldiers cope afterwards? What resources are available to them in the army to deal with PTSD and suicide? Why is the Israeli army's statistics for such things better than other countries around the world? Why are these issues important to non-veterans as well? What research/resources are available in Israel that is unique/better than in other places?
Light refreshments will be served.
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Active Minds, MIT Students for Israel, Hillel (MIT), MISTI MIT-Israel Program, The David Project
For more information, contact:
Shoshana Gibbor
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Fracking: How cheap energy is reshaping America's environment
WHEN Wed., November 5, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Armenise Amphitheater, 200 Longwood Avenue, Harvard Medical School, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Science in the News
CONTACT INFO sitnboston at gmail.com
DETAILS Science in the News (SITN) is a graduate student organization at Harvard University. We host interactive lectures on various science topics in the spring and fall. This lecture is a part of our fall lecture series, which are on Harvard’s Longwood campus. It consists of several PhD students presenting current research on a particular topic. Our seminars are open to audience members of any age, though a high school level of science education would be beneficial.
LINK http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminar-series/
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Film Screening: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 4-370, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
A Film Screening of Anita (2013)
Followed by Panel Discussion featuring:
Dr. Evelynn Hammonds, Professor of the History of Science and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Former Dean of Harvard College, and
Leena Akhtar, Doctoral Candidate, History of Science, Harvard University
About Anita (2013)
"Anita Hill's graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice.
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award??-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill's legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what happened to her life and work in the 22 years since.”
Gender, Health, and Marginalization
An event series hosted in conjunction with the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies' Fall 2014 course Gender, Health, and Marginalization taught by the GCWS faculty team Norma Meras Swenson, Chris Bobel, and Silvia Dominguez.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/news+events/GenderHealthMarginalization.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
For more information, contact: Lana Cook
617-324-2085
lanacook at mit.edu
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Thursday, November 6
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Crowds & Climate: From Ideas to Action
Thursday, November 6 & Friday, November 7, 2014
MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Conference fee: $100 (student scholarships available)
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1619563
The day-and-a-half program focuses on how new technology-enabled, crowd-based approaches can help in developing creative new ideas and taking meaningful action on climate change. In this year's event, we'll roll up our sleeves and work to figure out how to implement an innovative set of proposals to address climate change.
Plenary panels will feature world-class leaders and researchers who have successfully studied and fostered transformational change in the business sector, the policy domain, and in the work of reshaping social attitudes and behavior.
Following each panel, breakout sessions will feature the 2014 winners from contests run on the Climate CoLab, an online platform where a global community of over 20,000 works to develop creative approaches for tackling climate change. In these breakouts, attendees will engage with the authors of winning proposals and experts to explore how their ideas can effectively move forward in the world.
You'll leave the event inspired, with connections and a program of actions you, and others, can take to make progress in the global response to climate change.
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The Consequences of Terrorist Fragmentation
WHEN Thu., Nov. 6, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Evan Perkoski, research fellow, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6472/consequences_of_terrorist_fragmentation.html
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Games, Networks, and People
Thursday, November 6
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
Beginning with the introduction of graphical games and related models, there is now a rich body of algorithmic connections between probabilistic inference, game theory and microeconomics. Strategic analogues of belief propagation and other inference techniques have been developed for the computation of Nash, correlated and market equilibria, and have played a significant role in the evolution of algorithmic game theory over the past decade.
There are also important points of departure between probabilistic and strategic graphical models — perhaps most notably that in the latter, vertices are not random variables, but self-interested humans or organizations. It is thus natural to wonder how social network structures might influence equilibrium outcomes such as social welfare or the relative wealth and power of individuals. One logical path that such questions lead to is human-subject experiments on strategic interaction in social networks.
Speaker Bio: Michael Kearns is Professor and National Center Chair in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include topics in machine learning, algorithmic game theory, social networks, and computational finance. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, he spent a decade at AT&T/Bell Labs, where he was head of AI Research. He is co-director of Penn’s Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences (warrencenter.upenn.edu), and founder of Penn’s Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS) undergraduate program (www.nets.upenn.edu). Kearns consults extensively in technology and finance, and is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia at seas.harvard.edu
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Book release for "Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement"
Thursday, November 6
5:00pm
MIT Media Lab, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
A presentation by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department at MIT, on his new book Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!. The book -- about media, community organizing, and immigrant rights -- reveals that the revolution will be tweeted, but tweets alone will not the revolution make.
The talk will be followed by book signing and reception.
In the book, Costanza-Chock traces a broader social movement media ecology, and finds that social media enhances, rather than replaces, face-to-face organizing. He argues that social movements engage in transmedia organizing: despite the current spotlight on digital media, social movement media work is often cross-platform, participatory, and linked to action. Immigrant rights organizers leverage social media creatively, alongside a range of tools from posters and street theater to Spanish-language radio, print, and television.
In his talk, Costanza-Chock will draw on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects to describe the evolution of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement between 2006 and 2012. Key threads include the mass protests against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner Bill; coverage of police brutality against peaceful protesters; and the implications of professionalized transmedia organizing for community accountability.
The book is published by the MIT Press, with a full-text preprint available online under a Creative Commons license: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/out-shadows-streets
Free and open to the public.
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"Catastrophic Risks: The Downsides of Advancing Technology"
Thursday, November 6
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Harvard, Jefferson Hall, Room 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University; Astronomer Royal; President, Royal Society (2005-2010).
With Panelists: Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History; George Daley, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School; Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government; Daniel Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment. Moderated by: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Threats from the collective 'footprint' of 9 billion people seeking food, resources and energy are widely discussed. But less well studied is the potential vulnerability of our globally-linked society to the unintended consequences of powerful technologies - not only nuclear, but (even more) biotech, advanced AI, geoengineering and so forth. These are advancing fast, and bring with them great hopes, but also great fears. They will present new threats more diverse and more intractable than nuclear weapons have done. More expertise is needed to assess which long-term threats are credible, versus which will stay science fiction, and to explore how to enhance resilience against the more credible ones. We need to formulate guidelines that achieve optimal balance between precautionary policies, and the benign exploitation of new technologies.
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and is also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. In 1973, he became a fellow of King’s College and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge and served for ten years as director of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. From 1992 to 2003 he was a Royal Society Research Professor, and then from 2004 to 2012, Master of Trinity College. In 2005 he was appointed to the House of Lords and was President of the Royal Society for the period 2005-2010. He is the author or co-author of more than 500 research papers, mainly on astrophysics and cosmology, as well as eight books (six for general readership), and numerous magazine and newspaper articles on scientificand general subjects. His main research areas are in high energy astrophysics, cosmic structure formation, and general cosmological questions. Among his many honors are the Faraday Prize (2004), the Order of Merit (2007), and the Templeton Prize (2011).
Science and Democracy Lecture
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectures/
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
shana_rabinowich at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-11-06-220000-2014-11-07-000000/science-and-democracy-lecture#sthash.5RhCu4nN.dpuf
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Beautiful and Deadly: The Arts of War
WHEN Thu., Nov. 6, 2014, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S) Steven LeBlanc, curator, Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons across Cultures, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmsc at hmsc.harvard.edu
DETAILS In societies around the globe, the practice of war has historically gone hand-in-hand with a passion for beautifying the objects used to wage it. Which weapons are people most likely to decorate? How do cultures differ in the techniques and degree to which they embellish war objects? Why are some weapons transformed almost beyond recognition into dramatic cultural icons? Drawing on examples from the Peabody Museum’s extraordinary collections featured in the new exhibition, Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons across Cultures, Steven LeBlanc will explore the penchant for turning weapons into works of art.
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How Did You Do It, Mr. Piano?
WHEN Thu., Nov. 6, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, GSD, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Renzo Piano
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS The Harvard Art Museums building, which opens November 16th, consolidates three museums in a single volume capped by an art study center and state-of-the-art conservation laboratory. Architect Renzo Piano will speak about the project, followed by a conversation moderated by historian and critic Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, with Mr. Piano and Thomas W. Lentz
, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director.
Renzo Piano, a laureate of the Pritzker Prize and many other distinctions, founded Renzo Piano Building Workshop in 1981 following a partnership with architect Richard Rogers and engineer Peter Rice; early experimental practice; and work in the offices of Franco Albini, Louis Kahn, and others. RPBW (Genoa, Paris, and New York) is internationally recognized and lauded for its public spaces, excellence in engineering, and sensitivity to existing structures, as well as for architectural design.
For accessibilty accomondations please contact the events office two weeks in advance at (617)-496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/renzo-piano-how-did-you-do-it-mr-piano.html
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MIT/YPE Panel Discussion - Careers and Trends in the Energy Sector
Thursday, November 6
6:00p–8:00p
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Seaport District, Boston
The MIT Joules and Young Professionals in Energy will be co-hosting a discussion to explore careers and trends in the energy sector. The discussion will feature a panel of speakers from start-ups like Ambri, publicly traded wind firm Enel, policy experts and energy consultants. Come join the conversation, add your voice to the discussion and get engaged with Boston???s thriving energy ecosystem.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu
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Excellent Swiss Design Panel
Thursday, November 6
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Tower Auditorium, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/excellent-swiss-design-design-panel-tickets-12711092219
EXCELLENT SWISS DESIGN features selections from the Design Prize Switzerland, a biennial award that for twelve years has recognized advancements in the areas of communication, fashion, furniture, interior, product, and textile design. This exhibition showcases innovative projects, from laser-engraved textiles to a faucet that reduces water consumption by 90% to a running shoe that re-imagines impact through a hollow-core sole. Celebrating ingenuity and sustainability, this exhibition pioneers a new vision for contemporary design.
Design Panel - November 6th, 2014 | 6-8PM
swissnex Boston, Design Preis Schweiz, and MassArt are bringing together Swiss and American industrial, graphic, and furniture designers for a panel discussion exploring the viewpoints and experiences of these international design entrepreneuers. Panelists will discuss product and project design across various markets and the potential benefits of opening up international collaborations and multi-cultural design exchange. How can designers benefit from each other’s history, practice, and industrial bases? Topics include explorations of unique materials, approaches to sustainability, and challenges that face the field of design today. Moderated by MassArt Professor of Graphic Design Elizabeth Resnick.
Featuring:
Thilo Alex Brunner, industrial designer
Ludovic Bailand, graphic designer
Sam Aquillano, Executive Director, Design Museum Boston
Thomas Wuthrich, furniture designer
Elizabeth Resnick, MassArt Professor, Graphic Design - Moderator
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Innovation and New Products in the Food & Beverage Industry
MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association
Thursday, November 6
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
The Food Loft, 535 Albany Street, Top floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-and-new-products-in-the-food-beverage-industry-tickets-13392038949
The MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association is proud to sponsor this event with the Greater Boston Chapter of the Product Development and Management Association, the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals.
Description: Join the Greater Boston PDMA on November 6 for an evening to hear a panel discussion that explores the hottest trends in the food and beverage industry. Local executives will discuss innovation and their experiences with introducing new products in the rapidly changing food and beverage space. We'll hear from a wide variety of companies - from startups to larger, more established firms. Register now for this fun event and join in conversation with other product development, product management and innovation professionals in the Boston area.
The set of speakers as well as exciting local start-ups providing free samples of their products beforehand is still being finalized. In the meantime, please visit the PDMA website here for an updated list of speakers and start-ups providing free samples of their products.
Please note: The number of attendees may end up being limited given space constraints, in which case we'll offer spots according to date of registration and confirmation of attendance. Please check for an email before the event with further details for your confirmation
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Big Data for Global Commodity & Energy Markets
Thursday, November 6
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building E62-276, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-data-for-global-commodity-energy-markets-registration-13647495025
Cost: 0 - $10
Join Dr. Albert Hofeldt, Managing Director, Platform Services, Genscape for a presentation on the delivery of market intelligence across the commodity and energy spectrum.
Speaker Bio: Albert Hofeldt, Managing Director, is responsible for the Genscape Platform Technology Strategy & Services and leads a global team of highly seasoned technology architects and data scientists accountable for the design, planning, execution and evolution of the Genscape Product Platform, including the integration of proprietary field data acquisition systems, analytics and data publication systems. Genscape is undergoing an end-to-end technology evolution to further empower customers with strategic value-added software services and building/offering those capabilities with hybrid (on-prem & cloud) solutions including big-data and ‘on-demand’ flexible compute. Operating the world’s largest private network of in-the-field monitors, Genscape recently added satellite reconnaissance, artificial intelligence, and maritime freight tracking to its data acquisition capabilities. Genscape delivers market intelligence across the commodity and energy spectrum: Power, Oil, Natural Gas, Petrochemical and NGL, Agriculture, Biofuels, and Maritime Freight.
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Tracing the origin and transmission of the 2014 Ebola outbreak by virus deep sequencing from 78 patients
Thursday, November 6
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E51-325, Tang Center, corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
Speaker: Rachel Sealfon
The current Ebola outbreak is unprecedented in its size, rate of growth, and risk to West Africa and the world. The number of infections is following an exponential growth curve, with the CDC now projecting approximately 1.4 million cases by mid-January. Within the three countries which currently have active transmission (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea), there are 20 million people at risk of a disease with a 70% mortality rate. In order to help understand the origin, transmission and evolution of Ebola virus, by late August, the Sabeti lab and collaborators had sequenced, publicly released, and published analysis on Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone. These comprise more than 70% of the patients in Sierra Leone diagnosed over the first three weeks of the outbreak there. In this work, we elucidate the relationship of the 2014 outbreak strain to previous outbreaks, identify likely transmission links, and demonstrate that multiple changes became fixed in the virus' genome early in the course of the outbreak. The work has implications for diagnostics, surveillance, and therapeutics.
Rachel Sealfon is a graduate student in EECS at MIT. She is from Brooklyn, New York. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and received her master's degree in computer science from MIT. She received the 2008 Computing Research Association Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award and NSF and NDSEG fellowships.
IEEE/ACM Joint Seminar Series
Exploring the edge of computing technology.
Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/sealfon.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): ACM & IEEE/CS
For more information, contact: Dorothy Curtis
dcurtis at csail.mit.edu
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HEET’s Help for Houses of Worship Workshops
Thursday, November 6
7:30 pm
Greater Love Tabernacle,101 Nightingale Street, Dorchester Center, Boston
Organizations interested in participating in the Help for HOWs program should RSVP at
http://www.heetma.org/help-for-houses-of-worship/workshops-help-for-houses-of-worship/
to attend one of these informational sessions
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Friday, November 7
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Spiritual and Sustainable: Religion Responds to Climate Change
WHEN Fri., Nov. 7, 2014, 12 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Environmental Sciences, Religion, Special Events, Sustainability
CONTACT Leslie MacPherson Artinian
DETAILS "Spiritual and Sustainable: Religion Responds to Climate Change" is an interfaith conference focused on addressing the issues and challenges of maintaining a sustainable planet. Focusing on ways to engage, this conference will respond to the overlapping moral issues of climate change, sustainability, social justice, and mindfulness through the lenses of many of the world's religious traditions.
Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, will moderate.
The conference will include a sustainable lunch, panel discussion, tabling session, and a reception.
Admission is free, but seating is limited and pre-registration is required at
http://hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/conferences-and-seminars/spiritual-and-sustainable
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Digital materiality and the Intelligence of the Technodigital Object
Friday, November 7
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Betti Marenko, Contextual Studies Leader, University of the Arts, London
Architecture Lecture Series | Design and Computation 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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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and John Mugane: Exploring Race and Community in the Digital World Workshop Series
WHEN Fri., Nov. 7, 2014, 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 108, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Education, Humanities, Information Technology, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, director of Social Engagement Initiative and Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African American Studies, Harvard University, and John Mugane, director of the African Language Program and professor of the practice, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO cdmartin at post.harvard.edu
LINK http://raceandtechnology.wordpress.com/workshops/
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Saturday, November 8
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Earthwatch Summit 2014 - Citizens for Science Exposition
Saturday, November 8
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Harvard University Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwatch-summit-2014-citizens-for-science-exposition-tickets-13011199849
Cost: $0.00 - $22.09
Register by October 10, 2014
Come meet, interact with, and learn from some of the world's best and brightest scientific minds on cutting edge issues surrounding the Earth we all live on. At this free event you will have the unique opportunity to hear from a host of tremendous speakers and hear their latest research and how it impacts the environment, wildlife, and our community.
Some of the highlights of the day will include:
Opening Session: Rallying Call for Citizen Science with Opening Address Speaker
Dr. William Moomaw, Chief Science Officer, Earthwatch Institute
Morning Address on Harnessing the Power of Citizens for Science
Dr. J. Nichols, Marine Biologist and author of Blue Mind
Afternoon Address on Harnessing the Power of Citizen Science II
Dr. Richard Primack, Boston University biologist and author of Walden Warming
Six Earthwatch Scientist Presentations and Q & A with Moderator
Dr. Meg Lowman, Chief of Science & Sustainability at the California Academy of Science
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A Foreign Policy for All
Saturday, November 8
9:00am - 5:00pm
MIT, Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Re-Thinking U.S. Foreign Policy for the 21st Century
A One Day Conference
Confirmed Speakers
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor, author, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Bill Fletcher, former president, Trans Africa Forum; ; author, They’re Bankrupting Us! And 20 other Myths about Unions
Phyllis Bennis, director, New Internationalism Project, Institute for Policy Studies
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe columnist; author, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Judith Leblanc, Field Director, Peace Action; former co-chair, UFPJ; member of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma
After over a decade of costly military engagements in overseas wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains an interventionist, military-first foreign policy. Weary of this unsustainable status quo, growing numbers of Americans are engaging in a wide-ranging debate about the values and goals of U.S. foreign policy, the necessary levels of military spending, and the appropriate role for the U.S. in the world in the 21st century. As a result, there is now a unique window of opportunity for deep and critical reflection over the key priorities of U.S. foreign policy going forward.
In this one-day conference to be held immediately after the midterm election, we will both critique current foreign policy approaches that exacerbate global insecurity, and attempt to outline a more positive vision of U.S. global engagement. This vision is one that meets the actual security needs of people around the world, and is consistent with the principles of peace and justice for all. We will also explore the actions needed to make the changes we seek. The discussion will respond to a draft paper, prepared by a working group and to be published approximately October 1. Read a summary of the Foreign Policy for All project: http://masspeaceaction.org/learn/foreign-policy-for-all
Conference fee: $25 before Oct. 29 for members of sponsoring organizations, $30 for others, $35 at the door, $10 for students and low income; free to MIT students. Fee includes morning coffee and lunch. Register at <link> or mail check to Massachusetts Peace Action, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138. Info: 617 354 2169
Workshop Proposals are Due October 3, 2014
Host: MIT Technology and Culture Forum
Co-Sponsors: Massachusetts Peace Action, American Friends Service Committee, MIT Western Hemisphere Association
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Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard University
Social Innovation Collaborative
Saturday, November 8
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/igniting-innovation-summit-on-social-entrepreneurship-at-harvard-university-tickets-12406908397
Cost: $22.09 - $37.92
The Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship is the largest undergraduate-run conference on social innovation in the United States. The Summit unites students, academics, and leaders in the field who are passionate about developing innovative solutions to today's most pressing problems. Over the past four years, the Summit has grown from a small-scale initiative of Harvard students to a nationally recognized forum for social change.
See more information at our website: ignitinginnovationsummit.com
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Historython
Saturday, November 8
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
LearnLaunch, 31 St James Avenue #920, Boston
Historython is back! Got a great story to tell and looking for the right tool?
Hstry, makers of the history timeline creation tool, is bringing together history enthusiasts around the world to test their skills and win some prizes for the best timelines at Historython. On Saturday, November 8, 10am-5pmET, those located in Boston are invited to join us at the LearnLaunch Campus in the Back Bay. Lunch and lightning talks are on us!
For those history buffs not located in Boston, you can still participate! Just join us virtually for a short introduction webinar at the start, receive your code to begin, and submit your timeline through Hstry by the deadline to get your chance at a prize! We’ll be available online for any questions and will stream the lightning talks in Boston live.
Website: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Historython-Meetup/events/213172092/
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Bridge Design Day
Saturday, November 8
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
BSA Space 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.architects.org/programs-and-events/family-design-day-its-novembridge-boston-bridges
Cost: $8
Learn about the many bridge types we have spanning our city's waterways, and then design and build your own bridge for our Fort Point neighborhood. This Family Program is designed for parents and children ages 5 – 13 years old, a maximum ratio of one adult per three children will be required.
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New Global Movements for Real Democracy
Saturday, November 8
12pm to 1pm
Northeastern University, 310 Renaissance Park, Boston
Marina Sitrin
Author, lawyer, and activist Marina Sitrin has been a direct participant in a number of movements, from the Zapatistas and the Popular Assemblies in Argentina to Occupy, and she will be sharing her reflections on a host of recent social movements and emerging practices of direct democracy.
Sitrin is the author of numerous books, including Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (2012, Zed Books) and They Can?t
Represent US: Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy (2014, Verso).
Contact Kevin Geyer at geyer.k at husky.neu.edu for further information
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Sunday, November 9
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Demo session for Music Hack Day Boston 2014
Music Hack Day
Sunday, November 9
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive #1, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demo-session-for-music-hack-day-boston-2014-tickets-13732810205
The goal of Music Hack Day is to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It's a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their hacks in 24hrs. Anything goes as long as it's music related. For more details visit our Hacker League page.
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Green Pedal Film Festival (featuring Wild & Scenic Film Festival films)
Boston Cyclists Union
Sunday, November 9
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-pedal-film-festival-featuring-wild-scenic-film-festival-films-tickets-13708349041
Cost: $11.54
A fall evening of several short films on rad environmental innovations, a talk from film maker Lucas Brunelle, and a raffle!
The festival features Wild & Scenic Film Festival films from 2013 and 2014, and some of Brunelle's most recent shorts.
Also on display will be the biggest convergence of the Greater Boston area's work tricycles, including the Bibliocycle, the Coffee Trike, AlFreshCo, Boostrap Compost, Metro MetroPedal Power and more! Talk to these innovators one on one and hear about the trials and tribulations of starting a bicycle-based business.
Tickets are $10 via Eventbrite, and the price helps fund the Bike Union's mission for safer and better bikeways in Boston.
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Monday, November 10
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An organic mega flow battery for utility-scale electrical energy storage
Monday, November 10
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Michael Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies, Harvard SEAS
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Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Partisan Media and Democracy: Historical Lessons from US Newspapers
WHEN Mon., Nov. 10, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Science Center D Lecture Hall, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR FAS Department of Economics
SPEAKER(S) Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
CONTACT INFO eunverz at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A reception will follow the lecture in the Hansen-Mason Room, Littauer Center 3rd floor from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40863
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Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
Monday, November 10
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Planets and Life: Human and Planetary Perspectives
Weekly lecture and discussion series exploring the co-evolution of the earth's natural systems and life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/2014/planets-life
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Vlada Stamenkovic
rinsan at mit.edu
This MIT lecture series and course option will consist of diverse MIT, Harvard, and international experts giving lectures and participating in two panel discussions to explore the crucial processes for complex surface life and the links between human evolution and environmental changes.
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A Weather Report from an Exoplanet: Clouds and Rain in a Place 40 Light Years Away
Monday, November 10
7pm – 8pm
The Burren in Davis Square
Dr Dimitar Sasselov
SITN’s Science by the Pint is a chance to interact directly with research scientists. The featured scientists will give a brief intro to her work, and take a few questions before mingling from table to table with other member of her group to chat with you.
Contact http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint/
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Amanda Palmer 'The Art of Asking' Book Tour Kickoff
Monday, November 10, 2014
10:00 PM
Somewhere in Harvard Square + Porter Square Books, Cambridge
It’s here! the official Art of Asking book release party and tour kick-off!
10:PM- gather in Harvard Square with Amanda Palmer. then parade to Porter Square Books.
11:30- interviews, performances at Porter Square Books.
12:00- book sales and book-signings commence!
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Tuesday, November 11
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The Backstory to the Islamic State, Assad and U.S. Policy—A Reporter's First Hand View
WHEN Tue., Nov. 11, 2014, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The CMES Middle East Forum
SPEAKER(S) Reese Erlich, investigative journalist, author, and Peabody Award winner
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is off the record. The use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3750
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
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SOMERVILLE ROVING ART EVENTS BUS
We are looking for folks to help us program our new M.U.S.C.R.A.T. Bus (Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport).
About the MUSCRAT
The city of Somerville, led by the Somerville Arts Council, has bought an old school bus, which has been transformed into a Multi Use Somerville Community Roving Art Transport (M.U.S.C.R.A.T). We anticipate that the inside will be used to conduct roaming art classes, performance art or dance, while the outside could be used to screen films or host concerts. The intent for our M.U.S.C.R.A.T. is to create a flexible roving catalyst for creation.
Perhaps you'd like to…
create a comix workshop for youth in an underserved area; this might take place at Mystic River Housing, for example
produce a dance performance in or around the bus in an unlikely location
host a public craft night inside the bus
We look forward to hearing your ideas!
Official Call
For more details and the official call to Producers, go here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/muscrat
Rachel Strutt, Program Manager, Somerville Arts Council
p: 617.625.6600, x2985 f: 617.666.4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Visit Nibble, a blog about food & culture at
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/nibble
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CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS ARTS GRANT PROGRAM - October 15, 2014
Cambridge Arts makes annual awards of $200-$2000 to support access to professional arts and culture events for Cambridge youth through Field Trip Grants and supports individual artists and organizations through Project Grants. Project Grants are awarded in two categories: Creating & Presenting and Education & Access. Entry fee.
Details: 617-349-4380
http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/grants
cambridgearts at cambridgema.gov
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver at bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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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://mitenergyclub.org/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/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
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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