[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - November 9, 201
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Nov 9 11:18:09 PST 2014
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
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Monday, November 10
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12pm An organic mega flow battery for utility-scale electrical energy storage
1pm "Is Community-Owned Food the Solution?"
4pm Seymour E. & Ruth B. Harris Lecture: Partisan Media and Democracy: Historical Lessons from US Newspapers
4pm Linking topography, erosion, and chemical weathering in Earth
4pm Communication Amid Uncertainty
4:30pm Planets and Life - Human and Planetary Perspectives
7pm A Weather Report from an Exoplanet: Clouds and Rain in a Place 40 Light Years Away
7pm This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
10pm Amanda Palmer 'The Art of Asking' Book Tour Kickoff
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Tuesday, November 11
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9am Mesoscopic sensitized solar cells: a game changer in the PV world?
12:30pm The Backstory to the Islamic State, Assad and U.S. Policy—A Reporter's First Hand View
5pm "Is Community-Owned Food the Solution?”
6pm Financing the Future Mixer: Networking, Cocktails and Conversation
6:30pm Intro to the Boston Creative Community
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Wednesday, November 12
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12pm Lunch and Learn: Indian water filter evaluation at Consumer Reports
1pm CMEI Dialogue: Global Education's Troubling Questions: What Are the Benefits, and for Whom?
3:30pm Fostering the Next Bill Nye - How Hard Could it Be?
4pm 'Fresh Connections: Tributaries to River Bend Chronicle II
4pm The Humanitarian Dimensions of the Ebola Epidemic
4pm Exorcizing Hitler - Denazification in Germany after 1945
4pm Who Builds a Skyscraper without Drawing Blueprints?
4:10pm “Dams, Water Quality, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from South Africa”
5pm Free Screening of Maker: A Documentary on the Maker Movement
6pm Clean Energy Solutions Forum
6pm Edtech Pitch Night
6pm Years of Living Dangerously - Film Screening
6pm Big Data for Social Good Challenge
7pm Back to the Past: Putin's Russia
7pm More than a Messenger: The secret life of RNA
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Thursday, November 13
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12pm Nicaragua Informal Waste and Entrepreneurship
12:15pm Follies and Fiascoes: Why Does U.S. Foreign Policy Keep Failing?
2pm Sustainability in the City of Baltimore
2:50pm Modeling and Optimization of Electricity Markets
4pm Some aspects of size, surfaces, and simulation in pursuit of magnetic fusion energy
4pm Technology of Value: Principles, Policy and Practice
4pm What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
4pm From Arab "Spring" to Arab "Chaos": Can Gulf States Stabilize the Arab World?
4:15pm Troubles on the EU Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
4:30pm Stalin: Geopolitics, Power, Ideas
5:15pm Street History: Making Sense of the Past in Protest Movements
5:30pm "The Last Mountain" - Film Screening & Talk
6pm Urban Films: Rome Open City
6pm Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell
6:30pm World Usability Day 2014: "If You Build It" Screening (Boston)
6:30pm Humanitarian Happy Hour
7pm Lessons From The Cuban Energy Revolution
7pm Penguins as Ocean Sentinels: What Penguins Are Telling Us
7pm How to Manage Corporate Sustainability
7pm Community Shared Solar and Virtual Net Metering
7:30pm Live Webcast: Freedom of the Press Lecture with Margaret Marshall
7:30pm Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
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Friday, November 14
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8am What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
9am Lost and Found: A Science Symposium about Navigation
9am Energy Business Bootcamp
12pm Urban Risk Lab
12:30pm Crises in Cities: What Next?
3pm The Role of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Addressing the World’s Energy Challenges
3pm Architecture by Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life
4:30pm Solar Lighting & Inclusive Growth in India
5pm The Siemens Competition:Math:Science:Technology: Reception and Viewing of the Student's Research Projects
5pm Beyond the Yoda Head: Making 3D Printing Meaningful
5pm Always Connected - The Promise of Wearable Technology
5pm Hack Urban Food
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Saturday, November 15
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8am The Siemens Competition:Math:Science:Technology: Student Oral Presentations
8:30am What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
9am SPARK Entrepreneurship Conference by Harvard Business School
1pm Grooversity Festival
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Monday, November 17
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10am Free Admission Day Harvard Museums
12pm MASS Seminar - Jun-Eung Lee, Brown
12pm Financing wind energy deployment in China through the Clean Development Mechanism: Additionality and incentives for technological change
12:15pm "Regulating Microbial Ecologies: Policy and Practice in Artisanal Cheesemaking”
12:15pm Deproliferation Dynamics: Why States Give Up Nuclear Weapons Programs
12:30pm "insel4D: Dynamic Simulation of Cities”
2:30pm How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India
4pm Access to Toilets and Women's Rights
4:30pm Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Climate Change and Hurricanes
5:30pm Social Entrepreneurs and the Role of Foundations
6pm Conflict, Convivencia, and the Life of Buildings
6pm MIT Water Innovation Prize - Idea Pitch & Dinner
7pm EARTH A New Wild Screening
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Tuesday, November 18
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12pm Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic.
12pm FAA Deputy Administrator to Speak about NextGen's Impact on Transportation and the Economy
12pm Urban Agriculture in Boston
1pm Career Insights on FEMA, HUD, and the PMF Process
4:30pm "The Roots of Technological Controvery: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa.”
4:30pm Kremlin propaganda: can Putin control it?
4:30pm "Anthropology in Warzones”
5:30pm Modern War Gardens: Paradise Lost
5:30pm e4Dev Speaker Series: Revolution of the kitchen--social processes of adoption of improved and removal of traditional cookstoves
6pm Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining
6pm Protecting the Ash Tree: Wabanaki Diplomacy and Sustainability Science in Maine
6pm Food of the Future, Future of Food
6pm Cryptocurrencies: The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
6pm Boston New Technology November 2014 Product Showcase #BNT47
6:30pm Creating Public Doubt about Scientific Facts
6:30pm What will the Power Grid Look Like 50 Years From Now?
7pm Codebreaker: A Special Screening and Q&A
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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
Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/11/let-it-shine-6000-year-story-of-solar.html
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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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"Is Community-Owned Food the Solution?"
November 10
1pm
Webinar at http://cofed-learning-institute.kickoffpages.com
Cooperative Food Empowerment Learning Institute: How CoFED can help you create community-owned food solutions.
What is community-owned food?
Learn from national examples.
Gain practical tools and resources.
Develop a plan of action.
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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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Linking topography, erosion, and chemical weathering in Earth
Monday, November 10
4:00 pm
Haller Hall, GM 102, 24 Oxford Street 1st Floor, Cambridge
Dr. Isaac Larsen, Caltech
EPS Colloquium Series
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Communication Amid Uncertainty
Monday, November 10
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Madhu Sudan, Microsoft Research New England
Computers and humans communicate in order to gain information about the state of the world around them, and to be able to determine how to act in the future. Effective communication relies on large shared context between the communicating parties: Such shared context tells the communicating agents how to compress information, how to overcome noise in communication channels and how to interpret the messages so as to be able to act based on them. To this date however almost all designed systems assume this context is shared perfectly by the communicating agents --- and any violation leads to a breakdown in communication (devices don't print, emails can't be opened etc.) Is it possible to design reliable communication protocols that don't assume such perfect synchronization between sender and receiver?
In this talk we will describe some of our attempts to build theoretical models of communication when communicating players are uncertain about different aspects of the context. Depending on the time available we will show how:
1) Data can be compressed even when sender and receiver are not in agreement on the prior from which the data is sampled.
2) Probabilistic Communication strategies can be implemented even when sender and receiver don't share the randomness perfectly.
3) Players learn to coordinate on future actions (under mild conditions) even in the absence of prior understanding of each other's future plans.
Based on joint works with Brendan Juba (Washington U.), Oded Goldreich (Weizmann), Adam Kalai (MSR), Sanjeev Khanna (U. Penn.), Elad Haramaty (Technion), Clement Canonne (Columbia), Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU), Raghu Meka (UCLA), and Jacob Leshno (Columbia).
Speaker Bio: Madhu Sudan got his Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992. From 1992-1997 he was a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In 1997 he joined the faculty at MIT, where among other roles he served as an Associate Director of MIT's CSAIL from 2007-2009. In 2009, Madhu Sudan joined Microsoft Research at their New England Research Center as a Principal Researcher. He continues to be an Adjunct Professor at MIT.
Madhu Sudan's research lies in the fields of computational complexity theory, algorithms and reliable communcation. He is best known for his works on probabilistic checking of proofs, and on the design of list-decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes. His current research interests include semantic communication and property testing. In 2002, Madhu Sudan was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize, for outstanding contributions to the mathematics of computer science, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Meg Hastings
Phone: 617-496-7358
Email: hastings at seas.harvard.edu
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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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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Monday, November 10
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes CHARLES COBB, Visiting Professor at Brown University’s Department of Africana Studies, for a discussion of his book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self defense,” King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend’s Montgomery, Alabama home as “an arsenal.”
Like King, many ostensibly “nonviolent” civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to selfprotection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement’s success.
Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.
Editorial Comment: She [Mama Dolly Raines] said,"I grew up on a plantation with white people and always lived with them, so I guess that's why I'm not afraid of them." In her words, she was "the most nonviolent shot in the county.”
from Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner (Chicago: Univ of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-252-03557-9)
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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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Mesoscopic sensitized solar cells: a game changer in the PV world?
Tuesday, November 11
9:00 am to 10:00 am
swissnex Boston 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lifting-the-veil-on-advancement-in-solar-photovoltaic-tickets-13827379063
Solar energy is expected to play a crucial role as a future energy source. However, capturing solar energy and converting it to electricity or chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, at low cost and using abundantly available raw materials remains a huge challenge. One of the effective ways to convert solar energy into electricity is photovoltaic (PV), and has been under improvement for the last six decades. Our morning guest, Philippe Labouchère, will present the latest advancements in PV, the presentation will be followed by a discussion.
About Philippe Labouchère
Philippe Labouchère recently earned his PhD in solar energy under the supervision of Prof. Michael Grätzel, the father of the so-called dye-sensitized solar cells. Prior to that, he studied physics at ETH in Zurich and specialized in quantum cryptography. This has allowed him to work at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tokyo where he did an internship at the science & technology office, formerly headed by Felix Moesner.
More at: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/lifting-the-veil-on-advancement-in-solar-photovoltaic/#sthash.Owbnx7l5.RLQ4g3N9.dpuf
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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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"Is Community-Owned Food the Solution?”
Tuesday, November 11
5pm
Webinar at http://cofed-learning-institute.kickoffpages.com
Cooperative Food Empowerment Learning Institute: How CoFED can help you create community-owned food solutions.
What is community-owned food?
Learn from national examples.
Gain practical tools and resources.
Develop a plan of action.
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Financing the Future Mixer: Networking, Cocktails and Conversation
Tuesday, November 11
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Vlora Restaurant, 545 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/financing-the-future-mixer-networking-cocktails-and-conversation-tickets-13978137987
Sustain for the Future and the Babson Energy and Environmental Club have teamed up to bring you an evening of Networking, Cocktails and Conversation with Sustainable Thought Leader, John Chaimanis. Mr. Chaimanis will be sharing his wisdom, work and enlightening you on:
"Financing the Future: A Look at Sustainable Project Development"
This event is free and open to the public.
*Must be at least 21 years of age to attend. Valid ID required.
Mr. Chaimanis is a Managing Director of Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure and Lecturer at Babson College. At Kendall Investments, Mr. Chaimanis focuses on all aspects of business including deal sourcing, financial structuring and asset management. Prior to Kendall, Mr. Chaimanis worked with a subsidiary of Edison International in California where he developed and acquired over $500 million of energy projects, installing 250MW of renewable energy assets. Mr. Chaimanis is published and has lectured to universities on the topic of energy markets and renewables. Prior to his career in energy he founded a charter school. Mr. Chaimanis holds an M.B.A. from Babson College, and a B.S. in Finance from Villanova University. He has earned certification from the US SIF for Sustainable and Responsible Investing (SRI).
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Intro to the Boston Creative Community
Tuesday, November 11
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
GA Boston, 51 Melcher Street, Boston
Keith Frankel, Host of CreativeMornings Boston
Join GA and the organizers of Creative Mornings Boston as we cover key events, companies, people, current issues, and career paths in the local creative industry.
Then stick around after the talks to meet fellow creatives and the General Assembly team over a few free drinks!
Whether you’re current design student, recent graduate, new to the city, or looking to make a connections in the creative community, this free event will help you get acquainted with the dynamic world of design in Boston.
Creative Mornings Boston
In 2008, Tina Roth Eisenberg (Swissmiss) started CreativeMornings out of a desire for an ongoing, accessible event for New York’s creative community. The concept was simple: breakfast and a short talk one Friday morning a month. Every event would be free of charge and open to anyone.
Today, attendees gather in cities around the world to enjoy fresh coffee, friendly people, and an international array of breakfast foods. Volunteer hosts and their team members organize local chapters that not only celebrate a city’s creative talent, but also promote an open space to connect with like-minded individuals.
Website: http://ga.co/t7y
General Assembly:
boston at generalassemb.ly
http://www.generalassemb.ly
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Wednesday, November 12
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Lunch and Learn: Indian water filter evaluation at Consumer Reports
Wednesday, November 12
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 4-149, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Shuyue and Yiyue Zhang
MIT-CITE is a five-year program on product evaluation. The Year 2 project is focused on evaluating household water filters in Ahmadabad, India. This summer, three MIT graduate and post graduate Research Assistants plus a consultant worked at Consumer Reports Headquarters in Yonkers, NY to evaluate water filters that are found in the Indian marketplace. This technical lab study team is part of a larger Suitability team of CITE. They conducted comparative testing and research work using extreme contaminants aiming to provide a ratings-chart of different filter models for consumers.
Speaker Bios:
Shuyue is a degree candidate for a Master of Science in Environmental and Water Quality Engineering at MIT and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB).
Yiyue Zhang is a master student in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on water quality. She has worked with Shuyue in Ghana for optimization of ceramic pot filter, and now is working on evaluation of Indian water filters.
Web site: http://waterclub.scripts.mit.edu/wp/events/event/lunch-and-learn-indian-water-filter-evaluation-at-consumer-reports/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club, Graduate Student Council
For more information, contact: Leonardo D. Banchik
waterclub-officers at mit.edu
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CMEI Dialogue: Global Education's Troubling Questions: What Are the Benefits, and for Whom?
WHEN Wed., Nov. 12, 2014, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Larsen Hall, Room G-08, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Ethics, Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Civic and Moral Education Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Manish Jain, co-founder at Swaraj University and co-founder at Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development - Udaipur, Rajasthan
Adebayo Akomolafe, coordinator at International Alliance for Localization, co-founder at Koru conversations and lecturer at Covenant University - Atan Ota, Ogun, Nigeria
Sanford Unger, president emeritus of Goucher College in Maryland; distinguished scholar in residence at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; journalist and author
Kara Godwin, visiting scholar, Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
DETAILS Global education and internationalization are being touted as the essential elements of progress in the 21st-century. Yet this raises serious questions: whom is global education and internationalization meant to benefit; and for what social, economic, or political purposes?
This dialogue will try to tackle the power, politics, and pedagogy of global education in a rapidly changing time.
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Fostering the Next Bill Nye - How Hard Could it Be?
Wednesday, November 12
3:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building 56-154, Access Via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Elizabeth Choe & George Zaidan
There is an increasing popularity and power of the hosted video medium - what is the place of informal web series and shows in life-long learning and more formal educational experiences for both users and creators, and how can we capitalize on this format to engage and entertain in addition to educating? Elizabeth Choe and George Zaidan will their attempt to answer this question through an analysis of the inaugural year of MIT+K12 Videos??? original, student-written and hosted web series, Science Out Loud. Their presentation will trace the successes and failures of the program, the accompanying challenges associated with presenting science as a narrative (and teaching others to do so!), and lessons learned that could inform the way we think about equipping STEM-inclined students to become inspiring advocates for their fields.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
xTalks provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles at mit.edu
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'Fresh Connections: Tributaries to River Bend Chronicle II
WHEN Wed., Nov. 12, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Ben Miller, Radcliffe Institute Fellow and Independent Writer
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-ben-miller-fellow-presentation
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The Humanitarian Dimensions of the Ebola Epidemic
Wednesday, November 12
4:00-5:00PM
Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Professor Medicine, Harvard Medical School
*RSVP not required.
**Non-Harvard ID holders should email cmartin at hsph.harvard.edu to request a visitor pass.
*** Seating is first come, first served and will begin at 3:30 PM.
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Exorcizing Hitler - Denazification in Germany after 1945
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building E51-325, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics Special Events
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Who Builds a Skyscraper without Drawing Blueprints?
Wednesday, November 12
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Leslie Lamport
Abstract: Architects draw detailed plans before construction begins. Software engineers don't. Can this be why buildings seldom collapse and
programs often crash? A blueprint for software is called a specification. TLA+ specifications have been described as exhaustively testable pseudo-code. High-level TLA+ specifications can catch design errors that are now found only by examining the rubble after a system has collapsed.
Biography: Dr. Lamport received a doctorate in mathematics from Brandeis University, with a dissertation on singularities in analytic partial differential equations. This, together with a complete lack of education in computer science, prepared him for a career as a computer scientist at Massachusetts Computer Associates, SRI, Digital, and Compaq. He claims that it is through no fault of his that of those four corporations, only the one that was supposed to be non-profit still exists. He joined Microsoft in 2001, but that company has not yet succumbed.
Dr. Lamport's initial research in concurrent algorithms made him well-known as the author of LaTeX, a document formatting system for
the ever-diminishing class of people who write formulas instead of drawing pictures.
Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/136986
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses at csail.mit.edu
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“Dams, Water Quality, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from South Africa”
Wednesday, November 12
4:10 pm
Harvard, Littauer Building, Room L-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Elizabeth Walker, Harvard University
The supporting seminar paper will be available soon to view and download by clicking on Seminar Papers on the left prior to the seminar at http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Free Screening of Maker: A Documentary on the Maker Movement
Wednesday, November 12
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, Askwith Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-screening-of-maker-a-documentary-on-the-maker-movement-tickets-14152696095
The Harvard Educational Review and Springboard: The Harvard College Design Club invite you to join us for a film screening on Wednesday, November 12th at 5:00PM of Maker: A Documentary on the Maker Movement.
Maker is a documentary examining the current American "maker movement," fueled by passion, design, and DIY principles. The film will include discussion where experts from the field will engage in a lively conversation about the possibilities and challenges that the maker movement holds for 21st century learning and design.
The 'Maker Movement', sometimes called the 'Third Industrial Revolution,' subverts traditional manufacturing by building on innovative concepts such as open source, local manufacturing, crowd funding, and digital fabrication. Breaking the hobbyist movement stereotype, 'Maker' delves deep into this ecosystem of design and manufacturing in the Internet era. The film explores the ideas, tools, and personalities that are driving the Maker Movement – and returns with a timely snapshot of one of the transforming influences of the current age.
The screening will conclude with a panel discussion which will include Harvard’s Dr. Edward Clapp from Project Zero and the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Dr. Erica Halverson, both authors from HER's upcoming symposium exploring the maker movement.
For more information, please visit www.makerthemovie.com
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Clean Energy Solutions Forum
Wednesday, November 12
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Harvard University, 51 Brattle Street, Grossman Common Room (2nd floor), Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-solutions-forum-tickets-13613750093
Distance students: tune in using this link: https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/100999387830208815819/events/cr1tq9sjfbdble85mjl1gno5pi0
Clean Energy Solutions Forum is co-hosted by Harvard Extension Environmental Club (HEEC) and the Massachusetts Sierra Club.
With the retirement of the final three coal plants in Massachusetts the age of dirty coal and pollution is finally over. Solar energy and offshore wind are able to replace that energy without polluting and with local workers. Both the Cape Wind and Deepwater Wind offshore projects are ready for steel in the water and solar has boomed over the last five years. The Clean Energy Solutions Forum will invite local energy experts to give their view on the future obstacles and opportunities of clean energy and ask you to develop the strategies to overcome those obstacles.
The outline for the evening is snacks and beverages followed by welcome and introduction of clean energy issues in the state. After the intro we will do clean energy breakouts (offshore wind, solar, zero waste). In those groups we will have invited local experts to speak about the challenges facing each of those sectors. As part of the discussion in the breakouts we want to start figuring out what action needs to be taken, who the decision maker is, and what our next action step should be.
Speaker Panel:
Edward Woll Jr. – Sullivan & Worcester, Partner
Sierra Club, Chapter Vice Chair (Massachusetts)
Bram Claeys, Director Renewable Energy Policy, DOER
Bill White, MassCEC, Offshore Wind program Director
Nigel Fellman-Greene, Next Step Living
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Edtech Pitch Night
Wednesday, November 12
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive Suite 100, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edtech-pitch-night-tickets-13679103567
LearnLaunch Institute and YEP-Boston are excited to co-host an Edtech Pitch Night! Six early stage edtech startups will have the chance to pitch their products to a live audience. A panel of judges will offer the companies feedback and vote on the best pitch. The audience will also get to participate by voting for a crowd favorite. There will be plenty of time to mingle with the edtech community as well as the companies that are pitching.
Agenda
6:00-7:00 pm: Networking
7:00-8:00 pm: Pitches
8:00-9:00 pm: Announcement of Winner/Networking with Pitch Companies
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Years of Living Dangerously - Film Screening
Wednesday, November 12
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender Street, Cambridge
Thanks to board member Susan Ringler, Green Cambridge has acquired a copy of Season 1 of Years of Living Dangerously. The series takes A-list actors into front line communities affected by climate change. A series not to be missed, we will be hosting a screening of the first two episodes at the
Following the episodes we will have a conversation lead by Brian Helmuth, Northeastern University Professor and expert in ecological forecasting, sustainability, and environmental policy on climate effects and concerns for the Northeast region.
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Big Data for Social Good Challenge
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
hack/reduce, 275 Third Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Developers-in-Boston/events/218264902/
Register for the Challenge at http://ibmhadoop.challengepost.com/
Big Data Idea Jam at Hack/Reduce on Wednesday Nov 12 from 6-9. Hear about the new Big Data for Social Good Challenge, share ideas and enjoy some food and drink with your peers.
More on the Big Data for Social Good Challenge.....
CALLING ALL DEVELOPERS .... JOIN THE BIG DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD CHALLENGE
Big data exists in just about everything we use and do. It comes from phones, cars, roads, power lines, waterways, food crates, and innumerable other items you’d never think of as computers. This data speaks volumes about our collective behavior and society – so let’s use it to do something incredible! IBM invites developers and data enthusiasts to take a deep dive into real world civic issues using big data and the IBM Bluemix Analytics for Hadoop service. Analyze one of our curated datasets or bring your own! Use Hadoop and your data to create a clickable and interactive data visualization to highlight insights that you’ve found.
Ready to get started? $40,000 in prizes will be awarded....
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Back to the Past: Putin's Russia
WHEN Wed., Nov. 12, 2014, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cambridge Forum
SPEAKER(S) Masha Gessen, journalist
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO director at cambridgeforum.org, 617.495.2727
DETAILS Gessen discusses Vladimir Putin's rise to power and its devastating impact on the nascent democratic government of Russia.
LINK www.cambridgeforum.org
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More than a Messenger: The secret life of RNA
WHEN Wed, November 12, 7pm – 10pm
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, November 13
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Nicaragua Informal Waste and Entrepreneurship
Thursday, November 13
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building N51-310, D-Lab large classroom, 275 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Luz del Futuro and Kate Mytty
A conversation between Kate Mytty (DUSP) and Ana who founded the Luz del Futuro on the informal waste management system and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Luz del Futuro is a waste cooperative in Bluefields, Nicaragua that pioneered plastic waste recycling program on the island. Big thanks to D-Lab: Waste class / CoLab, with support from the MIT Graduate Student Council, as well as Marianna Novellino who will serve as the translator. RSVP requested: http://bit.ly/WasteAlliance_2014_lecture2
Web site: http://bit.ly/WasteAlliance_2014_lecture2
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Waste Alliance, Graduate Student Council, D-Lab, DUSP
For more information, contact: Kevin Kung
trashiscash at mit.edu
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Follies and Fiascoes: Why Does U.S. Foreign Policy Keep Failing?
WHEN Thu., Nov. 13, 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) Stephen Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; faculty chair, International Security Program
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6475/follies_and_fiascoes.html
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Sustainability in the City of Baltimore
Thursday, November 13
2pm EDT
Webinar
RSVP at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/731634262?utm_source=SCN+InBox+e-Newsletter&utm_campaign=7ce56ef8a6-Webinar11-3-2014
Learn how this coastal city used community engagement to move a variety of sustainability initiatives forward, including the Baltimore Energy Challenge, its Disaster Preparedness Project and Plan, the Growing a Green City project and its Green, Healthy, Smart Challenge in local schools, among other programs.
This free, one-hour webinar, sponsored by Crescent Electric Supply Company, will feature Baltimore Sustainability Director Beth Strommen and four key staff members who will describe how these programs and community engagement components support a sustainable and resilient Baltimore.
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Modeling and Optimization of Electricity Markets
November 13, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Tufts, Halligan 102, 161 College Avenue Medford
Speaker: Michael C. Ferris, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Abstract: We outline a number of models that are used within Electricity Markets for the design and operation of an interacting physical and economic system. We show how optimization and equilibrium concepts can be deployed within an extended mathematical programming framework. Examples that address issues of load shedding, demand response, bidding, storage market power and risk will be given. The interplay between complementarity and optimization will be highlighted, along with some references to Cournot and Stackleberg.
Bio: Michael C. Ferris is Professor of Computer Sciences and leads the Optimization Group within the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1989.
Dr. Ferris' research is concerned with algorithmic and interface development for large scale problems in mathematical programming, including links to the GAMS and AMPL modeling languages, and general purpose software such as PATH, NLPEC and EMP. He has worked on several applications of both optimization and complementarity, including cancer treatment plan development, radiation therapy, video-on-demand data delivery, economic and traffic equilibria, structural and mechanical engineering.
Ferris is a SIAM fellow, an INFORMS fellow, received the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and is a past recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves on the editorial boards of Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transactions of Mathematical Software, and Optimization Methods and Software.
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Some aspects of size, surfaces, and simulation in pursuit of magnetic fusion energy
November 13
4:00 PM
MIT, Building 24-121, Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Zach Hartwig, MIT NSE
Abstract: Drawing largely from my time as a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Plasma Science and Fusion Center, this talk — for expert and non-expert audiences alike — will first synthesize my research and then distill concrete directions for the future of magnetic fusion energy. I hope to convince you that — within the shifting context of global fusion research — our research efforts at NSE and PSFC on the topics of the plasma-material interface and fusion device size are now poised to significantly accelerate the development of commercial fusion energy.
Bio: Zach Hartwig received his PhD in nuclear science and engineering from MIT in 2014 and his BA in physics from Boston University in 2005. He has spent the better part of his scientific career doing interesting things at the end of particle accelerator beamlines, from making the highest precision measurement of the muon lifetime to understanding the interaction of plasmas and materials in magnetic fusion devices to remotely probing industrial cargo for smuggled nuclear materials.
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Technology of Value: Principles, Policy and Practice
Thursday, November 13
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Batya Friedman, University of Washington
Tools and technologies are fundamental to the human condition. They do no less than create and structure the conditions in which we live, express ourselves, enact society, and experience what it means to be human. They are also the result of human imagination. Yet, with our limited view, it is not at all obvious how to design tools and technology so that they are more likely to support the actions, relationships, institutions, and experiences that human beings care deeply about.
In this talk I will explore the question of how to design information and computing technology to be sensitive to human values and concerns. To do so, I will draw from over two decades of technical design work and theory development in Value Sensitive Design. Project areas include urban simulation, implantable medical devices, usable security, privacy in public, human-robotic interaction, and systems in support of international justice. Along the way, I will touch on how information and computer technologies instantiate human values, the locus of value tensions in complex systems, and key value tensions. From there, I will turn to methods from value sensitive design – direct and indirect stakeholder analyses, value scenarios, Envisioning Cards – which can be used to improve sensitivity to human values in technology research and design work. I will end with a few research challenges for which cutting edge technology design has provocative implications for human futures. Throughout, I will take an interactional stance: that our tools and technologies shape human experience and our very being; and through our experiences and being, we continually re-imagine those very tools and technologies.
Speaker Bio: Batya Friedman is a professor in the Information School, adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science, and adjunct professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington where she co-directs the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab and co-directs the UW Tech Policy Lab. Dr. Friedman pioneered value sensitive design (VSD), an approach to account for human values in the design of information systems. First developed in human-computer interaction, VSD has since been used in information management, human-robotic interaction, computer security, civil engineering, applied philosophy, and land use and transportation. Her work has focused on a wide range of values, some include privacy in public, trust, freedom from bias, moral agency, sustainability, safety, calmness, freedom of expression, and human dignity; along with a range of technologies such as web browsers, urban simulation, robotics, open source tools, mobile computing, implantable medical devices, social media, ubiquitous computing and computing infrastructure. Dr. Friedman is currently working on multi-lifespan information system design and on methods for envisioning – imagining new ideas for leveraging information systems to shape our futures. Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal is an early project in this multi-lifespan information system design program. In 2012 Batya Friedman received the ACM-SIGCHI Social Impact Award and the University Faculty Lecturer award at the University of Washington. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Websites:
Batya Friedman (ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/batya)
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab (vsdesign.org)
UW Tech Policy Lab (techpolicylab.org)
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal (tribunalvoices.org)
Envisioning Cards (envisioningcards.com)
Security Cards (securitycards.cs.washington.edu)
Computer Science Colloquium Series
Contact: Gioia Sweetland
Phone: 617-495-2919
Email: gioia at seas.harvard.edu
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What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
Thursday, November 13
4:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Various
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa? is a workshop on topics of technology, innovation, and science and Africa. The workshop is from November 13-15, 2014 including lectures, panels, and roundtable discussions. Please see the event website for more information.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/sts/news/special.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn at mit.edu
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From Arab "Spring" to Arab "Chaos": Can Gulf States Stabilize the Arab World?
WHEN Thu., Nov. 13, 2014, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director's Series
SPEAKER(S) Amine Jaoui, fellow, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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/3720
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Troubles on the EU Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
WHEN Thu., Nov. 13, 2014, 4:15 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Center for European Studies, Director's Seminar; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
SPEAKER(S) Paul D'Anieri, provost and executive vice chancellor, University of California, Riverside; Gwendolyn Sasse, professor of comparative politics, Oxford University; Lucan Way, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto; moderated by Grzegorz Ekiert, director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
CONTACT INFO gilanaderi at fas.harvard.edu
LINK ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2891
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Stalin: Geopolitics, Power, Ideas
Thursday, November 13
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 4-237, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Kotkin, Princeton University
Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School.
In his forthcoming political biography of Stalin, historian Stephen Kotkin presents a man of contradictions. Here was a man inclined to despotism yet utterly charming, a pragmatic ideologue yet someone who made egregious strategic blunders, a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker. Kotkin analyzes Stalin's famous paranoia to show how it was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. All of this naturally has far-reaching implications for understanding Putin's Russian today.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Emma Kaminskaya
324-2793
ekaminsk at mit.edu
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Street History: Making Sense of the Past in Protest Movements
WHEN Thu., Nov. 13, 2014, 5:15 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Emerson Hall 101, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The 25th Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies, Program of Modern Greek Studies, Department of The Classics, Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Professor Antonis Liakos, University of Athens
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO rapti at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Reception from 5:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Lecture begins at 6:00 p.m.
The aim of this lecture is to explore how history and time is experienced outside the boundaries of academic discipline, in the streets, by protesting people. Its archive consists of references and images in graffiti, slogans and manifests during the protest movements in Athens, from 2008 to 2012. Far from the distinction between the use and abuse of history, is it possible to conceive of an encounter between street-history and theory of history? How can the past–present–future connections, in concrete circumstances, be contextualized into recent theories on temporality and the distinction between historical and practical past? From the point of view of Modern Greek history, the problem has to do with the wider question of how the economic crisis has changed Greeks’ relationship with their past.
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"The Last Mountain" - Film Screening & Talk
Thursday, November 13
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Larsen 203), 14 Appian Way, Cambridge
A screening of the Sundance documentary film about coal, extreme energy extraction and wind power, featuring a discussion with HGSE professor Tina A. Grotzer, PI for Causal Learning in a Complex World Lab, Project Zero, and Producer of "The Last Mountain" & cleantech entrepreneur, Eric Grunebaum
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Urban Films: Rome Open City
Thursday, November 13
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 3 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge
ROME OPEN CITY (1945): A harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it, ROME OPEN CITY is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its wake. Directed by Roberto Rossellini. 100 minutes.
Urban Planning Film Series
An occasional series showing documentary and feature films on topics related to cities, urbanism, design, community development, ecology, and other planning issues. Free.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn at mit.edu
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Boston Quantified Self Show&Tell
Tuesday, January 13
6:00 PM
Microsoft NERD New England Research & Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Price: $7.00 per person
Please come join us on Tuesday, January 13th for another fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. If you are self-tracking in any way -- health stats, biofeedback, life-logging, mood monitoring, biometrics, athletics, etc. -- come and share your methods, results and insights.
We're happy to hosted by our friends at Microsoft. Be sure to RSVP early to grab your spot! Come to meet new people, check out new hands-on gadgets and tools, enjoy healthy food, and learn from personal stories.
QS Boston is dedicated to hosting events that are safe and comfortable for everyone. All QS Boston events will follow the QS Boston Code of Conduct. Questions/feedback can be sent to Maggie (maggie.delano at gmail.com).
6:00 - 7:00 pm DEMO HOUR & SOCIAL TIME
Are you a toolmaker? Come demo your self-tracking gadget, app, project or idea that you're working on and share with others in our "science fair for adults." If you are making something useful for self-trackers – software, hardware, web services, or data standards – please demo it in this workshop portion of the Show&Tell. Want to participate in Demo Hour? Please let us know when you RSVP or contact Vincent at vmcphillip at gmail dot com for a spot.
7:00 - 8:00 pm IGNITE SHOW&TELLS
If you'd like to talk about your personal self-tracking story, please let us know in your RSVP or contact Maggie at maggie.delano at gmail dot com, so you can discuss your topic. In your talk, you should answer the three prime questions: What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?
If you've never been to a meetup before, you can get a sense of what the talks are like from watching videos of previous QS talks.
Don't know what Ignite means? Click here for more info and here for tips on how to deliver a fantastic quick-fire presentation.
8:00 - 9:00 pm MORE SOCIAL TIME & NETWORKING
Talk to the speakers, chat with new and old friends, ask other people what they're tracking, and generally hang out and have a great time.
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World Usability Day 2014: "If You Build It" Screening (Boston)
Thursday, November 13
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PST)
Blackboard, 280 Summer Street, 7th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-usability-day-2014-if-you-build-it-screening-boston-tickets-14224280205
Blackboard invites our colleagues and friends to see how radical innovation can transform education at a documentary screening held in celebration of World Usability Day.
“If You Build It” is the story of designers who engaged with high school students in a poor North Carolina town to design and build something that enhanced their community. This standout design thinking project is an example of how design can uniquely engage students in their education.
Learn more about the film and view the trailer: http://www.ifyoubuilditmovie.com
View our event on the World Usability Day site: http://www.worldusabilityday.org/events/2014/if-you-build-it-screening-blackboard-boston
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Humanitarian Happy Hour
Thursday, November 13
6:30 p.m.
The Field in Central Square (http://www.thefieldpub.com/)
Note: The bar is cash only
Appetizers will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Tufts Humanitarian Action Society
Contact: Lauren Seelbach, MIT Humanitarian Response Lab
seelbach at mit.edu
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Lessons From The Cuban Energy Revolution
Thursday, November 13
7:00pm - 8:30pm
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Mario Alberto Arrasta Avila
What can we learn from Cuba? When nearly 70% of Cuba’s oil supply stopped in 1989 after the USSR collapsed, transportation, electricity, and food production were jeopardized. Cuba responded by shifting to widespread use of renewables and permaculture-based agriculture systems, making the country a world leader in sustainable development.
Join us in welcoming Cuba’s leading Energy Efficiency and Renewables educator, Mario Alberto Arrastía Avila. Mario is responsible for the development and delivery of energy education at all levels in Cuba, and is a passionate and engaging speaker.
Come along to hear about Cuba’s “Energy Revolution” and what Massachusetts can learn from it.
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Penguins as Ocean Sentinels: What Penguins Are Telling Us
Thursday, November 13
7pm
NE Aquarium, 1 Central Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105507&view=Detail
Dr. P. Dee Boersma, Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science, University of Washington, and Director, Center for Penguins as Ocean Sentinels
*Book signing to follow
Biodiversity on planet Earth is in peril. More than one half of the 18 species of penguins are on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Penguins are sentinels of the southern oceans, helping humans understand how the planet is responding to global climate change. Habitat alteration caused by climate change is a new source of mortality for penguins. Natural history, long-term studies and communication of what we learn can alter the fate of penguins, other species and humans.
Long-term studies of penguins demonstrate that penguins face new challenges. If humans are to mitigate their impact on wildlife, we must use science to inform decisions and pay more of the true environmental cost of our actions. Only people can alter the course of our biodiversity crisis and improve the fate of penguins. Paying the true costs of environmental damage is an important tool humans can use to reduce the impact of our growing population on the planet.
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How to Manage Corporate Sustainability
Thursday, November 13
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 Memorial Drive #1, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-manage-corporate-sustainability-tickets-13620125161?aff=eac2
Join Young Professionals in Energy and Harvard University Professor Richard Goode for a conversation about corporate sustainability. What is corporate sustainability? How to report on sustainability effectively and why is it important? How to classify GHG emissions and how to measure them? What are the best practices out there: which companies do it right? How to prepare for future climate change regulations? What can we do as employees to make an impact?
Rich Goode is a senior manager in Ernst & Young LLP's United States climate change and sustainability services practice with experience in implementing sustainability programs at large organizations as well as expertise in carbon accounting. Rich teaches sustainability courses at Harvard and Tufts Universities.
Following the talk and Q&A session, we will head to Abigail's Restaurant at 291 Third Street in Cambridge for drinks, socializing, and networking.
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Community Shared Solar and Virtual Net Metering
Thursday, November 13
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Community Solar provides access to solar power for those who cannot install a photovoltaic system on their rooftop. By virtual net metering, energy produced in one location can be credited to a ratepayer in another place. This concept, currently available to the nearly 80% of Massachusetts customers who would like to go solar, but cannot, represents an opportunity to greatly expand renewable energy in our electric system.
Development of community solar is growing, but recent proposed legislation (Bill 4185) threatened to limit its use by restricting its application and benefits. With solar energy beginning to gain a visible foothold, as well as fostering job growth, should we turn away from successful policy now?
Malcolm Bliss, Regional Outreach Manager at Next Step Living, will introduce us to community solar and provide thoughts on how we can support its potential at the November Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum.
Boston Area Solar Energy Association: http://www.basea.org
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Live Webcast: Freedom of the Press Lecture with Margaret Marshall
WHEN Thu., Nov. 13, 2014, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE shorensteincenter.org
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Humanities, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
SPEAKER(S) Margaret H. Marshall
COST Free and open to the public
LINK shorensteincenter.org
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Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
Thursday, November 13
7:30 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
Harvard Book Store welcomes professor emeritus at University College London ARTHUR I. MILLER for a discussion of his latest book, Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art.
In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations—a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang (pictured on the cover)—can be seen in traditional art museums and magazines, while others are being made by leading designers at Pixar, Google’s Creative Lab, and the MIT Media Lab. In Colliding Worlds, Arthur I. Miller takes readers on a wild journey to explore this new frontier.
Miller, the author of Einstein, Picasso and other celebrated books on science and creativity, traces the movement from its seeds a century ago—when Einstein’s theory of relativity helped shape the thinking of the Cubists—to its flowering today. Through interviews with innovative thinkers and artists across disciplines, Miller shows with verve and clarity how discoveries in biotechnology, cosmology, quantum physics, and beyond are animating the work of designers like Neri Oxman, musicians like David Toop, and the artists-in-residence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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Friday, November 14
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What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
Friday, November 14
8:00a–6:00p
MIT, E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Various
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa? is a workshop on topics of technology, innovation, and science and Africa. The workshop is from November 13-15, 2014 including lectures, panels, and roundtable discussions. Please see the event website for more information.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/sts/news/special.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn at mit.edu
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Lost and Found: A Science Symposium about Navigation
Friday, Nov 14
9:00 am - 5pm
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?472106
The 2014 science symposium will focus on the important and challenging topic of navigation and way-finding. By bringing together experts in human cognitive neuroscience and neural computation, animal life science, anthropology and culture, space science, current and future technology, and emergency management, the Radcliffe Institute will conduct a broad, cross-disciplinary investigation about what it means to find our way.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Join the conversation on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RadInstitute #LostFound
Most of the symposium will be webcast live at http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-lost-found-symposium
on November 14. Registration is not required to view the webcast.
Videos of most of the symposium will be available approximately 2 weeks after the event on this site and on Harvard's YouTube channel.
Contact events at radcliffe.harvard.edu with questions.
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Energy Business Bootcamp
Friday, November 14
9:00a–5:00p
The Sloan Energy Club is pleased to be hosting the third annual Energy Business Bootcamp. This day long seminar is a standout opportunity for those interested in cutting edge energy solutions to learn from industry practitioners and academics about the current state of various energy and climate issues.
Web site: http://sloanenergyclub.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, Sloan Energy Club
For more information, contact: Sloan Energy Club
imassey at sloan.mit.edu
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Urban Risk Lab
Friday, November 14
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building 9-451, 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Charlie Hailey
Charlie Hailey is assistant professor at the University of Florida's School of Architecture. He is the author of "Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place" (Louisiana State University Press, 2008), and "Camps: A Guide to 21st Century Space" (MIT Press, 2008). Through his research on campsites he develops a global perspective on campsites as spaces of freedom, emergency, and reform, Spaces that tackle the questions of identity, permanence, control, safety, and mobility.
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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Crises in Cities: What Next?
Friday, November 14
12:30 PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Room 275, Taubman Building, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
A practitioners' panel on multi-agency emergency and crisis response, featuring:
Samantha Phillips, Director for Emergency Management, City of Philadelphia
Steven Sarao, Criminal Justice Program Fellow, NYPD Special Projects Unit
Thaddeus Pawlowski, Urban Designer, NYC City Planning
Moderated by Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Faculty Co-Director, Program on Crisis Leadership, and George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management, Harvard Kennedy School
**Lunch will be provided prior to the panel discussion, at 12:00 PM, in the Taubman Rotunda**
Space is limited. Please RSVP to jayme_johnson at hks15.harvard.edu
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The Role of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Addressing the World’s Energy Challenges
Friday, November 14
3:00 PM
BU, Room 205, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM
James Dickerson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract: The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States provides state-of-the-art capabilities for the fabrication and study of nanoscale materials, with an emphasis on atomic-level tailoring to achieve desired properties and functions. The CFN is a science-based user facility, simultaneously developing strong scientific programs while offering broad access to its capabilities and collaboration through an active user program. The overarching scientific theme of the CFN is the development and understanding of nanoscale materials that address the Nations’ challenges in energy security, consistent with the Department of Energy mission. The CFN is one of five Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs) funded by the Office of Science of the United States Department of Energy. The CFN supports Brookhaven’s goal of leadership in the development of advanced materials and processes for selected energy applications.
In my presentation, I will highlight the role that the CFN, through its scientific staff and this scientific user community, is playing in addressing the world’s energy challenges. I will focus on several trajectories of research that are being executed at CFN, including work on photovoltaics, novel nanostructured materials for catalysis, soft and biological materials, and our state-of-the-art electron microscopy and proximal probe microscopy facilities.
Biography: James H. Dickerson II completed his undergraduate education at Amherst College in 1994, receiving a BA in physics. He earned his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2002, working with Emilio Mendez. He held a postdoctoral research scientist position at the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center of Columbia University from 2002 until 2004, working with Irving Herman. From 2004 through 2011, he was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University. In 2011, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Chemistry. In July 2013, he joined the Department of Physics at Brown University. Since June 2012, he has been the Assistant Director for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
He serves on the Editorial Board of Materials Letters and has served as the Chair of the Committee on Minorities of the American Physical Society. His honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and a W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship.
Dickerson investigates emerging techniques for the assembly and deposition of colloidal nanocrystalline materials into thin films and heterostructures, employing dc and/or ac electric fields to transport and to deposit nanomaterials onto conducting and semiconducting substrates. His research interests also involve the fundamental correlation among the size, the arrangement of atoms, and the optical and magnetic properties that are exhibited within nanocrystalline materials, particularly rare earth sesquioxide and rare earth chalcogenide nanocrystals. This involves the fabrication, electron microscopic characterization, and the physical (optical and magnetic) characterization of a variety of nanomaterials, focusing on lanthanide-based nanocrystals and transition metal oxide nanomaterials. Dickerson was the co-editor of Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials (Springer Books), the first comprehensive reference book on the subject.
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Architecture by Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life
Friday, November 14
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes local architect and journalist PAUL E. FALLON for a discussion of his book Architecture by Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life.
When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper human connections.
After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, Paul E. Fallon wanted to help rebuild the magic island he had visited the previous summer. Over the next three years, he made seventeen trips to design and supervise construction of an orphanage and a school in Grand Goâve. In the process, he confronted the challenges of building in a country with sparse materials and with laborers predisposed toward magic over physics.
Architecture by Moonlight is about much more than construction, however. Readers will also experience the many relationships Fallon developed as he balanced the contradictory demands of a boisterous American family constructing a memorial for their deceased daughter and Evangelical missionaries more interested in saving souls than filling bellies. Dieunison, a wily Haitian orphan, captured Fallon’s heart and exemplifies both Haiti’s tragedy and its indomitable spirit.
Fallon’s personal experience is an eloquent tale of “an ensemble of incomplete people struggling in a land of great trial and great promise, trying to better understand their place on Earth.” He reveals how, when seemingly different people come together, we succeed by seeking our commonality. Architecture by Moonlight illustrates our strength to rise above disaster and celebrate recovery, perseverance, and humanity.
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Solar Lighting & Inclusive Growth in India
WHEN Fri., Nov. 14, 2014, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies,9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Ranganayakulu Bodavala (Ranga)
CONTACT INFO ksmall at hsph.harvard.edu
DETAILS Join us at the Harvard Pop Center on Friday, Nov. 14 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. for a seminar with founder of THRIVE Solar Energy, a company dedicated to bringing light, safely and efficiently, to impoverished homes worldwide.
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/ranganayakulu-bodavala-ranga-at-harvard-pop-center-nov-14-430-p-m/
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The Siemens Competition:Math:Science:Technology: Reception and Viewing of the Student's Research Projects
Friday, November 14
5:00p–6:15p
MIT, W20, Twenty Chimneys, Stratton Student Center, Building W20, 3rd Floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: The Siemens Foundation takes great pleasure in inviting the students, faculty, and staff of MIT to this reception and student project viewing.
The Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology is the nation's premiere math and science research competition for high school students. The Siemens Foundation provides nearly $2 million in college scholarships and awards each year for talented high school students in the United States. By supporting outstanding students today, and recognizing the teachers and schools that inspire their excellence, the Foundation helps nurture tomorrow's scientists and engineers.
Refreshments and Tasty Foods will be served!
Web site: http://www.siemens-foundation.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Information Center
For more information, contact: Joe Coen
617-253-5734
jcoen at mit.edu
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Beyond the Yoda Head: Making 3D Printing Meaningful
Friday, November 14
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Matt Ratto, University of Toronto
Architecture Lecture | 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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Always Connected - The Promise of Wearable Technology
Friday, November 14
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
How is wearable technology affecting the way that we interact with each other and the world around us? From virtual reality headsets to smart clothing, explore new advances in wearable technology by hearing from engineers and designers in the field as well as by trying out their inventions for yourself.
With presentations and demonstrations by:
embr labs - Wristify
Goodlux Technology - Sunsprite, Wearable Light Tracker
Harmonix - Samsung Gear VR
Kopin Corporation - Leader in wearables for consumers, industry, and military
Ministry of Supply - Men's Performance Professional Apparel
Rosalind Picard - Professor, MIT Media Lab
Sandy Pentland - Professor, MIT Media Lab
Free with museum admission.
Contact http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/secondfridays.html
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Hack Urban Food
Friday, November 14
5:00 PM - Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 9:00 PM
General Assembly/WeWork, 51 Melcher Street, Fort Point, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-urban-food-tickets-12298664637
Cost: $32.64
Hack Urban Food with Branchfood!
Calling all entrepreneurs, developers, food system experts, designers, chefs, farmers and the food enthused!
Branchfood will be hosting a city-wide food hackathon on November 14th and 15th. Join us to develop products and technologies that transform institutional food, restaurant operations and urban farming. You'll get to hear from industry experts and work alongside stellar teams to create solutions to some of the most pressing food system challenges. Top prize of $5,000 from our friends at Breville goes to the winning team with many other giveaways, food and surprises to come! Get your tickets now - there are only a handful available! Check out our website for more details.
contact http://www.branchfood.com
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Saturday, November 15
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The Siemens Competition:Math:Science:Technology: Student Oral Presentations
Saturday, November 15
8:00a–1:00p
MIT, Building W20, Mezzanine Lounge Room, Stratton Student Center, Bldg. W20, 3rd Floor, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
The Siemens Foundation takes great pleasure in inviting the students, faculty, and staff of MIT to the Student Oral Presentations.
The Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology is the nation's premiere math and science research competition for high school students. The Siemens Foundation provides nearly $2 million in college scholarships and awards each year for talented high school students in the United States. By supporting outstanding students today, and recognizing the teachers and schools that inspire their excellence, the Foundation helps nurture tomorrow's scientists and engineers.
Web site: http://www.siemens-foundation.org/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Information Center
For more information, contact: Joe Coen
617-253-5734
jcoen at mit.edu
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What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa?
Saturday, November 15
8:30a–12:00p
MIT, E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Various
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean From Africa? is a workshop on topics of technology, innovation, and science and Africa. The workshop is from November 13-15, 2014 including lectures, panels, and roundtable discussions. Please see the event website for more information.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/sts/news/special.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SHASS Dean's Office, HASTS
For more information, contact: Randyn Miller
617-253-3452
randyn at mit.edu
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SPARK Entrepreneurship Conference by Harvard Business School
WHEN Sat., Nov. 15, 2014, 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Business School - various
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Classes/Workshops, Conferences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR HBS Entrepreneurship Club
COST $25 - $35
TICKET WEB LINK www.hbseconference.com
CONTACT INFO wlin at mba2016.hbs.edu
DETAILS The HBS Entrepreneurship Club presents the annual SPARK Conference. Join us on November 15th for a no-panels, interactive day of practical advice, meaningful content, and networking within HBS and with surrounding schools / the Boston startup community. Conference topics will include ideation, building a team, from paper to prototype, raising money, jump-starting Field 3, and joining a startup. Tickets are selling out, so buy yours today!
LINK www.hbseconference.com
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Grooversity Festival
Saturday, November 15
1:00-6:30 pm
East Somerville Community School, 50 Cross Street, Somerville
Free and open to all, with live streaming; prizes available for on site and online attendees. For information: 917-719-0127, www.grooversity.com/festival.
"World drumming for entertainment, education and social change" ... the Grooversity motto and the incentive behind what has now become the annual Grooversity Festival, presented by and for the Somerville community, yet open to everyone worldwide, to anyone who wants and needs to get their positive groove on.
Master groover Marcus Santos spearheads this festival, which this year features performances by Ben Paulding & master Ashanti drummer Emmanuel Attah Poku, Bloco AfroBrazil, Sheboom, and World Percussion Ensembles from the Somerville Public Schools.
The afternoon will also be offering workshops given by master drummers Bas Janssen, Gino Figliola, Marcus Santos, Saturday With Sticks: Fabrizio Cavallaro, and Sergio Bellotti. In other words, East Somerville will be the rhythmical place to be, either physically or virtually.
Background information: Grooversity's founder Marcus Santos, hand drummer originally from Brazil, has developed an innovative and creative drumming system, geared for both education and entertainment purposes. His techniques promote community outreach and social change by targeting diversity awareness. Within the past ten years, his fun, interactive, and inclusive percussive vision has spread worldwide, creating a network of people of all ages from different ethnic backgrounds. Visit www.grooversity.com to discover Santos' world and all it has to offer in appreciating diversity, supporting civil rights, encouraging self-esteem, and last but not least, having a great time!
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Monday, November 17
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Free Admission Day Harvard Museums
WHEN Mon., Nov. 17, 2014, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Art Museums
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/free-admission-day
TICKET INFO Timed-ticket reservations are required.
DETAILS In celebration of the public opening of the new Harvard Art Museums, free admission is being extended to the public on Monday, November 17 and Tuesday, November 18.*
The new galleries include masterpieces from the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, with works of art dating from ancient times to the present, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, and photographs from the Americas, Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Asia. Also on view is the inaugural special exhibition, Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals.
*This event is free and open to the public. Timed-ticket reservations are required. Reserve tickets online at harvardartmuseums.org/calendar.
LINK http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/free-admission-day
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MASS Seminar - Jun-Eung Lee, Brown
Monday, November 17
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Jun-Eung Lee
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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Financing wind energy deployment in China through the Clean Development Mechanism: Additionality and incentives for technological change
Monday, November 17
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Gabe Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Joern Huenteler, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
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"Regulating Microbial Ecologies: Policy and Practice in Artisanal Cheesemaking"
Monday, November 17
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Heather Paxson, MIT, Anthropology
STS Circle at Harvard
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Deproliferation Dynamics: Why States Give Up Nuclear Weapons Programs
WHEN Mon., Nov. 17, 2014, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye A, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR International Security Program
SPEAKER(S) Rupal Mehta, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
CONTACT INFO susan_lynch at harvard.edu
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6502/deproliferation_dynamics.html
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"insel4D: Dynamic Simulation of Cities"
Monday, November 17
12:30p–2:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Ursula Eicker, Professor, HFT Stuttgart Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology
Architecture Lecture Series / Building Technology 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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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India
Monday, November 17
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Access to Toilets and Women's Rights
WHEN Mon., Nov. 17, 2014, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Religion, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard South Asia Institute
SPEAKER(S) Sharmila Murthy, assistant professor of Law, Suffolk University
Ramnath Subbaraman, PUKAR; research fellow in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/access-to-toilets-and-womens-rights/
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Planets and Life Series: Welcome to the Anthropocene, Climate Change and Hurricanes
Monday, November 17
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
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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Social Entrepreneurs and the Role of Foundations
Monday, November 17
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
MIT, Building E51-149, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-entrepreneurs-and-the-role-of-foundations-registration-13861888281
This lecture will focus on social enterprises in Africa and Asia and the role foundations, such as DOEN, play in their development. Based on the stories of entrepreneurs, the lecture will provide insight into the major constraints, challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs face.
As a promoter of people and organisations that take the lead in the field of sustainable, cultural and social innovation, DOEN believes in a green, socially-inclusive and creative society. DOEN supports these innovators and brings them into contact with each other
Annually, DOEN supports more than 200 initiatives by means of subsidies, participations, loans and guarantees. These initiatives are characterised by their enterprising approach: people, organisations and enterprises that dare to take risks, that are creative and innovatory and thus effectively contribute to a better and cleaner world.
DOEN supports initiatives in the field of Culture and Cohesion and Green and Inclusive Economy.
Presented by: Nina Tellegen, CEO, DOEN Foundation
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Conflict, Convivencia, and the Life of Buildings
Monday, November 17
6:00p–7:30p
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Michele Lamprakos, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, University of Maryland-College Park
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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MIT Water Innovation Prize - Idea Pitch & Dinner
Monday, November 17
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
MIT, Media Lab 6th Floor, Silverman Skyline Room, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
At the event, you'll have an opportunity to pitch your water-related idea/research/project, find team members, and learn about the exciting water innovation happening at MIT and the surrounding area.
For more information, contact: Liz Voeller
wipteam at mit.edu
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EARTH A New Wild Screening
Monday, November 17
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-a-new-wild-screening-tickets-13553806801
Be among the first to see clips from PBS's five-part series EARTH A New Wild, premiering in February. Join Leading conservation scientist and host Dr. M. Sanjayan as we take a deeper look at the extraordinary way humans are intimately connected to wild animals and wild places of this planet.
The screening will be followed by a small dessert reception and studio tours.
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Tuesday, November 18
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Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic.
Tuesday, November 18
12 p.m.
Harvard, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
More information at http://shorensteincenter.org/jeffrey-goldberg/
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FAA Deputy Administrator to Speak about NextGen's Impact on Transportation and the Economy
Tuesday, November 18
12:00pm
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP to Ellen Bell, director of Strategic Initiatives for Research and Innovation, at ellen.bell at dot.gov
Webinar https://volpe-events.webex.com/mw0401l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=volpe-events
Michael G. Whitaker, Deputy Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
Michael G. Whitaker, deputy administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will discuss how the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is crucial to enable growth and change in aviation. He will also examine how NextGen will make the U.S. more competitive in the global economy and the impact of aviation on U.S. regional economies.
Michael G. Whitaker is the Deputy Administrator for FAA. Whitaker is responsible for helping to ensure the safe and efficient operations of the largest aerospace system in the world. This includes more than 50,000 daily operations as well as enforcing safety standards for all equipment and aerospace professionals within the aviation industry.
Whitaker also serves as the Chief NextGen Officer and is responsible for the development and implementation of FAA's NextGen. NextGen is an air traffic control modernization program that is shifting from ground-based radar to state-of-the-art satellite technology.
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Urban Agriculture in Boston
Tuesday, November 18
12–1 pm
Harvard Law School, Hauser 102, Cambridge
Boston is a leader in the urban agriculture movement. Come hear from four panelists that have been very involved in the process of bringing urban agriculture to Boston and helping to reduce the barriers urban farmers face. The panelists are Edith Murnane, from the City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives, which has helped lead Boston’s urban agriculture initiative; Alli Condra, from the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, which helped create a document guiding farmers through city and state approval and permitting processes; Chris LaPointe, from the Trust for Public Land, which received permit approval to create the first urban farm in Boston under the new zoning code; and Alex Gellar, from Fathom, which created an app that helps urban farmers find land within Boston.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/urban-agriculture-boston#sthash.UTPw7E9b.dpuf
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Career Insights on FEMA, HUD, and the PMF Process
Tuesday, November 18
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 275, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
Our guest, Katherine Buckingham will share thoughts and answer student questions on working with FEMA and on her experience as a Presidential Management Fellow.
Katherine Buckingham is a Presidential Management Fellow based in FEMA’s Recovery Directorate. She has completed rotations at HUD’s Office of Economic Resilience and FEMA’s Region 1 Field Office focusing on disaster recovery and resilience and climate change adaptation. She received her Master's degree in City Planning from MIT with a focus in environmental policy and planning. Prior to that, she worked on land use and economic development state policy research and advocacy in Ohio.
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"The Roots of Technological Controvery: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa.”
Tuesday, November 18
4:30pm
MIT, Building E19-623, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Calestous Juma, Harvard
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Kremlin propaganda: can Putin control it?
Tuesday, November 18
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Anna Arutunyan, independent Russian journalist
Anna Arutunyan is an independent Russian journalist and author of The Putin Mystique (2014).
The propaganda campaign unleashed by the Kremlin during the Ukraine crisis has been unprecedented in post-Soviet history. Yet it is also something one Kremlin insider has described as a megaphone directed at Putin himself. Has Putin created a monster he can no longer control? Given the Kremlin's information campaign portraying Russian fighters battling fascism, will he and his advisors be able to find an exit strategy from Ukraine?
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Center for International Studies, Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Emma Kaminskaya
617-324-2793
ekaminsk at mit.edu
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"Anthropology in Warzones"
Tuesday, November 18
4:30 to 6:00pm
Northeastern University, 310 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Montgomery McFate of the U.S. Naval War College
The series consists of two talks presenting contrasting viewpoints on the relationship between anthropological/social science research and war, particularly regarding the issue of research ethics. It would be great to have lots of peace activists to ask critical questions and give your point of view!
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Modern War Gardens: Paradise Lost
Tuesday, November 18
5:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Lalage Snow, photojournalist, filmmaker and writer based in London
Photographer Lalage Snow speaks about her project, Modern War Gardens: Paradise Lost. She draws on the cultural significance of gardens to understand what life is really like for those living in the shadows of war in the Middle East.
Gardens symbolize permanence, longevity, triumph in adversity, hope, growth and Paradise. They also provide food, shade, peace, fuel, protection, privacy and escape. Nurturing them is an integral part of defiance, resistance and therapy in a time of war.
For more information on Lalage Snow: http://www.lalagesnow.co.uk/
Sponsored by the MIT Global France Seminar
Web site: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/modern-war-gardens-paradise-lost
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
lhickler at mit.edu
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e4Dev Speaker Series: Revolution of the kitchen--social processes of adoption of improved and removal of traditional cookstoves
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
5:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Yiting Wang-Researcher, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yiting Wang recently finished her Master of Environmental Science at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Yale F&ES). She is currently a researcher with the Green Markets Lab at Yale F&ES. Her research focuses on the intersection of climate, energy and development. She traces how these issues have been increasingly approached through market-based mechanisms such as carbon finance and how actors access the market and the wealth it generates based on her fieldwork in Kenya and Uganda. From her research in the Indian Himalaya, she also examines household energy transition from a gender lens and reveals how social processes are driving technological change.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, e4Dev
For more information, contact: Lily Mwalenga
e4dev-request at mit.edu
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Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining
Tuesday, November 18
6:00pm
Radcliffe Room, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge
Jeri Quinzio
In roughly one hundred years – from the 1870s to the 1970s – dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth.
The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pick up at a brief station stop. It was hardly fine dining.
Seeing the business possibilities in offering long-distance passengers comforts such as beds, toilets, and meals, George Pullman and other pioneering railroaders like Georges Nagelmackers of Orient Express fame, transformed rail travel. Fine dining and wines became the norm for elite railroad travelers by the turn of the twentieth century. The foods served on railroads – from consommé to turbot to soufflé, always accompanied by champagne - equaled that of the finest restaurants, hotels, and steamships.
After World War II, as airline travel and automobiles became the preferred modes of travel, elegance gave way to economy. Canned and frozen foods, self-service, and quick meals and snacks became the norm. By the 1970s, the golden era of railroad dining had come grinding to a halt.
Food on the Rails traces the rise and fall of food on the rails from its rocky start to its glory days to its sad demise. Looking at the foods, the service, the rail station restaurants, the menus, they dining accommodations and more, Jeri Quinzio brings to life the history of cuisine and dining in railroad cars from the early days through today.
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Protecting the Ash Tree: Wabanaki Diplomacy and Sustainability Science in Maine
Tuesday, November 18
6:00PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Darren Ranco, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Research, University of Maine
Brown ash trees sustain the ancestral basket-making traditions of the Wabanaki people of Maine and play a key role in their creation myths. These trees are now threatened by the emerald ash borer, a beetle that has already killed millions of ash trees in the eastern United States. Wabanaki tribes and basket makers have joined forces with foresters, university researchers, and landowners to develop and deploy actions aimed at preventing an invasion by this insect. Anthropologist Darren Ranco discusses how the stakeholders in this interdisciplinary effort are using sustainability science and drawing from Wabanaki forms of diplomacy to influence state and federal responses to the emerald ash borer and prevent the demise of the ash trees central to Wabanaki culture.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
Presented jointly with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Legacy of Penobscot Canoes: A View from the River, an exhibition in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, will remain open until 9:00 pm following the lecture.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2014-11-18-230000/protecting-ash-tree-wabanaki-diplomacy-and-sustainability-science-maine#sthash.dsXFG7f8.dpuf
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Food of the Future, Future of Food
Tuesday, November 18
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-of-the-future-future-of-food-tickets-14071695821
Italy will host the 2015 World Exposition in Milan under the main theme “Feeding the planet. Energy for life.” The event represents an opportunity to share strategies and problem solving styles with regards to food security and sustainable access to nutrition as well as to showcase industrial innovation in this field. The Greater Boston Area, with its prestigious universities and state-of-the-art research centers, is a favorite place for reviewing the most recent applications that could be employed in the agro-food sector, always taking into consideration a sustainable context. The aim of this symposium is to connect cutting age technologies developed within many different disciplines with food and nutrition perspectives.
Challenges and Perspective for an Inclusive and Sustainable Access to Food
Fabio Marazzi
If nine hundred million people suffer from malnutrition while an equal number suffer the effects of overeating and a poorly-disciplined diet, it is clear that the theme of safe, healthy eating is a truly global issue that directly or indirectly involves most of the earth’s population. To provide responses to t these increasingly pressing themes, EXPO 2015 wants to be the occasion to represent excellence in the methods, techniques and rules of food production, in strategies for achieving energy savings in food production and int he rational use of renewable energy resources and the conservation of natural resources.
Living Materials for Food Safety
Fiorenzo Omenetto
The use of biomaterials for technological applications has been introduced over the past few years. Among these, silk is finding new applications as a useful biocompatible, edible material platform with utility in high technology applications. WE will overview ho purified silkworm silk can be reassembled, among other things, in a multitude of high quality, micro- and nanostructure optical and illustrate the implication of a new class of “living materials” that can affect our daily lives, from the way we administer drugs, to the way we consume food.
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Cryptocurrencies: The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Tuesday, November 18
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
swissnex Boston, Consulate of Switzerland, 420 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cryptocurrencies-the-challenges-and-opportunities-ahead-tickets-13885518961
Everyday a new article arises on the subject of cryptocurrencies - be it on Bitcoins, or on any of the other digital currencies currently being traded globally. But, what exactly is a cryptocurrency - a currency, a commodity, or another asset class? And, what does one stand to gain from this new system? Is the cryptocurrency trend a boom about to go bust, or is it technology that offers more? How can this system become mainstream? What legal framework and regulations will be necessary to facilitate the use of cryptocurrencies? These and many other questions will be the focus of the second event of our Future of Money series.
A panel of both Swiss and American industry experts will discuss the underpinnings of cryptocurrencies and examine key questions about the future of this innovation. This event will be a unique opportunity to understand the workings of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A and networking reception.
Program
6 PM: Doors Open
6:30 PM: Welcome Address by Dr. Felix Moesner, CEO/Consul swissnex Boston
6:40 PM: Panel Discussion with Q&A
8:00 PM: Reception
8:30 PM: Doors Close
Panelists
Moderator
Euny Hong, Author, Birth of Korean Cool
Panelists
Christian Decker, Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zürich
Gil Luria, Managing Director and Equity Research at Wedbush Securities
Chrisopher Odom, CTO and Co-founder at Monetas
Kyle Powers, Co-founder of Liberty Teller
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Boston New Technology November 2014 Product Showcase #BNT47
Tuesday, November 18
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Akamai Technologies, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Check in at the registration table in the lobby with your BNT registration.
Free event! Come learn about 6 Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Questions & Answers.
Products / Presenters:
1. Connections / @cn_app - Craft Reliable Relationships (Sergey Kudryavtsev / @SDigitao) Tech: iOS, Android. ConnectionsApp.us
2. Core and Antelope - A Read-Time Document Summarization Service (Jones Yu) Tech: Python, JavaScript. www.prentice-lab.com
3. Composable Analytics - Web-based environment allowing users to explore, create, and collaborate on analytical methods and reporting applications using a dataflow-based methodology. (Lars Fiedler) Tech: HTML5, .NET, jQuery, Hadoop, SQL Server. composableanalytics.com
4. Whovoo / @whovoo - When you want to be absolutely, positively private and secret. (Jim Acquaviva / @acquaman55) Tech: GUI: Native iPhone app for v1.0. Server: Node.js, MongoDB for web service, JSON-RPC for communication, TLS/SSL encryption required, Hosted at AWS. Whovoo.com
5. Shareity app / @Shareityapp - Viral-micro-social donating platform for causes. Our lean charity model is dedicated to getting 100% to the cause. (Benjamin Hill) Tech: iOS. Shareity.me
6. DealData.net - Private Company/Fund Market Intelligence (Lenny Grover / @lennygrover) Tech: Java PHP MySQL. DealData.net
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with dinner and beverages
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:20 - Presentations, Questions & Answers
8:20 to 9:00 - Networking
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Creating Public Doubt about Scientific Facts
Tuesday, November 18
6:30 PM
Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington Street, Belmont MA
Naomi Oreskes, PhD, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Author of Merchants of Doubt (with Erik M. Conway) and The Collapse of Western Civilization (w/Erik M. Conway). Over decades, a few well-known scientists have represented various corporate interests in campaigns to mislead the public about threats to health and environment. Dr. Oreskes discusses the disinformation campaigns about tobacco and cancer, CFCs and the ozone hole, coal and acid rain, and now climate change. She describes the structure of those disinformation efforts and how the public can combat the "manufacture of doubt," which is the subject of her best-selling book (with Erik Conway).
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What will the Power Grid Look Like 50 Years From Now?
Tuesday, November 18
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Constant Contact, 3rd Floor, The Great Room, 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-will-the-power-grid-look-like-50-years-from-now-tickets-13927410259
Cost: $25 general public, $10 students
The power grid of the fossil era was functional. It did its job very well over many decades, and did such that we nearly could forget about the power system being there. A few national power providers and even fewer grid operators managed it and electricity came from our home and business electrical sockets.
Renewables led into a new era, which brought power closer to the people. Energy became more democratic. Many more individuals, companies, municipalities, cities and such produce, consume, store, trade, and manage energy now, much like users generate content on the internet we see distributed user generated energy.
With this shift in energy generation and storage the roles and activities of individuals and existing providers is changing. Is the existing grid infrastructure representative of the new era of a smart and renewable power systems? Can the infrastructure of past industrial times with all its connotations of yesterday, poor working conditions, magnetic fields, danger, top-down, dirty energy etc. become sexy, exciting, desirable messengers of a better renewable future?
How are we moving forward thinking about the security of our grid? Are SCADA systems protected both from hackers and electromagnetic attack? Are we still vulnerable to EMP attack? Will solar flares be of concern to the existing or new grid? What ever happened to Tesla's wireless energy transmission? Is that concept being looked into for the future since we have had the advent of many wireless communications, why not transmit the energy and do away with the grid?
What are the key problems for the grid as it stands to move forward? Regulation/de-regulation - is it a policy thing? Is distributed generation hacking away at the large scale centralized energy generation of old? Join in the discussion of where the grid is and is going and learn what opportunity exists in the market to move our power grid forward in the next 50 years!
Some resources to review for this session:
The Future Electric Grid (PDF, 4MB)
Critical National Infrastructures Report (PDF, 7MB)
Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electric Grid (PDF, 0.8MB)
Tesla and Wireless Energy - The power that could have been (HTML)
Panel:
Matt DaPrato, Senior Research Analyst, IHS Emerging Energy Research and IHS CERA
Matthew DaPrato advises clients, including governments, financial institutions, utilities, wind developers, turbine manufacturers and component suppliers, through research advisory services, consulting projects, and in-person presentations. He is Senior Research Analyst on the Americas Wind team covering North and South American Wind Energy Markets and working as part of the IHS CERA North America Power team covering transmission.
He co-authored “US Wind O&M Strategies: 2012-2025” analyzing the competitive landscape, projected costs, and market size and opportunity for established and new entrants throughout wind value chain. He has also co-authored a first-of-its-kind transmission market study, “US High Voltage Markets and Strategies: 2010-2020” that analyzed state, regional, and federal legislative and regulatory policy as well as the competitive market positioning of transmission developing utilities, IPPs, and developers. Matthew graduated with a B.S. from Boston College and a M.S. in Economic Development from Northeastern University.
Roger Faulkner, VP R&D at Alevo, Inc.
It seems obvious to me that powering our economy with non-dispatchable renewable energy requires robust continental scale transmission capacity (a supergrid), and that we will never be politically able to build that capacity unless it is put underground. Some form of electricity pipeline that can carry > 10 GW per line is absolutely required if we are to have a renewable energy future. My particular design to answer this need is the elpipe, which is a mashup of a pipeline, a powerline, and a train. The train-like features of an elpipe allow all splices to made in a cleanroom environment at one end of the line, with advanced automated inspection tools applied to every splice; this is a great advance over fabrication methods requiring field fabrication of splices. Elpipes can also be repaired rapidly, as is essential for such an important infrastructure. The transmission we are building today is short-sighted in that it will not fit into a future supergrid and will become stranded investments due to incompatible voltage and also somewhat due to inflexible AC/DC converter designs. I have no doubt that elpipes or something functionally equivalent to elpipes will dominate power transmission in 50 years, enabling many different innovations with remote generation and energy storage schemes; either that, or we must have a breakthrough in cheap, acceptable nuclear fusion energy.
Tom Ollila, Demand Management Programs, Reading Municipal Light Department and North Shore InnoVentures Cleantech Business Development Director
Michael Ahern, Director of Power Systems Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Michael "Mike" Ahern is the Director of Power Systems at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He is responsible for growing and developing energy related programs delivered through WPI’s Corporate and Professional Education Division. Mike helps WPI support the educational needs of both corporate partners and individual students. Further, Mike improves the quality of the student experience by working with faculty to update the curriculum and share best practices in course delivery, both online and classroom.
Mike has expertise in energy efficiency and renewable power. He has conducted IEEE Power and Energy Society Webinars on Green Energy and co-presented “A Systems View of Renewable Power” at the IEEE Energy Tech 2013 conference. He has also given several guest lectures on energy topics at Yale University and to the alumni of both MIT and RPI.
Mike brings over 35 years of professional experience in electric utility operations. At Northeast Utilities, he rose through increasing responsible positions in: Generation Engineering; Asset Management; Distribution Engineering; and Transmission Operations to become Vice President of Services from 2005 to 2012. He served on NU’s Executive Committees on: Corporate Ethics and Controls; Safety and Health; and Cybersecurity. Following his retirement from NU in 2012, he joined WPI in his current capacity.
Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he was selected as a member of Tau Beta Pi (the National Engineering Honor Society). He later earned both Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and held a Transmission System Operator certification from the North American Electric Reliability Council.
Moderator:
Brian Hult, Associate Scientist, Cabot Corporation
While at studying in Graduate School at Northeastern U., Brian pursued research in nanomaterials for PEM fuel cells and Li-ion batteries and graduated with a MS in Chemistry and MS in Technology Entrepreneurship. Brian has worked as a lab director at an environmental analytical firm, spearheaded bioanalytical research at a pharma CRO, and now is Associate Scientist at Cabot Corporation in Billerica, MA, where he has developed inkjet dispersions and novel reinforcing particles for rubber used in the tire industry. Brian's 16 year career in chemistry has led him to his current niche in new product R&D and innovation. Brian interests include the high-performance automotive, energy, and all things nano.
Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Check-in, Light Refreshments & Networking
7:00-7:45pm Q&A Session with Moderator
7:45-8:30pm Open Audience Q&A Session
8:30pm Wrap-up & Networking
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Codebreaker: A Special Screening and Q&A
WHEN Tue., Nov. 18, 2014, 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Northwest B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Patrick Sammon, executive producer
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS CODEBREAKER tells the remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th century's most important people. Alan Turing set in motion the computer age and his World War II codebreaking helped turn the tide of war. This maverick British genius is one of the most important scientists ever, yet few people have heard his name, know his story, or understand his legacy.
Historians say by breaking the German Naval Enigma code, Turing helped shorten the Second World War by two years, saving millions of lives. As the founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing envisioned our digital world long before anyone else.
Instead of receiving accolades, Turing faced terrible persecution. In 1952, the British Government forced him to undergo chemical castration as punishment for his homosexuality. In despair, Turing committed suicide on June 7, 1954. He was only 41 years old.
CODEBREAKER is a drama-documentary that uses emotional and engaging reconstructions to bring Turing to life in intricate detail and high color. The drama scenes center on the therapy sessions Turing participated in during the last 18 months of his life. Turing undertook voluntary psychotherapy with a German Jewish analyst. Dr. Franz Greenbaum had fled Berlin with his young family in 1939, barely escaping the Nazis. Unlike most psychiatrists and psychoanalysts of the day, Greenbaum had enlightened views about homosexuality. Greenbaum also took an interest in Turing’s mathematical insights with the patient/therapist relationship eventually becoming a friendship, as Turing made social visits to the Greenbaum home.
Built on a solid historical foundation of true events, Turing is our storyteller as he defiantly searches for answers. Documentary elements seamlessly interconnect with drama scenes to offer a three dimensional picture of Turing, his accomplishments, his tragic end, and his lasting legacy.
LINK http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/80321
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Wednesday, November 19
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November Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, November 19
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EST)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Post Office Square, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-13973271431
Join us for the November installment of our Boston Sustainability Breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
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Are Failing Bees Our Warning Sign? An HLS Green Team Talk with Dr. Alex Lu
Wednesday, November 19
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Law School, 1575 Massachusetts Avenue, Hauser Hall, Room 102, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/are-failing-bees-our-warning-sign-an-hls-green-team-talk-with-dr-alex-lu-tickets-14204593321
A Talk by Chensheng (Alex) Lu, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Harvard Law School Green Team is pleased to present this lecture by Prof. Alex Lu on the roots of the honeybee colony collapse, a phenomenon with far reaching implications for sustainability's 'triple bottom line' of people, profit and the planet.
Prof. Lu's presentation will highlight the emergence of the honeybee colony collapse disorder (CCD) in 2005-06, its link to the introduction of systemic insecticides and neonicotinoids and to the genetically engineered seed industry, and how the Harvard CCD study has impacted public policy on saving honeybees and other pollinators.
A light lunch will be served.
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Building Food System 6.0 with Paul Matteucci
Wednesday, November 19
12-1pm
MIT, Building E62-276, 100 Main St. Cambridge
RSVP at http://goo.gl/C5Niqz
Paul Matteucci is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, corporate executive, fly fisherman and home cook. He is passionate about building companies, creating jobs with opportunity, recreating the global food system, building the world’s first privately-funded national park, cooking, baseball, mystery novels and his family.
“The great thing about being an entrepreneur or a venture capitalist is that one gets to view many of the biggest problems the world is facing as opportunities for creativity and innovation.”
Paul is an Operating Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, one of the true pioneers of venture capital, which have helped make Silicon Valley a leader in IT technology and health care innovation. He is also the Founder of Feeding 10 Billion, a non-profit initiative focused on building a robust eco-system of information and people to help entrepreneurs start and grow their food-system businesses.
F10B [Feeding 10 Billion] is a “for-purpose” enterprise that addresses the growing interest in AgTech and NewFood among creative entrepreneurs. F10B helps build the same type of robust ecosystem of information resources and experienced help for Food System Entrepreneurs as has benefited entrepreneurs in information technology and health care for more than thirty years.
Matteucci brings to this lecture years of business experience. Prior to USVP, Paul was CEO of HearMe, as well as Vice President and General Manager of the SCSI host adapter division for Adaptec. He has served as a Resident Entrepreneur for Institutional Venture Partners and as an advisor to Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.
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THE NUCLEAR DEADLINE The Iranian Negotiations: Possible Outcomes and Implications
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building 24-213
RSVP to weinmann at mit.edu
Speaker: R.Scott Kemp
You are invited to a round-table discussion led by Professor R. Scott Kemp of the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Under the shadow of the November 24th deadline, Professor Kemp will lead the discussion on current nuclear negotiations with Iran, and their possible outcomes and implications for international nonproliferation efforts, disarmament and nuclear security.
Kemp's research combines physics, engineering and the history of science to draw more clearly the limits and policy options for achieving international security under technical constraints. He is an expert on enrichment technology and has previous experience as the State Department's science advisor in the Office of the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control.
Lunch will be provided. Please email to reserve a spot.
Web site: radius.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Tickets: RSVP: weinmann at mit.edu
Sponsor(s): The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, MIT Global Zero
For more information, contact: Patricia-Maria Weinmann
617-253-0108
weinmann at mit.edu
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Frederick W. Mayer: Narrative Politics - The Medium is the Story
WHEN Wed., Nov. 19, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Taubman 275, Harvard Kennedy School, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Frederick "Fritz" Mayer, Duke University
CONTACT INFO tim_bailey at hks.harvard.edu, 617.495.8209
LINK http://shorensteincenter.org/frederick-mayer/
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National Security and Double Government with Professors Michael Glennon and Stephen Walt
WHEN Wed., Nov. 19, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, 1585 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard National Security Journal, Harvard National Security and Law Association, American Constitution Society at HLS, Federalist Society at HLS
SPEAKER(S) Professors Michael Glennon and Stephen Walt
Editorial Comment: This is an important discussion about the government behind the government, why the National Security State continues no matter who the people vote for. Not conspiracy theory but the facts of the bureaucratic life of the military industrial complex. See Boston Globe article “Vote All You Want. The Secret Government Won’t Change”:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL/story.html
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The Organization of Violence and Rebel Behavior
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
12:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: BARBARA F. WALTER, UC San Diego
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
253-7529
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The Changing Mindset of Arab Youth from the Prism of Opinion Surveys
WHEN Wed., Nov. 19, 2014, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye Conference Room A, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Ishac Diwan
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS A seminar with Ishac Diwan, distinguished chair of Arab world studies at Paris Sciences et Lettres, visiting researcher at Université Paris-Dauphine and Paris School of Economics, and research affiliate at the Middle East Initiative
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6481/the_changing_mindset_of_arab_youth_from_the_prism_of_opinion_surveys_with_ishac_diwan.html
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Collective Decisions by Preference aggregation: Between Artificial Intelligence and Social Choice
WHEN Wed., Nov. 19, 2014, 4 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Francesca Rossi, Radcliffe Institute fellow and University of Padova
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-francesca-rossi-fellow-presentation
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Exploring Global Prosperity: Legatum Prosperity Index
Wednesday, November 19
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-global-prosperity-legatum-prosperity-index-registration-13859348685
What does it mean for a nation to be prosperous? Is it all about GDP? If national success is about more than just wealth, how can you accurately measure it over time? This event will explore the data and findings from the new 2014 Global Prosperity Index, the definitive measure of global progress.
Presented by: Nathan Gamester, Programme Director, Prosperity Index.
About the Prosperity Index: Now in its eighth year, the Index assesses 142 countries, representing more than 96% of the world’s population and 99% of the world’s GDP. Using rigorous research and in‐depth analysis, the Index ranks countries based on their performance in eight sub‐indices—Economy, Entrepreneurship & Opportunity, Governance, Education, Personal Freedom, Health, Safety & Security and Social Capital. The launch of the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index™ will be marked with a presentation of findings, a panel discussion and evening reception.
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Cambridge’s Getting to Net Zero Task Force
Wednesday, November 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Harvard, Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, 7 Divinity Avenue, Room G62, Cambridge
*All Task Force meetings are open to the public.
*Please feel free to forward this notice to others who might be interested.
Information on the Getting to Net Zero Task Force is available at www.cambridgema.gov/home/CDD/Projects/Climate/netzerotaskforce.aspx
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Designing the Food System of the Future
Wednesday, November 19
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/branchfood/events/215412932/
How will we sustainably feed 10 billion people and how will investment and innovation help get us there?
Join Boston University’s School of Management, Feeding 10 Billion, The Food Loft, and Branchfood for an evening of lively discussion and a glimpse into the future of food and agriculture!
The evening is intended to inspire new collaborations and connections in the food and agriculture space. We’re bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, consumer experts and startup gurus to discuss the food system of the future. We'll hear multiple perspectives where opportunities exist to innovate, invest, and disrupt to create a better food system; one that not only feeds people, but also regenerates the environment and contributes to the health of individuals and communities.
Moderator
Kristen McCormack // Assistant Dean, Sector Initiatives // BU School of Management
Panelists
Aaron Niederhelman // Managing Director //Entrepreneur Agrarian Fund
Kate Demase // General Manager // Whole Foods Market
Paul Matteucci // Operating Partner // US Venture Partners and Founder of Feeding 10 Billion
Founding Team // The Food Loft
Schedule
6:00pm – 6:15pm Registration
6:15pm – 8:00pm Big idea presentations and panel discussion
8:00pm – 9:00pm Reception and networking
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“The Electric Car Vehicle/Driver Interface; the BMW i3 and other new cars” @ Herb Chambers BMW of Boston
Thursday, November 20
6:15 pm – 8:00 pm
Herb Chambers BMW of Boston, 1168 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Pizza/soft drinks 6:15pm
Presentation 7pm
Herb Chambers BMW in Boston will be the site of the Consumer Electronics Society program on November 20. The electric car is becoming a major hub for consumer electronics. Here is an opportunity to see and hear about what BMW, Mercedes and other manufacturers are doing and may be planning.
Melissa Steffy, Manager of the BMW Dealership, and Mark Lande, Client Advisor will speak to us, and Melissa hints that Herb himself may attend.
Please register for badge and parking information to this free program by email to:
BosCESoc at gmail.com
Include:
Name
Company
E-mail address
Phone
More information at http://ieeeboston.org/event/electric-car-vehicledriver-interface-bmw-i3-new-cars/?instance_id=521
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Music Brings the Civil Rights Movement to Harvard Square
Wednesday, November 19
7pm
3 Church Street in Harvard Square @ 7p
Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Movement, which was culminating nationally with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, came to Harvard Square in music. Club 47, predecessor to the current Club Passim, booked African American artists active in the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
What did these performers experience in Harvard Square? How did their music resonate in Cambridge?
A panel including Betsy Siggins, who booked acts at Club 47 and Jack Landron, who performed as Jackie Washington, discusses the music that brought the Civil Right Movement home to Harvard Square.
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org/
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Things That Go Bump in the Night: What Do Whales See?
Thursday, November 20
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Simons IMAX Theatre New England Aquarium, 1 Aquarium Wharf, Boston
RSVP at http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=105508&view=Detail
Dr. Scott D. Kraus, vice president, Research Department, New England Aquarium
To reduce or eliminate the problem of right whale entanglements in fishing gear, scientists and gear developers have considered the feasibility of enhancing ropes and nets to improve their detection by whales. To determine whether changing the color of the ropes alters the distance at which whales can detect them, we conducted three years of field trials in Cape Cod Bay in the spring months (2011-2013). Right whales appeared to change behavior in order to avoid the experimental “ropes,” suggesting that changing commercial fishing rope color may enhance the whale’s ability to visually avoid entanglements in the wild. Dr. Kraus will talk about whale vision generally, and then specifically address the feasibility of making fishing gear more visible.
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The Physics of Evolution: Equations shed new light on nature's mysteries
WHEN Wed, November 19, 7pm – 10pm
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, November 20
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Assessing the Policies of Oil Rich States of the Gulf toward Development: Growth vs. Merit
WHEN Thu., Nov. 20, 2014, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Nye Conference Room A, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, 5 Eliot Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) A seminar with Abbas Al-Mejren, Kuwait University Professor of Economics and Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Initiative
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6480/assessing_the_policies_of_oil_rich_states_of_the_gulf_toward_development.html
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"Softening War? Sociocultural Knowledge, Military Strategy, and the Experience of Human Terrain Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Thursday, November 20
3:00 to 4:30pm
Northeastern University, 310 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
Paul Joseph, Tufts University
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From Ocean to Amazon: Our Human Story in Nature
Thursday, November 20
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 32-G449, Patil Conference Room, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Celine Cousteau
With a family legacy set in our oceans as a starting point and her own advocacy, films, and projects, Celine endeavors to connect humans to our natural world. She will share inspiring stories of ocean adventures from tagging sharks in the Great Barrier Reef, to diving the frigid waters of Antarctica, and helping free a whale caught in a fishing net. But her biggest project to date is set in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon in the indigenous territory of the Vale do Javari where the tribes who are fighting for their future have asked Celine for help.
Come take a journey with Celine from Ocean to Amazon - where exploration is an opportunity for understanding and adventure is the gateway to advocacy.
Celine Cousteau is founder and executive director of CauseCentric Productions, a non-profit organization creating cause focused multi-media content. Member of the World Economic Forum Council on Oceans, Celine holds a masters in International and Intercultural Management and is fluent in three languages.
Daughter of ocean explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau and granddaughter of the legendary Jacques Yves Cousteau, Celine has been the international spokeswoman for the La Prairie skincare company since 2007, guiding their marine conservation initiatives. In 2010, she started working with Contiki Holidays as their Sustainability Partner, is brand ambassador to Serengeti Sunglasses and is a Guest Designer for jewelry collections of an international brand.
Web site: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/142994
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): CSAIL
For more information, contact: Laura Moses
617-253-0145
lmoses at csail.mit.edu
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The Birth of a Nation
Dick Lehr (author, The Birth of a Nation)
Thursday, November 20
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston,
For more information, call the Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visit www.fordhallforum.org
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Design as Survival, Resistance, and Transformative Action
WHEN Thu., Nov. 20, 2014, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Graduate School of Design
DETAILS The design practices that inspire social collaboration, participation, and coauthorship continue the avant-garde tradition of challenging outmoded thinking and perception while proposing and testing the visions of a beneficent social imagination. In this symposium, three artist-designers whose work critically reactivates this tradition will present and discuss their agenda, ideas, and projects. The panel will explore methodological approaches and concepts such as critical design, discursive design, interrogative design, and transformative design, currently being investigated in the Art, Design, and the Public Domain program at Harvard GSD. With Lucy Orta, Joep van Lieshout, and Rikke Luther; moderated by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Professor in Residence of Art, Design, and the Public Domain.
Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/panel-discussion-design-as-survival-resistance-and.html
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NEXPO: Northeastern’s Entrepreneurship Exposition
Thursday, November 20
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Northeastern, Cabot Center, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nexpo-fall-2014-gew-2014-tickets-12696322041?aff=es2&rank=1Organizer
NEXPO is Northeastern’s premier entrepreneurship exposition. The culmination of Global Entrepreneurship Week, NEXPO will feature IDEA startups, product-based research projects, business ideas and an Entrepreneurship Pavilion. The event will celebrate the breadth of entrepreneurship throughout Northeastern’s campus and showcase all it has to offer.
Whether you’re a student who is curious about starting your own company or an industry professional looking to share your experiences, NEXPO provides the perfect platform to connect with entrepreneurship in Northeastern.
IDEA: Northeastern’s Venture Accelerator
idea at neu.edu
http://www.northeastern.edu/idea/
http://www.northeastern.edu/idea/event/nexpo/
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Friday, November 21
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New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Presents:
Gas Supply & Electricity Rates; and The Future of Demand Response
Friday, November 21
9 am to 12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/1121-roundtable-gas-electricity-prices-demand-response-registration-13512511285
Cost: $35-65
If you aren't able to attend in person, register at http://signup.clickstreamtv.com/event/raab/events/143 to live-stream the Roundtable or to watch it later on-demand.
Panel I: Gas Supply & Electricity Rates in New England
For our first panel, we return to the timely and contentious topic of
Gas Supply & Electricity Rates in New England in light of important breaking developments, including:
The recent announcement by Spectra and Northeast Utilities of their proposed gas pipeline expansion project that would likely compete with the Kinder Morgan proposal;
MA DOER's undertaking of a low gas demand analysis (conducted by Synapse Energy Economics);
The soon-to-be-released Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative's electric and gas infrastructure study (conducted by Levitan & Associates); and
MA DPU's recent approval of a 37% electricity rate increase for National Grid basic service customers (due in no small part to the anticipated increase in electricity generation costs this coming winter due to constrained gas supplies-with a similar increase in NU's basic service rates likely to follow).
To discuss these recent developments and analyses, and their implications for gas supply and electricity prices in New England, we have put together a stellar panel, including:
Mark Sylvia, Undersecretary for Energy, MA EEA
James Daly, VP Energy Supply, Northeast Utilities
Peter Shattuck, Director Market Initiatives, ENE
Richard Levitan, President, Levitan & Associates, Inc.
Panel II: The Future of Demand Response in New England
Our second panel focuses on The Future of Demand Response in New England. This is also a timely topic, given the very recent Court of Appeals decision denying the FERC's petition for rehearing of an earlier court decision that calls into question FERC's jurisdiction over demand response in wholesale energy markets. If the court's earlier decision holds (i.e., either FERC doesn't appeal to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court decides not to hear the case, or the Supreme Court sides with the Court of Appeals), this could also potentially spread to capacity markets and would likely effect ISO New England's plan to fully integrate demand response into the entire wholesale market by 2017. Moreover, this could result in pushing demand response down from federally-regulated wholesale markets to state-regulated retail markets. At the same time, the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure, the possibility of dynamic retail pricing, and the rapid development of intelligent devices could inspire new paradigms for price-responsive demand response.
To discuss these latest developments, trends, and potential fixes, we have put together a panel of leading thinkers and practitioners on demand response:
Scott Hempling, Attorney at Law, LLC
Henry Yoshimura, Director, Demand Resource Strategy, ISO New England
David Brewster, President and Co-Founder, EnerNOC
Paul Centolella, Principal, Centolella & Associates
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The Road Ahead: Forum of Future Cities
Friday, November 21
9:00a–4:30p
MIT, Building E-14, Media Lab 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1619780
Cost: $15 -$75
Self-driving vehicles. Drivers on demand. Data-driven infrastructure. Vehicles that respond to passengers and to the environment. A sea change is happening in transportation, and mobility of the (near) future will be radically different than today - greener, more comfortable and more efficient. Innovations are rolling out of laboratories, businesses and city halls on four, two, (or zero) wheels at an accelerating pace, exploring the future of urban mobility.
The spotlight is focused on transportation technology and design - the machines that move people - yet there are a host of unanswered questions as transitions are made. This year, California began issuing drivers licenses to self-driving cars, but insurance companies still can't find who is at fault when something goes wrong. Cities are debating whether ride sharing systems should be banned from their streets, while taxi companies organize strikes around the world to protest citizen-driver services like Lyft and Uber. Policy and innovation must go hand in hand for innovations to take hold.
The Road Ahead is not just about emerging technologies - it will be a forum on all dimensions of future urban mobility, bringing leading theorists, dreamers, and practitioners into conversation and debate.
Web site: http://senseable.mit.edu/roadahead
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): SENSEable City Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact: Jessica Ngo
617-324-4474
ngo_jess at mit.edu
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Cultural Survival Bazaar
Friday, November 21
12:00 PM - Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultural-survival-bazaar-tickets-13907332205
A Festival of Native Arts & Cultures from Around the World.
We feature Native artisans and performers, fairly traded products benefiting the livelihoods of artisans, projects in their communities, and fair trade. Shop unique art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, decor, tribal rugs, & much more. Enjoy "world" musicperformances, meet our guest artisans, travel the world in one place.
Cultural Survival offers several free admission events this holiday season. Each event provides you with direct access to thousands of items, handmade by Indigenous artisans from around the world.
Every item has a deeper story from the projects it supports, to the artisans who made them. Learn about our work in partnership with communities around the world. Together we work to defend Indigenous rights, lands, languages, and cultures.
For details visit our website at http://bazaar.cs.org
Promo Video: http://youtu.be/xRKch6HeFTM
For more information, contact Dave Favreau at 617-441-5400 x21 or dave at cs.org
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Cloud, Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems: Mist Connections
Friday, November 21
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Kathleen Weathers
Speaker Bio: http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/our-scientists/dr-kathleen-c-weathers
Email: emarais at seas.harvard.edu
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Transnational Homeland Security?
WHEN Fri., Nov. 21, 2014, 12 – 1 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S) Alan Bersin, assistant secretary for international affairs and chief diplomatic officer and acting assistant secretary for policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
COST Free; RSVP to mrcbg at hks.harvard.edu
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IACS Seminar: Part 1: "Tree-like Structure in Social and Information Networks" & Part 2: "Data-mining for development”
WHEN Fri., Nov. 21, 2014, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Information Technology, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS), Harvard SEAS
SPEAKER(S) Aaron Adcock & Shankar Kalyanaraman of Facebook
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO nrbaker at seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Talk 1:
It is often noted that social and information networks exhibit tree-like structure and properties. In the past few years several tools have been developed to more closely quantify this structure. I will discuss some of the results of applying these tools to real-world social and information networks. In particular, I will discuss two alternatives for measuring this structure: Gromov hyperbolicity and tree-width.
Talk 2:
Over the last few years, we have witnessed innovative uses of big data to model and predict complex human behavior and patterns. Google's use of search query data to accurately forecast flu incidence and Ushahidi's crowdsourced crisis maps following the Haiti earthquake in 2010 for quicker and more effective deployment of humanitarian aid are two leading examples in this domain. My research interests draw inspiration from these examples; and in this talk, I will showcase some previous work I have done in disease surveillance and post-conflict violence prevention.
In the end, time-permitting, we’ll briefly chat about data science at Facebook.
LINK http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/iacs-seminars
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Global Convergences: Strategies Against Evictions & Displacement
Friday, November 21
2:00p–6:00p
MIT, Building E-15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
This global conference, hosted by the MIT Displacement Research Action Network and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-NYC, will draw together leading activists, civil society leaders, and academics from Brazil, India, South Africa and the US, as well as global policy figures from the UN system, to discuss strategies against the increasing incidence of development-induced evictions and displacement.
Web site: http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/beyond-displacement-a-global-convergence/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Tickets: http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/beyond-displacement-a-global-convergence/
Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Displacement Research Action Network, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-NYC
For more information, contact: Balakrishnan Rajagopal
braj at mit.edu
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Growth in Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Solar Markets
Friday, November 21
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 3-333, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Tim Echols, Georgia Public Service Commissioner
Tim Echols, Georgia's elected Public Service Commissioner, will discuss and share data on the adoption of various alternative fuels vehicles, and the impact of utility PEV rates and EPA mandates on people's energy habits and adoption rates.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Energy Club
energyclub at mit.edu
Editorial Comment: Georgia is one state where the Tea Party and the Greens have worked together to keep legislation and regulation from hobbling the adoption of rooftop solar.
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Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming
November 21-23, 2014
Friday, 6-9 p.m. - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tufts University, Cohen Auditorium, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/biodiversity-for-a-livable-climate-restoring-ecosystems-to-reverse-global-warming-tickets-12190027701
Cost: $50-150
Promoting the power of nature to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere where it does untold damage, and restore it to the soils where it supports abundant life and reverses global warming.
We are telling a new story. Each of our speakers presents a chapter in the remarkable narrative of life on earth in the 21st century. We humans are a key part of that narrative, and while there are many parts they all come together in a single tale. We will weave those parts together so that each presentation is part of the whole, a whole that builds a different and more hopeful worldview than we’ve heard in a long time. We have a lot of work to do and heavy paradigms to shift, but we can and will tell the new story with exciting and hopeful outcomes.
Our Boston conference has a roster of expert speakers followed by an international series of events bringing together climate advocates, farmers, ranchers, scientists, social scientists, policymakers, NGOs, artists, visionaries and the general public – in other words, any and all of us – for a non-technical discussion to consider:
The exceptional potential of the biosphere to address all of our current emissions, as well as to remove the 125 parts per million of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Effective action on a global scale by applying eco-regenerative approaches to lands and waters worldwide.
The use of biological systems to re-establish healthy water cycles to cool the earth’s surface.
Our primary urgent goal in the face of widespread breakdown in addressing climate change is to further the understanding necessary to embark on the global regeneration process made possible by enabling the forces of biology. Collectively we will present affordable strategies for eco-restoration that local, national and international governments, agencies, communities and individuals may rapidly implement in order to reverse global warming.
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Monday, November 24
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MASS Seminar - Giuseppe Torri (Harvard)
Monday, November 24
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Giuseppe Torri (Harvard)
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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Panel discussion: Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Obstacles and Possibilities
Monday, November 24
12pm-1:30pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Ric Redman, President & CEO, Summit Power Group, LLC
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS); Professor of Public Policy (HKS)
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"Economics Inside the Grid: Smart Grids, Power Systems Engineering, and Emergent Markets"
Monday, November 24
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Canay Özden-Schilling, MIT, HASTS
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/2014-11-24-171500-2014-11-24-190000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.xlWCdgxi.dpuf
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Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation - joint with Harvard
Monday, November 24
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Steve Cicala (University of Chicago)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Planets and Life: Welcome to the Anthropocene, The Human Palate for Energy, Land, and Water Under Global Change: What and Where are the Risks?
Monday, November 24
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
MIT, Building 2-105, 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Adam Schlosser (MIT)
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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Tuesday, November 25
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Unpacking open data: power, politics and the influence of infrastructures
Tuesday, November 25
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/11/davies#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/11/davies at 12:30 pm.
Tim Davies, Berkman Affiliate
Countries, states & cities across the globe are embracing the idea of 'open data': establishing platforms, portals and projects to share government managed data online for re-use. Yet, right now, the anticipated civic impacts of open data rarely materialise, and the gap between the promise and the reality of open data remains wide. This talk, drawing on a series of empirical studies of open data around the world, will question the ways in which changing regimes around data can reconfigure power and politics, and will explore the limits of current practice. It will consider opportunities to re-imagine the open data project, not merely as one of placing datasets online, but as one that can positively reshape the knowledge infrastructures of civic life.
About Tim
Tim Davies is a social researcher with interests in civic participation and civic technologies. He has spent the last five years focussing on the development of the open government data landscape around the world, from his MSc work at the Oxford Internet Institute on Data and Democracy, the first major study of data.gov.uk, through to leading a 12-country study on the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries for the World Wide Web Foundation.
Tim is working on his PhD on the interaction of technical infrastructures and public policies in shaping the outcomes of open data initiatives in the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton, and was a 2013/14 fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He also co-directs Practical Participation, an independent consultancy working on participation, organisational change, community development and social technology, through which he recently led the development of the 360Giving standards for philanthropic open data in the UK.
Tim lives in Oxford, UK, blogs at timdavies.org.uk, and tweets as @timdavies.
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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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