Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
Jan/10 | Thu | 12:30PM-01:30PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner, Brian Mahoney, Esq.
Jan/16 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 617-252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu
Andrew Sudbury 00, MBA 02, VP of Security Metrics, ABINE
Jan/16 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Don't Track Me Bro! These days you hear a lot about online tracking. Have you ever wondered about how much tracking is going on, and why? What's this Do Not Track Header and what does it do?
Come learn about the current state of online tracking. We'll examine the online tracking industry that drives the data collection for advertising and customer analytics. Marvel at how you are being tracked, see what is done with the information and discover how you can choose to not be tracked. We'll also talk about some of the legal and economic issues around tracking and the free Internet.
Andrew Sudbury '00, MBA '02
Andrew received an MBA from MIT Sloan and a SB from MIT. As part of the MIT community, Andrew has been a judge for the MITES business plan contest for local high-school students and the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovation. He still can't use any kind of Linux but Slackware, and is a two-wheeled enthusiast.
Register Today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
BC Krishna SM 94, President and CEO, MineralTree, Inc.
Jan/15 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Financial Fraud
BC will share his experiences as the founder and CEO of fraud detection software company Memento. The fast-paced session will cover a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to:
At Memento, BC also spent time looking into the world of Health Care fraud, and another nasty, insidious problem that does not get enough attention: Prescription Fraud. This is the systematic, significant, expensive abuse of prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Fentanyl, and Suboxone. Time permitting, he will share some of his findings addressing Prescription Fraud.
The session will use case studies and examples. Attendees should expect to walk away angry, foaming at the mouth, and hopefully inspired to study the topic more and do something about it.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Vibhu Sachdev, Associate Licensing Officer
Jan/24 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:30PM | Room 3-133, Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The transfer of materials into and out of MIT is steadily increasing each year. Moreover, the providers and recipients for these materials are diversifying. Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are legal contracts that ensure all parties are permitted to send and receive biological materials, chemical compounds, and other materials. MTAs protect MIT’s intellectual property and freedom to publish, and MTAs record the terms and conditions for the use of the materials. Come and hear members of the Technology Licensing Office discuss MIT's material transfer process. Gain a better understanding of MTAs, MIT’s procedures and policies for MTAs, and how to get your materials expeditiously. Refreshments will be served. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 3-6966, kdaniels@mit.edu
Daniel Dardani
Jan/22 | Tue | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 3-133, Please register by following the link provided. |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Ever wanted to pen a novel or code a video game? Maybe you are an artist or architect? Copyright law affects musicians, photographers, and software developers alike. As such, copyrights offer unique and fun protection for your works of authorship created while at MIT. Join Dan Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and Coordinator of Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in an overview of the copyright -- its history, use, and relevance to the MIT Community as a form of intellectual property. We will explore the nature of originality, doctrine of fair use, how copyrights mesh with the digital age, and more. All are welcomed. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries, Jack Turner, Technology Licensing Office
Jan/23 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 50 participants
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Please Register
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Janet Rickershauser, Senior Lawyer, Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical Engineering, Alyssa Fitzgerald, Lawyer
Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | E70, 12ft Floor |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Prereq: None
Not all teams achieve impact by creating a for-profit enterprise. Organizations like Ashoka, MITx, New Profit, and The Robin Hood Foundation are organized and reach their target audiences as non-profit organizations.
The seminar will enable members of the MIT community to further their understanding of how 501(c)(3) status can help them better deploy their technologically-based projects, and is open to students, faculty, and staff who have practical questions about how to organize and operate a non-profit.
Sue Abbott, Janet Rickershauser, and Alyssa Fitzgerald, core attorneys in the Tax-Exempt Organizations practice group at Goodwin Procter LLP, a Boston-based Am Law 50 firm, serve the legal needs of many of the Greater Boston Area’s most prominent non-profits.
Since the inception of these free seminars in 2003, we have provided the legal tools for achieving and maintaining 501(c)(3) status to over 1400 organizations in the Boston area.
Over the 2.5 hour seminar, we propose to cover:
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Jose Estabil, E70-1270, 617 253-5978, JJE@MIT.EDU
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, Col. Robert Banks
Jan/30 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E62-221 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability. As Malware numbers, attacks, cost, and fix timelines all explode, it has become clear that advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond isolated patch fixes and automated islands towards fail safe protection? Can we align dependent circles...and what can we do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? A presentation based on several decades of industry, telecom, and government perspectives will debate these issues.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Janka Moss, International Student Advisor
Jan/25 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Ellen Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Roshni Gohil, Coordinator for Reserves and Student Hiring
Jan/22 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 30 participants
Are you teaching or supporting a class this spring and want to learn more about copyright and electronic reserves on Stellar?
We’ll give you an overview of the latest understanding of US copyright law’s fair use provisions as it applies to materials posted to course management systems like Stellar. We’ll discuss the federal ruling on the Georgia State University e-reserves case and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Then we’ll share best practices for posting to Stellar, and how the Libraries can help with your e-reserves.
Staff from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing and Course Reserves Team will be available to answer questions.
Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/events
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Roshni Gohil, 14S-100, 617 253-2283, RGOHIL@MIT.EDU
Aurora Brule, International Student Advisor
Jan/29 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The International Students Office will present a workshop focusing on employment regulations, medical insurance, and the two-year home residency requirement for J-1 students as outlined by the United States Information Agency.
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Laura Schmitz
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Like Book Clubs? But hate the time commitment? This non-book club-book club is easy and painless. n-bc-bc will meet four times during the third week of IAP and will discuss topics related to different types of gender violence in our culture. Each evening a discussion will be sparked by two short articles, book excerpts or movie clips. Food and drinks provided!
View or download n-bc-bc materials at: web.mit.edu/end_violence/
Discussion Topics:
Monday January 21: [Un]Scientific Apologies: How Science Colors Views on Sexual Violence.
Tuesday January 22: Broken System: Failures of Institutions to Serve Survivors and Discipline Rapists.
Wednesday January 23: Speaking Up: Responses to Slut Shaming and Rape Culture
Thursday Januray 24: Policy: White Men Debate the Fate of Vagina Owners
Sponsor(s): Women's and Gender Studies, Technology and Culture Forum
Contact: Laura Schmitz, W11-011, (617) 253-0108, lschmitz@mit.edu
Jan/21 | Mon | 07:00PM-09:00PM | TBD | |
Jan/22 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | Location TBD | |
Jan/23 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | Location TBD | |
Jan/24 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | Location TBD |
Laura Schmitz
Howard Silver
Jan/16 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 40 participants
You won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, but you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents.
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Amanda Peters, Career Development Specialist
Jan/17 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Registration required through CareerBridge
Learn from MIT alums working in patent law about careers that let you stay abreast of the newest technologies. By working in the field of intellectual property, you can make a career of patenting, protecting, licensing, and valuing the most recent technological discoveries! Topics discussed will include an overview of intellectual property rights available to inventors, a day-in-the-life of patent attorneys, and a discussion of how intellectual property rights are protected in the realms of academia and industry.
Pizza for this event will be sponsored by iRobot. Preregistration requested on CareerBridge.
Panelists:
Glen Weinstein, Senior Vice President & General Counsel at iRobot Corporation
Kristin Smith, Associate at Beyer Law Group
Alex Wissner-Gross, Founder of Enernetics, Inc. and Gemedy, Inc.
Clay Satow, Patent Counsel at Bose Corporation
Renee Fuller, Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Amanda Peters, 12-170, (617) 253-4733, acpeters@mit.edu
Christopher Noble
Jan/23 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-133, Please register at http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
You've invented something really cool. Now can you protect it and create a company around it? Come and hear Christopher Noble, Technology Licensing Officer of the MIT Technology Licensing Office. Learn How and When to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you (and what they want from you); and what your investors are looking for when they ask the question: “Tell me about your IP”. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU
Deborah L. Fisher, Institute Auditor, Toni P. Robinson, Ombudsperson, Mark DiVincenzo, Deputy General Counsel, Marianna Pierce, Director, Policy, Compliance, and Labor Relations
Jan/24 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
MIT as an institution and a community maintains high ethical values and standards; these are embodied in the Institute’s Statement of Responsible and Ethical Conduct.
This session will review these longstanding policies, and describe ways for members of the community to obtain answers to questions or raise concerns about conduct that may not be consistent with these values and standards.
The respective roles of the Ombuds Office, the Office of the General Counsel, Human Resources, the Audit Division and the Institute’s Anonymous and Confidential Reporting System (“hotline”) will be covered in this session.
Sponsor(s): Audit Division, Presidents Office, MIT Human Resources
Contact: John Dvorak, NE49-3021, 617 452-3577, DVORAK@MIT.EDU
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist
Jan/18 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Prereq: none
This session will cover the required specifications for submitting your thesis, and review some common copyright questions related to theses, including whether you need permission to use certain figures in your thesis, and what is involved when you want to publish parts of your thesis before or after the thesis is submitted.
Offered by Mikki Simon MacDonald from the Institute Archives, who oversees thesis processing, and Ellen Finnie Duranceau, from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, who handles copyright and publishing questions for the MIT community.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Jolene de Verges, Images specialist and Digital Project & Metadata Manager
Jan/11 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Prereq: none
This session will provide information about how to assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or is “fair use,” how to find images already flagged for reuse, and good practices for identifying and citing images. Directed at authors of theses, journal articles, blogs, and other scholarly writing.
Presented by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, copyright contact and Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing & Licensing in the MIT Libraries, and Jolene de Verges, images specialist and Digital Project & Metadata Manager in the MIT Libraries
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Boston Immigration Attorney
Feb/01 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 1-190 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
A Boston attorney, specializing in immigration, will present a seminar focusing on rules regulating employment opportunities after graduation for international graduates.
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
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