CME Drop In Hours
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E39-362 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
CME Drop In Hours:
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: E39-362
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Global Education, studyabroad@mit.edu
Designing Systems for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Mischa Shattuck, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff, Brice MacLaren, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
There are many opportunities to improve the quality of life of those involved in humanitarian crises and disasters through technical advancements. However, it is common for these technical systems to fail due to lack of consideration for the complicated context of the humanitarian space. In this course, an introduction will be provided to the organizations and cultural issues involved in the humanitarian space and the socio-political considerations involved in developing systems in this arena. Attendees will participate in a conceptual design exercise that will bring to light some of the complexities of HADR design. Design concepts will be presented and discussed with evaluators who have had humanitarian field experience.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Hayley Reynolds, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 781 981-3309, HAYLEY@LL.MIT.EDU
| Jan/04 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-319 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | Beaverworks class, Bring laptop for presentations |
Mischa Shattuck - MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff, Brice MacLaren - MIT Lincoln Laboratory Staff
Explore the Emirates
Tuka AlHanai, Research Assistant in Computer Science, Nouf AlMubarak, Student of Law and Diplomacy, Abdulla AlHajri, Research Assistant in Nuclear Engineering
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Open mind, open heart, and a sweet tooth.
When you think of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) what is the first image that comes to mind? This discussion based class explores the multi-faceted perceptions of the nation lead by the local citizens/residents. Participants will explore current topics of the UAE while enjoying some local delicacy.
Sponsor(s): Scholars of the Emirates
Contact: Tuka Al Hanai, 32-G424, (608) 770-7637, TUKA@MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 56-167 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 56-167 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 56-167 |
Global Fellows Program Information Sessions
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance:
Learn collaboration and communication skills for PhDs
Thursday January 7 5:00-5:30 - Location: 4-145
Friday January 8 1:00-1:30 - Location: 4-145
Pre-registration requested via CareerBridge.
Now in its sixth year, MIT and Imperial College London are jointly offering an intensive 4 ½ day Global Fellows Program for PhD students. 20 MIT PhD student participants will join 20 Imperial College PhD students for 4.5 days of presentations, interactive work, and hands-on activities. Participants work in small groups with either an MIT or Imperial facilitator. Faculty members present on the topic of developing and managing international collaborations as an integral part of a research career.
• Approaches for successful working relationships and collaborations
• Team and project development
• Leadership
• Presentation skills
• Global intercultural skills and communication
Cost: Fellowship covers cost of travel, housing, program and most meals. (Most international students will need to complete a required visa application process. This cost is covered by the student and typically is around $150).
Application deadline: Monday, January 18 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Interviews will begin the week of January 25.
For more information: Please visit http://gecd.mit.edu/global-fellows and email questions to Jake Livengood or Marilyn Wilson at: globalphd@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
| Jan/07 | Thu | 05:00PM-05:30PM | 4-145 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-01:30PM | 4-145 |
Hackathon for Climate
John E Fernandez, Professor of Architecture, ESI Director, Thomas Malone, Professor of Management, Climate Co-Lab Director
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 7-429, Bring your laptop - and your friends! |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 40 participants
Hackathon for Climate: Develop plans for what to do about global climate change
Space still available!
Awards include $500 cash, WakaWaka solar chargers, and Luci inflatable color solor lights! Do you have ideas for what the world should do about climate change? Would you like to use your scientific, engineering, design, social science, or other knowledge to help figure out how to solve what many people believe is one of the world’s biggest problems today? MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) and Climate Co-Lab are co-sponsoring a day-long event to help you do just that.
The MIT Climate CoLab is a web-based community of over 50,000 people all over the world who work together to create and evaluate proposals for action on global climate change (see http://climatecolab.org/). With involvement from leading experts on climate change and collaboration with organizations from the United Nations to the American Geophysical Union to the City of Cambridge, proposals developed here reach an influential global audience.
Come with a team or form teams with others you meet at the workshop. Spend the day developing proposals on actions to address climate change, from how to generate electricity with lower emissions, to how to change public attitudes about climate, to what the whole world should do about climate.
After the hackathon ends, you can continue developing your proposals to compete for recognition and cash prizes in the various Climate CoLab contests.
Sponsor(s): Environmental Solutions Initiative
Contact: Amanda Graham, E70-1283, 617 253-8995, AGRAHAM@MIT.EDU
Innovation for Impact Workshop Series
Keely Swan, IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth, Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Are you working to solve a pressing social, health or environmental problem and hope to develop a game-changing innovation?
Have you been working on an exciting innovation and are looking for places where it could create positive change?
If so, join us for this workshop series. Over 3 days students, guest experts and workshop leaders will learn from each other by critically exploring case studies, concepts, and tools for effective innovation design such as problem framing, mapping the social and policy context, pitching ideas, building an effective multi-disciplinary team, and learning reflective practice. Throughout we will explore practical skills, as well as fundamental questions such as: When is an innovation needed? What are potential adverse effects of an innovation on stakeholders, institutions and markets? How can we take a participatory problem-solving approach to the innovation process?
The workshops will build on each other; participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions, but participation for one day is welcome. The workshops are open to the MIT community and will be of particular interest to teams preparing for the IDEAS Global Challenge, the Water Innovation and Food & Ag Innovation Prizes, and others working on social entrepreneurship ventures at D-Lab, DUSP, and other engineering depts. The workshop is also open to non-MIT teammates working on these projects.
Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/h9pn6Zx00f
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Keely Swan, W20-549, 617 715-5474, KCSWAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
We can all agree that there are many problems in the world. How do we know what to focus on? And how do we clearly convey the problem to others? In this session, we will explore tools to help us identify and define problems and consider how that framing affects our understanding of the situation. We will explore the importance of a clear problem statement to innovation design and making a successful pitch. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
An innovation may meet or solve a real need, but the context of a particular cultural, market, legal, funding, and policy environment will all influence whether the innovation takes hold. We will work with tools to help us conceptualize these complex scenarios for our own projects and will learn from past teams about how their projects played out in the real world. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
Whose vision and knowledge inform the innovation process? Will the innovation be developed in a lab by a few people and then rolled out? Who do you need on your team to lend a range of perspectives? Can innovation be a collaborative process with the users and beneficiaries that produces effective ideas while empowering people at the same time? We will explore these questions, relevant tools & strategies. Register.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Leveraging Experience Abroad to Get the Job
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
This interactive session will provide an opportunity for students who have participated in OR are considering participating in global experiences to explore how these present an advantage to their candidacy during the job search. We will consider employer perspectives, alumni perspectives, and current student perspectives on what can be learned by going abroad and how it can be translated into life skills. Strategies for adding global experiences to resumes and discussing these experiences while interviewing will be discussed. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
The South Asian Anthropocene: Ecology and Society in South Asia in the climate era
Rajesh Kasturirangan, Research Affiliate
| Jan/09 | Sat | 10:00AM-02:00PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Open to Everyone
South Asia will dominate the Anthropocene in several ways: for one, it will have more people than any comparable region in the world, making it the most anthropocentric place in the anthropocene. Second, many of the challenges of this era will arguably surface first in South Asia: conflict over air, water and other natural resources, climate adaptation and migration, human non-human conflict and ideally, new ways of living within our means and with harmony in nature. The South Asian Anthropocene poses theoretical as well as empirical challenges to social scientists and humanities scholars who specialize in the sub-continent. Whether that scholar is an economist, a historian or an anthropologist, s/he will have to grapple with ideas that have traditionally been neglected in their scholarly communities. They will have to expand their horizon to include the non-human world in unprecedented ways; they will also have to create new philosophical and political conceptions for understanding these new developments. This seminar is an attempt to understand the South Asian Anthropocene by bringing together scholars working in the humanities and the social sciences. Our hope is that by exchanging ideas and empirical findings across disciplines, we will be better positioned to understand the future of South Asian societies.
Contact: Rajesh Kasturirangan, 617 253-8024, KASTURI@MIT.EDU
Trip to Japan: The "Kakehashi Project"
Christine Pilcavage, Program Manager, MIT Japan Program
| Jan/18 | Mon | 06:00AM-11:45PM | Japan, Trip is Jan 18-26 |
Enrollment: submit application at URL listed below
Sign-up by 11/06
Limited to 23 participants
Prereq: Enrolled MIT student; US Passport or Permanent Resident Card
Are you currently enrolled as a student at MIT? Do you hold a US Passport or Permanent Resident Card? Do you want to learn more about Japan and Japanese culture? Want to go to Japan during IAP (January 18-26, 2016) for free?
MIT-Japan Program has been selected by the Japanese Government to take part in their "Kakehashi Project".
Go to: http://misti.mit.edu/student-programs/location/japan
And click on "2016 IAP" to find out more and how you can apply.
Hurry, deadline to apply is Friday, November 6.
Sponsor(s): MIT Japan Program, Center for International Studies
Contact: Christine Pilcavage, csp18@mit.edu
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