Seminars—Fall 2008

Our regularly scheduled seminars are now on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 4:00–6:00 pm in MIT E19-307, unless otherwise noted.

September 2

Orientation Day
Knight Fellows Only

September 4

"Soundings"
Knight Fellows Only

September 9

"Soundings"
Knight Fellows Only

September 11

Welcome Reception for 2008–09 Knight Fellows,
remarks by Dean Deborah Fitzgerald

September 16

Nancy Kanwisher, MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Topic: brain imaging using functional MRI

September 18

Josh Winn, MIT assistant professor of physics,
Topic: exoplanets

September 23

Edward Lau, superintendent of The MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Topic: introduction to the atom and tour of the reactor
(Knight Fellows only)

September 25

David Mindell, MIT deep sea archaeologist and author of Digital Apollo
Topic TBD

September 30

Max Essex, Harvard AIDS Initiative
Topic: AIDS in Africa

October 2

TBD

October 7

TBD

October 8–10

Field trip to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Marine Biological Laboratory
Knight Fellows only

October 14

No Seminar (Columbus Day)

October 16

TBD

October 21

Robert Weinberg, Whitehead Institute member, and MIT professor of biology
Topic: New insights to how cancer works

October 23

No seminar

October 24–28

NASW annual meeting
no seminar October 28

October 30

Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute professor, Nobel laureate
Topic: RNA interference

November 4

TBD

November 6

TBD

November 11

No seminar due to MIT holiday

November 13

TBD

November 18

Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, MIT professor of environmental studies
Topic: one hour on the world's most abundant organism and one hour on ocean fertilization to slow global warming

November 20

TBD

November 25

No Seminar

November 27

No Seminar (Thanksgiving Day)

December 1–5

Medical Evidence Boot Camp

December 9

TBD

December 11

TBD

December 16

Nuggets from the classrooms: Fellows present findings from their first semester at MIT

December 18

Holiday Party