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Seminars—Spring 2012

Our regularly scheduled seminars are on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 4:00–6:00 pm in MIT E19-623, unless otherwise noted. With the exception of those marked "Fellows Only," our seminars are open to guests.

 

logoJanuary 31

Special Event - Energy, the Media and You: Behind the Scenes with Top Science Reporters
4:00p–5:30p in room 4-237
**Registration required - Open to MIT-only**
Register by 1/27 at: http://bit.ly/zqkY9X
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, Knight Science Journalism Program, STS
For more information, contact: Jennifer DiMase at jdimase@mit.edu.


 

 

logoFebruary 2

Overview and tour of new David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Robert Urban, Executive Director, Koch Institute.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:45pm. Knight Fellows only.


 

 

WeinbergFebruary 7

How cancer becomes aggressive
Robert Weinberg, Professor of biology at MIT and member of Whitehead Institute.


 

 

ApsellFebruary 9

The art of science television
Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, Nova; Director, WGBH Science Unit. PLEASE NOTE: the seminar will begin at 4:30pm, not 4pm as previously stated.


 

 

sharpFebruary 14

New science RNA silencing-future science convergence
Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Please note: start time for this seminar is 3:30pm!


 

 

logoFebruary 16

No seminar


 

logoFebruary 21

No seminar.


 

 

KanwisherFebruary 23

Functional specificity in the human brain

Nancy Kanwisher, Investigator at the McGovern Institute and Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm


 

ChomskyFebruary 28

Linguistics and politics
Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor emeritus of linguistics, political activist and prolific book author.
Please note: start time for this seminar is 3:30pm!
Meet in E51-095!


 

 

logoMarch 1

Using free Google tools efficiently
Rebecca Shapely, Googel Product Manager, by video conference.
Knight Fellows only.


 

 

AltshulerMarch 6

Broad Institute Tour
David Altshuler, endocrinologist and human geneticist, Broad Institute.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:15pm. Knight Fellows only.


 

 

JayawardharaMarch 8

Strange new worlds
Ray Jayawardhana,Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, University of Toronto; author of "Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System"

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm


 

 

logoMarch 13

Climate Change: The Solid... And the Surprises?
Richard Alley VIA SKYPE, Penn State.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm


 

 

ReichMarch 15

Genetic evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
David Reich, Genetecist and Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm


 

 

logoMarch 16

Special Lunch Seminar
Jonathan Weiner, Author, Long for This World.
Meet in E19-623, 12:00pm - 2:30pm.


 

 

JumaMarch 20

Good News from Africa: The Power of Innovation in Economic Growth
Calestuous Juma, Harvard University.
Prof. Juma's talk will be based on his book
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm.


 

 

LitchmanMarch 22

Connectomics
Jeffrey Lichtman, Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard.
Please note: Fellows only! Meet at 52 Oxford St., Lichtman's Lab, Northwest Building, Harvard.


 

Food Boot CampMarch 27 and 29


No seminar: Food Boot Camp


 

 

logoApril 3

Ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
Brendan Foley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm.


 

 

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Adapting Journalism to the Web: Experiments and Ordeals on the News Frontier
Jay Rosen, New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, with discussant, Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the Media Lab.

With co-sponsorship from MIT's Center for Civic Media, Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.

Please note: 5:00pm to 7:00pm; room E14-633.


 

markoffApril 10

Reporting about the Net in the Past and in the Future
John Markoff, New York Times.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:45pm.


 

silverApril 12

Conversation with Janet Silver, Literary Director, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm.


 

 

logoApril 17

Peter Galison, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University.


 

 

Van VlietApril 19

Critical Materials: Geology, Technology, and Policy
Krystyn Van Vliet, Deparment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.


 

 

logoApril 24

The Science and the Engineering of Intelligence: the Coming Golden Age
Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences co-director of CBCL, MIT.
Please note: Fellows only!
Arrive at Knight office at 3:15pm for 3:30pm start at Poggio's Lab.


 

 

canizaresApril 26

The Chandra space telecope and tour of the control center
Claude Canizares, MIT Professor of Physics, and Associate Director for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center.
Please note: Fellows only!
Arrive at Knight office at 3:15pm for 3:30pm start at Chandra Center.


 

 

logoMay 1

Farish Jenkins, MCZ tour.
Knight Fellows only!



 

 

MaesMay 3

Why do we still use a keyboard and mouse to interact with digital information?
Pattie Maes, Associate Professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Lab.
Please note: Fellows only!
Arrive at Knight office at 3:15pm for 3:30pm start at Maes's lab.


 

 

logoMay 8

Steven Shapin, Harvard University.


 

 

MaesMay 10

**SEMINAR CANCELLED**

Addiction by design
Natasha Schull, Cultural Anthropologist with MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society.


 

 

logoMay 15

No Seminar