A Mouse Dancing Between Elephants: MobiTV and the Technology that Married the Wireless and Media Industries

Tuesday, October 30, 4-5p. Phillip Alvelda , MobiTV. MIT: Stata, Star Conf. Rm. (32-D463). Details & Abstract.

A Beginner's Guide to Open Science (not for beginners but by beginners).

Sunday, November 4, 3:30p. Cameron Neylon. MIT: Stata Center (32) 155. Details & Abstract.

Is this blog reaching anyone?

If not, I will discontinue it.

Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers

Monday, November 5, Noon. Jonathan Schaeffer. Chinook. Harvard:Maxwell Dworkin G115. Details & Abstract.

The Physicist in Industry and Other Adventures

Tuesday, November 13, 4p. Ira Farber. Brandeis University: Abelson 131, 415 South Street, Waltham. Details.

An Introduction to Biological Materials

Tuesday, October 30, 4p. Debbie Chachra. Brandeis University, Abelson 131, 415 South Street, Waltham. Details & Abstract.

Mars Phoenix: Following the Water

Thursday, November 15, 7:30p. Rebecca Siddons & Michael Krushinsky will speak. They are one of the pairs of science teachers selected to be part of the Phoenix mission. An Observatory Night. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditorium. 60 Garden St. Details.

Bioscience and the Alteration of Human Limits

Thursday, November 8, 5:15-7:15p. Laurie Zoloth. Reservations required. Harvard Divinity School, Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue. Details.

The Mechanical Cell

Wednesday, November 7, 3:30p. Jane Kondev. Radcliffe Institute, 34 Concord Ave. Details.

Aerodynamics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight

Wednesday, October 31, 3:30p. Jane Wang. Jane Wang Research Group. Radcliffe Institute, 34 Concord Ave. Details.

Musicophilia

Monday, November 5, 7:30p. Oliver Sacks. First Parish Church in Cambridge, 3 Church St. Details.

Dripping Jetting Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics

Thursday, November 1, 5-6p. David Weitz. Background Reading. Harvard: Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. Details.

Scientific Publishing in the Biosciences

Friday, November 9, 1-6p. A forum. Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Walter Amphitheater. Details.

Continental Scale Wind Power: Resources and Production Variations

Tuesday, November 6, 9:30-11a. Juha Kiviluoma. JFK School of Govt., Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369. Details & Abstract.

Our Place in Space

Thursday, November 1, 7p. Meredith Hughes. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Philips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Details.

Social Learning and Traditions in Wild Capuchin Monkeys.

Thursday, November 1, Noon. Susan Perry. The Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Monkey Project. Harvard: Center for the Environment Seminar Rm., Room 310, 24 Oxford St. Details.

The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric CO2 Increase?

Monday, October 29, 4:15p. Inez Fung. Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St. Details & Abstract.

Weather Festival.

Saturday, October 27, 10a-3p. Poster. Among many other events, third grade students at Dexter and Southfield Schools will perform a medley of weather songs. Performance begins at 1:25 in the Clay Center Lecture Hall. Clay Center Observatory, 20 Newton St., Brookline. Details.

Visual Scene Understanding: from 'Agnosia' to 'Photographic memory'

Monday, October 29, 4-5p. Aude Oliva. MIT: 46-3002. Details & Abstract.

The Logic of Biological Networks

Tuesday, October 30, 4-5p. Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck. MIT: Stata Center (32) 141. Details.

Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think

Wednesday, October 31st, 3:30p. Susan Goldin-Meadow. Goldin-Meadow Lab. BU: 64 Cummington St., Rm. 150. Details TK.

Labeling, Discovering, and Detecting Objects in Images

Monday, October 29, 2:45-3:45. Bryan Russell. MIT: Stata Center, Kiva/Patil (32-G449). Details.

Two Easy Classification Tricks To Simplify the Practitioner

Monday, October 29, 4-5p. Ali Rahimi. Supplementary Reading: On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study. MIT: Stata Center, Star Conference Rm. (32-D463). Details. Note time change.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Tuesday, October 23, 5-6p. Steve Pinker will discuss his new book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. Harvard Science Center B. Details.
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New methods for the controlled delivery of tactile stimuli

Tuesday, October 23, 3p. Vincent Hayward . MIT: 46-5056. Details & Abstract.

Computerized Voting Machines

Wednesday, October 24, 2:50-4p. Barbara Simons. Tufts: Halligan 1111. Details & Abstract.

Communicating in Space

Thursday, October 25, 3-4p. Scott Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Lab Optical Communications Group. MIT: 36-428 (Herman Haus Rm.) Details & Abstract.

The Presettlement Forest of the Northeast

Thursday, October 25, 11-Noon. Charlie Cogbill, historical ecologist.
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA. Details.

Caring for Urban Trees

Monday, October 22, 6:30-8:30p. (ie, the trees growing on the strip between the sidewalk and the street). Nina Bassuk. Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway. Details & Abstract.

Song diversity and singing performance: why variable and stereotyped signals coexist

Friday, October 26, 4p. Bruce Byers. Tufts: Barnum 104, Medford Campus . Details.

Healthcare Underwater: The Katrina Experience

Wednesday, October 24, 5:30p. James Aiken, Louisiana State University.
Tosteson Medical Education Center, Countway Library, 260 Longwood Ave. Details.

Synthetic Biology: Cellular and Molecular Engineering

Monday, October 22, 1:30p. George Church, William Shih, and Pam Silver. Harvard Medical School, Goldenson 122, 1st flr., 250 Longwood Ave. Details.

50 Years of Nuturing Science

Friday, November 9, 8:45-5:30p. A symposium marking the 50th Anniversary of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Harvard Medical School, Conference Center. RSVP. Details.

Parallel Architecture and its Role in Cognitive Science

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6p. Ray Jackendorff. MIT: 46-3310. Details.

Visual Scene Understanding: from "Agnosia" to "Photographic memory"

Tuesday, October 30, 4p. Aude Oliva. MIT: 46-3002. Details.

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion

Sunday, November 18, 2p. Loree Griffin Burns. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

¡Descubriendo la Biodiversidad! Learning about Biodiversity!

Sunday, November 4, 2p & 3:15p. Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras, Harvard Herbaria. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

Hidden Diversity

Saturday, November 1, 9:30-Noon. Benjamin Wolfe. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

Ethnobotany: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine.

Tuesday, October 30, 6p. Michael Balick. Background Reading. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St. Details.

The Visual Representation of Natural Scenes

Friday, October 26, Noon. Andrew Hollingworth. MIT: 46-3002, 43 Vassar St. Details.

Genetics of Forebrain Development

Wednesday, October 24, 6p. John Rubenstein. The Rubenstein Lab. MIT: 46-3002, 43 Vassar St. Details.

Timing in the auditory cortex: From synapses to behavior

Monday, October 22, 2p. Tony Zador. MIT: 46-3002. Details.

Pollution and Marine Life

Tuesday, October 16, 7p. Susan Shaw. New England Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab. Details.

A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life

Wednesday, October 31, 7p. J. Craig Venter discusses his A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave. Details.

Fragrence: History, Mystery, and Design

Friday, October 19, 8:30-4p. Speakers. Poster. Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley. Details.

Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club

Saturday, November 10, Event begins at 5p. Chip Taylor, director of Monarch Watch. Potluck, member slides. Massachusetts Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Sanctuary in Worcester. Details.

Saw-whet Owls

Wednesday, October 17, 7-9p. Kathy Clayton-Seymour, Banding Station Manager, Audobon Society. Drumlin Farm, 208 South Great Road, Lincoln. Details.

Physical Views of the Biology, Geology, and Chemistry of Earth’s Carbon Cycle

Wednesday, October 24, 3:30p. Daniel Rothman. The Rothman Lab.
Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, 34 Concord Ave. Details.

Visualizing Ultra-Scale Data

Thursday, October 24, 4p. Kwan-Liu Ma. Initiative in Innovative Computing, 60 Oxford St., Rm 330. Details & Abstract.

Aging and Longevity

Monday, October 15, 6-8p. Mildred Community Center, Mattapan. Details.

Boston's Emerald Necklace: A Walking Tour

Sunday, October 21, 10a-1p. Jim Gorman, Boston Architectural College. Session 1: Park St. T station; Session 2: Back Bay Fens. Details.

Searching for gravitational waves with LIGO

Thursday, October 18, 4:15-5:30. Erik Katsavounidis. MIT: 10-250. Details.

When the Desert was Green

Wednesday, October 17, 4-5p. Farouk El-Baz. MIT: 54-915. Details.

Bioballistics: An Exercise in Scaling

Tuesday, October 16, 1:20-2:00. Steve Vogel. Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Details.

A Repeat of the 1918 Flu Epidemic

Monday, October 15, 4-5p. John Barry, author of The Great Influenza. Stata Center (32) 155. Details.

Optimization Problems in Social Networks

Friday, October 19, 1-2p. David Kempe. MIT: 32-G575. Details.

Bioelectronic Interfaces: The Next Frontier

Wednesday, October 24, 7p. Mark Reed. MIT: Stata Center 32-123. Details.

A Mobile Phone Ecosystem

Thursday, October 18, 7-9p. Jamey Hicks. MIT: E51-325 (Tang Center). Details.

Moving towards a Solar Economy in Massachusetts

Monday, October 22, 6-8p. A panel discussion with representatives of government and industry. RSVP by Friday, Oct. 19. Marriott Copley, 110 Huntington Ave. Details.

MIT Energy Night

Friday, October 12, 5:30-8p. Over forty presenters showcasing MIT research and startups. The MIT Museum. Details.

Modeling Cooperation for First and Second Lives: Suggesting a General Case

Tuesday, October 16, 12:30p. Oliver Goodenough. RSVP required for physical attendance. Event webcasts and remote participation. Podcast audio & video. Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett St., 2nd Floor, Cambridge. Details.

Gambling: face to Face or Interface?

Wednesday, October 17, 7-9p. Ben Mezrich, Natasha Dow Schull, and Maressa Hecht Orzack. MIT: 10-250. Details.

Engagement, Stickiness and Adherence: Keeping users entranced, even when it's for their own good

Wednesday, October 17, 2:50-4p. Timothy Bickmore. Tufts: Halligan 111. Details.

Stream Processing: Efficiency through Locality

Thursday, October 25, 4-5p. William Dally. MIT: Stata Center (32) 123. Details.

A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works

Tuesday, November 6, 4:30p. Pamela Samuelson. MIT: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Rm. (32-G449). Details & Abstract.

Adaptive visual models for finding people (& other objects)

Friday, October 26, 4p. Deva Ramanan. MIT: Stata Center, Star Seminar Rm. (32-D463). Details.

The Many Faces of Chemistry

Sunday, October 21, 1p and 3p. Bassam Shakhashiri. The "Science is Fun" Lab. Museum of Science, Cahners Theater. Details.

Some Recent Research on Lung Cancer Stem Cells

Thursday, November 1, 11a. Carla Kim. Museum of Science, Gordon Current Science & Technology Center. Details.

The Jesuit and the Skull

Tuesday, October 9, 7p. Amir Aczel will read from The Jesuit and the Skull, his book on Teihard de Chardin. Background Reading (Scroll down). Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St. Details.

11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Thursday-Saturday, October 11-13. Hyatt Harborside. Details.

Elevator Pitch Contest

Saturday, October 13, 8:30a-10p. Stata Center. Details.

Improving Human Health through Translational Research

Friday, October 12, 3:30p. Peter S. Kim, President, Merck Research Labs. MIT: Edgerton Hall (34) 101. Details.

Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control

Friday, October 12, 2:15-3:15p. Noami Ehrich Leonard. MIT: 3-370. Details & Abstract.

Tiny Technologies & Medicine

Thursday, October 11, 6p. Sangeeta Bhatia. MIT: Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Rm. 70 Pacific St. Details.

Global Warming from an African Perspective

Wednesday, October 10, 4-5:30p. George Philander. MIT: Wong Auditorium, E51-115. Details.

Exploring subpolar climates with robot Seagliders, high-res numerical simulations, and satellites

Tuesday, October 8, 1-2p. Peter B. Rhines. MIT: 5-324. Details.

How Underwater Vehicle Design is Responding to Current Environmental Issues

Wednesday, November 14, 6p. James Morash. MIT Museum. Details.

New Lessons in Cancer Research

Wednesday, 6p. Jacqueline Lees. MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave. Details.

Life and the Evolution of the Universe.

Wednesday, October 17, 4p. Juan Perez-Mercador, Centro de Astrobiology, Spain. Background Reading. Harvard: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave. Details.

Puzzles and Problems of Ongoing Global Sea Level Change

Thursday, October 11, 4p. Carl Wunsch. Harvard: Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St. Details.

Reproductive conflict, demography, and the evolution of menopause

Thursday, November 1, 4p. Michael Cant. Harvard: Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Bldg. Details.

Into the Cool

Thursday, October 11, 4p. Eric Schneider will discuss his new book "Into the Cool" and the role of thermodynamics on evolution, ecology,economics, and life." Harvard: Main Lecture Hall, BioLabs Building. Details.

Energy Transitions Past and Future

Tuesday, October 9, 5:30p. Cutler Cleveland. Tufts: Mugar 200. Details.

First Meeting of the Boston OSGeo users group

Wednesday, October 17, 7p. MIT Museum, "MIT360" space, 265 Mass. Ave.

More On Three-Dimensional Gravity

Wednesday, October 10, 2-3p. Edward Witten. MIT: 26-100. Details.

Earth System Revolutions: Key Turning Points in the History of our Planet

Tuesday, October 9, 8:30a-6p. The Symposium has three sections: Earth System revolutions in the the past, the present, and the future. MIT: 10-250. Details.

Multi-cellular Logic Circuits

Wednesday, October 10, 2:50-4p. Jonathan Yedidia. Tufts: Halligan 111. Details.

Robotics and the Future of Space Exploration

Monday, October 22, 4-5p. Jeff Norris. Stata Center, Star Conf. Rm. (32-D463). Details & Abstract.

Large-Scale Music Identification: Algorithms and Applications

Friday, October 19, 1:30-2:30p. Eugene Weinstein. MIT: Stata, Star Conference Rm. (32-D463). Details.

Engineering the Revolution: A WPI Robotics Symposium

Tuesday, October 16, 8a-2:30p. Speakers. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Odeum, Campus Center. Details.

A New Field in Communications

Thursday, October 11, 7p. Vladimir M. Stojanovic. Verizon Labs, 40 Sylvan Rd., Waltham. Details & Abstract.

The Next Wave of the Robot Revolution

Wednesday, October 10, 6:15-8p. Keynote by Rod Brooks. Five Other Industry Speakers. MIT: Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, 1st flr., 32 Vassar St. Admission fee. Details.

Demonstrating On-Orbit Robotic Servicing - 136 Days on Orbit With Orbital Express

Friday, October 5, 1-2p. Lt Col Fred G. Kennedy, USAF, DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office. Background Reading. MIT: 35-225. Details & Abstract.

Enabling User Innovation through Improved Design Environments

Fridat, October 5, 2-3p. Scott Klemmer. MIT: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Seminar (32-G440). Details.

The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Thursday, October 4, 7:30p. Harvard: Sanders Theatre. Webcast. Details.

Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Biosocial Origin Theory

Wednesday, October 10, 3:30p. Wendy Wood. Radcliffe Institute: 34 Concord Ave. Details.

Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Prejudice

Wednesday, October 3, 3:30p. Mahzarin R. Banaji. Radcliffe Institute: 34 Concord Ave. Details.

Human Population: Past, or Passing, or To Come

Monday, October 1, 6-7:30p. Joel Cohen . BU: SMG Auditorium, 595 Commonwealth Ave. Details.

Evolution: An Unauthorized Biography of our Symbiotic Planet

Thursday, October 4, 4p. Lynn Margulis. Cabot Intercultural Center, Cabot Auditorium, Medford campus. Details.

Ten Years Since Dolly

Thursday, October 4, 3p. "Ten Years Since Dolly." Ian Wilmut. Seating is limited. Harvard Medical School, Cannon Amphitheatre. Details.

X-Ray Emitting Clusters of Galaxies - How Do They Work and How Can We Use Them?

Thursday, October 11, 4p. Jeremiah P. Ostriker. Harvard Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditoirum, Building D. Details & Abstract.

Dedication of the Kids' Observatory

Thursday, October 4, 7p. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. Details.

The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility

Wednesday, October 24, 6p. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Background Reading. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

On the Verge of Extinction: Saving Iran's Cheetahs

Tuesday, October 9, 6p. Luke Hunter. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

Saturday, October 6, Noon. Kim Todd will discuss her book Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Details.

Symposium on Innovative Computing for the Humanities

Wednesday, October 17, 4p. Digital Audio, Virtual Worlds, Multiverses, online collaboration, text mining, large-scale scanning, Geospatial visualization, etc. Harvard: Barker Center, Thompson Rm. Details.

The Ecology of Arsenic (as summarized in ten 'M's): Murder, Mayhem, Mobilization in Malodorous Mono Muds, Mars, Microbes, and Minimal Methane

Thursday, October 11, 6p. Ron Oremland. Harvard: Microbial Sciences Initiative, 24 Oxford St. Details.

Automated Visualization of Large Datasets Using the Grammar of Graphics Foundation

WEednesday, October 10,

4p. Leland Wilkinson. Initiative in Innovating Computing, 60 Oxford St., Rm. 330, Cambridge. Details & Abstract.

Medical Image Computing: From Data to Understanding

Wednesday, October 3, 4p. Ron Kikinis. Brigham and Women's: Room 403, 60 Oxford St. Details & Abstract.

Estimating the Effect of Overweight on Mortality: Just What Do We Want to Know and How Can We Get To Know It

Wednesday, October 3, 12:30p. James Robins. Harvard School of Public Health: Kresge (Bldg. 3) 502. Details.

Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Limitations of Aggregated Brains

Thursday, October 4, 5-7p. Karim R. Lakhani, Thomas W. Malone,
Alex Pentland. MIT: Bartos Theater, Media lab. Details.

Managing Nuclear Proliferation

Wednesday, October 3, 6-7:15p. Thomas Schelling. Harvard: JFK School of Govt., JFK forum, 79 JFK St. Details.

A structural geologist's view of earthquake ruptures

Tuesday, October 2, 11:30a. Zoe Shipton. Harvard: Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford St. Details.

IP and the trend toward Openness

Wednesday, October 10, 1-6p. British Consulate, 1 Memorial Drive. Reservation required. Details.

Free and Open Source Software and the GPLv3

Tuesday, October 2, 12:30p. James Vasile, Software Freedom Law Center. A Berkman Center Luncheon Series. To attend the lunch, RSVP by noon Monday. For information about event webcasts and remote participation, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/webcast. Podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman. Details.

NVIDIA CUDA Software and GPU Parallel Computing Architecture

Friday, October 5, 12:30. David Kirk. MIT: Stata Center (32), Rm. 155. Details & Abstract.

Alan Lightman on Pulse.

Monday, October 29, 7p. Alan Lightman will discuss the physics behind Pulse, a very scary movie. Coolidge Theatre, 290 Harvard St. Details.

Aeronautics Research at NASA

Friday, October 5, 3:30-5p. Lisa Porter. MIT: 4-163. Details.

Towards a "Perfect" Digital Assistant. Is a change in the personal computing paradigm in the offing?

Wednesday, October 3, 2:50-4p. mc schraefel. Tuft: Halligan 111. Details.

Given/New Information and the Discourse Coherence Problem

Wednesday, October 10, 4-5p. Micha Elsner. MIT: Stata Center, 4th flr. lounge (32-G474A). Details & Abstract.

Gut reactions-how insects eat plants

Thursday, September 27, 5-6 p. May Berenbaum. Tufts: Medford Campus, Barnum 008. Details.

Wildlife fertility control: the state of the art

Tuesday, September 25, Noon-1p. Allen T. Rutberg. Bring your own lunch. Tufts: Grafton Campus, Bernice Barbour Wildlife Medicine Bldg., Wood Conf. Rm. Details.

The Physics of Golf

Tuesday, October 23, 3:30p.     Robert Grober.  
Grober Lab.   BU: Metcalf Science Center (SCI 107)   Details.

The Clean-Up of Boston Harbor

Tuesday, October 9, 5:15p.     Steve Rudnick, Univ. of Massachusetts.  
Discussion will center on a pre-circulated paper.   Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.   Details.

Alt Wheels Festival: Creating a Sustainable Transportation and Energy Vision for the 21st Century

Friday, September 29, 9a-7p, & Sat., 10a-6p. Boston City Hall Plaza. Details.

Penquin Rescue

Tuesday, October 16, 7p.    Dyan DeNapoli.   Northeastern: Marine Science Center, 430 Nahant Rd., Nahant.   Details & Abstract.

The Neuroeconomics of Trust

Wednesday, September 26, Noon-1:30p.     Paul J. Zak.   Boston College: Heights Room, Corcoran Commons.   Details.

Technology-driven Statistics

Tuesday, October 30, 7p.     Terry Speed.   Harvard: Science Center B.   Details & Abstract.

Wearable Technology at the Point-of-Care

Wednesday, October 10, 7p. Paolo Bonato. MIT: 66-110. Details & Abstract.

Marine Structure Inspection Using Autonomous Underwater Robots

Tuesday, 9 October, 6:30p. Franz S. Hover. Tour of the MIT Testing Tank at 7:15. MIT: Sloan Lab (35-225). 127 Mass. Ave., Details & Abstract.

MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace.

Tuesday, October 9, 7p. Nicole Yankelovich. RSVP appreciated. A photo ID is required. Sun Microsystems,1 Network Drive, Burlington. Details & Abstract.

From the Crime Scene to the Court Room

Wednesday, October 10, 7p. John Douglas. Museum of Science. Details.

Galapagos: A Laboratory for Global Marine Conservation

Tuesday, October 9, 7p.     Jack Grove.   New England Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab.   Details.

General meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club

Tuesday, October 9, 7:30p.    Group Photo Pool.   Harvard: MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St.   Details.

The Sounds of Science

Tuesday, September 25, 8p.     Yo La Tengo.   Coolidge Corner Theatre, Moviehouse 1.   Details.

The Genetic Basis for Floral Innovation

Thursday, September 27, Noon-1p.     Elena Kramer.   Kramer Lab.   Harvard: Sherman Fairchild Bldg., Lecture Hall 102, 7 Divinity Ave..   Details.

Mirroring People: Neural Mechanisms for Understanding Others

Monday, September 24, 12:15p.     Marco Iacoboni.   Background Reading.   Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Ave.  
Details.

Physics-Based People Tracking with Simplified Lower-Body Dynamics

Friday, September 28, 4-5p. David Fleet. MIT: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449). Details.

Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.

Tuesday, September 25, 12:30p. Michael Maier, founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing. A Berkman Center Luncheon Series. To attend the lunch, RSVP by Monday. For information about event webcasts and remote participation, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/webcast. Podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman. Details.

Are We Missing Something? Conservation and Biodiversity Prioritisation

Thursday, September 27, 4-5p. David Roberts, Hrdy Fellow, Kew Gardens. Harvard: BioLabs Bldg, 16 Divinity Ave. Main Lecture Hall. Details.

The Global Water Challenge: Resources, Technology, and Institutions

Thursday, September 27, Noon-1p.     John Briscoe, Country Director for Brazil at the World Bank.   Harvard: Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St.   Details.

Technology Innovation in Hydrogen and Fuel Cells & The Clean Energy Consensus

Tuesday, September 25, 6-8:30p. New technology from BTU International/Boston University and CTP Hydrogen and Quantum Dynamics, panel discussion. Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center, 4th flr., 1000 Winter St., Waltham. Details.

Geothermal Energy: Harnessing the Fire Inside

Tuesday, September 25, 5-6p. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of the Republic of Iceland. Harvard: Science Center B, 1 Oxford St. Details.

The origin of continents: links between chemical weathering, igneous processes, and life

Monday, September 24, 4p. Cin-Ty Lee. Harvard: Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St. Details.

Strategies for Modeling the Symptoms of Autism in Mice

Wednesday, September 19, 6p. Jacqueline N. Crawley.
MIT: 46-3002. RSVP requested. Abstract. Details.

The HPV Vaccine: Is It Really a Public Health No-Brainer?

Thursday, September 27, 4-6p. Susan Weller. Boston University Medical Campus, 670 Albany Street, First-floor auditorium. Details.

Hunting the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Monday, October 1, 4:15p. Lisa Tauxe. Harvard: Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street. Details.

Heart Cells from Stem Cells

Wednesday, September 26, 3:30p. Christine Mummery. Radcliffe: 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room. Details.

Development, Evaluation, and Comparison of Prediction Rules Based on a Panel of Biomarkers

Wednesday, September 19, 3:30p.     Tianxi Cai.   Radcliffe Institute: 34 Concord Ave., second-floor Colloquium room.   Details.

Engineering a Renaissance

Thursday, September 20, 1:30p-unknown.    Symposia and talks on the occasion of what is billed as a "Celebration of the Past, Present, and Future & The Launch of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences".   Harvard: Pierce Hall Lawn, 29 Oxford St.   RSVP requested.   Details.

Airplane Boarding

Thursday, September 20, 4-15-5:15p.    Eitan Bachmat.  
MIT: E40-298.   Details & Abstract.

Michelson and the development of modern physics

Thursday, September 27, 4:15p.     Dan Kleppner.   MIT: 10-250.   Details & Abstract.

'Naturalness' in Field Theory, String Theory and Nature.

Thursday, September 20, 4:15p.     Shamit Kachru.   MIT: 10-250.   Details.

On Halting the Sunset: A Perspective on Next-Generation

Tuesday, September 18, 4:15-5:30p.    Daniel N. Miller, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company.   MIT: 31-161.   Details.

Genetic control of the synthesis and assembly of materials

Tuesday, September 18, 4-5p. Angela Belcher. MIT: Stata Center, 32-123. Details.

Phase Transitions and the Perfectness of Fluids

Monday, September 17, 2-3p.     Jiunn-Wei Chen, Nanyang Technological University & MIT.   MIT: 6c-442 (Center for Theoretical Fluids).  
Details.

Skirmishes and Subtexts: Contested Understandings of the Psychology of Women

Wednesday, September 19, 1:30p.   Deborah Belle.   BU: The Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, 648 Beacon Street, Room 608.

Living Systems, Innovative Materials and Technologies

Tuesday, September 25, 6-9p. "Living Systems, Innovative Materials and Technologies." Liat Margollis & Alexander Robinson. Background Reading. Harvard Design School: Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium.
Details.

Life on a Carbon Diet: Improving Our Lifestyles While Fighting Climate Change

Sunday, September 23, 7:30p. William Moomaw. Tufts: Fletcher School, Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington. Details.

Black spruce on the Atkins Diet

Tuesday, September 18, Noon. "Black Spruce on the Atkins Diet: Global warming and the role of Rubisco." Danielle Way, University of Toronto. Harvard: Herbaria Seminar Rm, 22 Divinity Ave. Details.

Ecology.Design.Synergy

Monday, September 17, 6-9p. Matthias Schuler, TransSolar Climate Engineering and Stefan Behnisch, Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart. Harvard: Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium. Details.

A Late Heavy Bombardment on Mars

Wednesday, September 19, 4p. Herbert Frey. Harvard: Bio Lab Lecture Hall 1068, 16 Divinity Ave. Details.

Sustainability Science at Harvard

Friday, September 21, Noon-6p. Sustainability Science Program. Harvard: Bell Hall, 5th flr., Belfer Bldg., Kennedy School of Government. Details.

Behavioral Games on Networks

Tuesday, September 25, Michael Kearns. Stata Center, 32-155. Details.

Living and Working in Space

Friday, September 14, 7-8:30p. Astronaut Sunita Williams of Needham, and Mission Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria. Clay Center Observatory at Dexter and Southfield Schools, 20 Newton Street, Brookline. Registration. Details.

Where Morals Come From

Thursday, September 20, 5:30-7p. Beatriz Luna, John Mikhail, Patrick Byrne, Christopher Moore. MIT: E51, Wong Auditorium. Details.

Sketching and Design for the Wild: Why Programmers Should Return to Kindergarten Rather than Program

Friday, September 20, 1-2p.     Bill Buxton.   MIT: Stata Center, 32-141.   Details.

Drugs from Bugs: Microbial Warfare and Human Medicine

Wednesday, October 10, 8p. Background Reading. Michael A. Fischbach, Harvard Medical School. Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall D. Details.

The Transition to Standards Based Platforms in the Telecom Industry

Thursday, September 20, 7p. John Fryer, Director of Technology Marketing, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola, Inc. Verizon Labs, 40 Sylvan Rd., Waltham. Details & Abstract.

Nylon Degradation

Monday, September 10, 12:15p. Rick Trask. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MC&G Dept., Clark 507. Details.

Ovarian Cancer: Where are we now?

Tuesday, September 25, 7p. Colleen Feltmate. Emerson Hospital, North assembly Room A & B. Details.

Topology Versus Time in Scientific Visualization

Wednesday, September 19, 2:50-4p. Tom Peters. Tufts: Halligan 111. Details.

Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector

September 11, 9:30-11a. Kelly Sims Gallagher and Gustavo Collantes. Energy Technology Innovation Policy. Harvard, JFK School, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369. Details.

Reducing the 'Irreducible' Complexity of The Bacterial Flagellum

Tuesday, September 11, 12:30-1:30p.    Kelly Hughes.   HMS: Micrrobiology Seminar Room, Warren Alpert 341, 200 Longwood Ave.   Details.

50 Years of the Space Age

Thursday, October 18, 7:30p. Jonathan McDowell. A Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observing Night. Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Details.

MicroObservatory:A Quarter Million Customers Served

Thuirsday, September 20, 7:30p. Ray Gould, Center for Astrophysics. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Details.

2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports

Saturday, September 29, 8:45-5:30. Schedule of Presentations. Oral and Poster Abstracts. Harvard University: Science Center C. Details.

Everything's Cool

Monday, September 24, 7pm. A Coolidge Corner Science on Screen event. After a screening of "Everything's Cool", there will be a Q&A session with Adam Wolfensohn, co-producer of Everything’s Cool; Ross Gelbspan, veteran journalist and bestselling author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point; and Beth Daley, environmental reporter for The Boston Globe. Kathleen Frith, Assistant Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, will moderate. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St. Details.

Securing Vehicular Communications

Monday, September 24, 4-5p.     Panagiotis Papadimitratos.   MIT: Stata Center, 32-D463.   Details.

De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge

12:30p. Peter Galison. Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St.   Details.

Regeneration in Biology and Medicine

Monday, Oct 1, 8a-5:15p. A symposium on "Regeneration in Biology and Medicine." Speakers include: Harry (Hal) Dietz, Kevin Eggan, Fred Gage, Robert Langer, Freda Miller, Kenneth Poss, Peter Reddien, Amy Wagers. MIT: Kresge Auditorium. Details.

Visual System Development: Assembling the pieces of the puzzle

Tuesday, September 11, 4-5p. Holly Cline. MIT: 46-3002. Details.

Artificial Real Life

Monday, September 10, 7p. Jason Kelly. OpenWetWare.   Details.

Evolution on Tropical Islands

Tuesday, September 18, 6p. Jonathan B. Losos. Losos Lab. Harvard: Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St. Details.

Leaves of Change

Sunday, Septembe 23, 2p. John O'Keefe, Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest. Background Reading. Harvard Museum of Natural History. 26 Oxford St. Details.

Looking at Animals

Friday and Saturday, September 28 (3p) and 29th (11a).
Henry Horenstein. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Please RSVP. Details.

Opening of the MT Museum's Innovation Gallery

Saturday and Sunday, September 29 and 30, 10a-4p. The MIT Museum celebrates the opening of the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery Music, talks, theatre, demos, juggling, and juggling classes. MIT Museum, 265 Mass Ave. Details.

New Technologies for the Developing World

Wednesday, Oct 10, 6p. Amy Smith and students. Background Reading. MIT Museum, Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. Details.

Complexity Metrics

Friday, September 7, 1:30p. John Hale. MIT : 46-3189. Details.

Social Intelligence

Wednesday, September 12, 6-7:30p. Daniel Goleman. MIT: W79, Simmons Hall, MPR (229 Vassar St.) Details.

The Emotion Machine

Wednesday, September 12, 3:15-4:30p. Marvin Minsky. Background Reading. MIT: Stata Center (32G-449). Details.

The Future of Biofuels

Sunday, Sept. 23, 12:30 & 2:30p.     Daniel Cohn, senior research scientist, MIT.   Background Reading.   Museum of Science, Gordon Center.   Details.

Renewable Energy Solutions

Saturday, Sept. 22, 12:30 & 2:30p. Tom Michelman. Museum of Science, Gordon Center. Details.

The Future of Nuclear Energy

Sunday, Sept. 16, 12:30 & 2:30p. Andrew Kadak. Museum of Science, Gordon Current Science and Technology Center. Details.

Trapping Carbom

Saturday, Sept. 15, 2:30p.     T.S. Ramakrishnan, Schlumberger-Doll research scientist.   Museum of Science, Gordon Current Science and Technology Center.   Details.

Solar Design

Saturday, Sept. 8, 11a & 2:30p.   Luke McKneally, architect, of Solar Design.   Museum of Science. Details.

Swimming with Dolphins

Tuesday, Sept. 18, 7p. "Swimming with Dolphins." Jonathan Bird. Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab. Details.

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7-8:30p. Stephen Pinker on his new book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.   Boston University Bookstore, The Reading Room, Fifth flr.   Details.

Boston Mineral Club -- Show and Tell

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 7:30p.   Boston Mineral Club.   Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St.   Details.

Botswana's Unspoiled Wilderness

Wednesday, Sept. 5, 7:30-8:30p.    Paul Kaplan, naturalist and photographer.   Joppa Flats Education Center, 1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport.   Details.

The Future of Transportation in Massachusetts

Friday, September 15, 8-11a. Joseph Giglio, Bernard Cohen, Coby Chase, Paul Haley, Senior Vice President of Lehman Brothers, Fred Salvucci, and Martin Capper, President of the IVHAS Division of MARKIV Industries. RSVP by Friday September 7. Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St. Details.

Entropy and Temperature of Granular Matter

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 4p. Bulbul Chakraborty. Background Reading. Brandeis University, Abelson 131, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA. Details.

Trends in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Drug Discovery

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7p.   Dan Marshak, Chief Scientific Officer, Perkin Elmer, Inc. MIT: 66-110. Details and Abstract.

Robots: Exercise Equipment for the New Gymnasium

Tuesday, September 11, 6:30p. Michael Bastoni, Gears Educational Systems, LLC. Franklin Olin College, Olin Way, Needham. Details and Abstract.

Neural Networks and Circular Data in Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Wednesday, September 5, 6p. Frederick Chen, MIT Lincoln Lab.
MIT Lincoln Lab, Cafeteria, 244 Wood St., Lexington. Details and Abstract.

Belfer Center's Managing the Atom Project

Tuesday, September 18, 9:30-11a. John P. Holdren. Project Website. Harvard: JFK School of Govt., Belfer Library. Details.

The Black Hole Experiment Gallery

Thursday, September 20, 7:30p. Roy Gould, Center for Astrophysics. Lecture by Gould on physics. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Details.

Available potential energy in a moist atmosphere

Monday, Sept. 10, Noon. Olivier Paulus. MIT : 54-915. Details.

Cellulose Ethanol: Gateway to a New Industry

Friday, September 7, 3-4p. Michael Ladisch. MIT: 66-110. Poster. Details.

Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Materials from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics

Friday, September 7, 12:30-1p. Brandon Wood. MIT: Stata Center, 32-155. Abstract. Details.

The Next Great Particle Accelerator: The International Linear Collider

Thursday, Sept. 6, 4:15p. Barry Barish. MIT: 10-250. Details.

Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Thursday, Sept. 6, 4-5p. Steven W. Squyres. MIT: 54-915. Details.

Energy 101 (Energy Overview)

Wednesday, September 5, 6-7p. Daniel Enderton, James Schwartz, Justin Anderson, Kristian Bodek. An MIT Energy Club Event. MIT: R&D Pub, Stata Center (32-410). Details and References/Resources.

The Science of Race, Sex, and Gender

Tuesday, September 4, 3-5p. A multimedia presentation and community discussion. MIT: 3-270. Details.

Who Killed Health Care?

Tuesday, September 25, 5:30-8:30p. Regina Herzlinger. Harvard Medical School: Conference Center, Ground Floor Lobby, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur. Details.

Artificial Real Life

Monday, Sept. 10, 7p. Jason Kelly. OpenWetWare. Details.

Computational Models of the Human Body for Medical Image Analysis

Friday, September 7, 2-3p. Nicholas Ayache. The Asclepios Project. MIT: Stata Center (32-D507). Details & Abstract.

The Crack at the Top of the World - A New Kind of Seafloor Spreading

Tuesday, August 28, 2:30p. Henry Dick. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium. Details.

Nanofabrication Technology: A view of the Future

Thursday, August 30, 7p. Grant Willson. Willson Research Group. MIT: Stata Center, 32-123. Details.

Programmed Cell Death and the Multicellular Nature of Bacterial Populations

Thursday, Spetember 6, 6p.   Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel.   Harvard: Center for the Environment, 3rd flr., 24 Oxford St.   Details.

Ocean Informatics: In Theory and in Practice

Friday, August 24, 3:30p. Karen Baker. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Carriage House. Details.

Ice Science Photography

Tuesday, August 21, 2:30p.   Chris Linder, WHOI.   Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium.   Details.

A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands

Tuesday, September 4, 7p.  Mary Edna Fraser and Orrin Pilkey.   Boston Aquarium, Harborside Learning Lab.   Details.

Mongolia: The Last Wilderness Nation.

Wednesday, August 22, 7:30-8:30p. Chris Leahy, Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Newburyport.  Details.

Introduction to Butterflying

Tuesday, August 21, 10-Noon. Dorothy Saffarewich, Naturalist; Sharon Stichter, Editor of Massachusetts Butterflies. Background Reading. Massachusetts Butterfly Club. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport. Details.

Diagnosis and treatment of arthritis in the 21st century

Tuesday, September 18, 7p. Alan Marks. Emerson Hospital, North Assembly Room A, Concord. Details.

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: A Paradigm Shift to Save Our Declining Oceans

Thursday, August 16, 4p. Elliott Norse. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Redfield Auditorium. Details.

Book Club for the Curious

Thursday, September 20, 6p. The Science Museum's book club will discuss In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall. Science Museum, Lyman Library, Green Wing, Level 3. Details.

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Wednesday, September 5, 7p. Maryanne Wolf. Tufts Center for Reading and Language Research. Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge. Details.

Cape Wind

Thursday, September 6, 7p. Excerpt. Robert Whitcomb and Wendy Williams. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. Details.

The Brain and Written Language

Friday, September 7, 7p. Maryanne Wolf. The Center for Reading and Language Research. Borders bookstore, Back Bay, 511 Boylston St. Details.

Project ASTRO Summer Workshop

Monday and Tuesday, August 20 & 21. From 9a. Project ASTRO links professional and amateur astronomers with local teachers. Museum of Science. Details.

Identifying Late-Season Weeds.

Wednesday, August 29, 9a-4p. Randy Prostak. Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley. Details. (Click on Classes and Courses.)

Snap, Crackle, Pop! How the Greenland Ice Sheet Gobbles Its Meltwater

Tuesday, August 14, 2:30. Sarah Das. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Exhibit Center Auditorium. Details.

SWAPFEST

Sunday, August 19, 91-2p.   MIT's monthly high-tech, computer, electronics and ham radio flea market. In the Albany St. Garage and adjacent lot, on Albany St. between Mass. Ave. and Main St., Cambridge. Details.

The Surface Science of ITER

Friday, August 17, 3-4p. Aart W. Kleyn, Director, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics, Rijnhuizen. MIT: NW17-218. Details & Abstract.

Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies

Wednesday, August 15, 6-7p. Dave Miller, General Partner, Clean Energy Venture Group. Background Reading. MIT: E51-145. Details.

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

Monday, August 6, 3p. Kerry Emanuel. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Clark 507. Details.

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

Friday, September 28, 7p. Spencer Wells. Museum of Science. Details.

Butterflies and Blossoms

Saturday, August 18, 11-3p. Programs will focus on field identification, life cycles, host plants, and migration patterns. Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary. Details.

Autonomy for Sensor-Rich Vehicles.

Tuesday, August 7, 11am. Gabriel Hoffmann. Background Reading. MIT: Stata Center, Star Conference Rm (32-D677). Details.

DNA Binding Economies

Monday, August 6, 3-5p. Luis Pérez-Breva. Thesis Defense.
MIT: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Seminar Rm. (32-G449). Details.

Learning by Learning to Communicate

Wednesday, August 8, 3-4p. Jacob Beal. MIT: Stata Center, Star (32-D463). Details.

Climate Change at the Ends of the Earth

Tuesday, July 31, 2:30p. Karen Bice. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Details.

Soccerbot VII: Vie for Glory

Saturday, August 25, Noon-2p. MIT mechanical engineering students and their soccer-playing robots. Museum of Science. Details.

Chemistry in Action: Health and Wellness

Sunday, August 19, 11-1p. Hosted in collaboration with the American Chemical Society. ACS's website for children. Museum of Science. Details.

Solar: Silicon vs. Thin-Film.

Wednesday, August 1, 6-7p. Eerik Hantsoo, team leader, Stanford Solar Car project. Background Reading. Muddy Charles Pub. Details.

Why Dump Iron in the Ocean?

Monday, July 30, 3:40p. Ken Buesseler. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Details.

Estimation of Neural Dynamics in Brain-Machine Systems

Thursday, July 26, 12:30-1:30p.  Michael Kositsky.   Tufts: Halligan 111a.   Details.

Interdisciplinary Computer Visualization: Recent Tools, Experiments

Tuesday, July 24, 12:30-1:30p.  Daniel Keefe.   Tufts: Halligan 111A.   Details & Abstract.

Mechanisms of Microbial Competition

Tuesday, July 31, Noon.   Jeffrey N. Weiser.   Tufts: Boston Campus, Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications, DeBlois A Auditorium.   Details.

The Secret Life of Gulls: Top Predators, Ecosystem Engineers, and Pathogen Reservoirs

Tuesday, July 24, Noon. Julie C. Ellis.   Seabird Ecological Assessment Network.   Tufts: Grafton Campus, Bernice Barbour Wildlife Medicine Rm. Wood Conference Rm.   Details.

Greening the Supply and Purchasing Chain

Friday, August 10, 9-3:30p.   Harvard: Forum Room, Lamont Library. 
Details.

Neural Control for Stroke Intervention

Tuesday, July 24, 4-6p. MIT:46-2002. Charles Jennings, Steven Schacter, Emilio Bizzi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone. Details.

Neurotechnology: Translating Basic Discoveries into Clinical Promise

July 31, 4p. John Gabrieli Gottfried Schlaug. Music in the Brain website. MIT: Rm 3002, 3rd Flr., Atrium, Bldg 46, 43 Vassar St. Details.

Gap Junctions and the Heart

Tuesday, July 17, 4-5p. David Gutstein. Children's Hospital, Enders Auditoirum. Details.

Biomonitoring

Wednesday, July 25, 7:30a-4:30p.   "Biomonitoring: The Challenges of Human Exposure Assessment." Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham. Details.

Gibson:Spook Country

Monday, August 20, 6pm. William Gibson reads from and discusses his new book, Spook Country. Coolidge Corner Theatre. Details.

Tide Pooling and Coastal Explorations at Eastern Point

Saturday, July 21, 9:30-Noon. Sukey Padawer, marine biologist. Registration required. Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary, Gloucester. Details.

Sand Dune Stability and Climate Change

Tuesday, July 17, 3-4p. Yossi Ashkenazi. Paper. Harvard University Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford St. Details and Abstract.

Social Determinates of Placebo Effects

Thursday, July 19, 4p. Lisa Conboy. Harvard: Osher Institute, Landmark Bldg., 401 Park Drive.
Details.

Human-Robot interaction

Thursday, July 26, 3:30-5:30p. Guy Hoffman. Thesis Defense. Robot Desk Lamp. MIT: Bartos Theatre, Media Lab. Details and Abstract.

Appropriate Technology

Tuesday, July 31, 6:30.

6:30p. A panel dicussion of appropriate technology. Presenters will include Peter Haas, of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, Sandy Pentland of the Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship, Tim Prestero of Design that Matters, and Amy Smith of D-Lab. MIT: Stata Center (32) 123. Details.

Jock Brandis

Wednesday, July 18, 7:30p. Jock Brandis, inventor of the Full Belly Project peanut sheller will lead a discussion of appropriate technology challenges. A documentary about a device that he developed for shelling peanuts in Mali will be shown. MIT: 66-110. Details.

Affordable Design

Monday, July 18, 11:30-12:30p. Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises, will speak about the "affordability" design revolution needed to end world poverty.  MIT: 66-110. Details.

Energy Needs

Tuesday, July 17, 7:30-9p. Shawn Frayne, inventor, and
Peter Girguis, will demo energy-related inventions. Girguis Lab.
Background reading. MIT: 66-110. Details.

Bio-inspired Adaptive Systems

Friday, July 13, 2p. Astrid Zeman. NECSI, 24 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge. Details.

Modeling the Expressivity of Input Text Semantics for Text-to-Audiovisual Synthesis in a Chinese-speaking Avatar

Wednesday, July 18, 3-4p. Helen Meng. MIT: Stata Center, Star Conference Room (32-D463).  Details.

Boston Biotech July Meeetup

Thursday, July 12, 6p. The Squealing Pig, 134 Smith Street, Boston. Details.

Wind Energy

Wednesday, August 8, 7-8p. A panel will present and discuss the factors at play in wind energy projects, including Cape Wind.  Registration required.  Museum of Science.  Details.

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps

6p. The Museum of Science's "Book Club for the Curious" will discuss
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps, by Peter Louis Galison. Museum of Science, Lyman Library, Green Wing, Level 3. Details.

Spook Country

Sunday, August 19, 6p. William Gibson reads from and discusses his new book, Spook Country. Brattle Theatre. Details.

Faith, Mathematics, and Science

Wednesday, July 18. 9-5p.

9a. Pedro Suarez, “Faith and Science, Can They Work Together?”

10:15am. Paul Schweitzer, S.J., Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, “The Invisible Link between Mathematics and Theology.”

11:30a. Barbara Reynolds, “Mathematics in the Franciscan Tradition".

2:30p. Thomas Banchoff, “Four-Dimensional Geometry and the Theology of
Salvador Dali.”

4p. Kenneth Miller “Fides, Ratio et Darwin: The True Design of Life.”

BC: Fulton Hall 511.
Details.

Organelles of Power

6-7p. Vamsi Mootha. MIT: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. Details.

Cancer: Divide and Conquer

6-7p. Todd Golub. MIT: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. Details.

Historical Clues from our Genome

6-7p. Pardis Sabeti. MIT: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. Details.

6-7p. "Comparative genomics and evolution." David Reich. MIT: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. Details.

Mobile and Sociable Robots

Thursday, July 26, 6-9:30p. Panelists include: Joseph Jones, Cory Kidd, William Kennedy, and Christopher Wallsmith, CTO, BlueFin Robotics. MIT Museum, "Robots and Beyond" gallery, 265 Massachusetts Ave. Details.

Underwater Vision

Friday, July 13, 11-Noon. "Underwater Vision: From optical imaging and its applications in 2D and 3D mapping, to opti-acoustic stereo imaging as a new paradigm in 3D reconstruction."
Shahriar Negahdaripour. MIT: Stata Center (32) 397. Details & Abstract.

Embryogenesis.

Wednesday, July 11, 7p. M. William Lensch. A meeting of the Greythumb Society. The Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant (350 Mass. Ave, Central Square). Details.

Stem Cell Science: 2007 Professional Development for Science Teachers

July 9, Monday. Harvard Stem Cell Institute, 2nd floor conference room, 42 Church Street, Cambridge.
Details.

Component-Based Software Engineering.

July 9 - 11. A symposium. Tufts University, South Hall. Details.

Plug-In Hybrids

Wednesday, July 25, 6-7. Matt Kromer. Background Reading. Muddy Charles Pub, Building 50, 142 Memorial Dr. Details.

Innovations for Mitigating Carbon Emissions.

Monday, July 9, 6-7p. M. Rashid Khan - Intellectual Assets & Technology Management, Saudi Aramco. MIT: E51-145. Details.

Robots, Robots, Robots

Monday, July 9 - Friday, July 13. FIRST Discoveries Summer Science Day Camps. Ages 11-15. Details.

Deciphering Cortical Electrophysiological Signals and their Applications for Brain-Body Interfaces.

Tuesday, July 10, 4-6p. Christopher Moore and Leigh Hochberg. Moore Lab. MIT: McGovern Institute, 43 Vassar Street, (46-3002 (3rd Floor, Atrium Level, Building 46). Details.

Proteins: From Birth to Death

Saturday, July 21 to Wednesday, July 25. A symposium of the
Protein Society. Boston Marriott, Copley Place, Boston. Details.

How do Dolphins Communicate

Thursday, July 26, 1p and 3p. Kathleen Dudzinski. Dolphin Communication Project.
Museum of Science, Gordon stage. Details.

The Navy of the Future

Tuesday, July 3, 3p. Paul Sullivan. Museum of Science, Cahners Theatre.
Details and Abstract.

Cadavers I have Known

Tuesday, July 24th, 7p. Christine Montross will discuss and read from Body of Work, a memoir of her anatomical studies and the cadavers she has known. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. Details.

Self-organizing traffic lights

Friday, June 29, 2p. Carlos Gershenson.   NECSI, 24 Mt. Auburn St.   Details and Abstract.

Remaking American Medicine: Health Care for the 21st Century

A Series. First Do Harm: Tuesday, June 26; The Stealth Epidemic:
Wednesday, June 27; Hand in Hand: Thursday, June 28.   Kessler Health Education Library, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA.  Details.

The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything

Tuesday, July 10, 6:30p. Gordy Slack discusses his book: The Battle Over
the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave.  Details.

4th annual Barnstable Butterfly Count

Saturday, July 28, 9AM-6PM.   Alison Robb, Director, Nature Circle;
Ian Ives, Director,
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary.   Registration required.
Long Pasture Visitor Center, 345 Bone Hill Rd., Cummaquid, MA.   Details.

Good Birders Don't Wear White

Thursday, July 12, 6p.   Lecture and booksigning by Peter Alden and Robert Braunfield.   Harvard Museum of Natural History, 60 Garden St.   Details.

The First Steps of Star Formation

Thursday, June 28, 4p.  Erik Rosolowsky.   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St.   Details.

What Influences Crude Oil and Gasoline Prices?

Wednesday, June 27, 6-7p. An MIT Energy Club Discussion. Key documents are distributed before each discussion. Discussion moderated by discussion leader. Details.

On the development of cybernetic hands for perception and action

Monday, June 25, 3:30-4:40p. Maria Chiara Carrozza. MIT: 3-133. Details and abstract.

One Laptop per Child - Education and Development Group

Monday, June 25, 5:30p.   Berkman Center Conference Room,
23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge, MA.
Details.

Experience with Markov Logic Networks in a Large AI System.

Monday, July 16, 2-3p.  Thomas G. Dietterich.   MIT: Stata Center, Kiva (32-G449).  
Details.

Globalization of Health Care

Thursday, June 21, 5:30-6:30p.   Registration required. (See Details) 
Harvard Medical School:New Research Building, Amphitheatre, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur.   Details.

Universal Healthcare: A Report Card

Tuesday, June 19, 6p-9p. Moderated by Michael Dukakis. Registration required.   Details.

Socialization on Social Network Sites

Tuesday, June 19, 12:30p. danah boyd.   boyd's Blog.   Webcasts and remote participation.   Podcast audio & video.   Lunch provided to those who RSVP by Monday.   Harvard: JFK School, Berkman Center, Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge.   Details.

Thursday Blog Discussion Group

Thursday, June 21, 7p. Thursday Blog Discussion Group. Harvard:Kennedy School, Berkman Center, Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge. Details

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology in Health and Healing

Monday, June 18, 7-9p.   Museum of Science.   Details.

InvenTeams Odyssey Showcase

9:30a-11a. MIT: Stata Center Student Street. Details.

SWAPFEST

9a-2p. MIT: N4, Albany St. Garage and Lot. Swapfest website. Details.

Trajectories of child and family functioning among families raising a child with ASD

6-8p.   Alice Carter.   MGH: Simches Bldg., Rm 3110, 185 Cambridge St. (Charles River Plaza).   Details.

New Media Lab Bldg.

2-3p. Town meeting to discuss construction of a new Media Lab and School of Architecture + Planning building. MIT:E25-117. Background.   Details.

Non-Profits and Open Source

Friday, 8:30a-5p., "Penguin Day". National Penguin Day website.  
Details.
Saturday, 8:30a-6:30p.   "Grassroots Use of Technology".
Details.
Both events are at UMass, Lowell Campus.   The Saturday event is in the Wannalannclt Bldg.  

The Influence of Genetic Ancestry on Complex Traits and Disease

Wednesday, June 13, 12p.  
Rick Kittles 
Harvard Medical School: New Research Bldg. 350, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur.  
Details.

Computational Biology of Cancer Pathways

Tuesday, June 12, 4p.  
Chris Sandler, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute.  
Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Jimmy Fund Auditorium.  
Details.

Methods in Bioengineering

Thursday, July 12, 8:30a-7:30p; Friday, July 13, 7:30a-12:40p.  
MIT: Kresge Auditorium.  
Details.

Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots

Monday June 11, 10-11a.
Paulina Varshavskaya.
Distributed Robotics Lab
Background Reading
MIT: Stata, Star Conference Rm. (32-D463).  
Details.