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.