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.