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Past Seminars

5/7/2013
Thinking Outside of the Computer Box
Dr. Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory
Fellows only seminar starts at 4pm in Media Lab
5/2/2013
"Pinterest? Do I really have to join Pinterest?" Managing a Career in Science Writing in a Social Media World
Carl Zimmer, Writer
4/25/2013
The Art of Science Television
Paula Apsell, Director, WGBH Science Unit
4/9/2013
The Rise of the Right in America
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics
Seminar will take place in E51-095
4/4/2013
The promise of Convergence in life science
Phil Sharp, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
4/2/2013
Knight Seminar
Robert Weinberg, Professor of Biology, MIT
3/21/2013
Tour of the Chandra x-ray observatory control center
Claude Canizares, Professor of Physics, MIT
FELLOWS ONLY
3/19/2013
Archaeology in Deep Water
Brendan Foley, Research Specialist Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
3/14/2013
Connectomics: What, Why and How
Jeff Lichtman, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Location: Harvard. Northwest Lab Room 243
3/12/2013
Knight Seminar
Janet Silver, Literary Director of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth
3/5/2013
Why Exercise Really is Medicine: An Evolutionary Perspective
Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Seminar will take place at Harvard Peabody 52H
2/28/2013
How cooking made us human
Richard Wrangham, Ruth B. Moore Prof. of Biological Anthropology
Seminar will take place at Harvard Peabody 52H
2/26/2013
Climate Change and What it Means for Extreme Weather
Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT
2/21/2013
Why smart computers can't pass the Turing test...yet
Patrick Winston, Professor, CSAIL at MIT
2/14/2013
Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Discovery of the First Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Controlled, Drug Delivery Systems and the Foundation of Tissue Engineering
Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT