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Past Seminars

11/12/2009
Frank Talk from a Hospital CEO
Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of the "Running a Hospital" blog
This seminar will take place at Beth Israel conference room
11/10/2009
Linguistics to Politics—the one and only: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor emeritus of linguistics, political activist and prolific book author
This seminar will end at 5:15
11/5/2009
Epidemics: How do they work?
Marc Lipsitch, Professor of epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health
11/3/2009
Preventing Medical Errors: Reforming Medicine
Don Berwick, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health
This seminar will take place at Harvard's Institute for Healthcare Improvement
10/29/2009
On book writing
Robert Kanigel & Phil Hilts,
10/27/2009
Astrophysics: The Hot Heart of the Universe
Paul Schechter, MIT professor of Astrophysics
10/22/2009
Evolution as a dinner-table debate; Real understanding emerges from humor and dialog
Charles Marshall, Harvard Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Curator of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology
10/16/2009
"The Uncle of the Atom Bomb: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up"
K.C. Cole, Long-time science writer for the L.A. Times, and the author of several books, the most recent a memoir/biography of her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, the “uncle” of the atom bomb and the founder of San Francisco’s well-known “museum of awareness”—the Exploratorium
12-2PM
10/15/2009
Robot Cars Compete!
Seth Teller, Professor and co-head of the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group (RVSN) in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Knight Fellows only. This seminar will take place at CSAIL
10/13/2009
Science and the Danger of Denialism
Michael Specter, Science and technology journalist for The New Yorker, and author of the 2009 book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
10/8/2009
No Seminar
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Fellows' field trip to MBL and WHOI in Woods Hole
10/6/2009
How Brains Understand Minds
Rebecca Saxe, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department
10/1/2009
Inventing technology that forces a way for developing countries; Making markets with social sense, and products to exploit it.
William Rodriguez, infectious disease specialist, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
9/29/2009
Blind Children See, and Teach Us Neuroscience
Pawan Sinha, Associate Professor of Vision and Computational Neoroscience at MIT
9/24/2009
Watching Brains Work in Real Time; The Difficulties of Seeing Behavior in Scans, and the Opportunities when Done Right
Nancy Kanwisher, Investigator at the McGovern Institute and Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
This seminar will begin at 3pm