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Past Seminars

4/24/2012
The Science and the Engineering of Intelligence: the Coming Golden Age
Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences co-director of CBCL, MIT.
Please note: Fellows only! Arrive at Knight office at 3:15pm for 3:30pm start at Poggio's Lab.
4/19/2012
Critical Materials: Geology, Technology, and Policy
Krystyn Van Vliet, Deparment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
4/17/2012
Peter Galison
Peter Galison, Harvard University.
4/12/2012
Conversation with Janet Silver
Janet Silver, Literary Director, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth.
4/10/2012
Reporting about the Net in the Past and in the Future
John Markoff, New York Times
4/5/2012
Adapting Journalism to the Web: Experiments and Ordeals on the News Frontier
Jay Rosen, New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, with discussant, Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the Media Lab.
Please note: 5:00pm to 7:00pm; room E14-633.
4/3/2012
Ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
Brendan Foley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
3/22/2012
Connectomics
Jeffrey Lichtman, Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard.
Please note: Fellows only! Meet at 52 Oxford St., Lichtman's Lab, Northwest Building, Harvard.
3/20/2012
Rebooting Africa: The Power of Innovation in Economic Growth
Calestuous Juma, Harvard University.
Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm
3/16/2012
Special Lunch Seminar
Jonathan Weiner, Author, Long for This World.
Meet in E19-623, 12:00pm - 2:30pm.
3/15/2012
Genetic evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
David Reich, Genetecist and Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm
3/13/2012
Climate Change: The Solid... And the Surprises?
Richard Alley, Penn State.
VIA SKYPE
3/8/2012
Strange new worlds
Ray Jayawardhana, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, University of Toronto; author of "Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System"
Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm
3/6/2012
Broad Institute Tour
David Altshuler, endocrinologist and human geneticist, Broad Institute.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:15pm. Knight Fellows only.
3/1/2012
Using free Google tools efficiently
Rebecca Shapely, Google Product Manager, by video conference.
Knight Fellows only.