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Past Seminars

9/22/2011
Gauging Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
Charles Marshall, Director, Museum of Paleontology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
9/20/2011
MIT Nuclear Reactor Tour
Ed Lau, Assitant Director of Reactor Operations, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, MIT
KNIGHT FELLOWS ONLY
9/15/2011
How Social Networks Shape Human Behavior
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory; Director, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, MIT
9/13/2011
How the Hippies Saved Physics
David Kaiser, Professor of the History of Science, Department Head, Program in Science, Technology and Society, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT
7/7/2011
Tour: MIT's Media Lab
Mitch Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten
Knight Fellows Only
6/16/2011
Brainbows: Glowing Brain Cells Star in Full-color Movies
Jeff Lichtman, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard
4/28/2011
Why do we still use a keyboard and mouse to interact with digital information?
Pattie Maes, Associate Professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Lab.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:45pm; Knight Fellows only
4/26/2011
Center for Biological and Computational Learning
Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences co-director of CBCL
Meet in 46-5155 at 2:00pm; Knight Fellows only
4/21/2011
How the Hippies Saved Physics
David Kaiser, Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT.
4/19/2011
Seminar with David Altshuler
David Altshuler, Endocrinologist and human geneticist, Broad Institute.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:45pm. Knight Fellows only.
4/14/2011
No Seminar
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4/12/2011
Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh
Erica Field, Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University
4/7/2011
Poor Economics: Rethinking the Fight Against Poverty
Esther Duflo, MIT Department of Economics and founder of MIT's Poverty Action Lab.
4/5/2011
Special Knight Seminar - Ethics and Forensics in the age of Photoshop Photojournalism
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A joint seminar co-sponsored with the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard. Seminar 4-6:00 pm, followed by a reception 6:00-6:45 pm in atrium area outside of Bartos Theater -- lower level of E15.
3/31/2011
No Seminar
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