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Past Seminars

3/29/2011
The Chandra Space Telecope and tour of the control center
Claude Canizares, MIT Professor of Physics, and Associate Director for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Meet in E19-623 at 3:15pm; Knight Fellows only
3/24/2011
No Seminar
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Food Boot Camp
3/22/2011
No Seminar
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Food Boot Camp
3/17/2011
Media Lab tour with Mitch Resnick
Mitch Resnick,
Meet in E19-623 at 3:30pm, Knight Fellows only.
3/15/2011
"Strange Facts," Evocative Maps, and the Puzzles of Geographic Variation in Medical Practice
David Jones, Associate Professor of the History and Culture of Science and Technology (STS)
3/10/2011
The Future of Connectomics
Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D. Knowles Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard
Meet at 52 Oxford St., Lichtman's Lab, Northwest Building, Harvard, Knight Fellows only.
3/8/2011
Field Notes on Science and Nature
Michael Canfield, Lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
3/3/2011
Ancient Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
Brendan Foley, Research Associate, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3/1/2011
How social networks shape human behavior
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Director MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory, Director Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
Meet in E19-623 at 4:00pm. Knight Fellows only.
2/24/2011
Novartis Visit
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Knight Fellows only.
2/22/2011
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, with Farish Jenkins
Farish Jenkins, Harvard professor of biology and zoology; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and professor of anatomy in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Meet at Harvard MCZ, 3pm, Knight Fellows Only.
2/15/2011
What is the future for solar cells?
Marc Baldo, Associate Director Research Laboratory of Electronics and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2/10/2011
Functional Specificity in the Human Brain
Nancy Kanwisher, Investigator at the McGovern Institute and Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
This seminar starts at 4:30pm.
2/8/2011
New Science RNA silencing-future science Convergence
Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute professor in molecular biology and biochemistry
2/3/2011
Social Dimensions of Robotics in Air, Sea, and Space
David Mindell, Director of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society