Guest speakers and special events
Channel | updated May 22, 2013
Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World website.
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part One)
05/08/2004 10:00 AM 26-100Charles Vest, President, MIT; Jame Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center ; ; James Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University Description: The opening of The Ray and Maria Stata Center, ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part Two)
05/08/2004 11:30 AM 26-100William J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Frank Gehry, Architect; Robert Venturi, Architect; Kyong Park, SM '87, Founder/Director ...
The Universe is a Strange Place
The Universe is a Strange Place
Perhaps the universe is not so much strange as brimming with lovely paradox. The search for such beauty seems to lie at the heart of Frank Wilczek's work.
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's ...
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's Bomb Shelter ...
Professor Annette M. Kim presents preliminary findings of her research about Beijing's elaborate underground housing market.
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
11/05/2007 3:30 PM 32"141Thomas A. Christopher, President and CEO, AREVA NP Inc.Description: "This machine of ours is running out of control" is Thomas A. Christopher's sobering assessment of the consequences we face as a result of our insatiable appetite for energy. ...
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
09/18/2000 7:00 PM KresgeFranco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Robert M. Solow, MIT Institute Professor, Emeritus 1987 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel ...
The U.S. and the World's Recession
The U.S. and the World's Recession
06/07/2008 9:00 AM E51"115Roberto Rigobon, PhD '97, Professor of Economics; Description: Roberto Rigobon somehow makes his audience laugh while summarizing preliminary research on worldwide inflation and recession, data that bring some grim tidings about our global economic state of health. ...
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
11/16/2009 6:00 PM KresgeBo Fishback, VP, Entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Eugene Fitzgerald, '85, Merton C. Flemings"SMA Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Helen Greiner, '89, CEO, The Droid Works; Daphne Zohar, Founder ...
The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005
The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005
Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse — and perhaps no more so than today — it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nation's history.
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
03/28/2011 9:00 AM KresgeNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: It's difficult to imagine that at one point in her career, National Academy of Science member Nancy Hopkins thought to quit. In her talk, she relates the historical challenges facing ...
The State of Drupal
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal from its inception while a "typical geek" undergraduate in Antwerp in 1999 to the upcoming release of Drupal 7.
The Sounds of Music
The Sounds of Music
09/28/2003 2:00 PM 6-120Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics; Description: Have you ever wondered about the annoying hum your car makes at a certain speed on a particular stretch of highway? Or why a flute's notes are higher than a trombone's? Walter Lewin uses rubber hose, wooden boxes with ...
The Six Webs, 10 Years On
The Six Webs, 10 Years On
09/29/2005 10:30 AM KresgeBill Joy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Former Chief Scientist, Sun MicrosystemsDescription: It's a good thing that a decade ago, some engineers at Sun Microsystems became dissatisfied with the limitations of the desktop PC and with kludgy TV remote ...
The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics
The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics
10/04/2007 9:00 AM Broad InstituteDick Bedeaux, Professor II of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayDescription: Dick Bedeaux patiently traces the evolution of the second law of thermodynamics from its formulation in ...
The Second Law and Quantum Physics
The Second Law and Quantum Physics
10/04/2007 10:20 AM Broad InstituteCharles Bennett, IBM Fellow, IBMDescription: In this often droll lecture on a very abstract subject, Charles Bennettexplores entropy, "one of my long loves," and how it relates to quantum information. He first reminds his audience that such information is ...
The Second Law and Energy Panel
The Second Law and Energy Panel
10/05/2007 1:50 PM Broad Institute ; Seth Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, Engineering Systems Division, MIT; Debjyoti Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University; Ernest S. Geskin, Professor of Mechanical ...
The Second Law and Energy
The Second Law and Energy
10/05/2007 1:00 PM Broad InstituteSteven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: This Nobel Prize"winning scientist admits to staying up late the night before his talk to bone up on thermodynamics. He puts his research to good use, discussing the history and application of the laws of ...
The Second Law and Cosmology
The Second Law and Cosmology
10/04/2007 11:10 AM Broad InstituteMax Tegmark, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MITDescription: In spite of its old age, the Second Law of Thermodynamics "is alive and kicking," says Max Tegmark, stimulating research on "really, really big puzzles." In Tegmark's case, ...
The Second Law and Biophysics
The Second Law and Biophysics
10/05/2007 8:30 AM Broad InstituteKenneth Dill, '70, SM '71, Professor of Biophysics;; Associate Dean of Research, University of California, San FranciscoDescription: "Biology is messy," says Kenneth Dill , and it's "heavily about entropy." Just look at how biological systems repeat entropy ...
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
10/25/2006 6:00 PM MuseumDaniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; ; Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological EngineeringDescription: No single new technology can deliver ...
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