The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American ...
The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American Political Economy: A ...
11/09/2010 4:00 PM 54"100Charles H. Ferguson, Ph.D. '89, FilmmakerDescription: Charles Ferguson shows how useful a varied background in math, political science and business can be, as he dissects the complexities and recent crisis of the U.S. financial system. In a ...
The Evolution of Economic Science: Macroeconomics, Growth, ...
The Evolution of Economic Science: Macroeconomics, Growth, and Development
01/27/2011 10:45 AM KresgeDaron Acemoglu, James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT; Peter Diamond, PhD '63, MIT Institute Professor; Esther Duflo, PhD '99, Abdul Latif Jameel Prof of Poverty Allev & Develop Department of Economics; Robert Hall, PhD '67, Robert and ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in ...
10/25/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the PresidentDescription: In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
05/12/2009 4:00 PM 10"250Steven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There's increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of ...
The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq
The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq
01/08/2004 12:00PM Killian HallKanan Makiya, '71, MAR '74, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University; Founder, Iraq Memory FoundationDescription: Saddam Hussein left a very visible legacy from 30 bloody years in power: countless victims and ...
The Electoral College in U.S. Presidential Elections: ...
The Electoral College in U.S. Presidential Elections: Logical Foundations, ...
04/25/2007 4:00 PM 1-190Dr. Alexander S. Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems FundamentalsDescription: To the expanding list of presidential election discontents add Alexander Belenky. Unlike other critics, though, Belenky is not driven by ...
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
09/21/2006 7:00 PM 32-123Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: True to form, Noam Chomsky makes a sweeping and copiously detailed indictment of U.S. Middle East policy, brooking no contrary or alternate views. His history-filled lecture (interrupted by occasional applause) ...
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about ...
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's ...
04/28/2004 6:00 PM Wong AuditoriumLaurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics Boston UniversityDescription: A word of advice to baby boomers: be very kind to your children. They will quite likely be paying a steep price for your happy golden years. Laurence ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale
State of the Institute Forum 2008 highlights
State of the Institute Forum 2008 highlights
Highlights of the MIT State of the Institute Forum, held on September 29, 2008.
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed ...
05/07/2008 6:00 PM 32"141Greg Mitchell, Editor, Editor and Publisher MagazineDescription: Greg Mitchellhas found both comedy and tragedy in the shameless and near"universal complicity between the American press and the Bush Administration around the Iraq war and ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New President
11/19/2008 6:00 PM Broad InstituteMarc A. Kastner, Dean, MIT School of ScienceDescription: The mood of gloom has eased somewhat within the science community, with the advent of a new presidential administration, and Marc Kastner captures the mix of hopefulness and ...
Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing ...
Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a ...
09/28/2006 9:10 AM KresgeGeorge M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry, Harvard UniversityDescription: George Whitesides refers to the recent National Academies report, -Rising Above the Gathering Storm," as a -case study for ...
Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege
Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege
02/05/2004 7:30 AM WalkerDr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD '80, Economist, authorDescription: In this keynote address, Julianne Malveaux takes deadly aim at the hypocrisy she finds in many sectors of American society including exploitation of low wage workers and legacy ...
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
10/03/2006 5:00 PM BartosBarbara Bodine, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen ; George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Rajiv Chandrasakaran, Author, Imperial Life in the Emerald City; Inside Iraq's Green Zone; Description: As ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on ...
11/09/2010 4:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan; Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political ...
Renaissance Physicists / Learning from MIT
Renaissance Physicists / Learning from MIT
10/05/2007 11:50 AM 6-120Robert Laughlin, PhD '79, Nobel Laureate, Stanford University; Steven Weinberg, SM '67, ME '69, PhD '70, 1979 Nobel Laureate, The University of Texas at AustinDescription: This duet of talks by two Nobelists, while cheering the consolidation ...
Reflections
Reflections
04/09/2003 5:00 PM E15 BartosGeorge Shultz, PhD '49, Former Secretary of StateDescription: Former Secretary of State and MIT alum, George Shultz returned to MIT to accept the Robert A. Muh Award for his noteworthy achievements. In this talk he reflects on his time at MIT and expresses ...
Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
09/27/2010 4:30 PM e14"633Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic PhilanthropiesDescription: Gara LaMarche believes the nation's charitable organizations have lost "moral clarity," growing more concerned with "the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for ...