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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
The Future of Nuclear Energy
The Future of Nuclear Energy
03/01/2007 7:00 PM 6-120John Durant, Director, MIT Museum; Allison Macfarlane, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, The Belfer Center, Harvard University, George Mason University; Andrew Kadak, Sm '70, PhD '72, Professor of Practice, Nuclear Engineering; Victor Reis, Senior ...
The Hydrogen Initiative: The Hydrogen Storage Challenge
The Hydrogen Initiative: The Hydrogen Storage Challenge
06/14/2006 1:00 PM Millie Dresselhaus, HM , Institute Professor, and Professor of Physics and Electrical EngineeringDescription: Mildred Dresselhaus jumped on the hydrogen bandwagon following President Bush's call for scientists to pursue a -Hydrogen Economy." She led ...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
10/03/2007 6:00 PM 32-123John Mearsheimer, Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle ...
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
04/02/2007 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPhilip G. Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford UniversityDescription: Perhaps no one comprehends the roots of depravity and cruelty better than Philip Zimbardo. He is renowned for such research as the Stanford Prison ...
The Militarization of Science and Space
The Militarization of Science and Space
02/15/2004 1:00 PM KresgeNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Chomsky launches a savage, two-pronged assault on national economic policies and efforts at "global dominationEUR.By now the stakes are so high that issues of survival arise," says Chomsky. The basic principle ...