The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to ...
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, ...
10/22/2007 4:00 PM BartosCharles B. Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale UniversityDescription: It's time to trade in the Department of Homeland Security for a Department of Homeland Vulnerabilities, says Charles Perrow. At its peril, our nation "privileges ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
A Life in Public Service
A Life in Public Service
04/13/2007 2:30 PM 32"123Senator Edward M. KennedyDescription: Senator Ted Kennedy delivers a scathing denunciation of the Bush Administration's science and research agenda, accusing the government of "fighting a war on truth on many fronts." He lashes out at people in power "who believe that ...
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 ...
Iran: War or Peace?
Iran: War or Peace?
03/20/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Kenneth Pollack, PhD '96, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy StudiesDescription: The Bush administration's panic about failing in Iraq is now driving its fierce attitude toward Iran, according to Kenneth ...
Can Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Co-Exist?
Can Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Co-Exist?
03/15/2007 7:00 PM 32"141Owen Cote, PhD '96, Center for International Studies; Matthew Bunn, 85, SM '85, PhD '07, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Geoff Forden, Science, Technology and Global Security ...
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 ...
Counting the Dead in Iraq
Counting the Dead in Iraq
02/27/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Gilbert Burnham, Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription: It's no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham's group released its report on mortality in ...
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
02/22/2007 7:00 PM 6-120Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice-President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American ProgressDescription: Joseph Cirincione delivers an energetic and at times impassioned primer on the standoff with Iran on its nuclear ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
09/19/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: Through her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to some ...
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 ...
TV News in Transition
TV News in Transition
04/06/2006 5:00 PM BartosStuart Brotman, Founder and President, Brotman Communications; Visiting Scholar, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; Neal Shapiro, Former President, NBC News ; ; Juju Chang, Correspondent, ABC News Description: One of broadcast journalism's power couples reminisce about ...
Dr. King's Unfinished Agenda: A Call for Economic & Social ...
Dr. King's Unfinished Agenda: A Call for Economic & Social Justice in the ...
02/09/2006 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDonna Brazile, Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLCDescription: Donna Brazile's informal but impassioned address illuminates her role not only as a mover and shaker in the halls of power but as a great ...
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
11/15/2005 5:00 PM Kirsch 32-123Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; David S. Jones, ...
Mission Control Operations
Mission Control Operations
11/08/2005 9:00 AM 37-252Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Director of Flight operations for Apollo, former Director, NASA/JSCDescription: Chris Kraft manages to present in a single event the ultimate in engineering case studies, as well as an insider's history of 20th century space missions and ...