During 2011-2012, the Department of Urban Studies & Planning will host a series of high-profile speakers and panels on a wide-range of topics related to the future of cities, planning, participation, economies, technology, design, and ...
Trans_Local Emil Rodríguez Garabot MIT- Humphrey Fellow, Dominican Republic 2010-2011. "The Mirador Sur Park and the 1998 Tsunami False Alarm" Anticipation, mobilization and outrageousness for a new ecological urbanity in Santo Domingo . ...
Sopheap is a senior program coordinator for Habitat for Humanity Cambodia. He has an MBA from Preston University in Cambodia. He is interested in aspects of urban and regional planning that have applications at the community level. After MIT he will use his knowledge, ...
Slawek is an urban designer with over ten years of professional experience. He currently runs his own company and teaches at Gdansk University of Technology. His PhD research was on the "Impact of Shopping Centers on Downtowns". At MIT he is interested in city design and ...
Shabnum is a senior urban planner with the Government of Punjab. She holds two Master's degrees, one in City and Regional Planning from UET and Hariot-Watt University, Lahore, Pakistan and the other in Environmental Management & Development from the Australian National ...
Emil is an architect with a Masters degree in Urbanism from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, where he is also completing his doctoral work. He has worked as an urban designer and planner for private companies in the Dominican Republic, ...
Fatima is a municipal engineer in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city. She obtained her Diploma in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Urban Engineering from the Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publics in Casablanca. She is also the head of a ...
Zaynab is an architect, planner and a faculty member in the Department of Architecture, University of Baghdad. She has a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning Sciences from the University of Baghdad. At MIT she intends to study digital technologies that analyze ...
'Bah' has been engaged in analytical and environmental chemistry for over thirty years. He has a PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from Dakar University, Senegal, and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. His ...
Abdi is a professor in the Economic and Management Department at the University of Djibouti. He holds a PhD degree in Management and a Master's degree in Management Science from the University of Strasbourg. He works as an adviser to the National Secretary of Solidarity, ...
Eva is an urban planner and a public/private consultant. She has a Master's degree in Architecture from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. At MIT she is interested in gaining new knowledge on urban development processes, the relationships between stakeholders, ...
Fan is director of the land planning division of the local government land administration bureau in Zhejiang province, China. She has a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Management and a Master's degree from Zhejiang University.At MIT, she will focus on the relationship ...
Zhang is a lecturer at the Institute for Architecture and Technology Studies in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University. He has a PhD in Architecture from the same. At MIT and beyond, his primary research focus is on Building Information Modeling (BIM). He is ...
Christian is currently a member of the board of CEAMSE, a waste management company in Buenos Aires. He has a BA in Political Science at the Catholic University of Argentina. He is the vice-president of the Peronist Party in Buenos Aires, where he was also a municipal ...
Paula is an industrial engineer specializing in management, biodiversity and culture. She was formerly the Minister of Culture of Colombia. She has an MPhil degree in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the ...
Mahbooba is an engineering/planning officer on a USAID/LTERA (Land Titling Economic Restructuring of Afghanistan) project to increase cooperation between municipalities and the Ministry of Urban Development Planning. She has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Technology from ...
Session 5: Terrorism and the challenge to secularism and rule of law Chair and Discussant: Omar Khalidi, MIT 3:20-3:35PM "Terrorism and the challenge of advocacy for Human Rights" Meenakshi Ganguly,Human Rights Watch, Mumbai 3:50-4:05PM "Terrorism ...
Session 3: Countering Violence: Assessing Police Performance Chair and Discussant: R.K. Raghavan 12:00-12:15AM "Dynamics of Security Sector Performance," Omar Khalidi, MIT 12:15-12:30PM "Police Performance: An Insider's Experiences," R.K. Raghavan, ...
Session 1: Secularism and the State: Changing Contours Chair & Discussant: Ornit Shani, University of Haifa 9:00-9:15AM "Secular Subjects: Refugees, Minorities and the Citizenship Act of 1955," Haimanti Roy, MIT 9:15-9:30AM "Normalizing Violence in ...
Session 2: State Performance during Group Violence: Case Studies Chair and Discussant: Bish Sanyal, MIT 10:30-10:45AM "Caste & Violence: A Study of Atrocities on Dalits," Chinnaiah Jangam, Wagner College, New York 10:45-11:00AM "Kandhamal, Orissa, ...
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
On April 24, 2013 in Briggs Field, thousands of law enforcement officials joined the MIT community in honoring fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Natural selection at work.
An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
An undergraduate helps MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Department find a cure for Huntington's disease.
An MIT undergraduate models a new class of material: the photonic crystal.
Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
What makes a glow stick glow?
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
A small amount of water is placed inside an airtight copper tube, with the end sealed by a rubber stopper. The tube is heated using a blowtorch, causing the water inside to boil. As the water changes from a liquid to a gas the pressure inside the tube increases. Eventually the pressure blows ...
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Presentation by Ken Gagne, web producer at MIT Medical, on the basics of podcasting. This presentation was hosted by the Social Media Working Group and Communication Production Services in May 2013.
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