IIC-CS Joint Colloquium
Web 2.0 Reality Check
David Pogue of the New York Times
WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Maxwell Dworkin G-115
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. - Maxwell Dworkin ground floor lobby
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What do YouTube, MySpace, eBay, and Craigslist have in common? They're
all part of "Web 2.0," in which a Web site's material is supplied by
its visitors. In this head-spinning talk, David Pogue, the New York
Times's tech columnist, helps to make sense of the explosively
expanding realm of Web 2.0. He'll advise both individuals and
companies on how to exploit these live-wire technologies, supply some
horrifying and hilarious real-world stories, and hint at the future,
the pitfalls, and the rewards of these revolutionary new channels.
Speaker: David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New
York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online
column, an online video and a popular daily blog, "Pogue’s Posts."
David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News,
and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos.
With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s
bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the
"for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical
Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny
computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes
over 100 titles.
David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in
Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway
musicals in New York. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in
music from Shenandoah Conservatory.
He’s been profiled on both "48 Hours" and "60 Minutes." He lives with
his wife and three young children in Connecticut. His web site is
www.davidpogue.com
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Hello:
This e-mail is meant for those of us who stayed during the APS.
Prof. KC Hynes (see below) is visiting and I am hoping to get maybe half an
hour to 45 minutes time with Prof. Hynes if there is interest in the group.
Here is a brief outlines of his research. Please let me know if you are
interested. It would also be helpful for me because despite his
achievements, it seems not too many faculty members are avaiable on Friday.
Thanks!
Roberto
Prof. James Hynes, also known as KC Hynes (
http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/hynesj.html) is visiting Harvard on
Friday of next week (March 20) as part of the Theoretical Chemistry Lecture
Series (he will give a lecture on Wednesday March 18th at MIT).
Professor Hynes's research area is theoretical chemistry and, in particular,
its application to reaction and relaxation problems in chemistry. His work
focuses on the theory of chemical reactions in solution,at interfaces, and
in biomolecules, as well as such related phenomena such as solvation
dynamics, vibrational energy transfer and molecular reorientation.
Sincerely,
Roberto Olivares-Amaya
Graduate Student
Aspuru-Guzik Group
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IIC-CS Joint Colloquium
Web 2.0 Reality Check
David Pogue of the New York Times
WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Maxwell Dworkin G-115
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. - Maxwell Dworkin ground floor lobby
---------------------------------------------------------------------
What do YouTube, MySpace, eBay, and Craigslist have in common? They're
all part of "Web 2.0," in which a Web site's material is supplied by
its visitors. In this head-spinning talk, David Pogue, the New York
Times's tech columnist, helps to make sense of the explosively
expanding realm of Web 2.0. He'll advise both individuals and
companies on how to exploit these live-wire technologies, supply some
horrifying and hilarious real-world stories, and hint at the future,
the pitfalls, and the rewards of these revolutionary new channels.
Speaker: David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New
York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online
column, an online video and a popular daily blog, "Pogue’s Posts."
David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News,
and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos.
With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s
bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the
"for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical
Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny
computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes
over 100 titles.
David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in
Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway
musicals in New York. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in
music from Shenandoah Conservatory.
He’s been profiled on both "48 Hours" and "60 Minutes." He lives with
his wife and three young children in Connecticut. His web site is
www.davidpogue.com.
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Dear All
We will meet on Monday at 3:00 in 6-310. Agenda to be determined.
Remember that Scott is speaking at 4:15.
Eddie
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Edward Farhi
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
Director
Center for Theoretical Physics
6-300
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA 02139
617 253 4871
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Dear group members (and exmembers if you left during last year),
Group members:
Group meetings are not optional. I want to see you all there, in time. It is
a disrespect to your fellow group members if you don't show up. Showing up
late is also not acceptable. I understand if you miss it once for some
reason or other, but frequent omissions (like some of you do) are not part
of what I expect from all of you. Many of you were late today, and again,
that is not what I expect to see from you.
Group members and ex-members:
I also urge you to respond in a timely fashion to Anna's requests of
materials for the yearly reports, and in general whenever she asks for
information from you. Some of you still have not sent her the list of
information that she needs.
- All information related to your poster presentations, title, place, date,
etc. list of authors
- All fellowships/awards you have received.
- All conferences that you have attended
I might be missing something, Anna's original e-mail has what she needs. I
think she asked you for your CV, which in turn should contain all of these
items.
Alan
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Assistant Professor
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Highlights:
Wednesday, March 18: Paul Ehrlich, author of the best selling book "The Population Bomb" revisits his ideas 40 years later at the first HUCE Green Conversations event this spring. Ehrlich will be joined by Daniel Schrag, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Register Now for the GSD Ecological Urbanism conference (Apr 3-5), which brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, environmental scientists, politicians and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 3/12/2009
6:00p Solar Energy Technology in Africa
(Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
Speaker: Sivan Borowich, the Founder of Jewish Heart for Africa (JHA), a non-profit organization that brings Israeli clean technology to rural African villages.
Contact: www.meetup.com/boston-israel/calendar...
6:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA)
"Proteogenomics as an approach for the study of natural microbial communities." Jill Banfield, UC Berkeley.
Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
6:30p - 9:00p How to Get into the Energy Business? Volunteer!
(Offices of Holland & Knight 10 St. James Avenue 11th Floor Boston, MA)
Keynote speaker: Nick d'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC).
Contact: Andrew Becker, andrew.becker(a)ypenergy.org, (617) 429-8314, www.ypenergy.org/en/cev/223
6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009: Opening Event
(MIT Stata Center, R&D Commons, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA)
A conversation with Sandra Henriquez, Administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing Authority.
Contact: www.housingcities2009.com/
7:30p Boston Area Solar Energy Association
(The First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square Cambridge, MA)
"A New Model for Improving Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment." Dan Valianti, Next Step Living .
Contact: info(a)basea.org, www.basea.org
Friday 3/13/2009
10:00a - 11:30a The Hydrogen Age
(Littauer 150, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"The Hydrogen Age: Is hydrogen the ultimate solution to climate change and the key to the final energy architecture of civilization?" Dr. David Sanborn Scott, author of "Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe."
12:30p - 5:45p Ninth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
(Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA)
ConIH aims to promote the serious treatment of nature in international history while encouraging specialists in environmental studies, the history of science and medicine, and diverse other fields.
Contact: Gressel-Bacharan, gressel(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
6:30p - 8:30p Housing Cities Symposium 2009
(Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA)
A diverse group of industry leaders, academic experts, and students open a multi-disciplinary dialogue on critical housing issues facing U.S. cities.
Contact: www.housingcities2009.com/
Saturday 3/14/2009
9:00a - 1:00p Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
(First Church in Salem, 316 Essex Street, Salem, MA) Come and discover new opportunities to make a real difference in accelerating the emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this plane...
Contact: Carol Dearborn, cdearborn(a)comcast.net , 978-745-6370 , awakeningthedreamer.org/
Calendar: Center for the Environment
10:00a - 5:30p Ninth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
(Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA)
ConIH aims to promote the serious treatment of nature in international history while encouraging specialists in environmental studies, the history of science and medicine, and diverse other fields.
Contact: Gressel-Bacharan, gressel(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
11:00a - 5:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Special Event: BugFest
(HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
The Harvard Museum of Natural History will be buzzing with dozens of activities as we explore the amazing world of arthropods.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/...
11:00a Mobile Community Workshop in Allston
(intersection of Western Ave and North Harvard Street in Allston, MA)
Explore the areas Harvard plans to build on and hear about the implications and opportunities related to the massive project from Allston residents, students from the GSD, and affiliates in the School of Public Health.
Contact: Rebecca Cohen, rjcohen(a)fas.harvard.edu
3:00p - 4:00p RePower America Rally
(Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St., Boston MA)
Show your support for the Massachusetts State Legislature's Resolution calling for the federal government to RePower America with 100% Clean Electricity in 10 years.
Contact: www.masspowershift.org/
Sunday 3/15/2009
12:00p - 4:15p Somerville Climate Action Volunteer Day
(Somerville High School, 81 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA)
"Sustainability Street Team II." Go door-to-door to communities in Somerville to spread awareness about simple home improvements to save money, energy, and (well, yes) the planet.
Contact: sca.volunteer(a)gmail.com
Monday 3/16/2009
11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
12:00p Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Changing What Chemicals We Make and How We Make Them. " Adelina Voutchkova, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University.
Contact: Norma Stewart, nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu
4:00p EPS Spring Colloquium
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Radially Symmetric and Elongated/Birdfoot Deltas: Application to Engineered Avulsions of the Mississippi River." Gary Parker, University of Illinois.
Contact: Ganna Savostyanova, savosty(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday 3/17/2009
12:00p - 1:00p Herbaria Seminar Series
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA)
"Tree herding at the Arnold Arboretum: Another paradigm in collections management." Michael Dosmann, Arnold Arboretum.
Contact: Margaret Richards, prichards(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 496-8062
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
4:00p EPS Dissertation Defense
(Haller Hall, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Optimal excitation of Atlantic ocean variability and implications for predictability." Laure Zanna. Refreshments to follow in the Interaction Space, Geo Museum 4th floor.
Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan(a)eps.harvard.edu
6:15p MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Innovation Series
(MIT’s Kirsch Auditorium in the Stata Center, 32-123, Cambridge, MA)
"Disruptive Energy Storage (trans) Portable Applications" - innovations which are essential to meeting the needs of new, power-intensive applications.
Contact: mitefcmb(a)mit.edu, 617-253-8240
Wednesday 3/18/2009
9:00a - 10:30a Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Food Security for All: A Sustainability Challenge." Emmy Simmons, Co-chair, National Academies of Science Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability.
Contact: Maryanne Baumgartner, maryanne_baumgartner(a)harvard.edu, www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci
10:30a - 12:00p Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series
(Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA)
"Russia." Fiona Hill, National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.
Contact: americanprimacy(a)ksg.harvard.edu
4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
(Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
"Climate Change, Consumption Smoothing, and Mortality in India." Robin Burgess, London School of Economics, Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara, David Donaldson, LSE, and Michael Greenstone, MIT.
Contact: Jason Chapman, Jason_Chapman(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617-496-8054
4:00p Green Conversations with Paul Ehrlich
(Science Center D, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
A presentation by Paul Ehrlich 40 years after the publication of "The Population Bomb." Followed by a discussion with Daniel Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883
6:00p HMNH: New Directions in EcoPlanning Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Designing the Urban Ark: Biodiversity and the Future of Cities." Kristina Hill, Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.
Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
7:30p Film Screening -- "FLOW: For Love of Water"
(Pound Hall 100, Harvard Law School, 1563 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA)
FLOW, the award-winning 2008 documentary by Irena Salina which investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: the world water crisis.
Contact: Cara Ferrentino , cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu, 617.384.6893 , www.flowthefilm.com
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/19/2009
12:15p - 1:45p Belfer Center Directors' Lunch
(Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA)
With Robert A. Hefner III, Founder and Owner of GHK Exploration & Belfer Center International Council Member on "The GET" (Grand Energy Transition). RSVP required.
Contact: 617-495-1400, belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/h...
12:30p - 1:30p Department of Global Health and Population Ecology/modeling Seminar Series
(Harvard School of Public Health, Building 1 - Room 1208, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston) "Breeding Bird Flu: The Political Virology of Offshore Farming." Dr. Robert Wallace Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.
Contact: Tamara Awerbuch, tamara(a)hsph.harvard.edu
6:30p - 8:00p Harvard Extension School Movie Night
(51 Brattle St., Rm 421, Cambridge, MA)
"King Corn." Many of the ways we consume corn are obvious enough: corn on the cob and canned corn ... popcorn and corn chips ... corn bread and taco shells.
Contact: Julie Vallimont, julievallimont(a)gmail.com
Friday 3/20/2009
12:00p Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)
"Sonochemical Destruction of Persistent Organic Pollutants: Perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA)." Chad D. Vecitis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Yale University.
Contact: Norma Stewart, nstewart(a)seas.harvard.edu
Saturday 3/21/2009
1:00p Natural Alternatives to Modern Funeral
(Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker Mark Harris, author of "Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial."
Contact: Mark Harris, markharris(a)igc.org, 610-954-8375
Monday 3/23/2009
11:30a Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Energy Journal website for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Mark Winkler, mwinkler(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/
Tuesday 3/24/2009
12:00p - 2:00p The Green Roundtable--Integrating Solar & Wind Energy into Commercial Projects
(NEXUS, 38 Chauncy St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA)
This 200-level seminar will discuss opportunities for integrating solar and wind energy into commercial construction projects.
Contact: Aaron, aaron(a)greenroundtable.org
3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA)
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Kate Dennis, kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-384-8398, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
Wednesday 3/25/2009
8:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting
(Spindell Room, Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA)
Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome.
Contact: Caitlin Rotman, caitlin.rotman(a)gmail.com
Thursday 3/26/2009
9:00a Mapping Massachusetts Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis
(Charles River Public Internet Center, 154 Moody St. Waltham, MA)
One day hands-on workshop focuses on teaching the fundamentals of using a Geographic Information System (GIS) for community analysis.
Contact: Gina Clemmer, 877.241.6576 |, www.urban-research.info/workshops/mas...
9:00a - 6:30p Babson Entrepreneurial Energy Expo
(F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson Park, MA)
Annual conference hosted by the Babson Energy & Environmental Club.
Contact: www.babsonenergy.com/eee
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From: Jim Clem <clem(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Subject: HUCE undergraduate summer research assistantships
To: undisclosed-recipients
Hello All,
We are going to start promoting our summer RA program more widely in the
next couple of days. There seems to be a great deal of interest this year,
and we will do our best to fund as many well-qualified students as our
budget permits.
The application process is described here:
> http://www.environment.harvard.edu/resources/srf.htm
>
The plan is for the students to contact you about the position. You decide
who you think will be the best RA(s). The student then applies to us with a
very short (one or two paragraph) letter of support from you. A small
faculty committee will sit down after April 15th, review the applications,
and make the funding decisions. If we can fund your position, we will then
transfer funds to your home department for the RA salary.
You can send your letters of support directly to me or Nathaniel Gill, who
will be collecting all the application materials <ngill(a)fas.harvard.edu>.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Students can also contact me
with questions.
Best,
Jim
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James I. Clem, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617.496.5458
Fax: 617.496.0425
clem(a)fas.harvard.edu