This email, the last of 2007, contains event listings for Thursday,
December 13 through Wednesday, December 19. Please check the HUCE calendar on
our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most
up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions.
The HUCE Autumn Newsletter is now available! To see what HUCE has been up to
this semester, view the newsletter PDF at: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/docs/Newsletter_Fall_07.pdf
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Happy Holidays!
Highlights:
*Today’s HUCE
EVENT CANCELLED due to Winter Weather Conditions: We will reschedule our second Green Conversations lecture
series with GridPoint Technologies in the Spring.
*Saturday, December 15: Join us at
the 2007 Harvard Holiday Science Lecture as we observe, touch, taste, and
explore some of your favorite foods in “Squishy,
Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza.” Lectures at both
10am and 1pm.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 12/13/2007
12:30p - 1:30p
Film Screenings on Global Trash
Trade
"The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" and
"Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of
Contact: Clare Putnam, cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu,
617-495-9899, www.wcfia.harvard.edu/
4:00p
CANCELLED: HUCE Green Conversations Series
Join us for a conversation with three
representatives from GridPoint, whose SmartGrid platform empowers utilities to
achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental
stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources.
Pierce Hall, Room 209,
Contact:
4:00p
OEB Seminar: Evolutionary
Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection Environments to Test Adaptation
Hypotheses
Speaker Dr. John Lang,
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
4:00p - 5:00p
China Project Seminar
"Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen
Oxides from
Pierce Hall 100F,
Contact: chinaproject.harvard.edu
4:00p
SEAS Colloquium
"Development of a Self-Driving
Car" with Seth Teller Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, MIT.
Maxwell Dworkin G125,
Contact: www.seas.harvard.edu/
7:00p
Harvard in Allston: Raising Voices
for Sustainability, Students, and the Community
Come learn about what Harvard can do to
be sustainable and community friendly in Allston.
Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus,
Friday 12/14/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
Friday Chalktalk: "Germ
Stories, GASPing and Microfluidics"
Roberto Kolter, Dept. MMG,
HUCE Seminar room,
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a - 12:00p
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Tom Kunz – Boston University
Aeroecology: probing and modeling the Aerosphere
Harvard Forest Seminar Room,
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, (978)
724-3302
11:00a
Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Seminar
"Making Science a Business (And You
Can, too)" with speaker: Vicki Sato,
Pfizer Lecture Hall,
Contact: Helen Schwickrath, helen@chemistry.harvard.edu , (617)
496-8190
12:15p - 1:30p
Systems Biology Theory Lunch
"Energy optimization and the design
of photosynthesis" with speaker Ron Milo,
Contact: Jeremy Gunawardena, jeremy@hms.harvard.edu,
(617) 432 4839
3:00p
OEB Special Seminar: Building the
Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard
Presenters: James Edwards,
Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution; and Jesse Ausubel, Program
Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair, EOL Steering Committee
Bio Labs Lecture Hall,
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-5891
5:00p - 8:00p
HMNH: Night at the Museum
Free admission and 20% off everything in
the museum store!
Harvard
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu,
617.495.3045
Saturday 12/15/2007
10:00a [Encore at 1:00 pm]
Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The
Science of Making Pizza. A Holiday Lecture for Children and Their Parents
Discover the physics, chemistry, and
biology of cheese and bread in this hands-on, interactive lecture. Recommended
for children ages 7 and up. Registration is required.
Contact: sciencetix@deas.harvard.edu
Monday 12/17/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion.
HUCE Seminar room,
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu,
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
6:00p
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Public Lecture Series
"Life in the
Harvard
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu,
(617) 495-3045
Tuesday 12/18/2007
12:00p
Herbaria Seminar Series
Rfael Rubio de Casas (Donohue Lab/OEB). Title
TBA.
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room,
Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate
Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418,
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin
Tingley, http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html
Wednesday
12/19/2007
7:00p - 9:00p
The Weston Observatory: Department
of Geology and Geophysics (BC)
"What's New Regarding Earthquakes in
Weston Observatory,
Contact: 617-552-8300
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