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CoSI Chair: Colin Eckhoff, Gautam Prabhu, Aparna Balagopalan, Xiao Huang, Marie-Laure Charpignon
Sidney-Pacific Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by: Society of Presidential Fellows
Upcoming Lectures
The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation
Charles Limb
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music
More on Charles Limb
Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Past Lectures
A Conversation with President Reif
Rafael Reif
MIT President
Tuesday, February 19, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Everybody Loves Classical Music...they just don't know it yet!
Benjamin Zander
Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
What's at Stake? Economic Issues in the Upcoming 2012 Presidential Election
Christina Romer
Former Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Monday, September 22, 2011, 6pm
Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence, Multi-Purpose Room
There's Nothing So Practical as a Good Theory: The Economics Behind Honest Tea
Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor at Yale School of Management, cofounder of Honest Tea, MIT '80
Human Exploration: Performance on Earth & Mars
Dava Newman
Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Professor Newman
Monday March 8, 2010, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
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Presidential Questions & Answers
Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on President Hockfield
Monday February 22, 2010, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
God & The Strongest Battalions: A Technological Perspective on the American Civil War
Roe Smith
Professor of History of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Professor Smith
Thursday December 10, 2009, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel
Photographer & Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University
More on Felice Frankel
Monday November 16, 2009, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
Technology & Energy
John M. Deutch
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Professor Deutch
Thursday October 8, 2009, 6:30 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
The Future of Graduate Education
L. Rafael Reif
Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and
Steve R. Lerman
Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Provost Reif
More on Dean Lerman
Monday April 13, 2009, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
The Current World Security Situation
Admiral William J. Fallon
Former U.S. CENTCOM Commander, Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies
More on Admiral Fallon
Thursday March 12, 2009, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Lecture followed by a dinner hosted by the Housemasters
Infection and cancer: the Helicobacter pylori story
David B. Schauer
Professor of Biological Engineering and Comparative Medicine, MIT
More on Professor Schauer
Thursday February 26, 2009, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Adaptive Experimentation
Daniel D. Frey
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, MIT
More on Professor Frey
Monday December 15, 2008, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Using the Shuttle, MIR and ISS for Operating Micro-Gravity Engineering Research Laboratories"
David W. Miller
Professor & Director of the Space Systems Laboratory, MIT
More on the Space Systems Laboratory
Monday November 24, 2008, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"U.S. Grand Strategy, Consensus & Critique"
Barry R. Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
More on Professor Posen
Thursday March 20, 2008, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Fins Into Limbs: The Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Tetrapods, A Landmark Event of the Late Devonian"
Farish Jenkins, Jr.
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Talk Abstract
More on Professor Jenkins
News release on tiktaalik
Thursday February 7, 2008, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Rethinking the wealth of nations"
K. Daron Acemoglu
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics, MIT
Talk Abstract
More on Professor Acemoglu
Wednesday December 5, 2007, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Image Guided Surgery"
Eric Grimson
Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering, MIT
More on Professor Grimson
Thursday November 8, 2007, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Tiny Technologies & Medicine"
Sangeeta Bhatia
Associate Professor, HST & EECS, MIT
More on Professor Bhatia
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Functional and Molecular Imaging of Cartilage: from Bench to Bedside"
Martha L. Gray
Director & Professor, Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
More on Professor Gray
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century"
Henry Jenkins
John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities, Comparative Media Studies Department
More on Professor Jenkins
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"The Next Gulf War"
John Tirman
Executive Director, Center for International Studies, MIT
More on Dr. Tirman
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"How the brain wires itself"
Mriganka Sur
Professor & Head, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
More on Professor Sur
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Smart Cities"
William J. Mitchell
Professor of Architecture & Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
More on Professor Mitchell
More on Smart Cities
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"And Then I Wrote"
John Harbison
Institute Professor of Music, MIT
More on Professor Harbison
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Pharma at the Frontier"
Mark Fishman
President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
More on Dr. Fishman
Thursday, February 23, 2006, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"The Economics of Natural Disasters"
Robert Solow
Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Laureate in Economics
More on Professor Solow
Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily Formulated Ideas"
Abstract
Gerald Jay Sussman
Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Professor Sussman
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"What Do We Need to Know to Land on Mars?"
October 20, 2005
Maria Zuber
E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics
Department Head, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More on Professor Zuber
Thursday, October 20, 2005, 6:00 pm
Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
"Rising Sun? Japan's Military in the 21st Century"
April 7, 2005
Richard Samuels
Director of the Center for International Studies
Ford International Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6:00pm, Thursday, April 7, 2005
Venue: Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
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"Bringing Down the House? Some Statistics about Two Present Dangers"
March 3, 2005
Arnold Barnett
Nation's Leading Air Safety Expert (NBC News)
George Eastman Professor of Management Science MIT Sloan School of Business
6:30pm, Thursday, March 3, 2005
Venue: Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Spectrum Article
Flight Safety Foundation
"Another Surprise in Molecular Biology, Short RNAs"
December 6, 2004
Phillip Sharp
1993 NOBEL Prize Winner, Physiology or Medicine
Institute Professor, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Center for Cancer Research, MIT
5:30pm, Monday, DECEMBER 6, 2004
Venue: Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose Room
Sharp Lab
Time Magazine, "The DNA Revolution"
"Columbia Accident Investigation and other Ventures into Public Service Leadership"
Sheila Widnall
Institute Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Former Secretary of the US Air Force
5:30pm, Thursday, November 4, 2004
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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National Women's Hall of Fame
"US Intelligence Community"
John Deutch
Institute Professor in Chemistry
Former Director of the CIA
5:30pm, Monday, October 4, 2004
Venue: Multipurpose Room
View Biography
"Hydrogen Economy"
Mildred Dresselhaus
Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
Former National Science Advisor
5pm, Monday, April 26, 2004
Venue: Multipurpose Room
View Biography
Scientific American on Prof. Dresselhaus
"Big Questions for Business Leadership: Globalization, Outsourcing, Compensation, Environment, Governance .... "
Dana Mead
Chairman of the Corporation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:30pm, Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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"Reflections on the Similarities and Differences in US and Japanese R&D"
George Stephanopoulos
Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering
Managing Director, Member of the Board, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
5:30pm, Thursday, February 26, 2004
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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"Biomaterials and How they will change our lives"
Robert Langer
Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
2002 Draper Prize Winner
Sidney-Pacific Honorary House Fellow
5:30pm, Thursday, September 11, 2003
Venue: Multipurpose Room
View Biography
View Poster
Photos of the lecture
"Quantum Information Science:
Putting quantum weirdness to work"
Andrew Landahl
HP/MIT Postdoctoral Fellow
7pm, Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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"Using Nature's Tool to Design Novel Hybrid Nanostructured Materials"
Angela Belcher
John Chipman Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
and BioEngineering
Sidney-Pacific House Fellow
5:30pm, Thursday, October 30, 2003
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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View Poster
Photos of the lecture
"Physics at the lowest temperatures ever achieved"
Wolfgang Ketterle
John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics
2001 Nobel Prize Winner
5:30pm, Thursday, November 13, 2003
Venue: Multipurpose Room
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View Poster
Photos of the lecture
"Language and Evolution"
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor of Linguistics
5:30pm, Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Venue: Multipurpose Room
View Biography
View Poster
Photos of the lecture
We welcome all MIT students and faculty to attend the lectures. A dinner with the speaker follows the talks at the Housemaster's residence of Professor Roger Mark. The
dinner is exclusively for Sidney-Pacific residents, first year Presidential Fellows, and other invitees. Due to space limitations, only 30 students who entered the lottery
and received notification will be invited. The dinner starts at around 7pm in apartment 568.
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