Government

Committee On Scholarly Interactions

CoSI Chair: 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 --- RSVP for the Dinner --- 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 Information "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 View Biography 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 View Biography "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 View Biography "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 View homepage View Abstract View Poster View Presentation "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 View Biography 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 View Biography 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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