10/19/2009 @ All Day – [Enrollment closed] Co-sponsor: MIT Sloan School of Management

10/07/2009 @ 6:30 pm – Speakers: Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm, Kerry A. Emanuel, Edward DeLong (Event is open to MIT Community Only) Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies Professor of Biology     Kerry A. Emanuel Professor of Atmospheric Science PAOC Director Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences       Edward DeLong […]

10/07/2009 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics Speaker: Professor Troy Duster, New York University   Troy Duster is a Professor of Sociology at New York University. Having received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Duster’s area of research and interest include, sociology of science; […]

10/02/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Speakers: Dara Entekhabi, Edward DeLong Dara Entekhabi Director, Earth System Initiative Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDirector, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering     Edward DeLong Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering

09/12/2009 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009 (10AM – 5PM) Registration Fee: $150.00(Free for MIT Students) Alan Wallace, Ph.D. a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation throughout Europe and America since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. […]

09/11/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Speakers: Cilfford Saron and B. Alan Wallace [Open to General Public]   Clifford Saron, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu), and faculty member of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Albert Einstein […]

04/30/2009 @ 5:30 pm – Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. The operas Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha Akhnaten […]

04/30/2009 @ 2:00 pm – Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 2:00PM   Web Simulcast Venue (Overflow): Room 10-250 Talk is also available on MIT Cable.       [empty_space id=”4ccceb4e2574f6c419e16996fe97d9a2″ height=”40px” mobile=”{‹²›mobile‹²›:‹²›off‹²›,‹²›on‹²›:{‹²›height‹²›:‹²›20px‹²›}}” class=”” _array_keys=”{‹²›mobile‹²›:‹²›mobile‹²›}” _fw_coder=”aggressive” __fw_editor_shortcodes_id=”5a98137b274e0251bc423bcca6674587″][/empty_space]

04/29/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Speakers: Daniel Goleman Ph.D., Richard J. Davidson Ph.D. Event free and open to public. Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His […]