From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 5 12:24:17 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:24:17 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Walter Lewin on Light, Panel on Slavery
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[THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT]
Physics meets performance art as Lewin takes on properties of water and
sound to ponder the mystery of light.
**Speaker:**
**Walter Lewin**
Physics Professor
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"If sound plus sound can give silence, is it possible that light plus
light can give darkness?"
-- Walter Lewin
EVENT HOST: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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[THE WORLD DEBATE]
Panelist discuss why there continues be forced labor in numerous
countries and industries and what can be done to eliminate it.
[SPEAKERS]
**Moderator:**
**Zeinab Badawi**
Presenter, The World, BBC Four
**PANELISTS:**
**Jean-Robert Cadet**
Author, _Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American_
**Steven Law**
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor
**Kevin Bales**
Director, Free the Slaves, Inc.
Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey Roehampton, in London
**Jagdish Bhagwati**
University Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia
University
**Roger Plant**
Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor
International Labor Organization
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"The cost of taking a person into a situation of forced slavery has hit
rock bottom."
-- Kevin Bales
EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
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IN THE PIPELINE:
**MIT Communications Forum presents**
[** "THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMONS"** ]
A panel discussion featuring
**Nancy Kranich**
**Steven Pinker**
**Ann Wolpert**
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**November
2-3, 2005**
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 12 17:51:56 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:51:56 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Cisco's John Chambers, Panel on Drug Safety
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[THE POWER OF THE NETWORK TO CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK, LIVE, PLAY, AND
LEARN]
Chambers provides insights into one of the most complex and successful
modern companies in the U.S. and what it takes to survive in a flattened
world.
Speaker:
John Chambers
President and CEO, Cisco Systems
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Look for transitions, sustainable advantages and keep up your momentum
in a marketplace where only the paranoid survive."
--John Chambers
EVENT HOST: Industrial Liaison Program
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[DEFINING THE CHALLENGES SURROUNDING INNOVATION AND SAFETY (PART ONE)]
The day before the stunning Vioxx verdict, MIT's Center for Biomedical
Innovation hosted a day-long symposium on the drug safety, testing, and
marketing. This is the first of four parts; the others will be available
on MIT World soon.
[SPEAKERS]
Moderator:
Frank L. Douglas
Executive Director, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation Professor of
the Practice
PANELISTS:
Una Ryan
President & CEO, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.
Robert J. Spiegel
Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer,
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Robert Tepper
President, Research and Development, Millennium Pharmaceuticals
John A. Fallon
Chief Physician Executive and Senior Vice President, Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Massachusetts
Ernst R. Berndt
Louis B. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of
Management
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Americans will have to decide whether they want inexpensive medicines,
the most safe medicines, or if they want to be first or last with
innovative medicines."
-- Una Ryan
EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
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IN THE PIPELINE:
**MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series **
[** "LEADING BY OMISSION** ]
Ricardo Semler
President, Semco
Author, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual
Workplace
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Leading Innovative Enterprises
Strategies for Growth in the Life Sciences
Join senior MIT faculty in an intensive leadership program for
high-potential managers in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical
device, and healthcare industries. MIT Sloan's unique executive program
integrates perspectives from multiple disciplines to address the
complicated and often unique challenges faced by companies in the life
sciences industry.
"This program has great value and practical application for life
sciences."
Clare Kendall
Senior Director, Clinical Project Management
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research & Development, LLC
January 22-27
March 26-31
May 21-26
2006
For more information, see the course description
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[SPONSORED LINK]
[**MIT Research and Development Conference**]
"Innovation for Industry"
This annual conference will showcase cutting-edge research and
disruptive technologies essential to the R&D professional. MIT faculty,
researchers, and industry leaders will share the results of new research
at MIT that is relevant to the future of many industries. In addition to
two general sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to choose
among several concurrent technology tracks with themes that include:
**homeland security, human/machine interface, new materials,
manufacturing and productivity, photonics, and wireless networks and
devices.**
**November
2-3, 2005**
(ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES 10/21)
[Online agenda, brochure and registration]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Oct 18 11:24:04 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:24:04 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] MIT looks at Katrina Response, Panel on Drug Safety
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[HOW CAN WE IMPROVE DISASTER RESPONSE?]
MIT faculty look at systemic failures in the Katrina response with a
strong message to prepare for the next one, whether it be a natural
disaster, a terrorist attack or a flu pandemic.
Speakers:
Kenneth Oye
Associate Professor, Political Science and Engineering Systems
Richard C. Larson
Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental
Engineering MIT
Yossi Sheffi
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
Systems and Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics MIT
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
(on FEMA)
"With its (new) focus on terrorism, middle management people with
experience in natural disasters left, and were replaced with patronage
appointments... It became a hollow agency."
--Kenneth Oye
EVENT HOST: MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina
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[INNOVATION IN POST-LAUNCH SURVEILLANCE AND PHARMACO-VIGILANCE (PART
TWO)]
This panel looks at the issues surrounding the safety of drugs after
they have entered the marketplace and looks for ways to monitor side
effects in large populations.
[SPEAKERS]
MODERATOR:
Isaac S. Kohane
Director, Children's-HST Informatics Program; Associate Director of
Bioinformatics, Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics;
Co-Director of the HST Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Training
Program
PANELISTS:
Nevine Zariffa
Therapy Area Director, Cardiovascular and Metabolism, Biomedical Data
Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals
John Glaser
Vice President and C.I.O., Partners HealthCare
Randall Lutter
Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning, FDA
Joanna F. Haas
Vice President of Pharmacovigilance, Genzyme Corporation
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"No clinical trial program known to man will ever help predict every
single instance of everything that might happen in the big, wide world."
-- Nevine Zariffa
EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
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IN THE PIPELINE:
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
City Design and Development Forum
** Voices from New Orleans:
Design and Planning Diaspora **
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MIT'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
This one-week program introduces aspiring and successful
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technology transfer system, and worldwide network that together have
created more than 5,000 firms with combined annual sales of over
$200 billion. Through lectures, visits to high-tech startups, and
live case studies, participants learn how to foster a culture of
innovation, increase entrepreneurial activities within their
organizations, and develop ideas into successful businesses.
**January 30-February 3, 2006**
For more information and course description,
visit MIT's Entrepreneurship Development Program
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[SPONSORED LINK]
MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM
Put MIT to Work For You
Spend a Semester at MIT
As an ASP fellow, you will
* investigate the latest advances in your field
* design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals
* learn to harness the power of new technologies
* access the full range of MIT courses and resources
* build a lifelong network of colleagues
Accepting applications for Spring 2006
Classes begin February 7
For more information, please visit the
Advanced Study Program
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MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional
Education Programs.
SPONSORS
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School of Engineering
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From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:17:17 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld]
New: How Communities Can Recover from Disaster, History of Cancer Research
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[HOW CAN COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND REGIONS RECOVER FROM DISASTER?]
MIT faculty discuss the future of New Orleans and question if this
crisis can become an opportunity for inclusion and positive change
Speakers:
Lawrence J. Vale
Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
School of Architecture and Planning
Thomas Kochan
George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Co-director, Institute for
Work and Employment, MIT Sloan School of Management
J. Phillip Thompson
Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and
Planning
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Recovery from disasters is largely a matter of where politics sends
money. Cities often bounce back in the same place, but often that place
is profoundly changed."
--Lawrence?Vale
EVENT HOST: MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina
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[HOW DID WE GET HERE?]
Robert Weinberg tells a compelling story of the 200 year history of
cancer research in this opening session of the MIT Center for Cancer
Research 4th Annual Research Symposium, "The New Science of Cancer
Therapy".
[SPEAKER]
Robert A. Weinberg
Founding Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research Member, Whitehead
Institute Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for
Cancer Research Department of Biology
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"The idea that one can't predict the trajectory of basic research is a
point sadly lost in Washington."
--Robert?Weinberg
EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
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IN THE PIPELINE:
The Energy Research Council and the
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment present
Steve Koonin
Chief Scientist at BP
**"Energy for the Coming Decades:
Trends and Technologies"**
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[SPONSORED LINK]
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
MIT'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
This one-week program introduces aspiring and successful
entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to MIT's entrepreneurial culture,
technology transfer system, and worldwide network that together have
created more than 5,000 firms with combined annual sales of over
$200 billion. Through lectures, visits to high-tech startups, and
live case studies, participants learn how to foster a culture of
innovation, increase entrepreneurial activities within their
organizations, and develop ideas into successful businesses.
**January 30-February 3, 2006**
For more information and course description,
visit MIT's Entrepreneurship Development Program
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MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional
Education Programs.
SPONSORS
Office of the Provost
Office of the Vice President for Research
School of Architecture and Planning
School of Engineering
School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
MIT Sloan School of Management
The School of Science
MIT Alumni Association
Industrial Liaison Program
Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation
PARTNERS
Academic Media Production Services
IS&T Web Communications Services
Akamai Technologies
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