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 Message-ID: <1051224.IUKBYQTY@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 4 | October 4, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: **MIT Communications Forum presents** [** "THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMONS"** ] A panel discussion featuring **Nancy Kranich** **Steven Pinker** **Ann Wolpert** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 agenda, brochure and registration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 Fall 2005 Classes begin September 7 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg.9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Executive Education 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: Department of Urban Studies and Planning City Design and Development Forum ** Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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"** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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