From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct  1 11:00:32 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:00:32 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Montek Ahluwalia on India, Panel on Engineering Systems
Message-ID: <200910011500.n91F0WmW005146@mrkrabs.mit.edu>

MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 5 |  October 1, 2009

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Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
September 9, 2009

Montek Singh Ahluwalia discusses plans for India's continued economic growth. The true objective 
for India, he believes, is ?inclusive growth,? an equitable and constructive distribution of 
economic gains via market forces, government and public means.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/705

Speaker:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning Commission


Event Host:
Global MIT

"I?m not talking about becoming happy, I?m just talking about becoming developed. It?s perfectly 
possible to have high income and be miserable. I?m happier tackling that problem once we have 
high income, so don?t knock it. It?s also totally possible to be poor and happy. I?m glad there 
are people trying to make poor people happy but that?s not my job. My job is to make them 
richer, and I think it?s a sensible thing to do."
-Montek Singh Ahluwalia

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Looking Ahead to 2020
June 16, 2009

William Rouse moderates this panel of real-world practitioners of systems engineering/engineering 
systems as they describe how the young discipline has shaped organizations like MITRE and the 
Transportation Research Board. By 2020, Joel Moses hopes that engineering systems will be 
recognized ?as having made significant contributions? to health care, energy, environment, 
financial services and the military.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/700

Moderator:
William B. Rouse SM '70, PhD '72
Executive Director, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology
 Professor, College of Computing and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"Risk management is a very important element. If you do it right, it can make enormous contributions 
to avoiding failures. Done wrong, it becomes bookkeeping and is useless."
-Heinz Stoewer

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In The Pipeline:

U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Speaker:
Julia Sweig
Wayne Smith


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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world.  

Hear Michael Ryschkewitsch, Chief Engineer, NASA, discuss <i>Systems Engineering and Sustainability at NASA: Addressing Engineering and Culture</i>. The presentation will describe NASA's effort to define both sides of systems engineering. This involves technical leadership and systems management, i.e., the art and the science of systems engineering.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

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From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:09:32 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] John Kufuor on Development in Africa,
	Peter Brown on Parkinson's Disease
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 6 |  October 7, 2009

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Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
September 21, 2009

John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, President of Ghana, 2000-2009, recounts how Ghana transcended its 
dark history to attain astonishing political and economic progress, establishing the nation 
as an exemplar for fellow African states.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/711

Speaker:
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor
Former President, Ghana (2001-2009)


Event Host:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship

"My government decided to give credit where credit was due, and position the entire polity to appreciate the 
strategic role that the private sector needed to play to unleash the potential wealth of the nation."
-John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor

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What Harm Does Pathological Synchronization in Parkinson&#39;s Disease Do?
May 7, 2009

Brown details his research of recorded activity in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients 
undergoing two key treatments, Deep Brain Stimulation (where electrodes implanted in the brain 
try to break the pattern of normal neuronal firing), and dopaminergic therapy.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/704

Speaker:
Peter Brown
Professor and Head of the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London

 


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"I?m obviously enthusiastic about the beta story ... The fact that you get any change, any 
behavioral consequences is pretty damn good, and there are precious few examples where we can 
show a causal link between a phenomenon and a behavioral correlate."
-Peter Brown

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In The Pipeline:

Challenges in Nation-Building

Presented By:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
The Legatum Pericles Lecture Series

Speaker:
President Jose Ramos-Horta
President, East Timor
1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world.  

Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D., Director, MIT AgeLab will speak on?<i>Getting Better But Feeling 
Worse: Why Health Systems Innovation Begins with the Patient as Consumer</i>. ?He will discuss 
the impact on health care that the?nearly 80 million baby boomers could have now that health systems 
are about them and not just their parents.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Fri Oct  9 10:15:36 2009
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:15:36 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Kenji Doya on Computational Models of the Brain
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 7 |  October 9, 2009

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Computational Models of Basal Ganglia Function
May 7, 2009

As a mathematical engineer, Kenji Doya approaches the goal of describing the most intricate 
brain mechanisms from a computational perspective. He constructs models of reinforcement 
learning involving the networked structures of the basal ganglia. His efforts are captured 
and expressed quantitatively as probabilities, regressions, and algorithms.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/707

Speaker:
Kenji Doya
Principal Investigator, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"How different parts of the basal ganglia work for different aspects of reinforcement 
learning?I think that?s a very important question we have to attack in the coming years.
"
-Kenji Doya

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In The Pipeline:

Reflections on the Current H1N1 Flu

Presented By:
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals

Speaker:
John M. Barry
Author
The Great Influenza

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MIT CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
October Series for Professionals						

http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

MIT/CRE?s Professional Development Institute provides professionals innovative,
expert, and practical knowledge through one- and two-day courses. 
All courses are taught by MIT faculty and industry leaders. 

Choose one class or take as a series:

<p>

-Fundamentals of Loan Workouts - October 26
-Advanced Real Estate Finance - October 27-28
-Assisted Living: Today - October 29
-Assisted Living: Tomorrow - October 30

View Course Descriptions
http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct 13 14:29:10 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:29:10 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Smith and Sweig on the US and Cuba,
	Cools on Dopamine and Cognition
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 8 |  October 13, 2009

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U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
September 23, 2009

To the dismay of these seasoned Cuba specialists, the Obama administration is not pursuing a rapid 
thaw in relations with the Castro regime. While there appears no speedy end to 50 years of icy 
antipathy toward Cuba, the speakers detect a few hopeful signs of warming in recent times.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/713

Speakers:
Wayne Smith
Senior Fellow and Director, Cuba Program, Center for International Policy

Julia Sweig
Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow, and Director for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"This glacial, almost like walking through peanut butter pace of change that we have in bilateral 
relations suits each government just fine.
"
-Julia Sweig

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Imaging the Human Striatum and its Modulation by Dopamine 
May 7, 2009

Researchers have known for some time that the neurotransmitter dopamine is centrally involved in 
learning and working memory, Roshan Cools tells us, and that dopamine-responsive circuits connect 
these parts of the human brain to other structures like the striatum, which also helps orchestrate 
motor control. Cools has been investigating in detail how dopamine acts within these 
cortico-striatal circuits to influence different types of cognitive processing.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/708

Speaker:
Roshan Cools
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour 


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"We and others have put forward a dopamine overdose hypothesis to account for the contrasting 
effects of dopaminergic medication on Parkinson's Disease patients."
-Roshan Cools

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In The Pipeline:

Newton
 and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist

Presented By:
MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

Speaker:
Thomas Levenson
Professor
Director, MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html

Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program, John Deere, and MITRE

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry
leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to some of the most 
complex challenges facing today's world.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938



<p>
<b>Special Focus: Heath Care</b><br><br>
On October 23, MIT experts and industry experts will cover the following topics: framing health
care systems challenges; a Lean Enterprise
systems approach to transforming health care 
systems; re-engineering U.S. health care with 
health care information technology (HCIT); 
clinical systems issues in stroke care; a systems-based approach to high-risk operations; 
and aging and health care.

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html


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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Fri Oct 16 11:47:43 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:47:43 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Ramos-Horta on East Timor's Independence
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 9 |  October 16, 2009

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Challenges in Nation Building
September 29, 2009

At times humorous and at times defiant, José Ramos-Horta describes nurturing the 
21st century’s first sovereign state through its formative years.  The journey of East Timor 
from brutal Indonesian rule to fragile self-governance has involved Ramos-Horta in conflict 
and debate from the halls of the U.N. to the smallest villages of this tiny Southeast Asian island.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/714

Speaker:
José Ramos-Horta
President, East Timor

1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate


Event Host:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship

"I’m happy to endure criticism from the ultrapatriots of international justice who want to make 
East Timor a guinea pig of international justice. I will not be part of that.  ... Let’s put 
all the past behind us -- look after the victims, the wounded, in their minds, bodies and souls, 
build a country that is deserving of so much sacrifice. Chasing the ghosts of the past 
leads us nowhere."
-José Ramos-Horta

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In The Pipeline:

Race, Politics and American Media

Presented By:
MIT Communications Forum

Speaker:
Juan Williams
J. Phillip Thompson
David Thorburn


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MIT Center for Real Estate<BR>Professional Development Institute
October Series for Professionals						

http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

MIT/CRE’s Professional Development Institute
provides professionals innovative, expert, and 
practical knowledge through one- and two-day 
courses. All courses are taught by MIT faculty and 
industry leaders. Choose one class or take as a 
series:
<p>
<li>Fundamentals of Loan Workouts - October 26
<li>Advanced Real Estate Finance - October 27-28
<li>Assisted Living: Today - October 29
<li>Assisted Living: Tomorrow - October 30



View Course Descriptions
http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Thu Oct 22 12:21:41 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:21:41 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] John M. Barry on H1N1 Flu,
	Paul Phillips on Dopamine and Learning
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 10 |  October 22, 2009

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Reflections on the Current H1N1 Flu
October 5, 2009

John M. Barry brings unsettling news from the frontlines of H1N1 research: this novel influenza 
virus is very hard to pin down. In spite of international scientific scrutiny, H1N1 continues 
to baffle and elude, worrying health officials defending against the pandemic, and challenging 
some ideas about influenza in general. Says Barry, ?A lot of things we thought we knew, the virus 
demonstrates we knew wrong.?

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/715

Speaker:
John M. Barry
Author, The Great Influenza and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America


Event Host:
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals

"My attitude is, I travel a lot, the virus is going to find me."
-John M. Barry

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Monitoring Dopamine Release During Reward Learning 
May 7, 2009

In the process of learning, we ?sometimes make more deliberative choices, and sometimes make more 
visceral ones,? says Paul Phillips. These are ?semantic terms we intuitively know,? and scientists 
have become well-versed in creating tasks for animals and humans that demonstrate how these 
different kinds of learning (analytical- reflective vs. impulsive -reflexive) play out. 
Phillips has been trying to track dopamine release (a neurotransmitter linked to learning) 
in such divergent learning processes.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/709

Speaker:
Paul E. M. Phillips
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Department of Pharmacology

Graduate Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Biology

Center for Drug Addiction Research

Univers


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"We?re interested in looking at neuroadaptation that happens over days or months, that comes about 
either through experience, in the case of learning, or pathology, in the case of disease."
-Paul E. M. Phillips

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In The Pipeline:

America's Leadership on Clean Energy

Presented By:
The Office of the President of MIT

Speaker:
President Barack Obama
President of the United States

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Wed Oct 28 07:13:49 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:13:49 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] President Obama on Clean Energy,
	Thomas Levenson on Isaac Newton
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 11 |  October 28, 2009

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America&#39;s Leadership in Clean Energy
October 23, 2009

Barack Obama came to MIT not just to praise the Institute's leading edge energy research 
but to encourage all of America?s ?heirs to a legacy of innovation? in their pursuit 
of discovery.  The nation owes much of its prosperity to risk-takers and entrepreneurs, Obama said, 
and now, given the linked challenges of energy and climate change, we need such pioneers more than ever.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/716

Speaker:
Barack Obama
President of the United States
2009 Nobel Peace Laureate


Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT

"This is the nation that will lead the clean energy economy of tomorrow, so long as all of us 
remember what we have achieved in the past and we use that to inspire us to achieve even 
more in the future."
-President Barack Obama

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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World&#39;s Greatest Scientist
October 6, 2009

Who knew that one of mankind?s greatest scientists also worked as a gumshoe on 
London?s mean streets, or that this same absent-minded professor helped England 
fix its monetary policy from an office in the Tower of London?  
Thomas Levenson brings all sorts of surprises to light in his own sleuthing 
of a little known but significant episode in British history involving 
Sir Isaac Newton --  subject of his recent book, Newton and the Counterfeiter: 
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. 



http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/717

Speaker:
Thomas Levenson
Professor of Science Writing, and Director, MIT Graduate Program in Science WritingDocumentary producer


Event Host:
MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

"Try to imagine
 Stephen Hawking or Frank Wilczek suddenly put in a position where they have to 
police the mean streets of London or Boston. That?s Isaac Newton."
-Thomas Levenson

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In The Pipeline:

The Art of Science Television

Presented By:
Department of Physics
Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture

Speaker:
Paula S. Apsell 
Senior Executive Producer
PBS-NOVA

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