Invitation to St Patrick's Week Activities - Postdoctoral community

[Janet Fischer]

To fellow members of the MIT Postdoctoral Scholars community:

As the Chairperson of the Irish Association of 
MIT 
(<http://web.mit.edu/eire>http://web.mit.edu/eire), 
I would like to extend a warm invitation to 
attend our St Patrick's Week events taking place 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
over the coming week. Our activities for the week 
are set out below:

March 15th:
MIT-Harvard Seminar
Ambassador Richard Egan, US Ambassador to Ireland (2001-2003)
Founder of EMC Corporation, 5:00-6:30 pm, Room 4-237

March 16th:
Seamus Brennan, T.D.
Minister for Family and Social Affairs
1:00-2:00 pm, W20 Chimneys, 3rd floor, Student Centre

March 17th:
Traditional Irish music session
11:00-12:30, W20 Room 491, Student Center

We hope you will be able to join us at these 
events, and should you have any questions in 
relation to this matter, please do not hesitate 
to drop us a line.

Yours gratefully,

Dr. Rory O'Shea, roshea at mit.edu
Member, Postdoc Advisory Council


Profile
Ambassador Richard Egan served as the US 
Ambassador to Ireland between 2001-2003. 
Ambassador Egan is the Founder and Chairman 
Emeritus of EMC Corporation, an S&P 500 company 
that is the world's leading supplier of 
intelligent enterprise storage and retrieval 
technology. Ambassador Egan is a self-made 
billionaire, and was named Inc. magazine's 
"Master Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1994. He has 
served as Director of the Massachusetts High 
Technology Council and Business Roundtable. He is 
a member of the Governor's Economic Council in 
Massachusetts and of the U.S. Department of 
Commerce Transition Advisory Council. He earned a 
B.Eng degree from Northeastern and undertook his 
graduate work at MIT


Profile
Séamus Brennan was appointed Minister for Social 
and Family Affairs on 29 September 2004, having 
served as Minister for Transport since June 2002. 
He was Minister of State at the Department of the 
Taoiseach, with special responsibility as 
Government Chief Whip, and Minister of State at 
the Department of Defence between 1997 and 2002. 
He was spokesperson on Transport, Energy and 
Communications from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Brennan was 
Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise 
and Employment, with special responsibility for 
Commerce and Technology, 1993 to 1994. He was 
also Minister for Education from 1992 to 1993, 
Minister for Tourism, Transport and 
Communications between 1991 and 1992 and Minister 
for Tourism and Transport, 1989 to 1991. He was 
Minister of State at the Department of Industry 
and Commerce, with special responsibility for 
Trade and Marketing, between 1987 and 1989. He 
was first elected to the Dáil in 1981 and 
previously served as Senator from 1977 to 1981. 
He was a member of Dublin County Council between 
1985 and 1987 and General Secretary of Fianna 
Fáil from 1973 to 1980. He was educated at St 
Joseph's Secondary School, Galway; University 
College, Galway (BA, BComm) and University 
College, Dublin (MComm).  A native of Galway, 
Minister Brennan now represents the Dublin South 
Constituency. He is married with six children.
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