December
15, 2005
ESD Holiday Party
Location:
MIT Faculty Club, Building E52, Sloan Building,
50 Memorial Drive
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD community
Contact/RSVP Confirmations only: Beverly
Kozol-Tattlebaum, 617.253.9756
on or before Friday, 2 December 2005
As
part of the festivities, we have organized a
food
drive and toy
drive. We are grateful for any level of
participation.
December
14, 2005
TPP Holiday Party
Location:
E40-380, TPP Lounge
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Open to: TPP Community
Contact: Yoko
Urano
Refreshments
provided.
December
13, 2005
Title: Boston Public Library Author Talk with
Yossi Sheffi
Speaker: Dr. Yossi Sheffi, Director of ESD's
Center for Transportation and Logistics
Location:
Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street, Copley Square
Time: 6:00 pm
Open to: Free and open to the public
Contact: Becky
Schneck Allen, 617.253.4592
Details: Click
here for more details, including information
on the shuttle bus to event.
December
13, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD affliated conference reports
Speaker: Yossi Sheffi, ESD/CEE/CTL/MLOG, Oli
deWeck, ESD/AA, and Dava Newman, ESD/AA/TPP/HMHST
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
December
13, 2005
LFM-SDM Faculty-Industry Research Day
Location:
Stratton Student Center, W20
Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Open to: LFM and SDM students; MIT faculty and
industry executives interested in working together
to develop and supervise thesis research for
LFM and SDM students
Contact: Pat
Hale, Director, System Design and Management
Fellows Program, 617.253.7668;
Don Rosenfield,
Director, Leaders for Manufacturing Fellows
Program, 617.253.1064
December
9, 2005
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Title: Statewide Transportation Plan
Speaker: John Cogliano, Secretary of Transportation
About
John Cogliano:
Governor Mitt Romney appointed John Cogliano
as Secretary of Transportation in May of 2005.
As Transportation Secretary, Cogliano heads
the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT),
an agency with $1.4 billion in annual operating
expenditures, a $1.4 billion capital program,
and purview over 8,600 employees. In his capacity
as Secretary, Cogliano serves as the Chair of
the MBTA Board of Directors. He also has direct
oversight of the
Massachusetts Highway Department, the Registry
of Motor Vehicles, and the Massachusetts Aeronautics
Commission.
Location:
W20 – Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student
Center
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
December
9, 2005
Title: Counterterrorism: Unconventional Solutions
to Unconventional Problems in an Unconventional
World
Speaker: Jeffrey Baxter, National Security Counterterrorism
Expert
Jeffrey
Baxter serves as a consultant to a host of national
defense agencies and industries. As an advisor
to the Department of Defense, the Department
of Homeland Security, the U.S. intelligence
community, and the Air Force Research Laboratory,
he helps policy makers better understand how
terrorists apply technology for their purposes.
Defense contractors such as the Science and
Applications Corporation, General Atomics, Anteon,
and Northrop Grumman have all drawn on his counterterrorism
expertise. He has worked with the Anti-Terrorist
Division of the Los Angeles Police Department
and is a member of the 2005 Blue Ribbon Panel
for the Director of National Intelligence, recommending
ways to move information and intelligence to
law enforcement officers and first responders.
Mr. Baxter is also a forensic audio specialist,
consulting on federal and local criminal cases.
Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Prof.
Randolph Kirchain
Pizza
will be served at 11:45 a.m.
December
8, 2005
MIT Center for eBusiness Research Workshop
Title: Interdependence of Security and the Extended
Enterprise
Speakers: ESD Professors Stuart Madnick and
Yossi Sheffi
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty, students, and industry
supporters
Details: Click
here for more details.
To register: Contact Professor
Stuart Madnick, 617.253.6671
December
7, 2005
Technology and Policy Program ESD.10 Project
Presentations (Day 2)
All
TPP first-year students will be presenting on
various topics in technology and policy. Presentation
topics include:
1.
Urban Transportation and BRT
2. Diesel Cars and Climate Change
3. Green Ports
4. Mammography Standards
5. Decision Making at NASA
Location:
Room 35-225
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Meghan
Sweeney
December
6, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: LFM/SDM research/internships
Speakers: Pat Hale, SDM and Don Rosenfield,
LFM/Sloan
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
December
5, 2005
Technology and Policy Program ESD.10 Project
Presentations (Day 1)
All
TPP first-year students will be presenting on
various topics in technology and policy. Presentation
topics include:
1.
National Security and National ID Cards
2. Security at Small Airports
3. Energy Security
4. Information Technology in Disasters
5. Wireless Telecommunications in Disasters
Location:
Room 35-225
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Meghan
Sweeney
December
2, 2005
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Mort Downey, Principal Consultant,
Parsons Brinckerhoff
About
Mort Downey:
Mr. Downey recently completed eight years as
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation. As
the Department of Transportation’s chief
operating officer, Mr. Downey developed the
agency’s strategic and performance plans
and had program responsibilities for operations,
regulations and investments in land, sea, air
and space transportation. He also served on
the President’s Management Council, as
chairman of the National Science and Technology
Council Committee on Technology, and as a member
of the board of directors of Amtrak.
Prior
to accepting President Clinton's appointment
as Deputy Secretary, Mr. Downey served as executive
director and chief financial officer at the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
in New York. During his twelve years at the
MTA, he was particularly involved in the capital
rebuilding of the MTA system, overseeing the
financing for and programming of more than $20
billion of capital investment into its regional
transportation facilities.
Location:
W20 - 307, Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student
Center
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
December
2, 2005
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Topic: Real Options
Speaker: Richard de Neufville, Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
Systems
Time:
9:00 am PST / 12:00 noon EST
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: You must RSVP to Alison
McCaffree if you would like to attend and
receive instructions on how to participate.
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
30, 2005
TPP Guest Lecture
Title: Technology and Policy Careers in Washington,
DC
Q&A session will follow.
Speaker: William Jeffrey, Director, National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Location:
E40-380
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Meghan
Sweeney
Refreshments
will be served.
November
29, 2005
TPP Guest Speaker Series
Title: Managing Natural Catastrophes in a Post-9/11
World
Speaker: Dr. James L. Valverde, TPP/TMP Alum,
Executive Director of Economics and Risk Management
for the Insurance Information Institute in New
York
Location:
E40-380, TPP Lounge
Time: 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire TPP Community
Contact: Yoko
Urano
Light
refreshments provided.
November
29, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET)
Speakers: Daniel Hastings, Dava Newman, ESD/AA/TPP/HMHST,
Ken Oye, ESD/PS, Merritt Roe Smith, STS
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
28, 2005
CTPID and ESD Perspectives on Critical Infrastructure
Systems Lecture Series
Title: Infrastructure in the 21st Century
Speaker: Cordell W. Hull, Venture Investor and
Developer; Former Chairman of Bechtel Enterprises,
and Executive Vice President of the Bechtel
Group
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Susan
Cass
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
28, 2005
Title: Air Force Transformation and Technology
- A Systems Challenge
Speaker: General Lester Lyles
The
Department of Defense (DoD), and especially
the U.S. Air Force, have always touted the value
and necessity of science and technology to accomplish
our national security mission. This necessity
was particularly a hallmark of the DoD's "transformation"
objectives.
However,
the strain of budget emphases to fight the "war
on terrorism," and the problem of maintaining
a strong, talented technical workforce in DoD
have made staying abreast of science and technology
and engineering a major challenge! There are
numerous initiatives within the Services and
DoD to address these challenges. This presentation
will focus on the challenges and the initiatives
to address them.
Location:
E40-496
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Contact for details: Profs. Randy
Kirchain, 617.253.4258 and Warren
Seering, 617.253.8253
Pizza
will be served starting at 11:45 am
November
22, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: RFID Lab
Speaker: John Williams, ESD/IE/CEE/Auto-ID Lab
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
21, 2005
LFM Information Evening
Educating Innovative Leaders for Diverse Global
Operations
Location:
General
Motors University – Auburn Hills Campus
Room D5, 975 South Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills,
MI 48326
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Registration: submit
registration
Contact: lfm "at"mit.edu
or call 617.253.1055
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
18, 2005
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Vinay Mudholkar, Director, Program
Management, Amtrak, New York, Philadelphia
Mr.
Mudholkar will present a case study of UK’s
West Coast Main Line Construction Project where
Six-Sigma Methodology was successfully used
to achieve Best Quality.
He
will also present Amtrak’s recent on going
project efforts on the Keystone Corridor improvements
in Pennsylvania to attain speed of 110 MPH.
About
Vinay Mudholkar:
Mr. Mudholkar was the deputy director of Railroad
Operations Directorate, MBTA. He was the principal
engineer for Bechtel, UK from 2000 to 2004 on
the West Coast Route Modernization, and is currently
director, Program Management with Amtrak, United
States.
Location:
W20 – Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student
Center
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
November
18, 2005
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Title: Environmentally Conscious Design &
Integrated CAD
Speaker: David Wallace, Associate Professor
of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director MIT CADlab
Time:
9:00 am PST / 12:00 noon EST
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Alison
McCaffree
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
16, 2005
GSC 2005-2006 Professional Development Series
Title: Ethics in Academia
Speaker: Taft
H. Broome, Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting
Professor, MIT Engineering Systems Division
Over
the past year, Graduate Students from across
MIT have been demanding the need for more ethics
education in their curriculums. In response
to these requests, the Graduate Student Council
(GSC) is proud to present the first in a series
of talks on the subject of ethics.
Location:
37-212
Time: 6:30 pm
Contact/RSVP: swiston
"at" gmail.com
Dinner
will be served.
| November
15, 2005 BIG
questions after BIG Hurricanes |
| Katrina
Response Advisory Group Symposium Series |
| Topic:
What's so Natural about Natural Disasters? |
| Speakers: |
| |
• |
Professor
David S. Jones, Program in Science, Technology,
and Society - Unnatural Mortality: Poverty
and Risk in Epidemics and Natural Disasters |
| |
• |
Professor
Meg Jacobs, History - Natural Disaster
and the Unnatural Bush Response |
| |
• |
Professor
David A. Mindell, Science, Technology
and Society, and Engineering Systems Division
- Technological Systems in Disaster |
| Moderator:
Professor Rosalind H. Williams, Director
of the Program in Science, Technology, and
Society |
Location:
Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Ted E.
Johnson, 617-253-4940
The
symposia series is being broadcast live
on the Internet at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
and will be permanently archived and distributed
via MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/.
November
15, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Planning for January offsite on ESD Ph.D.
Speaker: Dan Hastings, Warren Seering ESD/ME
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
9-10, 2005
2005 Innovations in Product Development Conference
Title: Product Families and Platforms: From
Strategic Innovation to Implementation
Location:
Building W20-307 (Stratton Student Center)
Contact: Co-Organizer Prof.
Olivier de Weck
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
8, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Engineering Ethics
Speaker: Taft Broome, Martin Luther King Jr.
Visiting Professor
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
4, 2005
MIT ESD/MITRE Research Workshop on Engineering
Complex Systems
Location:
MITRE Center in Bedford, MA
Time: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Contact: Donna
Rhodes
Details: Click
here for more details.
November
2, 2005
LFM Information Evening
Educating innovative leaders for diverse global
operations
Please
join us at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA for an Information
Evening on the Leaders
for Manufacturing (LFM) program. You will
have the opportunity to learn more about this
exciting two-year program, discuss career opportunities,
and network with LFM alumni, faculty, students,
and staff. The evening will include a panel
discussion and reception.
Location:
MIT
Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Registration: Click
here.
Contact: lfm "at"
mit.edu, 617.253.1055
November
1, 2005
"The
Resilient Enterprise" Reception
Featuring MIT Professor Yossi
Sheffi
The
MIT Community is invited to attend a reception
commemorating the release of Professor Yossi
Sheffi's new bestseller "The Resilient
Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive
Advantage."
As
witnessed in the aftermath of Katrina, businesses
are more vulnerable than ever to sudden disruptions
such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks,
supplier failures and labor actions. Dr. Sheffi
- an expert in supply chain disruption - has
spent years studying companies that survived
disaster, as well as those that faltered. Based
on this research, Dr. Sheffi has written "The
Resilient Enterprise," in which he explains
how organizations can prepare for the unexpected.
The
reception will include a presentation by the
author and a book signing.
Location:
Stata Center - 32-141
Time: 6:00 pm
Open to: the general public
Contact: Becky
Schneck Allen, 617.253.4592
Sponsors:
Center
for Transportation & Logistics, MIT
Press Bookstore
November
1, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: LFM China
Speaker: Tom Allen, ESD/LFM/SDM and David Simchi-Levi,
ESD/CEE/LFM/SDM
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
31, 2005
BIG
questions after BIG Hurricanes
Katrina
Response Advisory Group Symposium Series
Topic: What Does Current Scientific Research
Have to Say About the Present and Future Risks
Associated with Hurricanes?
Speaker: Kerry Emanuel, Earth, Atmospheric,
and Planetary Sciences
Big
questions have arisen as a result of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and their devastating aftermath.
Questions concerning science and engineering,
politics and leadership, cities and their citizens.
MIT faculty members will address some of the
many urgent questions in a series of MIT-wide
symposia entitled "BIG Questions after
Big Hurricanes." This is the third
of four.
The
Katrina Response Advisory Group is committed
to encouraging and sustaining the momentum mobilized
on campus following these events. Please
join us - and bring your friends and colleagues
- to these discussions.
Location:
Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Building
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Ted E.
Johnson, 617-253-4940
The
symposia series is being broadcast live
on the Internet at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
and will be permanently archived and distributed
via MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/.
October
31, 2005
Engineering Systems Division
Information Session for Prospective Students
On
October 31, 2005, the Technology & Policy
Program (TPP) and the Ph.D. Program will be
hosting an information session for prospective
students.
Location:
E40-208 for the Ph.D. program and E40-380 for
TPP
Time: 9:30 am for TPP and 10:30 am for the Ph.D.
Program
Contact: Elizabeth
Milnes, 617.253.0466 for the Ph.D. Program
and Yoko Urano,
617.258.7295 for TPP
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
28, 2005
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Title: What it takes to build large projects
in today's political environment
Speaker: Jon Layzer, Strategic Advisor for the
Seattle Department of Transportation
Working
in the midst of this turmoil in the Major Projects
office of Seattle's Department of Transportation,
Jon Layzer will reflect on what it takes to
approve, fund, and build major projects in today's
political environment.
About
Jon Layzer:
Jon Layzer is a Strategic Advisor for the Seattle
Department of Transportation, and is the City's
overall lead for development of light rail in
Seattle by Sound Transit, a separate public
agency. Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Harvard University and a Masters degree
in Public Administration from the Evans School
at the University of Washington. Jon has more
than 20 years of experience in local, regional,
state, and federal policy and program development,
implementation, and evaluation.
Location:
W20-407
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
October
27-28, 2005
MIT's Learning International Networks Consortium
(LINC) – 3rd Annual International Symposium
Title: Impacting Social and Economic Development
Through E-Learning
LINC
2005 is the first official public activity of
ESD's new Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
(CESF), focusing on techology to bring quality
tertiary education to underserved communities
in the developing world. Rather than focus narrowly
on technology per se, LINC considers simultaneously
all 3 ESD concerns: engineering, management
and social science.
Location:
MIT Student Center
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: lincinquiries
"at" mit.edu
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
27-28, 2005
SDM Alumni Conference 2005
The
alumni committee is putting the finishing touches
on October's agenda where the focus has been
to recruit engaging speakers in the areas of
"managing innovation," "leading
change," and "systems thinking"
and to create an overall event that is a great
experience for SDM alumni, students, staff,
faculty, and partnering companies.
The
committee is very excited about the group of
speakers who will be at the conference this
Fall which includes Carliss Baldwin, William
L. White Professor of Business Administration
at the Harvard Business School, who has authored
with Kim B. Clark of HBS the book "Design
Rules: The Power of Modularity" and Dr.
Michael Hammer, President, Hammer and Company,
who has authored several books, including the
international best-seller "Reengineering
the Corporation" and was named by Time
Magazine to its first list of America's twenty-five
most influential individuals.
Location:
MIT
Open to: SDM alumni
Contact: Al
McQuarrie (SDM 02), Sridhar
Sadasivan (SDM 01)
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
27, 2005
TPP Case Interview Workshop
Speaker: TPP Alumnus Karim Lakhani, MIT
Sloan & The Boston Consulting Group
Location:
E51-151
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact and RSVP to: Michael
Berlinski
Light
refreshments will be served.
October
27, 2005
Operations Research Center Fall 2005 Seminar
Series
Title: Polls, Prices, and Predicting the Presidential
Election
Speaker: Edward H. Kaplan, William N. &
Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences,
School of Management, Yale
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:14 pm
Reception: To follow immediately in the Philip
M. Morse Reading Room, E40-106
Contact: Randolph
Kirchain
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
27, 2005
TPP Faculty Appreciation and Information Breakfast
Location:
E40-380, TPP Lounge
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 am
Open to: TPP Faculty and Advisors
Contact and RSVP to: Yoko
Urano
Light
breakfast will be served.
October
25, 2005
MIT Seminar Series in Manufacturing and Productivity,
Fall 2005
Title: Modeling and Simulating the Manufacturing
Enterprise
Speaker: Charles McLean, Group Leader, Manufacturing
Simulation and Modeling Group, National Institute
of Standards and Technology
Location:
35-225
Time: 12:00 noon
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: Jung-Hoon
Chun
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
25, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: The ESD Industry Council
Speaker: Daniel Roos, ESD/CEE
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
21, 2005
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Title:Why has safety improved at rail-highway
grade crossings?
Speaker: Ian Savage, College Lecturer of Economics,
Northwestern University
About
Ian Savage:
Ian Savage has been a member of the faculty
of both the Department of Economics and the
Transportation Center at Northwestern University
since 1986. He has a Ph.D. from the University
of Leeds. He specializes in urban transportation,
and the analysis of safety regulation and safety
performance. Most recently, he completed a book
on The Economics of Railroad Safety. He has
also researched into and published widely on
the economics of transit finances and operations
and, more specifically, the impacts of competition
and privatization.
Location:
W20 -- Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student Center
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
October
20-21, 2005
LFM Alumni Conference 2005
Open
to: LFM alumni
Contact: Wayne
Firsty
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
20, 2005
TPP Guest Speaker Series
Title: "Replacing the Air Force's aging
tanker fleet: analysis of options"
Speaker: Dr. Yool Kim, Engineer, RAND Corp.
Location:
E40-380, TPP Lounge
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Light
refreshments provided.
October
20, 2005
National Science Board Workshop – co-sponsored
with MIT School of Engineering and ESD
Title: “Engineering Workforce Issues and
Engineering Education: What are the Linkages?"
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Note: Registration for luncheon is closed.
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
19, 2005
TPP Internship Seminar & Alum Talk
Subject: Washington and U.S. Agencies
Speakers: TPP Students- Masa Sugiyama, Tristan
Weir, Alisa Rhee; TPP Alumnus David Cheney,
Director, Science and Technology Policy Program,
SRI in Washington, D.C.
Location:
E40-380, TPP Lounge
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:30 pm
Open to: Entire TPP Community
Light
lunch will be served.
| October
18, 2005 BIG
questions after BIG Hurricanes |
| Katrina
Response Advisory Group Symposium Series |
Topic:
How Can We Plan for a Safe and Sustainable
Region?
Speakers/panel: |
| |
• |
Professor
Chiang C. Mei, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lessons from Venice, Italy and the
Netherlands |
| |
• |
Professor
Michael M. J. Fischer, Science, Technology
and Society - Catastrophe, Repetition,
and Social Learning |
| |
• |
Professor
Anne Whiston Spirn, Architecture and Urban
Studies and Planning - Flooding, Subsidence,
and Community Development |
| Moderator:
Professor Andrew Whittle, Civil and Environmental
Engineering |
Big
questions have arisen as a result of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and their devastating aftermath.
Questions concerning science and engineering,
politics and leadership, cities and their citizens.
MIT faculty members will address some of the
many urgent questions in a series of MIT-wide
symposia entitled "BIG Questions after
Big Hurricanes." This is the third
of four.
The
Katrina Response Advisory Group is committed
to encouraging and sustaining the momentum mobilized
on campus following these events. Please
join us - and bring your friends and colleagues
- to these discussions.
Location:
Kirsch Auditorium, Ray and Maria Stata Center
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Ted E.
Johnson, 617-253-4940
The
symposia series is being broadcast live
on the Internet at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
and will be permanently archived and distributed
via MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/.
October
18, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Research in Flexibility
Speaker: Rania Hassan
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
17, 2005
Cambridge Women's Panel – Sloan MBA
Moderator: Debra Woog McGinty, LFM Director
of Admissions and Career Development
LFM's
Director of Admissions and Career Development,
Debra Woog McGinty, will be moderating a 45
minute women's panel presentation consisting
of MIT Sloan alumnae speaking on the MIT Sloan
MBA Program, followed by questions from the
audience. The formal presentation will then
be followed by a reception allowing for one-on-one
discussion with alumnae, current students and
MIT Sloan MBA Program staff.
Location:
E51-395
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Contact: adcom
"at" sloan.mit.edu, 617.258.5434
October
14, 2005
Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems
Title: The 21st Century is about Engineering,
Systems, and Society
Speaker: Dr. A. Richard Newton, Dean of the
College of Engineering at University of California
at Berkeley; Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering;
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences.
Location:
Grier Room 34-401
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm with reception to follow
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: Fran Marrone
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
14, 2005
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Topic: Variation Control in Design for Supply
Chain
Who: LFM Alumni who current work at Hewlett-Packard,
sponsored by Gavin deNyse LFM '01
Time:
9:00 am PST / 12:00 noon EST
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Alison
McCaffree
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
14, 2005
ESD Alumni Advisory Council Fall 2005 Meeting
Location:
MIT Faculty Club, E52 - 6th floor - Dining Room
2
Time: 11:15 am - 3:45 pm
Open to: ESD Alumni Advisory Council and other
invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
14, 2005
ESD Seminar
Title: Can System Understanding Differentiate
Capital? ... The Art and Science of Selling
Financing Products in the Energy Sector
Speaker: Matthew Siegel, Managing Director -
Chief Marketing Officer
GE Commercial Finance, Energy Financial Services
Location:
E40-298
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Randy
Kirchain or Warren
Seering
Details: Click
here for more details.
Light
refreshments served.
October
13, 2005
TPP Director's Social
Location:
E40-380, TPP lounge
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Open to: Entire TPP Community
Contact: Yoko
Urano
Light
refreshments served.
October
11, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: The ESD Doctoral Architecture
Speaker: Richard de Neufville, ESD/CEE
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
| October
5, 2005 BIG
questions after BIG Hurricanes |
| Katrina
Response Advisory Group Symposium Series |
Topic:
How Can Communities, Cities and Regions
Recover from Disaster?
Speakers/panel: |
| |
• |
Larry
Vale - comparative disaster recovery |
| |
• |
Tom
Kochan - reviving economie |
| |
• |
Phil
Thompson - rebuilding communities |
| |
• |
Esther
Duflo - lessons from other countries |
Big
questions have arisen as a result of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and their devastating aftermath.
Questions concerning science and engineering,
politics and leadership, cities and their citizens.
MIT faculty members will address some of the
many urgent questions in a series of MIT-wide
symposia entitled "BIG Questions after
Big Hurricanes." This is the second
of four.
The
Katrina Response Advisory Group is committed
to encouraging and sustaining the momentum mobilized
on campus following these events. Please
join us - and bring your friends and colleagues
- to these discussions.
Location:
Kirsch Auditorium, Ray and Maria Stata Center
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Ted E.
Johnson, 617.253.4940
The
symposia series is being broadcast live
on the Internet at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
and will be permanently archived and distributed
via MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/.
October
4, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD TBAs
Speaker: Daniel Hastings, ESD Director
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
3, 2005
ESD Ph.D. student poster session
Our
students are doing cutting-edge research. Please
come learn, encourage, contribute.
Location:
E40-298 and surrounding rooms
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Eda Daniel
Light
refreshments served. No RSVP needed.
September
30, 2005
BIG
questions after BIG Hurricanes |
| Katrina
Response Advisory Group Symposium Series |
Topic:
How Can We Improve Disaster Response?
Speakers/panel (all from ESD): |
| |
• |
Professor
Kenneth A. Oye, Political Science and Engineering
Systems - "The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly: Explaining Federal Responses
to Katrina" |
| |
• |
Professor
Richard C. Larson, Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Engineering Systems, Director,
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
- "Recurring Problems with Disaster
Response Systems" |
| |
• |
Professor
Yossi Sheffi, Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Engineering Systems, Director
of the Center for Transportation and Logistics
- "Resilient Enterprises" |
| Moderator:
Daniel E. Hastings, Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
Director of the Engineering Systems Division |
Big
questions have arisen as a result of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and their devastating aftermath.
Questions concerning science and engineering,
politics and leadership, cities and their citizens.
MIT faculty members will address some of the
many urgent questions in a series of MIT-wide
symposia entitled "BIG Questions after
Big Hurricanes." This is the first
of four.
The
Katrina Response Advisory Group is committed
to encouraging and sustaining the momentum mobilized
on campus following these events. Please
join us - and bring your friends and colleagues
- to these discussions.
Location:
Kirsch Auditorium, Ray and Maria Stata Center
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Ted E.
Johnson, 617-253-4940
The
symposia series is being broadcast live
on the Internet at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
and will be permanently archived and distributed
via MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/.
September
30, 2005
MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Scott Griffith, CEO, Zipcar
About
Scott Griffith
Scott Griffith is the Chief Executive Officer
of Zipcar. He has extensive experience raising
equity capital as well as a history of senior
level responsibility for business strategy and
development, sales and marketing, and mergers
and acquisitions, both for private and public
companies. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University,
Griffith holds an MBA from the University of
Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
Location:
W20 - 407, Stratton Student Center
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: All
Contact: Anita
Rao or Lavanya
Marla
Lunch
Provided by the Center for Transportation and
Logistics.
September
30, 2005
The Park Centre for Complex Systems presents:
Title: Conceptual Engineering Design by Transforming
Knowledge through Graph Representations
Speaker: Dr. Offer Shai, Department of Mechanics
Materials and Systems, Tel Aviv University,
Israel
Location:
35-520 (Given Lounge)
Time: 11:00 am
Contact: Tony
Pulsone, 617.258.8479
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
29, 2005
CTL Symposium
Title:The Resilient & Secure Supply Chain
Keynote Speaker: Commissioner Robert C. Bonner,
US Customs and Border Patrol
Other
featured speakers for the event include Stephen
E. Flynn, US Council of Foreign Relations and
author of "America the Vulnerable";
Theo Fletcher, IBM Vice President of Security;
and Yossi
Sheffi, MIT CTL Director and author of "The
Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability
for Competitive Advantage."
Location:
Royal Sonesta Hotel - Cambridge, MA
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community - Registration
Required
Contact: Space is limited and pre-registration
is required. If interested in attending, contact
Nancy Martin, nlmartin
"at" mit.edu
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
28, 2005
LAI Research Seminar
Topic: The Future of Work
Speaker: Thomas W. Malone
Thomas
W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor
of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He is also the founder and director of the MIT
Center for Coordination Science and was one
of the two founding co-directors of the MIT
Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations
of the 21st Century". Professor Malone
teaches classes on leadership and information
technology, and his research focuses on how
new organizations can be designed to take advantage
of the possibilities provided by information
technology.
Location:
33-116
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Juliet
Perdichizzi, 617.258.7628
Light
refreshments served.
September
27, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Heath Care Task Force
Speaker: Tom Allen, ESD/LFM/SDM
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
September
23, 2005
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Title: Product Family and Platform Strategy
Development
Speaker: Olivier de Weck, Assistant Professor
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering
Systems
Time:
9:00 am PST / 12:00 noon EST
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Alison
McCaffree
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
22, 2005
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Broadcast
Series
Title: The Power Of Revolutionary Thinking:
What Today's Scientists Can Teach You About
Driving Innovation In Your Organization
Location:
Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, 1st floor,
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Time: Program at 6:15 - 8:30 pm, Networking
with sandwiches & sodas at 5:30 pm
Price: $20 Forum Members, $30 Forum Non-Members
Contact: Rob
Butler, Marketing & Membership Manager,
617.253.2568
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
22, 2005
The Future of the Car – The Car of the
Future
Location:
4-237
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: All
Contact: sberka
"at" mit.edu, 617.253.6982
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
22, 2005
MIT's Energy Research Council Energy Colloquium
Title: Energy for the Coming Decades: Trends
and Technologies
Speaker: Dr. Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist,
BP plc.
MIT's
Energy Research Council is initiating a series
of energy colloquia that will be of interest
to faculty, staff and students across the campus.
President Susan Hockfield and former Provost
Robert Brown appointed the Energy Research Council
"to lead the planning for the initiative
in energy-related research and education—including
developing a picture of the current state of
MIT energy-related research and expertise; developing
a list of promising science and engineering
research areas that match global needs and MIT
capabilities; and recommending an organizational
structure that would facilitate work in these
areas." (Tech Talk, June 8, 2005)
The series opens on September 22, 2005 with
a presentation by Dr. Steve Koonin, Chief
Scientist of BP plc. Dr. Koonin also has
a distinguished academic background, including
nearly ten years as Cal Tech's provost. We invite
you to join us.
Location:
32-123, Kirsch Hall, Stata Center
Time: Lecture: 4:00 pm, Refreshments at 3:30
pm
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: Marie
Tangney, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Details: Click
here for more details.
Reception
will follow the lecture in Room 32-123
September
21, 2005
Cambridge Women's Panel – Sloan MBA
Moderator: Debra Woog McGinty, Director of LFM
Admissions and Career Development
LFM's
Director of Admissions and Career Development,
Debra Woog McGinty, will be moderating a 45
minute women's panel presentation consisting
of MIT Sloan alumnae speaking on the MIT Sloan
MBA Program, followed by questions from the
audience. The formal presentation will then
be followed by a reception allowing for one-on-one
discussion with alumnae, current students and
MIT Sloan MBA Program staff.
Location:
E51-395
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Contact: adcom
"at" sloan.mit.edu, 617.258.5434
(note
there is also one scheduled for October 17)
September
20, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: The Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
Speaker: Richard Larson, CESF Director
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
September
16, 2005
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Title: RFID History and Current State
Speaker: Sanjay Sharma, Associate Professor
of Mechanical Engineering; Former Chairman of
Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center
at MIT
Time:
9:00 am PST / 12:00 noon EST
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Alison
McCaffree
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
15-16, 2005
A seminar at the University of Cambridge, organised
by the Communications Research Network
Title: The Connected Car
Location:
New
Hall, University of Cambridge
Time: 3.30 pm on September 15 and 3:00 pm on
September 16
Contact:
j.ouchikh "at" cmi.cam.ac.uk
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
14, 2005
SDM Information Evening
Location:
Marriott Hotel, Burlington, MA
Open to: Prospective SDM Applicants
Contact: Ted
Hoppe
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
14, 2005
ESD
Diversity Planning Luncheon
Location:
E40-208
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD staff and other interested parties
RSVP: To Fran Marrone by September 7, 2005
Contact: Lois
Slavin for further info.
September
13, 2005
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Academic Year Plans
Speaker: Daniel Hastings, ESD Director
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone
September
12, 2005
ESD Town Hall Meeting
This
town meeting is called by ESD Director Dan Hastings
for all ESD staff. The purpose is to discuss
the new academic year, hear your issues, and
outline the ESD strategic plan and our implementation
of it.
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:00 pm
Open to: ESD Staff
Contact: Fran Marrone
September
12, 2005
MIT Supply Chain Club Kickoff Meeting
Contact:
Mike Mulqueen
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
12, 2005
ESD Dissertation Defense – Hongwei Zhu
Title: Effective Information Integration and
Reutilization: Solutions to Technological Deficiency
and Legal Uncertainty
Location:
E40-298
Time: 9:00 am
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
8, 2005
Aero-Astro Seminar
Title: Overview of Topics in Space Logistics
Speaker: Lt Col Stephan P. Brady, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Logistics Management, Air Force
Institute of Technology (AFIT)
Location:
33-116
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Open to: Aero-Astro and ESD Communities
Contact: Jeffrey
Pasqual
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
8, 2005 (First of four sessions)
EXCEL Mini-course (ESD 70)
Location:
Stata Center Room 32-155
Contact: Prof.
Richard de Neufville
Details: Click
here for a schedule.
September
6, 2005
ESD Community Barbecue
Location:
Kresge Oval (Kresge Oval is the open space across
Mass. Ave. between Kresge Auditorium, the Chapel)
Rain location: Kresge Lobby (the lobby of Kresge
Auditorium)
Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Open to: ESD Community and family members/significant
others
Contact: Eda Daniel
No
need to RSVP, just show up.
August
31, 2005
TPP Orientation
Location:
TPP Lounge, Room E40-380
Open to: TPP students, faculty, and staff
Contact: Sydney
Miller
Details: Click
here for more details.
August
31, 2005
ESD Ph.D. and S.M. Orientation
Location:
E40-298
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Open to: ESD Ph.D. and S.M. students, faculty,
and staff
Contact: Eda Daniel
Photos
will be taken from 1:00 to 3:30pm in E40-208
August
29, 2005
The National Geographic Channel will feature
the BioSuit System for Exploration Missions,
which is the advanced space suit systems work
of Professor Dava Newman and former astronaut
Jeff Hoffman.
Tune
in to the National
Geographic Channel's "Naked Science:
Spacemen" on Monday, August 29, 2005 at
9:00 pm ET/PT, to hear Prof. Dava Newman
and former astronaut Jeff Hoffman discuss their
advanced spacesuit systems work, the BioSuit
System for Exploration Missions. The overall
program will examine what it would really take
to embark on an inter-galactic journey to find
a new home planet.
The
program will also feature MIT's Dr. Larry Young
who will discuss preventing muscle and bone
loss in zero gravity; University of Florida
anthropologist John Moore who calculates who
and how many we should send into space to colonize
our next home planet; and Marcelo Vasquez of
the National Laboratory in Brookhaven in New
York who has until 2010 to find a way to reduce
the risk of cosmic radiation to manageable levels
– or NASA will ground all long-distance
space travel.
Time:
9:00 pm (also August 30, 2005, 12:00 am and
September 4, 2005 3:00 pm)
Details: Click
here fore more details.
August
26, 2005
LFM-SDM Online Seminar
Topic:Dishonesty in Everyday Life
Speaker: Professor Dan Ariely
Time:
9:00 am Pacific / 12:00 noon Eastern
Open to: ESD Community
Contact: Alison
McCaffree, 340.775.1002
Details: Click
here for more details.
August
22 - September 2, 2005
MLOG Orientation
Contact:
Dr. Chris Caplice,
Executive Director, Master of Engineering in
Logistics (MLOG) Program
Details: Click
here for a schedule (PDF document).
August
17, 2005
SDM Information Evening
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Open to: Prospective SDM students
RSVP: http://sdm.mit.edu
Details: Click
here for more details.
August
12, 2005
ESD Dissertation Defense – Chia-Chin Cheng
Title: Electricity Demand-Side Management for
an Energy Efficient Future in China: Technology
Options and Policy Priorities
Location:
E40-298
Time: 9:30 am
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click
here for more details.
August
5, 2005
SDM-LFM Candlepin Bowling Night
Hosted by the Student Life Committee
This
is a chance for LFM and SDM student students
to do battle over bowling frames instead of
breakout rooms or micro-cubicles.
Location:
Lanes &
Games
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Open to: SDM, LFM students, and spouses/significant
others
Contact: uday
"at" sloan.mit.edu
Details: Click
here for more details.
