May 19-26, 2009
ESD Ph.D. Program: General Exams
Location: E40-298
Open to: Test-takers, their Committees, and the ESD Faculty
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click here
for a schedule of Oral Exams, and here
for General Exams FAQs.
May 19, 2009
ESD Faculty Lunch
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
May 13, 2009
Dissertation defense of John Dickmann
Title: Operational Flexibility in Complex Enterprises: Case
Studies from Recent Military Operations
Supervisor: Joel Moses
Committee members: Kirkor Bozdogan, Joseph Sussman, Daniel
Whitney
Time: 9:00 am
Room: E51-372
A draft of the dissertation is available in
E40-261.
May 12, 2009
ESD Faculty Lunch
Guest speaker: Damon Centola, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan
Abstract title: Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory
and Experiments
Time: noon-1pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
May 8, 2009
Talk by Khaled Awad
Director of Property Development, Masdar Initiative, Abu
Dhabi, UAE
Topic: Masdar City: Zero Carbon, Zero Waste: Someday Is
Today
Time: 1-2:30pm
Location: Building 4, Room 231
Open to the MIT community
Details: Click
here for more details.
May 8, 2009
Dissertation defense of Chris Glazner
Title: Understanding Enterprise Behavior using Hybrid Simulation
Models of Enterprise Architecture
Supervisor: Deborah Nightingale
Committee members: Joseph Sussman, Kirkor Bozdogan
Time: 9:30 am
Room: E40-298
A draft of the dissertation is available in
E40-261.
May 7, 2009
Thesis defense seminar of Anshuman Tripathy, MIT Sloan PhD
candidate in Operations Management. The thesis defense will
Title: Work Distribution in Global Product Development Organizations
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: E52-468 (Dean’s Conference Room)
Committee: Steven Eppinger (Chair), Charles Fine, Daniel
Whitney
May 7, 2009
Professor Bert Bras, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract title: Deriving Theoretical Underpinnings for Sustainable
Engineering from Nature
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E51-149
May 5, 2009
ESD Dissertation Defense – Yingxia Yang
Title: A Screening Model to Explore Manufacturing Planning
Decisions in Automotive Manufacturing Systems under Demand
Uncertainty
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click here
for more details.
The abstract can be found under details and
a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249
May 4, 2009
Gian-Claudia Sciara, AICP
Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning University
of California, Berkeley
Abstract Title: Planning after the Porkbarrel: Metropolitan
Responses to Congressional Earmarking in Transportation
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: 1-350
April 23, 2009
Seminar: Prof. Guglielmo Lulli
Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Systems
and Communications, University of Milan - Bicocca
Abstract Title: Air Traffic Flow Management Problem with
Rerouting
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: Room E40-298
April 21, 2009
ESD Faculty Lunch
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Lunch will be provided.
April 16, 2009
Title: Complex System Design Research at Xerox
Speaker: Dr. Eun Suk Suh (ESD PhD ‘05) Research Scientist
at the Xerox Innovation Group
Designing complex systems and a family of products
efficiently, quickly, and with minimum cost is vital to
success in today’s industry. At Xerox, current research
in complex systems design is focused on printing system
architecture design for modularity, optimum partition and
interface definition, while minimizing modularity overheads
and change propagation due to unforeseen future system changes.
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: E40-298
April 16, 2009
Seminar: Ram Rajagopal, Ph.D. Candidate, EECS,
UC Berkeley
Abstract title: Large Monitoring Systems: Data Analysis,
Design and Deployment
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: Room 32-G449 (MIT Stata Center)
April 14, 2009
ESD Faculty Lunch
Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz - CTL Zaragoza
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Lunch will be provided.
Download presentation here.
(.ppt)
April 9, 2009
ESD Dissertation Defense – Matthew Richards
Title: Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration for Survivability
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: E51-085
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click
here for more details.
The abstract can be found under details and
a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249
April 9, 2009
CTL Military Logistics Series
“Transformation of Logistics in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Lieutenant General Stevenson of the United States Army
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: E51 (Tang Center), Room 145.
Open to: MIT community
April 9, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Raissa D'Souza, Associate Professor, University of California,
Davis, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
Lunch will be provided.
April 8, 2009
The Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture
Title: Great Leaps, Persistence, and Innovation: The Evolving
Story of Hyundai
Speaker: John Krafcik, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Hyundai Motor America
Krafcik will address the current circumstances
of the U.S. economy and the auto industry, including a look
at how these realities have affected Hyundai.
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Bartos Theatre (Lower Atrium), Building E15
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact:
Beverly Kozol-Tattlebaum
Details: Click
here for more details.
Refreshments at 3:15 pm
April 7, 2008
ESD Faculty Lunch
Speaker: David Simchi-Levi – Research update
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
April 6, 2009
Talk by Sidney Dekker, Professor of Human Factors and System
Safety at Lund University, Sweden; Director of Research
in the School of Aviation and the new Leonardo Da Vinci
Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking
Abstract title: “From Newton to Witchcraft: Accountability
in the new Safety Science”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 33-206
April 6, 2009
ESD Dissertation Defense – Mark Avnet
Title: Socio-Cognitive Analysis of Engineering Systems Design:
Shared Knowledge, Process, and Product
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click
here for more details.
The abstract can be found under details and
a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249
April 6, 2009
ESD Dissertation Defense – Daniel Gillespie
Title: Mission Emphasis and the Determination of Needs for
New Weapon Systems
Time: 9:00 am
Location: E40-298
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click
here for more details.
The abstract can be found under details and
a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249
April 2, 2009
A Physics and Chemistry Joint Colloquium
George Whitesides, Harvard University
"Problems at the Interface between Physics, Chemistry,
and Energy"
Time: 4:15 pm
Location: Room 10-250
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo
Community Room)
For a complete list of upcoming colloquia, please visit
the Physics website.
April 2, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Abigail Mechtenberg, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan,
Applied Physics
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
Lunch will be provided
March 31, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Speaker: Jessika Trancik, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe
Institute;
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at the Earth Institute,
Columbia University
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
Lunch will be provided.
March 20, 2009
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: Getting Ready for Your Next Career Transition (Whether
or Not You Are Currently In the Job Market)
Speaker: Debra Woog McGinty MBA '97, Director of LFM Admissions
& Career Development
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00
am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click
here for more details.
March 19, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Jeremiah Johnson, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting Group,
Global Energy Practice
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
Lunch will be provided
March 18, 2009
LAI Research Seminar
Dan Gillespie, ESD PhD student, "Mission Emphasis and
the Determination of Needs for New Weapon Systems"
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Location: 33-206
March 17, 2009
ESD Faculty Lunch
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Maria Yang – Research update
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
March 17, 2009
Special Seminar
Title: Engineering the U.S. Constitution: An Interdisciplinary
Look at How the Framers Used Science and Systems Theory
to Inform the Law and Govern a Nation
Speaker: Prof. Joanne Gabrynowicz, Research Professor of
Law at the University of Mississippi
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Room E40-298
Open to: The seminar is open to all
March 16, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Margaret L. Brandeau, Professor, Management Science and
Engineering Medicine, Stanford University
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
March 12, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Christopher Weber, Research Assistant Professor, Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
March 12, 2009
The Military Speaker Series, presented by CTL
Logistics in Military Operations
Gerald Brown, Director, Task Force on Improving Business
and Stability Operations, Iraq
Topic: Building a Supply Chain in Iraq: Challenges and Solutions
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E51-145
March 10, 2009
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Annalisa Weigel:
Research update
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
March 5, 2009
Talk by Sarah Murray, author of “Moveable Feasts:
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys
of the Food We Eat”
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm (lunch will be served)
Location: E40-298
Details: Click here
for more details.
March 5, 2009
Joint MIT Energy Initiative -Transportation Program Seminar
Speaker: Professor Daniel Sperling, University of California,
Davis
Title: Toward Two Billion Cars: Transforming Vehicles, Fuels,
and Mobility
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Location: Stata Center, Room 32-D463
March 4, 2009
LAI Research Seminar Series
Speaker: Nirav Shah
Topic: A Mechanism Design Approach to System of System Architecture
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Location: 33-206
March 3, 2009
Engineering Systems Research – Special Seminar Series
Speaker: Tammara Massey, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer
Science, UCLA
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
February 27, 2009
Title: Can High-Tech Provide High-Touch?: Caring Robots
and the Future of Aging
Dr. Takanori Shibata, Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent
Systems Research Institute, Japan Ministry of International
Trade & Industry
There will also be a roundtable discussion.
Location: E40-298
Time: 10:00 am- 2:00 pm (lunch will be served)
Please RSVP: Paula Magliozzi
by February 25.
February 27, 2009
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: Generation Gaps in Engineering
Speaker: David Kim (SDM 07)--SDM Best Thesis Award Winner
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00
am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click
here for more details.
February 26, 2009
Title: Change Can Happen…in Large Global Businesses
Speaker: David Lapre, VP, Technical Operations, Roche
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Location: E40 - 364 - MLOG Lab
February 24, 2009
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Mort Webster: Research update
Time: 12:00 noon-1:00pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
February 20, 2009
Supply Chain at a Start-up: The Challenges of Success
Judith Taylor, VP of Customer Experience, NxStage Medical,
Inc.
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Location: E40 - 364 - MLOG Lab
Lunch will be provided.
February 20, 2009
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: Theory U: Leading in Times of Crisis
Speaker: C. Otto Scharmer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00
am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click
here for more details.
February 12,
2009 - this
event has been canceled
CTL Lecture Series: Logistics in the Military
Title: Contractors on the Battlefield: Implications for
National Security
Speaker: LTG (Lieutenant General) Kathleen Gainey, Director
of Logistics, J4, the Joint Staff
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Room E51-315
February 10, 2009
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Chris Caplice will talk about research in CTL.
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
Febraruy 6, 2009
ESD Dissertation Defense – Brandon
Owens
Title: Using Phase Space Attractors to Evaluate System Safety
Constraint Enforcement: Case Study in Space Shuttle Mission
Control Procedure Rework
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: E51-057
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click
here for more details.
The abstract can be found under details and
a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249
February 4, 2009
Engineering Systems Research - Special Seminar Series
Art Chaovalitwongse, Assistant Professor Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering, Rutgers
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-298
February 3, 2009
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: A preview of the spring semester, a look at the status
of various ESD initiatives, and preparation for the ESD
retreat which will be held on Friday, February 6, 2009 at
the MIT faculty club.
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
January 30, 2009 (re-scheduled
from the 20th to the 30th)
IAP Seminar Series 2009
Sponsor: Technology and Policy Program
Title: Optimization and Multi-Stakeholder Objectives for
Air Transportation Systems
By: Hamsa
Balakrishnan
Location: E40-298
Time: 2:15 - 3:45 pm
Contact: Renee Robins,
E40-381, 617.253.7662
Details: Click here
for more details.
January 30, 2009
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: Mexico - Co-opete with China
Speaker: Leiming "Leon" Bian (SDM 04) and Esteban
Guerrero (LFM 03)
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00
am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click
here for more details.
January 27, 2009
IAP Seminar Series 2009
Sponsor: Technology and Policy Program
Title: On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation's Petroleum
Consumption and GHG Emissions
By: John Heywood
Location: ROOM CHANGE: E51-315
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Contact: Renee Robins,
E40-381, 617.253.7662
Details: Click here
for more details.
January 20-23, 2009
IAP Course 2009
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
Title: Slected Topics in Aeronautics and Astronautics; LAI
Lean Academy™ (16.687)
Location: 33-116
Time: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Contact: Annalisa L. Weigel
Details: Click here
for more details.
January 16, 2009
IAP BLOSSOMS Contest – third meeting
Finalists will prepare and rehearse a proto-script
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Location: room 1-390
Open to: MIT graduate and undergraduate students
Contact: BLOSSOMS Project Manager Liz
Murray or Alison Hearn
Details: Click
here for more details.
All participants are invited to attend and
enjoy a reception celebration afterwards.
January 13, 2009
IAP Seminar Series 2009
Sponsor: Technology and Policy Program
Title: Carbon Efficient Supply Chains
By: Edgar Blanco
Location: E51-145
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Contact: Renee Robins,
E40-381, 617.253.7662
Details: Click here
for more details.
January 12, 2009
IAP BLOSSOMS Contest – second meeting
One-page proposal of ideas due
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Location: room 1-390
Open to: MIT graduate and undergraduate students
Contact: BLOSSOMS Project Manager Liz
Murray or Alison Hearn
Details: Click
here for more details.
January 5, 2009
IAP BLOSSOMS Contest – Initial Meeting
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Location: room 1-390
Open to: MIT graduate and undergraduate students
Contact: BLOSSOMS Project Manager Liz
Murray or Alison Hearn
Details: Click
here for more details.
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