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Monday, June 22, 2015
“Electrochemical Pathways Towards Sustainability”
Don Sadoway, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Monday, June 22, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
Presentation Slides – Sadoway, June 22, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
“Hey Atoms: What Have You Done For Me Lately?”
Jeffrey Grossman, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Monday, June 22, 2015
10:15am
11:15am
Monday, June 22, 2015
“Magnetic Materials and Applications”
Caroline Ross, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Monday, June 22, 2015
11:30am
12:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Ross, June 26, 2014
Monday, June 22, 2015
“Voyager 1 in The Insterstellar Medium–There at Last!”
John Belcher, Professor, Department of Physics
Monday, June 22, 2015
1:30pm
2:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Belcher, June 22, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
“Cosmology”
Max Tegmark, Professor, Department of Physics
Monday, June 22, 2015
2:30pm
3:45pm
Monday, June 22, 2015
“The Fantastic Simplicity of Tropical Peat Forests”
Charles Harvey, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Monday, June 22, 2015
4:00pm
5:00pm
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
“MIT BLOSSOMS: Interactive Video Lessons for High School Science and Math Classes”
Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
5:30pm
6:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – BLOSSOMS, June 23, 2014
Published paper – Open Educational Resources for Blended Learning in High Schools
Published paper – Education: Our Most Important Service Sector
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
“Giving New Life to Materials for Entergy, the Environment and Medicine”
Angela Belcher, Professor, Department of Biological Engineering
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
9:00am
11:15am
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
“Picturing to Learn”
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
11:30am
12:30pm
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
“Learning about Machine Learning”
Leslie Pack Kaebling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
2:30pm
3:30pm
Activity materials: cards for machine learning game
Presentation Slides – Making Robots Behave, Kaebling
Presentation Slides – Intelligent Systems That Learn, Kaebling
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
“Two equals one: Street-fighting mathematics and science for better teaching and thinking”
Sanjoy Mahajan, Acting Director of Digital Residential Education
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
3:45pm
4:45pm
Presentation Slides – Mahajan, June 23, 2015
Book Download: Streetfighting Mathematics
Thursday, June 25, 2015
“Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Tour”
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Thursday, June 25, 2015
8:00pm
9:00pm
Thursday, June 25, 2015
“A Slower Speed of Light”
Philip Tan, Research Scientist, MIT Game Lab
Thursday, June 25, 2015
11:00am
12:00pm
Thursday, June 25, 2015
“Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience”
John Gabrieli, Grover M. Hermann Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Thursday, June 25, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
Thursday, June 25, 2015
“PRIMES Circle – High School Math Enrichment at MIT”
Isabel Vogt, Program Coordinator, PRIMES Circle
Thursday, June 25, 2015
10:00am
11:00am
Presentation Slides – Vogt, June 25, 2015
Presentation Handouts – Vogt, June 25, 2015
Isabel's notes on Sprouts and the Euler Characteristic
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Pizza with StarLogo Undergraduate Research Opportunity students (UROPs)
Thursday, June 25, 2015
12:00pm
1:00pm
Thursday, June 25, 2015
“StarLogo”
Daniel Wendel, Project Manager and Lead Software Developer, StarLogo
Thursday, June 25, 2015
1:00pm
3:30pm
Thursday, June 25, 2015
McNamara Workshop – Nuclear Reactor Lab Lecture and Design Challenge
Thursday, June 25, 2015
6:00pm
8:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Carpenter, June 25, 2015
PowerPoint Presentation – Tracy, June 25, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
Option 1: “Fishbanks: Using simulations to teach systems thinking and sustainability”
Jason Jay, Lecturer and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Friday, June 26, 2015
10:00am
1:00pm
2015 Presentation Slides – Jay, June 25, 2015
2014 Presentation Slides (reduced size) – Jay, June 24, 2014
Friday, June 26, 2015
“Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds”
Sara Seager, Professor, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Friday, June 26, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
Friday, June 26, 2015
NEST Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Tour
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Friday, June 26, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
Friday, June 26, 2015
Option 2: “Gameblox workshop: A brand new blocks-based programming environment for creating games”
Paul Medlock-Walton
Friday, June 26, 2015
10:30am
12:30pm
Friday, June 26, 2015
Option 3: “Circuit Sticker workshop: Combine paper, conductive stickers, and lights to make artful circuitry”
Jie Qi and Alisha Panjwani, MIT Media Lab
Friday, June 26, 2015
10:30am
12:30pm
Friday, June 26, 2015
“Education Policy and Teachers”
Friday, June 26, 2015
1:30pm
2:30pm
Friday, June 26, 2015
“Biomimetic Robotics”
Sangbae Kim, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, June 26, 2015
2:30pm
3:30pm
Friday, June 26, 2015
“Atoms near absolute zero temperature: From Bose-Einstein condensates to quantum simulations”
Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics and Director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Friday, June 26, 2015
3:30pm
4:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Ketterle, June 26, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
NEST Teacher of the Year Award
Friday, June 26, 2015
7:00pm
7:45pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Iverson, June 26, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
Dessert
Friday, June 26, 2015
7:45pm
8:30pm
Saturday, June 27, 2015
NRL Design Challenge presentations
Saturday, June 27, 2015
9:15am
12:00pm
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Breakfast and NEST Welcome
Saturday, June 27, 2015
8:45am
12:00pm
