Past Years of SEPT

– Display by Subject –

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Welcome Dinner and Introductions

Sunday, June 25, 2017

5:30pm

7:00pm
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Campus Tour

Sunday, June 25, 2017

7:00pm

8:00pm
Monday, June 26, 2017

Memory Systems of the Human Brain

John Gabrielli, Grover Hermann Professor, Health Sciences and Technology; Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Monday, June 26, 2017

9:00am

10:00am
Monday, June 26, 2017

Memory and Sleep

Matt Wilson, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department

Monday, June 26, 2017

10:00am

11:00am
Monday, June 26, 2017

Lessons About Life From A Tiny Microbe In The Sea

Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, Institute Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Department of Biology

Monday, June 26, 2017

11:00am

12:00pm
Monday, June 26, 2017

It’s A Small World: Miniaturization Meets Medicine

Sangeeta Bhatia, John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Comput

Monday, June 26, 2017

1:00pm

2:00pm
Monday, June 26, 2017

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

Monday, June 26, 2017

2:00pm

5:00pm

Fishbanks prep and debrief slides SEPT 2016.pdf
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

MIT BLOSSOMS: Interactive Video Lessons For High School Science And Math Classes

Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and Principal Investigator, MIT BLOSSOMS

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

9:15am

10:15am
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Power of the Embryo: the Extreme Anterior Domain

Hazel Sive, Professor of Biology

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

10:30am

11:30am
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Google Tour, Making & Science

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

12:30pm

2:00pm
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Towards A Simpler Problem

Larry Guth, Professor of Mathematics

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

2:15pm

3:15pm
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Two Equals One: Street-Fighting Mathematics And Science For Better Thinking

Sanjoy Mahajan, Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

3:15pm

4:15pm
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Seeing Through an Expert’s Eyes via Games

Philip Tan, Research Scientist, MIT Game Lab

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

4:15pm

5:15pm
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

“A New Twist In Genetics Instruction: Manipulatives For Teaching Cell Processes” – Red Group

Drs. Kathy Vandiver, Director, and Amanda Mayer, Outreach Coordinator, Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core, CEHS

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

8:30am

11:30am
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

“Hands On Physics” – Gray Group

Ed Moriarty, Instructor, Edgerton Center

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

8:45am

11:30am
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

MIT Museum

MIT Museum

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

11:30am

1:30pm
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

“A New Twist In Genetics Instruction: Manipulatives For Teaching Cell Processes” – Gray Group

Drs. Kathy Vandiver, Director, and Amanda Mayer, Outreach Coordinator, Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core, CEHS

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

1:30pm

4:30pm
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

“Hands On Physics” – Red Group

Ed Moriarty, Instructor, Edgerton Center

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

1:30pm

4:30pm
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine, Professor in Computer Science

Thursday, June 29, 2017

9:00am

10:00am
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos

David Kaiser, Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics

Thursday, June 29, 2017

10:00am

11:00am
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Tour (Red Group)

William Litant, Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Thursday, June 29, 2017

11:00am

11:30am
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Tour (Grey Group)

William Litant, Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Thursday, June 29, 2017

11:30am

12:00pm
Thursday, June 29, 2017

“STARLOGO”

Daniel Wendel, Project Manager and Lead Software Developer, StarLogo

Thursday, June 29, 2017

1:00pm

4:00pm
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Designing and Refining an Introductory Programming Curriculum

Adam Hartz, Lecturer, Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, June 29, 2017

4:15pm

5:00pm
Thursday, June 29, 2017

McNamara Design Challenge

Thursday, June 29, 2017

6:00pm

8:00pm
Friday, June 30, 2017

Electrochemical Pathways Towards Sustainability

Donald Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry

Friday, June 30, 2017

9:00am

10:00am
Friday, June 30, 2017

Planning and Learning for Robots

Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Compute

Friday, June 30, 2017

11:00am

12:00pm
Friday, June 30, 2017

More Than Pretty Pictures

Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Center for Materials Science and Engineering

Friday, June 30, 2017

1:15pm

2:15pm
Friday, June 30, 2017

Option 1: Committee of N

Jason Haas, PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab; MIT Education Arcade; Teaching Systems Lab

Friday, June 30, 2017

2:15pm

4:45pm
Friday, June 30, 2017

Option 2: Gameblox Workshop – A Blocks-Based Programming Environment For Creating Games

Paul Medlock-Walton, Research Scientist, Scheller Teacher Education Program

Friday, June 30, 2017

2:15pm

4:45pm