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“Online education with learnersourcing”
Rob Miller, Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and EECS
Monday, June 23, 2014
8:15pm
9:15pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Miller, June 23, 2014
“Searching for the oldest stars in the universe with the world’s largest telescopes”
Anna L. Frebel, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
Monday, June 23, 2014
9:00am
10:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation (full size file available in Dropbox) – Frebel, June 23, 2014
“The Basics of Inflationary Cosmology”
Alan H. Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Department of Physics
Monday, June 23, 2014
10:00am
11:15am
PowerPoint Presentation, with progressive revelation – Guth, June 23, 2014
PowerPoint Presentation – Guth, June 23, 2014
“Build to Win: Inspiring students with electromagnetic actuators”
Steven Leeb, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Monday, June 23, 2014
11:15am
11:55am
“Flipping the Dice: An Active-Learning, Technology-Enhanced, up-to-date Intro to Probability & Statistics”
Drs. Jonathan Bloom and Jeremy Orloff, Department of Mathematics
Monday, June 23, 2014
1:00pm
3:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Bloom and Orloff, June 23, 2014
“MIT Sea Grant College Program”
Kathryn Shroyer, Engineering Educator for the MIT Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
6:00pm
7:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation (full size file available in Dropbox) – Shroyer, June 24, 2014
“The coelacanth, its evolution, and how fish first came onto land”
Jessica Alföldi, Group Leader, Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
1:00pm
2:00pm
“Koch Institute Zebrafish Research and Core Facility Tour”
Erika Reinfeld, David Benjamin, and Adam Amsterdam, Koch Institute
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
3:15pm
5:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Reinfeld, June 24, 2014
PowerPoint Presentation – Amsterdam, June 24, 2014
“Author Talk: Testing the Test – How to Recognize When Math Tests Are Flawed, How to Fix Them, & Why We Should Care”
Dr. Marcia Kastner, Former Administrator for Math Test Development at the Mass. Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Ed.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
4:00pm
4:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Kastner, June 25, 2014
“Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors”
Tim Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor, Department of Chemistry
Thursday, June 26, 2014
1:00pm
2:00pm
Pizza lunch and watching the first half of the US-Germany World Cup Soccer game
Thursday, June 26, 2014
12:00pm
12:45pm
“Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Tour”
Richard Perdichizzi, Senior Technical Instructor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Thursday, June 26, 2014
1:00pm
2:00pm
“Bringing the Why and the Who into the Chemistry Classroom”
Elizabeth Vogel Taylor, Instructor, Department of Chemistry
Thursday, June 26, 2014
1:00pm
2:00pm
“The Hubble Space Telescope – what went wrong and how we fixed it during the 1993 Hubble Rescue Mission”
Jeffrey Hoffman, Professor of Practice, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Thursday, June 26, 2014
2:30pm
3:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation (full size file available in Dropbox) – Hoffman, June 26, 2014
McNamara Workshops – An Active Approach to Re-Engineering Science and Math
Thursday, June 26, 2014
6:00pm
8:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation, Overview – Kaiser and Lanotte, June 26, 2014
PowerPoint Presentation, Workshops – Kaiser and Lanotte, June 26, 2014
“Option 2 – iSENSE – Data Collection and Visualization with Mobile Devices”
Fred Martin, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Student Success, UMass, Lowell
Friday, June 27, 2014
2:00pm
3:30pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Martin, June 27, 2014
“Option 1 – MIT Game Lab, Paper Prototyping Workshop”
Philip Tan, Creative Director, MIT Game Lab
Friday, June 27, 2014
2:00pm
4:00pm
PowerPoint Presentation (full size file available in Dropbox) – Tan, June 27, 2014
25 Years of SEPT and the Presentation of the 2014 Teacher of the Year Award
Friday, June 27, 2014
11:00pm
11:45pm
“Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos”
David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor, Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Friday, June 27, 2014
9:00am
10:00am
“Options 2 and 3 – App Inventor and DIY Medical Technologies”
José Gómez-Márquez, SUTD-MIT International Design Center
Friday, June 27, 2014
11:30am
12:30pm
“Brain Computation”
Ed Boyden, Associate Professor, Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Depts of Bio. Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Science
Friday, June 27, 2014
1:30pm
2:30pm
“Robot Locomotion”
Russ Tedrake, X Consortium Associate Professor of EECS and Aero/Astro and the Director of the Center for Robotics at CSAIL
Friday, June 27, 2014
2:30pm
3:30pm
“The brains behind teaching and researching at the MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences”
Claire O’Connell, MITx Fellow (MIT Class of ’13) and Emily Mackevicius, PhD Student, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Friday, June 27, 2014
3:30pm
4:30pm
NEST Member Meeting
Saturday, June 28, 2014
9:00am
12:00pm
Optional Museum trips (with discounted/free admission)
Saturday, June 28, 2014
12:00pm
5:00pm
“Option 3 – MIT Media Lab Tour”
Kristin Hall, Speech + Mobility and Object-Based Media groups at the MIT Media Lab
Saturday, June 28, 2014
10:15am
11:15pm
“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
“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
“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
“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
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