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“Cosmology”
Max Tegmark, Professor, Department of Physics
Monday, June 22, 2015
2:30pm
3:45pm
“The Fantastic Simplicity of Tropical Peat Forests”
Charles Harvey, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Monday, June 22, 2015
4:00pm
5:00pm
“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
“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
“Picturing to Learn”
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
11:30am
12:30pm
“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
“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
“Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Tour”
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Thursday, June 25, 2015
8:00pm
9:00pm
“A Slower Speed of Light”
Philip Tan, Research Scientist, MIT Game Lab
Thursday, June 25, 2015
11:00am
12:00pm
“Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience”
John Gabrieli, Grover M. Hermann Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Thursday, June 25, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
“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
Pizza with StarLogo Undergraduate Research Opportunity students (UROPs)
Thursday, June 25, 2015
12:00pm
1:00pm
“StarLogo”
Daniel Wendel, Project Manager and Lead Software Developer, StarLogo
Thursday, June 25, 2015
1:00pm
3:30pm
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
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
“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
NEST Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Tour
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Friday, June 26, 2015
9:00am
10:00am
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
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
“Education Policy and Teachers”
Friday, June 26, 2015
1:30pm
2:30pm
“Biomimetic Robotics”
Sangbae Kim, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, June 26, 2015
2:30pm
3:30pm
“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
NEST Teacher of the Year Award
Friday, June 26, 2015
7:00pm
7:45pm
PowerPoint Presentation – Iverson, June 26, 2015
Dessert
Friday, June 26, 2015
7:45pm
8:30pm
NRL Design Challenge presentations
Saturday, June 27, 2015
9:15am
12:00pm
Breakfast and NEST Welcome
Saturday, June 27, 2015
8:45am
12:00pm
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