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Κοινωνική Αλληλεγγύη 27 Αυγούστου, 2019
Make October 3rd the European Day of Memory and Welcome!
Why is this important? We ask citizens to join the border territories launching this petition in being part of a solidarity movement by signing and bringing the message of humanity and solidarity to the center of the EU institutions.
Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Προγράμματα 16 Απριλίου, 2019
J-PAL Europe seeks partners for European Social Inclusion Initiative
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Europe (J-PAL Europe) recently launched the European Social Inclusion Initiative (ESII). This multi-year research and policy outreach initiative aims to generate new evidence and to share lessons for policies and programmes that support the social inclusion of migrants and refugees in Europe.
Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Κοινωνική Συνοχή 4 Απριλίου, 2019
EU Committee of the Regions set to launch Cities and Regions for Integration initiative
The new initiative will increase efforts to improve the integration of migrants and will showcase the potential benefits of migrant integration in EU cities, towns and rural areas, as well as the political, social and economic costs of failed integration.
Αρθρογραφία, Κοινωνική Πολιτική 30 Απριλίου, 2018
Migrant health across Europe: Little structural policies, many encouraging practices
Upon arrival, migrants are often younger than the host country average and generally healthier than native-born populations. This so-called 'healthy immigrant effect' however deteriorates with the time of residence. Once the age factor adjusted, studies find a disproportionate share of migrants among the population groups with low health outcomes. This is explained by the fact that people with a migrant background are disproportionately exposed to risk factors.
Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Κοινωνική Συνοχή 25 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2016
European Network against Racism updates its map of anti-migrant violence & hatred
European Network Against Racism – ENAR launched an update of its interactive map of incidents of racist discourse and violence against migrants in EU…
Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Κοινωνική Συνοχή 7 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2016
Ireland: #Participate! New campaign to boost political participation of migrants
As part of the Participate project, funded by the European Commission and the Open Society Foundation, the Immigrant Council of Ireland and Nasc Ireland…
«After School – Social School Support for migrant and refugee children»
«After School-Social School Support for migrant and refugee children» continues its operation and activities for the second consecutive year. The aim of the program…
Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Προγράμματα 1 Φεβρουαρίου, 2016
Monitoring of Entry Points, Asylum and Reception Conditions and Procedures for Refugees in Greece
Timetable: March 2015 – September 2016 Project manager: Greek Council for Refugees Countries of implementation: Greece Support: The Open Society Initiative for Europe Aim: The…
Αρθρογραφία, Κοινωνική Πολιτική 29 Δεκεμβρίου, 2015
Migrants' contribution to labour market and domestic work
Statistics from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) provides global estimates on migrant workers. This type of data is currently missing from the Eurostat databases. Migrant…


If you follow our simple instructions it will take you only a few minutes to put your Peacock Spinning Wheel together. Please read the instructions carefully before commencing.
Note: The finish on the native Silver Beech hardwood is Danish Oil, as the oil will soak into the wood to protect it, further coats of a Similar Scandinavian type oil may be applied.
Step 1. Locate the main upright into the base and secure with a washer and wingnut from underneath. Check that the wheel is parallel with the front of the base.
Step 2. Thread the brass crank onto the end of the main shaft. Tighten firmly and check the crank is in a 3 o'clock* position. The counterweight in the wheel will offset the weight of the treadle and permit a convenient start to spinning.
Step 3. Thread the cup hooks into the flyer arms, a little candle wax on the them will make this easier.
Step 4. Place a bobbin on the flyer shaft then thread on flyer. A smear of vaseline or drop of light oil will ensure the bobbins rotate freely.
Step 5. Locate the flyer head in the best position onto the main upright and secure with a washer and wind Vote - there is a need of adjustment to tighten the drive belt as necessary.
Step 6. Thread a cup hook into either side of the horizontal dowel.
Step 7. Thread the nylon line through the tension knob and tie a knob. Attach the tension spring to the other end of the line.
Step 8. Hook the tension spring onto the left hand cup hook, pass the nylon over the bobbin end under the other cup hook and locate the tension knob into position.
Step 9. Locate the 3 bobbin storage.
Insert the pins into the wholes of the base and place the bobbins in position.


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Flaga Mauretanii – przedstawia umieszczone centralnie na zielonym tle złoty półksiężyc i gwiazdę – symbolizują zarówno Islam, jak i Saharę. Zieleń także oznacza islam oraz nadzieję. Proporcje 2:3.

Historia
Flaga została wsprowadzona 1 kwietnia 1959 roku.

5 sierpnia 2017 Mauretańczycy zdecydowali w referendum o dodaniu u góry i na dole flagi dwóch czerwonych pasków mających symbolizować krew przelaną przez walczących o niepodległość kraju od Francji. Za zmianą flagi opowiedziało się 85,6% głosujących, natomiast przeciwko – 9,9%.

Historyczne wersje flagi

Zobacz też
 Mauretania
 Godło Mauretanii
 Hymn Mauretanii

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Bibliografia

Mauretania
Symbole narodowe Mauretanii

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Leaague history still shows wrong champion.
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The New York Mutuals had the best record both by wins and winning pctg.
They beat the Boston Red Stockings in the series. Yet league history shows Boston as the champions. So New York beat Boston in all three things and yet Boston is listed as the champion.
So the from 1872-1876 the champion is correct.
I think it may be that first year cause imported my start league from ootp 19.
I start with the teams that the game imports and then follow the actual expansion as it happened in the real leagues.
I can handle the first year being off. Maybe if i start a league fresh from 20.
Not gonna worry about it now. Im having too much fun with my current league.


Just want to follow-up on my previous blog on 6 benefits of using a toner; AND YES, it is crucial to having good skin!
There are so many products out there, how do you know which one is good for you? My advice is to always alternate at least every 4 months. This is because your skin gets accustom to products' ingredients and formula, and you may not see the effects anymore is you over use one product. Also, finish what you started using. Do not alternate products without finishing it, COMMIT to using it once to twice daily! If you don't, you may not see the results that the product is meant to do for you.
Here are my recommendations for each skin type or problem: (you can look for these ingredients in products of other brands as well) I did try most of these products, and some of these are based on ratings from consumers on sephora or the retailer's website.
I tried, and it is my all time favourite, would definitely go back to it again and again!
I am currently using it, it's amazing, especially during stressful times at work.
Amazing reviews on Sephora and Jurlique's website, would definitely give this a try, adding the mini one to my purse!
I tried, and it did its magic, pimples all gone in 1 week. Of course I used the whole line of products.
Amazing reviews on Sephora, I tried their cleansers and masks, no more blackheads! I will definitely try it during hot summer days!
I tried, and worked very well on my skin, freckles were lighter and even got rid of some!
Amazing reviews on Sephora and estee lauder's website, I have yet to try!
I tried, loved the feeling of fresh hydrated skin everyday.
Please share your experience or questions in the comments below, love to hear from you!
No makeup on, doing the padding motion with The Face Shop's Clean Face Blemish Zero Clarifying Lotion.
Photo taken with LG G4, with Look 10 filter, and frame.


and dinners with these incredible views.
where the only transport is bike or horse and wagon.
Fortunately, I only gained a pound or two!
Perhaps my one regret is that I did not buy a Turkish rug while there.
This was the one I loved.
and then arranged for a Turkish bath or hamam at their private spa.
We were treated like royalty and unfortunately I have no pictures of my own to share.
you drag cameras and iPhones out!
But this photo from the web is a fair representation of what goes on in the bath.
two strangers who would bath The Professor and myself.
while lying virtually naked upon a stone.
Turkish baths are not for the modest at heart!
It truly was an incredible experience and my skin has never felt so smooth and silky!
Well, this pretty much wraps up our visit.
we didn't have the time to travel outside of Istanbul to some other incredible sites.
so sorry for not buying that rug!
Hope your week gets off to a great start.
I love love love love the horses pulling the water bottles.
Wow, what scenery. What a great trip that must have been.
I love the fact you embrace the culture as you do. The HDR of the horses are a pure delight. The scenry is dreamy. The local food and wine... yummy.
I don't blame you for holding on and lingering.
My goodness, what a wonderful trip! Your bath story made me smile. Do as the natives do.
amazing times .. that bridge looks like it could be related to the GWB .. do they scrub front and back?
a nice holiday you had by the sounds of it.
Oh, I was hoping we'd see a wonderful rug that you'd bought!! How could you resist? I think I'd have to think about the Turkish bath. Glad you had a great time.
Loved tagging along with you on this wonderful trip. Your pictures have made me drool over all the wonderful places you travel to!
What a fantastic trip you had, Reena! I have so enjoyed your photos -- the next best thing to being there! The spa and massage sound fantastic! I, too, love the way you embrace the cultures you visit and do what the natives do, that to me is one of the joys of traveling to different "worlds"! I do the water scenes, too! Hope your week at home is off to a good start!
Quite a trip. Sounds like you need a return visit for that rug!
Ah - such magnificent scenery and wonderful horses. People say the Turkish baths really hurt, but I'm glad to hear you enjoyed them.
Such gorgeous views! And oh, that turkish bath!!
I'll enjoy through your fabulous photo posts...and your narrative!
Absolutely incredible pictures and commentary...the views are breathtaking....we enjoyed your trip to Turkey.
Reena, I have enjoyed seeing yoru trip photos. The scenery is gorgeous, sounds like you had a wonderful trip.
Don't even worry about it. I'm crushing on it and I've never even been there! Beautiful photos!
Don't even worry about it. I'm crushing and I've never even been there! Beautiful photos!
Fabulous photos. What a wonderful trip!
The first picture and the horses are my favorites. Wow, so exotic and beautiful!!! This is your excuse to return...to purchase the rug!!! Then post and show us which room you put it in. Did you buy any souvenirs at all?
There will be other rugs, yes? And you will have learned your lesson for another time. That lesson is Buy The Rug.
These images are stunning, Reena. So interesting to see what goes on in other cultures. And those views! My stars - what an incredible trip. Even down to the silky skin bath. Bravo you.
Looks like such a lovely holiday. Your photos are wonderful.. my favourite is the first one. Sorry about the rug but gutsy you to enjoy that bath.
i just caught up on your last few posts...wow, you've certainly been having a wonderful time! what a beautiful city! i had just studied the hagia sophia in art history last semester! absolutely fascinating. sorry you missed out on a rug, but now you have an excuse to go back!
WOW Reena looks like you had a really good time! Not sure I could ever do the Turkish Bath though! Glad you did! I do that all the time, I should have bought that! Looks like you will just have to go back and take more beautiful photos!
It looks beautiful there. Kudos for doing the Turkish bath. I am not sure if I could do that. Maybe after some of that good wine.
Once again your photos have me drooling all over my computer.. I had to giggle just a little at the Turkish bath.. I am so ticklish I don't know if I could do it. I have a hard time just getting a pedicure. Yes that's how ticklish I am.. Thanks again for sharing your trip with us. I really enjoyed it.
hi reena, what fabulous views!
looks like a memorable journey, also thanks so much for taking us along.
These views are so rich with color and texture and story. What a gift you have shared.
You can crush on Istanbul as much as you want. I love visiting far away places with you.


too late; a totem of all's mortality.
life and death, in circular harmony.
Written for Sue Vincent's Daily Echo #writeprompt – "Stark".
When you write a poem, what do you call it? Being new to it, it seems as hard as naming a child, though I guess a poem won't grow up to hate you for it. At least with a painting, especially if it's meaning is self-evident, you can declare it "untitled".
I've assumed the tree in the foreground to be an elder but, being denuded, it's identity isn't clear, though they are common enough in English country hedgerows and boundaries. I like the name "Elder", though I don't think it comes from the same meaning as old one, it gives this impression.
Did you know that if you take anything from the elder you should sing to Mother Elder first? It's a magical tree and many things can be taken from it: blossoms and berries, of course, both to make cordials and wines; the stems of its branches and twigs have a pith core which is easily removed. This dry, sponge-like pith makes good tinder and the hollowed stems make whistles and flutes. Or you can use the tube to blow gently over the pith tinder to encourage a flame. Or, if the tube calibre is right, you could shoot elderberries at each other, I imagine. Whatever rocks your boat.
Love the poem… it does capture the cyclinal nature of Nature.
Loved the folklore too. I seem to recall that burning elder wood allows you to see Old Nick, whilst planting elder by the house is supposed to keep him away.
I see there's much more to learn about elder.
What if the boat is made of elder?
You rock it at your peril.
I think I'll stick with a hardier board.


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April 28, 2018 explosions appearing in the skyline of a southern district of the Syrian capital Damascus, during regime strikes targeting the Islamic State group in the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk, and neighbouring districts.
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Post-Conflict Stabilization in Syria and the Potential Impact of U.S. Military Withdrawal
Jonas Parello-Plesner
President Donald Trump wants to pull US troops out of Syria, and he recently froze $200 million in stabilization funds for the country. Though this appeals to his domestic political base and is in keeping with his campaign promises to avoid doling out American taxpayers' money for unnecessary wars reconstruction in the Middle East, many in his administration and beyond harbor reservations about a too-hasty withdrawal.
First of all, the military job of defeating ISIS is not over. Turkey's incursion from the north has made the endgame harder because many of the Syrian Kurdish SDF forces, who had fought ISIS valiantly, have redeployed there. And in the long run, both allies and US civilian advisors need the US military umbrella to continue the stabilization work.
Trump insists that allies and partners should pay more. But the much-touted Saudi Arabian-led forces and funding for Syria have not materialized. The UN could gradually do more, but it needs the consent of Assad and Russia. And although European allies have stepped up contributions, it will not alleviate the shortfall if the US continues the freeze on stabilization.
It seemed that a Trumpian equilibrium had been reached in Iraq, where a distinction was made between stabilization, which is not considered nation-building, and reconstruction, which is. Trump has abandoned that distinction in Syria by freezing the stabilization funds, which are also used for demining Raqqa, the former ISIS capital, to make it somewhat safe for refugees to return to.
Stabilization in Syria is not only a necessity for refugees returning home, it is also viewed as a bulwark against a quick return of ISIS. By pulling out too soon, the US would lose options to curb Iran and to influence a political solution in Syria. There are longer-term consequences to watch out for, as there were for Obama when he pulled out of Iraq. There is much at stake around Trump's decision in the coming months.
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NEW LA ATTRACTIONS THAT ARE A MUST SEE FOR TOURISTS
LA Attractions: Hot New Spots to Check Out
What are the hottest new fresh destinations in terms of LA Attractions? How about a visit to the Space Shuttle? The California Science Center is now the new official home of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, which flew the coast of the United States last year before its final touchdown at the Los Angeles International Airport. It is now displayed at the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion. It is truly a top tourist attraction in Los Angeles the whole family will love.
Other recently opened Los Angeles tourist attractions include the Grand Park, a 12-acre urban oasis where a number of concerts, festivals and public events are held. It's operated by the Music Center, which features public concerts throughout the year by some of the hottest bands on the scene. It can also be rented out for private events.
A Museum on the Ocean
You can also take a tour of the Battleship USS Iowa, known as "the world's greatest naval ship" when it launched in 1940 but is now an interactive naval museum and public memorial since its opening in 2012. It has had more presidents on its deck than any naval ship in the history of the United States, having hosted Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush during her 50 years of service. You'll be walking on the decks of history.
Transformers: New LA Attractions that Are More than Meets the Eye
Even if you've already been to Universal Studios Hollywood, you probably haven't yet tried the Transformers: 3D Ride. Fun for the whole family, this new LA attraction combines HD 3D media and flight simulation technology for a hold on to your teeth mind blowing experience that will lift you right off the earth. Based on the ever popular movies, the ride will put you in the middle of a sci fi war zone with an experience your family will never forget. Besides the new ride, Universal Studios happens to be the world's largest working studio and theme park that promises something for the entire family.
Our Most Recommended LA Attractions
How would we recommend spending your vacation in Los Angeles? Catch a sunset on Venice Beach, the sand that launched Jim Morrison and the Doors. These days, it's a mix of skateboarders, street artists, musicians and some quirky bars and restaurants. Bring a sweater for the evening. It does get chilly. A great way to spend the afternoon is to check out some masterpiece art at the Getty. Stand face to face with works by,Rubens, and the best of the best of the Impressionists, including Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Van Gogh. Or go window shopping on Rodeo Drive. You might not be able to afford anything, but you might run into Julia Roberts.
Slide Over the City at Skyspace in DTLA
Los Angeles has a lot to offer all year round since, well you probably already know, the weather is almost always amazing! One the newest LA attractions that has us excited here at SoCal Pulse is OUE Skyspace LA which is located in the heart of Downtown LA inside the US Bank Tower. Until recently, the US Bank Tower was the tallest building west of the Mississippi, being topped of by the new Wilshire Grand Hotel (although some are skeptical about that spike). Back to the iconic downtown LA building, which was completed in 1989, they got an amazing addition which lets visitors view the city of Angels from 1,000 feet above. Offering 360-degree views of LA, it's an LA attraction you don't wanna miss! On a perfect sunny day out in LA, you can enjoy two open-air observation terraces giving you an impeccable photo-op of scenic landscapes around LA. Wait, it gets even better… Sky space offers a heart-pounding "sky-slide" where you can slide down from the 33rd floor to the 32nd floor while giving the feeling as if you're floating on air. The slide is completely made out of thick glass (and held together with metal) where you can view DTLA below you as you slide. They also offer special events such as "Sunrise Yoga" and "Den Guided Meditation" on a scheduled basis but also have holiday inspired events such as Mother's Day Brunch, May The Fourth (for a Star Wars inspired experience) and many more. Make sure to reserve tickets online for your visit… and if you dare, grab a skyslide combo for $33!
Los Angeles Architectural Attractions
If you ask any of the natives, they would agree that downtown was not always the hot spot for an LA night out nor too popular for a day trip. Recently, the city of Los Angeles has been growing in both population and construction. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to visit a busy city and wait in lines – especially when you're out on vacation in LA. But fear not, as we guide you through some cool, inspiring and free architectural designs in LA. Take a walking tour starting at The Walt Disney Concert Hall / LA Phil where you can witness a Frank Owen Gehry creation, and if you look closely you may see an original metallic part of the building still shining bright as they had to sand the rest of it down because it was too blinding for drivers. Just a few yards away you can visit The Broad museum which was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro into a honeycomb like feature throughout. We must say that one of the best and older architectural attractions in LA is the Los Angeles City Hall building. Walk down from The Broad to city hall in just a few minutes and look south where you'll see the LA Times building, another icon in the DTLA skyline.
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There are plenty of remedies at home to attempt to fix a broken tooth. Some people don't have dental coverage, they don't want a dentist bill, or they are confident in their ability to be at home dentists. Beware the risks associated with home dentistry. Think of it as needing a small surgery. Would you lie yourself down on a bed and do the procedure yourself? Probably not. You would leave it to the professionals who have training and experience. The same goes for fixing a broken tooth. Ask yourself, do you know how to fix the tooth? If so, what material do you use? What are the risks? Is the fix long term? These are important questions that you must ask your dentist. These questions do not belong in a search bar on the internet. The internet may be great for gaining some knowledge on certain procedures and other dentistry information, but it is not a way for you to become an armchair dentist.
It Looks So Easy Though?
You may read on the internet that you can simply buy a kit for just a few dollars and do it yourself. They will tell you there is no need for an expensive dentist when you can just apply a hard material to the broken tooth and you are done. Problem solved, right? Wrong. Your tooth is broken, which means that the inside of the tooth is exposed, and can create problems all its own. Your teeth are the hardest thing your body has, and a jagged tooth can cut your lips and cheeks if you aren't careful. Dentists have the training and tools needed for a job like this. Putting dental cement on your teeth is not a fix, but is a temporary solution that your dentist will have to grind away anyways. Your dentist will use a material that is good for your mouth, polish and shine that tooth, so that it looks like the rest of the tooth. With a kit, you get whatever color the cement is, the finished product may very unnatural.
Your teeth are hard and tough, but they are also very sensitive. Your broken tooth can cause pain, and without proper dental care, you would cement the part causing pain, and will have that pain for a very long time. Your tooth breaking could be a sign of something worse as well. If your teeth are brittle, and breaking when you eat or drink, then there is an underlying problem that only a dentist can fix.
There are many horror stories that dentists can tell you about fixing someone's DIY dentistry. Going to the dentist to get a tooth fixed is much more affordable than one may think. Dental insurance will usually cover problems like these as well. Leave it to the professionals. Call us today at (469) 773-4075 to schedule appointment with your dentist in Waxahachie, TX.


Banks and other financial service providers work hard to protect their customers, and last year, stopped £7 in £10 of attempted fraud from happening. But, as the banks' systems get more advanced, fraudsters turn their attention elsewhere and sadly this often means tricking people out of their personal details and money. However, the public can play an important part in protecting themselves and helping to stop financial fraud, which is why Financial Fraud Action UK has launched the Take Five campaign which provides the public with straight forward crime prevention advice.
The campaign explains some of the most common financial frauds which directly target customers such as email deception (known as phishing) and phone and text-based scams (sometimes known as vishing and smishing). It will also help protect people from criminals duping them into moving money into bank accounts controlled by the fraudsters. The campaign also encourages the public to take a moment to pause and think before they respond to any financial requests and share any personal or financial details.
You can find out more about the campaign and fraud prevention advice by visiting Financial Fraud Action UK's dedicated campaign website.


It's not just a hospital.
It's what a hospital is meant to be.
Mount Sinai Hospital Centre Montreal is a state-of-the-art institution that specializes in short term Respiratory Care, Palliative Care and Long Term Care and is accredited by Accreditation Canada.
Mount Sinai Hospital Centre is a non-sectarian, 95-bed McGill University affiliated hospital, and is a member of the Integrated Health and Social Service University Network for West-Central Montreal.
Mount Sinai Hospital is a member of the new healthcare organization called the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal.
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Florida surfer uses drone to capture awe-inspiring views of sharks — right after he got out of the water
Posted: Feb 20, 2020 / 08:41 AM EST / Updated: Feb 20, 2020 / 08:41 AM EST
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (CNN) — A Florida surfer didn't realize just how many sharks were swimming around him until he recorded drone video over the beach.
Jeremy Johnston, 33, told CNN he was already nervous when he went to get in to water at New Smyrna Beach on Tuesday because he noticed a bunch of fishermen in the area.
"But the weather and waves were really great so I decided to go for it," he said. "I ran out and jumped on my board when I got to shin-deep water and paddled super [shallow] with just my hands, because I was scared of how many sharks were there."
He said he only surfed for just a little bit before getting out of the water and launched his drone.
At times in the video, a dozen sharks can be seen in the shallow water.
"I was shocked and amazed," Johnston said about seeing how many were actually there. "I've only ever seen footage like that on 'Shark Week' and I've always dreamed of getting a clip like this, especially since we're the shark bite capital of the world."
Blacktip sharks are very common in New Smyrna Beach, so common that experts call the area the shark attack capital of the world. The International Shark Attack File estimates that anyone who has been swimming there has been within 10 feet of a shark.
In December, a 7-year-old boy was uninjured after being knocked off his board while surfing at the beach. It was all caught on video by the GoPro camera that was attached to the front of the board.
Johnston said he yelled at a couple of people to get out of the water and showed off the video to some other surfers at the beach. There was a large amount of bait fish in the water at the time, according to CNN affiliate WESH.
Johnston doesn't want people to be scared away from the beach and he hit the waves again on Wednesday. "It should only show you how amazing and diverse our wildlife is here on the east coast of Florida," he said.


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MIT ADT
The MIT Asian Dance Team is a student organization established in 2009 to spread the culture and love of East Asian dance, from classical and ethnic Chinese dances to modern Korean, Japanese, and Chinese pop. ADT currently has over 250 members consisting of MIT students and affiliates. For more information, check out our website at adt.mit.edu or our Instagram @mitasiandanceteam.
Alan Edelman
Alan Edelman is a Professor of Applied Mathematics, and, in 2004, founded Interactive Supercomputing (acquired by Microsoft). He received the B.S. & M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale in 1984 and the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1989 under the direction of Lloyd N. Trefethen. Following a year at Thinking Machines Corp and at CERFACS in France, Edelman went to U.C. Berkeley as a Morrey Assistant Professor and Lewy Fellow, 1990-93. He joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1993. Edelman's research interests include high performance computing, numerical computation, linear algebra and stochastic eigenanalysis (random matrix theory). He has consulted for Akamai, IBM, Pixar, and NKK Japan among other corporations. A Sloan fellow, Edelman received an NSF Faculty Career award in 1995. He has received numerous awards, among them the Gordon Bell Prize and Householder Prize (1990), the Chauvenet Prize (1998), the Edgerly Science Partnership Award (1999), the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (2000), and the Lester R. Ford Award, (2005). In 2011, Edelman was selected a Fellow of SIAM, "for his contributions in bringing together mathematics and industry in the areas of numerical linear algebra, random matrix theory, and parallel computing." Edelman was named a 2018 Fellow of the IEEE for his "contributions to the development of technical-computing languages," namely the Julia language for numerical/scientific computing.
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was central in forging the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.
He is a member of advisory boards for the UN Secretary General and the UN Foundation, and the American Bar Association, and previously for Google, AT&T, and Nissan. He is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance . He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and leader within the World Economic Forum.
Over the years Sandy has advised more than 70 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another one-quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.
Interesting experiences include dining with British Royalty and the President of India, staging fashion shows in Paris, Tokyo, and New York, and developing a method for counting beavers from space.
Alex Slocum
Alexander H. Slocum is the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Alex has written two books on machine design Precision Machine Design and FUNdaMENTALs of Design (free download on http://pergatory.mit.edu), published more than 150 papers, and has 116+ issued patents. Alex regularly works with companies on the development of new products and has been significantly involved with the invention and development of 11 products that have been awarded R&D 100 awards.
Alex is a Fellow of the ASME and the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer's Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, ASME Leonardo daVinci Award, the ASME Machine Design Award, and the Association of Manufacturing Technology Charlie Carter Award.
Alex's areas of interest broadly include precision machine design as applied to machines and instruments for agriculture, healthcare, energy and water systems. He also seeks to help Fellows identify symbiotic opportunities where one system's problem can be another system's opportunity.
Barbara Liskov
Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association for Computer Machinery. She received The Society of Women Engineers' Achievement Award in 1996 and the IEEE von Neumann medal in 2004. At the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Design and Implementation Conference in 2008, she was awarded the Programming Languages Achievement Award. In 2009, she received the A.M. Turing Award from ACM.
MIT Bhangra
We are a group of individuals from MIT and the Boston area who love Bhangra and are dedicated to exhibiting the energy and excitement that comes with it! Bhangra is a high-energy and upbeat folk dance from the state of Punjab in Northern India. It has grown in style and popularity over the years and today bhangra is celebrated on an international, competitive circuit.
Cady Coleman
Cady Coleman is a scientist, wife, mother, pilot, musician, retired NASA Astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and a six-month trip aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Passionate about sharing her experiences aboard the ISS, Coleman delivered the introductory talk for TED2011 from space.
Coleman currently serves as University Explorer at Arizona State University and as a consultant for a wide range of space-related projects. Her first Space Shuttle mission set the stage for astronauts to conduct pioneering research aboard the ISS in materials science, biotechnology, combustion science and fluid physics. Launching the Chandra X-Ray Observatory was the focus of her second mission, making it possible for scientists everywhere to learn about black holes and dark matter. During her space station expedition, Coleman was the Lead Robotics and Lead Science officer, performing hundreds of science experiments and the second-ever robotic capture of a supply ship from the station. During her ISS mission, she and her crew coached actress Sandra Bullock in preparation for Bullock's role in the movie Gravity.
On the ground at NASA, Coleman served in a variety of roles within the Astronaut Office, including Chief of Robotics, lead for tile repair efforts after the Columbia accident, and, most notably, the lead astronaut for the integration of supply ships. She paved the way for commercial spaceflight collaborations that are now commonplace.
Before retiring from NASA, Coleman led open-innovation and public-private partnership efforts for the Office of the Chief Technologist at NASA Headquarters. As a volunteer test subject for the US Air Force centrifuge program, she set several human endurance/tolerance records while performing physiological and new equipment studies.
In addition to her role as University Explorer at ASU, Coleman is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. She serves on several boards, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Earthrise Alliance, Dent the Future, Skycatch and Greenfield Community College.
Coleman earned a BS in chemistry from MIT in 1983 and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. She is married to glass artist Josh Simpson, has two sons, Josiah and Jamey, and calls Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts her home. In their spare time, Coleman and Josh share a love of flying, diving and the exploration of new worlds right here on earth.
Cathy Wu
Cathy Wu works at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and large-scale urban systems and other societal systems. Her recent research focuses on mixed autonomy systems in mobility, which studies the complex integration of automation such as self-driving cars into existing urban systems. She is broadly interested in developing principled computational tools to enable reliable and complex decision-making for critical societal systems.
She received her B.S. and M.Eng in EECS at MIT in 2012 and 2013, and a Ph.D. in EECS at UC Berkeley in 2018. She has received numerous fellowship, best paper, and teaching awards. Throughout her career, Cathy has collaborated and worked broadly across fields, including transportation, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, urban planning, and public policy, and institutions, including Microsoft Research, OpenAI, the Google X Self-Driving Car Team, AT&T, Caltrans, Facebook, and Dropbox. As the founder and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Initiative within the ACM Future of Computing Academy, she is actively building international programs to unlock the potential of interdisciplinary research in computing.
Catherine McCartin
Catherine McCartin, senior lecturer at Massey University and co-owner of a beef and sheep farm explains how New Zealand farming must change from animal based farming to plant based. New laws require the improvement fish water quality and a reduction in methane emissions from livestock. While the country is most efficient producing meat and milk it must adjust the ratio of animal based farming to plant based farming to meet the requirements made by these laws. The repurposing of New Zealand farm land from animal based to plant based will greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make the landscape more habitable to aquatic wildlife as well as land based animals and birds. Senior lecturer at Massey University and co-owner of a beef and sheep farm.
Daniel Jackson is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, associate director of CSAIL, and a MacVicar Fellow. He leads the Software Design Group. He received an MA from Oxford University in Physics, and his SM and PhD from MIT in Computer Science. He was a software engineer for Logica UK Ltd. and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the MIT faculty in 1997.
He has broad interests in software engineering, especially in development methods, design and specification, formal methods, and safety critical systems.
Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, and data science.
The focus of her work is developing the science and engineering of autonomy, toward the long-term objective of enabling a future with machines pervasively integrated into the fabric of life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks. Her research addresses some of the gaps between where robots are today and the promise of pervasive robots: increasing the ability of machines to reason, learn, and adapt to complex tasks in human-centered environments, developing intuitive interfaces between robots and people, and creating the tools for designing and fabricating new robots quickly and efficiently. The applications of this work are broad and include transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, monitoring the environment, underwater exploration, smart cities, medicine, and in-home tasks such as cooking.
Rus serves as the Associate Director of MIT's Quest for Intelligence Core, and as Director of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center, whose focus is the advancement of AI research and its applications to intelligent vehicles. She is a member of the Toyota Research Institute advisory board.
Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of the 2017 Engelberger Robotics Award from the Robotics Industries Association. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Rus has also worked on two collaborative projects with the Pilobolus Dance company at the intersection of Technology and Art. Seraph, a pastoral story about human-machine friendship, was choreographed in 2010 and performed in 2010-2011 in Boston and New York City. The Umbrella Project, a participatory performance exploring group behavior, was choreographed in 2012 and performed at PopTech 2012, in Cambridge, Baltimore, and Singapore.
Darya Guettler
Darya Guettler is a Junior (Class of 2021) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is majoring in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and 17 (Political Science). Coming from Germany and the United States, she became interested in the field of sustainability because of her aunt, but decided to pursue her passions in the field because Climate Change is "such a real threat to the world," and she thinks that we need as many people as possible working on mitigating it.
Darya is the co-president of the Undergraduate Energy Club. She is a member of the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Climate Action Team and the Solar Electric Vehicle Team, and has spent her summer interning at Tesla Energy. In her free time, she likes hiking, watersports, performing in her Indie-Rock band, and visiting new countries.
Dava Newman
Dava is the Apollo Professor of Astronautics and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. She previously served as Deputy Administrator of NASA under the Obama administration, from May 2015 until January 2017. Dava's research has included space flight experiments, ground-based simulations and mathematical modeling. Some of her recent projects have focused on space suit design, dynamics and control of astronaut motion, mission analysis and engineering systems design, and policy analysis. Dava is perhaps best known for her work on the "Bio-Suit," a space activity suit that provides pressure by tension in the suit's textile weave instead of with pressurized gas, resulting in greater comfort and ease of movement for astronauts wearing the suit. She has published extensively and holds a Ph.D. in aerospace biomedical engineering from MIT, M.S. degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy from MIT, and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
David McGee
David McGee's paleoclimate research focuses on understanding how precipitation patterns respond to climate change. Using natural climate archives such as lake deposits, stalagmites, and deep-sea sediments, his group reconstructs water availability in past climates in order to test theories and models used to project future changes. David is also the Director of the Terrascope First-Year Learning Community at MIT, which engages first-year undergraduates in student-led exploration of challenges related to sustainability and the environment. He received his bachelor's degree from Carleton College, then taught secondary school science for seven years prior to obtaining a master's degree from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University. David was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota before joining MIT's faculty in 2012.
Elazer Edelman
Elazer R. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He and his laboratory have pioneered basic findings in vascular biology and the development and assessment of biotechnology. Dr. Edelman directs MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and Clinical Research Center (CRC) as well as the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center (BMEC) – all dedicated to applying the rigors of the physical sciences to elucidate fundamental biologic processes and mechanisms of disease.
Dr. Edelman received Bachelor of Science degrees in Bioelectrical Engineering and in Applied Biology from MIT, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT, a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from MIT, and an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. His graduate thesis work, under the direction of Prof. Robert Langer, defined the mathematics of regulated and controlled drug delivery systems. After internal medicine training and clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the BWH he spent six years as a research fellow in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School with Prof. Morris J. Karnovsky working on the biology of vascular repair.
His research interests meld his medical and scientific training to better understand underlying biology for application towards improved clinical decision making and device design. For example, his work examining the cellular and molecular mechanisms that produce atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease led to the development and optimization of the first bare-metal stents, as well as subsequent iterations on the technology including drug-eluting stents.
Through a focus on understanding how tissue architecture and biochemical regulation contribute to local growth control, Edelman and his students were among the first to validate that proliferative vascular diseases are the sum of effects from endogenous growth promoters and suppressors. Their characterization of how heparin-like compounds serve as suppressors and heparin-binding growth factors as promoters contributed to the creation of a rigorous framework by which to appreciate how these agents interact with one another in-vivo. This work and advanced studies of endothelial cell and vascular biology led to the discovery the mutable dynamic of vascular endothelial state and its importance in tissue paracrine and angiocrine regulation in vascular diseases and now cancer. To apply their work, the group reasoned that the optimal way to control a biologic event was by recapitulating natural means of regulation. Hence, polymeric controlled drug delivery systems should mimic natural release systems, and vascular implants should be devised with an intimate knowledge of the injury they induce. The development and mathematical characterization of perivascular and stent-based drug delivery is an example of the former, and design of an endovascular and drug-eluting stent from first principles and therapeutic tissue engineered endothelial cell constructs is an example of the latter. More recently, these principles have been applied towards the development of novel mechanical organ support and heart valves.
Many of his findings have been or are now in clinical trial validation. More than 300 students and postdoctoral fellows have passed through Dr. Edelman's laboratory enabling publication of over 680 original scientific articles and some 80 patents.
Dr. Edelman is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the Association of University Cardiologists, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Engineering. As Chief Scientific Advisor of Science: Translational Medicine he has set the tone for the national debate on translational research and innovation. As co-founder of ASTM F04.03 he helped create standards for cardiovascular implants. He served as a member of FDA's Science Board and an ORISE fellow in the FDA EIR. For his work bringing cardiovascular translational research to an international level of excellence, the Spanish Parliament and King Juan Carlos awarded Dr. Edelman with the Spanish Order of Civil Merit for his work. Most importantly, Elazer is an avid ice hockey goalie, and with his wife Cheryl are parents to comedian and writer Alexander, Olympic athlete AJ, and Austin.
Hamsa Balakrishnan
Hamsa Balakrishnan is the Bisplinghoff Professor and Associate Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining MIT, she was at the NASA Ames Research Center, after receiving her PhD from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Her research is in the design, analysis, and implementation of control and optimization algorithms for large-scale cyber-physical infrastructures, with an emphasis on air transportation systems. Her contributions include airport congestion control algorithms, air traffic routing and airspace resource allocation methods, machine learning for weather forecasts and flight delay prediction, and methods to mitigate environmental impacts.
Hane Lee
Hane Lee is a master's student in the MIT Media Lab's Opera of the Future and amateur pianist specializing in classical-contemporary music. Hane's research interests include self discovery and identity exploration through music, immersive musical experiences, and layered soundscapes. Much of their inspiration comes from many philosophy and political identity texts, their classical-contemporary piano practice, and their math-heavy background. Recently, they have been wondering how to create a sense of freedom through sound. Hane holds an undergraduate degree from MIT in electrical engineering with a minor in music.
Hilary Vogelbaum
Join Hilary Vogelbaum, an MIT student whose passion for finding solutions to address climate change took her far out of her comfort zone–to an industry-sponsored offshore oil and gas drilling camp for college students. In our hyper polarized and politicized world, the idea that people with widely divergent viewpoints should still talk to each other is RADICAL. Hilary proves that even in the most unlikely places, we can pool our talents to find solutions to prevent catastrophic climate change. The climate problem is so big, everyone can, should and must be part of the solution.
A broad thinker, Juan Enriquez bridges disciplines to build a coherent look ahead. He is the managing director of Excel Venture Management, a life sciences VC firm. He published (with Steve Gullans) Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Shaping Life on Earth. The book describes a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, themselves and other species. Enriquez cofounded the company that made the world's first synthetic life form, and seed funded a company that may allow portable brain reading.
Judy Brewer
Getting online can give people access to science, technology, and the world of ideas. Over a billion people in the world have some kind of disability—but we're still putting barriers in front of them in the online world. Inclusive design allows us to design better technologies that everyone can use.
Judy Brewer works on accessibility of the digital world at the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide accessibility guidance for the web, on descriptions for images and video, captions for audio, interoperability for speech recognition, and sites that are easier to learn for people with cognitive disabilities. Accessibility is also important for mobile phones, digital books, online games, telepresence robots, virtual reality and more.
An international community of people working on digital accessibility is improving awareness, rights, and resources for accessibility. Accessibility is now recognized as part of corporate social responsibility and as an innovation driver; and these changes are contributing to improvements in products and services.
But we need many more hands at the table, on everything from accessibility of town websites to leveraging machine learning. Learn more about this talk, and join us in building an accessible digital future at w3.org/WAI/ Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Julie Shah
Julie Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006) from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from MIT. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing. She has developed innovative methods for enabling fluid human-robot teamwork in time-critical, safety-critical domains, ranging from manufacturing to surgery to space exploration. Her group draws on expertise in artificial intelligence, human factors, and systems engineering to develop interactive robots that emulate the qualities of effective human team members to improve the efficiency of human-robot teamwork.
Karthish Manthiram
Karthish Manthiram is the Warren K. Lewis Career Development Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT. His lab is focused on electrifying chemical manufacturing, so that air, water, and renewable electricity can be used to make diverse chemicals. Examples include converting air and water into fertilizers, fuels, and plastics. Karthish received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and, most recently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Karthish's research and teaching have been recognized with several awards, including Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, Dan Cubicciotti Award of the Electrochemical Society, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, and the C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Krystyn Van Vliet
Professor Van Vliet's group studies material chemomechanics: material behavior at the interface of mechanics, chemistry, physics, and biology. She focuses on thermodynamically metastable surfaces and interfaces, in which stress-assisted chemical reaction kinetics are notoriously difficult to analyze via either experiment or simulation. The mechanisms of this coupling in cell-material interactions are incompletely understood, due to both biological complexity and lack of appropriate experimental and computational tools, but are key to design of materials that modulate cell adhesion for drug uptake and differentiation. Her long-term goal is to predict and modulate key functions of biological cells by drawing analogies to the coupled chemical/mechanical behavior of structurally simpler, nonbiological material interfaces and nanocomposites. These integrated experimental and computational efforts include three main thrusts: (1) chemomechanical mapping of nanocomposite surfaces including living cells; (2) mechanics of amorphous and viscoelastic surfaces and nanostructures; and (3) chemical kinetics in mechanically strained, nanoscale material interfaces. Her group has used this interdisciplinary application of mechanical and chemical forces to rapidly map environment-structure-property relations in engineered materials, and to predict the binding kinetics of individual molecules on living cells. These studies have shown that the stiffness of materials to which molecular ligands are tethered can directly affect kinetics of ligand-receptor interactions at cell surfaces. Professor Van Vliet serves as the faculty supervisor of the DMSE Nanomechanical Technology Laboratory, has co-developed new undergraduate core classes, and has implemented new programs to retain underrepresented minority students.
Smith is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. Today Smith is CEO and founder of shift7, a company working collaboratively on systemic social, environmental and economic problems – finding opportunities to scout and scale promising solutions and solution makers and engage proven tech-forward, open, shareable practices to drive direct impact, together. Smith served as the third United States Chief Technology Officer from 2014-2017 helping the President and his teams harness the power of data, innovation and technology on behalf of the nation. Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from data science, AI and open source, to inclusive economic growth and criminal justice reform. Her teams focused on broad capacity building by co-creating all-hands-on-deck initiatives, including the public-private program TechHire, the Computer Science for All initiative, and the Image of STEM campaigns.
Smith was vice president at Google for eleven years leading new business development where she managed early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations and technology licensing across the global engineering and product teams; she led acquisitions of Google Earth, Maps, and Picasa; led the Google.org transition to increase engineering adding Google Crisis Response, GoogleforNonProfits, Earth Outreach/Engine; and later was a VP in the Google[x] team where she co-created SolveForX and Women Techmakers. Earlier, Smith served as CEO of PlanetOut, worked on early smartphone technologies at General Magic and at Apple Japan. Smith is an advisor to the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, Thinkof-Us, LA Olympics 2028, the Malala Fund, which she co-founded. She was selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT and completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab. Smith serves as a life member on the board of MIT and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Engineering.
Mohamadou Bella Bah
Mohamadou Bella Bah sees coordination problems everywhere. A Junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bella's research interests include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and algorithms and controls for cyber-physical systems. Bella believes that many of today's cyber-physical systems can be made fully autonomous; wherein, a human operator provides no additional instruction beyond providing the desired system state. Bella's research addresses how to achieve coordination in networks that have numerous, diverse, and independent agents, through the interactions of autonomous and intelligent agents — particularly in the context of smart grids. Bella's most recent project is a communications and services platform for smart grids that enables distributed energy resources to autonomously self-coordinate pursuant of demands made by a system operator.
Natalie Northrup
Natalie is an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Class of 2022) studying Systems Engineering and Economics. At MIT, Natalie does research with the MIT Energy Initiative, building a life cycle assessment tool to map pathway and systems emissions in Norway; is an Administrator for Waste Watchers, a group of undergraduates implementing waste education and intervention strategies across campus; and is a member of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, organizing the Annual Trash2Treasure Reuse Sale. She also competes with the Varsity Lightweight Women's Crew Team and is active in the Outing Club.
Natalie is interested in waste, energy and transportation systems, and hopes to use systems analysis and economics to develop policy tools for grid transformation, vehicle electrification, and waste diversion/repurposing.
Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala is an American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at MIT, where she is also the Associate Head of the Department of Physics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010. Mavalvala is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, but she has also obtained prominent results on other physics problems that evolved out of LIGO: for example, she has performed pioneering experiments on laser cooling of macroscopic objects and in the generation of squeezed quantum states of light. Professor Nergis Mavalvala received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from MIT. She was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Physics faculty at MIT in 2002. She was appointed Associate Department Head of Physics in February 2015. In 2017, Mavalvala was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Noelle Selin
Noelle Eckley Selin is Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the Director of MIT's Technology and Policy Program. Her research uses atmospheric chemistry modeling to inform decision-making on sustainability challenges, including air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Her work also examines interactions between science and policy in international environmental negotiations and develops systems approaches to address sustainability challenges. She received her PhD from Harvard University in Earth and Planetary Sciences as part of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group. Her M.A. (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and B.A. (Environmental Science and Public Policy) are also from Harvard University. Before joining the MIT faculty, she was a research scientist with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Her articles were selected as the best environmental policy papers in 2015 and 2016 by the journal Environmental Science & Technology. She is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award (2011), a Leopold Leadership fellow (2013-2014), Kavli fellow (2015), a member of the Global Young Academy (2014-2018), an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Institute Fellow (2016-2017), and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2021).
MIT Ohms
We are the Ohms, MIT's electrifying competitive South Asian a cappella group!
Really, we're a pretty awesome group of people who love punny statements and pride ourselves on having the lowest time commitment on campus. Nevertheless, we have received plenty of praise for our creative arrangements, vocal talent, and upbeat spirit. We have been featured at MIT's 150th Anniversary celebrations, MIT Campus Preview Weekend, and at our very first concert (Ohms: Resistance) in March 2011.
For us, the Ohms are a family. Though we started as just a really cool idea in Date Room B in McCormick Hall, we are who we are today because of a team effort. Every member of the Ohms has left a lasting imprint on our group, and we have created so many memories together. We collaborate, we're efficient, we're fun. We're a little bit nerdy and little bit crazy, but that is why we love each other. Above all else, we love to sing and celebrate the richness of our culture. We are the Ohms, MIT's electrifying competitive South Asian a cappella group!
Paula Hammond
Professor Paula T. Hammond is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and David H. Koch Chair Professor in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy Initiative and a founding member of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology. She has recently been named the new head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE). She is the first woman and the first person of color appointed to the post. She also served as the Executive Officer (Associate Chair) of the Chemical Engineering Department (2008-2011).
Professor Hammond was elected into the 2013 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the recipient of the 2013 AIChE Charles M. A. Stine Award, which is bestowed annually to a leading researcher in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and engineering, and the 2014 Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research. She was also selected to receive the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Teal Innovator Award in 2013. She has been listed in the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2014 list, published by Thomson Reuters in the Materials Science category. This list contains the world's most influential researchers across 21 scientific disciplines based on highly cited papers in the 2002-2012 period. She is also included in the report: The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014.
Professor Hammond serves as an Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society journal, ACS Nano. She has published over 250 scientific papers and holds over 20 patents based on her research at MIT. She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineers, and the American Chemical Society Polymer Division. In 2010, she was named the Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.
Professor Hammond received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1984, and her M.S. from Georgia Tech in 1988 and earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from MIT.
Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on Machine Learning and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains.</p> <p>At MIT, his co-inventions include camera to see around corners, femto-photography, automated machine learning (auto-ML), private ML (split-learning), low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra, EyeSelfie), a novel CAT-Scan machine, motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen), new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays(HR3D).</p> <p>In his recent role at Facebook, he launched and led innovation teams in Digital Health, Health-tech, Satellite Imaging, TV and Bluetooth bandwidth for Connectivity, VR/AR and 'Emerging Worlds' initiative for FB.</p> <p>Before MIT, he co-invented techniques for AR, Computational Photography, Shader Lamps (projector-AR), composite RFID (RFIG), multi-flash non-photorealistic camera for depth edge detection, quadric transfer methods for multi-projector curved displays.</p> <p>He received the Lemelson Award 2016 and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 2017, Technology Review TR100 award 2004 (which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35), Global Indus Technovator Award (top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide) 2003, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship award 2009 and Darpa Young Faculty award 2010. Other awards include Marr Prize honorable mention 2009, LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept+ NIKE, 2010, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award (first place) 2011.</p> <p>His work has appeared in NYTimes, CNN, BBC, NewScientist, TechnologyReview and several technology news websites.</p> <p>His invited and keynote talks include TED, Wired, TEDMED, Darpa Wait What, MIT Technology Review, Google SolveForX and several TEDx venues.</p> <p>His co-authored books include Spatial Augmented Reality, Computational Photography and 3D Imaging (both under preparation).</p> <p>He has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Facebook, Apple and co-founded/advised several startups. He launched REDX.io, a platform for young innovators to explore AI-for-Impact. He frequently consults for dynamic organizations to conduct 'SpotProbing' exercises to spot opportunities and probe solutions.</p> <p>He holds 90+ US patents.
Raffaele Ferrari
Raffaele Ferrari studies the circulation of the ocean, its impact on present and past climates, and its role on shaping biological productivity. His group combines observations, theory and numerical models to investigate the physics of the ocean and atmosphere from scales of centimeters to thousand of kilometers.
Ferrari has PhDs in Oceanography (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2000) and Fluid Dynamics (Politecnico di Torino, 1999). Before joining the faculty in 2002 he spent time as a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Since 2012 Ferrari has been Director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate.
MIT Reso
MIT Resonance is a co-ed a cappella group at MIT, whose mission is to explore the fine art of covering contemporary music hits of varying popularity armed only with our wits and a pitch pipe! Enjoy this video of us performing at TEDxMIT in December 2019. A special shout-out to senior Jenn Lu for her moving speech on the importance of doing work to fight climate change!
Retsef Levi
Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center. Levi also serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO).
Before coming to MIT, he spent a year in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as the holder of the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship. He received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) in 2001, and a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2005. Levi spent almost 12 years in the Israeli Defense Forces as an officer in the Intelligence Wing and was designated as an Extra Merit Officer. After leaving the Military, Levi joined an emerging new Israeli hi-tech company as a Business Development Consultant.
Levi's current research is focused on the design of analytical data-driven decision support models and tools addressing complex business and system design decisions under uncertainty in areas such as health and healthcare management, supply chain, procurement and inventory management, revenue management, pricing optimization and logistics. He is interested in the theory underlying these models and algorithms, as well as their computational and organizational applicability in practical settings. Levi has been leading several industry-based collaborative research efforts with some of the major academic hospitals in the Boston area, such as Mass General Hospital (MGH), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Children's Hospital, and across the U.S. (e.g., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Presbyterian Hospital System and the American Association of Medical Colleges). Levi was the PI on an MIT contract with the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to develop systematic risk management approach to address risk related to economically motivated adulterations of food manufactured in global supply chains. With a multi-million award from the Walmart Foundation, Levi currently leads a multi-year U.S.-China collaborative effort to develop new predictive risk analytics tools and testing technologies and platforms to address core food safety challenges in China. Levi has also been involved in developing operational risk and process safety management methodologies for various organizations in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and oil industries. Levi received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, the 2008 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, the 2013 Daniel H. Wagner Prize and the 2016 Harold W. Kuhn Award.
Levi teaches regularly courses on operations management, analytics, risk management, system thinking and healthcare to students from various degree and non-degree programs including MBA, Executive MBA, PhD, Master and Undergraduate students as well as Executive Education programs. His Healthcare Lab course attracts students from across the MIT campus and engages major industry partners and leaders. Levi has graduated 10 PhD students, 34 Master students and 6 postdoctoral fellows. He was also awarded several prestigious teaching awards.
Ron Rivest
Professor Rivest is the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a leader of the Cryptography and Information Security research group within MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University in1969, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974.
He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Ronitt Rubinfeld
Data is exploding in size. This is wonderful, as it allows us to achieve higher precision, more meaningful answers. On the other hand, large datasets also present a problem, as in many cases data sets are so large that it is impossible for standard algorithms to consider them in their entirety and answer in a reasonable amount of time. *Sublinear* algorithms allow a user to give meaningful answers after looking at only a miniscule fraction of the data. The goal of such algorithms is to allow one to swim, rather than sink, in our data! Join MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ronitt Rubinfeld in her fascinating and insightful talk.
Ryan Allard
Ryan Allard is a transportation analyst with broad knowledge of transportation systems and their impact on climate. His specialties include passenger intermodality, intercity transport, competitive issues in transportation, and cooperation among transportation systems, on which he has published peer-reviewed research and presented at international conferences. In the past, Ryan worked as a consultant, aiding in the development of more effective government and state agencies. He has a PhD and MSc in Transportation Systems Analysis from the University of Lisbon, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT Syncopasian
Syncopasian is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's co-ed East Asian music a cappella group. We celebrate East Asian pop culture at MIT through our eclectic a cappella repetoire featuring songs in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian languages. Syncopasian is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's co-ed East Asian music a cappella group. We celebrate East Asian pop culture at MIT through our eclectic a cappella repetoire featuring songs in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian languages.
Talia Khan
Talia Khan is a Senior (Class of 2020) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is majoring in Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering) and 21M (Music). She is from Phoenix, AZ, and her passion for sustainability stems from her love of nature. She yearns to protect it from harm that may inhibit the continuation of life. Her hobby outside of protecting our planet includes being a Jazz Singer.
Tim Gutowski
Timothy Gutowski is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981. His current area of study is focused on the climate change consequences and mitigation strategies for engineered systems including; manufacturing, transportation, buildings and energy systems. He attended college in Wisconsin (B.S. Mathematics, 1967), Illinois (M.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1968) and Massachusetts (MIT, PhD Mechanical Engineering, 1981). He has worked at Wiss, Janney, and Elstner (structural engineer) and Bolt, Berank and Newman (noise and acoustics consultant) and has taught mechanical engineering at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito, Ecuador, while he was in the Peace Corps. He has over 150 technical publications, three books, and seven patents and patent applications. His most recent books are: Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources, (with Bhavik Bakshi and Dušan Sekulić ) Cambridge University Press 2011, and Advanced Composites Manufacturing, Wiley 1997. And in 1972 he wrote Conceptos Básicos de la Teoría de Vibraciones.
Tom Peacock
Having received his B.Sc. (Physics) from Manchester University and D. Phil. (Physics) from Oxford University, Professor Thomas Peacock of the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT is the Director of the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab). His research group conducts field studies, laboratory experiments and modeling of environmental flows with an emphasis on ocean dynamics and transport. Professor Thomas Peacock received NSF and ONR sponsored projects, including recent studies in the Arctic Ocean, the Timor Sea, and the Western Pacific. Recently, he established a research program at MIT that studies scientific and societal aspects of deep-sea mining, with activities ranging from plume dynamic studies in the Pacific Ocean to the development of an international royalty payment regime for the International Seabed Authority.
Vibha Agarwal
Vibha is a fourth-year student studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. Her passion for sustainability comes from her belief that everyone has the right to basic needs, and that things like clean water, a safe environment, nutritious foods, and access to education are the key to helping people accomplish their personal goals. She loves learning about other communities, and is inspired by Tanzania's move towards solar energy. At MIT Engineers Without Borders, she's served as External Relations Manager, Electrical Team Lead, Technical Lead, and President; this club has given her amazing opportunities to grow as a leader and change-maker. (She's also been involved with MIT D-Lab in the past. )
Vivenne Sze
Vivienne Sze received the B.A.Sc. (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2004, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 2006 and 2010 respectively. She received the Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize for her Ph.D. thesis in electrical engineering at MIT in 2011. She is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. Her research interests include energy efficient algorithms and architectures for portable multimedia applications. From September 2010 to July 2013, she was a Member of Technical Staff in the Systems and Applications R&D Center at Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, TX, where she designed low-power algorithms and architectures for video coding. She also represented TI in the JCT-VC committee of ITU-T and ISO/IEC standards body during the development of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which received a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award. She co-edited a book entitled High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) – Algorithms and Architecture (Springer, 2014). She was a recipient of the 2017 Qualcomm Faculty Award, 2016 Google Faculty Research Award, the 2016 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award, the 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award and a co-recipient of the 2017 CICC Best Invited Paper Award, the 2016 Micro Top Picks Award and the 2008 A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award.
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