On September 18, 2008, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda delivered a lectureentitled, "Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating African andRwandan Development." After the lecture, President Kagame took questions from the audience pertaining to this subject.Read more about this event h...
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Tom Brokaw, former anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, delivered a 2008 Compton lecture titled "Life Is Not Virtual" April 2nd, in Kirsch Auditorium. An internationally respected journalist, Brokaw served as the NBC anchor for 21 years. He was the NBC White House correspondent during...
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Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and the co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics gave a lecture entitled "The energy problem and the interplay between basic and applied research"on May 12, 2009 at MIT. Click here for more info.
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The 32nd Aeronautics and Astronautics Department Lester D. Gardner Lecture, presented by Yvonne Brill. This lecture was given at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, April 2, 2009.
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marc kastner presents an elaborate and impressive selection of some of the more popular physics demonstrations in the lecture demo group’s repertoire to the dept staff during a get together a few years back, when he was still serving as our very warmly regarded physics dept chair :) i taped this...
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Bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary Neil Gaiman, interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture. The lecture was hosted by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, and was founded to honor the memory of longtime DC Comics editor Julius...
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Bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary Neil Gaiman, interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture. The lecture was hosted by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, and was founded to honor the memory of longtime DC Comics editor Julius "Julie" ...
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U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., delivered a 2008 Compton lecture titled, "Forging a Clean Energy Future," Friday, April 25, in Kirsch Auditorium.
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Kennedy commends MIT, decries White House 'pseudo-science'"Truth is taking a beating," Sen. Edward Kennedy warned in a forceful attack on the science policy of the Bush administration today in his delivery of the 2007 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, held in the Stata Center’s Kirsch Auditorium. ...
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mit physics department lecture demonstration exploding wire a large capacitor ~.1mF is charged to 3kV and then discharged through a short, small diameter wirewire is vaporized
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