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| Monday, November 1, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Northeastern University Biology Colloquium
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Speaker: Dr. Joe Pawlik (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
Title: The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Coral Reefs: How Natural Products Shape Natural Systems
Location: 90 Snell Library, Northeastern University, Department of Biology
360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
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Laura McGann
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Biomolecular Seminar Series
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"Roles of AhR and ER in Sexual Differentiation of the Brain: TRIPping the Switch from Female to Male"
Speaker: Sandra Petersen (UMass Amherst)
Host: Mara Feld and Women in Biology
Location: Boston University, LSE B01 24 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215
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Deirdre James
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| Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Mass-AWIS Nanotechnology Seminar: From Living Cells to Biologically Inspired Nanodevices
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Please join MASS-AWIS for a special seminar. Dr. Ingber, a leader in the field, will discuss the current advancements in nanotechnology. Through his interdisciplinary collaborations with experts in chemistry, physics, engineering, magnetics and optics, Dr. Ingber has helped to develop multiple new experimental nano- and microtechnologies.
This event is open to both men and women.
Location: Folkman Auditorium, Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00pm - Light dinner/Networking
7:00 - 8:00pm - Nanotechnology Seminar
8:00 - 8:30pm - Networking
Free for AWIS members, students and post-docs
$10 for Non-members
Please visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=210835 to register.
Street parking and garages are available in the area. The MBTA’s Longwood stops (Green line D&E branches) & the LMA M2 Shuttle Bus stop are within walking distance.
Massachusetts AWIS Chapter (www.mass-awis.org)
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Mass-AWIS
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| Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Harvard Biotech Career Fair 2010
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The Harvard Biotech Club invites you to the biggest career event for life science PhDs, MDs and postdocs. The biomedical industry is hiring heavily this year and companies are hungry for talented Harvard students and postdocs. These companies include leading organizations in Biotech (Genentech, Sanofi Aventis, Broad Institute, CompuCyte, Genstruct, MassBiologics), Consulting (Boston Consulting Group, Health Advances, Clearview Healthcare), Patent Law (Finnegan, Global Prior Art, Lando & Anastasi, Wolf Greenfield), Pharmaceuticals (Merck), and many more.
Join us at the Career Fair to network with company representatives, and land the perfect job!
RSVP by emailing rsvp@thebiotechclub.org
Registration is FREE for Harvard students and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral fellows, $20 for non-Harvard students, and $40 for professionals.
Venue: New Research Building (2nd floor), Harvard Medical School
For more information, please visit:
http://www.thebiotechclub.org/careerfair/
Proudly organized by the GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club: www.thebiotechclub.org
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Mandrita Datta
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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New developments in the experimental therapeutics of autism
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Speaker: Eric Hollander, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Compulsive, Impulsive and Autism Spectrum Disorders Program, Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Location: Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu if you'd like to attend.
Visit webpage (http://autism.mit.edu/hollander2) for abstract and further details.
Supported by the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT
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Lee Mavros Rushton
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| Thursday, November 4, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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The Hans-Lukas Teuber Lecture: What is wrong with back-propagation and how to fix it
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Speaker Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada
Singleton Auditorium, Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Abstract:
There are three main problems with the standard way of learning an artificial neural network by backpropagating error derivatives. First, it does not work well for networks with many hidden layers and it is especially bad for recurrent neural networks which can be viewed as networks with a layer per time-step. This is a pity because recurrent neural networks are a very powerful type of dynamical
system and could do amazing things if only we could train them properly. Second, for classification tasks, backpropagation requires labeled training data and if the amount of labeled data is limited, networks with a large number of parameters suffer from severe overfitting. Third, it is hard to see how the cortex could implement backpropagation of error derivatives through many layers,
especially if the outputs of all the neurons are already being used to represent properties of the input. I will show how each of these problems can be fixed and describe a few applications which demonstrate the true power of backpropagation.
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/colloquia.html
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Kathleen Dickey
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, November 5, 2010
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(All Day)
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Boston Angiogenesis Meeting 2010
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Details & Registration -
http://CVBR.hms.harvard.edu
Location - Starr Center:
Schepens Eye
Research Institute
185 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
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Raji Bhat
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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The origin and evolution of photosynthesis
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Speaker: Hyman Hartman (MIT-Biology)
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310
Notes: MSI Weekly Chalktalk! Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 AM, followed by the chalktalk at 8:45.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
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Andrea Lenco
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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Week of Sunday, October 31, 2010
