Fall 2015 Colloquium Series
FALL 2015 COLLOQUIA
FALL 2015 COLLOQUIA
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September 25, 2015 |
Piano Recital with Yelena Grinberg Dr. Grinberg is a Julliard PhD in music history and performance. She will perform a concert featuring the music of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti, each of whom is celebrating their 330th birthday this year. She will also discuss the history and musical significances of these composers. |
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September 29, 2015 |
TEDxNJIT - Urban Phoenix - Renewal and Revitalization NJIT is hosting its 6th TEDxNJIT event. TEDx events are created in the spirit of ideas worth spreading. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This TEDxNJIT event will address a range of topics on the future of the urban city, exploring healthcare as a driver of urban renewal, celebration of art and dance in the urban environment, new models for innovation, architecture and design for today's cities, and the present and future of urban education. Speakers include:
Register at www.tedxnjit.com. Tickets (light dinner included) are $30 for the general public, $15 for students. |
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October 2, 2015 |
Pace Law School Forum
Professor Horace Anderson, Jr., joined the Pace Law School faculty in 2004 from the New York office of White & Case LLP, where his practice focused on intellectual property, privacy and data protection, the Internet, and media and technology law. At Pace Law School, he teaches courses in Intellectual Property law, Communications law, Privacy and Information law, and Contracts law. Professor Anderson received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1996, and a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. |
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Digital is Destroying Everything
Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better, more fun, or more instantaneous - making it that much harder to question how anything digital can be bad for us. In Digital is Destroying Everything, Andrew Edwards takes us on a tour of today's "blasted heath" where many things we've held dear have been uprooted or entirely changed by digital - and where many new and intriguing flora and fauna are sprouting. |
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October 16, 2015 |
Growing the Next Generation Automation-Capable Workforce
Mike Nager, Business Development Manager, and Ted Rozier, Engineering Development Manager, both of Festo Didactic Solution Center in Eatontown, NJ, speak about the future and preparing for "Industry 4.0". More information about these two speakers is available here. |
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October 21, 2015 |
Klang String Quartet
"Klang" means sound in German, and bringing their distinctive blend of musical interests and influences to campus will be Matthew Goeke (cello), Gregor Kitzis (violin), Rieko Kawabata (violin), and Yi-Ping Yang (viola). They will perform selections from the work of Johannes Brahms, Franz Joseph Haydn, and David Vayo, as well as an original composition by violinist Kitzis. |
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October 22, 2015 |
Rock and Roll
This play, by Tom Stoppard and directed by Dan Drew, is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Taking place in Cambridge, England and in Prague, the play constrasts the attitudes of a Czech PhD student who becomes appalled by the repressive regime in his home country and his British Marxist professor who unrepentantly continues to believe in the Soviet ideal. (Wikipedia) |
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October 30, 2015 |
Invited Speakers: Dr. Sartor and Joe Fleming |
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November 2, 2015 |
Habits of Craft and Multifunctional Matter, Here and There Maria Paz Gutierrez is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on integrated multifunctional building systems and programming biomaterials based on multiscale design. In 2008, she founded BIOMS, an interdisciplinary UC Berkeley research group that intersects architecture and microengineering to advance multifunciontal optimization of building systems fom programming materials to new multiscale fabrication methods. Gutierrez's interdisciplinary research is supported by organizations such as NSF, EPA, and DOE. Her research has been published in prominent architectural and scientific journals including Science and ARQ Cambridge and in venues such as the Field Museum. Gutierrez is recipient of numersou design and interdisciplinary awards such as the 2011 AIA Academic Medal, 2006 Best Interior Design (hospital), 2010 Blue Award first prize, and more recently, 2011 Evolvo International Competition Finalist. Her teaching innovation has been recognized by academia and industry through the 2011 Sarlo Distinguished Mentorship Award, 2011 Bentley Innovation Award, and more recently, the 2013 Odebrecht Sustainability Innovation Second Prize award (co-advisor) and recipient of the Cambridge University Distinction Scholarship (PhD program). Gutierrez is recipient of the prestigious 2010 NSF-EFRI award (over 250 entries), is a 2011 Fulbright Nexus Scholar, and was recently appointed Senior Fellow of the Energy Climate Partnership of the Americas by the US Dept. of State. Her contribution to innovating the field of sustainable design has been recognized as semi-finalist of the 2014 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. She is currently developing her forthcoming book Regeneration Wall (Routledge Press, 2016) which discusses new paradigms in the making of a new generation of the wall from multifunctional matter. |
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November 4, 2015 |
How to Make Cities Resilient and Sustainable: Improving the Quality of Water and Life in Urban Centers
This forum, organized and led by Dr. Michel Boufadel, discusses the problems of storm water runoff, urban farming, community gardens, and cleaning up the Passaic River. |
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November 11, 2015 |
Collapse of Building 7 of the World Trade Center during 9/11
Tony Szamboti, a structural engineer, will discuss anomalies in the collapse of Building 7 of the World Trade Center during the attacks on September 11, 2001. |
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November 13, 2015 |
Board of Visitors Roundtable Honors students meet with members of the Albert Dorman Honors College Board of Visitors in a Roundtable event. |
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November 13, 2015 |
Concert of Women Composers
Karen Pinoci, the conductor of the NJIT String Ensemble, performs with Claudia Lemmerz at the piano for a concert of music of women composers. |
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November 18, 2015 |
Career Development Forum Amanda Schorr, Manager of Technology Talent Acquisition at Hearst, is the featured speaker at this Career Development Forum.
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December 3, 2015 |
Numbers This play by Mar Gomez Glez (translated by William Gregory and Directed by Maria Aladren), is having its U.S. premiere at the Jim Wise Theatre. Numbers is a satirical drama about a small fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea that picks up the passengers of a stranded migrant boat. Once they're on board, it becomes clear that there's not enough food to handle the refugees, no port will accept them, and a ridiculous bureaucratic nightmare ensues. This script is straight from the global headlines. |
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December 9, 2015 |
NJIT JAZZ, STRING, AND WIND ENSEMBLES The musical talent of the NJIT community will once again be featured when the jazz, string, and wind ensembles take the stage on December 9, 2015. The string ensemble is conducted by Karen Pinoci, and the wind ensemble is conducted by Nicholas Santoro. The jazz ensemble performs under the direction of David Rimelis. These ensembles are made up of NJIT students, staff, faculty, and guest artists, ANYONE who plays an instrument can participate.
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