Seminar Lecture Schedule

September 25, 2006 : Introduction to the economic analysis of the science & engineering work force

Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and Daniel Goroff, Dean, Harvey Mudd College

October 2, 2006: Higher Education in India: Student flows and the circulation of the highly skilled workforce

Pawan Agarwal, Fulbright New Century Scholar, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

October 16, 2006: Fab Labs, science, and the prospects for development [this program will start at 4 pm and finish at 6 pm]

Neil Gershenfeld, Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT

October 23, 2006: The Gathering Storm report and its implications for the future of the science & engineering workforce

Charles Vest, former president of MIT,

November 6, 2006: Public policy and the U.S. scientific enterprise

David Goldston, staff director of the House Committee on Science

November 13, 2006: Allocation of Research Activity within Theoretical Physics

Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and author, The Trouble with Physics

December 4, 2006; The Contribution of the National Postdoc Association to the Careers of Postdocs

Orfeu Buxton, Harvard Medical School