"Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown", dir. Pedro Almodovar

"Flaming Creatures" -- Gender Studies Film Series

Location:
U of A Arkansasa Union Theater

Cost: free

Inside Books Volunteer Night

Come and open letters from Texas inmates and send them books that they request. We need all the help we can get.
Also, we always encourage people to bring dictionaries and book donations (soft back, please)for our library.

This is a non-profit organization formed to help Texas inmates through literacy and self-education.

Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Sundays 7pm-12am

Location:
Rhizome Collective
(300 E Allen St)

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

Human Rights Watch Int'l Film Festival

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - Boston

January 27-31, 2005

Advanced ticket purchase is encouraged.
For more information, go to www.hrw.org/iff or contact the individual venues.

From Bombay on Opening Night (BORN INTO BROTHELS) to Baghdad on Closing Night (SOLDIERS PAY and THREE KINGS) - the HRWIFF brings its challenging mix of features and documentaries back to Boston this January. The Festival showcases thirteen titles, many focusing on the justice system here and abroad and conflicts which turn family and friends into strangers and enemies. Iraq and Iran, Pakistan and India, North and South Korea, and Hungary, Lebanon, Peru and the United States are in this year's spotlight.

BORN INTO BROTHELS - OPENING NIGHT
Thursday, January 27 at 7:45 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, USA 2003; 85m. Video. Documentary.
In Bengali and English with English subtitles Children born to Bombayís brothel workers are given and taught to use cameras. While recording their surroundings, their own lives are transformed.
Winner of the 2004 HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize and the Documentary Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2004.

DEADLINE
Sunday, January 30 at 12:30 and 6:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson, USA 2003; 90m. Video. Documentary. In
English
Should the death penalty be the ultimate punishment and is it always justly applied? After Northwestern University journalism students uncover evidence that many people on Death Row are innocent, outgoing Illinois governor and death penalty supporter George Ryan orders special clemency hearings for all 167 prisoners on Death Row. Co- Presented by Amnesty International, Mass Coalition Against the Death Penalty and Northeastern University School of Journalism

GOODBYE HUNGARIA
Saturday, January 29th at 1 and 3 PM in the Coolidge Corner Theatre Video
Room
Filmmaker Jon Nealon in attendance
USA/Hungary 2003; 56m. Video. Documentary.
In English & Arabic with English subtitles
Both political tale and love story, the film chronicles the lives of Abed Al-Sahli a Palestinian refugee in Hungary who acts as advocate and de facto translator for a refugee camp's Arab population, and Charu Newhouse, an American volunteer. Co-presented by the International Institute of Boston and the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)

THE KITE
Friday, January 28 at 8:00 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Randa Chahal-Sabbag, France/Lebanon 2003; 80m. 35mm. drama
In Arabic with English subtitles
A 16-year-old girl has been given in marriage to her cousin, who lives on the other side of the barbed wire border separating her Druze Lebanese village from his, which has been annexed by Israel. However, she gradually falls in love with a soldier who has been watching her since the day she crossed the border for the first time.
Co-presented by Women in Film & Video/New England

JUVIES
Saturday, January 29 at 5 and 7 PM at the Coolidge Corner Screening Room
Sunday, January 30 at 8:00 PM at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre Leslie
Neale, USA 2004; 66m. Video. Documentary.
In English
A riveting look at a world most of us will never see: the world of juvenile offenders, increasingly tried as adults and serving incomprehensibly long prison sentences for crimes they either did not commit or were only marginally involved in.
Co-presented by the Youth Advocacy Project

PERSONS OF INTEREST
Friday, January 28 at 6:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Saturday, January 29 at 9:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse, USA 2003; 63m. Video. Documentary. In
English
After the September 11th terrorist attacks, more than 5000 people, mainly non-U.S. nationals of South Asian or Middle Eastern origin, were taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on grounds of national security. Filmed inside a symbolic interrogation room, former detainees poignantly tell their stories through interviews, family photographs, and letters from prison.
Co-presented by the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

REPATRIATION
Sunday, January 30 at 2:30 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Screening Room
Dong-won Kim, South Korea 2003; 149m. 35mm. Documentary.
In Korean with English subtitles
For ten years, South Korean director Dong-won Kim followed released North Koreans who were arrested for spying in the South. He documented how they survived ó both physically and psychologically ó the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home. Winner of the Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival 2004
Co-presented by the Fletcher Club of Boston

SAINTS AND SINNERS
Friday, January 28 at 7:30 and 10:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Abigail Honor and Yan Vizinberg, USA 2004; 71m. Video. Documentary. In
English
Devoutly Catholic gay couple Edward and Vincent are determined to marry in a Catholic church, despite the expected rejection from the local church hierarchy.
Co-presented by Dignity Boston and the Freedom to Marry Coalition

SILENT WATERS
Friday, January 28 at 6 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan 2003 95 minutes, 35mm, Drama
In Punjabi with English Subtitles
Set in 1979 Pakistan, a widowed Muslim woman invests her hopes in her beloved son. But when he takes up with a group of Islamic fundamentalists just as a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, her haunted past turns her present life upside down.
Co-presented by Women in Film & Video/New England

STORY UNDONE
Saturday, January 29 at 1:15 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Hassan Yektapanah Iran/Irland 2004 35 mm/ 83 minutes
In Farsi with English subtitles
When two Iranian filmmakers set out to make a film on the illegal smuggling of their fellow citizens across the border, they find themselves part of the larger story.
Co-presented by the International Institute of Boston

THREE KINGS - CLOSING NIGHT with SOLDIERS PAY
Monday, January 31 at 7 PM at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre
THREE KINGS: David O. Russell, US 1999 114m, 35mm. drama.
In English & Arabic with English subtitles
At the end of the first Gulf War, US soldiers set out into the desert to seeking Saddamís stolen gold as their prize of war. What they find is their own humanity.
SOLDIERS PAY: David O. Russell, Tricia Regan and Juan Carlos Zaldivar, US 2004
Russell's short documentary about the impact of the Iraq war on Americans and Iraqis, which Warner Brothers wouldn't allow on the DVD reissue of THREE KINGS.

WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE
Saturday, January 29 at 3:00 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Francisco J. Lombardi, Peru 2003; 149m. 35mm. drama
In Spanish with English subtitles
Secret tapes. Blackmail. Political corruption. Unrequited love. Kidnapping. Wrongful imprisonment. Murder. A granddaughterís devotion. Six interwoven stories set against the collapse of Peruvian president Alberto Fujimoriís government. The filmmaker received HRWIFF's 2004 Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award.
Co-presented by the Boston Latino International Film Festival

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre & Museum of Fine Arts

Cost: $12 open/closing nights & $9 all other shows

URL: http:://www.hrw.org/iff www.coolidge.org www.mfa.org/film

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2005 BRAZIL

January 26-31, 2005

What is the World Social Forum?
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.

Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. This definition is in its Charter of Principles, the WSF’s guiding document.

The World Social Forum is also characterized by plurality and diversity, is non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to facilitate decentralized coordination and networking among organizations engaged in concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world civil society. The World Social Forum is not a group nor an organization.

Who organizes the WSF?
Eight organizations are part of the Secretariat, which has an office in São Paulo (Brazil), and is in charge of the Forum process coordination. The eight entities that have started the organization of the first WSF – Abong, Attac, CBJP, Cives, CUT, Ibase, MST and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights – form this secretariat.

When WSF moved to Mumbai, an Indian Organizing Committee (in charge of organizing WSF 2004 in Mumbai, India) has been set up. The IOC has been integrated to WSF Secretariat afterwards.

General political issues as well as discussions on WSF future and the annual events methodologies are discussed and followed by the International Council, which is currently formed by 129 organizations.

For the fifth WSF edition, a Brazilian Organizing Committee (BOC) has been set up by 23 organizations, divided in eight Work Groups: Space, Solidarity Economy, Environmental and Sustainability, Culture, Translation, Communication, Call for Action, Free Software (linked to Communication WG).

What are the activities of the WSF?
Every year the WSF organizes a major world meeting which will take place alternately in Brazil and in other countries where the necessary structural and political conditions obtain, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum (Davos Forum) is taking place. It also promotes international Regional and Thematic Social Forums to pursue debates in specific regions and/or to discuss specific issues considered priorities by the International Council.

Who takes part in WSF events?
All organizations, social movements and civil society entities that are in accordance with the Charter of Principles may take part and propose events at FSM. Citizens that are not linked to any organization may take part in the debates.

Governmental entities and political parties may take part as observers. Governments that host WSF may be partners in its organization. Besides, governors and parliamentarians that commit to the Charter of Principles can be invited to participate on a personal basis.

WSF has the proposal of building another world without using violence; therefore it does not allow the participation of military organizations.

Is there a final saying?
WSF does not have a deliberative character. Therefore, it does not officially promote campaigns, nor has final sayings. This was the way that has been chosen to maintain participants’ diversity. Nevertheless, WSF has been the most significant space of international interlinkage for a new world. This happens because it helps participants to interlink and propose concrete action, since they do not state anything on behalf of the Forum.

Location:
Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

URL: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2&id_menu=

The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker: Lessons from an Ancient Native American Spiritual Teacher
Robert Gerzon

Event Code: LF03

The Peacemaker Epic, a recently rediscovered historically-based Native American legend, tells the inspiring story of a great Iroquois spiritual leader whose radical message of love and peace dramatically transformed warring tribes caught in a self-destructive cycle of violence into an enduring civilization based on principles of love, justice and natural law.

We will explore the clues this mythic epic may contain regarding America's spiritual identity and historic destiny

What: Lecture Series at CCAE
When: Thursdays at 10:30am, beginning 1/13/05 and ending 3/17/05

Location:
Cambridge Center for Adult Education 56 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge

Cost: $2 ($1 Seniors)

URL: http://www.ccae.org

Silencing Music: A Function of Copyright Law?

In June 2004, the first book about composer Rebecca Clarke was withdrawn by its publisher as a response to legal threats from the current manager of Clarke's estate.

In light of this, author and musicologist Liane Curtis discusses some artistic and scholarly issues raised by the use of copyright law for purposes of censorship.

Location:
Epstein Building Lecture Hall, Brandeis University

URL: http://my.brandeis.edu/btime/month-view?date=2005-01-24&group=2881

Bush Policy & Our Environment

The Implications of Four More Years Discussion Series
  
"Bush Policy & Our Environment." Zygmunt J. B. Plater will lead this hot discussion. He is currently a professor of law at Boston College Law School.

Over the past 25 years he has been involved with a number of issues of environmental protection and land use regulation. While teaching public law in the National University of Ethiopia, he redrafted the laws protecting parks and refuges, assisted in publication of the Consolidated Laws of Ethiopia, and helped organize the first United Nations Conference on Individual Rights in Africa. His credentials are far too numerous to list here, and include arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Location:
Murray Graduate Center House, Living Room Boston College

Cost: free

Directions: www.bc.edu/about/maps

URL: https://events.bc.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi

The US and Europe: Still Sharing the Same Values?

Has the renewed focus on "values” in the American elections increased the distance between the US and Europe? A discussion with two journalists and political commentators about the values informing their respective political cultures. Presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University in cooperation with European Studies at Boston University and the Goethe-Institut Boston

Location:
Boston University School Management 595 Commonwealth Ave. 4th Floor

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.bu.edu/ihs

Metro Area Planning Council

Metro Area Planning Council Public Input Event
Free Breakfast

"They imagine a future when communities work together to solve common challenges, in a healthy region with housing for all and good schools for every child. 

They picture a region with great public transportation, world class parks, and a strong economy that provides opportunity for everyone. 

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council's MetroFuture project is creating planning tools to help communities understand the consequences of their choices, and the tradeoffs of different approaches. Will more compact housing reduce traffic? Will there be enough water for new industry?

MetroFuture will forecast how the region will grow if “business as usual” continues, and we will enlist residents and experts to create “alternative futures” based on the visions we have heard over the past year. Now is the time to get involved—come find out how you can help make a "Greater Boston Region.”

The Honorable Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston
Speaking about why regional planning makes sense.

A Tapestry of Visions
A picture of Metro Boston in 2030, created by thousands of your ‘regional neighbors.'

Featured Speaker
Harriet Tregoning, Director, Smart Growth Leadership Institute

Building Metro Boston's Future
An opportunity to use tools and technology to look at alternative futures for the region.    
 
Registration & Continental Breakfast: 8am
Program: 8:30 – 11:30am

RSVP by January 24th at www.bc.edu/cga or call Lauren: 617-552-0904
Limited parking at the BCEC; take the new Silver Line Waterfront transitway from South Station.

Tours of the new Convention Center will be available after the event.

To take a tour, RSVP by January 20 and indicate your interest in the “Comments” field.

Co-Sponsors of this Event:

Boston College

Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Additional Partners of MetroFuture: Making a Greater Boston Region

The Boston Foundation

University of Massachusetts Boston

Location:
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, South Boston

URL: http://www.mapc.org/metrofuture/BC_Seminar.html

School Bus Safety Summit Mobilizers' Meeting

Parents, Parent Organizations, Community Activists, Students & Volunteers Needed!

Sponsored by:
City Councilors Chuck Turner, Felix Arroyo, & Charles Yancey, State Representative Gloria Fox, and State Senator Dianne Wilkerson

Equal, Quality Education Requires Safe, On-Time Transportation

Boston Public School Students Deserve No Less!

For decades, our community has fought for equitable and quality education. While we have struggled to improve the quality of education for all students, we have fought for equal rights for Boston's communities of color, including desegregation. As recent events have shown, this fight is far from over. We have won an important round by setting back an attempt to turn back the clock to separate and unequal education, under the code word of "return to neighborhood schools." Now we must assure that our children are guaranteed a safe, on-time ride to school.

Join us to help organize for the city-wide School Bus Safety Summit on Thursday, February 3, 2005, 6:30 PM at Freedom House, 14 Crawford St, Dorchester, corner Warren Street, Grove Hall. In the early 1970's, Freedom House was a vital center of our organizing to win and defend desegregation.

Location:
Dudley Public Library 65 Warren Street, Roxbury
next to the courthouse in Dudley Square

Israel: Looking at the Facts through the Media

Miri Eisen, Former IDF Colnel

Interpreting the media, especially with relation to Israel, is an ongoing challenge. Attend this hands-on workshop and learn from Miri Eisen, a retired Colonel from the IDF intelligence corps.

Sponsored by Hillel, MIT
Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston

Open to the public

Location:
MIT 4-145

Cost: free

URL: http://web.mit.edu/hillel/www

Information & Decision Systems Conference

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Student Conference 2005
January 27-28, 2005

Invited guest speakers, luminaries in the fields of systems, communication, signal processing, and control, will give lectures during the conference.

The LIDS Student Conference features graduate students in various labs in EECS giving 15 minute talks on their research in all areas of communications and controls. It also features invited speakers. Thursday features Professor Jean Walrand of UC Berkeley discussing

"Game Theory and the Pricing of Internet Services,"

and Dr. Jorge Tierno & Asif Khalak discussing "A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning." Friday features Dr. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, telling the inside story of how Ethernet became what it is today, and Prof. Roy Yates of Rutgers discussing his research interests. See the website for complete detailed schedule. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

The conference promises to be a stimulating two days of student presentations, entertaining lectures by our eminent guests, an intriguing panel discussion, and random, serendipitous encounters that always seem to happen at conferences.

As always, the conference is organized by the students of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. The conference provides a great opportunity for students to present their work to the Laboratory, as well as the greater MIT community, serving to promote collaboration among the various research groups.

If you would like to formally register for the conference, please email your name and institutional affiliation to the conference committee, but no registration is required.

Invited Speakers:

Jean Walrand is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, and control systems. He is the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice-Hall, 1988), Communication Networks: A First Course (McGraw-Hill, 1998, 2nd ed.), and coauthor of High-Performance Communication Networks (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000). He is cofounder of TeraBlaze, San Jose, CA, a switch fabric semiconductor company. Prof. Walrand is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE and a recipient of the Lanchester Prize and of the Stephen O. Rice Prize.

A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning
Jorge E. Tierno and Asif Khalak

Abstract - This talk will explore a controls approach to dynamic routing of vehicle fleets, which connects two well developed research areas: robust control and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). The discount factors traditionally used in dynamic planning are thus given a novel frequency interpretation, originating from robust control concepts of performance and robustness. The controls framework makes it possible to move beyond merely justifying the discount factor towards synthesis approaches for designing the right discount factor for a given problem. We illustrate this approach in the context of numerical experiments of unmanned vehicle fleet routing in an air traffic simulation.

Jorge E. Tierno is a Principal Engineer at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (formerly Alphatech, Inc.) in Burlington, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1996. His current research interests are in the application of Robust Control Technologies to artificial intelligence planning problem and in the use of information theory for data mining applications.

Asif Khalak is a Lead Research Engineer at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (formerly Alphatech, Inc.). He received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1994, an M.S. from Cornell University in 1996, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. His current research interests are focused on dynamics and control of complex systems, including control of vehicle fleets and failure tracking in complex mechanical systems such as jet aircraft engines. At BAE Systems he has focused on problems of multi-source data fusion, combinatorial optimization, and estimation and control of complex systems.

Roy D. Yates

Roy D. Yates received the B.S.E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1990, he has been with the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Presently, he is an Associate Director of WINLAB and a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is a coauthor of Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers (Wiley, 1999) with D. Goodman. His research interests include power control, interference suppression, and spectrum regulation. Dr. Yates is a corecipient of the 2003 IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications.

The Ideas Behind Ethernet
Robert M. Metcalfe

Abstract - Ethernet was invented in a memo I wrote at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center on May 22, 1973. Last year, 31 years later, over 200 million new Ethernet ports were sold. How did Ethernet become the Internet's plumbing? I will tell the Ethernet story anew with emphasis on the ideas behind it, ideas coming from probability theory, queueing theory, control theory, decision analysis, pulses, packets, and protocols. These are ideas about which, if I ever could, I can no longer prove any theorems and so tell stories instead.

Robert M. Metcalfe is a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts, and serves on the boards of Polaris-backed high-tech start-ups including Ember, Narad, Paratek, and SiCortex. He is chairman of Ember, Paratek, and SiCortex. He is a director of Avistar, IDC, IDG, Metro Ethernet Forum, MIT, PopTech, St. Mark's School, and MIT's Technology Review Magazine. Metcalfe helped build the early Internet, in 1973 inventing Ethernet at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. . In 1979, Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he held numerous executive positions. In the 1990s, Metcalfe was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company and wrote a weekly Internet column in InfoWorld. His books include Packet Communication, Beyond Calculation, and Internet Collapses. In 1969, he received two bachelors degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and in industrial management. He received a masters degree and a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970 and 1973. Metcalfe was consulting associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford 1976-1983. He was a 1991-92 visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, England. In 2003, Metcalfe was elected a Life Member of the MIT Corporation. Metcalfe is a recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Alexander Graham Bell Medal, and IEEE's Medal of Honor. Has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the International Engineering Consortium. Metcalfe has won the Marconi International Fellowship and holds three honorary doctorates.


Schedule:

Thursday, January 27, 2005

9:00 Breakfast

9:30 Opening Remarks
Professor Vincent Chan, Director of LIDS

Wireless Communications

9:35 Murtaza Zafer

9:50 Charles Swannack

10:05 Using UWB Nodes and an IMU to Navigate in GPS-denied Environments
Damien Jourdan

10:20 Rapid Acquisition Techniques for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Systems
Watcharapan Suwansantisuk

10:35 Wireless Channel Allocation Using An Auction Algorithm
Jun Sun

10:50 Coffee Break

11:00 Professor Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley

12:00 Lunch

Information Theory

1:00 Pamela Youssef-Massaad

1:15 Siddharth Ray

1:30 Writing on Fading Paper
Shashi Borade

1:45 Does Frequency Planning Help in CDMA? An Information Theoretic Analysis
Ashish Khisti

2:00 Towards Practical Universal Decoding for Discrete Memoryless Systems
Todd Coleman

2:15 Coffee Break

Networks I

2:30 Distributed Data Association for Multi--Target Tracking in Sensor Networks
Lei Chen

2:45 Global Stability and Policy Expressiveness in Internet Routing
Nick Feamster

3:00 Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) Attempt to Detect Portscanners
Jaeyeon Jung

3:15 Graph Similarity
Laura Zager

3:30 Xin Huang

4:00 A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning
Dr. Jorge Tierno and Dr. Asif Khalak, BAE Systems

Friday, January 28, 2005

8:30 Breakfast

Learning and Control

9:00 New Results on the Stabilizability of Two-dimensional Linear Systems via Switched Output Feedback
Keith Santarelli

9:15 Constrained Stochastic LQC: A Tractable Approach
David Brown

9:30 Gradient Estimation in POMDP with Structured Policies
Huizhen (Janey) Yu

9:45 How Fat is the Margin?
Constantine Caramanis

10:00 Theories and the Lexicon
Sourabh Niyogi

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Professor Roy Yates, WINLAB, Rutgers University

Networks II

11:35 Extending the Birkhoff-von Neumann Switching Strategy to Multicast Switches
Jay-Kumar Sundararajan

11:50 Stochastic Shortest Paths with Deadlines
Evdokia Nikolova

12:05 Andrew Brzezinski

12:20 Data Dissemination with Random Linear Coding
Clifford Choute

12:35 Synchronization in Complex Networks of Nonlinear Oscillators
Victor M. Preciado

12:50 Lunch

1:30 The Ideas Behind Ethernet
Dr. Bob Metcalfe, Polaris Ventures

2:30 Coffee Break

Estimation and Signal Processing

2:40 Visual Hand Tracking Using Nonparametric Belief Propagation
Erik Sudderth

2:55 Adaptive Sampling in Ocean Environment
Ding Wand

3:10 Ram Srinivasan

3:25 Pre-Compensation for Anticipated Sample Erasures in Reconstruction Systems
Saurav Dey

3:45 Panel Discussion

Location:
All conference sessions: Room 32-155, on Student Street in the Ray & Maria Stata Center for Computer Information & Intelligence Sciences.

Cost: free & open to the public

URL: http://lids.mit.edu/LIDSCONF/welcome.html

Demà divendres 28 << Política educativa a Euskal Herria >> al csa Can VIes

<< Política educativa a Euskal Herria >> Alternativa ESTEL Secundària Barcelona

Location:
Can VIes

Organizer:

LA ESCUELA Y EL ALUMNADO INMIGRANTE

"Educación y desarrollo de la tolerancia"
Belén Martínez Fernández
Psicóloga del Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Location:
La Bolsa (Pelota Kalea-Alde Zaharra, Bilbao)

Organizer:

Irak ante las elecciones

Charla de Carlos Varea (antiguo miembro de CSCA y
participante de numerosas delegaciones a Irak)

Location:
Likiniano (Ronda)- Bilbo

Organizer:

Glasgow Anti-G8 meeting

Discussing and organising anti-authoritarian response to the G8 summit in Gleneagles in July.

Location:
Pearce Institute
840-860 Govan Road

Directions: It's right by Govan U station, big building on the left with a clock on the front.

Organizer:

Movement for Change Weekly Meeting

Movement for Change has its weekly meeting on this day at the Center for Social Justice on the corner of Davis and Moreno. They are open to the public and start at 7 p.m.

Location:
Center for Social Justice
1603 N Davis St

Cost: FREE

Directions: corner of Davis and Moreno

Organizer:

Grin Without a Cat, a film by chris marker

Scenes of the third World War, 1967-1977: Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. An incredibly rare film ... don't miss this screening!

Location:
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 800 Saint Paul Street

Cost: FREE!

resistance, remixed

Tune in online at 7pm PST on Thursday, Jan 27th, by going to radioActiveradio.org

This week on resistance, remixed, lotus will be interviewing Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project about the work they do and their upcoming days of action for the 5 year anniversary of Low Power FM (LPFM).

From prometheusradio.org :

On the morning of Tuesday, February 8th, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission is inviting Low Power FM radio broadcasters and their allies to attend an important meeting in Washington, DC. We worked hard to establish the service in 2000, and five years later, the FCC wants to see how well these important news stations have survived and thrived. How can they make the service better? How can they your stations work better for you?

Prometheus will organize a full day of workshops, trainings, and information sessions for Monday, February 7th. And that Monday night, February 7th, starting at 7pm, the fun begins, as we celebrate Low Power FM radio's 5th birthday! Stations from around the country will show pictures, audio clips, and stories from their wonderful stations, as we celebrate, and work together to bring community radio to every town that needs it.

We'll also hear some great music from Hannah's band, Kiss Kiss Kill!

You can add your comments or questions about this show, and find the archive of it after its done, here: www.livejournal.com/users/dj_lotus/

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Resitance, Remixed is an experiment in tactical audio production where DJ Lotus creates audio which is in itself an act of resistance. Resistance, remixed also looks for new forms of resistance all over the world in an effort to find new, effective ways of combating neo-liberalism and the religious right, while creating direct democracy.

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radioActive SanDiego is a collective, non-hierarchical organization formed to pioneer a new internet radio station. We plan to build a model for the post-corporate, autonomous, community media of the future by offering revolutionary media production and distribution that creates positive social and economic change. RASD rejects the narrow formats of corporate-owned media and seeks to offer listeners a wide variety of styles and genres of media programming. We don't just report events, we participate in them!

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radioActive sanDiego
love / solidarity / revolution // positive social change
radioActiveradio.org

Location:
http://radioActiveradio.org - listen online!

Cost: none

Organizer:

URL: http://radioActiveradio.org

HUFF's Vigil Against Two Wars

HUFF shares space with Santa Cruz Copwatch in front of Borders Book Store. We also have a radio which plays Free Radio Santa Cruz's Bathrobespierre's Broadsides--a two hour civil rights show concerned with local human rights violations--from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Often we have access to a cellular phone to call in to the show and report police misconduct and other discrimination against the poor directly from the street.

We also circulate petitions urging City Council to take actions to end the War in Iraq and the War Against the Poor in Santa Cruz. The petitions urge the Rotkin City Council to loosen local laws so as to permit medical marijuana distribution centers, urge the Council to press for the impeachment of Bush, urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, urge restoration of public spaces and benches downtown, and urge an end to the Sleeping, Blanket, and Camping Bans.

We also distribute literature as well as the monthly homeless newspaper Street Spirit.

HUFF activists also cook and distribute food, often vegan, which we pass out until the pot is empty.

Location:
In front of New Leaf Market at Pacific and Soquel

Directions: In front of Borders Book Store in Santa Cruz downtown on Pacific Avenue at Soquel

Organizer:

URL: www.huffsantacruz.org, www.santacruzcopwatch.org

Watsonville Brown Berets

The Brown Berets are a historical part of the Chicano movement that was launched during the late 1960's. Our organization has been active in Watsonville since 1994 in responce to gang violance and ignorance that was taking the lives of our young people. Since then we have worked tirelessly on issues such as police harrassment, imrovement of our educational institutions, and demanding the voice of the disenfranchised community to be heard. We believe that through education, spiritaulity, cultura, and resistance that we can create effective changes in this society. We invite you to join our efforts. Mexica TIahui!!

Location:
406 Main Street and Beach Suite# 408b
(First Floor behind the Luttnich ( Ritmo Latino)Bld)
Watsonville, Califaztlan 95076

Cost: Dedication, an open mind, and corazon

Directions: Accroos the street of the Watsonville plaza and
next to Plaza Vigil

Peace Witness - Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

Digital Surrealism

Art critics, art fanatics, art appreciators, and anyone who just likes looking at cool stuff; the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived. The Camp Gallery will finally be open to the public at First Friday in Railroad Square. The art show is called "Digital Surrealism" and will be featuring the work of James Williams- a 21 year old homeless artist who's been dabbling in art since he was 5 years old. Come out and support a talented struggling artist.
This Friday. February 4th from 6-10 PM. 663 Industrial Dr.(also known as Krank it Up) Be there.
For more info call 850-222-6927 or email cheekychica-AT-aol.com
(If you want your art showcased next month, call or email the above info)

Location:
663 industrial dr, tallahassee fl 32310

Cost: free

Directions: south on Macomb, (which turns into Railroad), right onto McDonnell

Ringling Circus Demostration

We will be welcoming Ringling to town. We need to remind people of the non-human animals who have lost their lives and continue to suffer due to systematic abuse and neglect.

Posters and pamphlets will be provided. Dates and time are listed below.

Unloading of the animals: Will know time closer to opening night (hopefully).

January 26th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 27th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 28th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 29th: 10:30-11:30pm, 2:30-3:30pm, 6:30-7:30pm
January 30th: 1:30-2:30pm

**We need a presence at EACH showing. This is very important. Make all that you can. Bring your friends and family. Even if you can only stay for half an hour.
We need a LARGE crowd on opening night. This will be our most important night for media coverage to get the message to all of the Panhandle. **

On Saturday, we can catch lunch at SoulVeg or Higher Tastes, socialize, and make a day of it!

If you have any questions or would like to car pool you can contact me at 850-668-8562 or yogichi-AT-comcast.net. Also, if you can attend please let me know so I have an idea of how many people to expect.
Thanks everyone!!

Location:
Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center

Organizer:

URL: www.circus.com

Clarksville Weekly Peace Vigil

Our candlelight vigils are every Thursday night, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in
downtown Clarksville, Public Square and Main Street.

We read poetry at the vigils and display the number of US soldiers
killed
and wounded and number of Iraqi civilians killed to date.


We have a newsletter called: Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and
Civil
Liberties. Our e-mail is Freeinthesouth-AT-bellsouth.net

Thanks again,
debbie

Location:

Vigil at Lockheed Martin

Vigil against Lockheed Martin, one of the largest to profit from George Bush's neverending war.

Location:
NW corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.

Cost: free

Vigil at Lockheed Martin

Vigil against Lockheed Martin, one of the largest to profit from George Bush's neverending war.

Location:
NW corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.

Cost: free