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Soap Box Live Webcast6:00-7:30 p.m. Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained This is a great chance to learn more about the latest research being done with luminescent solar concentrators - inexpensive plates of glass or transparent plastic that concentrate sunlight without the need to track the sun across the sky. Speaker: Marc Baldo - Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science You will need version 8 or later of the Flash player plug-in to view the video Soap Box, held at the MIT Museum, is a series of salon-style, early-evening conversations with scientists and engineers who are making the news that really matters. Soap Box is a public forum for debate about important ideas and issues in science and technology. Now in its fourth season, Soap Box gives its audience the chance to debate serious issues with world-class scientists and engineers in an intimate setting at the MIT 360 program arena located in the new Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. "You have done an exceptional job of having these events be inviting and friendly. Thank you and your sponsors for this opportunity to meet and talk with these professors, as well as with the attendees." -Patty Hanifey
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 Soap Box programs are usually broadcast as a live webcast which you can access from the museum multimedia page on the evening of the event. Archived videos of previous speakers are later viewable in an edited format on MIT World™. If you have ideas for Soap Box, or are interested in sponsoring the series please let us know. |
