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October 5 - 6, 2017, NAI EC In-person Meeting

The NAI Executive Council meeting on October 5-6, 2017 will be held in Cambridge, MA and hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) NAI Team.

POC:
Desi Bridges
(510) 468-2413
desireemoi.r.bridges@nasa.gov

Please fill out the NAI EC Meeting RSVP page by September 1, 2017. We use this information for transportation planning and communication.

Where

The NAI EC meeting will be held at:
Doc Edgerton Room
Residence Inn Boston Cambridge

Lodging Reservations

Residence Inn Boston Cambridge
120 Broadway
Six Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Ph: (617) 349-0700

For public transportation directions from Boston Logan International Airport to the Residence Inn, click here.

Room Block Name: NASA Astrobiology EC Meeting
Room Block Dates: October 4-7, 2017
Room Rate: $296.00/night
Room Block Reservation Deadline: September 6, 2017

To book a room, visit the Marriott (Residence Inn) website.

Agenda

Thursday, October 5, 2017

06:30–08:30 BREAKFAST in Hotel Lobby

08:30–08:45 Welcome and Introductions (Doc Edgerton Room)
Penny Boston and Roger Summons

08:45–10:00 NAI 2.0 at its 20th Anniversary

10:00–10:30 BREAK

10:30–12:00 Institute Programs
- Reassesment of Student Programs
- Minority Institution Research Support Program (MIRS) – View Slides
- The NAI International Partners Program – View Slides
- NAI Fellows Program (New!)
- Scheduling Next Year’s EC Meeting

12:00–12:45 LUNCH

12:45–01:30 PI in camera Session (Team PIs only)

01:30–02:00 Report-out from in camera Session (EC, NAI Central, NASA HQ)

02:00–03:00 Seminar by Luis Campos, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology

03:00–3:30 BREAK

03:30–05:00 NAI 2.0 Brainstorming Session

05:00 Adjourn

06:30 GROUP DINNER

EVOO Cambridge
350 3rd Street (in Kendall Square)
Cambridge, MA 02142

View the Dinner Menu
Directions from the Residence Inn to EVOO

Friday, October 6, 2017

06:30–08:30 BREAKFAST in Hotel Lobby

08:30–08:45 Introduction to MIT Team (Doc Edgerton Room)
Roger Summons

08:45–10:00 Presentations
- Tayler Mackey
- Kelsey Moore
- Emily Matys
- Emmy Smith

10:00–10:30 BREAK

10:30–12:00 Presentations, continued
- Hannah Kaplan
- Francis Macdonald
- Tanja Basak
- Greg Fournier

12:00 LUNCH

01:30–04:00 Tour of Media Lab and other MIT Facilities – Bldg E14 Lobby (75 Amherst St)

About the Media Lab Tour:
The MIT Media Lab transcends known boundaries and disciplines by actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture that emboldens unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.

The Lab creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, and affective computing. Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in over 27 research groups and initiatives on more than 450 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner,” to the world’s first “smart” powered ankle-foot prosthesis. Lab researchers are committed to delving into the questions not yet asked, whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.

Learn more here: https://www.media.mit.edu/about/mission-history/