MIT Club of Southwest Florida

Past Club Events

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Previous Speakers and Events

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Collier Automotive Museum , Private facility - never open to public - 80,000 sq.ft.; 112 historic autos (sports & racing focus), March 31, 2012.
Joe Mathis, Aquarium and Laboratory Guide, Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, March 28, 2012.
Charles Dauray, Member of the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District, Chair of the Big Cypress Basin Board and Vice-Chair of the Water Resources Advisory Commission, Lake Okeechobee Subcommittee, March 20, 2012.
David Rossin, Former President of the American Nuclear Society and former Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy),MIT '55, February 29, 2012.
Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), MIT, February 27, 2012.
Peter Houk, Director, MIT Glass Lab, January 25, 2012.
Ed Roberts, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology and founder and chair of MIT Entrepreneurship Center, January 17, 2012.
Stephen A. Ross, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at MIT, March 31, 2011.
Dr. Ioannis N. Miaoulis MIT '84, President, Museum of Science (Boston), February 24, 2011.
Dr. Larry R. Thompson, President, Ringling College of Art and Design, February 15, 2011.
Florida Gulf Coast University, Presentation on Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedical Engineering, January 20, 2011.
Stuart Schmill, Dean of Admissions, MIT, January 5, 2011.
Laurence Young, Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, April 19, 2010.
Marc A. Kastner, Donner Professor of Science, Dean, School of Science, MIT, March 26, 2010.
Adam Riess, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 2008 MacArthur Fellow, March 15, 2010. (Nobel Laureate, Physics, 2011)
Trip to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam, February 25, 2010.
Dr. Robert I. Carey, MD (Medical College of Georgia, PhD, Chemistry, MIT, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Robotic Surgery, Sarasota, FL, February 23, 2010.
Bridget Washburn, Gulf Alliance Educator and Michael R. Bauer, J.D., Ph.D., Natural Resources Manager, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Naples, Florida, January 21, 2010.
Jack S. Siegel, President, Technology and Markets Group, Energy Resources International (ERI), Inc., January 19, 2010.
da Vinci Robotics Surgical Center, Naples Community Hospital, March 17, 2009, Naples, Florida.
Robert Desimone, Professor and Director of the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at MIT and Ann Graybiel, Institute Professor and Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, March 16, 2009.
Edmund Bertschinger, Professor and Head, MIT Dept. of Physics, February 20, 2009.
Brent MacDonell, "Florida Power and Light and Our Energy Alternatives", February 10, 2009.
Kristie Anders, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, January 15, 2009.
Paul Greene, Social Security Administration, January 12, 2009.
Richard S. Lindzen, MIT Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, March 24, 2008.
Dr. Robert E. Goldschmidt '63, March 12, 2008.
Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, February 26, 2008.
Margaret D. Lowman, Professor and Director of Environmental Initiatives, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, New College of Florida, February 14, 2008.
Richard Schrock, Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2005, January 11, 2008.
Robert Steinberg '81, January 3, 2008.
Robert Armstrong, Chevron Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and co-chair of the Energy Research Council, March 22-23, 2007.
Robert Weinberg, Professor and founding Member of MIT's Whitehead Institute, and a pioneer in cancer research, March 7, 2007.
Claude Canizares, Professor, MIT Physics Dept., Associate Provost, Vice President of Research, February 22, 2007.
Dr. Carol S. Steele, Business Development Manager for the University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, February 5, 2007.
Ed Carlson, Director of the Audubon Corkscrew Sanctuary, January 25, 2007.
Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Meteorology, MIT, March 30, 2006.
Susan Hockfield, MIT President, Naples and Sarasota, February 23-24, 2006.
Dean Richard Schmalensee, Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Naples, 30-Jan-06
Collier County Water Resources Tour and Lecture, 30-Mar-05
National Hurricane Center Tour, Miami, Florida, 3-Mar-05
Kip V. Hodges, Professor, Earth, Atmos. and Planetary Sci.,MIT, 4-Feb-05
Dana G. Mead, Chairman, MIT, Feb-05
Howard W. Johnson, Former Chairman and President, MIT, 12-Jan-05