Empowering Excellence: The Hertz Way
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Hertz Council, the Hertz Board of Directors invites you to join us for a special evening celebrating the Boston Hertz community. "Empowering Excellence: The Hertz Way" will be an engaging event, featuring keynote speaker Stephen Wolfram, an original jazz performance composed by Hertz Fellow Vaibhav Mohanty, and recognition of the vision and legacy of the Hertz Council and community.
Throughout the evening, you’ll have an opportunity to engage with members of the Hertz Board of Directors and Hertz Fellow and Programs Council, discuss research with Hertz Fellows in the region, and immerse yourself in thought provoking conversation with our featured speaker, Stephen Wolfram, Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha & Wolfram Language, Author of A New Kind of Science and other books, and Originator of Wolfram Physics Project.
This special event will be held at the Norton’s Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is open to all local Hertz community members, with the opportunity for each of you to bring one guest.
Registration for this event is now closed. If you are attending the event and would like to reserve a parking space or shuttle to the event, please complete the transportation request form. We will follow up with further details.
If you have any questions or would like to be added to the event waitlist, please contact Aleza Stein, Community Program Manager, at aleza@hertzfoundation.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Event Details
Date
Friday, October 18, 2024
5:00–9:00 pm eastern
Program
5:00–6:30 pm: Main Programming in the Auditorium
- Welcome remarks
- Jazz performance composed and performed by Vaibhav Mohanty (piano), along with Hertz Fellows Jeff Brown (guitar), Kartik Chandra (melodica), Daniel Goodman (accordion), and guest performers, Sebastian Franjou (bass), and Sabrina Drammis (percussion), Aaron Day (percussion)
- Keynote and Q&A with by Featured Speaker, Stephen Wolfram
6:45–7:45 pm: Seated Dinner
7:45–9:00 pm: Reception, with research poster session featuring in-school Hertz Fellows
Location
Norton’s Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Directions on Google Maps
Dress
Business Casual
Transportation & Parking
Parking at the Academy is extremely limited and must be arranged in advance. Please see transportation options below.
- Rideshare: We encourage you to take a rideshare (Uber/Lyft) to the venue – please use address: 200 Beacon Street, Somerville, MA.
- Parking: If you plan to drive, we have arranged for some limited self-parking spots at a nearby parking garage, within a short walk to the venue (~6 minutes). If you would like to reserve a spot, please complete our transportation request form by October 8, and we will be in touch with details. For those with mobility issues who would like to request a parking space directly at the venue, please indicate this within the same form. If you have a city of Cambridge parking permit, you can park along the Irving Street side of the Academy – use address 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA.
- Hotel Shuttle: For guests staying at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (40 Edwin Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA 02142), we will provide a complimentary shuttle to/from the event. Please complete the transportation request form by October 8 if you would like to take the shuttle, and we will follow up with details.
Note about the American Academy location:
The American Academy building is located on the Cambridge/Somerville city line; therefore, there are two addresses. The main entrance to the building is on the Somerville side. This address is 200 Beacon Street, Somerville and should be used for anyone using GPS. If walking from the parking garage, you will enter at the 136 Irving Street, Cambridge pedestrian entrance and walk through the park around to the front of the building.
Registration
Registration for this event is closed. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the event waitlist, please contact Aleza Stein, Community Program Manager, at aleza@hertzfoundation.org.
About the Speaker
Stephen Wolfram is the Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha & Wolfram Language, Author of A New Kind of Science and other books, and Originator of Wolfram Physics Project. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.
Learn more here.
About the Composer
Vaibhav Mohanty, PhD is a 2023 Hertz Fellow enrolled in the Harvard MIT MD-PhD Program. Mohanty works at the intersection of theoretical physics, chemistry, and evolutionary biology to develop mutational “traps” to combat the rapid evolution of proteins in infectious pathogens and in cancer. Born in Durham, North Carolina, Mohanty grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where he developed a love for classical, jazz, and Indian music. He is now a national award-winning classical and jazz composer whose published chamber and large ensemble music is distributed and played around the world. Learn more about his music here.