Speaker: Jarrod Jones
Time: 10:00a–1:30p
Location: Depart from NW62
Take a tour of the Casella Recycling Facility in Charlestown and see how Single Stream materials are sorted. Transportation to the facility and back to MIT will be provided. Sign up is required. Each tour is limited to 15 people. RSVP to recycling@mit.edu.
Open to: the general public
This event occurs daily through January 21, 2010, except January 20, 2010.
Sponsor(s): Department of Facilities, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Jarrod Jones
recycling@mit.edu
Dr. Gary Kleiman Sr. Environmental Policy Analyst, World Bank Office, Jakarta
The Government of Indonesia recognizes that climate change is a key economic development issue, and also that early action to address mitigation and adaptation concerns will be strategically beneficial. Indonesia is studying options to address climate change mitigation without compromising development objectives. This talk will review the overarching goals of the study and present early findings across several sectors.
Tue Jan 19,
Climate Change 101: Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy
Valerie Karplus and Jennifer Morris
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Concerned about climate change, but unsure how our policy options stack up? Come learn enough to hold your own at a cocktail party on current climate policy topics! From the basic economics to the pros and cons of different policy options to the status of international negotiations on a global agreement, this course will be a tour de force of current issues in climate change economics and policy. This discussion will provide helpful background for the upcoming session on recent developments in U.S. climate policy legislation.
Contact: Tony Tran, E19-411, (617) 253-7492, tones@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Time: 2:00p–3:30p
Location: 4-149
Enrollment limited to 50 participants: first come, first served
Participants requested to attend all sessions
Course 1: Historical perspective of nuclear fission. Overview of radioactive decay and nuclear fission. Basic concepts of a nuclear power reactor.
Course 2: Introduction of nuclear reactor safety. Discussion of reactivity and feedback mechanisms. Overview of defense in depth concepts. Discussion of Chernobyl accident.
Course 3: Overview of the fuel cycle. From mining to waste disposal, this course will discuss ore processing, enrichment, spent nuclear fuel and long term disposal.
Course 4: Overview of closed-fuel cycles possibilities such as Pu recycling and Minor actinides recycling. Introduction to fast reactors.
Open to: the general public
This event occurs daily through January 22, 2010.
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, Nuclear Science & Engineering
For more information, contact:
Benoit Forget
bforget@mit.edu
Wed Jan 20,
Dancing with the Stars: Quest for Fusion Energy
Abhay Ram
How do our earthly efforts to generate fusion energy compare with nature's working fusion reactors? This highly illustrative talk will compare and contrast the approach to fusion from a laboratory perspective with that taken by nature in forming and operating the Sun. The progress towards energy's holy grail will be part of the presentation.
Wed Jan 20,
Climate Change 102: Recent Developments in U.S. Climate Policy Legislation
Jennifer Morris
Single session event
U.S. climate policy is on the move—the Waxman-Markey Bill passed the House last spring, and before you could say Kerry-Boxer the Senate had a bill too! Wondering what these landmark bills are made of, but don’t have time to sift through 1,400 pages of legalese? Come learn about the substance and potential impacts of these recent developments in U.S. climate policy.
Contact: Tony Tran, E19-411, (617) 253-7492, tones@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Wed Jan 20,
Conscious Capitalism with Bud Sorenson
Kenneth C. Zolot, Ralph Z. Sorenson
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 18-Jan-2010
Limited to 125 participants.
Single session event
With special guest Ralph “Bud” Sorenson, member of the Board of Directors of Whole Foods Markets, moderated by Ken Zolot.
Today, the laissez faire concept of capitalism espoused by Milton Friedman is under siege. This workshop will focus on whether there is a way to retain capitalism as a powerful positive force for creating jobs, wealth, and innovation, while at the same time making it more responsive to the interests of all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
It will explore the concept of “Conscious Capitalism” that is based on the proposition that the primary goal of corporate leaders and entrepreneurs should be to optimize the returns to all stakeholders: customers, employees, supply chain partners, communities, the environment and, of course, shareholders.
Enrollment limited. Please sign up at the URL below
Web: http://iapcc.eventbrite.com
Contact: Kenneth C. Zolot, 32-386, x3-6481, zolot@mit.edu
Sponsor: Kenneth Zolot, 32-386A, 617 253-6481, zolot@mit.edu
Speaker: Jarrod Jones
Time: 10:00a–1:30p
Location: Depart from NW62
Take a tour of the Casella Recycling Facility in Charlestown and see how Single Stream materials are sorted. Transportation to the facility and back to MIT will be provided. Sign up is required. Each tour is limited to 15 people. RSVP to recycling@mit.edu.
Open to: the general public
This event occurs daily through January 21, 2010, except January 20, 2010.
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, Department of Facilities
For more information, contact:
Jarrod Jones
recycling@mit.edu
Thu Jan 21,
Climate Change 103: Issues in Climate Policy- Technological Change and Biofuels
Nidhi Santen and Suhail Ahmad
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Part 1: Climate Policy-Induced R&D and Technological Change in the Energy Industry
This lecture provides an overview about climate policy-induced R&D, innovation, and technology change in the energy industry, with extensions about the state of important technological change considerations within climate policy models.
Part 2: Review of US Biofuels Policies and their Implications
In this talk, we provide an overview of the most prominent policies to date that impact the production and use of biofuels and biomass and outline their intended objectives and mechanisms. We focus on three economic sectors, electricity, transportation, and agriculture and attempt to describe the impacts of those policies on other sectors such as food production, energy and environment, infrastructure, and the economy at large.
Contact: Tony Tran, E19-411, (617) 253-7492, tones@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Fri Jan 22,
Planning, Funding, and Implementing Transportation Projects in the Real World (or How It Really Works)
Kate Fichter, Eric Plosky
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
As a vital and complex element of any urban or regional environment, transportation infrastructure both affects and is affected by land use patterns, economic development policies, political power-brokering and environmental resources, and so offers a lens through which to study many of the choices and constraints available to today's planners. This seminar will offer a practice-oriented overview of the issues, players and trends most relevant to contemporary transportation planning, as taught by two MIT/DUSP alumni/ae currently working in the field.
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
The famous linguist, philosopher and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, who inspired the creation of musical compositions by Armenian-American Edward Manukyan, will be the spotlight of the MIT concert, to be held on January 22, 2010, at Kresge Auditorium. Professor Chomsky will be present with many family members, friends, and colleagues.
Violinist Sarita Uranovsky will perform a piece for solo violin, dedicated to Noam Chomsky on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Soprano Lyndi Williams will perform songs on words by Prof. Chomsky, and there will be other performances of Manukyan's chamber works, along with speeches by noted scientists and speakers, including Professor Pesetsky from MIT and Professor Chierchia from Harvard.
For more information visit: www.EdwardManukyan.com
For tickets visit:
http://sao.mit.edu/tickets/2010/musical-tribute
Open to: the general public
Cost: $3 for MIT community; $10 otherwise
Tickets: http://sao.mit.edu/tickets/2010/musical-tribute
Sponsor(s): Student Activities Office, GSC Activities
For more information, contact:
GSC Vice President
gsc-vp@mit.edu
BU
Metamaterials are a new type of artificial composite with unique electromagnetic properties that derive from their sub-wavelength structure. The canonical sub-wavelength “particle” from which metamaterials are fashioned is the split ring resonator (SRR) which consists of nothing more than an inductive metallic ring with a gap to provide capacitance. This seemingly innocuous particle has resulted in the emergence of a new paradigm in classical electromagnetism during the past decade. Namely, it is possible to design materials which are magnetically resonant at any desired wavelength from the microwave through the visible. This, in turn, has led to the realization that possibilities abound for creating effective materials displaying phenomena not exhibited by naturally occurring materials. This includes negative refractive index and cloaking.
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