MIT
Monday, May 03, 2010
MIT Energy Club Lecture Series: Empowering and Enabling Clean Energy Entrepreneurs
Speaker: Jacob Susman, Founder and CEO of Own Energy
Time: 10:30a–11:30a
Location: E51-345
OwnEnergy is a venture capital-backed community wind developer. Projects are developed jointly with a partner from the local community, with the said partner holding a significant equity stake. At the industry level, OwnEnergy is a founding member of the steering committee of the American Wind Energy Association?s Community Wind Working Group and is also co-chairing AWEA?s inaugural Small and Community Wind Conference.
Speaker Bio:
Jacob Susman has ten years of investing and business development experience in the field of renewable energy. Jacob has led OwnEnergy since its inception, including recruiting and managing the team, raising capital, establishing the brand, sourcing new business, developing projects and generating revenue.
Before founding OwnEnergy, he was a founding member of Goldman Sachs' Alternative Energy Investing group, where he was involved in Goldman's investment in Horizon Wind Energy and co-led a portfolio financing that was named Project Finance?s N.A. Renewable Energy Deal of the Year. Prior to that he served as Project Manager for the AES Corporation, working on a team that developed one of the largest power plants in Spain?named European IPP of the Year by Euromoney. Jacob also led AES?s efforts to develop a Spanish renewable energy business, which included negotiation of more than 1,000 MW of wind energy investment opportunities.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Transportation@MIT presents US Secretary of Transportation at MIT
Speaker: Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation
Time: 11:30a–1:30p
Location: E14-674
Transportation@MIT and the MIT Energy Initiative are proud to introduce The Transportation and Energy Distinguished Lecture Series that will highlight areas of common concern and interest between these two important initiatives.
We are particularly pleased to announce that our first speaker will be Ray LaHood, the United States Secretary of Transportation. Secretary LaHood will speak from noon to 1 pm on Monday, May 3, in E14-674. There is limited seating for this event, and we anticipate a full house. Please come early to make sure you get a seat. Doors open at 11:30, and the lecture will start promptly at noon.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Transportation@MIT
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Fearing
fearing@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Sustainable design & construction at Green Garden School, Kenya
Speaker: Peter Keiyoro, Co-Director of the Green Garden School and Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Nairobi
Time: 2:00p–3:30p
Location: 9-450a
Peter Keiyoro, Co-Director of the Green Garden School and Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Nairobi, will present a guest lecture on "Sustainable design and construction at the Green Garden School in Kenya" on Monday May 3 from 2-3PM in 9-450a.
Presentation will cover how he built the first Green Garden School buildings twenty years ago, learnings from design and construction of
a 1000 student boarding school campus in context of third world conditions, and will conclude with his interest in affordable
sustainable design technologies - notably the installation of the first greywater system for schools in Kenya.
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): DUSP, Auto-ID Labs, Senseable City Laboratory
For more information, contact:
Stephen Miles
978 884 0214
s_miles@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Redfields to Greenfields: Redeploying capital out of commercial real estate in an internet economy
Speaker: Mike Messner, MS 1980, of Seminole Capital, Catherine Nagel of the City Parks Alliance, and Kevin Cavarati of Georgia Tech Research Institute
Time: 2:30p–5:00p
Location: 7-338
Commercial real estate has declined over 40% with no bottom in sight. Over 10% of retail space is vacant, which will only get worse with the growth of on-line shopping. More than 1/3 of commercial real estate loans will be under water by the end of this year, and almost $1 trillion in commercial loans are expected to go into a negative equity position through 2014. Redfields to Greenfields is an ongoing project to help solve the commercial real estate crisis by converting?underutilized commercial and industrial real estate into park land and land banks for eventual redevelopment.
The talk will present initial findings from project in Atlanta (the poster child of excess commercial real estate development) and five other cities (Miami, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Denver, and Wilmington). Presenters will discuss institutional issues surrounding the financing and maintenance of public spaces and also address some broader topics ("What do the U.S. railroad industry in 1940 and today's commercial real estate have in common?"; "Is it time to bag the Bastiat rule?"; "Why protect bad real estate with low interest rates?"; "The stock market vs. mortgage debt in 1990s vs. 2000s").
Web site: www.redfieldstogreenfields.org
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, contact:
Ezra Glenn
617-253-2024
eglenn@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Ownership Consolidation and Product Quality: A Study of the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market
Speaker: Ying Fan (Michigan)
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: E52-244
Ownership Consolidation and Product Quality: A Study of the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market
Web site: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/5464
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop (Sponsored by Analysis Group)
For more information, contact:
Theresa Benevento
theresa@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
MIT Clean Energy Prize Semifinalist Poster Showcase
Time: 3:00p–4:30p
Location: Boston Marriott Copley Place
Meet the top 25 student clean energy teams in the country as they showcase their venture ideas.
Web site: http://www.mitcep.org/featured/attend-our-flagship-event-on-may-3-201
0/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Clean Energy Prize
For more information, contact:
Robbie Barbero
cleanenergyprize@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
The Clean Energy Revolution
Speaker: Brian Dumaine, Nancy Floyd, Scott Stern, Kevin Surace
Time: 4:30p–6:00p
Location: Boston Marriott Copley Place
"The Clean Energy Revolution"
presented in association with NSTAR and the MIT Clean Energy Prize
3:00?4:30 p.m. MIT Clean Energy Prize Semi-Finalists Showcase
4:30?6:00 p.m. MIT Enterprise Forum Global Broadcast
6:00?6:30 p.m. MIT Clean Energy Prize Awards Ceremony
What actions are needed to cause a paradigm shift and initiate a "clean energy revolution"?
Who should be leading the charge: entrepreneurs, government incentives, industry and the market, universities?
Hear our panelists debate the pros and cons of each, and help show you the steps and strategies energy entrepreneurs can follow to innovate and place themselves at the forefront of the energy revolution.
Panelists:
Brian Dumaine, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune magazine; author of "The Plot to Save the Planet"
Nancy Floyd, Founder and Managing Director, Nth Power
Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School
Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials; Inc. magazine 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year
Complete details and registration for the live event:
http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/201005/index.html
Tickets: $25 members, $35 non-members, $40 for ALL at the door; FREE for students with ID.
Web site:http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/201005/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: $25, free for students
Sponsor(s): MIT ENTERPRISE FORUM, INC.
For more information, contact:
Greg Wymer
617-253-0015
mitef@mit.edu
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Monday, May 03, 2010
IDEAS Competition Award Ceremony
Time: 7:30p–9:30p
Location: 32-123
Come join MIT students, faculty and staff in a celebration of ingenuity and public service. Winners in the 2010 IDEAS Competition will receive grants up to $8000 to implement creative solutions to community development challenges around the world.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/ideas
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Public Service Center, Graduate Student Life Grants, MIT IDEAS Competition
For more information, contact:
Samantha Cooper
5-5474
coopers@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
EARTH SYSTEM INITIATIVE YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS
Speaker: Taylor Perron, Assistant Professor of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 48-316
PATTERN FORMATION IN RIVER NETWORKS
Branching river networks are one of the most widespread features of Earth's surface, and their self-organized structure controls the transport of water and sediment across the continents. Dr. Perron will present a framework for interpreting these prominent landscape patterns. A numerical model of the dominant erosional mechanisms shaping soil-mantled landscapes predicts the emergence of patterns ranging from the spacing of sub-kilometer valleys to the hierarchical structure of hundred-kilometer river networks. Field measurements and high-resolution topography from laser altimetry provide a dataset for testing these model predictions, and yield insight into how landscape patterns record the influence of climate, rock type and life.
NOTE: Reception to follow at 5pm
THE ESI YOUNG FACULTY SEMINARS is a series of occasional talks by our young faculty affiliates. The goal is to foster cross-departmental community and new collaborative research relationships by having them present their very latest work to colleagues in other departments.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth System Initiative
For more information, contact:
Kurt Sternlof
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
MIT Sea Grant Lecture - "Energy Technology and Policy, A Post-Copenhagen View: Marine Challenges and Opportunities"
Speaker: Professor Ernest J. Moniz
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: E14-633
Professor Ernest J. Moniz will present an overview of the challenges presented to the energy system by climate change risk mitigation. Technology, policy, and business innovation needed to address this challenge will be discussed in the context of the Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009. Specific examples of marine science and technology solutions for a low-carbon world will be highlighted. A reception will follow the lecture.
Web site: http://seagrant.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Sea Grant
For more information, contact:
Nancy Adams
3-9305
nadamsx@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Transportation@MIT Seminar Series
Speaker: Sanjay Sarma, Mechanical Engineering
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 3-270
Transportation@MIT Seminar Series
In Spring 2010, the Transportation@MIT seminar series continues by drawing knowledge from MIT research that is applicable to transportation. Our goal is to strengthen the community of MIT researchers by sharing information in the following areas: airlines, automation, behavior and economics, energy sources, environmental impacts, logistics and supply chains, networks, propulsion, system control, urban challenges, and vehicles.
Web site: http://transportation.mit.edu/events.php
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free Admission to MIT and General Public
Sponsor(s): Transportation@MIT
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Fearing
transportation@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
How Shall We Choose? Making Useful Comparisons Between Petroleum Alternatives
Speaker: Bruce E. Dale, Michigan State University
Time: 4:15p–5:30p
Location: 66-110
MITE Seminar Series sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates
The world is beginning a long, and certainly painful, transition between the fossil energy sources, particularly petroleum, that have powered our economic growth over the last couple of centuries, and whatever energy carriers will come next. If we are to make sound choices between our petroleum alternatives, we will need to agree on metrics to guide our choices and then make sure we implement those metrics on a fair, consistent basis. Dale speaks from the battlefield of biofuels, perhaps the most visible near term alternative to petroleum. As such, biofuels are becoming a test case for the metrics we will use to choose between petroleum alternatives and how we will employ those metrics to make good choices. So far, we are not making very rational, fair comparisons.
Given the perceived land use issues and potential conflict with food production that accompany all discussions of biofuels, the analysis is broadened to determine how cellulosic biofuels might be gracefully integrated with existing agricultural systems to provide large net benefits. The results are frankly startling. If we redesign a relatively small fraction of our agricultural system to coproduce food and fuel, we can produce enough biofuel to replace about 70 billion gallons of gasoline per year while still generating all the food and feed currently produced from that land and reducing total US greenhouse gas production by 10%.
Reception to follow
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
rhowarth@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series presents Bruce E. Dale
Speaker: Bruce E. Dale, Professor
Time: 4:15p–6:15p
Location: 66-110
The world is beginning a long, and certainly painful, transition between the fossil energy sources, particularly petroleum, that have powered our economic growth over the last couple of centuries, and whatever energy carriers will come next. If we are to make sound choices between our petroleum alternatives, we will need to agree on metrics to guide our choices and then make sure we implement those metrics on a fair, consistent basis. Dale speaks from the battlefield of biofuels, perhaps the most visible near term alternative to petroleum. As such, biofuels are becoming a test case for the metrics we will use to choose between petroleum alternatives and how we will employ those metrics to make good choices.
Key metrics for choosing between petroleum alternatives should include at a minimum: potential scale, likely environmental impacts, ultimate cost and energy return on investment. These metrics are analyzed for several petroleum alternatives, including different biofuels.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, HIS Cambridge Energy Research Associates
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Marshall-Howarth
rhowarth@mit.edu
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
MIT Energy Club and Sustainability@MIT Social
Time: 5:30p–7:30p
Location: 50, Muddy Charles Pub
Come join Sustainability@MIT and the MIT Energy Club for a joint social. Enjoy refreshments and meet others interested in energy, the environment, and sustainability.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, Sustainability@MIT
For more information, contact:
Cecilia Scott
cecilias@MIT.EDU
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Lunch with John Krenicki (President & CEO) and Richard Stanley (VP Engineering), GE Energy
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: E51-315
Title: GE Energy's Role in Powering a Cleaner Energy Technology Future
GE Energy is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies in all areas of the energy industry including renewables, natural gas, coal, oil, and nuclear power. With revenues of over $37 billion, GE Energy has 82,000 employees and operates in 140 countries. Please join the CEO and head of engineering discuss the company's approach to solving some of the world's toughest energy technology challenges.
John Krenicki
GE Vice Chairman and
President & CEO, GE Energy
Richard Stanley
Vice President
Engineering, GE Energy
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club, MIT Sloan Energy and Environment Club
For more information, contact:
MIT Energy Club
energyclub@mit.edu
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
MRS Lunch 'N Lecture Seminar: Shape Memory Oligocrystals -- Microstructure Design Unlocks New Potential in Actuation and Energy Management
Speaker: Christopher A. Schuh, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Time: 12:00p–1:00p
Location: 6-104, Chipman Room
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are materials with the remarkable ability to restore their macroscopic shape to a "programmed" geometry after experiencing large levels of deformation. Heat or simply the removal of mechanical load triggers crystallographically-reversible deformation by martensitic phase transformation, and the resulting properties lend SMAs to numerous applications in actuation, sensing, and energy conversion. However, while dozens of known SMAs exist, the vast majority of these achieve shape memory properties only when they are fabricated in single crystal form; polycrystalline SMAs are frequently brittle and fracture when a shape-changing stimulus is applied. This talk will discuss a new class of polycrystalline SMAs--shape memory oligocrystals, which may unlock the full suite of shape memory properties across the complete range of known SMAs. What makes oligocrystalline forms of SMAs unique is that they have relatively few grains per unit volume, as in fine fibers where the diameter is smaller than the grain size of the alloy. With such geometries, the crystals in an oligocrystal are bounded largely by free surfaces, and the phase transformations that underlie the SMA properties are therefore less confined. These materials promise a low-cost, high-volume suite of SMA materials, which opens the door to many new actuation and energy conversion technologies.
Please join us for refreshments at 11:40 AM in the Chipman room (6-104).
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/mrschapter/seminars.htm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MRS Chapter at MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
For more information, contact:
Tiffany Ziebell
tiffanyz@mit.edu
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Just War and the War on Terror: Examining the Dynamic
Speaker: Bryan Hehir, Kennedy School, Harvard University
Time: 12:00p–1:30p
Location: E40-459
SSP Wednesday Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Security Studies Program
For more information, contact:
617-253-7529
valeriet@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Community-based Energy Innovations
Time: 12:00p–2:30p
Location: 9-450B
Presentations by students:
Jacquelyn Dadakis
Eric Mackres
Joshua Sklarsky
Shiva Prakash
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): EPP
For more information, contact:
Nina Tamburello
617.253.1509
epprequest@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Delivering Energy Efficiency with Community-based Strategies
Time: 12:30p–2:00p
Location: 9-450
How do we deliver on the promise of energy efficiency for energy balance and carbon mitigation? Please join us to discuss why mobilizing communities is a promising approach. The discussion will be led by several students conducting research on community-based energy efficiency strategies including: innovative community-led services and financing of efficiency upgrades, city promotion of green buildings, utility/community collaborative engagement models, and community energy geospatial visualization.
Please bring your thoughts and experiences. Lunch served. RSVP requested.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): DUSP
For more information, contact:
Harvey Michaels
hgm@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Tour of the Evergreen Solar Facility
Time: 2:00p–4:00p
Location: Marlboro, MA
Join the MIT energy club on a tour of the Evergreen solar facility in Marlboro, MA. Evergreen solar is a global technology leader and innovator in the solar industry that develops and deploys commercial scale photovoltaic solutions to an international market. The tour will consist of a visit to their production facility where they implement their cutting edge blue ribbon(TM) wafer technology in manufacturing solar cells and panels. The tour will also include a presentation on the business of deploying and marketing solar technologies. To sign up, please send an email to nwike@mit.edu. Space will be very limited.
Web site: http://www.evergreensolar.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
Nwike Iloeje
nwike@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
The Perspectivity Game
Time: 3:00p–5:00p
Location: E19-319
Have you ever found yourself in the grocery store looking at the price of eco-friendly tofu, only to put it back and continue to the ground beef? That weekend flight recently to Philadelphia: was it really worth its CO2 emissions? There is a good chance that, as a person concerned about the climate issue, you sometimes experience dilemmas like these.
If these are questions you may struggle with individually, imagine how it would be to make such tradeoffs for an entire country! The Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention in Copenhagen this last December has shown once more that this type of dilemma is omnipresent at the world level. National politicians have to continuously take decisions under large uncertainty in which they need to balance many different interests. As a participant in the Perspectivity Game you will experience what it is like to wear the hat of these politicians in the international negotiations. Under severe time pressure, you will have to make decisions that best serve all of your country?s interests, with a central focus on the ever-present tradeoff between sustainability and economic development.
The Perspectivity Game is a growing success in Europe, with countless sessions played among government policymakers, diplomats, university students, NGO board members and corporate lawyers. Can you beat a bunch of directors of a major international oil company? Can you do better than a group of Russian diplomats?
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
For more information, contact:
Tony Tran
Tones@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
MOBILE WORLD: The future of mobile technologies as a global force for change
Time: 5:30p–7:00p
Location: 32-155
Two-thirds of the world's mobile phones are in developing countries - and it's the world's fastest-growing market.
Can a simple cell phone provide access to health care, education and economic well-being? In short, can it change lives?
A few people at MIT think it can. Come hear their ideas.
Panelists:
Federico Casalegno, Mobile Experience Lab
Leo Celi, Sana
Michael Gordon, AITI
Sandy Pentland, Media Lab
Jhonatan Rotberg, NextLab
Special guest:
Eric Debeau of Orange (France Telecom) will offer an industry perspective.
RSVP online here:
Web site: http://mit.edu/misti/events/mobile.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI
For more information, contact:
April Julich Perez
617-253-8095
ajulich@mit.edu
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Energy Discussions: Potential Impact of US Climate Policy on Personal Vehicle Transport
Speaker: Valerie Karplus
Time: 6:00p–7:00p
Location: 26-204
Cars and light-duty trucks are a major contributor to the climate problem in the United States, but what role will they play in a solution? Come learn and share your thoughts on what the new fuel economy (CAFE) standards, incentive programs for alternative fuels, and a potential U.S. national climate policy could mean for the carbon footprint of personal vehicle transport. We'll review the latest developments and compare policy options, then open the floor for a lively discussion.
A light dinner will be served.
Please prepare for the event by reading the articles linked on the Energy Club event website.
Web site: http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/discussion-series/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact:
Rebecca Dell
rwdell(at)mit.edu
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Friday, May 07, 2010
MIT Tenth Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture: Geoengineering Climate on a Regional Scale
Speaker: Professor David Battisti, University of Washington
Time: 4:00p–5:00p
Location: 32-123, Reception to be held in 54-923 following the talk.
Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
David Battisti is the Tamaki Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. His research is focused on understanding the natural variability of the climate system. He is especially interested in understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal to decades. (More info available here.)
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/Kendall.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Center for Global Change Science, Center for Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact:
Jacqui Taylor
253-2127
jtaylor@mit.edu
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Spring 2010 D-Lab Projects Showcase
Time: 12:00p–2:00p
Location: N51, MIT Museum
May 8, 2010 D-Lab Project Showcase at the MIT Museum open to the public: 26 projects from 6 D-lab Classes.
Please join us at the MIT Museum to see the final summary presentations and working demos from the growing MIT D-Lab family of classes. Come see how MIT students are developing technologies that make an impact on our world!
To kick things off, the students from 6 D-Lab classes - Design, Dissemination, Health, Energy, Wheelchairs and Prosthetics - will give brief presentations of their projects. Then the projects will be on display and all the working prototypes demonstrated!
Hope you can make it!
Web site: http://d-lab.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: adults - $7.50, students and seniors $3, free with an MIT ID and children under 5
Tickets: at the door
Sponsor(s): International Development Initiative, D-Lab
For more information, contact:
Laura Sampath
617-253-7052
lsampath@mit.edu
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Harvard
"Nuclear Fuel Cycle," Belfer Center Directors' Lunch with Dr. Ernest Moniz, MIT
Director's Luncheon
Series: Belfer Center Directors' Luncheon
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
May 3, 2010
12:15 p.m.-1:45 a.m.
Description:
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Lunch with Dr. Ernest Moniz, Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT.
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1997 until January 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics and in energy technology and policy studies. He serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and was named to the Department of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future as of January 2010.
Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg, and Michigan State University. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Saclay, France and at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation and, in 2008, the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III for contributions to development of research, technology, and education in Cyprus and the wider region.
RSVP REQUIRED!
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/moniz.html
As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
Belfer Center Director's Lunches are strictly off-the-record. By indicating your desire to attend the seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.
Contact:
Belfer Center Events Coordinator
79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: belfer_events@ksg.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-3745
Url: http://www.belfercenter.org
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Anatomy of Self Deception: Belief, Judgment, and the Iraq War Decision
WHEN
Mon., May 3, 2010, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
WHERE
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275, Harvard Kennedy School
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION
Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
International Security Program
SPEAKER(S)
Peter Zimmerman, lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
CONTACT INFO
susan_lynch@harvard.edu
LINK
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/4310/anatomy_of_self_deception.html
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Making Progress on Energy: A Public Address by John Deutch
Forum Event
Series: Kennedy School Forum
Open to the Public - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/JFK-Jr.-Forum-Calendar/FORUM-%22Making-Progress-on-Energy%22-A-public-address-by-John-Deutch
May 3, 2010
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Speaker:
John M. Deutch
Description:
Please join us for the 2010 Godkin Lecture by John Deutch, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Deutch will explain why United States energy policy has failed over the last forty years to put the country on a path toward greater energy efficiency, less imports, less risk of climate change, and more rapid innovation. He recommends changes to the policy making process. Without such changes future progress on energy policy is highly doubtful.
Speaker Info:
John M. Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Director of Central Intelligence from May 1995-December 1996. From 1994-95, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and served as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1993-94. John Deutch has also served as Director of Energy Research (1977-79), Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology (1979), and Undersecretary (1979-80) in the United States Department of Energy.
In addition, John Deutch has served on the President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89); the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President's Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); and the President's Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996). He currently is a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997) and the Chairman of the President's Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998). Dr. Deutch serves as director for the following publicly held companies: Ariad Pharmaceutical, Citicorp, CMS Energy, Cummins, Raytheon, and Schlumberger Ltd.
Dr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970 and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost. Dr. Deutch has published over 120 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, international security, and public policy issues.
Contact:
Belfer Center Communications Office
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Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Energy Policy Seminar Series presents Nat Logar
Speaker: Nat Logar, Research Fellow, ETIP.
Time: 2:30p–4:00p
Location: Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Institutions for Energy Innovation: Science and Technology Decision-Making at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Campus Events, Harvard University Center for the Environment
For more information, contact:
Louisa Lund
louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
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May 6, 2010
4 PM
Haller Hall
Loretta Mickley, Harvard University
"U.S. Air Quality: Observations and Interactions with Climate"
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Other
ecomodding your home :: creating strategies to conserve electricityTuesday, May 04, 2010 at 6:30 PM - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM (ET)
Somerville, MA
Event Details
ECOMODDING YOUR HOME :: CREATING STRATEGIES TO CONSERVE ELECTRICITY is a two month seminar focused on identifying and implementing simple strategies to reduce electricity consumption. In this seminar, we'll use a special power strip developed at sprout. This power strip enables you to see how & when your appliances use electricity and ensure they only use electricity when you want them to—whether that means turning off your TV's standby mode while you're at work or dimming your lamp when its sunny outside.
Coordinated by Eric Smith, Gideon Weisz, and Daniel Bergey (the designers of the smartstrip), this seminar costs $280 (and participants will keep their power strip). Other tools and materials will be made available at sprout's studios, where the seminar is being held each Tuesday evening. For more information, check out the seminar site.
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