[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events

Sun May 2 20:51:04 PDT 2010

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 at mit.edu

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Monday, May 03, 2010

Transportation at MIT presents US Secretary of Transportation at MIT
Speaker: Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation

Time: 11:30a–1:30p

Location: E14-674

Transportation at 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 at MIT

For more information, contact:
Rebecca Fearing
fearing at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at mit.edu

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Transportation at MIT Seminar Series
Speaker: Sanjay Sarma, Mechanical Engineering

Time: 4:00p–5:00p

Location: 3-270

Transportation at MIT Seminar Series

In Spring 2010, the Transportation at 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 at MIT

For more information, contact:
Rebecca Fearing
transportation at 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 at 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 at mit.edu

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

MIT Energy Club and Sustainability at MIT Social
Time: 5:30p–7:30p

Location: 50, Muddy Charles Pub

Come join Sustainability at 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 at MIT

For more information, contact:
Cecilia Scott
cecilias at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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
Assoc. Director for Communications Belfer Center for Science and  
International Affairs 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: sharon_wilke at ksg.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-9858
Fax: 617-495-8963
Url: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu

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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 at 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.