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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">MIT's Energy Research Council is
initiating a series of energy colloquia that will be of interest to
faculty, staff and students across the campus. MIT President
Susan Hockfield and former Provost Robert Brown appointed the Energy
Research Council "to lead the planning for the initiative in
energy-related research and education--including developing a picture
of the current state of MIT energy-related research and expertise;
developing a list of promising science and engineering research areas
that match global needs and MIT capabilities; and recommending an
organizational structure that would facilitate work in these
areas." (Tech Talk, June 8, 2005) The series opens on
September 22, 2005 with a presentation by Dr. Steve Koonin,
Chief Scientist of BP plc. Dr. Koonin also has a distinguished
academic background, including nearly ten years as Cal Tech's
provost.</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>"Energy for the Coming
Decades: Trends and Technologies"</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Dr. Steve Koonin, Chief
Scientist, BP plc.</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Date: <x-tab>
</x-tab>Thursday, September 22, 2005</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1"
color="#000000">Place: <x-tab
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Hall, Stata Center</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Time: <x-tab>
</x-tab>Refreshments at 3:30 pm</font> outside 32-123</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab><font
size="+1" color="#000000">Lecture at 4:00 pm</font> in 32-123</div>
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</x-tab>Reception will follow the lecture outside 32-123</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1"
color="#000000">Contact:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Marie Tangney, mtangney@mit.edu,</font></div>
<div><font size="+1"
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</x-tab>Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Abstract:</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Ensuring adequate energy supplies
in an environmentally acceptable manner is one of the most significant
challenges facing society in the coming decades. New technologies will
play a central role in meeting this challenge, albeit conditioned by
the economic, social, and political contexts in which they are
developed and deployed. The discussion will focus on, from the
perspective of a global energy company, the major forces shaping the
World's energy future and the technologies required to respond to
them.</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Biography:</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">After three decades serving on
the Faculty and as Provost at the California Institute of Technology,
Steve Koonin joined BP plc. in 2004 as Chief Scientist. His
appointment was seen as reinforcing BP's shift in recent years toward
a future characterized by alternative energy technologies. Among
Koonin's responsibilities at BP is formulating the company's long-term
technology strategy.</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Koonin received his B.S. in
physics in 1972 at Caltech and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in
1975 at MIT, after which he joined the Caltech faculty. His research
interests have included global environmental science, nuclear
astrophysics and theoretical nuclear,many-body, and computational
physics. He remains engaged in a programme of systematic observations
of earthshine reflected from the lunar surface to determine variations
in the global albedo, an important parameter of the climate system. In
1998, he received the E.O. Lawrence Award in Physics from the
Department of Energy (DOE).</font><br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000"><i>Sponsored by the Energy
Research Council and the Laboratory for Energy and the
Environment.</i></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Karen L. Gibson</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Program Assistant</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MIT Laboratory For Energy and the
Environment</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">77 Massachusetts Avenue,
E40-469</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and
FedEx)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368; Fax: 1
(617) 258-6590</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://lfee.mit.edu</font></div>
<div><font
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