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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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<b>"Energy for the Coming Decades: Trends and
Technologies"</b></font></div>
<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
> </x-tab>32-123, Kirsch 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>
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size="+1" color="#000000">Lecture at 4:00 pm</font> in 32-123</div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Reception will follow the lecture outside 32-123</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Info:<x-tab>
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>http://lfee.mit.edu/metadot/index.pl?id=3387&isa=Category&op<span
></span>=show</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"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</font></div>
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Abstract:<br>
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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.<br>
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Biography:<br>
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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.<br>
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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>Marie Tangney<br>
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Room E40-455<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
U. S. A.<br>
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Phone:<x-tab> </x-tab>(617)258-8891<br>
Fax: <x-tab>
</x-tab>(617)253-8013<br>
email:<x-tab> </x-tab>mtangney@mit.edu</div>
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