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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000">The
Technology and Policy Program presents</font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Issues in Technology and Policy</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>IAP Seminar Series</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000">All
seminars meet in E51-149</font></div>
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Capitals" size="+4"
color="#000000"><b>Electric Power Networks: Challenges and
Opportunities</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+3"
color="#000000">Marija Ilic</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">ESD
Visiting Professor from Carnegie Mellon University</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000">Wednesday Jan. 18th</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Noon
- 1:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000">E51-149</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000">Public needs in the
electric power sector are evolving. This seminar will examine
evolution to new technologies and more flexible organizational
structures from a systems engineering perspective, including the
technical and regulatory issues surrounding the maintenance of
reliable, affordable and high quality electricity service as existing
infrastructure is gradually replaced with distributed small scale
technologies.</font></div>
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Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">rrobins@mit.edu for further
information</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000"><u><b>TPP IAP
Seminar Series Schedule</b></u></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">(For seminar descriptions see
http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Tues.-Wed. Jan.
10-11 </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">
Noon-2 pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">An Introduction to
Complexity</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>William Nuttall, Cambridge
University</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Course Director &
Lecturer, Technology Policy</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>***</i>2-part
workshop***</font></div>
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</font><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Wed. Jan.
18 </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">
Noon-1:30 pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Electric Power Networks:
Challenges and Opportunities<br>
<i>Marija Ilic, ESD Visiting Professor from Carnegie
Mellon</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Engineering Systems
Division</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Wed. Jan. 25</font><font
face="Arial" color="#000000"> Noon-1:30
pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">International Space
Cooperation?</font> Vi<font face="Arial" color="#000000">sions
of the Future</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Dava Newman, Prof. of
Aeronautics and Astronautics,</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Director, Technology and
Policy Program</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Tues. Jan. 31</font><font
face="Arial" color="#000000"> Noon-1:30
pm</font> *Tuesday seminar this week</div>
<div>MyAmazon.Com? Personalization and Privacy in the
Marketplace</div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Frank Field, Senior
Research Scientist, Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial
Development</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">*******<br>
All seminars meet in E51-149<br>
Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.<br>
For further information contact Renee Robins,
rrobins@</font>mit.edu</div>
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Renee J. Robins<br>
Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program, MIT
Engineering Systems Division<br>
Associate Program Director for M.Phil. Programs, Cambridge-MIT
Institute<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 253-7662 (tel)
(617) 452-2599 (fax) rrobins@mit.edu
(email)<br>
http://tppserver.mit.edu (TPP
web)
http://www.cambridge-mit.org (CMI web)<br>
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