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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>AGS Annual Meeting 2008</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">28 - 31 January | Cambridge, MA USA</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#721423" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #721423">Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#721423" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #721423">at Scale, in Time, and for All</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">We are pleased to provide the latest details on the AGS Annual Meeting <i>Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World: at Scale, in Time and for All</i> hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA on 28-31 January 2008.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>You can register online at </b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/agsam08"><font color="#002bf0" style="color: #002bf0"><u><b>http://mit.edu/agsam08</b></u></font></a> (deadline - 14 January 2008)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><u>Opening Keynote</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#8b0700" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #8b0700"><b>How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Rajendra K. Pachauri,</b> Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Confirmed speakers include:</font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Robert Asiedu</b>, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture</font></div></b></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Lennart Billfalk, </b>Senior Advisor, Vattenfall AB </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Barbara Becker, </b>Managing Director, North-South Centre, ETH-Zentrum </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>William Bonvillian, </b>Director, Washington DC Office, MIT </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Stephen Connors</b>, Director, Analysis Group Regional Electric Alternatives, MIT</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>John Fernandez,</b> Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Andreas Fischlin</b>, Head, Terrestrial System Ecology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETHZ</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Kensuke Fukushi</b>, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Michael Golay</b>, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Janet Hering, </b>Director, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Howard Herzog</b>, Principal Research Engineer, MIT Energy Initiative</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>John Heywood, </b>Sun Jae Professor-Mechanical Engineering, Director-Sloan Autolab, MIT </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Henry Jacoby, </b>Co-Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Filip Johnsson, </b>Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Chalmers University of Technology </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Hiroshi Komiyama, </b>President, The University of Tokyo</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Martin S. Kaplan, </b>Trustee, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Joanne Kauffman, </b>Advisor and former Executive Director, The Alliance for Global Sustainability </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Karin Markides, </b>President, Chalmers University of Technology </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Ernest Moniz, </b>Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Director of MIT-Energy Initiative</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>William Moomaw,</b> Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Greg Morrison, </b>Professor of Sustainable Aquatic Systems, Chalmers University of Technology</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Adil Najam</b>, Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and Director, Pardee Center for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Ryozo Ooka, </b>The University of Tokyo</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Karen Polenske</b>, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Chongrak Polprasert, </b>School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>John Reilly</b>, Associate Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Sarah Slaughter, </b>Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Theodore Smith, </b>Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>John Sterman</b>, Forrester Professor of Management, MIT</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Akimasa Sumi</b>, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo</font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The complete list of speakers and program details are available at <a href="http://mit.edu/agsam08"><font color="#002bf0" style="color: #002bf0"><u><b>http://mit.edu/agsam08</b></u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Key dates for the conference:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#721423" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #721423"><b>Conference dates:</b></font><b> </b>28 - 31 January 2008 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#721423" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #721423"><b>Registration deadline:</b></font> online - 14 January 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#721423" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #721423"><b>Hotel reservation deadline:</b></font> 5 January 2008 ( <a href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscb-boston-marriott-cambridge/?groupCode=magmaga&app=resvlink"><font color="#002bf0" style="color: #002bf0"><u>Cambridge Marriott</u></font></a> )</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#721423"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#721423" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #721423"><b>The 2008 AGS Annual Meeting Web Site</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bf0" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002bf0"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/agsam08"><u>http://mit.edu/agsam08</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">We hope you will join us!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you have any questions, please email: <a href="mailto:kgibson@mit.edu"><font color="#002bf0" style="color: #002bf0"><u>kgibson@mit.edu</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">___________________________________________________</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><i>The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a network of international science and technology-based universities - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland), The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), and Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden) - committed to joint research, education, and outreach to address the issues around global sustainability. TheAGS was created a decade ago to help understand the complex issues that lie at the intersection of environmental, economic, and social goals.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002bf0" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #002bf0"><a href="http://globalsustainability.org/"><i>http://globalsustainability.org</i></a></font></div> </body></html>