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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" text-align="" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b></b></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">The Technology and Policy Program presents</font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br style=""></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b>Issues in Technology and Policy</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b>IAP Seminar Series</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">All seminars meet in E51-149</font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Considering Risk and Uncertainty in Designing Climate Policy</div></b></font><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Mort Webster</span></div> <div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span style=""><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Visiting</span> Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences</font></i></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Tuesday Jan. 8th</font></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span style=""><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; ">Noon–1:30 pm</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span style=""><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; ">E51-149</span></i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" text-align="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">A public policy response to the threat of global climate change requires explicit consideration of the scientific, technological and economic uncertainties. In this talk, Prof. Webster will show how formal modeling of the economic and earth systems and their uncertainties can inform how we design our policy solutions to be robust and to manage risks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" text-align="" style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:rrobins@mit.edu">rrobins@mit.edu</a> for further information</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">**************************</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">TPP IAP Seminar Series Schedule</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">(For seminar descriptions see <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html">http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html</a>)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0000ff" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Tues. Jan. 8 </font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> Noon-1:30 pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>Considering Risk and Uncertainty in Designing Climate Policy</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><i>Mort Webster, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences </i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; 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 Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0000ff" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Tues. Jan. 15 </font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> Noon-1:30 pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>Space Logistics: Enabler of the New Frontier -- Current Research Challenges</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><i>Olivier de Weck, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; 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 Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0000ff" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Tues. Jan. 22</font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> Noon-1:30 pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>MIT's Global Airline Industry Program: Research on the National Air Transportation System</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><i>Cynthia Barnhart, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, and Associate Dean of Engineering</i></font></div></span></font></div></font><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">*******</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">All seminars meet in E51-149</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">For seminar descriptions see <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.htm">http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.htm</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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Sponsored by the Technology and Policy Program, Engineering Systems Division.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" text-align="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">==========================================================================</span></span></font></span></span></p><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="">Renee J. Robins</div><div style="">Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program</div><div style="">Director of Program Integration, MIT-Portugal Program</div><div style="">MIT Engineering Systems Division</div><div style="">77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381</div><div style="">Cambridge, MA 02139</div><div style="">(617) 253-7662 (tel) (617) 452-2599 (fax) <a href="mailto:rrobins@mit.edu">rrobins@mit.edu</a> (email)</div><div style=""><a href="http://tppserver.mit.edu">http://tppserver.mit.edu</a> </div><div style="">==========================================================================</div><div style=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder" style=""></div><div style=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder" style=""></div><div style=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder" style=""></div><div style=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder" style=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style=""></span></span></span> </div><br style=""></body></html>