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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p>The Mechanical Engineering
Colloquium presents:<br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#330099"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p><b><big><big><big>The
Ronald F. Probstein Lecture in Engineering Science</big></big></big></b></o:p></span></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><big>Professor Robert H.
Socolow</big><o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Princeton</span></st1:placename><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><big><big><b><font color="#330099">Friday,
March 13, 2009<br>
3:30 PM, Room 34-101</font></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Technology, Policy, and
Values for<o:p></o:p> Living in a Greenhouse”<br style="">
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<i> The growing prosperity of our species and the smallness of our
planet are in collision. Fresh thinking is required to understand our
predicament and our options, to manage geoengineering, to rethink
“fairness” across countries, and to understand how our time on Earth
relates to future time. <br>
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Climate change provides good points of entry into this new domain.
Every “solution” carries its own risks. Uncertainties are large and are
themselves uncertain. Yet we must act.<br>
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The first step is to reason on a planetary scale and to understand the
numbers. </i><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Robert Socolow</span></b><span
style=""> is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at Princeton University and co-principal investigator (with
ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation
Initiative <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ecmi/"><span
style="color: windowtext;">www.princeton.edu/~cmi/</span></a>.
Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving
the
climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (<i>Science</i>,
August 13, 2004).<o:p></o:p><br>
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Socolow is on two current committees of the National Academies:
“<st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>'s Energy
Future”
and “<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
Climate Choices” and was a member of the Grand Challenges for
Engineering
Committee of the National Academy of Engineering. He was the editor of <i>Annual
Review of Energy and the Environment</i>, 1992-2002. </p>
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<b>For more information, please contact Sean Buhrmester (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:sean@mit.edu">sean@mit.edu</a>,
x3-7952)</b>
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