<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>THIS WEEK'S SEMINAR</b></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><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; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">The Technology and Policy Program presents</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; 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: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>Issues in Technology and Policy</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>2010 IAP Seminar Series</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">All seminars meet in E51-145</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0819FF"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0819FF" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Tuesday Jan. 5th</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">An Engineering Systems Approach to Pandemic Flu</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Richard Larson</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; ">Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil & Environmental Engineering and </span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; ">Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0819FF"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Noon–1:30 pm</span></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">E51-145</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">In this talk, Prof. Larson will discuss an eng. systems project in its 3rd year, the modeling and analysis of pandemic influenza. The approach combines mathematical modeling associated with operations research with approaches from social science and management sciences, and suggests strategies to control the spread of the disease. Recent H1N1 developments have provided new data sources and new questions to be analyzed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div></div></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 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" color="#0000f0" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><a href="mailto:rrobins@mit.edu"><u>rrobins@mit.edu</u></a></font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> for further information</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; ">**************************</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></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><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC">TPP IAP SEMINAR SERIES </font></b></font></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC">FULL SCHEDULE</font></b></font></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC" face="Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="5" face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC">Tuesday Jan. 5th</font> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Noon–1:30 pm E51-145</span></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">-----------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>An Engineering Systems Approach to Pandemic Flu</b></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><i>Richard Larson, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><p align="center" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">In this talk, Prof. Larson will discuss an eng. systems project in its 3rd year, the modeling and analysis of pandemic influenza. The approach combines mathematical modeling associated with operations research with approaches from social science and management sciences, and suggests strategies to control the spread of the disease. Recent H1N1 developments have provided new data sources and new questions to be analyzed.</span></font></p><div></div></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC">Tuesday Jan. 12th</font></b><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Noon–1:30 pm E51-145</span></b></span></div></span></b></font></div></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">-----------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">A Lean Enterprise Systems Approach to Health Care Transformation</span></font></b></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Deborah Nightingale</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, Professor of the Practice of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Co-Director, Lean Advancement Initiative</span></font></span></font></i></b></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align: left; 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="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The health care system is highly fragmented and increasingly technology-based. For over 15 years MIT’s Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) has been working to transform aerospace and defense enterprises in both industry and government. These same methods are now being applied to complex health care systems. This talk will address recent research related to hospitals, the Veteran’s Administration and new drug development.</span></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="5" face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243FFC">Tuesday Jan. 19th </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Noon–1:30 pm E51-145</span></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">-----------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Climate Change Challenges in Developing Countries: Low Carbon Economic Development Options for Indonesia</span></font></font></div></span></font></div></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Dr. Gary Kleiman</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, Senior Environmental Policy Analyst, World Bank Office, Jakarta</span></font></i></span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Government of Indonesia recognizes that climate change is a key economic development issue, and also that early action to address mitigation and adaptation concerns will be strategically beneficial. Indonesia is studying options to address climate change mitigation without compromising development objectives. This talk will review the overarching goals of the study and present early findings across several sectors.</div><div><br></div></div></span></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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">*******</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">All seminars meet in E51-145</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">For seminar descriptions see <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-4695.html">http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-4695.html</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sponsored by the Technology and Policy Program, Engineering Systems Division.</font></div><div><br></div></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">The Technology and Policy Program presents</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; 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: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>Issues in Technology and Policy</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>2010 IAP Seminar Series</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">All seminars meet in E51-145</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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; 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