From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu May 1 16:43:15 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:43:15 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference: Pachauri on Climate Change Message-ID: <511643.AADTGSIO@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 39 | May 2, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HOW WOULD CLIMATE CHANGE INFLUENCE SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY?] MIT hosted the Alliance for Global Sustainabiliy Conference, which included this keynote from Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the orgainization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. SPEAKER: Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner (IPCC with Al Gore) PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We can't adapt our way out of climate change. The severity of impacts will reach a level we have to prevent, and we can only prevent through the stabilization of greenhouse gases, and therefore a stabilization of temperature increase." -- Rajendra K. Pachauri EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HOW WOULD CLIMATE CHANGE INFLUENCE SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY? (PANEL)] MODERATOR: Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner (IPCC with Al Gore) PANELISTS: John Reilly Associate Director for Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan Adil Najam Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Policy and Director, Pardee Center for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University Howard Herzog Principal Research Engineer, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Program Manager, Carbon Sequestration Initiative Michael W. Golay Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT William Moomaw Professor of International Environmental Policy Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Andreas Fischlin Head, Terrestrial Systems Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "One thing implicit in responding to climate change is we're looking at a much more constrained and expensive world than we've been used to living in. We understand at some level, but it hasn't bitten us yet." -- Michael Golay EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Engineering Systems Division Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture presents Jose Mariano Gago Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal The Future of Science and Technology in Europe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barrett Chairman of the Board Intel Corporation PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Invest in good people with good ideas...Don't be afraid to change the rules...Always change before the environment makes you change...If you're going to change, take informed risks." --Craig R. Barrett EVENT HOST: Industrial Liaison Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD TECHNOLOGIES] John Sterman pokes holes through some popular proposals for addressing climate change, with sobering case studies that demonstrate why "technological solutions are not enough to address the problem of creating a sustainable world." SPEAKER: John Sterman Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Our underlying belief is that the better mousetrap theory of innovation will work. But one thing we can tell you, as incubators of successful and unsuccessful ventures at MIT, this better mousetrap theory is completely wrong." --John Sterman EVENT HOST: MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture John Dower Ford International Professor of History Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [ENERGY & COMPUTING SHORT COURSES AT MIT] The MIT Professional Institute will be offering energy & computing courses taught by MIT faculty on campus this summer. These courses are from 2-6 days long and are designed for professional audiences. Computing focus: * Cryptography and Computer Security * Digital Communication Networks * High-Speed I/O Design * Multicore Programming * Network Coding Energy focus: * Design of Motors * Fuels from Biomass * Internal Combustion Engines * Nanostructured Electronics * Transportation Networks * Renewable Energy (solar) Over 40 courses available. For a complete listing of 2008 courses, visit the MIT Professional Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 32-278 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Salvucci Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "In 1900, there were 2,000 autos in the U.S. In the 1920s, autos began wiping out public transportation." -- Fred Salvucci EVENT HOST: The Materials Processing Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [AGENTS OF CHANGE: MODEL PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACADEMIA] This panel offers some evidence that sustained alliances between academia and other organizations may help us more effectively address climate change issues. MODERATOR: Joanne Kauffman Advisor and former Executive Director, Alliance for Global Sustainability PANELISTS: Lennart Billfalk Senior Advisor, and Executive Vice President, Vattenfall AB Ernest J. Moniz Director, MIT Energy Initiative Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Co-director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Theodore Smith Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation Elizabeth Kolbert Staff Writer, The New Yorker PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "In the face of the perfect storm of supply challenges, energy security and most especially climate challenges, we need to have a more rational response than simply displaying anguish." -- Ernest Moniz EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MIT Communications Forum presents Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly A panel discussion with Henry Jenkins Co-director Comparative Media Studies The Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT Cass Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence Law School and Department of Political Science University of Chicago Yochai Benkler Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20080514/3c3d9e6b/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed May 21 08:34:11 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:34:11 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Senator Bingaman on Clean Energy Future, Fernandez on New Orleans Message-ID: <521834.NPPMHPSD@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 42 | May 21, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FORGING A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE] Senator Jeff Bingaman discusses climate change and clean energy, and sets forth an ambitious national agenda to address the challenge. SPEAKER: Jeff Bingaman U.S. Senator (D) New Mexico PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Reengineering the way the world produces, stores, distributes and uses energy may in fact be the greatest challenge that we as a global community must face together." -- Senator Jeff Bingaman EVENT HOST: The The Office of the President of MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [REBUILDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: WORKING ACROSS SECTORS TO ACHIEVE A COMMON GOAL] It took John Fernandez more than a year just to begin to understand the political players and competing interests in New Orleans, and so it is no surprise to him that coming up with a common goal for rebuilding the city, much less a "resource efficient one," proves elusive. Nevertheless, Fernandez and other MIT researchers aspire to make post- Katrina New Orleans a successful case study of a city "becoming green," perhaps serving as a model for other urban centers, particularly those facing climate change challenges. SPEAKER: John Fernandez Associate Professor of Building Technology, Department of Architecture PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The question arises how to begin to protect coastal cities from the ramifications of global climate change and how can cities contribute positively to mitigation strategies when we have such a hard time working out just the basics of the built environment, things that we assume are taken care of." -- John Fernandez EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT presents Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience Dr. Michael Davis Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University School of Medicine Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety and Extinction: Implications for Psychotherapy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We'll solve it quickly, but we are still going to be stuck with the problem of getting cheaper, cleaner energy." -- Robert Metcalfe EVENT HOST: The Microsystems Technology Laboratories ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [PUTTING HUMAN AGENCY INTO THE EQUATION: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY] While television and the Internet, among many innovations, have powerfully transformed our lives, the idea that such technologies "like Venus popped out of the water and did something to us" is neither accurate nor interesting. Uricchio describes more useful alternatives to understanding technological progress. SPEAKER: William C. Uricchio Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT Professor of Comparative Media History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Engineering or coming up with technology, is always environmentally responsive. There are always conditions in the world you're trying to cope with whether it's availability of certain resources, financial constraints, or perceived social needs." -- William Uricchio EVENT HOST: The Materials Processing Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Department of Architecture Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture presents Werner Sobek Engineer, Werner Sobek Ingenieure Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design High-Eco-Tech: Building Avant la Garde ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * investigate the latest advances in your field * learn to harness the power of new technologies * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Fall 2008 Classes begin September 3 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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