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Greetings, <br>
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</x-tab>Prof. Uri
Shamir</font>, CE'66, from Technion, will give a lecture in memory of
his doctoral supervisor, Prof. Donald Harleman, on<font color="#000080">
Friday, June 16 at 12:00 PM in Parsons Lab, MIT Room
48-316</font><font color="#0000FF"> </font>(an interactive campus map is
available at
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://whereis.mit.edu/</a>) . This lecture will reflect Prof. Shamir's
experiences over the past four decades managing sustainable resources for
the Israeli water sector and international waters. For more
information on Prof. Shamir's work, please visit this web site,
<a href="http://www.technion.ac.il/~cee/55-bottom.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.technion.ac.il/~cee/55-bottom.html</a>. <br><br>
Please join the<font color="#800080">
</font><font color="#000080">reception afterwards in room
48-308</font>. The speaker is hosted by Prof. Rafael Bras, and the
event is sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering.<br><br>
--Gayle<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#000080"><b>Water Resources
Management: Theory and Practice<br>
</b></font><i>Lecture dedicated to the memory of Prof. Don
Harleman<sup>1<br>
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<b>Prof. Emeritus Uri Shamir<br>
</b></font><i>BSc – Technion, 1962; PhD – MIT, 1966<br>
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Water resources management encompasses planning, design and operation of
systems that deliver water from diverse sources to a wide variety of
users and uses, through systems of natural components and man-made
facilities. My work over four decades has focused on development and
application of models that capture the salient features of these systems
and are designed to aid engineers, planners and decision makers in
identifying and adopting plans and policies for management of water
resources systems that strike a best-compromise among several objectives.
The lecture will elucidate this experience through selected cases of
modeling and practice, ranging from design and short-term operation of
water distribution systems to long-term planning of the Israeli water
sector and to management of international waters.<br>
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<sup>1</sup> Prof. Don Harleman, who passed away on 28 September 2005,
was my PhD thesis supervisor. I owe to Don much of what I am as a
professional, and to Don and Marty Harleman for the warm embrace that
welcomed our family at MIT. </body>
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