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<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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: left;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; ">(Apologies for cross-postings)</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;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></span></b></span></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 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>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 E51-149</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; "><b></b><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>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; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Mort Webster</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; "><i>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; text-align: center; 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; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Tuesday Jan. 8th</font></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; ">Noon–1:30 pm</font></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; ">E51-149</font></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; ">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.</font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#121EFF"><br></font></div><p style="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="#121EFF">TPP IAP Seminar Series Schedule</font></b></font></p><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 <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><u>http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html</u></font></a>)</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 face="Arial" size="3" color="#0000ff" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Tues. Jan. 8 </font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> Noon-1:30 pm</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; "><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: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Tues. Jan. 15 </font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> Noon-1:30 pm</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; "><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: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Tues. Jan. 22</font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "> Noon-1:30 pm</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; "><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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><i>Cynthia Barnhart, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, and Associate Dean of Engineering</i></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; "><br></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; ">*******</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; ">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: 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 <a href="http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.htm"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><u>http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.htm</u></font></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 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 class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <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>==========================================================================</div><div>Renee J. Robins</div><div>Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program</div><div>Director of Program Integration, MIT-Portugal Program</div><div>MIT Engineering Systems Division</div><div>77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381</div><div>Cambridge, MA 02139</div><div>(617) 253-7662 (tel) (617) 452-2599 (fax) <a href="mailto:rrobins@mit.edu">rrobins@mit.edu</a> (email)</div><div><a href="http://tppserver.mit.edu">http://tppserver.mit.edu</a> </div><div>==========================================================================</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>