[Env seminars] Energy Research Council sponsors energy colloquium on Sept. 22, 2005

[Marie Tangney]

To all,

MIT's Energy Research Council is initiating a series of energy 
colloquia that will be of interest to faculty, staff and students 
across the campus. President Susan Hiockfield and former Provost 
Robert Brown appointed the Energy Research Council "to lead the 
planning for the initiative in energy-related research and 
education--including developing a picture of the current state of MIT 
energy-related research and expertise; developing a list of promising 
science and engineering research areas that match global needs and 
MIT capabilities; and recommending an organizational structure that 
would facilitate work in these areas."  (Tech Talk, June 8, 2005) The 
series opens on September 22, 2005 with a presentation  by Dr. Steve 
Koonin, Chief Scientist of BP plc.  Dr. Koonin also has a 
distinguished academic background, including nearly ten years as Cal 
Tech's provost. We invite you to join us.


"Energy for the Coming Decades: Trends and Technologies"
  Dr. Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP plc.

	Date:	Thursday, September 22, 2005

	Time:	Refreshments at 3:30 pm
		Lecture at 4:00 pm

	Place:	E25-111

* * * A reception will follow the lecture in Room E25-101 * * *


Abstract:

Ensuring adequate energy supplies in an environmentally acceptable 
manner is one of the most significant challenges facing society in 
the coming decades. New technologies will play a central role in 
meeting this challenge, albeit conditioned by the economic, social, 
and political contexts in which they are developed and deployed. The 
discussion will focus on, from the perspective of a global energy 
company, the major forces shaping the World's energy future and the 
technologies required to respond to them.

Biography:

After three decades serving on the Faculty and as Provost at the 
California Institute of Technology, Steve Koonin joined BP plc. in 
2004 as Chief Scientist. His appointment was seen as reinforcing BP's 
shift in recent years toward a future characterized by alternative 
energy technologies.  Among Koonin's responsibilities at BP is 
formulating the company's long-term technology strategy.

Koonin received his B.S. in physics in 1972 at Caltech and his Ph.D. 
in theoretical physics in 1975 at MIT, after which he joined the 
Caltech faculty. His research interests have included global 
environmental science, nuclear astrophysics and theoretical 
nuclear,many-body, and computational physics. He remains engaged in a 
programme of systematic observations of earthshine reflected from the 
lunar surface to determine variations in the global albedo, an 
important parameter of the climate system. In 1998, he received the 
E.O. Lawrence Award in Physics from the Department of Energy (DOE).


Sponsored by the Energy Research Council  and the Laboratory for 
Energy and the Environment.

-- 
Marie Tangney
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room E40-455
Cambridge, MA 02139
U. S. A.

Phone:	(617)258-8891
Fax: 	(617)253-8013
email:	mtangney at mit.edu
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