[E&E seminars] REMINDER - AGS Annual Meeting 2008 at MIT - 28-31 January

[Karen Gibson]

AGS Annual Meeting 2008
28 - 31 January | Cambridge, MA USA

Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World:
at Scale, in Time, and for All


We are pleased to provide the latest details on the AGS Annual  
Meeting Designing Pathways for a Sustainable World: at Scale, in Time  
and for All hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in  
Cambridge, MA on 28-31 January 2008.

You can register online at http://mit.edu/agsam08  (deadline - 14  
January 2008)

Opening Keynote

How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century?
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate  
Change and Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute


Confirmed speakers include:
Robert Asiedu, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Lennart Billfalk, Senior Advisor, Vattenfall AB
Barbara Becker, Managing Director, North-South Centre, ETH-Zentrum
William Bonvillian, Director, Washington DC Office, MIT
Stephen Connors, Director, Analysis Group Regional Electric  
Alternatives, MIT
John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT
Andreas Fischlin, Head, Terrestrial System Ecology Group, Institute  
of Integrative Biology, ETHZ
Kensuke Fukushi, Integrated Research System for Sustainability  
Science, The University of Tokyo
Michael Golay, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
Janet Hering, Director, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science  
and Technology (EAWAG)
Howard Herzog, Principal Research Engineer, MIT Energy Initiative
John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor-Mechanical Engineering, Director- 
Sloan Autolab, MIT
Henry Jacoby, Co-Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and  
Policy of Global Change
Filip Johnsson, Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Chalmers  
University of Technology
Hiroshi Komiyama, President, The University of Tokyo
Martin S. Kaplan, Trustee, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
Joanne Kauffman, Advisor and former Executive Director, The Alliance  
for Global Sustainability
Karin Markides, President, Chalmers University of Technology
Ernest Moniz, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Director of MIT- 
Energy Initiative
William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and  
Resource Policy, Tufts University
Greg Morrison, Professor of Sustainable Aquatic Systems, Chalmers  
University of Technology
Adil Najam, Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and  
Director, Pardee Center for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston  
University
Ryozo Ooka, The University of Tokyo
Karen Polenske, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Chongrak Polprasert, School of Environment, Resources and  
Development, Asian Institute of Technology
John Reilly, Associate Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and  
Policy of Global Change
Sarah Slaughter, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Theodore Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation
John Sterman, Forrester Professor of Management, MIT
Akimasa Sumi, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science,  
The University of Tokyo

The complete list of speakers and program details are available at  
http://mit.edu/agsam08

Key dates for the conference:

Conference dates: 28 - 31 January 2008
Registration deadline: online - 14 January 2008
Hotel reservation deadline: 5 January 2008  ( Cambridge Marriott )

The 2008 AGS Annual Meeting Web Site
http://mit.edu/agsam08

We hope you will join us!

If you have any questions, please email:  kgibson at mit.edu

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The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a network of  
international science and technology-based universities -  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), Swiss  
Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland), The University  
of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), and Chalmers University of Technology  
(Göteborg, Sweden) - committed to joint research, education, and  
outreach to address the issues around global sustainability.  TheAGS  
was created a decade ago to help understand the complex issues that  
lie at the intersection of environmental, economic, and social goals.
http://globalsustainability.org
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