[E&E seminars] TOMORROW-May 4! MITSG Spring Lecture with Prof. Ernest J. Moniz

[Karen Gibson]

MIT SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM

 

Contact:                           Nancy Adams

email:                               nadamsx at mit.edu

Call:                                 617 253-9305

 

Announcing the 2010 MIT Sea Grant Lecture

ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY—A POST-COPENHAGEN VIEW:

MARINE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

by MIT Professor Ernest J. Moniz

Tuesday, May 4 at 4 PM Media Lab Complex, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Cambridge, MA, April 14 – The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces its 2010 lecture, Energy Technology and Policy—A Post-Copenhagen View: Marine challenges and opportunities by Professor Ernest J. Moniz. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 4th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM in the sixth floor lecture hall of the new MIT Media Lab Complex at 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA. A reception in the Silverman Skyline and Winter Garden room will follow.

 

In the lecture, Energy Technology and Policy—A Post-Copenhagen View: Marine challenges and opportunities. Professor Moniz will present an overview of the challenges presented to the energy system by climate change risk mitigation. Technology, policy, and business innovation needed to address this challenge will be discussed in the context of the Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009. Specific examples of marine science and technology solutions for a low-carbon world will be highlighted.

 

More on Professor Moniz

Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973.  Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1997 until January 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.  At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics and in energy technology and policy studies.   He serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and was named to the Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future as of January 2010.

 


Professor Ernest J. Moniz

 

Related Links

Ernest Moniz: http://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/moniz/moniz.htm

MIT Energy Initiative: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/

MIT Sea Grant College Program: http://seagrant.mit.edu/

 

About MIT Sea Grant

The mission of the MIT Sea Grant College Program is to employ innovative research, education and outreach strategies to responsibly use and sustain the vital marine resources of Massachusetts. The issues we address manifest locally but many are global in nature. Compelling challenges demand our attention as a solo entity and in partnership with other groups living and working on the coasts and at sea. MIT Sea Grant brings the substantial intellectual abilities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and our sister universities to bear on ocean-related challenges requiring an extraordinary technical contribution. In meeting these challenges, we expand human understanding of the ocean and establish the infrastructure to sustain the initiatives and talent pool needed to address complex issues of critical and fragile marine resources.

 

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MIT Sea Grant College Program

Mail to: 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E38-300, Cambridge, MA 02139

To visit: 292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA  02142

 

 

 


 

Nancy Adams

Assistant to the Director

MIT Sea Grant College Program

292 Main St., E38-330

Cambridge, MA  02142

617 253-9305

 


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