[Mitworld] Panel on Oil Spill and its Impact on Gulf Communities, Center for Real Estate panel on Financial Systems

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 13 |  November 10, 2010

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Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and Identifying the Parties at Risk
September 28, 2010

The Deepwater Horizon disaster spread through not just a vast coastal ecosystem, but into diverse 
human communities lining the Gulf, many entirely dependent on the sea for their livelihoods. Panelists 
describe their involvement in quite disparate response projects, which began shortly after the oil 
began gushing, and in some areas, continue today.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/833

Moderator:
Amy Glasmeier
Department Head, and Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Event Host:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

"The BP oil spill is worse than Katrina. It represents a long-term threat in a way that Katrina 
didn’t, a threat to a way of life. "
-Earthea Nance

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Financial Re-Engineering
October 1, 2010

Like a contemporary “whodunit” with a global crime scene, the financial meltdown has left behind 
countless victims, and lots of pointing fingers. The reasons for the collapse are debated by Andrew Lo, 
Robert Merton, Bengt Holmstrom, and Jiang Wang, some of whom worry that without really understanding what 
happened, we are in for a repeat episode.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/834

Moderator:
William Wheaton
Professor of Economics, MIT

Former Director, MIT Center for Real Estate

Event Host:
MIT Center for Real Estate

"We’ll always have crises, not because we’re stupid, but because we are willing to take risks to 
get the benefits."
-Robert C. Merton

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In The Pipeline:

>From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist’s Journey

Presented By:
School of Science
Dean’s Colloquium

Speaker:
Charles C-Y Zhang
Founder, Chairman, & CEO 
SOHU.COM

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