Future of Energy
Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power world
economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The
Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard
community to take up that challenge by participating in this ongoing
series of discussions.
Please join us tonight, Wednesday January 31, 2007 for the next lecture
of the 2006-2007 series.
*/The Road to Our Energy Future: A Candid Assessment/*
*Abdallah S. Jum'ah*,
President and CEO , Saudi Aramco
This lecture is free and open to the public and will be in the *Science
Center, Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street*, Cambridge starting at *5 PM*.
Students are encouraged to attend this and all Future of Energy lectures.
Please refer to the Center's website for a complete schedule of the
2006-2007 Future of Energy series and to view previous presentations by
Mark Little, Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research
and John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental
Policy at Harvard and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
www.environment.harvard.edu
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Professor Carole Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
Seminar Title: Sense and Sensibility: Adding meaning to metadata for
manageable middleware
Abstract
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a grid application in
possession of good middleware, must be in want of meaningful metadata.
We have seen a variety of projects and programmes of activity that
have promoted systematic approaches to describing, linking and
sharing metadata, particularly through the use of community-wide
terminologies or ontologies. Life Sciences have led the way. The
founding of the USA’s National Centre for BioMedical Ontology (http://
www.bioontology.org <http://www.bioontology.org/>) is an example. The
Semantic Web has given distributed information management a technical
impetus, and once again the Life Sciences are pioneers. Meanwhile,
the Semantic Grid initiative attempts to marry the two technical
efforts of Grid Middleware and Web-wide Information Management to
generally support better metadata (and data) management for Science
applications and the infrastructure that underpins them. Again, early
examples such as myGrid are found in the Life Sciences. Recent work
on a Semantic Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) lays the
foundation for a systematic yet lightweight approach to deploying
semantics into new and legacy Grid middleware.
In this talk I will share my experiences of applying Semantic Web and
ontology based approaches to represent and classify metadata and
discuss the Semantic Grid using the S-OGSA as an illustration. I’ll
also take the opportunity to voice some concerns and raise some
challenges that we have to overcome, not many of which are technical.
Upcoming IIC seminars
Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule.
Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the
attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar.
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Helene Tingle
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Program Coordinator
helene_tingle(a)harvard.edu
617-384-5912
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Dear all,
A talk on WIKIs on education. If you are interested.
Tom: I think you should be there :)
Alan
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Dear group,
I think we have agreed to begin group meetings next week Tuesdays and
Wednesdays at 5.00 [Electronic Structure aka DFT on Tuesdays and Quantum
Simulation] on Wednesdays. We all know what the projects are about, I
just wanted to be as generic as possible in the "public" group meeting
schedule: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/Seminars/
With regards to rooms: Tuesdays it will be at M114, and Wednesdays it
will be at another location (Marilyn is finding out), because M114 is
already taken by the Park group. Hopefully it can be the division room.
There might be some conflicting schedules, if so, let me know.
Cheers,
Alan
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
--
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
--
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St.,Cambridge, MA 02138
Colloquium
Computing the Shape of a Space
Afra Zomorodian
Computer Science Department
Dartmouth College
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~afra/
Thursday, February 1, 2006
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin G125
(Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)
Abstract
For any problem, we can identify a space within which the solution
lies. The shape of this space is critical in whether we succeed in
finding the solution. Most disciplines take a quantitative approach,
analyzing the geometry of the solution space. However, the topology of
the space - how it is connected - impacts the effectiveness of the
resulting geometric algorithms. Such topological questions have given
rise to the area of computational topology.
In this talk, I discuss persistence homology, a computational approach
to discovering the connectivity of a space. Persistence reveals the
underlying algebraic structure of a multi-scale view of a sampled
space. I begin by motivating the approach through examples from computer
graphics. After describing the theory, I present applications in
biophysics and analysis of natural images. Finally, I motivate the need
for multidimensional persistence and give a brief overview of a recent
theoretical result.
Host: Professor Steven Gortler
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Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Professor Carole Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
Seminar Title: Sense and Sensibility: Adding meaning to metadata for
manageable middleware
Abstract
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a grid application in
possession of good middleware, must be in want of meaningful metadata.
We have seen a variety of projects and programmes of activity that
have promoted systematic approaches to describing, linking and
sharing metadata, particularly through the use of community-wide
terminologies or ontologies. Life Sciences have led the way. The
founding of the USA’s National Centre for BioMedical Ontology (http://
www.bioontology.org <http://www.bioontology.org/>) is an example. The
Semantic Web has given distributed information management a technical
impetus, and once again the Life Sciences are pioneers. Meanwhile,
the Semantic Grid initiative attempts to marry the two technical
efforts of Grid Middleware and Web-wide Information Management to
generally support better metadata (and data) management for Science
applications and the infrastructure that underpins them. Again, early
examples such as myGrid are found in the Life Sciences. Recent work
on a Semantic Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) lays the
foundation for a systematic yet lightweight approach to deploying
semantics into new and legacy Grid middleware.
In this talk I will share my experiences of applying Semantic Web and
ontology based approaches to represent and classify metadata and
discuss the Semantic Grid using the S-OGSA as an illustration. I’ll
also take the opportunity to voice some concerns and raise some
challenges that we have to overcome, not many of which are technical.
Upcoming IIC seminars
Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule.
Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the
attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar.
_______________________________________________
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Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,
Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and
other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you
would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this
list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Highlights:*
Two Future of Energy Lectures -- 1/31 with Abdallah Jum'ah, President
and CEO of Saudi Aramco and 2/5 with Dan Arvizu, Director of the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1/30/07 -- Energy Technology and Innovation Program Seminar with James
Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2/1 and 2/2/07 - Loeb Action on Climate Change Symposium, Graduate
School of Design
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 1/25/2007 *
4:30p - 6:00p
Energy Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development: Past Experiences
and Future Directions
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6347…>
Dr. Charles Heaps, Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Presented by the Tufts Energy and Climate Forum
TUFTS - Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 108
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…>
Ecological Design: Inventing the Future (64 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)E
*Friday 1/26/2007 *
8:30a - 9:30a
Leech Symbiont and Mouse Pathogen, Aeromonas veronii, a Beneficial
Microbe with a Dark Side
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6331…>
Prof. Joerg Graf, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University
of Connecticut Storrs
Microbial Sciences Initiative Chalktalk Breakfast
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Population strucuture of Armillaria spp. in a temperate, old-growth
rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6337…>
Nicholas Brazee -- Dept. of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences, University
of Massachusetts
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
*Saturday 1/27/2007 *
8:45a - 4:00p
Gene-Environment Interaction Symposium
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6305…>
MIT - Strata Center 32-141
Sponsored by the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences
*
Monday 1/29/2007*
3:00p - 4:00p
Marketing and Building Brands around Shared Values: How sustainability
questions are reshaping consumer expectations and loyalties
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6356…>
A conversation with: Tom O'Brien, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member,
part owner, Tom's of Maine, HBS '90
Harvard Business School, Aldrich 8
*
Tuesday 1/30/2007*
9:30a - 11:00a
Warming the Bench?: A Look at Massachusetts v. EPA and other Climate
Change Litigation
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6340…>
James Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Energy Technology Innovation Project Seminar Series
Allison Dining Room, Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, KSG, 79 JFK St. , Cambridge
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…>
Is God Green? (60 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
*Wednesday 1/31/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - A Candid Assessment of the US and
World Energy Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Abdallah S. Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco
Organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Science Center Lecture Hall C,1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Thursday 2/1/2007 *
12:15p - 1:00p
Climate Change 101 -- Causes, Effects and Cures
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Melissa Cary, Climate Change Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Stubbins Room 112, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy
Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
What Cities Are Doing
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner, the City of Chicago Department of the
Environment
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
4:00p - 5:00p
Measurements of the column distribution of CO2: a new constraint for
understanding surface exchange
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and
Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech
Harvard Climate Seminar
Haller Hall 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
5:00p - 7:30p
Free screeing of "An Inconvenient Truth"
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6337…>
Harvard School of Public Health, Longwood Campus,, HMS NRB (New Research
Building), Amphitheater, 77 Louis Pasteur Ave, Boston
6:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…>
Total Denial (74 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
6:00p - 7:00p
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges for a Sustainable Future
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Center for Sustainability and the
Global Environment, Univ. of Wisconsin
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
*
Friday 2/2/2007 *
9:30a - 10:15a
Dangerous Passage: Nature's return to center stage in human history
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Diane Dumanoski, former Boston Globe environment reporter, currently
writing a book on the subject of her talk
Part of a symposium organized by Loeb Fellows entitled Loeb Action on
Climate Change
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
11:00a - 12:00p
Ecology and life history strategies of black bears in western
Massachusetts
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6337…>
John McDonald -- US Fish & Wildlife Service and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Free and open to the public
5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…>
Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
8:30p - 9:30p
MSI Chalk Talk
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6359…>
Daniel P. Schrag, Professor, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Director,
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment (HUCE) conf. room 310, 24
Oxford St, Cambridge
*
Saturday 2/3/2007*
5:00p - 9:00p
MIT Environmental Film Festival
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6353…>
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 min)
MIT Building 4 (either 4-270 or 4-370)
*Monday 2/5/2007 *
5:00p - 6:00p
Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment
The Growing Significance of the New Biofuels - The Future of Energy
Lecture Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Science Center Lecture Hall C, Harvard
*Tuesday 2/6/2007 *
6:00p - 7:00p
International Polar Year and Climate Change
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6318…>
Jim McCarthy, Harvard University
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Wednesday 2/7/2007*
4:15p - 5:00p
Bioenergy in a globalizing world: Issues of Sustainable Development,
Trade and Policy
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=6251…>
Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General Ministry for the Environment and
Territory of Italy
Maxwell Dworkin G115, Oxford Street, Cambridge
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883