[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email April 7 - 21

Highlights: Tomorrow, April 8: Artists and performers - including Harvard students, alumni and others - will transform the Harvard Museum of Natural History into laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage in "Bizarre Animals 2.0: An Evening of Contemporary Art Interventions." Tuesday, April 12: David Brooks, New York Times columnist, discusses evidence on how our emotions play an important role in everyday decision-making and that we need apply this knowledge to the world of policy, morality, and practice in "Politics, the Brain, and Human Nature." This lecture is part of the Science and Democracy lecture series. Wednesday, April 13: Water filters that you eat! Plastic bags that turn into soap! At the Annual Idea Translation Lab Final Presentations, hear the latest big dreams of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. Calendar Listings: April 7, 2011 6:30pm Discussion on the Future of Nuclear Power Mather JCR (through the courtyard; across from the commons-area wing) Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA An informative discussion on the benefits and perils of nuclear power. 7:00pm - 8:00pm The Earth Is Our Garden: Are We Doing Our Best? Trinity Church 206 Clarendon St Boston, MA Speaker: Bill McKibben, Environmentalist and Writer http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/ Contact Name: Pamela Thompson 617-384-5277 7:00pm Science Policy Cafe with ESPP Professor John Briscoe Harvard Hall 102 Cambridge, MA Interested in how environmental policy is put into place? Curious as to how scientific fact is handled in emotional political debate? Join the Harvard Environmental Action Committee and the Triple Helix for an evening with Professor John Briscoe. Finale Desserts will be served. April 7 - 9, 2011 Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty [See conference website for locations.] This meeting is the product of a year of conversations across several continents and dozens of institutions. It weaves together the hopes, aspirations, and—yes—frustrations of STS scholars from around the world who have committed their careers to studying the central role of science and technology in our social, political, and moral lives. http://stsnext20.org/ April 8 - April 9, 2011 The Future of South Asia [See conference website for location information.] The symposium features a host of Harvard faculty members, dignitaries, and leaders in their respective fields. Sponsored by the Harvard South Asia Initative. http://southasiainitiative.harvard.edu/future_of_southasia/welcome.html April 8, 2011 8:45am MSI Chalktalk HUCE Seminar Room 310 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Structure & function in natural microbial communities: a transcriptomic perspective." Edward Delong (MIT-CEE/BE). Host: Colleen Cavanaugh. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/default.htm 3:00pm EPS Special Seminar Haller Hall Geomuseum 102 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Atmospheric observations and emissions estimates of methane and nitrous oxide from regional to global scale." Eric Kort, EPS bmastandrea(a)fas.harvard.edu 7:00pm - 9:30pm HMNH: Special Event HMNH 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Bizarre Animals 2.0: An Evening of Contemporary Art Interventions." Artists and performers - including Harvard students, alumni and others - will transform the museum into laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage. Admission: $6.00 at the door (ticketing begins at 6:30 pm). Free to museum members and Harvard ID holders (please note there is no plus one/free guest admission for this event.) http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#bizarre April 9, 2011 8:30am - 6:00pm China Energy and Environment Conference Harvard University, Northwest Science Building 52 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Brings influential scholars, government officials, and private sector leaders from China and the U.S. together to address Chinese energy and environmental issues. http://www.chinaenergyenvironment.org 10:45am - 12:00pm Energy: The Key to Economic Modernization in the MENA Region The Charles Hotel 1 Bennett Street Cambridge, MA Nadia Logab, chez Bureau Veritas Algerie (oil and gas); Atul Arya, IHS Cambridge Energy Research; Noura Mansouri, University of London; Laura Atkins, Hart Energy; Justin Dargin, Dubai Initiative (moderator). http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5449/revolution_and_reform.html 6:00pm - 10:00pm Environmental League of Massachusetts Earth Night Sheraton Boston Boston, MA Earth Night, a party to benefit the Environmental League of Massachusetts, is Boston's biggest environmental benefit, drawing hundreds of the state's business, environmental, and community leaders. http://www.earthnight.org info(a)classic-communications.com 508-698-6810 April 11, 2011 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Weil Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Low-carbon energy options." Richard Vietor, HBS. Contact Name: Louisa Lund Louisa_Lund(a)harvard.edu 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 3:30pm - 6:00pm Harvard Green Carpet Awards Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall 45 Quincy St Cambridge, MA Celebrate the many dedicated and hard-working staff, faculty and students involved in campus sustainability initiatives at Harvard with distinguished guest presenters, live student performances, awards and more. http://www.green.harvard.edu/greencarpet 4:00pm EPS Colloquium Series Haller Hall (Geo-Museum 102) 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Atmospheric & Surface contributions to Planetary Albedo and their relationship to the total meridional energy transport." David Battisti, University of Washington. scappo(a)fas.harvard.edu April 12, 2011 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Shuting Jin shuting(a)gmail.com 5:00pm Science and Democracy with David Brooks: "Politics, the Brain, and Human Nature" Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy Street, Harvard The Science and Democracy Lecture series welcomes David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times with panelists Max Bazerman, Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, David Kennedy, Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Department of Psychology, and moderator Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883 7:00pm CEA Energy Social John Harvard’s in Harvard Square Cambridge, MA Are you a student and passionate about energy? All are welcome, and energy clubs from schools across the Northeast are invited to this intercollegiate mixer. April 13, 2011 11:00am OEB Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA "Evolutionary analyses of new-generation sequencing data." Rasmus Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley. Host: Desai Lab http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. [rescheduled from April 14] http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:00pm - 4:00pm Annual Student Idea Translation Lab Final Presentations NorthWest Building Basement Auditorium #B101 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Water filters that you eat! Plastic bags that turn into soap! At the Annual Idea Translation Lab Final Presentations on April 13th, you will hear the latest big dreams of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students that have grown out of this year's ES20 class: How to Create Things and Have Them Matter. es20class(a)gmail.com 4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy L-382, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Juan Pablo Montero Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. "The Effect of Transport Policies on Air Quality: Theory and Evidence from Latin American Cities" 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu April 14, 2011 5:30pm Book Talk - Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail Sever 213 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA Chasing Chiles is both a rollicking travelogue from three guys on the hunt for authentic food and cultural experience and an adventure with a larger, sobering mission: to understand the effects of climate change by zeroing in on one critical crop and the people whose lives are most deeply intertwined with it. Contact Name: Dara Olmsted (617) 495-8052 7:30pm - 9:30pm Does radiation from cell phones cause cancer? Sever Hall 113 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA A talk by Dr. Devra Davis, author of Disconnect. Dr. Davis will be presenting as part of the course “Critical Thinking About Issues of Public and Environmental Health” (ENVR 160), an offering of the Harvard Extension School’s Environmental Management Program. You are invited to attend. The 175 seats will be available on a first-come, first-seated basis. dpr(a)dropeik.com April 15 - 16, 2011 2011 Tufts Energy Conference: Exploring Energy's Great Debates Cabot Center (160 Packard Avenue) at Tufts University Two day conference with keynotes, panels and workshops covering a wide range of pressing energy debates in energy efficiency, mass transit, clean energy, shale gas and deepwater drilling. http://www.tuftsenergyconference.com/ April 15 - 18, 2011 - 12:00am Power Shift Washington, D.C. Speakers: Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President; Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and prolific author including recently published Eaarth; Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator; Van Jones, founder of Green For All. samantha(a)powershift2011.org 201-870-0815 April 15, 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Science Symposium Radcliffe Gymnasium 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard Cambridge, MA "Something in the Air: Climate Change, Science, and Policy.” Atmospheric and environmental scientists, engineers, archaeologists, and scholars of public health, economics, and government will come together to address and debate topics fundamental to our understanding of the science of climate change and the policies that result. http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2011climate.aspx 617-495-8600 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA Smart Power and the Future of Electric Utilities; & Transforming the Electric Grid with Storage and Electric Vehicles http://www.raabassociates.org/main/calendar.asp Contact Name: Susan Rivo susan(a)raabassociates.org 10:45am Pardee Distinguished Lecture Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law Boston, MA Dr. Mehmood Khan, the Chief Scientific Officer and CEO of the Global Nutrition Group of PepsiCo, will deliver the 2011 Pardee Distinguished Lecture. Registration required. http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2011/04/04/pepsico-mehmood-khan-pardee-lecture/ April 16, 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm MSI Symposium 2011 Radcliffe Gymnasium 10 Garden Street Cambridge, MA Speakers: Jim Collins, Laurie Comstock, Ann Hochschild, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Francois Morel, Kim Orth. David Weitz Free and open to the public. This annual event features presentations by leading microbiologists at Harvard and other institutions and celebrates the richest biological reservoir of the planet, the microbial world. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/sympos.html April 18, 2011 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Joseph Aldy, HKS. Topic TBA. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)harvad.edu 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 8:00pm Patagonia National Park Harvard Hall 202 Cambridge, MA Kristine Tompkins, the president of Conservacion Patagonica, and co-founder and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc. She will talk about her work to establish a new 650,000 acre national park in Chile. Sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club, the Environmental Action Committee, the Center for the Environment and the Women's Leadership Project. April 19, 2011 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Shuting Jin shuting(a)gmail.com 5:30pm - 8:30pm Lessons in Sustainability & Research Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater Boston, MA Professor Nathan Phillips, Director of Boston University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies will talk about how sustainable practices implemented by individuals in their homes and in the work place can make a lasting and dramatic impact. http://green.harvard.edu/events April 20, 2011 4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy L-382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University. "Ambiguity and Climate Policy" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/events-calendar/seminar-in-environme…... 5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change: Kathleen Treseder Biolabs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge Kathleen Treseder, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine. Professor Treseder's work examines the role of fungi in mediating ecosystem responses to global change. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 7:00pm MIT Sea Grant Lecture: "Climate and the Oceans: Where We've Been and What's Ahead" with Dr. Wallace Broecker Wong Auditorium MIT Building E51 Dr. Wallace Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University's Earth Institute and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. Contact Name: Nancy Adams nadamsx(a)mit.edu 617.253.3461 http://www.seagrant.mit.edu 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu April 21, 2011 11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St. 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:30pm - 1:45pm Faculty panel: "Water & Health: A Global Perspective" HSPH Kresge G-3 Boston, MA Water: It covers more than 2/3 of the Earth and we need it to survive. This Earth Day, join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring three HSPH Professors, John Briscoe, James Shine, and Elsie Sunderland, who will be speaking on the importance of a healthy, sustainable water supply in international public health efforts. They will discuss their own research, as well as answer more general questions about the fate of our water and implications for public health. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecoopportunity 4:00pm - 6:00pm Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100... Tang Center E51-115 Wong Auditorium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA A panel discussion looking back at the last 150 years of climate research and rethinking the way forward. This event is sponsored by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=371 globalchange(a)mit.edu 617-253-7492 6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Join Australian scientist and author Tim Flannery at Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet, a lecture and booksigning. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#here --- Always check the calendar on the website for updated information. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Be sure to sign up to receive the HUCE newsletter. Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [104]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. 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