[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email January 28 - February 10

Highlights: Wednesday, February 2: Jon A. Krosnick, Professor, Stanford University, presents "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change: Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" in the HUCE Green Conversations lecture series with discussants Stephen Ansolabehere (FAS, Government), and Dan Schrag, (HUCE, EPS, SEAS). Thursday, February 3: Cathy Zoi, the Acting Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy, gives a special seminar at 12 pm, "Technology, Policy, and Politics: Energy in 2011 and Beyond." Thursday, February 3: Bruce Sohn, President of First Solar, discusses "Solar's Fit in Energy's Future" in the first Future of Energy talk of the spring semester. Calendar Listings: January 31, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm MCZ Lunch Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Alliance and Antagonism: Uncovering the mechanisms driving sperm competition in Deer Mice." Heidi Fisher, Postdoctoral Fellow, MCZ, Hoekstra Lab. Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club: New Members Day 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 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Chris Jones, HUCE Fellow. "Rethinking the History of Energy Transitions." Jones’ research explores the ways coal canals, oil pipelines, and electricity transmission made the widespread and intensified use of fossil fuels possible, stimulated the rise of urbanization and industrialization, and contributed to the emergence of a society dependent on ever-increasing supplies of energy. 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA Patrick Taylor, Children's Hospital, Harvard. ""Virtue, Probability, Relationships, and Confusion: Conflicts of Interest and Incompletely Theorized Notions of Scientific Sainthood." http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/ 12:30pm - 1:45pm Tufts Energy and Climate Policy Research Seminar Contact Name: Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Tufts University Medford, MA "Cap and Trade: What does it Really Cost?". Gilbert Metcalf, Professor of Economics, Tufts University. 4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Erik Sperling, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences. "Molecular paleobiology and early animal evolution." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html February 2, 2011 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Mark Olson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. "Adaptation and ontogenetic potential in woody plant stems." Coffee and pastry reception PRIOR to talk. All are welcome to attend. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 12:00pm - 1:30pm Wind Energy Coverage: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow? Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall Belfer Building, 5th floor 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Join a conversation with two distinguished environment reporters Beth Daley of The Boston Globe & Elisabeth Rosenthal of The New York Times. Discussant: Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5388/wind_energy.html Contact Name: Cristine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 12:15pm - 1:15pm Green Conversations: Jon A. Krosnick Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) S020 Belfer Case Study Room Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA Jon A. Krosnick, Professor, Stanford University. "What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change: Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy" *Box lunch provided at 12:00 pm*. Discussants: Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Harvard Department of Government; and Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883 3:00pm - 4:30pm Oil Exploration and Production in Deep Water Systems Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Please join members of the BP’s Group Research and Technology team discuss the technical issues of oil exploration and production in deep water systems such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, including responding to and remediating oil spills. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5389 Contact Name: Amanda Swanson amanda_swanson(a)harvard.edu 617-495-1351 4:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Michael Foote, University of Chicago. "The evolution of geographic range within species and genera." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 4:10pm - 5:30pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Littauer 382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes." Scott Barrett is a Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. Barrett's research focuses on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to infectious diseases. Contact Name: Jason Chapman jason_chapman(a)harvard.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 February 3, 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 12:00pm Special Lecture featuring Cathy Zoi, U.S. Department of Energy Harvard Law School Pound Hal 101 1563 Mass Ave, Cambridge Cathy Zoi, Acting Under Secretary of Energy; Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "Technology, Policy, and Politics: Energy in 2011 and Beyond" Contact Name: Lisa Matthews matthew(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8883 1:00pm OEB Special Seminar MCZ 101 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA Michael Foote, University of Chicago. "Evolutionary dynamics of genus size-frequency distributions." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 5:00pm Future of Energy: Bruce Sohn Jefferson Laboratory Room 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge Bruce Sohn, President, First Solar. "Solar's Fit in Energy's Future" Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 February 4, 2011 8:30am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd floor, Room 310 Cambridge, MA "Repurposing lipoamide alters electron flow in two important metabolic pathways of E. coli." Speaker: Morgan Feeney (HMS-MMG). Host: Jon Beckwith. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/fridays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 9:00am - 4:00pm Driver-facing Technologies to Improve Urban Mobility New Media Lab, 6th Floor, MIT Cambridge, MA An MIT symposium on technology and research for smart roads and smart vehicles. http://transportation.mit.edu/live/news/1355-driverfacing-technologies-to-i…... congestion(a)mit.edu February 5, 2011 2:00pm Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Harvard Museum of Natural History Author talk and booksigning by Kieran Mulvaney. Through a blend of history, science, myth and personal observations, Mulvaney provides a new lens for readers to appreciate the polar bear, its unique biology, and its uncertain fate. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php February 7, 2011 12:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University. Title TBD http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 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 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA Dan Schrag, Harvard University. "Towards a US Energy Policy" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html#top 12:15pm STS Circle 124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA Jo Guldi, Harvard Society of Fellows. "Britain Invents the Infrastructure State." http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/ 4:00pm OEB Special Seminar Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University. Title TBD http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 6:30pm - 8:30pm Restoring Hawaii’s Marvels of Evolution Hunnewell Building Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway Jamaica Plain, MA Join botanist Robert Robichaux of the University of Arizona and the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation as he discusses recent efforts to restore Hawaii’s marvels of plant evolution. http://arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/directors-lecture-series/ (617) 524-1718 February 9, 2011 11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar Series Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Elizabeth Crone, Harvard Forest. "Resource depletion, pollen limitation, and synchronous mast-seeding in a perennial wildflower." http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 2:00pm - 3:00pm Tufts Center for International Environment & Natural Resource Policy Lecture Mugar 200, The Fletcher School Tufts University Medford, MA "The Future of Energy Demand and Supply Possibilities: A Review of BP’s Energy Outlook 2030." Paul Appleby, Head of Energy Economics, BP. Contact Name: Jacqueline M Deelstra Jacqueline.Deelstra(a)tufts.edu 3:00pm - 4:30pm Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute Lecture Cabot 702 The Fletcher School 160 Packard Avenue, Tufts Medford, MA "Plenitude: How and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy." Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ Contact Name: Lauren Denizard lauren.denizard(a)tufts.edu 617-627-3530 6:00pm Neanderthals and Modern Humans: The Genetic Evidence for Interbreeding Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA David Reich, Associate Professor of Genetics at Harvard, will compare the Neanderthal genome to the genomes of present-day humans. Free and open to the public. Part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History Evolution Matters Lecture Series. Supported by a gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php 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 February 10, 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 6:00pm MSI Thursday Seminar HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310 Cambridge, MA "Redox-active antibiotics control gene expression and community behavior in divergent bacteria." Lars Dietrich (Columbia University). Host: Rich Losick. Wine & cheese reception at 5:30, seminar at 6:00 PM. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/thursdays.html MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu 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. 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