[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, September 27 through Wednesday, October 10, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site, www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu> , for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe(!) from this list, contact Jenn Goodman at the Center for the Environment: jenn_goodman(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jenn_goodman@harvard.edu> . Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often. Highlights: * Friday, September 28‹Saturday, September 29: Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival: see the best the world has to offer in clean transportation and energy technologies at Boston¹s City Hall plaza. All day; rain or shine. * Wednesday, October 3: Forum: Thomas C. Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (2005) presents the 2007 Godkin Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government. Calendar Listings: Thursday 9/27/07 12:00-1:00p The Global Water Challenge: Resources, Technology and Institutions John Briscoe, World Bank Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA 4:00-5:00p OEB Seminar: ³Are We Missing Something? Conservation and Biodiversity² David Roberts, Hrdy Fellow, Kew Gardens Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Deborah Smiley, dsmiley(a)oeb.harvard.edu 5:30-7:00p Environmental Action Committee¹s Project on Environmental Justice The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council Lowell House Junior Common Room, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Henry Cowles, hmcowles(a)fas.harvard.edu 6:30-9:00p MIT Generator: Students Walking the Talk on Energy and the Environment Stata Center, Gehry Building, 32 Vassar St., Rm 32-123, MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA 9:00-10:00p Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy Spindell Room, Quincy dining hall, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Friday 9/28/07 8:30-9:30a Friday Chalktalk: ³Diversity in the Redox Biology of the Bacterial Exportome² Rachel Dutton, Harvard Medical School HUCE Conference room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu 9:00a-7:00p Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA Contact: stef(a)classic-communications.com 12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: ³Regional Pollution and Climate Sensitivity of Ozone² Hajime Akimoto, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Moeko Yoshitomi, moeko(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:15-1:45p The Belfer Center Director¹s Lunch: ³Artic Natural Gas² Brendan Bell, Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment, NW Territories L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Sarah Donahue, sarah_donahue(a)ksg.harvard.edu 12:30p ³Sino-U.S. Relations and the Global Environmental Challenge² Orville Schell, Director, Center of U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 496-6273 12:30p Environmental Statistics Seminar: ³Topics in Causal Inference for Environmental Health² James Robins, M.D., HSPH HSPH Building 2, room 426, Boston, MA 12:30p Earth History and Paleobiology seminar: ³The Preservation of Burgess Shale fossils² Faculty Lounge, 4th floor Hoffman Labs, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, mA Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen(a)fas.harvard.edu 1:00-6:00p James L. Whittenberger Symposium: ³Environmental Genetics & Epigenetics² David Schwartz, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and others Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Contact: Lisa Smith, lsmith(a)hsph.harvard.edu Saturday 9/29/07 10:00a-6:00p Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA Contact: stef(a)classic-communications.com Monday 10/1/07 12:00-1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:15p Lecture in the Sciences: ³Hunting the Earth¹s Magnetic Field² Lisa Tauxe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Science Center A, 1 Oxford St., Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-8600 6:00-7:30p Sustainable Public Space and Community Building T. Fleisher and Doug Meffert, Loeb Fellows Gund Hall 112, Stubbins, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Contact: Cindy Fallows, cfallows(a)gsd.harvard.edu 7:00p Lead, Health and the Environment: Old Problem and 21st Century Challenge Mark Pokras, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston, MA Contact: (617) 973-5200 x617 7:30-9:30p Sustainable Buildings Event Science Center A, 1 Oxford St., Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Tuesday 10/2/07 11:30a Solid Earth Seminar Series: ³A Structural Geologist¹s View of Earthquake RupturesŠ² Zoe Shipton, University of Glasgow, Scotland Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA 12:00p Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Series Dr. Henk Groth, University of Goettingen: ³Biogeography and divergence times of PlagiochilaŠ² HUH Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-2365 7:15-8:30 ³The Environment and the Law: Lessons from China and Indonesia² Edward Norton, HLS Œ71 Hauser 102, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: vshiah(a)law.harvard.edu Wednesday 10/3/07 4:10-5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Scott Taylor, University of Calgary: "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison² L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu <mailto:jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu> 6:00p Forum: ³Managing Nuclear Proliferation² Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics John F. Kennedy Forum, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Greg Wilson, greg_wilson(a)harvard.edu Thursday 10/4/07 12:15p Belfer Center Directors¹ Lunch: ³Managing the Greenhouse Problem² RSVP required Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Belfer Center Library, L-369, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: Sarah Donahue, sarah_donahue(a)ksg.harvard.edu Friday 10/5/07 11:00a Harvard Forest Autumn 2007 Seminar Series Mark Rickenbach, University of Wisconsin and Harvard Bullard Fellow Seminar Room, Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu Saturday 10/6/07 12:00p Lecture and book signing Kim Todd, Science and environmental writer Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-3045 Monday 10/8/07 12:00-1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu Tuesday 10/9/07 9:30-11:00a ETIP Seminar Series: Building a World that Buries Climate Change L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 JFK St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: etip(a)ksg.harvard.edu 6:00p ³On the Verge of Extinction: Saving Iran¹s Cheetahs² Luke Hunter 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: (617) 495-3045