Highlights:
Monday, January 31: Chris Jones, HUCE Fellow, kicks off the spring ETIP/Consortium Energy
Policy Seminar Series with "Rethinking the History of Energy Transitions."
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.
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 21, 2011
10:00am - 11:00am MIT study on the future of natural gas
NW17-218 MIT Cambridge, MA
Use of shale gas has created a large increase in the availability of low cost natural gas,
and with it new opportunities for reducing CO2 and oil dependence. This talk will discuss
the MIT interdisciplinary study on the future of natural gas.
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-1068.html
3:00pm Smart Grid and Other Desiderata: A Future for Electric Energy
Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 901 Boston, MA
Alex Stanković, Tufts University.
http://www.bu.edu/systems/2003/03/11/january-21-2011-alex-stankovic-tufts-u…...
5:00pm - 7:00pm Smart Innovation calls for Smart People
Building 6-120 MIT Cambridge, MA
Presentations on energy efficiency and smart grid technologies, semiconductor-related
industries, and nanoscience for technology-- open to students, job seekers, researchers,
and executives who wish to learn more about innovation campuses in Paris and Grenoble,
France.
http://www.faccne.org/chambers-activities/general-events/vue-detail/event/5…...
January 23, 2011
2:00pm - 3:00pm HMNH Family Program -- From Earthquakes to Volcanoes
Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Jack Loveless, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
at Harvard, talks about how these spectacular natural events occur, handle real volcanic
rocks, and see how scientists use new techniques, such as 3-D vision, to understand
tectonic movement and forecast earthquakes.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php
617.495.3045
January 25, 2011
5:30pm - 7:00pm Tufts International Business Center Speaker Series
The Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 703 Tufts University Medford, MA
David West Smith, Founder and President, Global Emerging Technologies, Advisor, Bio180
Solutions. "The Day and Life of an Activist International Private Equity
Investor." RSVP is required.
http://bio180.eventbrite.com/
January 27, 2011 (All day)
G'Day USA: Sustainable Cities Conference
A day-long conference to discuss experiences, emerging technologies, key learnings and
strategies for developing sustainable cities which meet the needs of the present without
leaving a burden on future generations.
http://www.australia-week.com/events/boston/australia-us-dialogue-on-sustai…...
Contact Name: Zoe Jouannelle zoe.jouannelle(a)austrade.gov.au
January 27, 2011
4:00pm - 6:00pm Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) Mixer
The MIT Stata Center R+D Pub (4th floor) 32 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA
A reception to launch both 2011 and a new initiative called "BroaderImpacts@MIT"
- a program inspired by the National Science Foundation requirement that grant-funded
research include a public outreach component.
http://www.copusproject.org/
6:00pm Heads Up! How and Why the Amazing Human Head Evolved to Be the Way It Is
Geological Museum Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St Cambridge, MA
Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, will explore how
heads work, evolved, and why the human head is special.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
January 28, 2011
10:00am - 12:30pm Sawyer Seminar Series on Energy Transitions and Society
Room 424, School of Management 595 Commonwealth Ave Boston University Boston, MA
Panelists: Robert LIFSET (University of Oklahoma), Paul SABIN (Yale University), and
Michael C. CARAMANIS (Boston University).
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/sawyer-energy-transitions/
pardee(a)bu.edu
10:00am - 12:00pm Tour of the MIT Nuclear Reactor
NW12 MIT Cambridge, MA
Join the MIT Energy club on a tour of the 5MW experimental facility to have a direct
experience of the components, operation and implementation of nuclear technology.
To sign up for this tour, use the following link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFJGUFBQaldzSFMw…
Contact Name: Daniel Apo djapo(a)mit.edu
12:00pm Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Charles T. Driscoll Jr., Syracuse University. "Every cloud has a quicksilver lining:
inputs and dynamics of mercury in forest ecosystems of the Northeast."
http://www.as.harvard.edu/seminar.html
Contact Name: Brenda Mathieu bmathieu(a)seas.harvard.edu
11:00pm Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room Petersham, MA
"BioMap 2". Henry Woolsey (Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered
Species Program), Andrew Finton (The Nature Conservancy) and James DeNormandie
(Massachusetts Audubon Society)
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
January 31, 2011
12:00pm - 1:30pm ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA
Chris Jones, HUCE Fellow. "Rethinking the History of Energy Transitions."
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html
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/
4:00pm Paleontology Faculty Search Candidate
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Erik Sperling, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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. Title TBA. Host: Losos Lab
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
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"
With 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
4:00pm OEB Special Seminar
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Michael Foote, University of Chicago. Title TBD.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
February 3, 2011
12:00pm Special HUCE Lecture
Location TBA
Cathy Zoi, Acting Under Secretary for Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
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
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