Highlights:
March 29: Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy, University of California,
Berkeley, gives a special Energy Policy Seminar Series lecture on
"Science and Policy for a Low-Carbon Economy."
April 1: Renowned novelist Arundhati Roy, author of The God of
Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997), speaks about the challenges of
democracy in the spring Science and Democracy lecture.
April 2: David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department
of Energy and Climate Change, UK and Professor in the Department of
Physics at Cambridge University, discusses his research and book,
"Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" in the second Future of
Energy lecture this spring.
Calendar Listings:
March 25, 2010
5:15pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA
"Does Thoreau Have a Future: Reimagining Voluntary Simplicity for the 21st
Century"
A presentation by Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, in
Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language. A response will
be given by Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies in
Harvard's Faculty of Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu
7:00pm - 8:00pm Inaugural Neekeyfar Lecture
Pfizer Lecture Hall – Mallinckrodt Building 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge,
MA
"In Search of the Unified Theory." Professor Brian Green, Columbia University.
Contact Name: Deana Ste. Marie deana_SteMarie(a)harvard.edu 617.384.9236 EditDelete
March 26 - March 27, 2010
HBS/HKS/HLS Asia Business Conference
Meredith Building, and other locations Harvard Business School Allston, MA
The HBS Asia Business Club, Harvard Asia Law Society and HKS East Asia Caucus hold their
Asia Business Conference this Friday and Saturday at HBS.
Sessions of interest to the energy and environment community include "Cleantech -
Will China be the next leader in Cleantech?" and "Energy Efficient Cars - The
Future of Energy Efficient Cars in China". Registration and fee.
http://www.asiabusinessconference.org/2010/schedules
March 26, 2010
MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
8:45am - 9:30am
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
"Optimization of gene expression - Lessons from microbial evolution
experiments." Hsin-Hung "David" Chou, Organismic & Evolutionary
Biology.
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
March 26, 2010
10:00am Special Harvard Climate Seminar
Faculty Lounge - Hoffman 4th Floor 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Southern ocean jets: The impact of topography on variability and mixing."
Andrew Thompson, University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climateseminar.html
Contact Name: Shuting Jin jin(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.384.9005
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
March 26, 2010 - 1:30pm
4th Floor Faculty Lounge Hoffman Laboratory 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Effects of the Free Surface and Low-Velocity Layers on Seismic and Aseismic Fault
Slip." Yoshihiro Kaneko, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
California at San Diego.
March 27, 2010
8:00am - 4:00pm 20th Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference
Worcester Technical High School 1 Skyline Drive Worcester, MA
Interested in protecting Massachusetts' beautiful open spaces and historic landmarks?
Join novice and experienced conservationists for a daylong conference featuring 30+
workshops on different aspects of land conservation.
http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/special-events/massachusetts-land-c…...
March 29, 2010
11:30am - 1:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Special Session
Bell Hall, Belfer 5th Floor Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
“Science and Policy for a Low-Carbon Economy.” Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished
Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 29, 2010
4:00pm EPS Spring Colloquium
Haller Hall - Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Impact crater formation via dynamic fault weakening." Sarah
Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University.
Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman
7:00pm - 9:00pm Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Companies and Indigenous Communities
in the Amazon
Emerson 305 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA
A panel discussion featuring Tyler Giannini, Chris Jochnick, and Theodore Macdonald
presented by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hcsadvocates/
Contact Name: Amanda Lynch aclynch(a)fas.harvard.edu
March 30, 2010
12:30pm - 2:00pm U.S. - Japan Seminar
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
"Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution"
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Senior Associate, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Contact Name: Shinju Fujihira sfujihira(a)wcfia.harvard.edu 617-495-1890
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu
Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"An Industry Perspective on Energy Security, Natural Gas and a Lower Carbon Energy
Mix." Ian Smale, Executive V.P. for Policy, British Petroleum.
March 31, 2010
1:00pm - 2:30pm Climate Change and the Media
Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall Belfer Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Techno-Optimism or Pessimism? 'Fixing' the Planet's Climate
Problems"
Time Magazine environment reporter Bryan Walsh; Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine
& Rolling Stone and author of new book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the
Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate.
Contact Name: Christine Russell Cristine_Russell(a)hks.harvard.edu 203 912-7650
3:00pm - 4:30pm
MIT Energy Seminar
E19-319 MIT Cambridge, MA
"Toward an Innovation Centered Climate Change Strategy." Daniel Esty, Yale
University.
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars/innovation-centered.html
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series
March 31, 2010 - 4:00pm
Haller Hall, Geological Museum 102 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Phylogenetic systematics and the evolution of sensory systems in mammals."
Timothy Rowe, Professor of Geology and Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory,
the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/abzhanov/Site/Bhart-Anjan%20Bhullar.html
Contact Name: Bhart-Anjan Singh Bhullar
6:00pm - 8:00pm Harvard College Innovation Challenge
Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
You're invited to join students, faculty, alumni and members of New England's
innovation community at Harvard's annual celebration of undergraduate
entrepreneurship. RSVP Required.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/internal/tech_entrepeneur…...
pbottino(a)seas.harvard.edu
April 1, 2010
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 disucsion. 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
3:30pm Movie Screening: "Tapped"
Aldrich 208 - Harvard Business School Allston, MA
Award winning documentary about the bottled water industry. Movie snacks and drinks
provided.
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
4:30pm - 5:45pm Perspectives on the Smart Grid
Harvard Business School – Aldrich 8 Allston, MA
Smart Grid panel to discuss key aspects of our electricity infrastructure upgrades (pilot
programs, customer adoption, regulation, technology, and environmental impact). Moderated
by Professor Richard Vietor, the Senator John Heinz Professor of the Environment at HBS.
Contact Name: Emily Matorin ematorin(a)mba2011.hbs.edu
5:00pm - 7:00pm Science and Democracy: Arundhati Roy
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Arundhati Roy
Author of The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997)
“Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain?” Field Notes on Democracy. Comments and
discussion with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director,
Humanities Center at Harvard and Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
April 2, 2010
8:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
"The Harvard Yard truffle and other observations on the importance of urban soil
microbes." Ben Wolfe, OEB, PhD Candidate. Host Anne Pringle.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"Evolution of ecosystem services in a coastal New England watershed." Wil
Wolheim, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire.
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:00pm The Future of Energy: David MacKay - Chief Scientific Advisor to the
Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK
Northwest Labs B103 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air."
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
April 5, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
6:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html
Sanders Theatre at Memorial Hall Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA
"Biodiversity and the Future of Biology." Lecture tickets are required, and can
be obtained through the Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center
http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/details.php?ID=40839
617.495.5891
April 6, 2010
2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series
Bell Hall - Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"The Recent Evolution of the Brazilian Electricity Industry." Joisa Saraiva,
Visiting Scholar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu
4:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson
Science Center One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"The Superorganism." Free, advance tickets not required.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html
617.495.5891
April 7, 2010
4:00pm John M. Prather Lectures in Biology: E.O. Wilson
Science Center One Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Consilience." Free, advance tickets not required.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/news_items/prather_2010.html
617.495.5891
April 8, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name:
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.
Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Spring-2010-Study-…...
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels, Mayor of Seattle (2002-09), President of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (2009), and Founder of the US Mayors Climate Protection agreement.
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