Events
Events listed here are selected on the basis of being of potential interest to some members of the climate change community at MIT. These events are not necessarily associated with the activities of the Joint Program. To submit an event for inclusion send information to the webmaster.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Cities and America's Place in the Renewable Economy
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 10-485
Speaker: Prof. Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University; Director, Law, Policy and Society Program. Abstract: In the absence of national renewable energy industry policy, many U.S. cities have implemented policies and programs to promote renewable energy. Cities that have tried to crea ... More
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Microbiological Soil Sink for Atmospheric Hydrogen - Implications for its use as a Future Energy Carrier
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 48-316
Laura Meredith, Ph.D. candidate in EAPS, will deliver a seminar on "Investigations of the dominating microbiological soil sink for atmospheric hydrogen and implications for its use as a future major energy carrier," as part of The Microbial Systems (and Beyond) Seminar @ Parsons.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Energy 101: Climate Science
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, 56-154
As a part of the Energy 101 lecture series put on by the MIT Energy Club, EAPS graduate student Rebecca Dell will give a primer on climate science with a focus on the effects of carbon dioxide on the environment. The lecture will cover the methods, data, and results that indicate how are climate has ... More
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
MIT Energy Club: Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research Seminar
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 66-110
A panel will discuss the current state of technology in carbon capture and storate (CCS) as well as the economic, and policy-related hurdles to making it a scalable reality in the US, the EU and in China. Generation of electrical power is responsible for roughly 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in th ... More
Recent Events
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
2009 MIT Research and Development Conference
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, MIT Kresge Auditorium
This flagship MIT conference showcases a broad sampling of the Institute's most exciting and relevant research. This year's plenary sessions consider ways to leverage R&D resources in the current economic environment. In addition, attendees may choose among a number of parallel research tracks i ... More