Past Events
March 16, 2011
MIT experts discuss Japan's nuclear past, present, and future from a political and engineering perspective. The presentation will include an eyewitness account of the crisis and the Japanese government's response.
March 14, 2011
Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook University
March 14, 2011
Come enjoy some Texas barbecue and raise funds for the Greenhouse Gambler ski team!
Join us the MITEI Large Conference Room Monday from noon to 1:30 p.m. for an excellent Texas BBQ! It's great that so many of you will be able to join us. Didn't R.S.V.P.? Not to worry! Please join us anyway, and invite your friends. We will have ready lots of delicious cornbread, mac n' cheese, BBQ beef brisket, chicken, with several vegetarian options, most of it donated by local businesses. We will also have real BlueBell homemade ice cream (which is not sold commercially in Massachusetts).
March 14, 2011
Oxy-fuel combustion is a promising technology for carbon capture in natural gas power plants. Challenges in implementing the technology for gas turbines stem from the altered fluid properties in using carbon dioxide as the diluent in the combustion process instead of air as used in conventional combustion. A one-dimensional strained flame code is used to simulate the effects on flame consumption speed and emissions.
March 10, 2011
The Center for Computational Engineering (CCE) invites graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and other CCE-affiliated researchers to a symposium highlighting student research in computational science and engineering at MIT. The symposium will feature student research demonstrating the development of computational methods and diverse applications of computational tools in engineering, science, and social sciences, ranging from supply chain management and economics to aeronautical engineering and fluid dynamics.
March 09, 2011
The present social reality of climate change presents us with some puzzling and opposing trends. On the one hand, countless scientific bodies have affirmed the consensus view of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that climate change is a phenomenon of global concern. On the other hand, according to the Pew Research Center, belief in the science of climate change among the American public declined from 71% to 57% between April 2008 and October 2009. And the atmosphere around the issue has become increasingly acrimonious as skeptics and believers square off in a war of words.