Past Events
April 07, 2010
Speaker: Christof Rühl, Chief Economist, BP plc. Dr. Rühl is group chief economist and vice president of BP plc. He manages BP's global economics team, analyzing the global economy and energy markets, to provide economic underpinning for BP's commercial strategy. Dr. Rühl joined BP in 2005 and became chief economist in 2007. He has a distinguished track record in academia as well as in economic development and policy making. Prior to joining BP in May 2005, he served at the World Bank, and was the World Bank's Chief Economist in Russia (2001-04) and Brazil (2004-05).
April 06, 2010
Speaker: Prof. Jesse Kroll, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, MIT. Abstract: Organic aerosols (OAs) constitute a large, often dominant fraction of the total tropospheric particulate burden, and as such have important implications for visibility, human health and climate on Earth. However, state-of-the-art models do not predict OA loadings or properties with any accuracy, indicating large gaps in our understanding of the chemistry underlying OA formation and evolution.
April 06, 2010
Prof. Christopher Zegras, MIT Urban Studies and Planning, will speak in the Transportation@MIT Seminar Series.
April 05, 2010
Prof. Erin Mansur, Yale University, will discuss his recent working paper in the Energy & Environmental Economics @ MIT Seminar Series.
April 01, 2010
Prof. David MacKay, Physicist, University Cambridge, and Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, London, will present the 4th Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture. About the Speaker: Appointed in October 2009 as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Prof.
April 01, 2010
Speaker: Prof. Marija Llic, Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract: In this lecture we pose the problem of sustainable electricity services as a novel systems engineering design problem. We briefly summarize today's operating and planning practices and explain why these need fundamental changing in order to enable qualitatively different electricity services.