Past Events
May 04, 2009
Prof. Severin Borenstein of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Abstract: It is straightforward to evaluate how a perfectly-optimizing, perfectly-informed
customer will respond to a non-linear price schedule, but such a customer is rare. In the
common case of increasing-block pricing of water and electricity, consumers do not know
what marginal price they face during a billing period, because they do not know what
demand shocks will occur during the period. If consumers instead set optimal behavioral
May 04, 2009
Dr. Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies will present a seminar in the MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar Series. (Shindell's website.)
May 01, 2009
Prof. Lonnie G. Thompson of Ohio State University will present the Ninth Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture. A renown geologist and authority on ice-cores, Lonnie Thompson is Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center. His research involves the study of ice samples he and his team have collected from drilling ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions on five continents.
April 30, 2009
A Cambridge City Hall Forum will bring together experts from a variety of fields to discuss how to create a sustainable energy future.
April 28, 2009
Dr. Mick Follows, senior research scientist in EAPS and a leader of the Darwin Project at MIT, will will give a presentation in the Earth System Initiative spring seminar series. Abstract: Marine phytoplankton mediate the ocean carbon cycle and are at the base of the marine food chain. Dr. Follows will present a global ocean model with a self-organizing representation of marine phytoplankton communities, and use it to elucidate the role of physical ocean circulation and variability in regulating diversity and community structure.
April 24, 2009
The MIT Sustainability Summit, Discovering New Dimensions for Growth, brings together students, engineers, business leaders, academics, environmental activists, and public servants to discuss how we can most effectively support each other as we face the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to a sustainable world. Through an engaging, innovative panel format, speakers will be challenged to think creatively about shared problems and generate tangible solutions.