Past Events
January 26, 2009
A five-day course offered during MIT Independent Activities Period that introduces adjoint models, their generation by means of automatic differentiation (AD), and application to climate science. Basic building blocks are (1) Foundations and basic algorithms (computer science) taught by experts from RWTH Aachen and Argonne National Lab; (2) Hands-on examples covering: the harmonic oscillator, Lorenz model, Stommel box model, advection-diffusion problem, shallow-water model; and (3) Applications in climate science by C.
January 23, 2009
Prof. David Thompson of Colorado State University will present a lecture in the MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) Series. His research focuses on improving our understanding of global climate variability using observational data; interests include large-scale atmospheric dynamics, the interpretation of observed climate change, stratosphere/troposphere coupling, ocean/atmosphere interaction, decadal climate variability, and the climate impacts of large-scale atmospheric phenomena. (Prof. Thompson's website)
January 22, 2009
Prof. Kerry Emanuel presents a lecture as a part of the three-day MIT Darwin Bicentennial Symposium, which is part of the Massachusetts Darwin 2009 Bicentennial Project. On Thursday, the first day of the symposium, the presentations will focus on The Evolving Earth; Friday sessions focus on Evolutionary Mechanisms in Vertebrates; on Saturday the topic is Darwin in Society (Saturday sessions will be held at the MIT Museum).
January 21, 2009
Panelists representing the perspectives of science, policy, and the financial system, will discuss climate change issues and answer questions. The panel includes Prof. Paul O'Goram (Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences), Prof. Kenneth Oye (Political Science), and Dr. John Parsons (CEEPR and Sloan School of Management).
January 16, 2009
Dr. Anna Behrensmeyer of the Smithsonian Institution will present a lecture in the EAPS IAP Lecture Series on Climate Effects on Human Evolution and Human Impacts on Climate Change. During 2009 there will be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species.
January 14, 2009
MIT Independent Activities Period - In this session Joint Program graduate students will examine and detail what our government is doing about the Climate Change Issue through public national policy. The pros and cons of proposals currently debated in Congress will be highlighted, including the Cap-and-Trade system and Carbon Taxing. The Joint Program students will also discuss potential future paths U.S. policy may take and how policy could spur investment in and deployment of clean technology.