This Week:
– The Future of Energy
– Former Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker at the Forum
– US Ambassador to Iraq Crocker at the Forum
– Challenges Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention
Next Week:
– Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy
Beyond:
– Historical Perspectives on Universal Health Care
-Feeding the Future: Agricultural Genetics and World Hunger
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This Week:
The Future of Energy
Tues., Oct. 13, 2009, 5 pm
Science Center, Lecture Hall D, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Harvard’s Future of Energy series brings movers and shakers from the
energy community to speak to a broad audience. This installment brings
Michael Peter Skelly, who is a Principal at Clean Line Energy Partners
(a transmission line company) and was the Democratic candidate for
Texas’s 7th congressional district. A graduate of the University of
Notre Dame and Harvard Business School, Skelly has worked in the Peace
Corps, in ecotourism, and in energy firms. He most recently served as
the chief development officer for Horizon Wind Energy, the third
largest wind company in the United States.
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=187586602
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Nonproliferation and Chemical Weapons: Challenges in Implementing the
Chemical Weapons Convention
Wednesday October 14, 2009, Noon
Building E40 Room 430, MIT
Speaker Paul Walker is a former congressional staffer of the House
Armed Services Committee and an outspoken scholar on arms control and
nonproliferation policy. He is currently at the non-proift Global
Green. His bio is at http://www.globalgreen.org/staff/ Walker will be
speaking at the weekly seminar of the MIT Security Studies Program.
The Chemical Weapons Convention is a formal international treaty
outlawing the production, stockpiling, or use of chemical weapons. The
United States is one of 188 countries who are members of the treaty.
http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/wednesday.html
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Former Fed Chariman Paul Volcker at the Forum: “The Financial Crisis
in Perspective”
Thursday, October 15 2009, 6pm
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
The Federal Reserve has been at the helm of government efforts to
contain the current financial crisis. Paul Volcker was chairmen of the
Federal Reserve from 1979-1987 at which point he was succeeded by Alan
Greenspan. He will likely have plenty of advice for current Fed Ben
Bernanke.
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/JFK-Jr.-Forum-Calendar/FORUM-%22The-Financial-Crisis-in-Perspective%22-A-Public-Address-by-Paul-Volcker-Chairman,-Federal-Reserve-1979-1987
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Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker at the Forum: “Lessons from a Long
War: the US in the Middle East”
Friday, October 16 2009, 4PM.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Ambassador Ryan Crocker served as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from
2007-2009 and as Ambassador to Pakistan from 2004-2007. He has a long
career of diplomatic service and received the US Presidential Medal of
Freedom in recognition of his work. In 2002 he allegedly authored a
secret memo examining the risks associated with the invasion of Iraq.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Crocker
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Events-Meetings/JFK-Jr.-Forum-Calendar/FORUM-%22Lessons-from-a-Long-War-the-US-in-the-Middle-East%22-A-Public-Address-by-Ambassador-Ryan-Crocker,-U.S.-Ambassador-to-Iraq-2007-2009-Pakistan-2004-2007
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Next Week:
Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009, 6-7PM
MIT, building 56, room 154
Rachel Cleetus and John Rogers of the Union of Concerned Scientists
will speak about a new report they released on a clean energy economy.
The Union of Concerned Scientists was originally founded as a student
and faculty group at MIT but now is a nationwide organization that
advocates for a healthy environment and a safer world. Sponsored by
the MIT Energy Club. Open to the public.
http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/lecture-series/climate-2030-a-national-blueprint-for-a-clean-energy-economy
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Beyond :
Rashi Fein on A Century of Debate: Historical Perspectives on
Universal Health Care
Tuesday October 27, 2009, 5 PM
Minot Room, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Longwood
RSVP at ARM@hms.harvard.edu
History has much to inform us about the current health care debate.
Rashi Fein is a Professor of Economics of Medicine, and has authored
numerous books on health care in the U.S. and they rising costs of
health care costs. He will also be exhibiting 150 political pamphlets
on health care from the past half-century. There will be pizza and
refreshments.
https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/historicalResources/chmPrograms/eventsList/Flyer.pdf
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Feeding the Future: Agricultural Genetics and World Hunger
Wednesday 28 October, 7pm
Armenise Ampitheatre at Harvard Medical School, Longwood
Friend of the society, Naveen Sinha, will be speaking about genetics
in agriculture as part of the Science in the News outreach program.
Naveen is a 2nd year graduate student in Applied Physics at Harvard.
Over the years, Naveen has conducted research on a variety of
biophysical topics including building instruments to trap single
molecules, analyzing the microscopic properties of chocolate and more
recently observing the mechanical properties of biofilms. Naveen is an
immaculate speaker and I expect this will be a superb talk.
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/