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MIT Energy Initiative

Careers in Energy: Panel
Amanda Peters
Wed Jan 18, 05:30-07:30pm, 32-155

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Considering a career in the energy sector? Come hear from MIT alumni working in the industry about some of the many career options and what it takes to succeed in this growing field. The first hour will feature a panel discussion, while the second will provide the opportunity to talk to the panelists individually.
Web: http://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
Contact: Amanda Peters, 12-170, x3-4733, acpeters@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Global Education and Career Development

Energy Information: Industries and Statistics
Katherine McNeill
Thu Jan 19, 03-04:00pm, 14N-132

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2012
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event

Interested in researching or working in the field of energy? Want to find out how your energy project fits into the landscape of various industries? This session will give you the skills to research the business and statistical information on energy to find industry overviews, market research, news and data.

Sign up at: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/events/.
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168c, x3-0787, mcneillh@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Libraries

Energy Information: Maps and Data to Use with GIS
Anne Graham, Lisa Sweeney
Thu Jan 19, 04-05:00pm, 14N-132

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Where are the power plants and the pipelines? How close are they to population centers? In this session, MIT GIS Services will introduce you to energy maps and spatial data available, and demonstrate GIS in action on the energy front.
Register for this workshop at: http://bit.ly/GIS-IAP-2012. Check the GIS Services website for the most up to date information about this IAP GIS workshop series.
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/teach/current-workshops.html
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, x3-7744, grahama@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Libraries

Energy Information: Where to Go, What to Do
Angie Locknar, Chris Sherratt
Wed Jan 18, 11am-12:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event

Information on energy is everywhere! How do you find the scientific and technical information you need and keep on the cutting edge of what is published? Attend this hands-on session to find out.
Contact: Angie Locknar, 14S-134, locknar@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Libraries

Energy Projects Showcase
Lucy Fan
Wed Jan 18, 04-05:30pm, Lobby 10

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Come see what students are doing in energy! Learn all about the Solar Car. Interested in clean tech? Learn how to get involved in the Clean Energy Prize competition!
Contact: Lucy Fan, yinglfan@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Energy Club

Energy Start-up Workshop
Lucy Fan
Thu Jan 19, 05:30-07:00pm, 4-163

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Ever wonder what it takes to run a start-up? MIT spin-off companies will take you through the challenges and victories of being the underdogs in a corporate world.

Companies include:

Liquid Metal Batter Corporation: a spin-off from Professor Sadoway's lab at MIT.

Coolchip: licensing patent-pending technologies to overcome the limitations of conventional air-based cooler designs.

OnChip Power: a fast-paced, VC-backed MIT start-up poised to disrupt the power supply industry.

OsComp Systems (OCS) team of MIT engineers have invented a breakthrough, patent-pending technology that reduces operating and capital costs of [natural gas] compression by over 30%.
Contact: Lucy Fan, yinglfan@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Energy Club

Energy, the Media and You: Behind the scenes with top science reporters
Eli Kintisch, Alister Doyle, Hepeng Jia, Joyce Murdoch
Tue Jan 31, 04-05:30pm, 4-237

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2012
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event

Public discourse on energy topics from nuclear technology to climate impacts to biofuels is often characterized by tall claims, exaggerated risks, biased coverage and impenetrable legalese. The MIT Energy Initiative and Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program convene ~5 reporters to tell the behind-the-scenes story on how energy stories get told -- and spun. Join an experienced and talented panel of journalists from across the media spectrum for an inside look at the forces that shape media on energy and practical insights on how scientists can improve the way that their research is conveyed to a public that is under daily information bombardment.
Co-Sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships

\*Registration required.\*
Register at: http://bit.ly/zqkY9X
Contact: Jennifer DiMase, jdimase@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Science, Technology, and Society

Introduction to Wind Energy
Alex Kalmikov
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Co-sponsor: MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action (WEPA)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/wepa/wepa.html
Contact: Alex Kalmikov, kalex@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Mechanical Engineering

Wind Energy 101 - An introduction to wind power technology
Alex Kalmikov
In recent years, wind energy has evolved from an emerging energy alternative into a global, rapidly maturing industry competitive with conventional energy sources. Come to learn about the technology that enabled this transition, allowing clean, emissions-free harvesting of the renewable wind resource.
Thu Jan 19, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133

Wind Energy 102 - An introduction to wind physics and resource assessment
Alex Kalmikov
Although usually invisible to the naked eye, wind carries enormous amounts of energy. Come to learn about the sources and forces of this energy and basic quantitative approaches to its assessment.

Alex Kalmikov is a PhD candidate in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. He is the co-chair of the MIT Wind Energy Club and leads the WEPA student team.
Fri Jan 20, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133

UN Climate Roundtable - The UN process at a crossroads: Kyoto, a Green Fund, and hopes for a new legally binding agreement
Matt Orosz
Wed Jan 18, 02-03:00pm, 56-167

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

In 1992 the international community unanimously resolved to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" at the Earth Summit in Rio.

Nearly 2 decades later, the Kyoto Protocol--the single binding international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (an agreement which the US never ratified)--is losing constituency and relevance as a means of addressing the issue. Forging a consensus on action and an eventual replacement for Kyoto requires navigating tensions due to global disparities in wealth, technological capacity, and vulnerability to climate related disaster. Many have found the international process slow, confusing, and uninspiring, but a viable alternative framework for addressing the global issue of climate change is difficult to imagine.

Join in a discussion on the UN climate negotiations process, where we will try to clarify how the UN is addressing climate change, identify some of the key sources of conflict and obstruction, and note where the UN is making progress. This will be lead by the MIT student delegate to the recent conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) meeting in South Africa.
Contact: Matt Orosz, mso@mit.edu


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