http://mitenergyfinanceforum.org/
The necessity to go deeper and further for oil, controversies surrounding shale gas extraction, the future of nuclear power in a post-Fukushima world, the fate of renewable energy in the face of political uncertainty. This year’s MIT Energy Finance Forum will explore these and other tensions in the energy space on Friday, November 18 at the MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street in Cambridge, MA.
Now in its second year, this forum will gather industry professionals, senior business executives, academics, and students from the area’s leading schools for panel discussions and networking opportunities. For more information or to register for the conference, please visit: http://mitenergyfinanceforum.org. We are offering a 20% discount to MIT faculty and staff. During registration, please select "Enter Discount Code" and enter "MITPERSONNEL" to redeem this offer. Register now for additional earl bird discounts.
Career Services Events
Internship Search Strategies, Tuesday, November 8, 4-5pm, 3-133
There are lots of great resources at MIT - and beyond - to help you find internship opportunities. We will talk about how and where to look, creating a search plan, discussing the written materials you will need, and why internships are so important anyway. Register on CareerBridge.Business Etiquette- Manners, Meals and Mastering business interactions, Tuesday, November 15, 2-3pm, 5-217
Are you unsure as to what to do during interviews and networking dinners? People tend to equate a lack of etiquette with a lack of care and self-control necessary to be good at what you do. Etiquette is about presenting yourself with the kind of polish that shows you can be taken seriously. Come learn tips on how to have an etiquette advantage to help you land a job. Register on CareerBridge (click on Workshops Career Fairs and Events).Other Events
CFN Boston Career Forum http://www.careerforum.net/event/bos/index.asp?lang=E
November 11-13, 2011
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
415 Summer Street, Boston
Time has come again for the world's largest Japanese-English bilingual job fair, the Boston Career Forum. Celebrating its 25th year, students and job seekers alike have launched their careers at the Boston Career Forum. Japanese-English bilinguals, who are graduating, seeking internships, graduated and on their OPTs, or working professionals, all are welcome to participate. It is now YOUR turn to capitalize on this once-a-year opportunity and find what promising future lies ahead.(Professional Business Attire Required)
*Because the Career Forum is a job fair event, professional business attire is required for all Career Forum participants. Casual attire such as jeans, t-shirts and sneakers are not permitted at the event.ALPFA Boston Career Fair & Leadership Summit http://www.alpfaboston.org/career-fair-at-the-executive-leadership-summit-november-17th-2011/
Thursday, November 17, 2-5pm
Westin Copley, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston
ALPFA Boston invites you to its 9th Annual Executive Leadership Summit and Career Fair titled “Advancing Latino Leadership within Corporate and Community.” This year’s Summit will engage prominent business, political and civic leaders to discuss the opportunities and obstacles for the growing Latino community and how we can begin to address both through corporate and civic leadership and representation.
The Summit will include four concurrent themed tracks that will focus on how Latinos can
impact the areas of business and political leadership, media influence, education, and healthcare access.Amanda C. Peters
Career Development Specialist, Career Services
MIT Global Education & Career Development (GECD)
617-253-4733
acpeters@mit.edu * www.linkedin.com/in/acpeters
Sustainability@MIT http://ehs.mit.edu/site/sustainability
Hello ORC and ESD Grad Students!
With the blessings of the two ORC co-directors and the Director of ESD, we are announcing a student contest. We want MIT students to create more BLOSSOMS videos for high school math classes! Each winning submission will be rewarded with a prize of $1,000. There will be up to three winners. Submissions can be by individuals or by teams of two or more. We are especially interested in submissions that cover one of these topics: (a) Little's Law of Queueing (where Prof. Little has promised to make a cameo appearance!); (b) estimating orders of magnitudes of things that are not well defined (I am happy to provide an example to any of you who ask); and (3) "Systems." But we welcome submissions on any topic that is level-appropriate for a high school class.
Background: BLOSSOMS = Blended Learning Open Source Science Or Math Studies. http://blossoms.mit.edu . This is an international collaboration, creating a rich repository of Open Source video modules for high school STEM classes, worldwide (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
BLOSSOMS Goals: (1) promote critical thinking (moving away from rote memorization); (2) excite high school students about STEM careers and subject matter; (3) show application of math and science to every day life; (4) develop cross-cultural awareness and appreciation; (5) have some fun while doing all of this.
Some of you are familiar with posted BLOSSOMS modules made by MIT students. Examples from ORC and ESD students:
ORC: Karima Nigmatulina, http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/taking_walks_delivering_mail_introduction_graph_theory
ORC: Anna Teytelman (with Prof. Arnold Barnett), http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/bigger_better_look_selection_bias_all_around_us
ESD: Rhonda Jordan and Dan Livengood, http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/flaws_averages
ESD: Dan Sturtevant, http://blossoms.mit.edu/videos/lessons/building_cryptosystemsBLOSSOMS lessons follow a unique "Blended Learning" and "Teaching Duet" pedagogical model that we have derived (by trial and error!) over the past three years. Any submission must adhere to that pedagogical model. To aid in your decision, we have templates we can send to you that show you a step-by-step approach, leading from "Concept" of your BLOSSOMS module, to its "Architecture," to its "Pseudo-Script," to a "Story Board" (made with the help of a professional videographer), to actual videotaping. Attached is a Quick Guide that outlines the BLOSSOMS lesson development process.
Here is the proposed schedule of events:
- Wed. November 16: Expression of interest, where you send me an email indicating your intention to participate in the contest. Then I email you the templates and some related useful information. If there is a Team, then you identify members of the Team.
- Wed. December 7: Submission of the Concept template for your BLOSSOMS video module.
- Some date in IAP, exact date yet to be determined: Live contest in an MIT auditorium where you (and your team) act out the first two sessions of your video and you submit your proposed Architecture template for the entire video. Winners will be announced live at this event.
The winners must agree to move on to the development of a pseudo-script that must be approved prior to videotaping. The date of videotaping during the spring semester will be arranged to be convenient to your schedule.
Thanks for reading through this, and we hope to hear from you about your participation in this contest.
Best to all,
Dick Larson
Dear students, faculty and friends:
Please join us this Friday, November 4th, for our third CTL Distinguished Speaker Series event of the semester. Petra Todorovich, the director of America 2050, will be discussing international lessons for US Policy Makers on High Speed Rail.
Event details are below:
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Petra TodorovichTopic: High-Speed Rail - International Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011Location: W20-306, Twenty Chimneys
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTime: 12:45 pm – Complimentary lunch
1:00 pm – Lecture beginsMore information on the Speaker Series can be found at the CTL website: http://ctl.mit.edu/distinguished-speakers
We look forward to seeing you there!
Janet & Veronica
Abstract
High-speed rail has been adopted throughout the world, and is now being planned and developed in the United States. Over the past 50 years, U.S. transportation spending has heavily favored the development of interstate highway and aviation systems. In the meantime, countries such as China, Japan, Spain, France, and Germany have been investing in modern, high-speed rail systems to satisfy the travel demands of their current and future generations. As the United States embarks on the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program launched in 2009, it can learn from the experiences of other countries in planning, constructing, and operating high-speed rail.
International case studies suggest that high-speed rail could create significant transportation, economic, environmental, and safety benefits in American cities and regions. While it requires high, upfront investment, high-speed rail promotes economic growth by improving access to markets, bringing the cities within megaregions closer together. This boosts the productivity of knowledge workers, expands labor markets, and attracts new tourism and visitor spending. When planned thoughtfully with complementary investments in the public realm, high-speed rail can promote urban regeneration and attract commercial development, as shown in several European examples. High-speed rail also has greater operating energy efficiency than competing modes and takes up less land than highways.
The lecture will describe several funding strategies that have proven to be successful in other countries, and makes specific policy recommendations to better position the federal high-speed rail program for success.
Download the full report (PDF) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy website http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1948_High-Speed-Rail
Or get your free copy at the lecture!
–
Veronica Hannan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MCP/MST Dual Degree Candidate | 2013
e. vhannan@mit.edu | p. 504.912.6591
Dear ESS,
Our next research forum will be held next Wednesday, November 9, 12pm-1:00pm in E40-298. Please join us for lunch and a talk by current PhD student DJ Ramberg (details and upcoming talks below).
Please RSVP by next Monday (Nov 7) at 5pm.
Hope to see you there.
Best, Rebecca & Vivek
Wednesday,November 9, 12pm-1:00pm (E40-298)
Speaker: David J. Ramberg
Title: Sector-Specific General Equilibrium Effects of New Technologies in the Fossil Fuel Complex
Abstract: Congress continues to insist on funding specific energy technologies, despite evidence that market mechanisms produce less expensive outcomes. This is their prerogative. But almost all of the time, they make assessments based on the technology's expected effects in the sector in which it operates. This ignores potential cross-sectorial effects of new technologies. Fortunately, computable general equilibrium models account for the cross-sectorial (general equilibrium) effects. The problem here is that the reported outcomes are in overall dollar amounts and overall emissions effects. And since every model has different numbers for these, and since to laypeople these models are Black Boxes, the advice of CGE modelers is usually ignored because Congress doesn't know what number to believe. The solution is to actually trace the effects of new technology penetration over time and across sectors within the CGE model itself. This provides a narrative as to how the final numbers were calculated by the model. It also sheds insight on how changing the parameters of competition and complementarity across fossil fuel energy inputs (ubiquitous inputs in the economic system) changes how the system itself operates. These dynamics have not traditionally been well explored.
Bio: David "D.J." is a second-year ESD Ph.D. student and TPP '10 graduate. He is an old bastard who's boring because he has a wife and kid. A paper based on his Master's thesis, "The Weak Tie Between Oil and Natural Gas Prices", is set to be published early in 2012 by The Energy Journal. Please come rip up his dissertation proposal before the professors do it in January.
Upcoming Speakers
November 9, 12pm-1:00pm: DJ Ramberg
November 16, 12pm-1:00pm: Candace Brakewood
MONDAY, November 21, 12pm-1:00pm: Regina Clewlow (special day, as part of MIT Open House)
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Rebecca Saari
PhD Student in Engineering Systems
MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
E19-411-ST9
saarir@mit.edu
ESD students, please pass on and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come if you have the time!! This is a great opportunity to get involved in the science policy debate at a crucial time for science research funding.
WHAT: Filming a Video to Protect Federal Science Funding
WHEN: Friday Morning, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm (drop by any time in that window)
WHERE: West Lobby of Building 66 (the Chemical Engineering Lobby)
WHY: To mobilize half a million science and engineering graduate students to speak out for science and engineering investment; and because there will be donuts.
MORE DETAILS:
All right, scientists, engineers, and policy wonks, here's the skinny: the federal government is tightening it's belt, and long-term investments like funding for science and engineering are in serious jeopardy. A lot of folks have voiced their opinion on this, arguing that science and engineering research lead to innovative technologies, economic growth, and provide for the training of graduate students who then go on to contribute their skills and innovations to a wide variety of occupations. However, one voice that has been noticably quiet is that of graduate students themselves. We're trying to change that.
We've written an open letter to congress, and we're going to post it online so that as many science and engineering graduate students as possible can sign it. But graduate students aren't gonna sign it if they don't see it; that means we need people to spread the word. One way we're doing that is this video. The video will feature dozens of graduate students (one of whom could be you), conveying the message of the letter; also, to put a human face on science and engineering, we're having graduate students talk on camera about what they do or what they plan to do, giving microblurbs on their research. To keep length down, students are describing their research/plans in about 5 seconds or less; examples are "I use nanoparticles to target chemotherapy to tumors," or "When I graduate, I will found a startup to commercialize new earthquake-proof I-beams."
If you can spare the time tomorrow, please come by between 10:30 and 12:30; this is a big issue with a lot of long-term implications, and decision are being made very fast. With over half a million science and engineering graduate students and post-docs in this country, we've got a voice that can be heard; but we've got use that voice, and we've got to use it NOW. If you've got any questions, e-mail ntwarog@mit.edu
Hi All,
MITEI is hosting Joe Aldy of KSG for a lecture this coming Tuesday, and you're invited to lunch with him! This will be an informal roundtable discussion with students, and lunch will be provided. We will be talking about energy investments and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and any other topics of interest. Please see below for Joe Aldy's bio and talk abstract, and lunch details! RSVP to me (lpier@mit.edu) by Monday 11/9 at noon so I can order food, and please feel free to forward this along to anyone interested. Hope to see you all there!
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 8
Time: 12-1p
Location: MITEI large conference room (E19-319)
Lunch: provided
Featured Guest: Dr. Joseph AldyLara
Talk at 4:15p on 11/8
Abstract
The Recovery Act invested more than $90 billion in clean energy and leveraged more than $100 billion in private capital for investments in manufacturing, power generation, and the residential and commercial building sectors to advance the deployment of energy efficiency, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, low-carbon fossil fuel, and other technologies. This talk will review the rationale, design, and implementation of the act's clean energy package, including a survey of policy principles for clean energy stimulus, a description of the process of crafting this package during the 2008-2009 Presidential transition, and identifying the key elements of the package.Aldy will also discuss the initial employment, economic activity, and energy outcomes associated with these energy investments and focus on the Recovery Act's support for renewable power through grants and loan guarantees.
About the speaker
Joe Aldy is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Nonresident Fellow at Resources for the Future, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also serves as the Faculty Chair for the Regulatory Policy Program at the HKS Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. His research focuses on climate change policy, energy policy, and mortality risk valuation. In 2009-2010, he served as the Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Environment, reporting through both the National Economic Council and the Office of Energy and Climate Change at the White House. Aldy was a Fellow at Resources for the Future from 2005 to 2008 and served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Co-Director of the International Energy Workshop, and Treasurer for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists before joining the Obama Administration. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University, a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment, and a BA from Duke University.
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As many of you may know, Thailand is currently struggling with the worst flood in history. It is estimated that more than 10 million people will be affected. So we need your help!
Thai students are currently setting up booths to collect donations from 11 am to 5 pm until this Friday at:
- Lobby 10
- Student Center
- Stata Center
And E62 lobby from 11:30am to 4:00 pm until this Thursday.
We'll also be serving Thai tea and giving out souvenirs, so please stop by.
For more information, please visit http://tsmit.scripts.mit.edu/flood/ (you can also donate online through this link)
Thank you for your kindness!
Atikhun Unahalekhaka
Dear Graduate Students,
Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) invites all graduate students to the 2011 GWAMIT Leadership Conference (November 7-10). Join us for any or all of our events!
When: November 7-10, 2011
Where: MIT campus
More info: leadership.gwamit.org
RSVP: http://bit.ly/gwamitrsvp
Contact: gwamit-leadership@mit.edu
Event Details:
Opening Keynote - "Unlock Your Leadership Potential"
Christine Furstoss will offer her insight about leadership potential and how to unlock it.
When: Monday, November 7th, 5-6 pm (with reception to follow)
Where: MIT, 32-155
How to Give a Scientific Talk *RSVP Required*
Learn how to create a comprehensive presentation and give a professional level talk.
When: Monday, November 7th, 10-11 am (breakfast served at 9:30 am)
Where: MIT, 68-181
Entrepreneurship Panel
Do you want to start your own business or lab? Learn what it takes to make it happen!
When: Tuesday, November 8th, 4:30-6 pm (with reception to follow)
Where: Whitehead Institute, Ground Floor Auditorium
Time and Stress Management Workshop ** RSVP Required**
Explore strategies for stress resilience and time management. Hands-on self-assessments followed by helpful instruction.
When: Wednesday, November 9th, 10-11:30 am (breakfast served at 9:30)
Where: MIT, 32D-463
Networking Workshop ** RSVP Required**
Gain skills in networking such as creating a good first impression, promoting your ideas effectively and more.
When: Wednesday, November 9th, 5-6 pm (with reception to follow)
Where: MIT, 32D-463
Networking Reception
Practice your networking skills in this reception with invited industry and academic professionals.
When: Wednesday, November 9th, 6-7 pm
Where: MIT, Stata R&D Dining Area (4th floor)
Closing Keynote Address: "From Unlocked to Unleashed: Leadership in Your Life"
You know the "keys to success", so now what? Lila Ibrahim will provide insight into practical strategies to integrate leadership into your daily life.
When: Thursday, November 10th, 10-11 am (breakfast served at 9:30 am)
Where: Whitehead Institute, Ground Floor Auditorium
For More Information: leadership.gwamit.org and RSVP at: http://bit.ly/gwamitrsvp
Events Sponsored by: GWAMIT, GSC, ODGE GSLG, MIT Division of Student Life, MIT School of Science, MIT School of Engineering, Lemelson-MIT, and GE.