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Thursday 5/1/2008

-- Cambridge Science Festival
([Various]) The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science and technology. A multifaceted, ...
Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home...
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10:00a Applied Mathematics Seminar
(Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Deconstructing the solar interior: waves and their interactions" with S. Hanasoge, Stanford University. Direct observation of the solar subsurface is impossible due to the high degre...
Contact: (617) 495-1508
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12:30p Managing Global Energy and Environmental Problems
(Bowie-Vernon Room, CGIS, N-262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA) A panel discussion with Reiko Nakamura, GRIPS; Eiichiro Fujii, Tokyo Gas Company; and Naoki Kobayashi. Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs/Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.
Contact: (617) 495-1890, www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
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4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Chris Amemiya, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle. Title: TBA. Hosted by the Edwards Lab.
Contact: Deborah Smiley, (617) 384-5062
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4:00p - 5:00p Climate Seminar
(Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Thoughts on climate sensitivity" with speaker Isaac Held, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University Place: Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford St....
Contact: Sarah Colgan, colgan@eps.harvard.edu, 617-496-9770, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
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4:00p - 5:00p ETIP Occasional Speaker Series
(Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Impact of Non-Enforcement of US Mining Laws on Future CCS Regulations" with speaker Burt Lauderdale, Executive Director of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC). KFTC is a 26 year o...
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, (617) 496-5584, www.belfercenter.org/subscribe.html
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Friday 5/2/2008

-- Cambridge Science Festival
([Various]) The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science and technology. A multifaceted, ...
Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home...
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11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Tom Kunz â€“ Boston University. "Aeroecology: probing and modeling the Aerosphere"
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
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12:00p - 2:00p Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Malkin Penthouse, Littauer, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Mexican Oil: Its Future in an Era of $100+ Prices" with Dr. Jesus Reyes Heroles, CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). Dr. Reyes Heroles will be speaking about the energy outlook in Me...
Contact: huma0708@gmail.com, 617-496-5584
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1:00p - 2:00p IOP Workshop with David Zwick
(IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) "The Right Toolbox: Effective Advocacy Tactics for Causes of All Stripes" Miss IOP fellow David Zwick's awe-inspiring study group already? Weren't able to make it before? Your prayers...
Contact: Jennifer McKee, jmckee@fas.harvard.edu
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Saturday 5/3/2008

-- Cambridge Science Festival
([Various]) The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science and technology. A multifaceted, ...
Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home...
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Sunday 5/4/2008

-- Cambridge Science Festival
([Various]) The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science and technology. A multifaceted, ...
Contact: www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home...
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9:00a SBGrid 'Quo Vadis Structural Biology?' Symposium
(Longwood Medical Area) Throughout this interactive, 2-day symposium, speakers from Harvard University and outside will present their work, plus 2 tracks of hands-on workshops focused on structural biology computing will ...
Contact: Meg Bentley, Ph.D., meg_bentley@hms.harvard.edu, 617-432-6698, cmcd.med.harvard.edu/activities/confe...
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2:00p HMNH: Sunday Afternoon Family Program
(HMNH, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Discovering the World Around Us: Biodiversity and Climate Change" with Marie Studer. Join Marie Studer, Education and Outreach Director for the Encyclopedia of Life Project, to talk...
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/...
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Monday 5/5/2008

9:00a SBGrid 'Quo Vadis Structural Biology?' Symposium
(Longwood Medical Area) Throughout this interactive, 2-day symposium, speakers from Harvard University and outside will present their work, plus 2 tracks of hands-on workshops focused on structural biology computing will ...
Contact: Meg Bentley, Ph.D., meg_bentley@hms.harvard.edu, 617-432-6698, cmcd.med.harvard.edu/activities/confe...
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12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
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3:30p EPS Closing Spring Colloquium **New Time**
(Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Snowball Earth, in science and fiction" with Paul Hoffman, Harvard EPS. Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman.
Contact: Katrina Hirsig, khirsig@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-3637, www.eps.harvard.edu
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5:00p Future of Energy
(Science Center C, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Sustainable Mobility: An Automaker's Perspective on Transportation Energy & Climate Policy" with Susan M. Cischke, Senior Vice President, Ford Motor Company Sustainability, Environme...
Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, (617) 495-8883, www.environment.harvard.edu
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Tuesday 5/6/2008

9:30a - 11:00a Energy Policy Seminar Series
(Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Optimal Environmental Policy Under Economic Fluctuations:" Garth Heutel, HUCE Environmental Fellow. How should environmental policy respond to economic fluctuations? This paper answ...
Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund@harvard.edu, (617) 495-8693
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12:00p - 1:30p Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series
(Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Incentives for Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Multi-functional Landscapes: A pentagon of research questions for the World Agroforestry Centre" with Brent Swallow Principal Economist ...
Contact: maryanne_baumgartner@harvard.edu, www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci
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3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
(Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion.
Contact: Itay Halevy , ihalevy@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars...
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4:00p Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar
(One Brattle Square, Suite 6, Room 616, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) "Understanding Baseball Team Standings and Streaks" presented by Prof. Sidney Redner, Physics Department, Boston University (http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/) Can one understand the stat...
Contact: Jordan M. Bice, bice@fas.harvard.edu, 617.496.4737 , www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
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Wednesday 5/7/2008

4:00p - 5:00p End of Year Student Reception
(Taubman Rotunda, Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) Sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Please join us! All Welcome
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Thursday 5/8/2008

9:00a - 5:00p 4th Annual Plant Biology Symposium
(Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA) "Phylogeny Informs Biology: Seeing the Forest from the Trees" The 4th Annual Plant Biology Symposium at Harvard is aimed at highlighting the exciting ways in which phylogenies are bei...
Contact: Heather Ehlers, hehlers@oeb.harvard.edu, www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm
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12:00p - 1:30p India's increasing energy requirements: Possible global implications
(Building 36 (Rm.155), MIT, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: E.A.S. SARMA, Former Power Secretary, Government of India. Mr. Sarma will discuss energy development scenarios for India and their strategic implications for both India's economic grow...
Contact: Subrata Ghoshroy , ghoshroy@mit.edu, (617) 253-3846
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3:00p EPS Special Lecture
(Birch Seminar Room, Hoffman 129, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Promises and Problems of Modern U-Pb Chronometry and Meteorites" with speaker Yuri Amelin, visiting guest from Australia National University
Contact: Katrina Hirsig, khirsig@fas.harvard.edu, www.eps.harvard.edu
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4:00p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "One Country, Two Systems, One Environment: Environmental Cooperation Between Hong Kong and Guangdong" with Prof. Yok-Shiu F. LEE, Department of Geography, Hong Kong University, and Prof....
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378 , chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200...
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4:00p OEB Seminar
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "Neuromechanics of ballistic movements" with speaker Kiisa Nishikawa, Northern Arizona University. Host: Biewener Lab All are welcome to attend.
Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.5891
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6:00p - 7:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
(HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Daughter Cell Separation Anxiety and Other Tales of Envelope Distress" with Thomas Bernhardt, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School. Host: Roberto Kolter (M...
Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
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Friday 5/9/2008

11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Alan Covich â€“ University of Georgia. "Ecosystem services in tropical streams: the uncertain role of biodiversity"
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
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8:15p - 7:00p Materials and Structures for Energy
(Maxwell/Dworkin Lessin Room, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Industry Outreach Workshop. How advances in materials science and devices can address current energy needs. Registration required (no fee): www.se...
Contact: Jennifer Casasanto, j_casasanto@seas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/partnerships/ene...
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Saturday 5/10/2008

9:00a - 4:00p Global Climate Change Youth Summit
(MIT, Building 34, Cambridge, MA) Youth CANâ€™s interest in hosting a Global Climate Change Summit is to inform ourselves and others about global warming; to create opportunities to foster activism; and to build a c...
Contact: www.blsyouthcan.org/Current_Global_Cl...
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Monday 5/12/2008

12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
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Tuesday 5/13/2008

9:00a - 11:00a Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar
(Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) "What Next after Privatization of Maasai Group Ranches? Early Results of Focus Group Discussions" with Esther Mwangi, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and Zi...
Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner, maryanne_baumgartner@harvard.edu, 617-496-7466, www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci/events/se...
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9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
(Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Perceptions of and Discourse on Emerging Energy Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Comparative State-level Media Analysis" with speaker Jennie Stephens, ETIP Research Associate.
Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org
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4:00p The Horblit Colloquia Series Capstone Lecture
(Science Center E, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Featuring Martin J. S. Rudwick, Emeritus Professor of the History, UC San Diego Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University "4004B.C...
Contact: www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/news.html
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Wednesday 5/14/2008

4:00p Origins of Life Initiative Forum
(Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "Symbiogenesis and Gaia: Evolution of the Living Earth" with speaker Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Contact: origins.harvard.edu
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Thursday 5/15/2008

4:00p Center for Astrophysics Colloquium
(Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture: Exoplanets : The Road to Earth Twins" with speaker Michel Mayor (University of Geneva). In the last thirteen years, about 300 exoplanets have been ...
Contact: Elizabeth Hennessey, ehennessey@cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-1490, obswww.unige.ch/~udry/planet/planet.html
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4:00p China Project Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Regulatory Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China" with Prof. Carlos Wing-Hung LO, Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Co-sponsored b...
Contact: Chris Nielsen , nielsen2@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-2378, chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200...
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7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights
(Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Comets: Solar System Messengers," with Daniel Green, Center for Astrophysics. Comets have awed mankind throughout recorded history, suddenly appearing as blazing apparitions in our skies...
Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html
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Friday 5/16/2008

11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series
(Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) Speaker: Jeffrey Parrish, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. "Tearing down the ivory tower: closing the knowing-doing gap and turning science into action"
Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc...
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4:00p Costa Rica: Carbon Neutrality Challenge
(Lessin Auditorium, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) A special presentation by Roberto Dobles, Minister of the Environment and Energy, Costa Rica. Reception to follow. Costa Rica President Oscar Arias has declared a national goal of making Costa Rica...
Contact: Jenn Goodman, jenn_goodman@harvard.edu, (617) 495-3039
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Monday 5/19/2008

12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion.
Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
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5:30p Trends in Clean Energy for Massachusetts
(Lincoln Laboratory Cafeteria, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA) Speaker: Dr. Warren Leon, Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust. Part of the Society on Social Implications of Technology series. What are the prospects for implementing clean ener...
Contact: j.ernstmeyer@worldnet.att.net, (781) 929-8114, www.ieeeboston.org
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Wednesday 5/21/2008

6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Series
(Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Bats in Peril: Why Disease is Decimating Bat Colonies around New England" lecture by Tom French, Massachusetts Division of Wildlife and Fisheries. In recent months, over a quarter mil...
Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_spe...
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Thursday 5/22/2008

9:45a Northeast Energy Efficiency Summitt
(Hartford Marriott Downtown, Hartford, CT) "Clean, Lean and Green Growth" focused on the business and policy issues that impact energy efficiency adoption and implementation. Students who attend will have an opportunity to: ...
Contact: Bethany Vasecka , bvasecka@neep.org, 781-860-9177 ext. 13. , www.neep.org/conference/2008/index.html
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Friday 5/23/2008

11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) "A Two-Step Approach for Combining GPS and Seismic Data in Kinematic Inversions" with Susana Custodio, Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
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12:00p Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
(Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Lightning NOx Production Observed in Tropical and Subtropical Thunderstorms During TROCCINOX and SCOUT" with Heidi Huntrieser, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre. Host: Lee Mur...
Contact: Brenda Mathieu, bmathieu@seas.harvard.edu , www-as.harvard.edu/seminar.html
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Tuesday 5/27/2008

11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
(Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Finite Volume Methods for Elastodynamic Problems, with Application to the Study of Remarkably Strong Tremor Episodes Heralding the Onset of the Current Eruption at Mount St. Helens, Washingt...
Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM...
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