Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration
Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration: The Potential of ...
About the Presentation The state of Hawai'i plans to obtain 40% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030. Balancing intermittent wind with fossil fuel plants can be expensive, slowing adoption. A social and technical infrastructure for temporary reductions in ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of climate change on ...
A Masters student in the Technology and Policy Program, Megan Lickley studies the impact of climate change on coastal energy infrastructure. In particular, she is looking at how sea level rise and hurricanes will change over time, and how these changes will affect ...
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
03/15/2011 4:00 PM 3"270Daniela Rus, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Director of CSAIL; Description: Some professors work primarily in labs, and others mainly at desks. Daniela Rus conducts her research on the bustling streets of Singapore, ...
Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
01/27/2011 1:15 PM KresgeRicardo Caballero, PhD '88, Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT; Pedro Aspe, PhD '78, Co"Chairman, Evercore Partners and Chairman and CEO, Protego; Olivier Blanchard, PhD '77, Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, MIT and ...
Toward Efficient Airport Operations
Toward Efficient Airport Operations
10/26/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Hamsa Balakrishnan, Asst Professor, Aero Astro and Engineering SystemsDescription: Few of us would elect to spend countless hours at the airport watching planes arrive, depart and sit at gates. But what constitutes a punishment for some actually energizes Hamsa ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's ...
10/07/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Dr. Charles C"Y Zhang, Ph.D. 94, Founder, Chairman CEO SOHU.COMDescription: Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China's economic surge than Charles C"Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials ...
03/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D. '02, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringDescription: Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
03/01/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEugene J. Huang, Government Operations Director, National Broadband Task Force, Federal Communications CommissionDescription: The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory ...
Leading through Adversity
Leading through Adversity
02/18/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPaul Sagan, President & CEO, Akamai TechnologiesDescription: Few companies have endured such hardship, or risen to such heights in a brief span of time as Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagantells how he became the CEO of this young firm, and helped it survive ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the ...
10/20/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Frederick P. Salvucci, '61, SM '62, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MITDescription: Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected ...
Improving Your Commute
Improving Your Commute
Hari Balakrishnan describes three challenges that need to be met in using data to help commuters-pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers-reduce the time (and fuel) spent stuck in traffic.
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
09/09/2009 11:00 AM Bartos theaterDr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning CommissionDescription: People sometimes ask Montek Singh Ahluwalia questions loaded with "aspirational objectives," such as when India will "get rid of poverty." Few are as ...
Catalytic Cracking
Catalytic Cracking
Associate Media Lab Director Andy Lippman challenges us to recognize common flaws plaguing all our institutions as a first step toward meaningful redesign.
Looking Ahead to 2020
Looking Ahead to 2020
06/16/2009 11:00 AM Wong AuditoriumWilliam Rouse, SM '70, PhD '72, Executive Director, The Tennenbaum Institute, ; Georgia Institute of Technology ; ; Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, National Academies; Joel Moses, PhD '67, MIT Institute Professor; ...
MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
06/16/2009 9:15 AM Wong AuditoriumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Yossi Sheffi, SM '77, PhD '78, Director, Engineering Systems Division, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Director, MIT Center for Transportation and ...
Opening Remarks and Keynote: Grand Challenges and ...
Opening Remarks and Keynote: Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: ...
06/15/2009 8:30 AM Wong AuditoriumJoel Moses, PhD '67, MIT Institute Professor; Daniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems ; Charles M. Vest, HM, MIT President Emeritus and President, National Academy of ...