EVENTS ARCHIVE
Plug-in Electric Vehicles and the Power System
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 1, 2008
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Juha Kiviluoma, ETIP Research Fellow
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Environment and Natural Resources, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Plug-in electric vehicles hold great promise for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from personal vehicles. Kiviluoma will address the question: How will increased electricity demand related to growth in plug-in electric vehicles affect the power system from infrastructural and environmental perspectives?
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis.
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Withdrawing Under Fire: How to More Effectively Withdraw from Islamist Insurgencies
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 3, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Joshua Gleis, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Related Project: International Security
The presentation will examine past withdrawals by states from counterinsurgency operations conducted against Islamist organizations, in order to better understand how to more effectively withdraw from such insurgencies in the future. It will explore in particular the cases of the Israeli withdrawals from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and Southern Lebanon in 2000, as well as provide an overview of the (first) British withdrawal from Iraq, French withdrawal from Algeria, Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, and U.S. withdrawal from Somalia.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
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African Adventure? An Assessment of the EU's Military Intervention in Chad and the Central African Republic
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
April 7, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bjoern Seibert, MALD Candidate, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Related Project: International Security
The Darfur crisis is increasingly resonating beyond Sudan’s borders. Inextricably linked with its neighbors’ Chad and Central African Republic’s domestic insurgencies, the crisis has led to widespread regional instability and human suffering. Incapable of addressing the Darfur crisis directly, the EU has decided to intervene on the margins of Darfur.
The presentation will give a timely overview of what will likely be the EU’s most complex operation to date, highlighting its key challenges and discussing the most recent developments on the ground.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
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Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: The Effects of Nuclear Proliferation
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 8, 2008
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Matthew Kroenig
Related Projects: Managing the Atom, International Security, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Managing the Atom and International Security Fellow Matthew Kroenig will present "Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: The Effects of Nuclear Proliferation" on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 in the Belfer Center Library, beginning at 9:30 am.
Let's Get Serious about Climate Change Policy: What's Really Achievable at What Cost?
Luncheon
RSVP required - Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
April 8, 2008
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: William A. Pizer, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy and Natural Resources, Resources for the Future
Related Project: Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Center for the Environment and Harvard Environmental Economics Program.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP to rpp@ksg.harvard.edu.
GLOBAL WARMING HEATS UP: Media Coverage of Climate Change
Director's Luncheon
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 9, 2008
12:15-1:45 p.m. - Presentation and Discussion
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Lunch with Cristine Russell on Wednesday, April 9th in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
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Disabling and Decommissioning North Korean Nuclear Facilities
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 10, 2008
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Hui Zhang
Related Projects: Managing the Atom, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, International Security
Hui Zhang will present a seminar entitled "Disabling and Decommissioning North Korean Nuclear Facilities" on April 10, at 9:30am in the Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369.
Organizing Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment: Returns to Scale for the Coupled Technological System
Seminar
Open to the Public - KSG - Taubman 401
April 10, 2008
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Environment and Natural Resources
Jeff will present his work-in-progress on understanding the returns to scale for CCS deployment. The talk will introduce an innovation in geospatial optimization methodology for infrastructure planning and deployment, the interaction of the returns to scale for each technological component of the CCS system and how they couple together to determine the returns to scale for the entire system, and a number of policy relevant questions such as the choice of where within a potential storage basin to focus on site-specific reservoir characterization, where to locate injection sites, and where to place trunk distribution pipelines.
Lunch will be served.
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Territorial Conflict and Ethnic Cleansing
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 10, 2008
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: H. Zeynep Bulutgil, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program
Related Project: International Security
Why do states or state-like actors choose some groups as targets of ethnic cleansing but not others? Why do patterns of violence within the same ethnic cleansing episode vary across micro-units such as villages?
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
Leaderless Jihad: Radicalization in the West
Director's Seminar
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
April 10, 2008
4:15-5:15 p.m. - Presentation and Discussion
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs & Islam in the West Program will host a Directors' Seminar with Marc Sageman on Thursday April 10th in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
