Events

Decision 2020: Creating the Landscape for Our Energy Future - April 2nd & 3rd

Explore the energy decisions being made today that are set to deliver the greatest impact in the next five to ten years. Industry experts will come and discuss the critical determining factors behind our energy future - i

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2019-2020 MIT Climate Action Symposia Series

The fifth of MIT's six Climate Action Symposia, MIT Climate Initiatives and the Role of Research Universities, will be held on Thursday, April 2, 2020.

The Climate Action Symposia series aims to advance our community’s understanding and expand our capac

DUSP is pleased to host the second annual meeting of the Judith Tendler Network. The meeting aims to reunite Judith Tendler's students and colleagues. It will be held at MIT on Friday, April 3, 2020. The Network was created by Judith’s ex-students and the first meeting was held at NYU last year. At

2019-2020 MIT Climate Action Symposia Series

The last of MIT's six Climate Action Symposia, Summing Up: Why is the World Waiting?, will be held on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

The Climate Action Symposia series aims to advance our community’s understanding and expand our capacity to generate solutio

Warning systems play a crucial role in disaster events on islands, some of the most vulnerable places in the world. They enable timely communication of risk, bolstering capacity and counterbalancing the negative force exerted by hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities that threaten island communitie

Carlos Nobre, Brazil’s leading expert on the Amazon and climate change, discusses the Amazon forest fires and the impact of both local and global politics in the fight to save our planet.

About the speaker:
Carlos Nobre chairs the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Scientific Commit

MIT's Plan for Action on Climate Change is turning five years old in 2020, and the senior leadership of the Institute expects to issue an updated plan this fall. Help make the new plan as strong as it can be! At this all-day hackathon, students will dive into the different sections of the plan and i

Discover how emerging innovations intersect with supply chain management. Crossroads is a one-day annual event offering a unique learning opportunity for participants. The event connects experts from MIT, the world’s foremost center for technological innovation with the MIT Center for Transportation

Organized by Gabriella Carolini, Jason Jackson, and DUSP’s UrbanAfrica group, The African Urbanisms Workshop will be hosted on May 14 and 15th. It will be a high-level workshop featuring African leadership and mayors from Freetown, Accra, Kigali, and Addis Ababa around the theme of "making tacit kno