MIT goes to Copenhagen
MIT professors, students and alumni have joined representatives from nearly 200 nations at the international U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where they will present research, collaborate with other schools on climate change projects and report live from the event.Four professors and four alumni are scheduled to present research on innovations in their respective fields, and two students are live-blogging from the event. Another student is attending with the support of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and will take part in a student-led collaborative project on climate change. On Dec. 11, John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor in Computer Science at the Sloan School of Management and delegation leader for the MIT group in Copenhagen, will speak about C-ROADS (Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support), a computer simulation program that emerged from research at MIT. The simulation model can quickly calculate the climate impacts from mitigation proposals that are...