May 2013

The Alliance program at Columbia University will be celebrating “Do One Thing For Diversity” during its commencement ceremony, on May 22nd and 23rd.

Its global educational experience, through dual BA and dual Master programs, was recognized by the UN for giving the students the opportunity to immerse themselves in two distinct academic, social and cultural environments, in a positive and inclusive spirit.

May 22, 2013, Columbia University

Commencement Ceremony for Alliance Dual BA Students

Columbia University and Science Po offer a global undergraduate educational experience through their dual BA Program and give the students the opportunity to immerse themselves in two distinct academic, social, and cultural environments by spending two years within a close-knit small college in a French regional setting and two years in a research university in New York City. Every year, around 200 students benefit from a range of 20 international dual degrees and joint programs in all disciplines, including Art History, Curatorial studies, International Affairs, Sustainable Development, Journalism and Financial Engineering. Dual degree programs are offered to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from all over the world.

More information about the Commencement Ceremony can be found here.

May 23, 2013, Columbia University

Commencement Ceremony for SIPA Students

May 28, 2013, 12:30PM-2:30PM, Reid Hall Paris

"Capture du carbone dans l'air ambiant / Carbon capture in ambient air"

Une session du séminaire Développement durable et économie de l'environnement avec Klaus Lackner et Alain Goeppert

Les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, au premier rang desquels le CO2, ne cessent de croître. Il devient donc chaque jour moins probable que cette tendance s’infléchisse avant que la concentration des gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère ne dépasse ce que les climatologues considèrent comme compatible avec une probabilité raisonnable de maintenir l’augmentation de température moyenne en-dessous de 2°C. L’acidification des océans due à l’augmentation de la concentration du CO2 atmosphérique, amène en outre à formuler l’hypothèse que ce seuil déjà ambitieux s’avère lui-même trop élevé. Compte tenu de la persistance de ces gaz dans l’atmosphère, il se pourrait qu’il n’y ait finalement d’autre solution que d’aller les y rechercher.

For more information, please click here.

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

June 7, 2013, 12:30PM-1:30PM, Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, room H101

"The Comparative Advantage of Cities"

A public lecture with Donald Davis (Columbia University)

Donald Davis is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University.

June 18-26, 2013, Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, France

Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy 2013

The Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy will be held in Paris (location to be confirmed). The sessions will be held on the following days: from Tuesday the 18th of June to Wednesday the 26th of June 2013. The Alliance Program’s Science and Policy Summer School will facilitate this dialogue during a week-long workshop to be held at Sciences Po in Paris or at Columbia University, building upon the successes of the first Summer School held in Paris last June. World-class professors and industry experts will be invited to lecture on global problems facing the scientific and policy communities and to engage students in discussion. About 30 graduate students from Columbia University, Sciences Po, École Polytechnique and Université Paris-I are expected to participate.

Application Deadline: May 17th, 2013.

For more information, please click here.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)at Sciences Po and the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

September 9-20, 2013, Ecole Polytechnique campus

Summer School on Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment

The summer school is designed for PhD students and those in early stages of their research career.

The residential school, held over two weeks, will consist of:

Lecture courses
Pedagogical courses covering the fluid dynamics relevant to sustainability and the environment (including: Fundamentals of fluid mechanics, Flow instabilities, Environmental fluid dynamics & cryosphere, Atmosphere & ocean)

Guest lectures
Advanced topics (including: Climate change and IPCC, Fluid-structure interactions, Fluvial and maritime renewable energy)

Laboratory experiments
Project-based investigations of fluid flows

Computational projects
Numerical simulations of fluid flows

Lecturers
Paul Linden, Jean-Marc Chomaz, Riwal Plougonven, Vladimir Zeitlin, Colm Caulfield, Grae Worster, Peter Haynes, John Taylor, Alexandre Stegner, Caroline Muller, Paul Billant, Lutz Lesshafft, Emmanuel De Langre, Herve Le Treut

Full board and lodging will be provided on the campus of Ecole Polytechnique, in the Paris area. The cost for the school and lodging is € 2000. Bursaries may be available and should be requested with the application.

To apply please send a CV and two academic references to summerschool@ladhyx.polytechnique.fr before March 16, 2013.

Successful applicants will be informed by April 16, 2013.

Co-sponsored by the Ecole Polytechnique, the University of Cambridge, and the Alliance Program at Columbia University.

May 1 2013, Columbia University

Philippe Boutry at Columbia University

Philippe Boutry is the president of Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is also a professor in the Panthéon-Sorbonne University Department of History.

May 2013, Columbia University

Alain Dieckhoff at Columbia University

Alain Dieckhoff is Head of The Political Science Department of Sciences Po. He holds degrees from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and a Ph.D. in political sociology from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. He is a member of the editorial boards of Politique et sociétés, Maghreb-Machrek, Questions internationales and Israel Studies. In addition to his main research areas, which focus on politics, contemporary society and transformations of the state in Israel, he also works on the transformation of contemporary nationalism. His latest book is titled the "Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel" (2013).

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Claude Henry at Columbia University

Claude Henry is a physicist (quantum mechanics) turned economist. He has taught public economics and environment economics at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and at Lausanne University; he has written articles and books on these subjects. He is currently teaching on innovation and sustainable development at Sciences-Po Paris. From 1997 to 2002, he was adviser to the Prime Minister of France on matters pertaining to public utilities and environmental policies; he is currently an adviser to the Director of the European Environmental Agency.

He is teaching a course called "Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Goals", offered in collaboration with the Scool of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Eduardo Perez at Columbia University

Eduardo Perez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique. He specializes in Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Information Economics, and Political Economics. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Ecole Polytechnique (X99) in Paris and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

He is teaching a class on Game Theory at Columbia University during the 2013 Spring Semester.

For more information, please visit http://eduardo.perez.free.fr/

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Renaud Le Goix at Columbia University

Renaud Le Goix is an Associate Professor of Geography at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is an Alliance Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology of Columbia University for Spring 2013. He will be teaching a course called "Fragmented Suburbanism" at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

His main research interest includes spatial analysis, urban studies, social geography.

For more information, please click here

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Elise Huillery at Columbia University

Elise Huillery joined the Department of Economics at Sciences Po in 2009. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics, an MA in Management from HEC and a MA in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Her research is mainly focused on development economics and economic history. She has done research on colonial history, inequality and development in West Africa. She joined J-PAL in 2008 and is currently conducting field experiments in health, education and micro-entrepreuneurship in Niger, Morocco, Cameroun, Congo, Romania, Burkina Faso and France.

She is teaching a course called "Economic Development" during the 2013 Spring Semester, an advanced economics course in the department of Economics.

For more information, please visit http://econ.sciences-po.fr/elise-huillery

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Marie Pierre Rey at Columbia University

Marie Pierre Rey is a professor of Russian and Soviet History at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, where she is also the director of the Slavic Research Center. She has authored various books in her field, of which her most recent is L’effroyable tragédie, une nouvelle histoire de la campagne de Russie.

For more information, please visit http://irice.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article120

2013 Spring Semester, Columbia University

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo at Columbia University

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo is a distinguished specialist in international law, and a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law and the President of the American Society of Private International Law. After graduating from the National University of the Littoral (Santa Fe, Argentina) and from the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain) which awarded him a lawyer’s degree and a PhD in Law (summa cum laude), Diego P. Fernández Arroyo taught private international law, international commercial law and community law in prestigious institutions as a Full Professor (Professor at the University Complutense of Madrid, and Honorary Professor at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina since 2000), and Visiting Professor (University of Panthéon – Assas Paris 2, the Hague Academy of International Law, the Central University of Venezuela, the University of Montevideo, the University of Ottawa, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, UC Davis, the Ibero-American University of Mexico, the University of Freiburg, etc.).

For more information, please visit http://master.sciences-po.fr/droit/en/content/diego-p-fern-ndez-arroyo

Course: Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Goals

Spring 2013

It has become vital (because of mass poverty, climate change,biodiversity rapid erosion,water and food crisis,...), to shift to a more sustainable form of development. This will require effectively mobilizing all resources of human societies:scientific and technical resources, as well as behavioral and institutional moving forces. None may be neglected,and the way they are articulated will be decisive.

Claude Henry is a physicist (quantum mechanics) turned economist. He has taught public economics and environment economics at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and at Lausanne University; he has written articles and books on these subjects. He is currently teaching on innovation and sustainable development at Sciences-Po Paris. From 1997 to 2002, he was adviser to the Prime Minister of France on matters pertaining to public utilities and environmental policies; he is currently an adviser to the Director of the European Environmental Agency.

Course: Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today

Spring 2013

An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether selfdescribed as liberals or as leftists. What should they propose, now that they no longer believe in the usefulness of governmental direction of the economy or in the sufficiency of redistributive social programs? A basic concern is the relation of programmatic thought to the understanding of change and constraint. The course will draw on many disciplines and consider examples from many settings. It will try to develop ways of thinking as well as proposals for change. Readings from classic and contemporary social and political theory. For 2011-2012, a major theme will be innovation, education, capabilities, and creativity and the policies and institutions that their development requires.

Joint lecture by Jeffrey Sachs and Laurence Tubiana.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as director of the Center for International Development. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at Harvard University.

Laurence Tubiana is founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris. She follows and participates in the international negotiations on climate change, in which IDDRI is highly involved. She is also professor and director of the Sustainable Development Center at Sciences Po Paris. Laurence Tubiana studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and holds a PhD in economics.

Course: Political Economy of Energy and Climate Change Policies

Spring 2013

This course will present the challenges attached to the transition towards low carbon economies. Based on empirical data and experience, a discussion of the different policy instruments is proposed, along with an analysis of key stakeholder strategies. Specific attention will be given to the specificity of different contexts (developed, emerging and developing countries) and economic sectors in evaluating the efficiency and the effectiveness of alternative policy design in driving technological, economic and societal change. We will then explore the difficulty to build collective action at the global level, by revisiting the most significant moments in the history of negotiation, and discuss possible avenues forward.

Laurence Tubiana is founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris. She follows and participates in the international negotiations on climate change, in which IDDRI is highly involved. She is also professor and director of the Sustainable Development Center at Sciences Po Paris. Laurence Tubiana studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and holds a PhD in economics.

Italian Academy, Columbia University

EDF-Alliance Executive Workshop 2012

The program for this event, hosted by the Alliance Program, features an exceptional array of talks by world-renowned professionals and academics. Leading experts in the fields of Economics, Environmental Law, Engineering, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Climatology and Computer Science will discuss the most pressing issues in the contemporary global socio-economic landscape. Special emphasis will be given to the current affairs in the United States.

The program for this event has been designed for The Alliance Program by Dr. Marta Vicarelli, Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale University Climate and Energy Institute.

The website for the 2012 conference is available here.

Videos and a complete list of the topics covered in the 2011 workshop is available here.