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	EDF Workshop 2011

HOMEPAGE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
Library Room, Italian Academy
8:00-8:30 am	Reflection Time and Coffee
8:30-9:30 am	Energy and Carbon Markets
9:30-10.30 am	Introduction to Climate Science
10:30-10:45 am	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 am	Geoengineering and Carbon Storage and Sequestration
11:45-12:45 pm	Lunch
1:00-2:00 pm	Bus Trip to IBM
2:30-5:30 pm	Innovation - Intelligent Utilities
5:15-6:30 pm	Bus heading back to Manhattan


8:00-8:30 Reflection time and Coffee

8:30-9:30 am Energy and Carbon Markets Prof. Geoffrey Heal, Donal C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Professor of Finance & Economics Suggested Readings US Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Outlook 2011 with Projections to 2035 Presentation

9:30-10:30 am Climate Change: An overview of current progress Dr. Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies I will give an overview of work being done to support the next IPCC report (due in 2013), the role of model projections in the policy discussions and ways in which all stakeholder communities can more constructively process and assess the information being produced. I will particular focus on new results from Earth System Models that allow for the first time coherent and consistent assessments of impacts on specific emissions on multiple sectors - including climate change, but also including air pollution, agricultural output and public health. Suggested Readings UNEP Integrated assessment report on Black carbon and Tropospheric Ozone (Summary) Wrong but Useful, Physics World, Oct 2009 Presentation

10:30-10:45 am Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 am Geoengineering and Carbon Storage and Sequestration Prof. Klaus Lackner, Director of the Lenfest Center of Sustainable Energy, Columbia University Suggested Readings Lackner, Klaus, Capture of carbon dioxide from ambient air, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 176, 93-106, 2009 Lackner, Klaus, Washing carbon out of the air, Scientific American, p. 66-71, June 2010 Presentation

11:45-12:45 pm Lunch with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at CERI, Sciences Po

1:00-6:30 pm Visit to IBM Laboratories. IBM Research Headquarters 200 Aqueduct Road, Yorktown, New York Innovation - Intelligent Utilities, Interactive presentation and simulations with the IBM Energy and Utility Team Agenda, abstracts and speakers' bios Suggested Material IBM Intelligent Utilities Podcast
HOMEPAGE

Created in the fall 2002, the Alliance Program is a non-profit transatlantic joint-venture between Columbia University and three French prestigious institutions, The École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and the Université of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.

Alliance is an innovative program whose aim is to initiate and accompany new initiatives in the fields of education cooperation, research collaboration, and policy outreach. Over the last four years the Alliance’s scope of activities have included the organization of numerous academic conferences both in Paris and in New York, the setting up of international multidisciplinary research teams, and the creation of joint-courses and curricula targeting the students of its founding partners.