William Leeds presents. 

This presentation shows how legislators’ communication with constituents matters for representation in American politics and how computational tools can be used to examine previously difficult to study questions in politics. 

In their research, Ingmar Ritzenhofen and her colleagues investigate the impact of these support schemes on the three main goals of electricity policies: security of supply, cost efficiency and sustainability.

Join experts from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, including the former chief data and information officer for the City of Chicago and the former chief scientist at Obama for America’s 2012 Campaign, to learn how scientists are collaborating with educators, architects, and government officials to develop analytical tools and computer models that can improve quality of life for residents of Chicago and metropolises worldwide.

Michael Glotter will be presenting, "Evaluating the Utility of Regional Climate Models in Agricultural Impacts Projections."

Meredith Fowlie will present her paper "Market-based emissions regulation when damages vary across sources: What are the gains from differentiation?" in this seminar.

Graduate students are invited to an informal lunch with Patricia M. Dehmer, Deputy Director for Science Programs in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

Patricia M. Dehmer is the Deputy Director for Science Programs in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In this capacity, she is the senior career science official in the Office of Science, the third largest federal sponsor of basic research in the United States and the primary supporter of the physical sciences in the U.S.

Jim Sallee, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Harris School of Public Policy (University of Chicago), will present a lecture titled "The Perverse Consequences of Energy Efficiency Standards: the Case of Japanese Fuel Economy."

We will be discussing the IPCC Assessment Report 5 Working Group I Summary for Policy Makers.

Dr. Matthew Kahn is Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy. "Blue Skies in China" will focus on a variety of questions for urban growth in China.

We will be giving updates on our research and projects and discussing problems we are facing in our work. 

Olivier Deschenes, associate professor of economics at the University of California Santa Barbara, will speak on the topic "Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century." 

Rob Gardner, manager of the Economics & Energy Division of the Corporate Strategic Planning Department for the ExxonMobil Corporation, will speak about the company's Outlook for Energy: a view to 2040.

An afternoon discussion of fracking and its environmental impacts kicks off a year-long series of events on Global Energies.

We will be reviewing what we discussed in our All Hands Meeting last week.

Learn how the first C-Suite Science function in a major corporation is harnessing internal & external data to augment the art of decision-making with science.

Pathways to Sustainable Food and Climate Futures: high-resolution multi-model assessments of climate change and extreme weather impacts to agriculture. presented by Joshua Elliott