The Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) applies insights from systems engineering and climate systems science to study technologies that might reduce the risks of accumulated greenhouse gases. The talks, given by Profs. David Keith, Tiffany Shaw, and B. B. Cael, and potentially others from the institute, will serve as a primer on what’s possible in this emerging field and what kinds of policy and research are needed to pursue these tools.
Sponsored by the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Arthur Holly Compton Lectures honor the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who led the pioneering 1942 UChicago experiment that produced the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction. The series has been running since 1976 in order to make accessible the remarkable recent developments in physical science to the public. Videos from past lectures are available at the Enrico Fermi Institute site.
The free talks are located at the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Avenue, in room 106. Learn more here.