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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar - Peter Adams: Bringing atmospheric chemical transport modeling into societal decision-making

Society faces the need to overhaul energy and transportation systems to meet climate change and other challenges. These decisions typically have very large “co-benefits” in terms of air…

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar - Douglas Dockery: Measuring the Health Benefits of Fine Particle Air Pollution Controls

Professor Dockery has studied the health effects of air pollution exposures in populations for over 35 years. Long-term follow-up studies have shown particulate air pollution is associated with…

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar - Anu Ramaswami: An Integrated Infrastructure-Systems Approach for Developing Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Cities in China, India & U.S.A.

Cities would not function without infrastructures (defined broadly) that provide water, energy, food, shelter, waste management, transportation/connectivity and public spaces to more than half the…

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ORIE Colloquium on 10/7/2014 - Bruce Turnbull: Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

There are currently over 33,000 clinical trials being conducted worldwide according to the registry clinicaltrial.gov. These are very expensive, often costing tens or even hundreds of millions of…

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar on 10/24/2014 - Ian Parry: Energy Price Reform: A Guide for Policymakers

This talk will discuss (based on a recent IMF study) how developed and developing countries alike might put into practice the principle of ‘getting prices right’ to address the major…

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar on 4/8/2011 - Mary D. Nichols

Ezra Round Table/Systems Seminar on Friday, April 8, 2011: Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar on 2/4/2011 - Mark Jacobson: Powering the World with Wind, Water, and Sun

Ezra Round Table Guest Lecture #1 http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/ Host: Oliver Gao Mark Jacobson February 4, 2011

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