Related Lectures, Meetings, Etc.

APRIL 25
Co-Sponsored by IREE...
"BioEnergy Business 2007: US-German Opportunities for Cooperation in
Biofuels and Biomass"
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the University of St. Thomas
The primary objective of the conference (presented by the German American
Chamber of Commerce) is to open a dialog for partnership between two of the
world's leading countries in developing and implementing new BioEnergy
technologies. Innovative German companies will present their technologies.
Opportunities for creating cooperations here in the US will be discussed.
Leading speakers from both the US and Germany will share their knowledge
and experiences.
PLUS... "BioEnergy Business 2007: Evening Networking Reception"
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Windows on Minnesota
Network with many of Minnesota's and Germany's leading companies and
experts in the field of BioEnergy.
For more information and to register for either event (by April 20), please
visit http://www.gaccom.org/consulting/bioenergybusiness.html


APRIL 27
"Energy Security in Times of Energy Scarcities: Brazil and China"
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. at Humphrey Institute Roy Wilkins Seminar Room
Karen Polenske's, Professor at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, work provides an understanding of how industrial and urban uses
of energy, production technologies, and rapid changes in urbanization are
affecting air and land pollution. This lecture is co-sponsored by the
Humphrey Institute, the Department of Geography, and the Department of
Civil Engineering.
For more information, please contact Katherine Murphy at kmurp@umn.edu

MAY 1
"Biofuels: Economic Prospects and Environmental Implications
1:00 - 3:30 p.m. in 335 Borlaug Hall
The symposium will include Bruce Babcock, director of the Center for
Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, and Wally
Wilhelm, a plant physiologist with the USDA's Agricultural Research
Service. Responding to their presentations will be U of M economist Steve
Taff and soil scientist Gyles Randall. The afternoon will focus on how
increased renewable energy production from bio-resources will significantly
increase competition for agricultural and natural resources. It also will
intensify land use issues among food, fuel, fiber, urbanization, and
environmental services. This is the first Solution-Driven Science Symposium
organized by the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource
Sciences.
For more information, please visit
http://www.cfans.umn.edu/Solution-Driven_Science_Symposium.html

MAY 2
Co-Sponsored by IREE...
"Energy Seminar Series: Climate Modeling of the 20th and 21st Centuries
3:30 p.m. in 402 Walter Library
Seminar presented by Dr. Warren Washington of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research - Boulder, Colorado.
or complete information on the Energy Seminar Series, please visit
www.me.umn.edu/events/seminars.shtml