Date & Time: Thursday March 11, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )
Speaker: Dr. Hazhir Rahmandad
Synopsis:
Climate change has become a major concern for citizens and policy makers. However public understanding of the underlying dynamics of global warming is limited. This talk overviews the major processes involved in creation and mitigation of global warming and discusses a prominent simulation tool for predicting alternative scenarios and policy analysis regarding the mitigation of climate change trend.
About the Speaker:
Hazhir Rahmandad is an assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in system dynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005). Hazhir’s research interests include applying systems analysis tools to diverse dynamic problems such as polio eradication, sustainability, obesity, construction safety, product development, systems engineering, organizational learning and change, comparing different simulation methods, and model estimation methodologies. Hazhir is a Chemistry Olympiad gold medalist and has twice won the Dana Meadows paper award from the System Dynamics Society. Hazhir has also been involved in establishing several non-profits working on research and educational initiatives targeting Iran, including MIT Iranian Studies Group, Farsi Teachers Network, and International Association of Iranian Managers (I-AIM).
Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public