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The Women’s Board
The University of Chicago
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Margery Kamin Feitler
Chair, Women’s Board Annual Dinner
and
The University of Chicago Women’s Board
cordially invite you and your guests to attend
the 2015 Annual Dinner Program
Certain Uncertainty:
The Future of Climate Change
Ian Foster
Michael Greenstone
Director, Computation Institute
Professor of Computer Science and
the Physical Sciences
Milton Friedman Professor in
Economics and the College; Director,
Energy Policy Institute at Chicago
Steve Edwards
Moderator
Executive Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics
Four Seasons Hotel Chicago
120 East Delaware Place
Chicago, Illinois
6:00 p.m. Cocktails
6:30 p.m. Welcome Remarks and Dinner
7:00 p.m. Program
The cost is $125 per person, members and guests.
Please respond no later than Thursday, January 15, 2015.
See back page for parking and online registration information.
Ian Foster, PhD, is the director of the University of Chicago’s Computation Institute,
the Arthur Compton Holly Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, and a
Distinguished Fellow and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. A worldrenowned computer scientist, Prof. Foster is an expert on the acceleration of discovery
in a networked world. He co-invented grid computing over a decade ago, leading the
October 2002 issue of Red Herring magazine to dub him “the Gridfather.” Methods and
software developed under his leadership underpin many large national and international
cyberinfrastructures and have helped advance discovery in such areas as high-energy
physics, environmental science, and biomedicine. Grid computing has become the de facto
computation standard for data-intensive, multi-institution collaboration and has helped
create what has become the “cloud revolution.” Foster continues to develop innovative
tools and infrastructure that enable research breakthroughs. His Center for Robust
Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), funded by the MacArthur
Foundation and the National Science Foundation, deploys the best modern computational
and economic science to guide climate and energy policy.
Michael Greenstone, PhD, is the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and the College
and the director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) at the University of Chicago.
Prof. Greenstone’s research estimates the costs and benefits of environmental quality and
society’s energy choices. He has worked extensively on the Clean Air Act and examined
its impacts on air quality, manufacturing activity, housing prices, and human health to
assess its benefits and costs. He is currently engaged in large-scale projects to estimate the
economic costs of climate change and to identify efficient approaches to mitigating these
costs. Prior to rejoining the faculty at Chicago in July 2014, Prof. Greenstone was the 3M
Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT.
Steve Edwards is the executive director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
For more than two decades, Mr. Edwards has covered politics and public policy as a
journalist and program host. His work has appeared on the BBC, Bloomberg News, PBS,
and on numerous public radio stations around the United States. Most recently, he spent
nearly 14 years at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR member station, where he served as host of
the acclaimed daily shows The Afternoon Shift and Eight Forty-Eight. Steve has moderated
numerous candidate debates, hosted the weekly political show The Best Game in Town, and
was the correspondent for a BBC documentary on Chicago’s political culture. A native of
Kansas City, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and earned his
AB in political science from Amherst College.
Certain Uncertainty:
The Future of Climate Change
The issue of climate change is both deeply scientific and deeply political. But
just how will climate change affect our planet in the years to come? And what
impact will economic forces—and our own actions—have on that equation? As
a society, how can we determine the best policy decisions, and are we prepared
to make them? How do we get the most sophisticated tools into the hands of
the policy makers who need them? Are there alternatives to climate change
legislation? Is it too late?
Predicting those outcomes and identifying those answers are at the heart of
the work of two world-renowned University of Chicago scholars, economist
Michael Greenstone and computer scientist Ian Foster. Join them in
conversation with Steve Edwards as they explore the big questions about climate
change—and what they mean for the future of our planet.
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Alice Young Sabl, Chair
Barbara S. Adelman
Jill F. Levi, ChairPriscilla Kersten
Heather
Black
Rebecca
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Binnie O.
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Barbara S. Adelman
Christina Chatalas
Peggy Lim
Ann May
Erika Bruhn
Gay-Young Cho
Cynthia Lyons
Allegra
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Michelle Collins
Amalia
Mahoney
Alice
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Ann Collins
Constance
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Suzanne Martin
Margery
Kamin
Feitler
Pamela
Sheffield
Laurie
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Constance B. Coolidge
Geri Sands
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Amy
MaryRule
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Janet
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Katie
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Beth
Sonnenschein
Ronne Hartfield
Kay Torshen
Mae Hong
Jeanette Sublett
Monica Lee Hughson
Elizabeth Thompson
Margie Janus
executive director
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