Bi-coastal programs on Japan's tsunami

Japan's Aftermath 

An Initial Assessment of the Nuclear Disaster in Japan

Wednesday, March 16

6:00 pm

Institute of East Asian Studies Conference Room

2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor

University of California, Berkeley

California

Roundtable Discussion

Dana Buntrock, Architecture

Cathryn Carson, History, and Associate Dean of Social Sciences (Moderator)

Peter Hosemann, Nuclear Engineering

Shinya Nagasaki, Nuclear Professional School, University of Tokyo, 

and Visiting professor, Nuclear Engineering

Bozidar Stojadinovic, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jasmina Vujic, Nuclear Engineering

Sponsored by

Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Science, Technology, 

Medicine, and Society, Nuclear Engineering, Civil and Environmental 

Engineering, Architecture, Center for Japanese Studies, 

Institute of International Studies

Japan's Nuclear Crisis

Wednesday, March 16

5:30–7:00pm

MIT Bldg E15, 

Bartos Theatre (Atrium Level)

20 Ames Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts

MIT experts discuss Japan's nuclear past, present, and future from a political and engineering perspective. The presentation will include an eyewitness account of the crisis 

and the Japanese government's response.

Guest speakers

Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT Center for International Studies

Ken Oye, Associate Professor at MIT and Director of the MIT-CIS Program on Political Economy and Technology Policy

Michael Golay, MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Sponsored by 

MIT Center for International Studies, MIT-Japan Program, 

and Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering