An Insider's View of Setting The Doomsday Clock
A hybrid event that can be attended in-person or via Zoom.
2:00 - 3:30 PM on Sunday, March 26
Christ Congregation
50 Walnut Lane, Princeton
(at the intersection with Houghton, adjacent to Princeton High School)
Professor Robert Socolow
Socolow is a member of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board, that sets the Doomsday Clock every year. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee to the U.S. Global Change Research Program. From 2000 to 2019, he and Steve Pacala were the co-principal investigators of Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a twenty-five-year (2001-2025) project supported by BP. His best-known paper, with Pacala, was in Science (2004): "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies."
Socolow is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the 2009 Frank Kreith Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 2005 Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden (IVA). In 2003 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.
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This event serves as a celebration of our wonderful supporters; an annual commitment to peacemaking; and, of course, as a way to encourage membership renewal. Attendees are encouraged to join/renew NOW for 2023 before registering to attend.
