Date: November 23, 2009 from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm EST

Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn, Room 603

Speaker: Maryam Golnaraghi, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, World Meteorological Organization

Date: November 24, 2009 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm EST

Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 1501

Speakers: Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Farouk El-Baz, Director, Center for Remote Sensing; Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Peter Schlosser, Director, Columbia Climate Center; Associate Director and Director of Research, The Earth Institute; Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation School for Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University