Radiative Transfer and Global Climate Change

A Symposium in Honor of Professor Robert Cess’
Service to Stony Brook University

April 5, 2002

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Agenda

9:20 am Welcoming RemarksDr. Marvin Geller, Dean and Director of MSRC
9:30 am Invited Lecture“Aerosols, Radiation, and Global Climate”

Dr. V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution for Oceanography

10:30 am  Break

11:00 am  Invited Lecture

“Climate modeling: past, present, future, and the impact of the FANGIO project”

Dr. Warren Washington, National Center for Climate Research

12:30 pm  Lunch Break

2:30 pm  Robert Cess as an Academic Mentor

Dr. Yaping Zhao, National Center for Climate Prediction

Dr. Xiaodu Jing

Dr. Minghang Chen, Commercial Risk Capital Markets, Bermuda

Dr. Yongseung Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute

Dr. Rose Dlhopolsky, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

Dr. David Kratz, NASA Langley Research Center

Dr. Barbara Carlson, Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Dr. Harshvardhan, Purdue University

Dr. V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Dr. Donald E. Aylor, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Mr. Sheo Kumar Khetan, Anadigics, Inc.

Dr. Surendra Nath Tiwari, Old Dominion University

3:45 pm  Break

4:15 pm  Robert Cess as an Academic Colleague

Dr. James Tasi, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Edward E O’Brien, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Linshu Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Fupen Chiang, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Duane Waliser, Marine Sciences Research Center

Dr. Sultan Hameed, Marine Sciences Research Center

5:00 pm Closing Remarks

6:00 pm  Dinner  Port Jefferson Country Club at Harbor Hills