EPP Faculty Seminars are monthly presentations by EPP faculty members, many of whom have joint appointments in other departments. The talks are non-technical, but technically informed. They cover active research programs and emerging policy issues.

Past Seminars

• Daniel Armanios: The Role of Physical Infrastructure on Inequality
• Baruch Fischhoff: EPP and COVID-19: Equitable Allocation of Vaccine and Other Topics
• Lorrie Cranor: Designing a website opt-out button for the California Attorney General and other adventures in making privacy interfaces more usable
• Nicholas Muller: Damages from Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases in the United States Economy: 2011 - 2017
• Peter Adams: Science advice to the EPA under Pruitt and Wheeler
• Alex Davis: Problem-solving with Human-AI interaction
• Jeremy Michalek: Uber / Lyft Implications: Vehicle Ownership, Transit, Electrification, Air Emissions, Traffic Externalities, and Equity
• Destenie Nock: The Energy Equity Gap: Unveiling Hidden Energy Poverty
• Nicolas Christin: Ten years of cryptocurrency trading: From "Monopoly money" to billion-dollar derivatives market
• Tim Brown: High Modernism as a Lens for Understanding Developing Country Infrastructure Policy 
• Alex Hills and Jon Peha: Can satellites provide worldwide broadband? Problems and opportunities
• Aranya Venkatesh: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative, open-source macro-energy modeling efforts – insights from the Open Energy Outlook project for the United States
• Valerie Karplus: When "Low-Hanging Fruit" Are Beyond Reach: Management Practices and Firm Energy Efficiency

• Claudia Gonzalez-Brambilla: Preliminary results of MIT delta v study

• Paulina Jaramillo: Climate-induced risks on hydropower capacity in the Global South
• Kathleen Carley: Social Cybersecurity
• Robert Hahn: Government Benefit-Cost Analysis: We can do (a lot) better
• Ramteen Sioshansi: Co-Ordination of Electricity and Natural-Gas Systems
• Pedro Ferreira: From Smart Phones to Smart Students: Learning versus Distraction with Smartphones in the Classroom
• Destenie Nock: Using High-Resolution Residential Energy Data to Identify Disparities in Households

This page will continue to be updated. If you have any questions about the series please email  lvalone@andrew.cmu.edu