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- Senior Fellow - Centre for Environment and Development and Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University Summary: Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand...
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Professor C. Jessica Metcalf - Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs and Professor Anup Malani - Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine in conversation with Dr. Jessica Seddon
info_outline Cyclones & Climate Change in the Indian OceanMandala
Professor Gabe Vecchi - Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
info_outline Music, Movements, and IdentityMandala
TM Krishna - Carnatic vocalist, activist, and author
info_outline Sensing and Sensemaking: Natural Language Processing, AI, and Global IndiaMandala
Dr. Jessica Seddon discusses with Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University, and Dr. Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research India, how natural Language Processing (NLP), combined with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), has opened up new possibilities for human-computer interaction through speech.
info_outline COVID & India’s Evolving Political EconomyMandala
Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with Prof. Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University, and Shankar Aiyar, Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute discusses how COVID-19 has deeply affected India’s economy and society. While the per capita infection and mortality rates are low by global standards, the sheer numbers of those affected are significant and have caused huge disruptions to the Indian economy.
info_outline India and China: The Longer ViewMandala
Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with:
info_outlineProfessor Gabe Vecchi - Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
Jatin Singh, Founder & Managing Director, Skymet Weather, Pvt Ltd in conversation with Dr. Jessica Seddon.
2020 was one of the most active global hurricane and cyclone seasons on record, setting records for the size, speed of intensification, and economic impact of storms. The North Indian Ocean was no exception. This episode delves into the historical record and emerging scientific understanding of storm formation to put the 2020 weather in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea into a longer-run context. Speakers discuss the evolving business and social interest in weather and climate data, as well as the underlying collaboration and public investments to understand a region as complex as the North Indian Ocean.