About iiasa

TheInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international research organization near Vienna, Austria, conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of global change. IIASA researchers utilize state-of-the-art methodology and analytical approaches in providing non-political and unbiased perspectives to decision-makers and the scientific community.
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About the USNmo

The U.S. National Member Organization for IIASA (USNMO/IIASA) is charged with actively participating in the governance of the Institute through participation on the IIASA Council and direct interaction with the Directorate and guides the IIASA research program in ways that will maintain its quality and relevance to U.S. research and policy concerns.  The national committee is also tasked with increasing participation in and awareness of IIASA by Americans in academia, government, industry, and non-governmental organizations as a liaison to the U.S. science, technology and policy communities.  The USNMO/IIASA represents the National Academy of Sciences as a National Member Organization to IIASA.

USNC/IIASA activities include recruiting for and funding IIASA's successful Young Scientists Summer Program for advanced graduate students; helping to find suitable candidates for IIASA’s job vacancies; serving as the hub of a national network of interested scholars and policy-makers; and helping IIASA to find opportunities to participate in national policy debates.

IIASA UPDATE

New Committee Members
The U.S. Committee for IIASA welcomes three new members: Eduardo Feller, who recently retired after working on international scientific cooperation for 35 years at NSF; Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University, who was the Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto, Canada until 2008; and Richard Zeckhauser,  the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  View current membership roster.

2009 Young Scientists Program Underway
Eighteen students from U.S. Universities join a group of 50 students from around the world participating in the 2009 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) at IIASA.  The 2009 YSSP participants will spend 3 months working closely with senior IIASA staff on a program related to their graduate thesis.  USNMO/IIASA committee members met with the 18 U.S. students during a collaborative working dinner held at IIASA Headquarters this summer.  Learn more about YSSP.

Wolfgang Lutz Receives 2009 Mattei Dogan Award
IIASA's Wolfgang Lutz will receive the 2009 Mattei Dogan Award of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. This prestigious recognition for comparative demographic analysis is given once every four years and will be formally awarded at the International Population Conference in Marrakesh this September.  This honor follows the announcement of the selection of Professor Lutz for the European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant for a major new IIASA project focusing on Forecasting Societies' Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change.  The grant provides funding of EU 2.5 million over 5 years. 
Read more about the work of the Population Program in the new POPNET Newsletter.

PUBLICATIONS Get information about IIASA Publications, including the current issue of Options Magazine, IIASA's current Annual Report, Podcasts, and Policy Briefs.

International Scientists Discuss Climate Change
IIASA researchers were among the 2,000 scientists and policy makers to attend theInternational Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark in February 2009, presenting the latest knowledge on the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. 

 

View the webcast of the plenary paper by IIASA Acting Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic.  

IIASA RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

 The Young Scientists Summer Program
The U.S. National Member Organization for IIASA sponsors advanced graduate students from U.S. institutions to travel to Austria to take part in IIASA’s 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).  Learn more about this program.

 IIASA Postdoctoral Program
Promoting the development of young researchers, IIASA’s Postdoctoral Program is an annual program that provides funding for up to two postdoctoral researchers for a 12-24 month period.

Learn more about the IIASA Research Opportunities... 

 Job Opportunities
View a list of current IIASA job openings on IIASA's website... 
 

Current Membership

View Committee biographies.

Simon Levin, Chair Princeton University Roberta Balstad Columbia University Scott Barrett The Johns Hopkins University Robert Corell H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment Eduardo Feller National Science Foundation (Retired) Robert Frosch Harvard University L. Robin Keller University of California, Irvine EX-OFFICIO Norm Neureiter American Association for the Advancement of Science Advisor to the IIASA Endowment Fund Howard Raiffa, Harvard University Advisor to the IIASA Endowment Fund Michael Clegg, University of California, Irvine Foreign Secretary, NAS NRC STAFF Margaret Goud Collins, Senior Program Officer Avihai Ostchega, Senior Program Assistant

Barbara Lee Keyfitz Ohio State University Charles Kolstad University of California, Santa Barbara Jerry Melillo The Ecosystems Center Berrien Moore, III Climate Central Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Princeton University Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies Donald Saari University of California, Irvine David Victor Stanford University Richard Zeckhauser Harvard University MEMBERS' PAGE Access private Members' Page via secure log-in

Sponsor

Core support for USNMO/IIASA is provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OISE-0738129, with policy involvement of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of State, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce (NOAA), the USDA Forest Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency.  U.S. Government Agencies providing directed support for IIASA projects include the Department of Energy, and the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service of the Department of Commerce.

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