What’s New? 2009 Young Scientists Summer Program Now Open The U.S. National Member Organization for IIASA is supporting 9 graduate students from U.S. Universities in the 2008 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). The U.S.YSSP Fellows will join 40 other students from around the world in a program that includes intensive work with an IIASA senior scientist on a project related to the student's graduate research as well as a calendar of lectures and events designed to help the students develop insight into how their research relates to the solution of global problems. View 2008 participant bios and research abstracts and the 2008 YSSP Calendar. Applications for the 2009 program will be accepted starting October 1, 2008. The Ambassador of Austria to the United States, Eva Nowotny, hosted a luncheon on June 16, 2008, to introduce IIASA's new Acting Director, Sten Nilsson, and Director Designate, Detlof von Winterfeldt, to science and policy leaders in the Washington community. Guests included officials from the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the World Bank, private foundations and Federal agencies. IIASA Names New Director Detlof von Winterfeldt Detlof von Winterfeldt, a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern California (USC), has been named IIASA’s ninth Director, effective January 1, 2009. Read more… IIASA Postdoctoral Program The USNC/IIASA encourages young scientists to apply to the IIASA Postdoctoral Program, which affords researchers an opportunity to gain hands-on scientific research experience in an international environment. Registration for the 2008 program has now closed. Look for announcements about the 2009 program this October.		What is IIASA? The International 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. IIASA is located in Laxenburg, Austria. Click here for a Visual Tour. Who We Are… The U.S. National Committee for IIASA (USNC/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. 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. Learn more about the activities of the USNC/IIASA... The USNC/IIASA represents the National Academy of Sciences as a National Member Organization of IIASA and operates within the Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO) of the Policy and Global Affairs Division.		Global Energy Assessment José Goldemberg, IIASA associate research scholar and co-president of the Council of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) has been awarded the 2008 Blue Planet Prize, in recognition of his contributions in formulating and implementing policies associated with improvements on energy use and conservation. The IIASA GEA has established a U.S. Support Office at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, under the leadership of USNC member Robert Corell, the Director of the Heinz Center's Global Change Program Office. Read more about the GEA under IIASA Updates.
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					Summer 2008 Options Magazine (PDF) is currently available. IIASA Annual Report Download the 2007 IIASA Annual Report (5.3MB PDF).
				Scientists and students traveling to the United States for professional activities can obtain information from the International Visitors Office, a program operated by the BISO.
				Sponsor The USNC/IIASA is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
				U.S. Committee for IIASA The National Academies Board on International Scientific Organizations Keck Center, W 550 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Tel: 202-334 2807 Fax: 202-334-2231 Margaret Goud Collins, Program Officer Tel: 508-548-2502
Revised 12 July 2008