Stanford - IIT-Bombay Workshop on Climate Change
Workshop dates
Monday, September 4 - Thursday, September 7, 2023
Workshop location
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Confirmed attendees from Stanford
Ines Azevedo
Marshall Burke
Chris Field
Oliver Fringer
Brian Green
David Lobel
Arun Majumdar
Earle Wilson
Workshop venue and travel details
Venue: Victor Menzes Convention Centre
A block of rooms has been reserved for us at the Padmavihar Guesthouse, which is a short walk to the workshop venue. The rate for a suite is approximately 5000 INR ($60) per night. To reserve your room, simply send an email to Oliver Fringer with your expected arrival and departure dates. You can pay for your room at the end of your stay. We suggest arrival on September 2-3 and departure on September 8.
Alternatively, convenient hotels for the workshop are listed below along with their distances from the convention center.
https://www.fernhotels.com/meluha-the-fern-mumbai
(2.3 km, 9 min taxi, 15 min public transport)
https://www.fernhotels.com/rodas-an-ecotel-hotel-mumbai
(2.2 km, 8 min taxi, 16 min public transport)
(2.8 km, 10 min taxi, 21 min public transport)
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/bomww-the-westin-mumbai-powai-lake/overview/ (5.4 km, 15 min taxi, 38 min public transport)
For airfare, we have budgeted $3400 for a round-trip, premium economy class ticket to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM).
Please note that the budgeted amount per person for the trip is $4970, as indicated below. Should you desire to stay at a hotel that exceeds the budget (such as the Marriott), or if you prefer a higher airfare, you may need to supplement the budgeted amount with your own funds. For meals and incidentals, our hosts have kindly agreed to cover meals during the 4-day workshop.
Lodging $192 per night or a total of $1,152 for 6 nights (9/2-9/8)
Meals and incidentals: $318
Visa $50
RT Taxi: $50
RT Premium class airfare $3,400
Total cost $4,970
Workshop Rationale
India is the third largest producer of greenhouse gasses behind China and the United States, and its demand for energy is expected to grow faster than any country on earth in the next two decades. There is thus a shared responsibility as well as tremendous opportunity for academic, government, and industry collaborations in the United States and India to develop sustainable solutions to the climate crisis. Stanford and IIT-B are recognized leaders in climate and energy research but are also uniquely situated in their respective financial and technology hubs, Sillicon Valley and Mumbai. Therefore, a long term collaboration between Stanford and IIT-Bombay on research related to climate and energy is particularly well poised to engage industry partners which are necessary to transition academic research to scalable solutions that will have a significant and lasting impact. This workshop connecting researchers from Stanford and IIT-Bombay is a first step toward developing these partnerships.
Workshop agenda
The workshop will be held over four days. The first three days will be dedicated to presentations and discussions related to the six themes listed below. The fourth day will be devoted to meetings with industry and government partners and discussion of possible future collaborative efforts. A detailed agenda is forthcoming.
The specific objectives of the workshop will be to find shared interests among faculty to develop relationships for future collaborative research efforts. There will be ample opportunities for breakout sessions and meetings to help foster such relationships. Possible outcomes from the workshop might include plans for faculty sabbaticals at our respective institutions as well as graduate student exchanges. We will devote a session at the workshop to discuss longer-term partnerships including developing a possible Stanford campus in Mumbai or a shared Stanford-IIT-B MS degree program related to climate and sustainability.
Stanford Organizing Committee
Ines M. Azevedo
Associate Professor, Energy Science Engineering
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Oliver Fringer
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Oceans
Aditi Sheshadri
Assistant Professor, Earth System Science
IIT Bombay Organizing Committee
Subimal Ghosh
Institute Chair Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Convener, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Ravindra Gudi
Dean, Alumni and Corporate Relations
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay