Houghton Lectures

Supported through the Houghton Fund, Houghton Lecturers are distinguished visitors from outside MIT who we invite to spend a period of time, ranging from a week to several months as scientists-in-residence within our Program. During their stay it is customary for each lecturer to offer a short-course or a series of lectures on some topic of wide interest. Houghton Lecturer recommendations are welcome throughout the year. Contact Raffaele Ferrari with your suggestions.

Further information is available on The History of the Houghton Lectures.

Houghton Lecture Archives

• Benjamin Santer. Spring 2022. Fingerprinting the Climate System
• Stephen Belcher. Fall 2017. Turbulence in the atmosphere and oceanic boundary layers
• Chris Bretherton. Fall 2016. Insights from large-scale cloud-resolving modeling of convection and clouds
• Corinne Le Quere. Fall 2016. The global carbon budget in a changing climate
• Trevor McDougall. Fall 2015. Thermodynamics
• William Randel. Summer 2015. UTLS circulation and transport derived from satelitte observations
• Arnold Gordon. Spring 2015. Co-Teaching at MIT during Spring Semester
• Gabriel Vecchi. October 2014. Atmospheric Nonlinearity in El Nino
• Bjorn Stevens. February 2014. Water in the Atmosphere / Lower Tropospheric Mixing
• Joe Lacasce. January 2013. A short course on Lagrangian methods and mixing
• Leo Kadanoff. November 2012. Little Worlds: Lost or Found in the Computer
• Susan Solomon. September 2011. Thoughts on Some Factors That Led Up to the Signing of the Montreal Protocol to Protect the Ozone Layer
• Lance Bosart. November 2010. Extreme Weather Events over Parts of the Northern Hemisphere during Winter 2009-2010
• Tapio Schneider. October 2010.
  • Generation of Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
  • Angular Momentum Constraints on the Deep Dynamics of Giant Planets
  • Titan's Hadley Circulation and Methane Cycle and How They Shape its Cloud and Lake Distribution
  • Eddy and Ocean Influences on Hadley Circulations and the Quest for a New Theory
  • Classical Hadley Circulation Theories and Their Shortcomings
• Marina Levy. July 2010. Interaction of Dynamics and Biogeochemistry on the Ocean's Mesoscale/Submesoscale

Archived Events