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| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday – May 25, 2011 (7:30 AM–7:00 PM) | |||||
| 7:30 AM | Registration | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Steve Koonin | DOE Under Secretary for Science | Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Address |  | |
| 8:35 AM | Steven Chu | DOE Secretary of Energy | Keynote Address |  | |
| 9:00 AM | Senator Jeff Bingaman | (D-NM) |  | ||
| Congressman Daniel Lipinski | (D-IL) |  | |||
| Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren | (D-CA) |  | |||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Leading Perspectives in Energy Research | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Bill Brinkman | DOE Director of the Office of Science | Introduction of Session |  | |
| 10:45 AM | John Hennessy | President of Stanford University |  | ||
| 11:15 AM | Mark Little | Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research |  | ||
| 11:45 AM | Eric Isaacs | Director of Argonne National Laboratory |  | ||
| 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch Provided | ||||
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | Tilak Agerwala | Vice President,Systems at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | Disruptive Innovations in Computing | ||
| 1:30 PM | Nate Lewis | Director of JCAP | Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub |  | |
| 2:00 PM | EFRCs: A Response to Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination |  | |||
| Paul Alivisatos - Moderator | Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | ||||
| George Crabtree | Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory | ||||
| Mildred Dresselhaus | Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Mark Ratner | Professor at Northwestern University | ||||
| 2:45 PM | Science for Energy Technology: The Industry Perspective |  | |||
| Jeffrey Wadsworth - Moderator | President and CEO of Battelle Memorial Institute | ||||
| David E. Carlson | Chief Scientist of BP Solar | ||||
| Yet-Ming Chiang | Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of A123 Systems | ||||
| Catherine T. Hunt | R&D Director of Innovation Sourcing and Sustainable Technologies at The Dow Chemical Company | ||||
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 4:00 PM | EFRCs: A View from Senior EFRC Representatives |  | |||
| Persis Drell - Moderator | Director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | ||||
| Neal Armstrong | Director of the Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials led by the University of Arizona | ||||
| Emily Carter | Co-Director of the Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center led by Princeton University and Team Leader of the Heterogeneous Functional Materials Center led by the University of South Carolina | ||||
| Don DePaolo | Director of the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | ||||
| Brent Gunnoe | Director of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization led by the University of Virginia | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Award Ceremony: Life at the Frontiers of Energy Research Video Competition | ||||
| Ivan Amato | Senior communications officer in the Pew Health Group of the Pew Charitable Trusts | ||||
| Paula Apsell | Senior Executive Producer, NOVA and Director of the WGBH Science Unit | ||||
| William D. Phillips | Physicist, Joint Quantum Institute at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics | ||||
| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Poster Session and Reception | ||||
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday – May 26, 2011 (8:00 AM – 7:30 PM) | |||||
| 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Global Perspectives on Frontiers in Energy Research | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Pat Dehmer | Deputy Director for Science Programs at DOE | Facing Our Energy Challenges in a New Era of Science | PDF | PPT |  |
| 8:30 AM | Kazunari Domen | Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan |  | ||
| 9:00 AM | Robin Grimes | Professor at Imperial College, United Kingdom |  | ||
| 9:30 AM | Jean-Marie Tarascon | Professor at the University de Picardie Jules Verne, France |  | ||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | Parallel Scientific Sessions I † | ||||
| 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch on Your Own | ||||
| 12:35 PM - 1:35 PM | Bring Your Own Lunch Sessions (3) | ||||
| Career Opportunities in Energy Sciences and Technology | |||||
| Michelle Buchanan | Associate Laboratory Director in Physical Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory | ||||
| Marc Kastner | Dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Joseph F. Mercurio | Manager New Business Development, Global Research and Development at General Motors | ||||
| Translating Basic Research to Energy Technology | |||||
| Karina Edmonds | Technology Transfer Coordinator at DOE | ||||
| 9:30 AM | Celia Merzbacher | Vice President of Innovative Partnerships at the Semiconductor Research Corporation | |||
| Science Policy, the Budget Battles of the 112th Congress, and the EFRCs | |||||
| 9:30 AM | Benjamin Brown | Senior Science and Technology Advisor at the Office of Science | |||
| 1:45 PM | Parallel Scientific Sessions II | ||||
| 3:45 PM | Break | ||||
| 4:00 PM | Parallel Scientific Sessions III | ||||
| 6:00 PM | EFRC and DOE Research and Networking Poster Reception | ||||
| 7:30 PM | Adjourn | ||||
| Friday – May 27, 2011 (8:00 AM–12:30 PM) | |||||
| 8:00 AM | Parallel Scientific Sessions IV | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Scientific Sessions Close-Out Panel | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Scientific Sessions Close-Out Panels | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Poster Session #2 | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Scientific Sessions Close-out Panels | ||||
| 12:30 PM | Adjourn | ||||
† Session topics:
- Organic photovoltaics
- Inorganic photovoltaics
- Solar fuels and biomass
- Energy storage and transmission
- Energy conservation and efficiency
- Carbon capture and sequestration
- Materials in extreme environments
- Effective and sustainable materials design: integration of computation, theory and experiment
- New tools and methods for materials synthesis and characterization
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