| 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 | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 9:00 AM | Senator Jeff Bingaman | (D-NM) | | PDF | |
| | 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 | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 11:15 AM | Mark Little | Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 |
| 11:45 AM | Eric Isaacs | Director of Argonne National Laboratory | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 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 | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 2:00 PM | EFRCs: A Response to Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 | Pt. 4 | Pt.5 |
| | 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 | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 | Pt.4 |
| | 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 | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 | Pt.4 | Pt.5 |
| | 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 | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 8:30 AM | Kazunari Domen | Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 |
| 9:00 AM | Robin Grimes | Professor at Imperial College, United Kingdom | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 9:30 AM | Jean-Marie Tarascon | Professor at the University de Picardie Jules Verne, France | | PDF | Pt.1 | Pt.2 | Pt.3 |
| 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 |
