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Summit
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

Forum
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

† 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