2011 Speakers
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Tilak Agerwala
Vice President, Systems at IBM Research
Paul Alivisatos
Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ivan Amato
Science writer, editor, and communicator
Paula S. Apsell
Senior Executive Producer, NOVA, and Director of the WGBH Science Unit
Neal R. Armstrong
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Jeff Bingaman
Senator
William F. Brinkman
Director of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Benjamin L. Brown
Senior Science and Technology Advisor at the Office of Science, DOE
Michelle Buchanan
Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David Carlson
Chief Scientist, BP Solar
Emily Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Yet-Ming Chiang
Kyocera Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Steven Chu
United States Secretary of Energy
George Crabtree
Senior Scientist and Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory and Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
Patricia M. Dehmer
Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Donald DePaolo
Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Kazunari Domen
Professor, University of Tokyo
Persis S. Drell
Professor and Director, SLAC
Mildred Dresselhaus
Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, MIT
Karina Edmonds
Technology Transfer Coordinator, U.S. Department of Energy
Robin Grimes
Professor of Materials Physics, Imperial College
Brent Gunnoe
Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia
John Hennessy
President, Stanford University
Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt
R&D Director in Innovation
Sourcing & Sustainable Technologies at The Dow
Eric D. Isaacs
President of UChicago Argonne, LLC, and Director of Argonne National Laboratory
Marc Kastner
Head of the Department of Physics, Dean of the School of Science, MIT
Steven Koonin
Undersecretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Nathan Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Daniel Lipinski
Congressman (D-IL)
Mark M. Little
Senior Vice President and Director of GE Global Research
Zoe Lofgren
Congresswoman (D-CA)
Joseph F. Mercurio
Manager New Business Development at General Motors
Celia Merzbacher
Vice President for Innovative Partnerships at the Semiconductor Research Corporation
William D. Phillips
Physicist, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and the University of Maryland
Mark Ratner
Dumas University Professor, Northwestern University
Jean-Marie Tarascon
Professor, University of Picardie (Amiens)
Jeff Wadsworth
President and CEO of Battelle Memorial Institute