Pennergy Seminars
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Towne Building,  room 337
Pizza outside @ 12 PM
Seminar from 12:30-1:30 PM

Spring 2013 Seminars:

Steve GreenbaumJanuary 14th, 2013 (12:00 - 1:30pm)
Steve Greenbaum
Professor of Physics
Hunter College (CUNY
Multinuclear Solid State NMR Studies of Materials Related toEnergy Conversion and Storage
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Spring 2012 Seminars:

Matthew DotyMSE JOINT SEMINAR
Thursday, January 19, 2012
10:30 am - 12 pm (LRSM Auditorium, 3231 Walnut Street)
Professor Matt Doty, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
"Materials at the Quantum Limit: Designing, Building and Understanding Nanostructured Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Applications"
[ MSE seminars link ]

 

Fred SharifiMonday, February 13, 2012
Fred Sharifi
Project Leader
Energy Research Group
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
NIST
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Sharon Hammes-SchifferMonday, March 19, 2012
4:00PM Carolyn Hoff Lynch Room, Chemistry Bldg.
reception to follow
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion"
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Erich DornbergerFriday, March 30, 2012
10:30AM Towne Building, rm337
Dr. Erich Dornberger
Director, Application Engineering, Wacker Chemie AG
Burghausen, Germany
Special CBE Seminar
"Photovoltaics Will Become a Pillar of the Future Energy Supply"
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David J. NorrisThursday, April 5, 2012
4:00PM Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall
reception to follow
David J. Norris
Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory ETH Zürich, Zürich Switzerland
"Electronic Impurity Doping of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
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Robert H. SocolowMonday, April 23, 2012
10:00AM Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Building (Seminar)
Robert H. Socolow
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
"What Would We Do If We Took Climate Change Seriously?"
2:00PM Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Pennergy Panel)
reception to follow
[ flyer ]

 

Francis J. DiSalvoMonday, April 30, 2012
Frank DiSalvo
John A. Newman Professor
"Creating a Sustainable Future: What Role for Universities"
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University

 


Fall 2011 Seminars:

Avi GopsteinDecember 5, 2011, 12:00PM
Avi Gopstein, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
* change of location: Wu and Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall
[ seminar link ]
[ quadrennial report ]

 

Robert JaffeNovember 9, 2011, 4:00PM
Robert Jaffe, Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics
MIT
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Louis Brus November 7, 2011
Louis Brus
, Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University
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Dion VlachosOctober 24, 2011
Dion Vlachos
, Director of Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation and Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor
University of Delaware
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Christine M. ThomasSeptember 13, 2011, 4:00PM
Christine M. Thomas, Assistant Professor
Brandeis University
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Spring 2011 Seminars:

Supratik GuhaMay 2, 2011
Supratik Guha, Director, Physical Sciences Department
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
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Nate LewisMarch 1, 2011
Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology
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[ Panel Discussion ]

 

Charles BlackFebruary 21, 2011
Charles Black, Brookhaven National Lab.

 

Mark RatnerJanuary 31, 2011
Mark Ratner, Northwestern University