Agenda
RE3 Workshop
May 21-24, 2017
Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY
RE3 Workshop 2017
Agenda 2017
Sunday 5/21
3:00 pm
3:00 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00
6:30 - 8:00
Monday 5/22
8:00 - 9:00 am
9:00 - 9:15
9:15 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
5:30 - 6:30
6:30 - 8:00
Tuesday 5/23
8:00 - 8:30 am
8:30 - 9:15
9:15 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:15
2:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:15
4:30 - 5:15
6:00
Registration Opens
View Pointe Hall, North
Self-guided tours of Muhammad Ali Center
Free to workshop participants
General Meeting
Multipurpose Room, 1st Floor
Welcoming Reception
View Pointe Hall
Registration & Continental Breakfast
View Pointe Hall
Welcoming remarks - Workshop Co-chairs
University of Louisville (UofL)
UofL Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research (CCRER)
Plenary Speaker: Jordan MacKnick
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Renewable Energy and Water: Alternative Futures and the Importance of Policy
Networking break
Plenary Speaker: Gregorii Soloveichik
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
Renewable energy and water use in production of carbon-neutral liquid fuels
Plenary Speaker: Nelson Cardona Martinez
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez (UPRM)
UPRM-USC Center for a sustainable water, energy & food nexus
Lunch on your own
Clean Energy - Entrepreneurship
SBIRs/STTRs and Developing Entrepreneurial Business Panel
Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Track 1: Clean Energy - Water
Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Invited Speaker: Yushan Yan
University of Delaware
Electrochemical energy conversion devices including fuel cells, electrolyzers, flow batteries, and solar hydrogen generators
Invited Speaker: Sheng Dai
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Task-specific materials for water desalination and purification
Speaker: Thanh Khoa Phung
UofL CCRER
Selective isosorbide production from sorbitol using selective silica-aluminas in aqueous media
Speaker: Josh Spurgeon
UofL CCRER
Simulations of non-monolithic tandem solar cell configurations for electrolytic fuel generation
Track 2: Clean Energy - Food
View Pointe Hall, North
Invited Speaker: Julie Renner
Case Western Reserve University
Strategies for low-temperature electrochemical ammonia production
Invited Speaker: Amar Flood
Indiana University
Phosphate Recovery by Capture at Aqueous Interfaces
Speaker: Sarttrawut Tulaphol
UofL CCRER
Industrial hemp: from waste to fuels
Speaker: Lalitendu Das
University of Kentucky
Catalytic oxidation and depolymerization of lignin in ionic liquids
Networking Break
View Pointe Hall
Track 1: Clean Energy - Water
View Pointe Hall, North
Invited Speaker: Lauren Greenlee
University of Arkansas
Balancing advanced materials design with scalability for efficient water treatment and water splitting technologies
Speaker: Mark Hogg
WaterStep
Manufacturing onsite medical strength disinfectant with low voltage, in large volume and quickly
Speaker: Jacek Jasinski
UofL CCRER
3D Carbon Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications
Self-guided tours of Muhammad Ali Center
Poster session set up
Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Poster Session and Reception
Auditorium/Gallery/Pavillion
Registration & Continental Breakfast
View Pointe Hall
Plenary Speaker: Ken Kuno
University of Notre Dame
The exciting world of metal halide perovskites
Plenary Speaker: Jim Pfaendtner
University of Washington
Graduate training and research at the nexus of data science and clean energy
Networking break
Plenary Speaker: David Graves
University of California Berkeley
Air plasmas to improve nitrogen utilization efficiency
Plenary Speaker: Richard Middleton
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Climate impacts on ecosystems and how this is changing the water supply at the energy-water nexus
Lunch on your own
Plenary Speaker: Dominique Loqué
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Development of novel approaches to optimize crops for bioenergy and beyond
Track 1: Clean Energy - Water
Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Invited Speaker: Ulises Martinez
LANL
Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for clean energy applications
Invited Speaker: Devin L. Shaffer
National Institue of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Designing desalination membranes for improved energy efficiency
Speaker: Thad Druffel
UofL CCRER
Building a co-creation community of entrepreneurs in emerging markets around access to safe water
Speaker: Sudesh Kumari
UofL Conn Center
Acid-stable, Low-noble metal content Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst via Rapid Plasma Synthesis
Track 2: Clean Energy - Food
View Pointe Hall, North
Invited Speaker: Esther Obonyo
Penn State University
Using a data-driven, social entrepreneurship approach for scale and impact in food security
Invited Speaker: Daniel Shantz
Tulane University
Materials development for dilute solution capture
Speaker: Joseph Stevens
University of Kentucky
Exploring Biocatalysis in Ionic Liquid for Selective Lignin Depolymerization
Speaker: Sivakumar Vasireddy
Advanced Energy Materials, LLC
Catalysts for fural conversion to furans conversion
Networking Break
Gallery/Pavilion
Track 3: Clean Energy
Auditorium
Speaker: Hank Paxton
UofL CCRER
Thermionic energy conversion: A highly efficient direct thermal to electrical energy conversion approach
Speaker: Bijandra Kumar
UofL CCRER
Reduced SnO2 Porous Nanowires with High-density Grain Boundaries as Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical CO2-to-HCOOH Conversion
Speaker: Gautam Gupta
UofL
Fundamental insight in developing electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction
Track 4: Clean Energy Entrepreneurship
View Pointe Hall, North
Student Pitch Competition
Adjourn