The MIT Energy Research Council

MIT ENERGY FORUM: Taking on the Challenge

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Building W16 - Kresge Auditorium

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Agenda


9:00-9:20am

OPENING REMARKS

Susan Hockfield, President, MIT

9:20-9:50am

OVERVIEW OF THE ENERGY RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT

Professor Ernest J. Moniz, Co-Chair, Energy Research Council

10:00-11:15am

PANEL SESSION I - followed by Q & A

Science and Technology for
a Clean Energy Future

  • Yang Shao-Horn - Session Chair
  • Emanuel M. Sachs - Renewable/Solar
  • Yet-Ming Chiang - Storage
  • Gregory Stephanopoulos - Biofuel
  • Jeffrey P. Freidberg - Fusion
  • Gang Chen - Nanotechnology's role

11:15-11:30am

MORNING SUMMARY

L. Rafael Reif, Provost, MIT

11:30am-1:00pm

Lunch and MIT Energy Club Poster Presentation

Kresge Lobby

1:00-2:15pm

PANEL SESSION II - followed by Q & A

Improving Today's Energy Systems

  • William H. Green Jr. - Session Chair
  • Mujid S. Kazimi - Nuclear
  • Robert D. van der Hilst - Subsurface science and engineering, oil and gas exploration and carbon sequestration
  • Ahmed F. Ghoniem - Modeling, simulation and energy conversion
  • Paul L. Joskow - Electricity systems/policy
  • Stephen Ansolabehere - Public attitudes

2:15-2:45pm

Break

2:45-4:00pm

PANEL SESSION III

Energy for a Rapidly Evolving World

  • Henry D. Jacoby - Session Chair
  • Ronald G. Prinn - Science and policy of climate change
  • Leon R. Glicksman - Buildings
  • John B. Heywood - Transportation technologies, fuels and systems
  • Karen R. Polenske - China
  • Amy B. Smith - Energy in developing areas

4:00-4:30pm

Question & Answer Session

  • Moderator - Robert C. Armstrong, Co-Chair, Energy Research Council
  • Vladimir Bulovic, Chair, Walk the Talk Subcommittee, Energy Research Council
  • David T. Danielson, President, MIT Energy Club
  • Susan Hockfield, President, MIT
  • Jefferson W. Tester, Chair, Education Subcommittee, Energy Research Council

5:00-6:30pm

Receptions and Tours

Plasma Science and Fusion Center - Building NW17

Sloan Automotive Laboratory and Electrochemical Energy Laboratories - Building 31

ERC Report

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