MITEI Seminar Series 2010-2011
Given the continuining success of the seminar series, the MIT Energy Initiative again hosted a series of monthly seminars on a wide range of energy issues, featuring experts with backgrounds in academia, industry, and government, each focusing on a particular area of the overall energy challenge. Our speakers addressed a wide variety of topics, including storage technology, urban planning, economic policy, and thermoelectric energy conversion, giving students working those areas the opportunity to compare notes or “talk shop”, and acquainting interested students working in other areas with a different aspects of the diverse energy field. We would like to thank our speakers for their work and the time they shared with us, and our students and faculty for being such gracious and attentive hosts. We would also like to thank IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS-CERA) for making the Seminar Series possible.
Mitigating Manhole Events in Manhattan
Cynthia Rudin
MIT Sloan School of Management
October 12, 2010
Predictive Defect Engineering for Scalable Photovoltaics at $1/Wp
Tonio Buonassisi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
November 9, 2010
The Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
Juliette Kayyem, US Department of Homeland Security
Peter Neffenger, US Coast Guard
December 14, 2010
Engineering IT-Enabled Electricity Services
Marija Ilic,
Visiting Professor, MIT Engineering Systems Division
February 8, 2011
Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Michael McGehee, Stanford University
March 8, 2011
Catalysis and Surface Chemistry
Marc Koper
Professor of Chemistry, Leiden University, the Netherlands
May 10, 2011
