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October 13-14, 2015

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7:45 – 8:30 McCaw Hall Check-in, Continental Breakfast*PLENARY SESSIONS8:30 – 9:00 McCaw Hall Welcome, Global Climate and Energy Project 2015

Sally Benson, Director – Global Climate and Energy Project, Director – Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University

9:00 – 10:00 McCaw Hall Disruptive Oil and Electricity Futures Amory Lovins, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist – Rocky Mountain Institute

10:00 – 10:15 Break*10:15 – 10:50 McCaw Hall Modernization of the Electric Grid

Arun Majumdar, Director – Precourt Institute for Energy, Professor – Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

10:50 – 11:25 McCaw Hall Emerging Trends in Clean Energy Finance Ray Wood, Managing Director – Head of Power Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

11:25 – 12:00 McCaw Hall Catalyzing Private Investment in Clean Energy Dan Reicher, Executive Director; Alicia Seiger, Deputy Director – Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University

12:00 – 1:10 Sy Oak Grove Lunch for all attendees*Sy Oak Grove (far left-side buffet)

GCEP Sponsor / Student Networking Lunch (by invitation only)*

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GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Solar and Radiation Energy Conversion

Tutorial: Nuclear Waste Management 101

1:15 – 2:55 McCaw Hall 1:15 – 2:55 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Xiaolin Zheng, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford UniversityPresenters:Mark Brongersma, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Nanophotonics for Solar Energy HarvestingShanhui Fan, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Nighttime Radiative Cooling: Harvesting the Darkness of the UniverseMichael McGehee, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Novel Inorganic-Organic Perovskites for Solution Processable Photovoltaics

Rodney Ewing, Professor of Geological Sciences, Nuclear Security – Stanford University

GCEP Distinguished Student Lecturers (part 1 of 2)2:55 – 3:30 McCaw Hall Jeremy Feaster, Ph.D. Candidate (Thomas Jaramillo Lab) – Chemical Engineering,

Stanford University, Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 on Tin ElectrodesJeffrey Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate (Zhenan Bao Lab) – Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Polymer Binders for High Capacity Li-Ion Batteries

POSTER SESSIONS, WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION3:30 – 5:45 Ford Gardens GCEP Researchers Present Their Posters (see poster handout)

Session A | 3:45 – 5:00 Session B | 4:15 – 5:45

e v e n i n g ( p r i v a t e e v e n t s )5:45 – 7:30 McCaw Hall GCEP Student Social and Dinner

For GCEP graduate students and postdoctoral scholars only (by invitation only)6:00 – 8:00 Fisher Conference

CenterPoster Judging Dinner (by invitation only)

GCEP RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2015

Wednesday, October 14Tuesday, October 13

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m o r n i n g7:45 – 8:30 McCaw Hall Continental Breakfast*GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Electrocatalysis for Renewable Fuels8:30 – 10:10 McCaw HallSession Chair: Matthew Kanan, Chemistry, Stanford UniversityPresenters:Haotian Wang, Applied Physics, Stanford University, Electrochemical Tuning as a New Method to Search for Active CatalystsPaul McIntyre, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Protective Metal Oxides that Electronically Couple Catalysts to Efficient Light AbsorbersJens Nørskov, Chemical Engineering and Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC, CO and CO2 Reduction to Alcohols

10:10 – 10:25 Break*GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Energy Conversion and Storage Devices Tutorial: Energy Systems Analysis 10110:25 – 12:05 McCaw Hall 10:25 – 12:05 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: William Chueh, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford UniversityPresenters:Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery with Self-Healing PolymersHongjie Dai, Chemistry, Stanford University, Novel Electrocatalysts and Batteries for Renewable EnergyReginald Mitchell, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Co-generation of Carbon-Free Hydrogen and Electricity from Coal in a Steam-Carbon Fuel Cell with Carbon Capture

Matthew Pellow, Postdoctoral Scholar – GCEP, Stanford University

12:05 – 1:15 McCaw Hall Lunch*PLENARY SESSION12:30 – 1:15 Reinventing Nuclear Energy

Admiral James Ellis Jr., Distinguished Fellow – Hoover Institution, Retired Admiral – U.S. NavyTalk followed by discussion with:Honorable George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow – Hoover Institution, Chair – Shultz-Stephensen Task Force on Energy Policy, Former U.S. Secretary of StateModerated by Sally Benson, Director – GCEP

1:15 – 1:40 Networking Break*

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GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Carbon Mitigation Tutorial: Large Scale Energy Storage 1011:40 – 3:20 McCaw Hall 1:15 – 2:55 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Sally Benson, Director – GCEP, Stanford UniversityPresenters:Adam Brandt, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Exergy Efficiency of Capture Accounting for Economy-Wide Indirect EffectsChris Edwards, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, The Sootless DieselEric Larson, Energy Systems Analysis Group, Princeton University, Sustainable Transportation Energy with Net Negative Carbon Emissions

David Mooney, Center Director – Strategic Energy Analysis Center, NREL

3:20 – 3:35 Break*

Wednesday, October 14

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PLENARY SESSION3:35 – 4:15 McCaw Hall The Big Picture of Energy Efficiency

James Sweeney, Director – Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Professor – Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

GCEP Distinguished Student Lecturers (part 2 of 2)4:15 – 4:50 McCaw Hall John Fyffe, Ph.D. Candidate (Chris Edwards Lab) – Mechanical Engineering, Stanford

University, Mixed Combustion/Electrochemical Energy Conversion for High-Efficiency, Small-Scale EnginesRebecca Belisle, Ph.D. Candidate (Michael McGehee Lab) – Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, Understanding the Role of Device Architecture in the Success of Perovskite Solar Cells

4:50 – 5:00 McCaw Hall GCEP Student Poster Awards Closing RemarksSally Benson, Director – GCEP

e v e n i n g ( p r i v a t e e v e n t )5:00 – 7:30 Ford Gardens and

Dwight Family Living Room

Closing Reception and Dinner For symposium speakers, sponsors, GCEP investigators and their students and other invited guests (by invitation only)

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