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Almaden Institute

Almaden Institute 2009

Scalable Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium Ion
August 26-27, 2009

Agenda

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
7:30 - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast Auditorium servery
8:00 - 8:10 am Opening Remarks Josephine Cheng
IBM Fellow and Vice President Almaden Research Center
8:10 - 8:30 am
Why Energy Storage Matters
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Winfried Wilcke
IBM, Conference Chairman
8:30 - 9:30 am
Surviving Two Billion Cars: The Urgent Need to Transform Vehicles, Fuels, and Mobility around the Globe
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Daniel Sperling
Author, Two Billion Cars
9:30 - 10:00 am
Conversation and refreshments Auditorium servery
10:00 - 10:50 am
Energy, Emissions, and Transportation:
A Look into the Future

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Burton Richter
Stanford, Nobel Laureate
10:50 - 11:40 am
The Importance of Energy Storage in Automotive Applications
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Ted Miller
Sr. Manager, Ford Research
11:40 - 1:00 pm
Lunch Buffet - pickup Room J2-109
1:00 - 1:50 pm
Summary Overview of Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage Hector Abruña
Cornell University
1:50 - 2:40 pm
Lithium-ion Batteries - Challenges and Opportunities in an Evolving Lithium Economy
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Michael Thackeray
Argonne National Lab
2:40 - 3:10 pm
Conversation and Refreshments Auditorium Servery
3:10 - 4:00 pm
The Next Generation of Safer, Higher Specific Energy Lithium Cells
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Elton Cairns
University of California Berkeley
4:00 - 4:50 pm
Challenges of Lithium-Sulfur and Lithium/Air Cells: Old Chemistry, New Advances
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Linda Nazar
University of Waterloo
4:50 - 5:00 pm
Announcements
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Tours of Almaden Research Center
6:00 pm
Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception Almaden - West Patio
   
Thursday, August 27, 2009
7:30 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast Auditorium servery
8:00 - 8:10 am
Opening Remarks - Announcements Carl Larson
IBM, Manager
Nanoscale Fabrication
8:10 - 9:10 am
Electric Cars are the Solution and how we Started Tesla Motors to Prove It
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Marc Tarpenning
Co-founder, Tesla Motors
9:10 - 10:10 am
The Lithium/Air Battery
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Peter Bruce
Saint Andrews University
10:10 - 10:40 am
Conversation and Refreshments Auditorium Servery
10:40 - 11:30 am
Lithium Insertion Materials for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Tsutomo Ohzuku
Osaka City University
11:30 - 12:50 pm
Lunch Buffet - pickup Room J2-609
12:50 - 1:40 pm
Electrically Rechargeable Metal-air Batteries Compared to Advanced Lithium-ion Batteries
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Jeff Dahn
Dalhousie University
1:40 - 2:30 pm
How to Develop Post Lithium-ion Batteries Based on New Concepts
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Haoshen Zhou
AIST Japan
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Conversation and Refreshments Auditorium Servery
3:00 - 3:50 pm
Lithium/Air Semi-Fuel Cells: High Energy Density Batteries based on Lithium Metal Electrodes
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Steven Visco
Co-founder, VP Polyplus
3:50 - 5:20 pm
Panel Discussion
Scalable Energy Storage:
From Research to Practice


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Winfried Wilcke
Moderator


Peter Bruce
Saint Andrews University

Chet Sandberg
Altair Nano

Venkat Srinivasan
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

J.B Straubel
Tesla Motors

John Vetrano
U.S. Dept. of Energy
5:20 - 5:30 pm
Closing Remarks Winfried Wilcke
IBM, Conference Chairman