Draft Agenda
| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | |||
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| 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 |
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| 8:10 - 8:30 am |
Why Energy Storage Matters | Winfried Wilcke IBM, Conference Chairman |
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| 8:30 - 9:30 am |
Surviving Two Billion Cars: The Urgent Need to Transform Vehicles, Fuels, and Mobility around the Globe | Deborah Gordon Author, Two Billion Cars |
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| 9:30 - 9:50 am |
Conversation and refreshments | Auditorium servery | |
| 9:50 - 10:40 am |
Energy, Emissions, and Transportation: A Look into the Future |
Burton Richter Stanford, Nobel Laureate |
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| 10:40 - 11:30 am |
The Importance of Energy Storage in Automotive Applications | Ted Miller Sr. Manager, Ford Research |
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| 11:30 - 12:50 pm |
Lunch Buffet - pickup | Room J2-109 | |
| 12:50 - 1:40 pm |
Summary Overview of Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage | Hector Abruña Cornell University |
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| 1:40 - 2:30 pm |
Lithium-ion Batteries - Challenges and Opportunities in an Evolving Lithium Economy | Michael Thackeray Argonne National Lab |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
Conversation and Refreshments | Auditorium Servery | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 pm |
The Next Generation of Safer, Higher Specific Energy Lithium Cells | Elton Cairns University of California Berkeley |
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| 3:50 - 4:40 pm |
Hierarchical Nanostructured Carbon Cathodes for Lithium-Sulfur and Lithium/Air Cells | Linda Nazar University of Waterloo |
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| 4:40 - 4:50 pm |
Announcements | ||
| 4:50 - 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 |
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| 8:10 - 9:10 am |
Electric Cars are the Solution and how we Started Tesla Motors to Prove It | Marc Tarpenning Co-founder, Tesla Motors |
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| 9:10 - 10:10 am |
The Lithium/Air Battery | Peter Bruce Saint Andrews University |
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| 10:10 - 10:40 am |
Conversation and Refreshments | Auditorium Servery | |
| 10:40 - 11:30 am |
Lithium Insertion Materials for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries | Tsutomo Ohzuku Osaka City University |
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| 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 | Jeff Dahn Dalhousie University |
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| 1:40 - 2:30 pm |
How to Develop Post Lithium-ion Batteries Based on New Concepts | Haoshen Zhou AIST Japan |
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| 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 | Steven Visco Co-founder, VP Polyplus |
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| 3:50 - 5:10 pm |
Panel Discussion Scaleable Energy Storage: From Research to Practice |
Raj Desai IBM, VP and Moderator |
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| 5:10 - 5:30 pm |
Closing Remarks | Winfried Wilcke IBM, Conference Chairman |
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