Upcoming Highlight Seminars
The 2020/2021 Highlight Seminars Series will be held virtually on Zoom.
April 15 - Yang Shao-Horn
W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: Towards identifying active environments in electrocatalysis
TITLE: Towards identifying active environments in electrocatalysis
May 6 - Todd Brady
Director of Global Public Affairs and Sustainability for Intel Corporation
TITLE: Intel’s Sustainability Targets and Goals and Overall Sustainability Efforts in the IT and Data Industry
TITLE: Intel’s Sustainability Targets and Goals and Overall Sustainability Efforts in the IT and Data Industry
past seminars
March 25 - Chinedum Osuji
Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
TITLE: Applications of nanocomposites and functional polymers for clean energy and water generation
TITLE: Applications of nanocomposites and functional polymers for clean energy and water generation
February 25 - Jane Flegal - Canceled
Program Officer, Environment Program at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
TITLE: The Governance and Politics of Solar Geoengineering Research
December 3 - Robert Lempert
Principal researcher at the RAND Corporation
TITLE: Climate change and deep uncertainty – Can we manage the risks without knowing what they are?
November 19 - Dennis Whyte
Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Hitachi America Professor of Engineering
MIT
TITLE: Accelerating Fusion Energy’s Development Through Innovation
October 15 - Adam Wierman
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology
Caltech
TITLE: Online Optimization & Energy
September 17 - Derek Lovley
Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts
TITLE: Protein Nanowires: Electrification of the Microbial World and Maybe Our Own