Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. (University Lounge)

Welcome, Overview of Retreat

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Mark Zondlo – Associate Director of External Partnerships, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo – Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Keynote Introductions

9:15 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Chris Greig – Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment; Director, Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation; Dow Chair in Sustainable Engineering Innovation, The University of Queensland

Keynote Presentation

9:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Keynote – Addressing the Dual Challenge – Energy and Carbon: A View to 2040
Peter Trelenberg – Manager, Environmental Policy and Planning, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Keynote – Systemic Urban Infrastructure Transformations for Inclusive, Low Carbon Development
Anu Ramaswami – Charles M. Denny, Jr., Chair of Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (University Lounge)

Panel – Business and Financial Bottlenecks

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Chris Greig, Moderator – Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment; Director, Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation; Dow Chair in Sustainable Engineering Innovation, The University of Queensland

• Phillip M. Hannam – Energy Economist, The World Bank
• Anthony Ku – Director for Advanced Technologies, National Institute for Clean and Low Carbon Energy, Beijing
• Mark Alan Hughes – Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design; Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Lunch and Discussion on Rapid Switch Bottlenecks

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Gratella)

Panel – Techno-Economic Bottlenecks

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Minjie Chen, Moderator – Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

• Daniel Kirschen – Donald W. and Ruth Mary Close Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington 
• Abhijit Abhyankar – Professor of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Ning Zhang – Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Lobby)

Group photo; set up for poster session

Panel – Socio-Political Bottlenecks in Deep Decarbonization

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Atul Kohli, Moderator – David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs; Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

• Robert Keohane – Professor of Political and International Affairs, Emeritus; Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• Ambuj Sagar – Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies; Founding Head of the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Karen Hussey – Director, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland

Wrap Up and Summary of Outcomes from Lunch Discussions

5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Princeton Ballroom)

Eric Larson – Senior Research Engineer, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Lecturer in Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Minjie Chen – Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Poster Session / Reception

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (University and Treehouse Lounges)

Departures

7:30 p.m.

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