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    • Keynote Presentation - Steven Koonin
    • Keynote Presentation - Gabriel Crean
    • Keynote Presentation - Xianhong Wang
    • Keynote Presentation - Sergio Alcocer
    • Plenary Presentation - Lynn Orr
    • Plenary Presentation - George Crabtree
    • Plenary Presentation - David Cahill
    • Plenary Presentation - Duan Weng
    • Plenary Presentation - V.S. Arunachalam
    • Plenary Presentation - William F. Brinkman
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Keynote & Plenary Presentations

The following are keynote and plenary presentations given by energy and policy experts at the 2011 World Materials Summit. Additional presentations will be posted as they are available.  (View photos from the  Keynote & Plenary Presentations)

Monday, October 10, 2011

• Introduction
  Meeting Chairs: Gabriel Crean, David Ginley, Yafang Han, Alan Hurd

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

• Report on the First Quadrennial Technology Review
  Steven Koonin - Undersecretary for Science
  US Department of Energy


• Key Enabling Technologies: A European Perspective
  Gabriel Crean - Scientific Director
  Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)


• CO₂ as a Cheap and Renewable Fuel for the Polymer Industry
  Xianhong Wang
  Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  [Presented by Dujin Wang]


• Mexico – Trends in the Energy Sector: A Proposal on Nanotechnology for Solar Energy
  Sergio Alcocer - Undersecretary for Energy Planning and Technology Development, Mexico

PLENARY SPEAKERS 

• Global Energy Challenges and Sustainability
  Harry Kroto - Florida State University


• Global Energy Flows
  Lynn Orr - Stanford University


• Materials Challenges in Renewable Energy: The Renewable Energy Transition
  George Crabtree - Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Chicago


• The Challenge of Water
  David Cahill - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


• Bringing Photovoltaic Energy Conversion to the Terawatt Level
  Patrick Bressler - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft


• Life Cycle Assessment as a Component of Materials Science & Engineering for a Sustainable World
  Duan Weng and Hongtao Wang
  Tsinghua University
  [Presented by Duan Weng]


• Electricity Grid
  Paul Waide
  Navigant Consulting


• Future Vehicles and Energy
  Jerry Gibbs
  US Department of Energy


• Resource Availability: Characterizing Risks & Identifying Research Opportunities
  Randolph Kirchain
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology


• Nuclear Power: Perceptions, Performance, Promises
  V. S. Arunachalam
  Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) 


• Advances in Materials Sciences
  William F. Brinkman
  US Department of Energy
• Poster Session & Reception