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Tuesday, October 14m o r n i n g

7:45 – 8:30 McCaw Hall Check-in, Continental Breakfast*PLENARY SESSIONS8:30 – 9:00 McCaw Hall Welcome, Global Climate and Energy Project 2014

Sally Benson, Director – Global Climate and Energy Project, Director – Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University

9:00 – 9:45 McCaw Hall Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and VulnerabilityChris Field, Founding Director – Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, Co-Chair of IPCC WG II

9:45 – 10:30 McCaw Hall The Role of Industry in the Sustainable Energy TransitionChad Holliday, Board of Directors – Bank of America

10:30 – 10:45 Break*10:45 – 11:30 McCaw Hall Moving the Clean Energy Agenda Forward in Developing Countries

Daniel Kammen, Director – Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Professor – Energy and Resources Group, University of California-Berkeley

11:30 – 12:30 McCaw Hall Perspectives from the World’s Largest Industries on Approaches for Addressing the Global Energy ChallengeArun Majumdar, Professor – Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow – Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford UniversityPete Trelenberg, Manager – Environmental Policy & Planning, Exxon Mobil CorporationJohn Woolard, Vice President – Energy, Google

12:30 – 1:45 Sy Oak Grove Lunch*Sy Oak Grove (far left-side buffet)

GCEP Sponsor / Student Networking Lunch (by invitation only)*

Sy Oak Grove (far left-side buffet)

California Energy Commission Student / Networking Lunch (by invitation only)*

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GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Synthetic Fuels Energy Tutorial: Wind 1011:45 – 3:25 McCaw Hall 1:45 – 3:25 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Thomas Jaramillo, Chemical Engineering, Stanford UniversityPresenters:Matthew Kanan, Chemistry – Stanford University, Heterogeneous Electro-Catalysts that Convert CO2 into Liquid FuelsRobert Waymouth, Chemistry – Stanford University, Molecular Designs for ElectrocatalystsThomas Jaramillo, Chemical Engineering – Stanford University, Design Principles for Catalyzing CO2 Electro-Reduction to Fuels and Chemicals on Transition Metal Surfaces

Patrick Riley, Energy Systems Research Engineer – Aero, Thermal & Mechanical Systems, GE Global Research

POSTER SESSIONS3:30 – 5:45 Ford Gardens GCEP researchers present their posters (please see poster handout)

3:30 – 5:00 Session A4:15 – 5:45 Session B

e v e n i n g ( p r i v a t e e v e n t )5:45 – 7:30 McCaw Hall GCEP Student Social and Dinner

(for GCEP graduate students and postdoctoral scholars only)

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Wednesday, October 15m o r n i n g

7:30 – 8:30 3rd Flr. McCown 2 Conference Room

New GCEP PI Breakfast (by invitation only)

7:45 – 8:30 McCaw Hall Continental Breakfast*GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Energy Conversion Materials and Devices Energy Tutorial: Thermoelectrics 1018:30 – 10:10 McCaw Hall 8:30 – 10:10 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering – Stanford UniversityPresenters:Roger Howe, Electrical Engineering – Stanford University, Using Simulations to Discover New Materials with Energy Conversion ApplicationsRobert Braun, Mechanical Engineering – Colorado School of Mines, Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Systems for Grid-Energy StorageZhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering – Stanford University, Nanostructured Functional Polymers for Energy Storage and CO2 Capture

Eric Pop, Associate Professor – Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

10:10 – 10:25 Break*GCEP Research – Technical Talks: Fossil-Based Energy Systems Energy Tutorial: Net Energy Analysis of

Renewables 10110:25 – 12:05 McCaw Hall 10:25 – 12:05 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Christopher Edwards, Mechanical Engineering – Stanford UniversityPresenters:Edward Maginn, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – University of Notre Dame, Novel Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO2 CaptureEdward Rubin, Engineering and Public Policy – Carnegie Mellon University, Evaluating Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture TechnologiesReginald Mitchell and Turgut Gür, Mechanical Engineering – Stanford University, Co-Production of Hydrogen and Electricity in Carbon Fuel Cells

Charlie Barnhart, Assistant Professor – Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University

12:05 – 1:15 Sy Oak Grove Lunch*

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PLENARY SESSIONSGCEP Research – Technical Talks: Renewables Energy Tutorial: Synthetic Fuels 1011:15 – 2:55 McCaw Hall 1:15 – 2:55 Fisher Conference CenterSession Chair: Michael McGehee, Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford UniversityPresenters:William Chueh, Materials Science and Engineering – Stanford University, Solar Fuels from Light and HeatHemamala Karunadasa, Chemistry – Stanford University, Hybrid Perovskite Solar-Cell AbsorbersClint Chapple, Biochemistry – Purdue University, Lignin Management: Optimizing Yield and Composition in Lignin-Modified Plants

Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor – Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

2:55 – 3:15 Break*

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PLENARY SESSION3:15 – 4:15 McCaw Hall The World Is Fast

Thomas Friedman, Columnist – The New York Times, Author GCEP DISTINGUISHED STUDENT LECTURERS4:15 – 5:15 McCaw Hall Christina Li, Ph.D. Candidate – Chemistry, Stanford University,

CO2 and CO Reduction on Oxide-Derived CopperChristopher McClellan, Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Dundee, Using Plants for Biofuel ProductionChao Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow – Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Self-Healing Lithium Ion BatteryIan Smith, Ph.D. Candidate – Chemistry, Stanford University, Layered Organic-Inorganic Perovskites as Efficient Solar Cell Absorbers

5:15 – 5:25 McCaw Hall GCEP Student Poster Awards Closing RemarksSally Benson, Director – GCEP

e v e n i n g ( p r i v a t e e v e n t )5:30 – 6:15 Dwight Family

Living RoomReception for symposium speakers, sponsors, GCEP investigators and their students and other invited guests (by invitation only)

6:15 – 8:00 Dwight Family Living Room

Dinner for symposium speakers, sponsors, GCEP investigators and their students and other invited guests (by invitation only)

The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building

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