Challenges and Opportunities in Energy:
Perspectives From MIT
Organised as part of the Club's 25th Anniversary Celebrations
in conjunction with
Singapore MIT Alliance &
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
(SMART) Centre
Guest of Honor:
Professor Ernest Moniz,
MIT Energy Initiative Director and
Former US Undersecretary of Energy
Professor Claude Canizares,
VP of Research & Associate Provost, MIT
Chair of the Symposium
Guests Speakers:
MIT Professors,
Tonio Buonassisi
Gang Chen
Gerbrand Ceder
Judy Layzer
Leslie Norford
Gregory Stepanopoulos
Date: Thursday, 22 January 2009
Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
Venue: National University of Singapore
Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium 2nd Storey,
11 Kent Ridge Drive
Singapore 119244
Registration is free but pre-registration is required. Please email your name, designation and
organisation to esibox2@nus.edu.sg by 20 January 2009.
About the MIT Energy Initiative
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), established in September 2006, is an Institute-wide initiative designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the needs of the future and to help build a bridge to that future by improving today's energy systems.
MIT President Susan Hockfield first announced an MIT energy initiative at her inauguration in May 2005. She said, "[It is] our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment....Tackling the problems that energy and the environment present will require contributions from all our departments and schools...bringing scientists, engineers and social scientists together to envision the best energy policies for the future."
She subsequently established an Energy Research Council (ERC) of 16 faculty members from all five schools, charged with exploring how MIT could best tackle the world’s energy crisis. After gathering extensive input from MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni as well as key industrial leaders, the ERC prepared a report and submitted it to Hockfield in May 2006.
Drawing on the recommendations in that report, Hockfield launched MITEI the following fall, thrusting MIT into a new era of highly focused energy-related activity. The MITEI program now includes research, education, campus energy management and outreach activities that cover all areas of energy supply and demand, security and environmental impact.
22 January 2009, Thursday
Shaw Foundation Alumni Hall Auditorium,
National University of Singapore Campus
Programme
8.30 am Registration
9.00 am Welcome Remarks from MIT
Professor Claude Canizares
Vice President of Research and Associate Provost, MIT
9.15 am Welcome Remarks from MIT Club of Singapore
Mr Will Hoon
President MIT Club of Singapore
9.20 am US Energy Perspective, Past, Present, and Future
Professor Ernest Moniz,
MIT Energy Initiative Director & former US Undersecretary of Energy
10.20 am Break
10.30 am Renewable Energy
Professors Tonio Buonassisi and Gregory Stephanopoulos
12.00 pm Lunch
1.00 pm The Built Environment
Professors Leslie Keith Norford and Judy Layzer
2.30 pm New Materials and Energy Technology
Professors Gerd Ceder and Gang Chen
4.00 pm End of Programme
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