[E&E seminars] MIT Global Energy Leaders Series - THIS THURS, 2PM - Lynn Orr, Director of Stanford's $225 Global Climate and Energy Project

[David Thomas Danielson]

Dear MIT Energy and Environment Community,

This Thursday @ 2PM in 66-110, the MIT Energy Club will host Lynn Orr, Director
of Stanford's $225 million Global Climate and Energy Project in the inaugural
lecture of its new high-level energy speaker series, the MIT Global Energy
Leaders Series!

http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy/programs/gels/index.html

Through this series, the Energy Club will bring high level global energy
leaders to speak at MIT 2-3 times/year.

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INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE MIT GLOBAL ENERGY LEADERS SERIES

"CO2, Climate, and Energy: University Research to Change the World's Energy
Systems"

Professor Lynn Orr
Director, Global Climate and Energy Project
Stanford University

2:00-3:00PM
66-110

Reception with speaker to follow.

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TALK DESCRIPTION:

Professor Lynn Orr is the outgoing director of Stanford University's $225
million Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), an ambitious long-term
collaborative energy initiative founded in 2002 to conduct fundamental,
pre-commercial research to foster the development of global energy technologies
with significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. GCEP is sponsored by
ExxonMobil, General Electric, Toyota, and Schlumberger.

Professor Orr will speak about the role of large-scale university research
initiatives in solving the global energy problem through the lens of his
experience running Stanford's GCEP. This is an extremely relevant and timely
topic for the MIT community as MIT begins to ramp up its own "MIT Energy
Initiative" and has a lot to learn from Stanford's experience with its own
energy initiative.

SPEAKER BIO:

Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr. became GCEP Project Director in November 2002. He
is the Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor of Petroleum Engineering.

Orr was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford
University from 1994 to 2002.

Orr earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Stanford in 1969 and
his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1976.
He joined the Stanford faculty in 1985.

Orr's research interests include multiphase flow in porous media; interactions
of high-pressure phase equilibria of multicomponent mixtures with multiphase
flow, with applications to enhanced oil recovery by gas injection processes and
contaminant transport in aquifers; modeling of large-scale, hydrodynamically
unstable flows in naturally heterogeneous porous media; theory of first-order
partial differential equations as applied to chromatographic separations that
occur during multiphase flow in porous media; capillary phenomena of
near-critical fluids in porous systems; and gas hydrates and CO2 sequestration.

Orr was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000. He is a member
of the boards of directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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