[E&E seminars] MITEI Seminar Series - George Crabtree - 12/2 - The Sustainable Energy Challenge

[Jameson Twomey]

We are pleased to announce the fourth speaker in the 2008-2009 MITEI Seminar
Series. We hope you will join us Tuesday, December 2nd as we welcome George
Crabtree, Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National
Laboratory.

 

The Sustainable Energy Challenge

George Crabtree

 

Date: December 2nd

Time: 4:15-5:45 - Reception to follow

Location: 66-110 (Landau Building, 25 Ames Street)

 

Abstract

 

The global dependence on fossil fuel is among the greatest challenges facing
our economic, social and political future. The uncertainty of imported oil
threatens global energy security, the pollution of fossil combustion
threatens human health, and the emission of greenhouse gases threatens
global climate. Meeting the demand for double the current global energy use
in the next 50 years without damaging security, environment or climate
requires finding alternative sources of energy that are clean, abundant,
accessible and sustainable. Electricity and hydrogen, once produced, meet
these criteria and are among the most versatile of energy carriers. Research
challenges that would enable the production, storage, and use of electricity
and hydrogen as sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel will be presented.

 

About the Speaker

 

George Crabtree holds the dual rank of Argonne Distinguished Fellow and
Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
He has won numerous awards for his research, most recently the Kammerlingh
Onnes Prize in 2003 for his work on the physics of vortices in high
temperature superconductors.  This prestigious prize is awarded once every
three years; Dr. Crabtree is its second recipient. He has won the University
of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne twice, and the
U.S. Department of Energy's Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment
in Solid State Physics four times, a notable accomplishment. He has an R&D
100 Award for his pioneering development of Magnetic Flux Imaging Systems.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a charter member of ISI's
Highly Cited Researchers in Physics, and a Member of the National Academy of
Sciences.

 

We very much hope you will join us for this, the final seminar of the Fall
semester!

 

We thank CERA for its sponsorship of the MITEI Seminar Series.

 

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