Throughout the academic year, GCEP holds seminars on the Stanford
campus featuring guest speakers discussing technologies related to
energy and the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Recent Seminar Series
GCEP Student Energy Lectures - Summer 2011
GCEP Student Representatives – Lena Perkins, Jason Bloking, and Boxiao Li – organized this lecture series which showcased GCEP grad student/postdocs speakers giving presentations about their innovative energy research. Stanford grad students, postdocs, and faculty interested in clean energy were able to attend these seminars. This lecture series was quite a success and will be back next summer.
A special thanks to all of the participants:
- Jared Schwede: Photon-enhanced thermionic emission for concentrated solar
- Jared Wenger: Xylose utilization in yeast
- Pablo Garcia del Real: Chemical and mechanical interactions between CO2-rich fluids and Mg-silicate rocks: Strategies for CO2 sequestration
- Erik Garnett: Inorganic/organic hybrid tandem solar cells
- Natalie Johnson: CO2 sequestration using direct mineral carbonation of Mg-silicates
- Jason Bloking: New acceptor molecules for organic photovoltaics
- Nina Vaidya: Solar concentrators
- Phillip Smith: Conversion of biomass to hydrogen through a synthetic enzyme pathway
- Sangmoo Jeong: Nanostructured silicon solar cells
- Dr. Svenja Lohner: Bioelectrofuels: Converting electricity into fuels
- Sankaran Ramakrishnan: High-efficiency architectures for steady-flow combustion engines
- Lena Perkins: Life cycle and exergy analysis of biofuels
- Paul Mobley: Optimizing efficiency of CO2 sequestration with coal combustion in super critical water
- Dr. Xiaofang Yu: Wireless energy transfer
