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2009 Calendar At-A-Glance

September 30, 2009 Indiana Energy Conference
“Energy Policy: What Does the Future Hold?
University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN
December 3, 2009

CCTR Advisory Panel Meeting
Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2009 Event Archive

 
January 22, 2009 Green Building Faculty Workshop
An internal faculty workshop on Green Building from 11:00 am-3:00 pm in Potter 234
View Workshop Presentations
February 3, 2009 The modern American city: can we ever make it sustainable?
February 20, 2009 Renewable Solar Energy: Has the Sun Finally Risen on Photovoltaics?
A Discovery Lecture Series Event
1:30-3:00 PM, February 20, 2009, Lawson 1142
Speaker: Mark R. Pinto
February 27, 2009

Battery Workshop
Stewart Center

Agenda and presentations

“The Energy Centers at Purdue University West Lafayette and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will host a battery workshop on Friday, February 27 in Stewart Center on the Purdue West Lafayette Campus. The workshop is designed to build the Indiana battery research community by introducing battery researchers and users. Speakers will be drawn from industry and campuses across Indiana. This is an informal planning workshop and will include a working lunch and next steps brainstorming. All interested researchers and industry representatives are welcome to attend. Contact Ron Steuterman (765) 494-4437, John Schneider (765) 494-0743, or email energy@purdue.edu for more information.

March 5, 2009

CCTR Advisory Panel Meeting
Indiana Government Center, Indianapolis

March 12, 2009 Green Building Research Open House & Tours 3:30 PM
A post-Green Building Workshop series featuring Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering
& Mechanical Engineering Technology facilities.
March 26, 2009

Pioneers in Energy Lecture Series
Dr. Mike Ramage
NAE, Executive Vice President (retired) Exxon Mobil
Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Hydrogen
Mechanical Engineering Building, Rm 161

March 26, 2009

America's Renewable Energy Future–Panel and Town Hall Discussion
8:15 PM, Mechanical Engineering Building, Rm. 161
Immediately Following the Pioneers in Energy Lecture

March 31, 2009

Green Building Research Open House & Tours 11:30 AM
A post-Green Building Workshop series featuring Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering
& Mechanical Engineering Technology facilities.

Presentation slides from the Applied Energy Lab, College of Technology

April 14, 2009 Green Building Research Open House & Tours 3:30 PM
A post Green Building Workshop series featuring Purdue’s 66,000 square-foot Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research
April 17, 2009 Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation via a Discrete Velocity Monte Carlo Method
ARMS 1109, 10:30 AM
Professor Phillip L. Varghese
University of Texas Austin
April 22-23, 2009 Hydrogen Symposium 2009
Stewart Center, Rm. 214ABCD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
May 18-19, 2009 Second Generation Biofuels Symposium 2009
Stewart Center, Rm. 214, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
May 28, 2009

Lecture-Coal based oxy-combustion for carbon capture and storage: status, prospects, research needs and roadmap to commercialisation

Presentation

Professor Terry Wall Project Leader, APP Oxy-fuel Working Group and Chemical Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia Thursday, May 28, 2009, 3:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Rm. 318

June 4, 2009

CCTR Advisory Panel Meeting
Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington, IN

July 21-22, 2009

WIndiana, Indiana Wind Working Group Conference

 

September 10-11, 2009

CCTR Advisory Panel Meeting
Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN. Second day features underground mine tour.

September 10, 2009

Creating a Sun on Earth: Control Challenges in Magnetic Fusion
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
4:30 p.m., Mechanical Engineering, Rm. 161

Eugenio Schuster
Laboratory for Control of Complex Physical Systems
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Lehigh University

September 10, 2009

Energy Center External Advisory Council Meeting
This event is by invitation only.
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Rm. 2001

September 17, 2009

Pioneers in Energy Lecture
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs and Environmental Impacts
Report on Findings of Panel on Alternative Liquid Fuels National Academy Study on America's Energy Future

Dr. Michael Ladisch
7:00 p.m., Fowler Hall, Stewart Center

September 22, 2009

Pioneers in Energy Lecture
Sustainable Energy Solutions for a Limited Fossil Fuel Future
Dr. Rakesh Agrawal
7:00 p.m., Fowler Hall, Stewart Center

2008 Event Archive

April 24-25, 2008

Hydrogen Symposium 2008

May 19-20, 2008 Biofuels Symposium 2008

September 4, 2008

Workshop on Energy Systems and Policy

September 15-19, 2008

Green Week 2008

October 23, 2008 Great Lakes Water Quality Conference, Purdue University Calumet

October 30, 2008

Predicting the Future of Coal, Oil Shale and Oil Sands
Philip Smith, The University of Utah
FRNY G140-3:30 PM

Energy Center, Chemical Engineering & e-Enterprise

October 30, 2008

Next Generation Solar Thermal Systems
Jane Davidson, Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
ME 161-4:30 PM

Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Seminar

December 4, 2008 The Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells
George Miley, University of Illinois
PHYS 203-4:00 PM

Purdue Physics Department
Colloquium Speaker
December 4, 2008 HYDROGEN STORAGE SEMINAR, Eric Poirier, Purdue University/General Motors Corporation
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Mechanical Engineering Building, Rm. 155
December 5, 2008 Ecological Sciences and Engineering Symposium Purdue University
December 11-12, 2008 COAL, STEEL, AND INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY, Briefing, Purdue Calumet Campus

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