The Bredesen Center Energy Science and Engineering Seminar (ESE 599) is held every Thursday at 5:00pm at the listed locations at both the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Fall 2014 ESE Seminar Schedule
11/6/14
Overview of Aries Energy
Harvey Abouelata and Mary Shaffer Gill – Aries Energy
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/30/14
Effects of Production and Consumption on Worldwide Mineral Supply
Tracey Wellington – Bredesen Center student
JICS Auditorium
10/23/14
Bredesen Center Entrepreneurship
Beth Papanek and Andrew Lepore – Bredesen Center students
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/9/14
Manufacturing Demonstration Facility Tour
Lonnie Love – National Transportation Research Center
NTRC
9/25/14
From Good and Bad to Better and Worse: Using LCA to Evaluate Biofuels
Adam Taylor – UTIA Department of Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
9/25/14
Technology Neutrality and Why We Need It – Energy Policy for a Cleaner Future
Justin Knowles, Kristian Myhre & Emily Clark – Bredesen Center students
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
9/18/14
Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Dual-Fuel Advanced Combustion Engine Concept
Dr. Scott Curran – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
National Transportation Research Center
9/11/14
Impacts of Climate Change on the Evolution of the Electrical Grid
Dr. Melissa Allen – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
9/4/14
Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicles
Dr. Orner Onar – Electrical and Electronics Systems Research Division – Oak Ridge Ntional Laboratory
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
8/28/14
Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ian Anderson – Director of Graduate Education and University Partnerships at ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
8/21/14
Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicles
Bob DeVault – Adjuct faculty – Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
Spring 2014 ESE Seminar Schedule
4/10/14
MEMS/NEMS and Functional Nanomaterials over Large Areas
Panos Datskos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
4/10/14
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Overview and Applications
Sean McGinnis, Virginia Tech
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
4/3/14
Learning a Foreign Language
Lynn Youngs, Executive Director of the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
3/24/14
Shaping our Future: Nuclear Energy’s Impact on Energy Diversity, Job Growth, and Climate Change
Ambassador Ron Kirk, Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
3/06/14
How Ecosystem Service Provision Can Increase Forest Mortality from Insect Outbreaks
Charles Sims – Department of Economics and the Baker Center, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
2/27/14
Fusion Science and Technology at ORNL
Don Hillis – Fusion Energy Division, ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
2/13/14
TVA Small Modular Reactors
Dan Stout – Tennessee Valley Authority
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/30/14
Transitioning Motor Vehicles to Sustainable Energy
David Greene – Baker Center for Public Policy, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/23/14
The Expanding Universe, part 2
Tina Riedinger – Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/16/14
The Expanding Universe, part 1
Tina Riedinger – Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/9/14
Ice Ages and Climate Change
Lee Riedinger, Director of the Bredesen Center
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
Fall 2013 ESE Seminar Schedule
11/21/13
Science and Diplomacy
Bill Colglaizer, Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State
Baker Center Auditorium
11/14/13
Science Outreach Opportunities
April McMillan and Trent Nichols – ORNL; John Hopkins – TN-SCORE
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
11/7/13
Advanced Generation Biorefineries: Developing Value-Added Coproducts from Biomass
Tim Rials – Chief Scientist – Director of the Center for Renewable Carbon at UT
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/31/13
Neutron Scattering Research at ORNL
Steve Nagler – Chief Scientist – ORNL Neutron Scattering Science Division
Spallation Neutron Source – ORNL building 8600
10/24/13
Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicles
Bob DeVault – Adjuct faculty – Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/10/13
Developing BioEnergy Technologies and Bioelectronic Materials
Sreekanth Pannala – Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division at ORNL
Room B228 in building 5600 at ORNL
10/3/13
Residential Home Retrofit as Distributed Power
Bruce Glanville – Energy Home Basics
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
9/26/13
Developing BioEnergy Technologies and Bioelectronic Materials
Abhijeet Borole – ORNL Biosciences Division
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
9/17/13
Science Policy
Adam Rondinoni – Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
9/12/13
Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ian Anderson – Director of Graduate Education and University Partnerships at ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
9/5/13
Technology Entrepreneurship
Lee Martin – UT College of Engineering
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
8/30/13
Nuclear Energy: Overview of Congressional Issues
Kelly Perry – Office of Senator Lamar Alexander
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
Spring 2013 ESE Seminar Schedule
4/18/13
Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy: New eyes for a clearer nano-world
Wu Zhou – ORNL Wigner Fellow
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
4/11/13
Emerging trends in quantum computing technologies
Travis Humble- Quantum Computing Institute, ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
3/7/13
Activities of National Transportation Research Center
Robert Wagner – Director of the Fuels Engines and Emissions Research Center, NTRC
NTRC
3/14/13
Model reduction in kinetic simulations & So Much More than Research: ORNL Organizations and Communities
Cory Hauck – Householder Fellow, ORNL & Channa Palmer – Human Resources, ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
2/28/13
Pure Electric & Electric Vehicles-Mainstream or Small Niche?
Bob DeVault – Adjunct Professor at the Bredesen Center; Retired Senior Staff Member of Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
2/21/13
Balancing Civility and Free Expression for Effective Governance
Tennessee Governors Bill Haslam, Phil Bredesen and Don Sundquist
Baker Center Auditorium at UTK
2/14/13
Reverse-Engineering the Brain for Reproducing Intelligence in Applications Related to Energy and Transportation
Andreas Malikopoulos – Energy and Transportation Science Division, ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
2/7/13
Solar Energy Status in Tennessee
John Hopkins – Director of TN-SCORE, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/31/13
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Future
Chris Hill – Adjunct Professor at the Bredesen Center; Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Technology at Georgetown University
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/24/13
Ice Ages and Climate Change
Lee Riedinger – Director of the Bredesen Center
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
1/10/13
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Rosalyn McKeown – Director of Center for Geography and Environmental Education @ UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
Fall 2012 ESE Seminar Schedule
11/29/12
Tour of Spallation Neutron Source
Thom Mason, ORNL Lab Director
Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL
11/15/12
Scientific User Facilities
Laura Edwards – Group Leader, User Programs and Outreach, Neutron Sciences Directorate, ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
11/8/12
Times Flies When You Are Having Fun: Using Efficient Algorithms to Understand the Multiscale Nature of Global Climate Modeling
Kate Evans – Climate Scientist, ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
11/1/12
The Expanding Universe
Tina Riedinger – Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/25/12
Computational Studies of Nanostructured Soft Matter and Multicomponent Materials for Energy Sciences
Bobby Sumpter – ORNL Director Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/15/12
Computational Studies of Nanostructured Soft Matter and Multicomponent Materials for Energy Sciences
Bobby Sumpter – ORNL Director Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/4/12
Overview of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jim Roberto – Associate Lab Director Science and Technology Partnerships
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
9/27/12
Engineering Biology by Design
Cong Trinh – Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, UTK
203 Temple Court at UTK
9/20/12
Planar Jumping-Drop Thermal Diodes
Jonathan Boreyko – Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
9/13/12
Scientific Entrepreneurship from Nuts to Bolts
Caryle Breeden – Owner of Breeden & Company, Knoxville, TN
Room 203 Temple Court at UTK
9/6/12
CO2 Capture, Supercapacitors and Fluorescent-Protein Bioimaging: the Many-Faceted Contributions of Computational Science to Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and the Energy Sciences
Sean Smith – Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL