The Bredesen Center's Energy Science and Engineering Seminar is held every Thursday at 5:00pm at the listed locations at both the University of Tennesse, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Spring 2013 ESE Seminar Schedule
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
1/24/13
Ice Ages and Climate Change
Lee Riedinger - Director of the Bredesen Center
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
2/7/13
Solar Energy Status in Tennessee
John Hopkins - Director of TN-SCORE, UTK
Room 408 Greve Hall 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
2/21/13
Balancing Civility and Free Expression for Effective Governance.
Tennessee Governors Bill Haslam, Phil Bredesen and Don Sundquist
Baker Center Auditorium at UTK
2/28/13
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
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
4/11/13
Emerging trends in quantum computing technologies
Travis Humble- Quantum Computing Institute, ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
4/18/13
Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy: New eyes for a clearer nano-world
Wu Zhou - ORNL Wigner Fellow
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
Fall 2012 ESE Seminar Schedule
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
9/13/12
Scientific Entrepreneurship from Nuts to Bolts
Caryle Breeden - Owner of Breeden & Company, Knoxville, TN
Room 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
9/27/12
Engineering Biology by Design
Cong Trinh – Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, UTK
203 Temple Court 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
10/15/12
Computational Studies of Nanostructured Soft Matter and Multicomponent Materials for Energy Sciences
Dr. Bobby Sumpter - ORNL Director Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
10/25/12
Computational Studies of Nanostructured Soft Matter and Multicomponent Materials for Energy Sciences
Dr. Bobby Sumpter - ORNL Director Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
11/1/12
The Expanding Universe
Dr. Tina Riedinger - Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, UTK
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
Dr. Kate Evans - Climate Scientist, ORNL
JICS Room 140 at ORNL
11/15/12
Scientific User Facilities
Dr. Laura Edwards - Group Leader, User Programs and Outreach, Neutron Sciences Directorate, ORNL
Room 408 Greve Hall at UTK
11/29/12
Tour of Spallation Neutron Source
Dr. Thom Mason, ORNL Lab Director
Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL
Contact Information
Lee Riedinger
Professor of Physics
Director
Mike Simpson
Professor of Material Sciences and Engineering
Assistant Director
Wanda Davis
Assistant to the Director
443 Greve Hall
821 Volunteer Blvd
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
865-974-7999
Ben Allen
Coordinator & Recruiter
418 Greve Hall
821 Volunteer Blvd
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
865-974-9374
Fax: 865-974-9482