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Workshop for Basic Research Needs for
Solar Energy Utilization
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
Bethesda, Maryland
April 18–21, 2005
Agenda for Plenary Sessions
Plenary Opening Session — Monday, April 18, 2005
Time Topic Speaker or Location
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Salon E
8:30 – 8:35 a.m. Welcome and Workshop Charter Pat Dehmer, Director, Office of Basic Energy
Sciences
8:35 – 8:55 a.m. A Global Perspective on the Role of Solar Energy as a
Primary Energy Source
8:55 – 9:25 a.m. Overview of DOE/EERE Solar Energy Technologies
Program, Related EERE Efforts, and Basic Research
Needs
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Nathan Lewis, Workshop Chair, California
Institute of Technology, and George Crabtree,
Workshop Co-chair, Argonne National
Laboratory
Jeff Mazer, DOE Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
9:25 – 9:55 a.m. Solar-Renewable Energy for a Greenhouse Planet Martin Hoffert, Professor, Physics Dept.,
New York University
9:55 – 10:25 a.m. An Industrial Perspective on the Opportunities and
Challenges Involved with the Widespread Use of Solar
Energy in Global Power Production
Tom Feist, GE Global Research
10:25 – 10:45 a.m. Break Salon E
10:45 – 11:10 a.m. Solar Electricity Panel Overview Arthur Nozik, Senior Research Fellow, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
11:10 – 11:35 a.m. Solar Fuels Panel Overview Michael Wasielewski, Professor, Chemistry
Dept., Northwestern University
11:35 a.m. – 12 noon Cross-cutting Panel Overview Paul Alivisatos, Director, Materials Science
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Closing Remarks for Opening Plenary Session Nathan Lewis, Workshop Chair, California
Institute of Technology
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Salon D