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Agenda for Cross-cutting Breakout Sessions
Panel Chair: P. Alivisatos
Monday, April 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sub-panel 3A — Linden Oak Room
Time Topic Speaker or Location
Session 1
1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Sub-panel Co-chairs, Jacob Karni and
Gang Chen
1:45 – 1:55 p.m. Solar Hot Water Systems Jane Davidson
1:55 – 2:05 p.m. Concentrated Solar Thermal Processes for Power
Generation
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Robert Pitz-Paal
2:05 – 2:15 p.m. Concentrated Solar Thermochemical Processes Aldo Steinfeld
2:15 – 2:25 p.m. Concentrated Photovoltaics Herb Hayden
2:25 – 3:00 p.m. Discussion of Concentration Processes
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. New Materials for Direct Heat to Electric Energy
Conversion — the Thermoelectric Option
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Current Status of Thermophotovoltaic Generation of
Electricity
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Initial discussion of one-sentence Priority Research
Directions (PRDs)
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Working Dinner Salon D
Session 2
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Prioritize 3–5 one-sentence PRDs
9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Panel Chair and Sub-panel Co-chairs review PRDs
Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Andreas Gombert
Time Topic Speaker or Location
Session 3
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Draft 3–5 one-sentence and one-viewgraph PRDs Linden Oak Room
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Plenary Midpoint Session (Presentations of draft
PRDs)
Salon E
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Working Lunch Salon D
Session 4
1:30 – 6:00 p.m. Down-select 3–4 PRDs Glen Echo Room
Session 5
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Open time for further discussion sessions if needed Glen Echo Room