Past Events
The Energy Transition: Achieving a Balance Across Customer Needs, Politics and the Laws of Physics
September 28, 2023
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmOn September 28, 2023, at 2:15 p.m. CST in the Forum at the Rudder Theatre Complex on the campus of Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M Energy Research Society (TAMU ERS), in cooperation with the Texas A&M Energy Institute, will host a special lecture by Alice K. Jackson as a part of the 2023 Texas A&M Conference on Energy. Ms. Jackson’s presentation is titled, “The Energy Transition: Achieving a Balance Across Customer Needs, Politics and the Laws of Physics.”
Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy: Dr. Yi Cui
September 27, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe next presentation in the Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy, featuring Dr. Yi Cui, the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and the founding director of the Sustainability Accelerator at Stanford University, will be held on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00) in the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB) Third Floor Conference Room and through a Zoom Meeting. The topic will be “Reinventing Batteries Through Nanoscience.”
Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy: Dr. Vijay K. Dhir
August 28, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmThe next presentation in the Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy, featuring Dr. Vijay K. Dhir, a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and former Dean of the of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, will be held on Monday, August 28, 2023, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00) in the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB) Third Floor Conference Room and through a Zoom Meeting. The topic will be “A Novel Concept for Flash Evaporation and Phase Separation for Desalination.”
CEADS Seminar: Dr. Sarah Barber
May 30, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe Texas A&M Consortium for Energy And Data Science (CEADS) is hosting a seminar on May 30, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:00 p.m., CDT (UTC -5:00) at the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building Conference Room 315. The presenter will be Dr. Sarah Barber, Head of the Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, and the topic will be, “Interdisciplinary Research and Swiss Innovation for the Global Wind Energy Market.”
Special Seminar: Pedro Castro
April 18, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe Texas A&M Energy Institute will host a special seminar featuring Dr. Pedro Castro, an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Lisbon, on Thursday, April 18, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00) in the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB) Third Floor Conference Room and on Zoom. The topic will be “Global Optimization of Quadratically Constrained Problems (QCPS) with Mixed-Integer Programming Relaxations.”
Special Seminar: Dr. Mariano Martín
April 6, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center and the Texas A&M Energy Institute will host a special joint seminar on energy featuring Dr. Mariano Martín, an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Salamanca and leader of the Sustainable processes and products lab, will be held on Thursday, April 6, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00) in the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB) Third Floor Conference Room. The topic will be “Multiscale Analysis for a Social Energy Transition: Waste and Power to X to Power Process Design and Deployment.”
Energy Institute Lecture Series: Dr. Jill Engel-Cox
April 5, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe next presentation in the Texas A&M Energy Institute Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Jill Engel-Cox, a senior Research Advisor at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and former Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA), will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00). The topic will be “Scenarios for Future Energy Systems.”
Special Seminar: Dr. Rafiqul Gani
March 28, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Texas A&M Energy Institute will host a special seminar featuring Dr. Rafiqul Gani, a Co-Founder of the PSE for SPEED Company, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00) in the Jack E. Brown Chemical Engineering Building room 112. The topic will be “Chemical Products for a Changed World from a PSE Perspective.”
Special Seminar: Dr. Guiyan Zang
March 21, 2023
9:30 am - 10:30 amThe TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center and the Texas A&M Energy Institute will host a special joint seminar on energy featuring Dr. Guiyan Zang, a research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative, will be held on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CDT (UTC -5:00). The topic will be “Life-Cycle and Techno-Economic Analysis: Synthetic-Fuel Production and Other Applications.”
Energy Institute Lecture Series: Dr. Michael Shank
March 1, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pmThe next presentation in the Texas A&M Energy Institute Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Michael Shank, the Director of Engagement at the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, will be held on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST (UTC -6:00). The topic will be “Building the Political and Public Will for the Energy Transition.”