CFES Annual Conference
January 25, 2013
Hilton Garden Inn, Troy, NY 12180
You are cordially invited to the 2012-2013 Annual Conference of the Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The event will be held on Friday, January 25, 2013 in the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy, NY. Highlights of the conference include
- Three parallel oral presentation sessions,
- Luncheon with invited keynote speeches, and
- A poster session with reception.
The oral sessions will feature 21 presentations by world-class experts in three focused areas: Advanced Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, Semiconductors for Energy Applications, and Renewable Energy and Smart Grid. In addition to Center researchers, several invited industry speakers from Primet, GE, IBM, and IR will also present in these sessions. The poster session, with more than 50 posters, will showcase the breadth of Center research and provide additional opportunities for individual and more in-depth technical discussion.
Registration is required for attending the conference and seats are limited, so please register early – registration deadline is January 4th, 2013. Please click here for the Registration Form and a complete Technical Program. Please contact Lisa Valenti at valenl@rpi.edu or (518) 276-6754 if you need additional information or have any questions.
Technical Program:
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Session A – Advanced Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
- Synchronizing Energy and Power Through Process and Crystal Engineering, Shailesh Upreti, Primet Precision Materials
- Hierarchical Nanostructured Porous Carbon for Energy-related Applications, Kisung Chae and Liping Huang, RPI
- Block Copolymer Based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage, Jörg Werner and Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University
- Molecular Electrocatalysts for Solar Fuel Production, Peter Dinolfo, RPI
- Understanding Materials-based Limitations in Energy Devices: the Importance of in Operando Analysis, Yingchao Yu and Hector Abruña, Cornell University
- Hierarchical Porous Carbon Scaffolds as a Platform for Studying Electrochemical Systems,Luis Estevez and Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell University
- Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Membranes Containing Perfluorosulfonic Acid Group, Ying Chang, Chulsung Bae, et al., RPI
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Session B – Semiconductors for Energy Applications
- Advanced SiC MOSFETs for High Power Applications, Ljubisa Stevanovic, et al., GE Global Research Center
- GaN Power Devices,Mike Briere, International Rectifier
- High Voltage Normally-off GaN MOSC-HEMTs on Silicon Substrates for Power Switching Applications, Zhongda Li, John Waldron, Rohan Dayal, Leila Parsa, Mona Hella, and T. Paul Chow, RPI
- GaN for Large-Scale Power Efficiency, Christian Wetzel, RPI
- Semiconductor Integration Paradigms for Renewable Energy Systems, Theodore Letavic, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Si and GaAs Power Integrated Circuits, Mona Hella, RPI
- Monolithic Optoelectronic Integration of GaN High-Voltage Power FETs and LEDs with a Selective Epi Removal Process, J. Waldron, R. Karlicek, and Paul Chow, RPI
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Session C – Renewable Energy and Smart Grid
- Solar Power Conversion and System Optimization, Rui Zhou, GE Global Research Center
- Adaptive Control of Grid-Connected Inverters for Renewable Energy Applications, Mauricio Cespedes and Jian Sun, RPI
- Online Measurement of Power Grid Impedance, Tomi Roinila and Jian Sun, RPI
- Big Data Analytics for Renewable Energy: bigDAARE, Mark J. Embrechts, RPI
- Phasor State Estimation for Data Accuracy Improvement and Power Transfer Interface Monitoring, Scott Ghiocel and Joe Chow, RPI
- Power System State Estimation Using a Non-Iterative Direct State Calculation Method, Tony Jiang, Bruce Fardanesh, Deepak Maragal, George Stefopoulos, and Joe Chow, RPI
- An Advanced Open-Source Model for Predicting the Effects of Power-Sector Policies and Investments, Daniel Shawhan, et al., RPI, and William Schulze, Cornell University
Congratulations to the Student Poster Award Winners:
Poster 1. Effect of Low Melting, Crystallizable Glass (Glass-Ceramic) on Sintering Behavior and Dielectric Properties of Barium Titanate, Xiaofeng Su, J. Keith Nelson, Douglas B. Chrisey, and Minoru Tomozawa, RPI
Poster 16. Synthesis of Gyroidal Mesoporous Carbon with Controllable, Ultralarge Pore Sizes, Jörg Werner and Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University
Poster 31. High Voltage Normally-off GaN MOSC-HEMTs on Silicon Substrates for Power Switching Applications, Zhongda Li, John Waldron, Rohan Dayal, Leila Parsa, Mona Hella, and Paul Chow, RPI
Poster 33. BitTorrent-inspired Decentralized Smart Grid Management, Matthew Titus and Wayne Bequette, RPI