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Title: Sustainable Energy
Date: Dec 7-8, 2017
Venue: Chalmers Conference Centre,
Gothenburg
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In collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, we organized a symposium on the topic of sustainable energy, with several high profile speakers, as listed below.
There were more than 140 high school students present, from Sweden and Denmark.
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Lectures, in chronological order:
Climate Change and innovative paths to a sustainable future | 
Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in Physics 1997, former United States Secretary of Energy. Stanford University, United States
How do we transition an entire country’s energy system to renewables? |
Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Materials science for electrochemical storage: Achievements and new directions |
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Collège de France
Electric vehicles in a sustainable energy system |
Dame Julia King, The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE
How can molecules function as semiconductors? |
Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Quantum Dot Light Emitters: from displays to enabling a new generation of energy conversion systems |
Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Singlet Fission for Solar Cells |
Josef Michl, University of Colorado Boulder, United States and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Thin film solar cells – achievements and challenges |
Susanne Siebentritt, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Fuels and Food from Sunlight, Air and Water |
Daniel G. Nocera, Harvard University, United States
Fueling Human Progress with Sunlight |
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, United States
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