MAGEEP SEMINARS & MEETINGS

The faculty, students and staff meet informally to discuss energy and environmental issues that the world faces. And, over pizza and drinks, we discuss how to solve the problems of the GLOBE, and our only home - planet Earth.

MEETING TIME AND LOCATION
4:00 pm - FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH
Brauer Hall, room 12 (unless otherwise noted)

ACADEMIC YEAR  2012 - 2013

SPRING 2013

February 6, 2013
• Pratim Biswas, Bill Lowry, & Phil Valko, Washington University
  Sustainable Community Networks

March 6, 2013
• Beth Martin & Maxine Lipeles, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, Washington University School of Law
   Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic: Experiential Learning and Community Service

April 3, 2013
• Matt Lawder, Chris Singer, and Akshay Gopan, Ph.D. Students
   Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
   Washington University in St. Louis
   "Global Energy Scenario: What must we do going ahead?"

May 1, 2013
• John Fortner, Washington University
   Water Quality Implications of Hydraulic Fraturing for Shale Gas Production

 FALL 2012

September 5, 2012
• Dr. Mark Conradi, Washington University
   Magnetic Resonance to Understand CO2 Chemical and Physical Trapping
   [Host: Dr. Axelbaum]

October 3, 2012
• Dr. Sanjini Nanayakkara, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
   Measuring Charge Distribution in single hetrostructured nanorods using scanning Kelvin probe microscopy
   [Host: Dr. Banerjee]

November 7, 2012

• Dr. Anna Leavy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, WUStL
   The Impact of biomass-burning cookstoves on indoor air quality, and factors influencing the pollutant concentrations

• Dr. Ajay Sheshadri, MD, Pulmonary Fellow, WUStL, School of Medicine
   The Impact of Biomass Combustion on Respiratory Health

• Nishesh Chalise, PhD Candidate, Brown School of Social Work, WUStL
   Systems approach to understanding barriers to sustained use of improved cookstoves

[Host: Dr. Biswas]

 ACADEMIC YEAR  2011 - 2012

September 7, 2011
Jeremy Pivor & Summer Zhao,
Washington University
"Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment": (WUSICE): The Undergraduate Perspective the Environment": (WUSICE): The Undergraduate Perspective

October 5, 2011
Sachin Warghade, Fullbright Scholar
Washington University
"Electricity for Urban Industrial Development or Water for Agriculture: Policy & Technological Challenges of Water-Energy Nexus in India"

November 2, 2011
Dr. William Pickard, Senior Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering
Washington University
Confronting the Intermittency Challenge  

February 1, 2012
Dr. Brent Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University
"Biogenic and Anthropogenic Particles in the Atmosphere: Sources, Composition, and Climate Interactions"

March 7, 2012
Mr. George Thomas, Partner
Director, Global Sales Strategy & Execution
IBM Smarter Cities
IBM's Smarter Planet Inititive - Building a Smarter Planet One City at a Time
[Host: Parag Banerjee]

April 4, 2012
Dr. Eric Zencey, Fellow
Univeristy of Vermont
"Energy and Economic Theorgy: Achieving Sustainability by Modeling the Economy as a Thermodynamic System"

and

Dr. Mike Dudukovic, Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
"Challenges to Efficient and Sustainable  Process Technologies for Energy and Environment"

May 2, 2012
Dr. John Fortner, Assistant Professor, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University

ACADEMIC YEAR  2010 - 2011

September 15, 2010
Dr. Pratim Biswas, Professor
Washington University
Organizational meeting for the Symposium on Global Energy Future and Tour of Brauer Hall

October, 1 - 5, 2010
McDonnell International Scholars Academy
3rd International Symposium on Energy & Environment
Please sign up here: http://mageep.wustl.edu/SYMPOSIA/Symposia10/Questionnaire.aspx
(Program & location details, see: http://www.mageep.wustl.edu/SYMPOSIA/Symposia10/2010_Program.aspx)

November 3, 2010
Dr. Mark Conradi, Physics; Dr. Sophia Hays, Chemistry; and Dr. Philip Skemer, Earth Sciences;
Washington University
"Development of State-of-the-Art NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging for Utilization and Sequestration of CO2"

December 1, 2010
Double Header Talks:
Dr. P. Ramachandran, Professor, Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University
"Hydrodynamic Effects in Chemical Looping Combustion"
Dan Combest, PhD Student of Dr. Ramachandran
"Oxidative Treatment of Wastewater"   

February 2, 2011
Rescheduled due to inclement weather

March 2, 2011
Dr. Lea-Rachel Kosnik, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
University of Missouri, St. Louis
"Environmental & Energy Economics"

April 6, 2011
Dr. Cynthia Lo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University
"Effect of Biomolecular Structure on Energy Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes: Implications for Designing Bio-Hybrid Solar Cells"

May 4, 2011
Dr. Daniel Giammar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University
"Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water" 

ACADEMIC YEAR 2009 - 2010

August 5, 2009
Dr. Lan Yang, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Systems Engineering
Washington University
"An on-chip platform for ultra-high sensitivity detection of pollutants in air and water using whispering-gallery-mode optical microcavities"

September 3, 2009
Dr. Kelly Bishop, Assistant Professor, Economics
Washington University
"Estimating the Economic Costs of Pollution"

October 7, 2009 ~ Crow Hall, room 206
Dr. Yinjie Tang, Professor, Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University
"Investigation of Metabolic Pathways via Isotopomer-Assisted Metabolite Analysis"

November 2, 2009 ~ Simon Hall, May Auditorium
Symposim on America's Energy Future, Chaired by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton

December 2, 2009
Christof Jantzen, Professor, Architecture
Washington University
"Towards a House of the Future"
 
February 3, 2010
Dr. Michael Frachetti, Professor of Anthropology
Washington University      
"Coastline loss and the socio-environmental impact of displaced communities:  Correlating environmental catalysts for shoreline change with human response"

March 3, 2010   
Dr. Y.S. Jun, Professor of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University    
Dr. Ramesh Aggarwal, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Washington University       
"Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Studies"

April 7, 2010   
Dr. Itai Sened, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences
Washington University
Michelle Bernard, Undergraduate Student, Washington University   
Michael Craig, Undergraduate Student, Washington University     
"What does it take to implement renewable energy strategies: Technology vs. Policy"

April 29, 2010   
Going Green: A Corporate Perspective on Energy & Sustainability   
7:00 pm, Whitaker Hall Auditorium     

May 5, 2010   
Dr. Gautam Yadama, Professor of Social Work
Washington University   
Dr. Tiffany Knight, Professor of Biology, Washington University   
Peter Hovmand, Director of the Social Systems Design Lab

June 2, 2010   
Dr. Paul Donnelly, Professor, School of Architecture
Washington University      
"Reducing Energy Demand in Commercial Buildings:  Dynamic Heat Transfer and Storage System
2010 FALL SEMINARS