Berkeley Electrochemistry Seminar Series – 2009 Schedule

Monday Seminars and Discussions begin promptly at 4:00 PM in LBNL Building 70, Room 191

Note: 70-191 is reserved every Monday (except for LBNL holidays) from 3:30 PM until 5:00 PM, so that seminar speakers can arrive early to check their presentations, or discussions can begin earlier if need be.

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
January 12		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
January 26	Craig Horne, Kim Kinoshita (EnerVault Co.) and Chris Marnay (LBNL)	Seminar: Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems – Applications, Markets, & Technologies
February 2		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
February 9	Shidi Xun	Seminar: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Opto-Electronic Ruthenium Complexes and Polymers
February 23		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
March 2	Professor John Newman	Seminar: Analysis and Simulation of Electrochemical Energy Systems
March 9		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
March 16	Guoying Chen	Seminar: Studies on the LiMnPO4 System
March 23		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
March 30	Robert Kostecki	Seminar: Studies of Li Diffusion in Graphite
April 6		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
April 13	Jack Chen	Seminar: Combustion Synthesis of Lithium Manganese Phosphate
April 20	Philip Yu (PPG)	Discussion at 2:00 PM in 70-191
April 27	Vijay Sethuraman	Seminar: Activation Energy and Side Reaction Rate Measurements in Si Anodes
May 4	Professor Gerbrand Ceder	Seminar: High-Throughput Ab Initio Materials Searching for Li Battery Electrodes
May 11		Practice talks for ECS Meeting
May 18	DOE review meeting	70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
June 1		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
June 8	Gao Liu	Seminar: Conductive Polymer Binders for Si Material
June 15	Adam Weber and John Newman	70-191 is reserved for discussion restricted to electrochemical group PIs
June 22	John Chmiola	Seminar: Intelligent Design of Carbon Supercapacitor Materials
June 29		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
July 6		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
July 13	Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon	Seminar: Materials for Better Li-based Storage Systems for a Green Energy Society
July 20	John Kerr	70-191 is reserved for discussion on alternate energy storage systems
July 27	Shidi Xun	Seminar: Development of Polymer Binder for Li-Ion Battery Si Anode
August 3	Daniel Cheung Ariana Husain Lauren Brougham	Summer Student Presentations (15 minutes each): Mechanical Properties of Battery Laminates Effects of FEC on Coulombic Efficiency Water Desorption Rates from Electrodes
August 10	Jeff Gostick	Seminar: Multiphase Transport in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells
August 17	John Newman	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
August 24		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
August 31	Tom Richardson	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
September 14	Nick Norberg	Seminar: Synthesis and Properties of Magnetic Quantum Dots
September 21	Masaki Matsui (Toyota)	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
September 28	Adam Weber	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
October 5	Kristin Persson	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
October 12		70-191 is available for discussion (leader and topic TBD)
October 19	Jun Liu	Seminar: Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes – Modification and Characterization
October 26	Kathy Striebel	Wordpress Website Set-Up and Training
November 2	Mike Tucker	Seminar: Metal-supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
November 9 at 12:00 noon in Bldg. 66 auditorium*	Mark Verbrugge (GM R&D Center)	Seminar: Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies and the Automotive Industry: Drivers, Needs, and Recent Research Results
November 16	John Newman	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
November 23	Jordi Cabana	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
November 30	Michael Kocher	Seminar: The Effect of Al Substituion in Li Transition Metal Oxides from First Principles
December 7	John Kerr	70-191 is reserved for electrochemistry PI discussion
December 14	Vijay Sethuraman	Seminar: Role of Cu Coating on Cycling Efficiency and Rate Capability in Si Anodes

Last revised November 13, 2009

* Note change in time or location

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