2017 UC Solar Research Symposium
Friday, October 13th, 2015, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
California Public Utilities Commission Auditorium
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Attendee Check In/Poster Session |
| 8:45 – 9:05 | Opening Remarks Clifford Rechtschaffen , Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission |
| 9:05 – 9:35 | “California and the Dawn of the Clean Energy Era” David Hochschild , Commissioner, California Energy Commission (CEC) |
| 9:35 – 10:00 | “UC President Napolitano’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative” Mark Byron , Executive Director, Renewable Energy Programs, UC Office of the President |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning Break and Poster Session |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | “3D Imaging of Quantum Dot Superlattice Arrays for Photovoltaic Applications" Adam Moule , California Solar Energy Center (CSEC) Technical Director and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, UC Davis |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | “Improving the Efficiency of Renewable Energy Sources and Consumption” Michael Isaacson , Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems, UC Santa Cruz |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | “A New Era for Solar” Sarah Kurtz , Professor of Engineering, UC Merced, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Fellow |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | “The Current State of Perovskite Solar Cell Research at UCLA” Yang Yang , Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Los Angeles |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | “Supporting Our Renewable Energy Transition by Understanding and Overcoming Today's Research Challenges” Richard Swanson , Founder of SunPower Corporation, Retired |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | “Omnidirectional Indoor Light Harvesting” Connie Chang-Hasnain , Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Afternoon Break and Poster Session |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | “In Pursuit of Perfection: How Non-Stoichiometry at the Nanoscale Affects Perovskite Solar Cells” David Fenning , Assistant Professor of Nanoengineering, UC San Diego |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | “The Proposed California-New York Solar Research Partnership” Roland Winston , UC Solar Director and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Natural Sciences, UC Merced – and – Liesl Folks , Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo |
