2011 Annual Meeting
"Advanced Materials: Driving Transformative Research in
E
nergy & Automobiles"
May 1-3, 2011
Sunday - May 1
New Chairs' Workshop
Mark Benvenuto, Univ of Detroit Mercy
Chemistry Dept Rep Meeting
Chemical Engineering Dept Rep Meeting
Industry & Government Lab Rep Meeting
Monday - May 2
Plenary Session 1
Welcome & CCR Update
Terry Ring, 2011 CCR Chair
International Year of Chemistry
Nancy Jackson, 2011 President, ACS
House Science, Space & Technology Committee Update
Honorable Hansen Clarke (MI-13) US House of Representatives
Materials Challenges in Energy & Energy Storage
Eric A. Rohlfing, Dir. Cehm, Geo and Bio Sciences Div, DOE BES
Materials Challenges Facing the Automotive Industry
Anil Sachdev, Group Manager, Light Metals, General Motors Corp
Plenary Session 2
Materials Issues in CO2 Sequestration
Cynthia Powell, R&D Director, National Energy Technology Lab
Carbon Sequestration
James F. Wood, Deputy Asst., Secretary for Clean Coal, DOE
Federal Funding Agency Forum
- NSF
Matt Platz
Linda Sapchak
John McGrath - NIH
Bill Heetderks - NIFA - USDA
Mark Poth - DOE - BES
Eric Rohlfing - NIST - TIP
Don Archer
Action Networks Meetings & Strategy Sessions
Long Range
Research Collaboration
Research Investment
Graduate Education
Tuesday - May 3
Plenary Session 3
Automotive Lightweighting Challenges & Opportunities
Hal L. Snyder, Technical Director, DuPont
Developing Low-Cost Carbon Fiber for Automotive Lightweight Composites
Amit K. Naskar, Polymer Matrix Composites Group, Oak Ridge National Lab
Battery Materials
Bart Riley, Founder, VP or R&D and CTO, A123 Systems
Battery Materials
Dr. Chia-Wei Wang, Director of Design Engineering and Co-founder Sakti3
Materials for Energy Storage
Jun Liu, Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Materials for Photovoltaics
Om Nalamasu, CTO, Applied Materials, Inc.
Materials for Photovoltaics
John Perkins,Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Lab
CCR Business Meeting
C. Paul Mendez, Executive Director, CCR
Plenary Session 4
Rare Earth Metals and their Replacement
Karl A. Gschneidner, Senior Metallurgist, Ames Lab
Meeting the Global Rare Earth Challenge: Molycorp's Fully Integrated Mines-to-Magnets Manufacturing Supply Chain
John Burba, Executive VP & CTO, Molycorp
Plenary Session 5
Venture Capital & Innovation
Ganesh "Ananth" Ananthasubramanian, DTE Energy Ventures
Financial Challenges Facing Public Research Universities: Confessions of a Former Dean
Matthew S. Platz, Director, Chemistry Division, NSF
Report on CCR's CTO Roundtable on Graduate Education
Gary Calabrese, VP & Portfolio Director, Corning
Kelly O. Sullivan, Director, Institutional Partnerships, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Action Network Breakout Sessions
Research Investment
Graduate Education
Long Range Issues
Pruitt Award Dinner
2011 Pruitt Award Winner: Ronald W. Rousseau, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
2011 Annual Meeting Program Committee
Wayne Ranbom, Arkema (chair)
Mark Benvenuto, Univ of Detroit Mercy
Michael Blaustein, DuPont
Eric Lin, NIST
Chuck Manke, Wayne State
Michael Nowak, NETL
Eric Peterson, INL
Michael Reynolds, BASF
Matt Tarr, Univ of New Orleans
Bob Wickman, BASF
2011 Annual Meeting Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Corning, Inc
The Dow Chemical Company
Argonne National Lab
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Silver Sponsors
Arkema, Inc.
DuPont
Bronze Sponsor
Nalco Company
CCR's Strategic Framework for the 21st Century
