| 8:00 - 8:45 |
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST, Atrium |
| Auditorium |
| 8:45 - 9:15 |
WELCOME and State of ND Energy – Peter C. Burns, Director |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
KEYNOTE: The Global Climate and Energy Challenge – Sally M. Benson, Co-Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
CAREER: Develop Unprecedented Chain-growth Polymerization Method to Access Structurally Defined Hyperbranched Polymers, Haifeng Gao, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 10:35 - 11:00 |
BREAK, Atrium |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
DOE Early Career: Understanding the Chemical Complexity of Multi-Component Systems: Uranium Polyoxometalates as Nanosorbents, Amy Hixon, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
DuPont Young Professor: Thermal Transport in Polymer and Composite, Tengfei Luo, Dorini Family Collegiate Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering |
| 11:40 - 12:00 |
CAREER: Renewable Biocatalysts for Degradation of Persistent Organic Contaminants Using Synthetic Biology, Na Wei, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences |
| Lower Level Dining Room |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
LUNCH (Registered Participants)
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| 1:00 - 3:00 |
POSTER SESSION - Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars |
| Rooms 100-104 |
| 3:00 - 3:20 |
CAREER: Fundamental Materials Studies on Fast Ion Diffusion in Model Side-chain Ionomers, Jennifer Schaefer, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
| 3:20 - 3:40 |
CAREER: Nucleophilic, Radical, and Electrophilic Palladium Carbene Complexes: New Types of Reactivity for Palladium, Vlad Iluc, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 3:40 - 4:00 |
BREAK, Atrium |
| 4:00 - 4:25 |
CENTER: Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR), William Schneider, H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Engineering; Concurrent Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 4:25 - 4:50 |
CENTER: Extremely Energy Efficient Collective Electronics (EXCEL), Michael Niemier, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering |
| 4:50 - 5:15 |
CENTER: Actinide Center of Excellence (ACE), Peter C. Burns, Henry J. Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences; Concurrent Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 5:15 - 5:30 |
CLOSING Remarks and Poster Awards |