Presentations
Plenary Sessions
National Lab 101, Panel #1
Supporting the Nation’s Scientific Ecosystem - A roundtable discussion about the national
laboratories’ user facilities, educational opportunities, and core research programs.
- Karen Bjorkman, interim provost, The University of Toledo
- Michael Witherell, director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- Doon Gibbs, director, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
- Stuart Henderson, director, Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
- Bill Goldstein, director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Steven Ashby, director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
National Lab 101, Panel #2
Moving Solutions to Society - A roundtable discussion about how the national laboratories
work with universities, industry, and governments to move technology to society.
- Frank Calzonetti, vice president for research, The University of Toledo
- Mark Peters, director, Idaho National Laboratory
- Thomas Zacharia, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Brian Anderson, director, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
- Vahid Majidi, director, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)
- Paul Kearns, director, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
The Land-Water Interface: The Great Lakes Region and the World
This session explores complex environmental challenges facing the Great Lakes region
and that exist increasingly throughout the world. Special attention is on the challenge
of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and factors that contribute to this problem,
including the impact of a changing climate, nutrient loading into waterways, and human
activities. The importance of understanding the terrestrial-aquatic interface is emphasized.
The session explores how a better understanding of the relationship among climatic
conditions and ecological variables provides guidance in addressing problems as well
as preparing for biomes in transition. The session considers how such changes challenge
land use practices in rural and metropolitan areas.
- Tom Bridgeman, professor, The University of Toledo
- Allison Campbell, associate laboratory director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- Phillip Wolfram, scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Mary Maxon, associate laboratory director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- Peter Thornton, distinguished scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
High Performance Computing Addressing Critical Issues for Northwest Ohio
The DOE national laboratories’ suite of HPC assets and deep bench of computing experts
and computational infrastructure are available for researchers throughout the country.
This session will explore and provide examples of how DOE’s computing and computational
resources can be applied to issues critical to Ohio universities and Northwest Ohio.
These include development of next generation photovoltaics, gaining a better understanding
of watershed dynamics and forecasting, and addressing major health issues.
- Yanfa Yan, professor, The University of Toledo
- Jack Wells, director of science, National Center for Computational Sciences, ORNL
- Irene Qualters (LANL)
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Breakout sessions
Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment
This session explores how emerging science, tools and technologies can be used to
create more sustainable products that promote resilient human and natural systems.
Examples of emerging decision-making tools include network analysis, advances in life
cycle assessment, and other integrated modeling approaches that fully consider human
and natural systems to address short- and long-term disturbances, feedback loops,
and even planetary thresholds (absolute sustainability). We will explore how these
tools can be used to evaluate the role of new technologies in creating sustainable
and resilient systems, with special emphasis on circular economy approaches for solar
PV panels and plastics.
- Defne Apul, professor, The University of Toledo
- Timothy Skone, lead, Life Cycle Analysis Team, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
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- Garvin Heath, senior scientist, Resources and Sustainability Group, Strategic Energy Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- Babetta L. Maronne, senior scientist, Bioscience Div., Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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Structural Biology, Imaging and Spectroscopy
This session profiles high-resolution imaging techniques in biological systems over
multiple length scales. Techniques can provide temporal information for targets of
interest in medicine and microbial ecology. Foci are protein - receptor interactions,
cell structure and biological response to the physical and chemical environment. Techniques
include cryo-EM, high resolution X-ray crystallography, IR spectromicroscopy using
synchrotron radiation, and high-field NMR.
- Isaac Schiefer, associate professor, The University of Toledo
- John Hill, deputy assoc. laboratory director, Energy and Photon Sciences, Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL)
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- Carolyn Larabell, director, National Center for X-ray Tomography; faculty scientist, Molecular Biophysics
& Integrated Bioimaging Div., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Download Presentation - Wah Chiu, professor, Stanford University, scientific director, Cryo-EM Facilities, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC)
- Andrzej Joachimiak, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, director of Structural Biology Center; co-director for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases, ANL
Astrophysics
Our understanding of origins, evolution, and structure in the Universe — from the
widest cosmic scales, to galactic ecosystems, to the formation of individual stars
— is poised for a great leap forward in the next several decades. The coming wave
of advanced ground- and space-based observational facilities, large scale spectroscopic
and time-domain surveys, advanced data exploration methodologies, and powerful new
computational frameworks will greatly extend our reach, helping us answer fundamental
questions about the Universe. This session will focus on simulations of the first
stars and black holes in the early Universe, the impact of accreting black holes on
the evolution of galaxies, and the formation, evolution and role of stellar clusters
as the basic units of star formation.
- JD Smith, professor, The University of Toledo
- Nick Gnedin, senior scientist, Theoretical Astrophysics group, Fermi National Lab (FNL)
- Peter Nugent, senior scientist, LBNL
- Jarrett Johnson, scientist, LANL
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Exposure Science – ‘Omics’ Applications for Human Health
Humans are exposed to, or intake, food, water, air, and other environmental agents
on a daily basis. At the same time, humans release non-natural substances to the environment,
including personal care products, and prescription and illicit drugs. The combination
of these exposures can exert profound effects on human and environmental health. This
session explores the contact of humans or other organisms with chemical, physical,
and biologic stressors and their fate in living systems. Through exposure science
and modern toxicology, we will explore how advanced ‘Omics’ approaches can help us
understand stressors that affect human and ecosystem health and interface with sensor
systems, analytical methods, molecular biology, computational tools, and bioinformatics.
- David Kennedy, assistant professor, The University of Toledo
- Ken Turteltaub, division leader, Biosciences & Biotechnology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Srinivas Iyer, bioscience div. leader, LANL
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Download Presentation - Justin G. Teeguarden, chief scientist, Exposure Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
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Materials and Manufacturing
This session explores a variety of approaches for the development of advanced materials
and manufacturing technologies. Special focus is on the progress of additive manufacturing
techniques, which are used to “print” a wide spectrum of functional components; design
and synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts for accelerated chemical reactions; and fabrication
of membranes for effective separations and fuel cell technologies. Topics include
modeling and simulation, synthesis and fabrication, and ex-situ and in-situ characterization
techniques for structure-property correlations to applications.
- Ana Alba-Rubio, assistant professor, The University of Toledo
- Tanja Pietrass, division leader, Materials Physics & Applications, LANL
- Christopher Spadaccini, director, Center for Engineered Materials, Manufacturing and Optimization, LLNL
- Rebecca Fushimi, senior research scientist, Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
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- E. Andrew Payzant, materials engineering group leader, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL)
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Photovoltaics
In 2011, the DOE announced the SunShot program with the goal of making solar electricity
price-competitive with conventional utility sources by 2020. The combined effort from
national labs, universities, and industry allowed the goal for utility-scale photovoltaics
to be reached three years early. As a result, a new goal has been established: to
reduce the cost of solar by an additional 40% to 70% beyond 2018 costs by 2030. This
session will explore the development of avenues that have the potential to reach this
goal, with a focus on device and module efficiency, manufacturing, and reliability.
- Mike Heben, professor, The University of Toledo
- Wyatt Metzger, Thin-Film Material Science and Processing, NREL
- Dirk Weiss, industry panelist, First Solar
- Tony Martino, Sandia National Lab (SNL)
- Joe Berry, NREL
Microbial Ecology
There is a critical need to understand the function and role of microbial communities
and how they control biogeochemical responses to a wide variety of changes in environmental
conditions. This understanding is necessary for everything from predicting ecosystem
responses to warming to achieving environmental contaminant remediation. The session
goal is to explore methodologies and tools to improve our predictive understanding
of the roles of microbial communities in mediating carbon and nutrient fluxes, contaminant
remediation and other critical biogeochemical processes, as well as using microbial
systems as sentinels of environmental threats and perturbations. This includes integrated
lab and field experiments, coupled with a sophisticated suite of biochemical and chemical
analyses, to determine the molecular mechanisms governing microbial decomposition,
biogeochemical cycling and synthesis into microbial-explicit models.
- Mike Weintraub, professor, The University of Toledo
- Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, senior scientist, Biological Systems & Engineering, LBNL
- Janet Jansson, chief scientist; laboratory fellow, Biological Sciences Div., PNNL
- Srinivas Iyer, bioscience div. leader, LANL
- Jonathan Allen, LLNL
Molecular Structure & Dynamics
Molecular structure and interactions underlie the properties and performance of natural
and engineered systems, including living organisms, chemical technologies, and advanced
materials. This session focuses on characterizing how the chemical structure affects
intermolecular interactions in solution, colloidal and interfacial, and biological
processes. These include biomolecular binding, small molecule and polymer self-assembly,
phase transitions (e.g., condensation, evaporation and crystallization/precipitation),
and multiphase processing.
- Yakov Lapitsky, professor, The University of Toledo
- Jeffrey Nelson, manager, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, SNL
- Susan Rempe, SNL
- Volker Urban, ORNL
- Xiao-Min Lin, ANL
Energy Storage & Distribution
Energy storage and distribution are critically important components for the future
of transportation and the electric grid. Developing low-cost, reliable, energy-dense
and safe energy storage and grid solutions for the future requires catalyzing breakthroughs
in materials science, interfacial reactions and transport processes, and advances
in manufacturing methodologies. This session will explore how advanced experimental
and theoretical capabilities can accelerate materials discovery and the control over
transport and reactions at many length-scale to enable the design and scale-up of
the next-generation of energy storage and grid solutions.
- Rohan Akolkar, professor, Case Western Reserve University
- Lei Cheng, chemist, Materials Science Div., ANL
- Vince Sprenkle, techinical group manager, Electrochemical Materials and Systems Group, PNNL
- Anthony Burrell, research advisor and chief technologist, NREL
- Amy Marschilok, BNL
- Tony van Buuren, group leader, Materials Science Div., LLNL