The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center sponsors a weekly seminar series
in the EPP conference room (Baker Hall 129). These seminars provide an informal
means of presenting research, listening to outside speakers, and learning about
the electricity industry. Upcoming and past seminar speakers and topics are
listed below. When possible the slides for the talk are also available.
If you would like to give a seminar, or have a good idea for a seminar topic,
please contact Jay
Apt (apt@cmu.edu or 412-268-3003).
| Date/Day/Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Wednesday
7/18/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Ravi Jethra
Industry Manager - Power
Endress+Hauser |
"Process Measurements in powerplants" |
Wednesday
5/16/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Michael A. Sandell
Vice-President, Technology
Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control Inc
|
"Air Pollution Control in the U.S.Today" |
Wednesday
5/9/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Elizabeth Wilson
Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Law
The Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota |
"Motivating Municipal and Co-operative Utilities to
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Case of Energy Efficiency and
Conservation." |
Wednesday 5/2/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
John Kitchin
Assistant Professor
CMU Department of Chemical Engineering |
"Electrochemical approaches to CO2 capture" |
Thursday
4/26/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Carl R. Bozzuto
Alstom Power |
"Power Plant Economics" |
Wednesday 4/18/07
11:30 AM |
EPP Conference Room |
William Rosenberg
President, E3 Gasification LLC
Professor of Practice, EPP, Carnegie Mellon
Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard |
"Challenges in Developing Coal to SNG Gasification
Projects" |
CANCELLED
Wednesday 4/11/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
CANCELLED (moved to 5/2)
John Kitchin
Assistant Professor
CMU Department of Chemical Engineering |
CANCELLED (moved to 5/2)
"Electrochemical approaches to CO2 capture" |
Wednesday 2/28/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Rich Benjamin
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
|
“Principles of Inter-regional Transmission Expansion” |
Wednesday 2/21/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Robert Schainker
Strategic Planning
EPRI Office of Innovation
|
"Exciting R&D Activities at the Electric Power
Research Institute" |
CANCELLED
Wednesday 1/31/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
CANCELLED (moved to 2/28)
Rich Benjamin
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
|
CANCELLED (moved to 2/28)
“Principles of Inter-regional Transmission
Expansion” |
Thursday 1/25/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Alexander E. Farrell
Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
|
"Effects of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles in
California Energy Markets" |
Wednesday
12/13/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
David Rode
CMU and DAI Management Consulting
|
"The Value of Using Coal Gasification as a Long-Term
Natural Gas Hedge" |
Wednesday
11/29/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Pramod Kulkarni
California Energy Commission
|
“A Practitioner's Perspective: Policy Driven Technology Development for Energy
Resources"
|
|
Friday 11/10/06 Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Shalini Vajjhala, PhD
Fellow
Resources for the Future |
"Siting
Difficulty and Renewable Energy Development" |
Wednesday
11/8/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Ben Louw
|
“Life in the
(Electrical) Trenches” |
Wednesday
11/1/06
4:00 PM |
EPP Conference Room |
Michael Dworkin
Vermont Law School
|
"Energy Efficiency In A Needy State: How Efficiency
Programs Helped the Vermont PSB Reduce the Burden of Electric Costs Even As
Market Prices Rose" |
Wednesday
10/25/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Howard Bruschi
Westinghouse Nuclear |
“Why is nuclear energy making a comeback in the U.S.?
(And what is so special about Westinghouse's AP1000?)”
|
Wednesday
10/11/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Andy Ott,
Vice President, Markets
PJM Interconnection Inc. |
"PJM’s
Pricing Allocation Model" |
Thursday
9/28/06
10:30 AM |
EPP Conference Room |
Professor Olav Bolland
NTNU |
"Oxyfuel CO2 Capture" |
Tuesday
9/26/06
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. R.W. Künneke
TU Delft
|
"The regulation of critical technical functions in
infrastructures" |
