Using Energy Efficiently and Producing It Renewably

March 8-9, 2014
University of California, Berkeley

Optional Bay Area site visits planned for March 10-11.

This conference will be an intense weekend short course to enhance the background of physical scientists, especially early-career scientists, who want to work on applied energy topics. The main audience will be physics professors, post-docs and graduate students. Two previous conferences on this theme, in 2008 and 2011, both also held on the UC Berkeley campus, drew about 200 attendees. Both were sponsored by the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, and we are seeking the same sponsorship for this round. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) will publish the proceedings as a sourcebook. The motivation for this third conference is the continued importance of this energy research and the need to update faculty and educate students either to work in the field or to have an appreciation for the key issues.

To register, visit http://www.aps.org/units/fps/meetings/energy/. For questions and clarifications, contact Rob Knapp of the organizing committee (knappr@evergreen.edu).