SLAC Open House

Join us on Tuesday, November 18th from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for an open house, special announcement, tour, and networking poster session.

Due to the limited capacity of SLAC, your pre-registration does not guarantee your admittance to this event. Your registration will be confirmed via email by November 13th.

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What

  • Hear from Arun Majundar, founding director of ARPA-E, on the importance of accelerating the development and deployment of energy storage technologies.
  • Hear exciting new member announcements and the appointment of an ARPA-E Liaison to CalCharge.
  • Learn about the expansion of the CalCharge technology acceleration program to include streamlined access to SLAC and the ability for members to conduct joint research with both Berkeley Lab and SLAC.
  • Learn about the latest research on battery safety, longer lasting Si cathodes, impacts of charge rates on battery lifetime, and nanoscale battery imaging from SLAC and the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University.
  • Meet the senior research team and tour the facilities of SLAC.
  • Attend a Poster Session to meet and network with the scientists working in the field of energy storage research at SLAC and Berkeley Lab.

Speakers

  • Chi-Chang Kao, Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Professor, Stanford University
  • Susan Babinec, Senior Commercialization Advisor, ARPA-E
  • Mark Hartney, Director of Strategic Planning, SLAC
  • Jeff Anderson, President, CalCharge
  • Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  • Will Chueh, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  • Venkat Srinivasan, Head of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Department, Berkeley Lab
  • Mike Toney, Senior Staff Scientist, Head of Materials Science Division at SSRL, SLAC