Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization

Agenda for Cross-cutting Breakout Sessions

Panel Chair: P. Alivisatos

Monday, April 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Sub-panel 3A — Linden Oak Room

Time Topic Speaker or Location

Session 1

1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Sub-panel Co-chairs, Jacob Karni and

Gang Chen

1:45 – 1:55 p.m. Solar Hot Water Systems Jane Davidson

1:55 – 2:05 p.m. Concentrated Solar Thermal Processes for Power

Generation

Robert Pitz-Paal

2:05 – 2:15 p.m. Concentrated Solar Thermochemical Processes Aldo Steinfeld

2:15 – 2:25 p.m. Concentrated Photovoltaics Herb Hayden

2:25 – 3:00 p.m. Discussion of Concentration Processes

3:00 – 3:30 p.m. New Materials for Direct Heat to Electric Energy

Conversion — the Thermoelectric Option

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Current Status of Thermophotovoltaic Generation of

Electricity

Andreas Gombert

4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Initial discussion of one-sentence Priority Research

Directions (PRDs)

6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Working Dinner Salon D

Session 2

7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Prioritize 3–5 one-sentence PRDs

9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Panel Chair and Sub-panel Co-chairs review PRDs

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Time Topic Speaker or Location

Session 3

8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Draft 3–5 one-sentence and one-viewgraph PRDs Linden Oak Room

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Plenary Midpoint Session (Presentations of draft

PRDs)

Salon E

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Working Lunch Salon D

Session 4

1:30 – 6:00 p.m. Down-select 3–4 PRDs Glen Echo Room

Session 5

7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Open time for further discussion sessions if needed Glen Echo Room