Workshop III: Batteries and Fuel Cells

Part of the Long Program Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
November 4 - 8, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 4, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: G. Henkelman
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Illumination Room)
9:15 - 9:55
Chris Wolverton (Northwestern University)

Predicting Novel Materials for Li-ion and Li-O2 Batteries

 
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:10
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:25
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: C. Wolverton
2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Pre-Poster Session Introductions: Presenters will give brief introductions of their posters for Tuesday's Session

4:30 PM: IPAM Public Lecture: Korn Convocation Hall, Anderson School (UCLA)
4:30 - 5:30
6:00 - 7:00 Private Reception (by invitation only)

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: A. Gross
9:00 - 9:40
Bruce Dunn (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Three-Dimensional Battery Architectures

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
Anton van der Ven (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

Connecting electronic structure to phenomenological descriptions of dynamic processes in electrodes

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: M. Tuckerman
2:30 - 3:10
Troy Farrell (Queensland University of Technology)

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical simulation of LiFePO4 Cathodes

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
5:00 - 6:00 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: K. Persson
9:00 - 9:40
Venkat Subramanian (Washington University in St. Louis)

Mathematics in the Driver's Seat

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
Richard Braatz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

A Roadmap for the Multiscale Simulation of Lithium-ion Batteries

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
Vidvuds Ozolins (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Sparse physics and its applications to energy materials

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: B. Wetton
2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: K.D. Kreuer
9:00 - 9:40
 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: M. Bazant
2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
Martin Bazant (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Li-ion Batteries

 

Friday, November 8, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: K. Promislow
9:00 - 9:40
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
Daniel Cogswell (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Technology)

Modeling non-equilibrium microstructure in electrochemistry

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
12:30 Conclusion