Workshop IV: Energy Conservation and Waste Heat Recovery - IPAM

Workshop IV: Energy Conservation and Waste Heat Recovery

Part of the Long Program Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
November 18 - 22, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 18, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15-09:40
Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität)
Overview Workshop 1
09:50-10:05
Break
10:05-10:30
Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Overview Workshop 2
10:40-11:05
Graeme Henkelman (University of Texas at Austin)
Overview Workshop 3
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Jennifer Lukes (University of Pennsylvania)
Hybrid Atomistic-Continuum Simulations of Thermal-Fluid Transport at Interfaces

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Giulia Galli (University of Chicago)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Carlos Levi (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
High temperature coatings technology for gas turbine systems: materials issues and fundamental research needs
17:00-18:30
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Ivana Savic (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork)
Thermal Conductivity of SiGe Nanostructured Materials from Large Scale Atomistic Simulations
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Christian Carbogno (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Thermal Transport from First Principles
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Anton van der Ven (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Jayathi Murthy (University of Texas at Austin)
Fast Computational Techniques for Sub-continuum Transport
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Irena Knezevic (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Semiclassical Phonon Transport in the Presence of Rough Boundaries
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:10
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Transport thermalization by electron-phonon interactions in nano scale devices

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Jorge Sofo (Pennsylvania State University)
Thermoelectrics: A theoretical approach to the search for better materials
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Boris Kozinsky (Bosch)
Path to predictive computations of thermoelectric effects for automotive waste heat recovery
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Derek Stewart (Cornell University)
Using First Principles Thermal Transport to Aid in Energy Recovery and Conservation

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Matthieu Verstraete (Université de Liège)
Advanced ab initio methods in thermoelectrics: working more to relax more accurately
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Xiulin Ruan (Purdue University)
First Principles-Enabled Simulations of Thermal Conductive and Radiative Properties of Solids

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Yann Chalopin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Thermal properties of phonon systems from fluctuations
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Yintao Song (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Energy Conversion by Multiferroic Phase Transformation
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Pinar Mengüç (Özyeğin Üniversitesi)
Near Field Radiation Transfer for Energy Harvesting and Characterization’

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Liping Liu (Rutgers University)
A continuum theory of thermoelectric bodies and proposed large-scale application in energy conversion
15:30-16:00
Break

Friday, November 22, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Gang Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Simulating and Probing Phonon and Electron Transport for Thermoelectric Applications
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Emmanouil Kioupakis (University of Michigan)
Electronic structure calculations of materials for efficient light emitters
11:30-12:10
Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität)
Organic molecular materials for light-emitting applications: a first-principles view

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:30
Conclusion
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