8:00 am - Registration and Refreshments

9:00 am - Welcome and Introduction

Farhat Beg, Director, Center for Energy Research

Miroslav Krstic, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Affairs

9:10 am - Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions (CMEC)

Farhat Beg, Director, Center for Energy Research

9:35 am - Nuclear Energy: The Future Is Today

Christina A. Back, Vice President, Nuclear Technologies and Materials, General Atomics

10:00 am - Coffee Break

10:15 am - Getting to Paris (Climate Accord) with Energy Storage

Mike Ferry, Director of Energy Storage and Systems, Center for Energy Research

10:35 am - Scaling Technology - Commercialization and Productization of Transformative Infrastructure

Rick Azer, Associate Vice President, Growth Accelerator, Black & Veatch

11:00 am - Poster Quick Talks

11:55 am - Outreach and Diversity at CER

Marlene Patino, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Energy Research

12:00-3:00 pm - Lunch and Poster Session

*Additional information to be announced soon.