Power Grid-Informed Electrochemistry Program

Event Venue: Pyle Center [link]

Talks Room: Pyle Center, Room 209

Posters Room: Pyle Center, Room 213

Recommended Parking Lots: State Street Campus Garage (5 min walk to event) [link] and State Street Capitol Parking Garage (15 min walk to event): [link]

Posters Titles and Presenters: [link]


Tuesday, August 26th

Breakfast on your own

8:30  Welcome and Introduction by Prof. Victor M. Zavala, UW-Madison

9:00 - "Perspectives on Energy Storage: From Flywheels to Batteries" by Dr. Daniel Abraham, Argonne National Laboratory

9:45 - "Systems Engineering Approaches to Electrification" by Profs. Styliana Avraamidou and Line Roald, UW-Madison

10:30 - Break

10:45 - "The Interplay Between Electricity Grids and Electrolytic Hydrogen" by Dr. Omar Guerra, National Renewable Energy Laboratory 

11:30 - "Advancing Electrolysis-Based Manufacturing: Glycerol oxidation, Ammonia oxidation, and Co-conversion" by Prof. Paul Kenis, UIUC

12:15 - Catered Lunch 

1:30  -  "Experience and Perspective on Industrial Electrification" by Dr. Elizabeth Endler, Shell

2:15 - "Degradation and Transport Phenomena in PEM electrolyzers Providing Voltage and Frequency Grid services under Highly Dynamic and Pulsed Operation." by Prof. Luca Mastropasqua, UW-Madison

3:00 - Break

3:15 - "Manufacturing using Modular Electrochemical Processes to Exploit Dynamic Electricity Markets" by Prof. Song Jin, UW-Madison

4:00 - "Electrochemical Nitrogen Separation and Recovery from Wastewater" By Prof. Mohan Qin, UW-Madison 

4:30 - 6:30 - Poster Presentations by Students/Postdocs 

Dinner on your own

Wednesday, August 27th

Breakfast on your own

8:30 - "Mediated Electrolysis Methods for Chemical Synthesis and Energy Applications." by Prof. Shannon Stahl, UW-Madison 

9:15 - "Real-time electrocatalytic control of C-H and C-C bond transformation and fuel formation to enable a sustainable chemical and fuels industry." by Prof. Marcel Schreier, UW-Madison

9:45 - Break

10:00 - "Exploring New Electrolytes and Charge Storage Mechanisms to Enable Resilient Power Grids." by Prof. Matt Gebbie, UW-Madison

10:30 - "Polymer Electrolytes for Next-Generation Batteries." by Prof. Whitney Loo, UW-Madison

11:00 - Break

11:15 -  "Accelerating Electrolyte Discovery via High-Throughput Experimentation and Machine Learning." by Prof. Fang Liu, UW-Madison

11:45 -  "Active and Interpretable Machine Learning for Multi-Objective Molecular Design." by Prof. Joel Paulson, UW-Madison

12:15 - Concluding Remarks & Adjourn