25th Annual CEAA Conference
Sustainable Energy Systems: Investing In Our Future
March 28-29, 2008
Conference Chair: Mr. Augustus Y. Noojin III '69
Thursday, March 27, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Registration
Statler Hotel Lobby
4:30 p.m. William G. Ohaus '49 Lecture featuring
keynote speaker: Dr. Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani,
Chairman, President, and CEO of Aramco Services Company
Title: A Rational Vision for a Sustainable Energy Future
Beck Center Room 196
Friday, March 28, 2008
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
Remarks by Jaclyn Spear ’74 - President of CEAA and
Augustus Y. Noojin III '69 - Conference Chair
Statler Hotel Ballroom
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Dr. Rob J. Routs, Executive Director Downstream, Royal
Dutch Shell PLC
Title: Hard Truths and Opportunities: Meeting the World's
Energy Challenge
Statler Hall Auditorium
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Mr. Red Cavaney, President, American Petroleum Institute
Title: Energy Literacy Pays Dividends
Statler Hall Auditorium
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Dr. Richard Allmendinger '75, Professor of Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Title: Energy and Climate: Flip sides of the Same Crisis
Statler Hall Auditorium
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Mr. Dan Miller '78, Managing Director, The Roda Group
Title: A Really Inconvenient Truth: Why Climate Change
is Much Worse Than You’ve Been Told
Statler Hall Auditorium
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Dr. Robert W. Shaw, Jr. '63, President, Aretê Corporation
Title: The Carbon Problem: What CAN We Do About It?
Statler Hall Auditorium
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
Mr. Andrew Hunter, Lecturer, School of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Title: Energy Engineering and Meeting the Needs of the
Near Tomorrow
Statler Hotel Ballroom
(1:30 – 4:45 p.m. Concurrent sessions on two tracks on alternative energy
sources)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Dr. Michael Graetzel, Director, Laboratory of Photonics and
Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Science and Engineering Faculty
of Basic Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Power from the sun; molecular photovoltaic cells mimic
photosynthesis
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Mr. Daniel P. Goldman '87, Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of GreatPoint Energy, Inc.
Title: Is Coal an Answer to Climate Change - New
Approaches to an Old Fuel
Beck Center Room 396
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Dr. James Lyons '84, Chief Technology Officer,
Novus Energy Partners
Title: Wind Power - the First Viable Alternative
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Dr. Larry Walker, Professor of Biological and Environmental
Engineering, Cornell University and Director of the Northeast Sun
Grant Institute of Excellence
Title: Catalyzing the Development of a Domestic Biofuels Sector
Beck Center Room 396
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Dr. Danielle Merfeld, Director, Solar Technology Platform,
General Electric Global Research Center
Title: Solar Power: Sustaining our rising global energy demands
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Dr. Jeff Tester '66 MS '67, H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Future of Geothermal Energy - Can it become a major
supplier of electrical power in the U.S.?
Beck Center Room 396
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Mr. Dan Miller '78, Managing Director, The Roda Group
Title: Biofuels: Issues and Opportunities
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Mr. Daniel P. Goldman '87, Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of GreatPoint Energy, Inc.
Title: Is Coal an Answer to Climate Change - New
Approaches to an Old Fuel
Beck Center Room 396
3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Dr. Michael Graetzel, Director, Laboratory of Photonics and
Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Science and Engineering Faculty
of Basic Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Power from the sun; molecular photovoltaic cells mimic
photosynthesis
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Dr. Larry Walker, Professor of Biological and Environmental
Engineering, Cornell University and Director of the Northeast Sun
Grant Institute of Excellence
Title: Catalyzing the Development of a Domestic Biofuels Sector
Beck Center Room 396
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Dr. James Lyons '84, Chief Technology Officer,
Novus Energy Partners
Title: Wind Power - the First Viable Alternative
Beck Center Room 196
OR
Dr. Theodore Marston, Principal, Marston Consulting
Title: Nuclear Energy...What is its Future Role?
Beck Center Room 396
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception and Research Showcase
Trillium, Kennedy Hall
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. CEAA Awards Banquet and Dinner
Trillium, Kennedy Hall
Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Breakfast
CEAA Annual Meeting with College Update from Dean
Kent Fuchs
Statler Hotel Ballroom
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. Dr. Frank DiSalvo, Interim Director, Cornell Center for a
Sustainable Future, John A. Newman Professor of Physical
Science, and Dr. Jeff Tester '66 MS '67, H. P. Meissner
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for Energy and
the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Panel
discussion on alternative energy sources featuring speakers
from Friday afternoon concurrent sessions
Title: The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF)
Statler Hotel Ballroom
10:45 – 11:50 a.m. Concluding discussion led by Dr. Tester on Cornell’s
role in Sustainable Energy Systems
Statler Hotel Ballroom
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
Closing Remarks by Augustus Y. Noojin III '69 -
Conference Chair
BioTechology Building, Room G10
