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Technical Calendar entries for on-site meetings require the name and phone number and/or e-mail address of an ORNL contact person. You may either use one contact for all meetings sponsored by your division or use a specific contact for each meeting.


Tuesday, September 18

Coupling Research on Climate Change Impacts and
Mitigation to Inform Societal Responses   calendar icon
Bryan Mignone, Office of Policy and International Affairs,
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate
Whole-Building and Community Integration Seminar
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM, Building 4500-N, Weinberg Auditorium
Contact: Melissa Lapsa (lapsamv@ornl.gov), 865.576.8620

The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History   calendar icon
Stephen Sass, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
UTK Materials Science Department Seminar
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM, the University of Tennesee, Knoxville,
Dougherty Engineering Building, Room 612
Contact: Kurt Sickafus (kurt@utk.edu), 865.974.4858


Thursday, September 20

On the Way to a Sustainable World, Are We Too Late?   calendar icon
Martin Keller, Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, ORNL
Sustainable Campus Initiative Seminar
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (Building 5100), Auditorium (Room 128)
Contact: Bo Saulsbury ( saulsburyjw@ornl.gov ), 865.574.4694

Excluded Volume versus Hydrogen Bonding:
Complementary or Incompatible Concepts?    calendar icon
Ivo Nezbeda, J. E. Purkinje University, the Academy of Sciences, and Charles University, Czech Republic
Chemical Sciences Division, Geochemistry and Interfacial Sciences Group, Seminar
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (Building 5100), Auditorium (Room 128)
Contact: Ariel A. Chialvo (chialvoaa@ornl.gov), 865.574.1252

Balancing Human Needs and Ecosystem Services to
Develop a Sustainable Biofuels Industry:
A Modeling Systems Approach   calendar icon
Xuesong Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
Center for Bioenergy Sustainability Seminar
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM, Building 1505, Room 189
Contact: Jennifer Smith (smithjf@ornl.gov), 865.574.8452


Friday, September 21

Electric Cars in China:
Only as Clean as Their Coal   calendar icon
Christopher Cherry, TheUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville
UT Science Forum Seminar
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM, UTK, Thompson-Boling Arena, Dining Room C-D
Attendees may bring a lunch or purchase one from the arena.
Contact: Mark Littmann (littmann@utk.edu), 865.974.8156


Tuesday, September 25

Inductive Machine Learning in Ecological Modeling   calendar icon
Marko Debeljak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Center for Bioenergy and Sustainability Seminar
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM, Building 1505, Room 189
Contact: Jennifer Smith (smithjf@ornl.gov), 574-8452


Wednesday, September 26

Inorganic Membranes: Properties, Applications, and Results   calendar icon
Brian Bischoff, Materials Science and Technology Division , ORNL
Materials and Chemistry Seminar Series
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM, Building 4500-N, Weinberg Auditorium
Coffee and cookies will be available at 9:30.
Contact: Athena S. Sefat (sefata@ornl.gov), 865.574.5495


Friday, October 05

Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics: From Soil-Plant
Biogeochemistry and Land-Atmosphere Interactions to
Sustainable Use of Soil and Water Resources   calendar icon
Amilcare Porporato, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Computer Science and Mathematics Division Seminar
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (Building 5100), Auditorium (Room 128)
Contact: Clayton Webster (webstercg@ornl.gov), 865.574.3649


Tuesday, October 23

Semiclassical Computation of High-Frequency
Waves in Heterogeneous Media   calendar icon
Shi Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and
The University of Wisconsin, Madison
Computer Science and Mathematics Division Seminar
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM, Research Office Building (5700), Room L-202
Contact: Clayton Webster (webstercg@ornl.gov), 865.574.3649


Thursday, October 25

Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes for Boltzmann Equation
and Relative Problems with Stiff Sources   calendar icon
Shi Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Computer Science and Mathematics Division Seminar
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM, Research Office Building (5700), Room L-202
Contact: Clayton Webster (webstercg@ornl.gov), 865.574.3649


Monday, October 29

Transforming Computing Algorithms and Paradigms
in HPC to Enable More Science out of
Our Day-to-Day Simulations   calendar icon
Michela Taufer, The University of Delaware, Newark
Computer Science and Mathematics Division Seminar
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (Building 5100) Auditorium (Room 128)
Contact: Lora Wolfe (wolfelm@ornl.gov), 865.576.6184