This event is the second webinar in the Converge to Transform series.
Converge to Transform is a webinar series to engage the CUNY community and key stakeholders in the vital task of shaping the future of our interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and convergence research programs for the public good. Events in the series will include keynote presentations, online talks and virtual Twitter poster sessions.
Program
| 2:00 pm | Introduction & Welcome Remarks Annette “Nina” Gray, Ph.D., Executive Director, ASRC and Associate Dean for the Sciences, The Graduate Center Charles Vörösmarty, Ph.D., Director, ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative and Professor of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York |
| 2:05 pm | COVID-19, Climate Change, and the Clean Energy Transition Cutler Cleveland, Ph.D., Associate Director, Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy |
| Impact Area Talks: Making Energy Sustainable | |
| 2:35 pm | Energy Storage: Challenges and Opportunities Steven Greenbaum, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, Hunter College |
| 2:50 pm | Materials Design: Silver Nanocluster Fluorescence Enabled with DNA Yolanda Small, Ph.D.,Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, York College |
| 3:05 pm | Toward 3rd Generation Photovoltaics: Improving Solar Cell Efficiency using Sub-monolayer Quantum Dots Igor Kuskovsky, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Officer, Department of Physics, The Graduate Center and Queens College |
| 3:20 pm | Moderated Q&A |
| 3:30 pm | Breakout Discussion Session (Optional) |
Registration
Registration is required. Only registered participants will receive instructions on how to join and be eligible to participate in the virtual poster session on June 23, 2020. Instructions and event updates will be emailed to your registered email.
Note that you do NOT need to register again if you signed-up previously for the original, in-person event. Contact asrc.event@gc.cuny.edu with questions.
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