First Circular
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS IN SOLAR ENERGY -2014
First Series Symposium of
Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS)
Organized By
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
April 1-2, 2014
Preamble and scope
The U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) was launched by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009 to accelerate the transition to high performing, low emissions, and energy secure economies. Under the Research and Development track of PACE (PACE-R), three Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centers (JCERDCs) have been set up in 2012, with funding from US’s Department of Energy and India’s Department of Science and Technology and Department of Bio-Technology. The largest of the JCERDCs, that for Solar Energy, is called the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS), which is co-led by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bangalore. This 30-member consortium is governed by a leadership team comprising of NREL, IISc, IIT Bombay, Sandia National Laboratory, CSTEP and RAND Corporation. The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) co-ordinates the activities of the Center in India.
The vision of SERIIUS is to create an environment for cooperation and innovation “without borders” to develop and ready emerging and revolutionary solar electricity technologies toward the long-term success of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Energy Mission and the U.S. DOE Sun Shot Initiative.The overall goalof SERIIUS is to accelerate the development of solar-electric technologies by lowering the cost-per-watt of photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) through a bi-national consortium that is innovating, discovering, and readying emerging, disruptive, and revolutionary solar technologies that span the gap between fundamental science and applied R&D, leading to eventual deployment by sustainable industries. SERIIUS addresses critical issues in fundamental and applied research, analysis and assessment, outreach, and workforce development. Throughout this joint effort, a key element is engaging a significant base of Indian and U.S. industry that is dedicated and committed to developing solar energy for both India and the United States.
As part of its outreach activities, the SERIIUS team is pleased to create a platform to address the development of new and cutting edge technologies in solar electricity generation and storage, through its first Series Symposium on RESEARCH DIRECTIONS IN SOLAR ENERGY, which is scheduled during April 1-2, 2014. The Symposium will be organized by the newly created Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research at IISc, Bangalore. The main objective of the two-day Symposium is to provide an exclusive forum for intellectually stimulating and engaging interactions among the leading researchers, students, policy makers and engineers from industries, on the recent developments of cutting edge technologies in PV and CSP.
Symposium Topics
- Advances in research on Photovoltaics
- Advances in research on Concentrated Solar Power
- Storage Technologies
- Integration Technology
- Road Mapping, Technology Assessment, Policy Analysis
Advisory Committee (Tentative)
Dr. Anil Kakodkar – Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Dr. T. Ramaswami –Department of Science and Technology
Dr. K. VijayRaghavan- Department of Bio-Technology
Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri–SN Bose National Center for Basic Sciences
Dr. Ashvini Kumar- Solar Energy Corporation of India
Dr. BibekBandyopadhyay- formerly with Solar Energy Center
Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski –formerly with NREL
Dr. Joan Brennecke–University of Notre Dame
Dr. Walter Kohn- University of California, Santa Barbara
Prof. AjeetRohatgi- Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Ravi B. Grover-HomiBhabha National Institute
Prof. Vikram Kumar-IIT-Delhi
Dr. Roland Winston- University of California,Merced
Prof. D. V. Khakhar, IIT Bombay
Prof. P. P. Chakrabarti ,IIT,Kharagpur
Prof. I. Manna, IIT Kanpur
Prof. GautamBiswas ,IIT,Guwahati
Prof. VireshDutta, IIT, Delhi
Prof. S.C.Mullick, IIT, Delhi
Prof. J. Srinivasan, IISc Bangalore
Prof. C.V.R.Murthy, IIT, Jodhpur
Prof. D.D.Sarma,IISc Bangalore
Prof.K.S.Narayan , JNCASR, Bangalore
Steering Committee (Tentative)
Dr. David Ginley- NREL
Dr. William Tumas – NREL
Prof. JuzerVasi – IIT, Bombay
Dr. Maikel Van Hest- NREL
Dr. SubhashShinde – Sandia National Labs
Dr. AnshuBharadwaj – CSTEP
Dr. Henry H. Willis – RAND Corporation
Dr. Rajiv Sharma- IUSSTF
Dr. Sanjay Bajpai - DST
Dr. PrasadaRaju – DST
Dr. RenuSwarup - Ministry of Science & Tech
Prof. A. Jhunjhunwala – IIT, Madras
Prof. S. Srinivasa Murthy – IIT, Madras
Prof. Amlan Pal – IACS, Kolkata
Dr. ShrikantJoshi – ARCI, Hyderabad
Dr. S.S.Krishnan- CSTEP
Prof. ShaibalSarkar – IIT, Bombay
Dr. O.S.Sastry – Solar Energy Centre,
Dr. R.R. Sonde – Thermax
Dr. P.V.C. Rao – HPCL
Mr. GandhamSriganesh-HPCL
Dr. A. Paranjape – Clique
Dr. R.N. Das – BHEL
Dr.SiuliSarkar-Cookson
Dr. G. Rajeswaran-Moserbaer
Local Organizing Committee
Organizing Co-Chairmen
Prof. KamanioChattopadhyay – IISc Bangalore
Prof. PradipDutta – IIScBangalore
Co-Convenors
Prof. Praveen. C. Ramamurthy- IIScBangalore
Dr. SaptarshiBasu – IISc Bangalore
Members
Prof. S. Sampath,IISc
Prof. N. Ravi Shankar ,IISc
Prof. M. Giridhar, IISc
Prof. P. Thilagar,IISc
Prof. S. Raghavan,IISc
Prof. A.Ghoshal,IISc
Prof. S. Dasappa, IISc
Prof. B. Basu, IISc
Prof. R. V. Ravikrishna, IISc
Dr. G. S. V. L. Narasimham
Dr. P. Kumar, IISc
Dr. Monto Mani, IISc
Dr. G. Tomar, IISc
Dr. V. Srinivasan, IISc
Invited Speakersand Participants
This Symposium will include a number of invited presentations from experts in solar energy research from India, USA and other countries. In addition, a number of invited poster presentations will be made by research scholars and young scientists.
Accommodation
For the invited speakers seeking accommodation inside IISc Campus, some Guest House rooms have been reserved. Separate accommodation arrangement for students will also be made.
Venue
The Symposium will be held in SatishDhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Address for correspondence
The Convenor
Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research (ICER)
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore- 560012, INDIA
Phone: + 91-80-2293 3521
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