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Offshore Renewable Energy Conference
29-31 October, 2013
The Offshore Renewable Energy Conference (OREC2013), which will take place in Singapore from 29th to 31st October 2013, will bring together academic and professional researchers and engineers, government policy makers, and business professionals from the Offshore Renewable Energy domain. The aim of the conference is to share the latest developments in policy, fundamental research, and readily-commercialized technologies involved in offshore energy generation, transmission, and distribution. This will be a forum for leading energy professionals to meet to discuss their contributions to the challenges faced in Offshore Renewable Energy and to discover the opportunities that await them.
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Electromobility Conference Asia
29-31 October, 2013
The Electromobility Conference Asia (EMCA 2013) is organized as part of the Singapore International Energy Week. The conference will focus on vehicle concepts and engineering, energy storage technologies, grid connectivity, transportation engineering, mobility and services. Those subjects will be discussed from the perspective of crosscutting issues, just as sustainability, safety, marketability and efficiency. Electromobility experts from science and industry will meet in Singapore from 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2013 to exchange ideas and build up new collaborations for future innovations. In the scientific programme, there will be 3-4 topical parallel sessions and one joint plenary session.
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Smart Grid and Energy Storage Conference
29-31 October, 2013
The Smart Grid and Energy Storage Conference (SGES2013) will bring together academic and professional researchers and engineers, government policy makers, and business professionals from the Power Grid and Renewable Energy domains. The aim of the conference is to share the latest developments in policy, fundamental research, and readily-commercialized technologies pertaining to Smart Grid with or without Energy Storage. This will be a forum for leading energy and practicing professionals to meet and discuss their contributions to the challenges faced in Power Transmission and Distribution and to discover the opportunities that await them.
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Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson
26-29 August, 2013
Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific and literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to Professor Dyson on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy, nuclear engineering and global warming, a conference covering a wide range of topics will be held in Singapore from 26 to 29 August 2013. Distinguished scientists from around the world, including several Nobel Laureates will join Professor Dyson in the celebration with a festival of lectures.
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Conference in Honour of the
90th Birthday of Rudolp Marcus
22-24 July, 2013
Professor Rudolph Marcus’s groundbreaking theory on electron transfer won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992. The Marcus theory, named after him has since become the dominant theory describing electron transfer reactions that are ubiquitous in chemistry and biology.
As a tribute to Professor Marcus on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions to chemistry, a conference covering a wide range of topics will be held in Singapore from 22 to 24 July 2013. Distinguished scientists from around the world will join NTU in the celebration with a festival of lectures on present-day research and on its projections into the future
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5th Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) Workshop on Multiferroics
22-24 May, 2013
The 1st Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) Workshop on Multiferroics in 2008 stimulated a comprehensive discussion on new developments in the field of science and technology of these materials. Following successful advances in the field, the workshop has become a regular event where both recent results and new directions are being discussed. The 5th Workshop, to be held in Singapore, is jointly organised by NTU (IAS, School of Materials Sciences and Engineering, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) and APCTP.
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R. Ramesh, Purnendu Chatterjee Professor, Materials Science and Engineering & Physics, University of California, Berkeley (former)Director, SunShot Initiative, US DOE. |
The DOE SunShot Initiative: Science and Technology to enable Solar Electricity at Grid Parity
22 May, 2013
The SunShot Initiative’s mission is to develop solar energy technologies through a collaborative national push to make solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) energy technologies cost-competitive with fossil fuel based energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by ~ 75 percent before 2020. Reducing the total installed cost for utility-scale solar electricity to roughly 6 cents per kilowatt hour (1$/Watt) without subsidies will result in rapid, large-scale adoption of solar electricity across the United States and the world. Achieving this goal will require significant reductions and technological innovations in all PV system components, namely modules, power electronics, and balance of systems (BOS), which includes all other components and costs required for a fully installed system including permitting and inspection costs. This investment will help re-establish American technological and market leadership, improve the nation's energy security, strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness and catalyze domestic economic growth in the global clean energy race. SunShot is a cooperative program across DOE, involving the Office of Science, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and ARPA-E.
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Prof James Brasseur
Pennsylvania State University |
The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence as a Function of Stability State, with reference to Wind Turbine Function
16 May, 2013
The time varying transients in blade loadings on wind turbines are directly tied to the turbulent atmospheric eddies that pass through the wind turbine rotor plane. We show that in the daytime atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) these eddies are or order the diameter of the rotor disk for commercial megawatt-scale wind turbines and can introduce velocity variations 50% of the mean flow over minute time scales. However, the strength structure and detailed structural characteristics of the atmospheric eddies vary with the stability state of the atmosphere. In this presentation I shall focus on the influence of global stability on the characteristics and structure of atmospheric turbulence in the daytime boundary layer. These comparisons will be made using large-eddy simulations of the equilibrium unstable dry boundary layer, a simulation strategy that has been historically validated for mean and large-scale eddy statistics using a series of mid west field experiments in the 60's and 70's
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Prof James Brasseur
Pennsylvania State University |
Multiscale Transport, Mixing, Absorption, and Drug Dissolution in the Intestine
15 May, 2013
Nutrient transport and absorption in the small intestine associated with the interaction between macro-scale motility driven by contractions of the muscularis propria at the lumen scale and microscale motility of the villi at the ~100 micron scale that line the gut mucosa and are controlled by the enteric nervous system through the muscularis mucosae. In the absence of direct measurement of the villi in vivo, we analyze these macro-micro-scale interactions using high performance computing with multi-grid lattice Boltzmann methods. Using this approach, we explain the likely functional roles of the two classed macro-scale motility patterns in the small intestine: segmental and peristaltic contractions, and we demonstrate the potential for controlled enhancement of nutrient absorption by coupling between lumen and villi scale motility.
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Concrete
15 April, 2013
This workshop was a bid to understand interest of building developers, architects, structural engineers, contractors and pre cast manufacturers and various governmental institutions and organizations to develop and deploy smart building materials. Attendees gathered state-of-the-art know-how of the industrial properties and usage of Carbon reinforced concrete and talk to the experts who have helped develop the product.
Carbocrete refers to the concrete which is reinforced with carbon fibers. Such fibers could be in a range of forms, including multi axial & woven fabrics, specially developed grids and chopped fibres. Carbon reinforced concrete has exciting potential for use in the construction industry, both for repairing and strengthening bridges, tunnels, and old buildings as well as new buildings.
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Technologies for solar cooling in tropical climates & guided tour of world's largest solar cooling system April 5th, 2013
Solar thermal cooling is a very promising technology for tropical
climates like in South East Asia. First systems both with absorption chillers and desiccant systems were realized in Singapore, among them the world's biggest solar thermal cooling system at the Tampines Campus of United World College of South East Asia.
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Southeast Asian Collaboration for Ocean Renewable Energy: What Do Experts Say?
25-26 February 2013
SEAcORE envisioned to be a platform for exchange of status, plans, ideas, initiatives, & experiences from R&D, policy, and industry forming a collated and active core network of expertise in SEA to set, assist, augment, or facilitate standards for ORE. It initiates projects in collaboration with groups from SEA.
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