Feb 2-3: UT Energy Forum

STUDENTS: REGISTER NOW!

The annual forum, titled "UT: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Energy," is a student-led event bringing together leading University researchers and professors, industry leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs and students to explore today’s most pressing energy challenges. The UT Energy Forum will take place on Thursday, February 2nd and Friday February 3rd, 2012 in Austin, Texas. The first day will feature a keynote from a top-level UT Energy leader, an interdisciplinary panel discussion that will tackle some of the Energy industries most pressing issues, and a networking event. On Friday, attendees will hear two keynote speakers and panel discussions on a variety of energy topics, ranging from oil exploration, renewable energy and innovative research that will change the outlook for our global energy portfolio/energy landscape. In parallel, leading research and innovations at the University of Texas at Austin will be showcased in exhibition format and compressed time-frame TED-style talks. Join us for insightful interdisciplinary panel discussions led by students, researchers, professors and industry leaders at the 2012 UT Energy Forum!

Location
Thursday, Feb. 2nd & 3rd, 2012:
Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
2110 San Jacinto Boulevard
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-8839
http://www.texasexes.org/about/map.asp

Schedule

THURSDAY, February 2, 2012
8:00 am – 10:50 am : Short Course: Energy Technology & Policy
11:00 am – 12:30 pm : Registration
12:30 pm – 1:20 pm : Welcome and Opening Keynote: Dr. Steven Koonin, Former Undersecretary of Science, DOE
1:20 pm - 1:30 pm : Break
1:30 pm - 2:50 pm : Panel 1: Energy in the Built Environment - Efficiency & Behavior
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm : Break
3:00 pm – 4:20 pm : Panel 2: Who Pays for our Renewable Future?
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm : Break
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm : Debate: U.S. Energy Independence: Myth or Fact?
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm : Networking Reception

FRIDAY, February 3, 2012
7:00 am – 8:30 am : Registration and Networking Breakfast, Energy Research Poster-fair and Competition
8:30 am – 9:20 am : Keynote Address: Stephan Dolezalek, Vantage Point CleanTech Group
9:20 am – 9:30 am : Break
9:30 am – 10:50 am : Panel 3: A National Energy Policy - The Search Continues…10 Minute Energy Idea Talks
10:50 am – 11:00 am : Break
11:00 am – 12:20 pm : Panel 4: Risk and Externalities associated with Energy Production10 Minute Energy IDea Talks
12:20 pm – 1:30 pm : Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm : Keynote Address Michael Bahorich, Apache Corporation
2:20 pm – 2:30 pm : Break
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm : Panel 5: The Future of Energy Storage
Presentation of Results from UT Energy Poll and Hydraulic Fracturing Study
3:50 pm – 4:00 pm : Break
4:00 pm – 5:20 pm : Panel 6: Understanding Oil Prices

(1/26) UTES Lecture: Shale Gas Developmen​t Facts & Fiction

For more info on the Energy Symposium Lecture Series , email varun.rai@mail.utexas.edu with subject line:“Subscribe to UTES Email List” if you want to be added


Assessing the Perceived and Real Environmental Consequences of Shale Gas Development

by Charles G. Groat
(Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, UT Austin)

26 January, 5:15-6:15pm
MEZES HALL (MEZ) 1.306

Open to all. Refreshments served at 5:00pm
Please settle in by 5:10pm

Speaker Bio:
Chip Groat rejoined The University of Texas at Austin as Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and Director and Graduate Advisor of the Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program in June 2005. He holds the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Energy and Mineral Resources in the Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, and is Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs. He assumed these positions after serving 6 ½ years as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, having been appointed by President Clinton and retained by President Bush. He served as interim dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT from July 2008 to August 2009. His previous experience at UT was as Associate Director and Acting Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and Associate Professor of Geological Sciences. He was appointed an Associate Director of the Energy Institute in the spring of 2010.

He has been a member of the National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and the Outer Continental Shelf Policy Board. He is a past President of the Association of American State Geologists and of the Energy Minerals Division and Division of Environmental Geosciences of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He has been a member of and chaired several National Research Council study panels.

His degrees in geology are from the University of Rochester (A.B.), University of Massachusetts (M.S.), and The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.).


Note: NO TALK ON Thu, 2 Feb

TEF Officer and Committee Member Applications

Applications for the 2012 TEF Officer and Committee Member positions have been posted and will be available until the deadline on Sunday, December 18th. While we are only accepting Juniors and Sophomores for Officer positions, anyone can apply for the Committee Member positions. For more information on the positions, check out the "Apply" page, and for more information on the organization's structure, check out the "About Us" page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the officers on the "Contacts" page. Good luck with finals!

11/29: TEF Info Session on Leadership Opportunities for Spring, 6:30pm

Just a reminder that we're having an info session tonight in CBA 4.326(note different room) at 6:30pm to talk about the different leadership opportunities starting in the spring. If you're thinking about a career in energy and you're looking for a way to get involved and gain leadership experience, now is the time to do it with the Texas Energy Forum. Applications will be online at our website later this week and will be available until the deadline on Friday, December 18th.The meeting shouldn't last more than 30 minutes and we're catering Domino's pizza for free so if nothing else, stop by and grab something to eat and hear about some of the upcoming events next semester.

11/18 - EMIC hosts the Sustainable Urban Design Conference

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE

(Check out the link above to learn more about the event)

REGISTER NOW

November 18, 2011
AT&T Center, Austin Texas
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705

Hosted by: McCombs School of Business' Centers: Energy Management and Innovation Center and the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center

As we plan communities of the future and live in the cities of today, transportation systems and urban planning are two areas that offer opportunities for reduced environmental impact, decreased energy consumption, and long-term economic savings. This half-day conference will discuss research developments and current best practices to address these concerns. It will also explore ways for universities, communities and corporations to collaborate and make progress toward improving the sustainable nature of our cities.

11/17: UTES Lecture: "Our Sustainable Earth"

Our Sustainable Earth

by

Dr. Ray Orbach

(Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin)

17 November, 5:15-6:15pm

WELCH HALL (WEL) 2.308

Open to all. Refreshments served at 5:00pm

Please settle in by 5:10pm

Speaker Bio:


Raymond Lee Orbach is the Director of the Energy Institute at UT Austin. In 2006, he was nominated by President Bush, and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, to serve as the first Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Prior to and concurrent with serving as Under Secretary for Science, Dr. Orbach served as the 14th Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, after being sworn in as Director in March 2002. From 1992 to 2002, Dr. Orbach served as Chancellor of the University of California (UC), Riverside.


He has received numerous honors as a scholar including two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowships, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship at Tel Aviv University, the Joliot Curie Professorship at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, the Lorentz Professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, the 1991-1992 Andrew Lawson Memorial Lecturer at UC Riverside, the 2004 Arnold O. Beckman Lecturer in Science and Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Outstanding Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology in 2005. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has held numerous visiting professorships at universities around the world.


Dr. Orbach began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in 1960 and became an assistant professor of applied physics at Harvard University in 1961. He later joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963, and served as the Provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA from 1982 to 1992.


Dr. Orbach received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1956. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.


Next Talk:

5:15-6:15pm, 26 January (Spring 2012). Location: MEZ 1.306 (Mezes Hall)

Previous Talks:

For slides/videos of previous UTES talks go to this link.

11/15 - UBS Global Energy Group - Networking Event

All,

The Global Energy Group of UBS Investment Bank will be hosting a recruiting event at Austin's Pizza on Tuesday, November 15 at 6:45 PM. UBS has recently opened a event notification on Simplicity and request that interested student RSVP to attend the event. UBS looks forward to students signing up to join them for dinner and a chance to meet several of the Energy Group members in attendance. Suggested attire for the event is business casual.

The online event notification will close soon and space is limited, so if you are interested, please RSVP as soon as possible. Thanks for your help, and we look forward to meeting many members of your association.