Physics Outreach to Local Teachers
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Physics Outreach to Local Teachers is an important aspect of the WPI physics department and the SPS.
WPI's outreach effort presently consists of Frontiers, a summer high school outreach program, and the outreach due to the SPS.
The purpose of this page is to provide a concrete location for high school teachers to coordinate with the WPI physics department, and with one another. There is a mailing list slowly being generated with this same purpose, to be added contact Nathan Nesbitt at ntn@wpi.edu.
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“USE IT, LOSE IT, OR SAVE IT-The Science of Renewable Energy Storage”
Dr. Albert Migliori National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
- Olin Hall 107
- Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:30 p.m.
- For more information call 508-831-5258
Abstract
Today, we can usefully consume all of the little solar, wind, and other renewable energy we produce. But for total energy production to shift significantly toward inherently unpredictable renewables, energy must be stored when available and recovered when needed else precious renewable energy sources will stand idle. This lecture will present an overview of the science of energy storage and new nanotechnology approaches to it. The science will take time to mature, but with legislative and economic shelters to nurture it, effective distributed electrical energy storage solutions can be found before the need is urgent
About the speaker: Albert Migliori, a staff member at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1976, is co-discoverer of acoustic heat engines and has won numerous awards for his work in resonant ultrasound spectroscopy. However, like many Los Alamos scientists, Migliori has worked on a virtual What's What of cutting-edge physics. He has pursued interests in the Mossbauer effect, design of liquid working fluid heat engines, picosecond optical studies of vibrational localization, ultrasound, microwave and critical state studies of superconductors and Kondo systems, insulators and semi-metals. He is a fellow of LANL and of the American Physical Society, holds 21 patents, and has written more than 100 publications, five book chapters and one book. Migliori's Website
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