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408. WE Heraeus Seminar

A Physics Perspective on
Energy Supply and Climate Change
Prediction, Mitigation and Adaptation

26 - 29 May 2008, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany

 

 
 
 
 

Lecturers and Topics


The Heraeus Seminar features a large group of distinguished lecturers, representing a wide spectrum of research in climate and in energy  physics and technology:

 Introduction:   Eberhard Umbach
                           
(Vice- President of the German Physical Society, DPG)

(1) Climate Prediction    
U1: Jochem Marotzke (Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg):
                          
"Decadal Climate Predictability"
U2: Hartmut Grassl (Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg):
                                 "Anthropogenic Climate Change and its Modelling

U3: Christoph Schär (Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, ETH Zürich):
                                 “Climate Change and Extreme Events

(2) Geoengineering: A Critical Assessment
U4: Klaus Lackner (Columbia University, New York):
                                       "
Options of Capturing Carbon Dioxide from the Air"
U5: Johannes Feichter (Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg):
                                 " Solar Radiation Management

U6: Thomas Leisner (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe):
                                 "Climate Engineering: A Critical Review of Aerosol Approaches
                                                   to Changing the Global Energy Balance

(3) Vulnerability and Adaptation
U7: Wallace Broecker (Columbia University, New York):
                                  “Will the Drylands Become even Dryer - Evidence from the Past
U8: Klaus Hasselmann
(Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg):
                                 "What to Do? Does Science have a Role?

U9: Hans von Storch (Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht):
                                 "The Dimension of Adaptation

(4) Low Carbon  Energy Supply
E1: Eckhard Rebhan (University Düsseldorf):
                                 "Challenges for Future Energy Usage

E2: Henner Gladen, Lars Schnatbaum-Laumann (Solar Millenium AG):
                                 "Solar Thermal Power Plants"

E3: Hermann-Josef Wagner (University Bochum):
                                 "Energy from Wind – Perspectives and Research Needs"

E4: Petr Novak (Paul Scherrer-Institut, Villigen):
                                 "Energy Storage in Advanced Batteries"

E5: Sven Kullander (Energy Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm):
                                 "Energy from Biomass"

E6: Wolfgang Feist, Jürgen Schnieders (Passivhaus Institut, Darmstadt):
                                 "Energy Efficiency - a Key to Sustainable Housing"

E7: Jason Anderson (Institute for European Environmental Policy IEEP, Brussels):
                                 "Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: Potential and Pitfalls"

E8: Alex Müller (CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay):
                                 "Prospects of Transmutation of Nuclear Waste

E9: Chris Llewellyn Smith (UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Division):
                                 "The Path to Fusion Power
E10: Ferdi Schüth (
Max Planck Institut für Kohleforschung, Mühlheim):
                                 "Hydrogen as Energy Carrier