The Inaugural Pacific Rim Energy & Sustainability Congress »

 

PRESCO 2012 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel
Hiroshima, Japan
August 6th – 9th, 2012

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

ALL PRESENTERS MUST REGISTER BY 31 MAY 2012

FULL PAPERS DUE BY 10 JUNE 2012

JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS DUE BY 1 SEPTEMBER 2012

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan » August 6th – 9th, 2012

Despite efforts since the late 1980’s by the global community, especially the United Nations, to take a proactive stance on the sustainability of energy resources, the stark reality is that global consumption of energy has not diminished. In fact, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have increased nearly 30% since 2000, and roughly 85% of global energy now comes from fossil fuels. Moreover, recent spikes in world oil prices, as well as energy related crises such as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in Japan have focused attention on challenges with the existing energy landscape.

The 2012 Pacific Rim Energy & Sustainability Congress will be held in Japan’s ‘city of peace’, Hiroshima, and will provide an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, students, and professionals. Under the theme of The Energy Debate: Challenges & Alternatives, the objectives of PRESCO 2012 are to exchange ideas, present research, debate issues facing sustainable energy as it intersects with the social, environmental, and economic aspects of the global sustainability paradigm.

Keynote Speaker for PRESCO 2012

George W Crabtree, Ph.D. Senior Physicist and Distinguished Fellow Argonne National Laboratory, USA George Crabtree has won numerous awards for his research, such as the Kammerlingh Onnes Prize in 2003 for his work on the physics of vortices in high temperature superconductors. He has won the University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne twice, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Solid State Physics four times, a notable accomplishment. He has an R&D 100 Award for his pioneering development of Magnetic Flux Imaging Systems. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a charter member of ISI’s Highly Cited Researchers in Physics, and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Crabtree has served as Chairman of the Division of Condensed Matter of the American Physical Society, as a Founding Editor of the scientific journal Physica C, as Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters. He has published more than 400 papers in leading scientific journals, has collected over 15,000 career citations, and has given approximately 100 invited talks at national and international scientific conferences. His research interests include materials science, sustainable energy, nanoscale superconductors and magnets, vortex matter in superconductors, highly correlated electrons in metals. He has led workshops for the Department of Energy on hydrogen, solar energy, superconductivity, and materials under extreme environments, co-chaired the Undersecretary of Energy’s assessment of DOE’s Applied Energy Programs. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the hydrogen economy and on meeting sustainable energy challenges.

Affiliates of PRESCO 2012

PRESCO 2012 will coincide with the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which occurred on August 6th, 1945. Participants of the Congress will be invited to join the remembrance ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Park on the morning of August 6th, 2012.