SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 3 - 5 may 2006

Symposium: Science on the way to the hydrogen economy

Friday, 5 May 2006

Friday 5 May 2006
Symposium: Science on the way to the hydrogen economy
Opening address
Dr Jim Peacock
President, Australian Academy of Science
Opening comment
Chair: Dr Michael Barber

Executive Director, Scientific Planning, CSIRO
Dr John Wright
Director, CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship
Setting the scene: What is the hydrogen economy?
Plenary Lecture
Dr George Crabtree
Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
The two hydrogen economies
Professor Cameron Kepert
Federation Fellow, University of Sydney
Hydrogen storage in nanoporous materials
Chair: Professor Leslie Field
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of New South Wales
Dr Sukhvinder Badwal
CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology
Fuel cells
Professor Andrew Dicks
ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland
Advanced nanomaterials for fuel cells
Dr Evan Gray
Physics, Nanoscale Science and Technology Centre, Griffith University
Hydrogen storage: status and prospects
Dr Ben Hankamer
Institute of Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Solar powered H2 production from H2O using engineered green algal cells
Chair: Dr Bob Watts
Councillor, Australian Academy of Science
Dr Catherine Grégoire Padró
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Production of hydrogen
Professor David Trimm
Federation Fellow, CSIRO Petroleum Research
Catalysis and syngas for the production of hydrogen
Dr Wes Stein
CSIRO Energy Technology
Making hydrogen from the Sun
Professor Harry Watson
Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
Hydrogen car prospects