Summerschool 2010

Summer School Program

Time

Speaker

Title

Monday, 19.07.2010

09:30 – 12.30

Prof. Daniel G. Nocera

Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Chemistry of Renewable Energy

14:00 – 15:15

Prof. Markus Antonietti

MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Towards Artificial Photosynthesis: Organic Semiconductors,
P450 Mimicks, and some Metal nitrides

Tuesday, 20.07.2010

09:30 – 12:30

Prof. Roy Periana

Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

Approaches to one the Most Valuable and Important Challenges Today; 
The C-H to C-O Bond Transformation
 

13:00 – 14:30

Dr. Friedmann Müller

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany

Natural gas and oil security of supply under changing (geo-)political 
conditions
 

15:00 open end

Summer School Barbecue

Wednesday, 21.07.2010

09:30 – 10:45

Prof. Rudolf Thauer

Microbiology, Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Nickel, methane, archaea and the three princes of Serendip

11:15 – 12:30

Dr. Ivan Berg

Microbiology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Autotrophic CO₂ fixation in Nature: pathways, rules and speculations

15:00 – 16:15

Prof. Andrea Polle

Forest Botany & Tree Physiology, University Göttingen, Germany

Elevated atmospheric CO₂: friend or foe for biological wood production?

Thursday, 22.07.2010

09:30 – 10:30

11:00 – 12:00

Prof. Dieter Hanelt

Cell Biology and Phycology, University of Hamburg, Germany

Algae as economic plants

How efficient algal photosynthesis can work for production of renewable energy or biofuels

14:00 – 17:30

Field Trip to the Microalgae Pilot Plant in Hamburg-Reitbrook (SSC GmbH and E.ON Hanse AG)

Friday, 23.07.2010

09:30 – 10:45

Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann

Geology, MARUM, University Bremen, Germany

Natural marine gas hydrates - formation, detection and relevance

11:15 – 12:30

Dr. Matthias Haeckel

Marine Biogeochemistry, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

Marine Gas hydrates - New energy resource and hope for CO₂ storage or climate disaster?