Photos
We hope you enjoy these photos of the 2013 UC Solar Symposium.
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| UC Merced graduate students Bennett Widyolar (left) and Melissa Ricketts man the reception desk at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center at UC Davis. |
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| UC Solar Director Roland Winston opens the festivities. |
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| Professor Winston and opening keynote speaker Larry Kazmerski of NREL share a laugh, as well as a passion for “Kaz” ties. |
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| Larry Kazmerski brought visual aids, including the first solar-powered satellite. And yes, the solar cells still work. |
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| Larry asks the crowd if anyone remembers the transistor radio? Many hands go up. Some do not. |
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| With this handy chart, you too can Name your own PV company! “SolVoltPowerNano” anyone? |
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| UC Berkeley’s Connie Chang-Hasnain, always in top form, addresses the crowd on the topic of micropillar solar cells. |
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| “What’s with the party hats?” asks Ron Durbin while facilitating Connie’s Q&A time. |
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| Photographic evidence that graduate student research posters actually do make people happy. |
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| The poster session is always a symposium highlight, and it never seems to last long enough. |
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| When the USDA’s Rebecca Milczarek speaks… |
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| … the audience listens. |
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| UC Davis’ Adam Moule discusses challenges in organic photovoltaic technology. |
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| Sadrul Ula describes the work going on at the Winston Chung Global Energy Center at UC Riverside. |
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| Frank de Winter (standing in foreground) adds to the discussion during Sadrul’s Q&A. |
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| UCSD’s Deli Wang sees hydrogen in our future, and he knows how to get it. |
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| Deli took the dreaded post-lunch speaker slot and he nailed it. |
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| The CPUC’s Ed Randolph talked about how market innovations are promoting policy innovations. |
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| UC Merced’s Gerardo Diaz is working on next-generation solar thermal technologies for hot water and industrial process heat. |
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| CEC Chair Robert Weisenmiller outlines a few of the many successful projects supported by the state’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. |
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| Chair Weisenmiller closes out the symposium by answering a number of audience questions. |
