Introduction
Finding new materials solutions is the key to the development of renewable energy technologies. These include solar cells and photovoltaics, fuel cells, batteries, solar energy harvesting using photosynthetic and other bio-inspired methods, as well as improvements for energy efficiency. Materials modeling and simulation, ranging from electronic properties and atomic-scale structures to device design and optimisation, are key ingredients in this. This course aims at both exposing outstanding challenges in the renewable energy arena, and at training in the modern techniques and methods available for multiscale modeling.
The five-day course will contain lectures from leading expert in basic renewable energy sciences, pedagogical introduction to cutting-edge methodologies, hands-on tutorial sessions, and presentations of current research projects. There will be lectures from both experimentalists, theorists and industry representatives. The plan is that each lecturer presents both a general survey of his/her topic and methodologies and a more detailed account of specific research applications. Moreover, there will be poster sessions by the students and laboratory visits to experimental facilities.
The advertisement poster for the school can be found here (pdf).
Venue
The workshop will be held in Hotel Korpilampi, Espoo (near Helsinki) from Monday 2009-09-14 to Thursday 2008-09-17.
To reach Korpilampi from the Helsinki city center, one can take bus number 345 from the central railway station (Check the bus times and route maps in the Helsinki region Journey planner). From the airport, you can, e.g., take bus 615 to the central railway station and then go by 345 from there, or take the bus 540 to Leppävaara and switch to 21 there (airport-Korpilampi in Journey planner). Note that the route of bus 21 terminates near hotel Korpilampi (though the best place to get off is the second to last stop), but most other busses continue further. You can search for a suitable route in the Journey planner and print the route map and a list of the stops on the way.
For those traveling in groups, it's probably most convenient to take a taxi from the airport. You can reserve an airport taxi in advance.
Registration
The summer school has ended, thank you to all participants!
We thank the Academy of Finland and the Psi-k network (Marie-Curie) for financial support.
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Programme
| Mon 2009-09-14 | Tue 2009-09-15 | Wed 2009-09-16 | Thu 2009-09-17 | |
| 8:45 | Introduction | |||
| Chair: | Nieminen | Puska | Nordlund | Laasonen |
| 9:00 | Andreoni | Seitsonen | Bligaard I | Lund |
| 10:00 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 10:30 | Korppi-Tommola I | Walker I | Raebiger II | Ganchenkova |
| 11:30 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion |
| 11:45 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| Chair: | Foster | Bligaard | Krasheninnikov | Ahuja |
| 13:00 | Botti I | Ahuja | Nordlund | Laasonen |
| 14:00 | Korppi-Tommola II | Jena | Ravindran I | Ravindran II |
| 15:00 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 16:00 | Botti II | Raebiger I | Walker II | Bligaard II |
| 17:00 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion | Summary session |
| 18:00 | Sauna party, dinner | Free evening | Poster session, buffet dinner | Departure |
For posters, the standard A0 size is fine.
List of invited speakers
| Ponniah Ravindran | (Oslo) | Hydrogen storage materials - metal hydrides, complex hydrides and their nanophase aspects |
| Rajeev Ahuja | (Uppsala) | Materials for Rechargeable Li-ion and Metal hydride Batteries |
| Puru Jena | (Richmond) | Materials for hydrogen storage: From nanostructures to complex hydrides |
| Thomas Bligaard | (Lyngby) | Towards the computational design of heterogeneous catalysts |
| Alison Walker | (Bath) | Excitonic solar cells: New Approaches to Photovoltaic Solar Energy
Conversion; Modelling excitonic solar cells |
| Silvana Botti | (Paris) | Electronic properties of CIGS materials for photovoltaic conversion: self-consistent GW calculations |
| Wanda Andreoni | (Lausanne and Zurich) | Computational science for energy |
| Kari Laasonen | (Oulu) | Quantum chemical methods |
| Jouko Korppi-Tommola | (Jyväskylä) | Chemistry and new energy solutions |
| Kai Nordlund | (Helsinki) | Atomistic simulations for development of fusion power: from plasma-wall surface interactions to damage deep in stainless steels |
| Peter Lund | (Espoo) | Energy relevance of nanotechnology in energy applications |
| Maria Ganchenkova | (Espoo) | Carbon based materials for energy related applications: beyond nanotubes and graphene |
| Hannes Raebiger | (Yokohama) | Defects and impurities in renewable energy materials |
Organizers
| Prof. Risto Nieminen |
| Prof. Martti Puska |
| Prof. Tapio Ala-Nissilä |
| Prof. Adam Foster |
| Dr. Mikko Alava |
| Dr. Ari Harju |
| Dr. Arkady Krasheninnikov |
| Dr. Teemu Hynninen |
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conares09 at tkk_fi Department of Applied Physics Helsinki University of Technology P.O.Box 1100 FI-02015 HUT, Finland Fax: +358-9-4513116 |