Come join the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) to celebrate Earth Day and the institute’s three year birthday! The celebration will be held from 12 PM – 2 PM in the Glass Pavilion on the Homewood Campus. Lunch and cupcakes will be served, and there will also be ROSEI-branded planters that will be available to guests on a first come first serve basis. We hope to see you there! Registration for this event has closed. Please email [email protected] if you would still like to attend.

Note: This seminar will run from 11 AM - 12 PM. Directly after the seminar there will be a 30 minute discussion of the new ARPA-E RFI about critical minerals and materials (CMM). Title: Geologic H₂ - a new primary energy source for the transition to clean energy? Abstract: Hydrogen is viewed by many as a key component of the transition to clean carbon free energy. The International Energy Agency forecasts that 520 million tons hydrogen from natural gas + carbon capture (so called “Blue Hydrogen”) and the electrolysis of water (“Green Hydrogen”) will be needed by 2050 to attain climate targets.This represents a >5 fold increase from current hydrogen production and use. Both routes have significant challenges - blue hydrogen will have fugitive methane releases and the need to store gigatons of CO2, green hydrogen requires large expenditures for renewable energy and critical minerals. Meanwhile, beneath our feet, the earth has been continuously generating hydrogen and for the most part mankind did not pay attention to what was right in front of us. This hydrogen is continuously formed by known chemical reactions in the subsurface, sometimes accumulating into reservoirs, sometimes being consumed by parasitic reactions and sometimes seeping into the atmosphere. The chemical potential to form hydrogen is huge, theorized to be in the trillions of tons. Economically harnessing the chemical potential of the earth would be transformational to the US and global economies. Bio: Dr. Douglas Wicks currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA E). His focus at ARPA-E is on waste-to-energy, critical mineral mining and geologic hydrogen technologies. Wicks joined ARPA-E from Imerys a French industrial minerals production and processing company, where he was most recently the Director of Transformational and External Innovation. At Imerys he developed an innovation network comprised of academic, contract research organizations, start-ups and strategic partners. Before joining Imerys Wicks worked in a variety of roles at several start-up companies focused on innovative materials. Dr. Wicks began his career at Bayer Corporation, where he ultimately became Vice President of Research for the Coatings and Colorants division. Wicks earned a B.S. in Chemistry from North Dakota State University and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Technical Focus: Critical Materials; Industrial Decarbonization

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (The Summit) is an annual conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America's energy challenges in new and innovative ways. Now in its thirteenth year, the Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at moving transformational energy technologies out of the lab and into the market. Click here to learn more about the 2023 Summit, for which ROSEI and the Whiting School of Engineering served as a platinum partner. Check this page at a later date for more information about the 2024 iteration of the Summit.

The Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering & Science (IDIES), The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) and the Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH) Facilities are sponsoring a 3-day workshop on data-driven materials modeling at the Homewood Campus in Baltimore, MD. Registration is $20 and will cover lunch and snacks for each day.

Wednesday, May 29th 2024 – Friday, May 31st 2024  

DAILY OVERVIEW:

Join us for 3 full-day sessions with themes that explore the intersection of simulation with machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. Each session will feature a morning keynote from an expert in the field and a hands-on afternoon covering relevant software and running through exercises. Wednesday, May 29, 10am – 5pm: “High-Throughput Thermodynamic Modeling”, with keynote speaker Olexandr Isayev from Carnegie Melon University. Thursday, May 30, 10am – 5pm: “Quantum Chemistry and Catalysis”, with keynote speaker John Keith from the University of Pittsburgh. Friday, May 31, 10am – 5pm: “Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics”, with keynote speaker Erik Luijten from Northwestern University.

REGISTER HERE

For questions, please reach out to Dr. Corey Oses at [email protected].