The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is hosting its third in-person summit on January 15 from 8:30 AM – 6 PM. Like 2024’s iteration, the event will take place on the Homewood campus in Hodson Hall, with free lunch for attendees and speakers being served. All are welcome! The ROSEI Summit provides a technical sharing of all sustainable energy and related research being conducted at Johns Hopkins. It will be an overview of ROSEI activities and technical sessions organized around the active topics of our scholars. The Summit provides a unique means to understand the breadth and depth of JHU research in sustainable energy as well as develop collaborations and new networks for future research. This year, speakers at the Summit will be ROSEI faculty, as well as researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL). The technical sessions will consist of 15 minute talks, no papers are required, and a slide template will be provided in early January. There will also be a student poster session/competition as well. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate in the poster session/competition, as are postdoctoral fellows. Interested students should email Wick Eisenberg with the subject line "ROSEI Summit Student Poster Submission", the title of their presentation and list of authors. Please note: Students will be responsible for printing their own posters.

2025 ROSEI Summit Timeline

See below for the current timeline of the Summit. Please continue to check this page at later dates as more details are confirmed.

• 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Opening remarks and welcome, Ben Schafer
• 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning keynote and discussion, Jeff Maranchi and Konstantinos (Kostas) Gerasopoulos
• 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (noon): JHU Faculty and APL talks
• 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch
• 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM: Keynote presentation, Dan Kammen
• 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM: Graduate student and postdoctoral fellow poster session/competition
• 2:30 PM - 4:45 PM: JHU Faculty and APL talks
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM: Closing session and awards for student poster competition
• 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Reception

Photos from 2024 Summit

The US EPICS Summit will bring together US researchers and industry representatives and will aim to foster collaboration and connections across the EPICS community and with our partners. The topics for the EPICS summit will be related to the ongoing research:

• AI for Energy and Energy for AI – related to Thrust 1 activities
• Advances in Energy Markets and Policy – related to Thrust 3 activities
• Planning for Net Zero Transition under Uncertainty – related to Thrust 4 activities

The Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) Center is an NSF Global Center for use-inspired research addressing global challenges in climate change and clean energy. EPICS includes Johns Hopkins University Georgia Tech, University of California-Davis and Resources for the Future  in the US, Imperial College London , University of Strathclyde and  University of Edinburgh in the UK, and and University of Melbourne, CSIRO and Monash University in Australia. You can find the full agenda for the Summit here, and register to attend by filling out this form (registration is free).

Check this page as more details become available at a later date.

The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is tentatively planning to host its next Earth Day lunch and birthday celebration for the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) community on April 22, 2025. Please check this page in the future for more updates about event. And feel free to click here, here, and here to read about the previous three celebrations.