BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:EECE Seminar - Dr. Emily Carter X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260519T133449Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_49099602444177 DTSTART:20251003T160000Z DTEND:20251003T170000Z DESCRIPTION:Dr. Emily Carter\nDudukovic Lecturer\nGerhard R. Andlinger Prof essor in Energy and the Environment\nProfessor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\nthe Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment\, and Ap plied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University\n\n\nElectroma nufacturing for a Sustainable Future\nClimate change is here\, faster than most of us expected\, with its attendant extraordinary increases in inten sity and frequency of wildfires\, droughts\, flooding\, and more. For near ly two decades\, I have been working on strategically chosen activities th at I hope will help ultimately reverse global warming and its disastrous e ffects. These activities include those I will focus on in this lecture\, n amely\, fundamental research to understand how best to convert water and c arbon dioxide into chemicals and minerals\, and ammonia synthesis and deco mposition for fertilizer production and hydrogen storage\, transport\, and use. I will discuss selected recent results from our multi-level simulati ons that furnish accurate energetics\, kinetics\, and insights into these processes via electrically driven catalysis\, where the electricity drives thermal\, photochemical\, or electrolytic reactions. The methods are all based on quantum mechanics\, encompassing standard density functional theo ry (DFT) as a starting point\, my group's embedded correlated wavefunction (ECW) theory (necessary to properly describe certain intermediates\, exci ted states\, and electron transfer)\, and multiphysics/multiscale kinetics and dynamics simulations of ammonia synthesis and decomposition (to form hydrogen)\, and carbon dioxide conversion to fuels and carbonates.\n \n\nB io: Emily A. Carter is a world-renowned scholar (Princeton University’ s Inaugural Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment) and visiona ry administrative leader (formerly Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Ener gy and Environment Founding Director\, Princeton’s Dean of Engineering a nd Applied Science\, UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost\, and now Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Senior Strategic Advisor and A ssociate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Scie nces) with a career spanning chemistry\, materials science\, mechanical an d aerospace engineering\, and applied and computational mathematics on the faculties of UCLA and Princeton. She pioneered development and applicati on of quantum simulation techniques enabling design of molecules and mater ials for sustainable energy and carbon mitigation. She has co-authored nea rly 500 publications\, patents\, and codes\; mentored nearly 100 postdocto ral fellows and Ph.D. students\; and delivered over 600 invited\, keynote\ , and plenary lectures worldwide. Her many honors include election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences \, U.S. National Academy of Inventors\, U.S. National Academy of Engineeri ng\, European Academy of Sciences\, and as Foreign Member of Great Britain ’s Royal Society. She strategically lends her expertise to various entit ies\, from the U.S. National Academies (e.g.\, chairing a three-year Congr essionally mandated study on carbon utilization) to private science founda tions (launching the Simons Foundation initiative on solar radiation manag ement science and serving on the Kavli Foundation’s board of directors) to the federal government (member of multiple national laboratory advisory and review boards) to advising companies (e.g.\, chairing a scientific ad visory board for a direct ocean capture startup company). She earned her B .S. in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Cal tech\, followed by a brief postdoc at the University of Colorado\, Boulder . GEO:38.649125;-90.303135 LOCATION:Uncas A. Whitaker Hall\, 100 SUMMARY:EECE Seminar - Dr. Emily Carter URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/eece-seminar-dr-emily-cart er CATEGORIES:Seminar/Colloquia END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR