On July 18-19 Skoltech hosted the second Annual Workshop “Electrochemical Energy Storage: Current Progress and Future Opportunities”. The workshop was arranged by the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEE), which is a collaboration between Skoltech, MIT and Moscow State University (MSU). Yesteryear the workshop was held in MSU, and this is the first time that Skoltech hosts it. Читать далее
Сколтех — новый технологический университет, созданный в 2011 году в Москве командой российских и зарубежных профессоров с мировым именем. Здесь преподают действующие ученые, студентам дана свобода в выборе дисциплин, обучение включает работу над собственным исследовательским проектом, стажировку в индустрии, предпринимательскую подготовку и постоянное нахождение в международной среде.
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2nd Annual Workshop “Electrochemical Energy Storage: Current Progress and Future Opportunities”
Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEE)
Skoltech/MIT/MSU Joint Collaboration
2nd Annual Workshop
“Electrochemical Energy Storage: Current Progress and Future Opportunities”
July 18, 2016
Location: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
K. J. Stevenson, Carl Thompson, and Alexei Khokhlov, Organizers
The Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEE) will host their 2nd Annual electrochemistry workshop entitled “Electrochemical Energy Storage: Current Progress and Future Opportunities”. The CEE is a collaboration between the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Moscow State University (MSU). This second workshop, featuring scientists and researchers from these universities and institutes, will discuss key issues that hinder advances in advanced energy storage technologies. For instance, multi-ion batteries have the potential of significantly increased energy densities and high power operation. Organic batteries offer the possibility of higher energy densities, as well as creation of batteries with reduced weight. Integrated, regenerative fuel cell and electrolysis systems provide fuel generation and energy storage as well as carbon neutral electricity generation. Several different perspectives will be presented from experts covering areas including the development of new approaches to synthesis of materials, computational materials design, characterization of materials (including innovations in in situ characterization of electrochemical processes), and device prototyping.
For additional information on this workshop, visit the CEE website at http://crei.skoltech.ru/cee or contact us the organizers via email ,
Skoltech Space Center at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
Researchers from Skoltech’s Space Center are slated to take part in the 40th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
Researchers from Skoltech’s Space Center are slated to take part in the 40th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). On the agenda are sessions, panels, poster presentations and interdisciplinary lectures (with some hectic and valuable networking on the sidelines).
Skoltech researcher Tatiana Podladchikova will present her and Professor Yuri Shprit’s recent findings on space weather, solar activity forecasting and magnetospheric reconstruction, as reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Space Physics. Podlachikova: “Our hope is to contribute to improving space weather forecasting as a way to mitigate the hazards of space accidents
– and their consequences. Space weather can specifically cause damage to spacecraft through active events on the Sun. It can also put astronauts and pilots at high altitudes in danger of beign exposed to high levels of radiation. There are also infrastructure concerns especially during solar storms which might damage power systems and radio communications.”
Mikhail Dobynde, a Ph.D. Space student will participate in two poster presentations. One will deal with astronauts protection from cosmic radiation during long term interplanetary flights. “My research is focused on minimising biological damage during long term interplanetary flights”, he explains. The second presentation focuses on measurements of electron spectra inside the magnetosphere. It is the result of collaboration with a group of researchers at the Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Germany.
All in all Skoltech Space scientists have co-authored 15 presentations, including three that were commissioned specifically for this assembly. Also, the research center will be represented at the exhibition center, which will operate from August 3 to 9. At the Space Center stand, visitors will be able to get acquainted with the activities of the center, as well as learn about current scientific positions and openings.
The Moscow COSPAR Assembly program will include more than 2,700 plenaries, sessions and lectures and over 1500 poster presentations. It will touch upon a wide array of topics: from big data to biological and medical experiments on board the International Space Station. More than 2,500 scientists and students from more than 60 countries are expected to attend.
* The Space Center is one of 15 CREIs (Center for Research, Education and Innovation) that are the main scientific engines of Skoltech. he Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.