JAPC - Energy, security and the environment: from global to local to global

Speaker: Prof. Al Sweedler, Dept. of Physics, Center for Energy Studies, Environmental Sciences Program, SDSU

Topic: "Energy, security and the environment: from global to local to global"

Time: 2:00 PM, Friday, November 30th, 2007

Place: Note that the location has been moved to the North Education 60 building. (refreshments will still be served at 1:45 PM in P145A)

Abstract: The availability of safe, secure, and reasonably priced energy resources is critical to the survival of all modern societies. Competition for these resources will become increasingly severe in the 21st century leading potentially to conflict and tension between nations. The environmental consequences of continued growth in energy use will also have major influence on the global ecosystem, especially air pollution and global warming. This talk will discuss these issues from a global and local perspective. Energy related research at SDSU will also be highlighted.

Al Sweedler is a well-known specialist on the environmental impacts of energy use. He was one of the first graduate students at UCSD in the early 1960s. After spending two years in Chile as a Ford Foundation Fellow, he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, working on neutron irradiation effects on superconductors, before joining the physics department at SDSU in 1978. Sweedler was an APS Congressional Science Fellow working in the U.S. Senate for one year and is one of the founding Board members, and immediate past Chair, of the California Center for Sustainable Energy. At SDSU he serves as the Assistant Vice President for International Programs and Director of the Center for Energy Studies and the Environmental Sciences Program.

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