NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop
This virtual workshop will bring together leaders, researchers, innovators, and stakeholders with a diverse range of disciplinary expertise from across academia, government, and industry to discuss present and future challenges and opportunities for convergence related to nature-inspired solutions to grand challenges.
Report of this workshop is available below:
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Workshop participants, as representative stakeholders, will explore the potentials in sustainable and nature abundant materials and will synthesize new ideas, approaches, & technologies from diverse fields of knowledge to achieve paradigm-shifting solutions to the societal grand challenges: revolutionizing urban infrastructure, providing low-cost access to clean water, making solar-energy economical, and addressing carbon sequestration.
Topics to be addressed:
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Goals
Convergence & integration across disciplines Forging stakeholder partnership. Identify societal needs and solutions Create fundamental knowledge with impact aligned with sustainability |
Speakers
Academic Institutions: UMD, North Texas U., Ohio State U., Princeton U., Maine U., Michigan State U., Portsmouth U., RPI, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, Yale U. Federal Laboratories: DOE NREL, ORNL, USDA Forest Product Industries: Ford, Spero Renewables, Tyton Bioscience Non-profit Organizations: The Pew Charitable Trusts |