"Investigating the Potential for Bio-Energy Production and Greenhouse Gas-Sequestration in the South African Sugar Industry" presented by Dr. Matthew Jones, South African Sugarcane Research Institute, 2:00 p.m., 327 Keim Hall.

More Electric Transportation Systems: Prospects for Energy Storage Systems by Dr. John M. Miller, VP Systems Applications & Integration, Maxwell Technologies, Inc. - We live in a time of a subtle, but inexorable quest, for fully electrified transportation systems. Concern over our planet becoming an out of control greenhouse is becoming pervasive in professional circles and finally in political arenas. A sizeable portion of the public is also coming to this realization, although it will take longer for the majority opinion to form. Mitigation measures such as driving toward a hydrogen economy as well as pursuing alternative forms of energy have gained a certain momentum. But hydrogen as an energy carrier is not gaining the support most considered essential only 2 or so years ago. What is becoming clearer is that the truly sustainable energy carrier of the future is electrification. More electric – everything! In this presentation we take a look at the situation with CO and the push for alternative energy sources. Then the focus narrows to transportation and why it will need to be mostly electrified by 2050 and what sort of energy storage systems will be needed in support of sustainable electric transportation. This includes discussion on advanced chemistry batteries and carbon-ultracapacitors and their potential for working in combination. The talk will conclude on what the prospects are for electric energy storage.

Professor Richard Schoch, Professor of the History of Culture, Director of the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London. In nineteenth-century Britain, the theatre was a powerful agent of historical consciousness because it could realize the past with immediacy greater than that of literature, painting, museum collections or photography. The key means for the persuasive performance of history was archaeologically correct scenery: the precise, detailed recreation (usually in painting, but sometimes in three-dimensions) of specific buildings and architectural remains. Nowhere was this devotion to historically accurate mise-en-scène more apparent than in Victorian productions of Shakespeare, which afforded opportunities to recreate onstage sites ranging from the Tower of London to the Piazza San Marco in Venice. In this lecture, we will look at how the astonishing accuracy of theatrical scenery and the presence of live actors recreating legendary events collectively established the Victorian theatre as a place where the traditional parts of history were reclaimed and restored for a mass popular audience.