 What we thought we'd do for the next hour and a quarter is actually do something a little different than what we've done in the past. Since we've been going for quite a few years, we thought we'd take a look back at what we've been doing in terms of developing our energy research and the technologies and also look forward and so we've invited some of our PIs who have really made a very big contribution to GSEP over the years and asked them to share with us their perspectives on the the advancements that have been made in GSEP and where they're going in the context of their research fields and so the plan that we have for today is to I will give you a little bit of an overview and then I will ask Tom Yawamillo who has been an outstanding researcher at Stanford working in the area of renewable fuels and catalysis and he will give his perspective and followed by Mike McGeehe, professor from material science and engineering and he will also talk about what's been happening in the solar PV field at GSEP and then tomorrow it'll be tomorrow afternoon from 2.15 to 3.15 we'll have two more PIs, we'll have Yi-Tray speak on batteries and energy storage and then we'll also have from Purdue University, Clint Chappell speak on a bio biomass conversion and the work that they've been doing in Lignin. So typically in these meetings we have these technical sessions and they're more focused for those that really want to deep dive into the into the technical specifics of an area but these these talks will be much more at a higher level, more for a larger audience like we're having here. So let me begin by giving a little bit of a background on on GSEP for those that don't you don't know the program so well I'll be quite brief. We've been going we were started in 2002 it was December 2002 so we're actually nearly 14 years we've been going and it's funded by industry industrial sponsors big industry corporations and over the years we've had six industry sponsors our biggest sponsor has been Exxon Mobile and together with them at the beginning were GE, Toyota and Stambachet and over the years we've also had DuPont join and Bank of America join and so we've had as many as six sponsors for GSEP. The mandate that we had was ready to do research in low greenhouse gas emission energy supplies so we're really looking primarily at the energy supply technologies and of course these companies all have very strong research programs of their own but we really wanted to look at focusing on the fundamental and pre-commercial research that universities are strong at and because we're looking at that type of research we were looking for applications quite far out into the future into the sort of 10 to 50 year time frame and so the strategy that we followed was really to look for research projects on technologies that have the potential for significant impact in greenhouse gas emissions at a sort of global scale we were really looking for breakthroughs in in these technologies and so but we had a lot of funding but we didn't but it's difficult to get our hands around what we you know what we could do and so we went with this strategy of really looking at high risk high reward and I know you've heard this time several times before but we really we were we're given a lot of funding and then we could actually take that funding and really try and spread it across the whole energy space and we really wanted to try and give the freedom to the university researchers to really try and come up with their most creative ideas so we did work about two-thirds of the work was done at Stanford but actually a good third of it was done outside universities and this map here shows some of the universities around the world that have participated in GSEP and our inaugural director was Lynn Orr who now is at the Department of Energy and his deputy was was Chris Edwards and around 2007 I believe then Sally Benson came in and she took over a couple of years later so just a few quick statistics on on GSEP so as I said about 200 million dollars was committed to the project we went back and we looked we probably have we've issued 24 solicitations for proposals that's the way we operated and received 309 proposals over 12 years and we've actually funded exactly 100 major research programs and it's resulted you know from a scientific standpoint we've had many publications over 800 publications in peer review journals and 1200 over 1200 papers presented at meetings we did a little analysis of where we what how a good our publications were from 2010 to 2015 and what you can see from this little box here on the top right hand corner is that we got many citations so they there's the field weighted citation impact that's sort of a measure of how well the work that we have published it's got a number that's actually 5.23 so around five on average it's one so really they were cited probably five times better than most than the average for publications and a typical and on average they were cited 50 times of the GSEP publications during that period nearly 60 percent were published in the 10 10 percent of most cited publications so I think that was some sort of measure of how well the science has gone in GSEP our most highly cited paper is by Yichwe on his his battery is nano technology for lithium batteries and that's has been cited over 3,000 times and I think that number is still going up now and we'll hear from you tomorrow we've also developed over 60 technologies and had 15 patents issued I think one of the big main products that we have coming out of GSEP is really the students and we've had over 800 graduates and students and postdocs passing through the project so let me just say a word or two about the how we've been made an impact at GSEP and I should say that we've had a number of conversations with GSEP PIs and some of what I'm going to present is actually we've heard from from these PIs so I think that one of the challenges was how do we address this big energy issue and how can we do it with this big it requires a big picture approach and finding game changing solutions and so it was a stretch for the faculty they at the time we began GSEP faculty were really focusing on their individual areas and we asked them to take a multi-disciplinary sort of view systems view of energy and we did a lot of systems analysis this exergy assessment that we did here on the global energy system is an example of that and the other point I would make is that GSEP was a lot of money it was a large-scale project but we needed something of that size really to start searching for the solutions across this broad energy space one other thing I just mentioned there that we can see this multi-disciplinary approach from the fact that you know we had 80% of our research programs actually had multiple PIs where they collaborated together and actually 25% of our projects also had multiple institutions so it wasn't all just PIs within Stanford they were also with people from other institutions GSEP's also had a big impact at Stanford I think firstly in terms of the energy community it's really had a big impact in in faculty recruitment and a number of the speakers you'll be hearing from were recruited partly because GSEP was here so the fact that this program existed it meant that departments and the schools recruited faculty in areas that were associated with energy energy courses there's around 400 energy courses that take place at Stanford far bigger number than existed when GSEP began and I think it's also spurred a huge amount of student interest an example would be the Student Energy Club which is I think the most popular energy club on the Stanford campus the I think the other impact it's had is in terms of the research areas of expertise over the years we've developed I think centers of excellence in certain research areas and it's not just being the GSEP money that came in but it's also all the follow-on money that came afterwards and I think GSEP should take a lot of credit for the fact that we've got to this point and I'm hoping that today you'll hear and tomorrow you'll hear some of the the evidence for that the third impact on on Stanford I think is the ecosystem that's been created on the campus is not just being in the technology areas but across the whole all the issues of energy from the technology to the finance to the policy behavior and so on there's a whole set of centers the whole ecosystem that that now exists on the Stanford campus and not all of it was due to GSEP but GSEP certainly had an influence on that and we now have the Precourt Institute for Energy which really is this umbrella organization that oversees everything going on at Stanford the impact was not just of course at Stanford it was also beyond Stanford and as I mentioned we've had a number of sponsors and it's had some impact on them I think some of them have really been quite good at recruiting some of our graduates and that they could have the biggest impact on energy over the next 40 years or so and we gave them some early awareness of energy trends that they wouldn't have known about maybe if they weren't supporters of GSEP and we also had a lot of we've had a lot of conversations with our sponsors we've had a number of CEOs come and visit to Stanford and hopefully it's managed to inform the companies of the strategic directions at least give them some more information that would help them as they set their strategic directions. GSEP has also been a pioneer in in supporting energy research and it's really served as a model for a number of new big centers that didn't exist when it started and some examples would be the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis which was a direct outlet actually of GSEP Research. ARPA-E is a different model but the DOE program it has many of the features that GSEP has and other examples may be housed in Saudi Arabia and another example of the impact that we've had beyond Stanford I think is the is the entrepreneurial community we've really a number of startup companies have begun inspired or based upon the research that's been done at GSEP and actually this afternoon you'll have the opportunity to meet some of those companies as we have a showcase of some of those technologies. On the technical side we've really invested in a broad portfolio and you can sort of see how our funding has been spread across a whole set of technical areas but in some cases this has actually developed whole new technical fields and I give a couple of examples here for example we've funded one project which we call Pete the photon enhanced thermionic emission and it was a bit of a crazy idea when it first began about eight or nine years ago the idea was actually to come up with a system that would convert both the heat and the light of solar energy both components in a single system and it actually worked very well spectacularly well and this has now developed into a whole new field there's workshops and you know dozens of groups around the world working on this concept another example would be in the area of microbial electrochemistry and this was begun by um Alfred Sporman we've funded some of the initial work on this and again there were workshops there was a workshop just last month in this area and um again it's had many many groups around the world now working in this field so um this is probably my last slide um because I'm going to turn it over to the to the to the faculty working in these areas but um this sort of qualitatively shows uh what we've done in advancing the energy technologies we've made real advances in in some of these major areas and it's not just been the GCEP advances it's also been the follow-on funding that we've got and we've moved things along and really GCEP I think enabled a lot of this to happen and it supported it and then enabled the follow-on to happen and so that's where where we are right now we hope to to see this continue both at Stanford and outside of Stanford and in the general research space and so with that I will I will stop and then I will turn over the