The Norwegian Research & Technology Forum
in the U.S. / Canada
Under the auspices of Royal Norwegian Embassy, Washington D.C.
Second Annual Meeting and Conference
October 6-7, 2003
October 6: Second Annual Forum Meeting,-- this year’s
main theme: “A Trans-Atlantic University
Summit”
October 7: The Annual Research Conference:
This Year’s Topic: “A Trans-Atlantic Co-operative
Research Conference on Climate Change and
New Energy Technologies: Policies, Agreements
and Processes to Protect the Global Climate”
Draft Version of Program as per October 3
Venue for the Summit Meeting on October 6: Washington University Club,
1135 16th Street N.W., Washington D.C.
Venue for the Conference, October 7: The National Academies,
500
5th
Keck Center,
Street, N.W., Washington D.C.
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Background and purpose of the Meeting and related Conference
The Norwegian Research and Technology Forum, under the auspices of the
Norwegian Embassy in Washington D.C.
The Forum, established in December 2001, promotes the exchange of knowledge
and ideas in the fields of science and technology and fosters co-operation in basic
and applied research between industrial, scientific, and academic entities and
institutions in the United States, Canada, and Norway.
Particular attention is given to the promotion of dynamic institutional networks,
mobility schemes, and collaborative joint ventures capturing the value from research
and technology innovation. To this end, the Forum includes the active, cross-sectoral
involvement of colleges, universities, science parks, industry and business, as well as
other relevant governmental and non-governmental institutions.
The overall guiding principles and thematic foci for the Forum should be seen in the
general context of Norway’s national research priorities, creatively related to
important trends and priorities in the U.S. and Canada science and technology
settings. As appropriate, the Forum will also look for possible transatlantic synergies,
seen in the context of the Norwegian Research and Innovation Forum for Europe,
anchored in the Norwegian Mission to the European Union in Brussels, as well as in
the context of U.S. / Canada – EU science co-operation.
In an initial phase, the Forum gives particular attention to those areas of science and
technology pertaining to biotechnology and related areas of medical and health sciences,
information technology/computer science, telecommunication, energy and environment and
climate, the marine and maritime sector, defense and space related research, and areas
within the social sciences. Other thematic approaches will be considered in the light of future
developments in science and technology, as well as related possibilities for industrial and
commercial partnerships and joint ventures.
In part as a result of the Forum activities over the past two years, work is under way during
Autumn 2003 to develop a long term Norwegian research and technology strategy for North
America, with an earmarked budget. Parallel to this, the process has been initiated to
negotiate a bilateral science and technology Umbrella Agreement between Norway and the
U.S., likely to be concluded by the end of 2003.
The purpose of the Advisory Board meeting and the related Conference is to discuss,
refine, and energize the overall objective of the Forum; the exchange of knowledge and ideas
in the fields of science and technology and to foster co-operation in basic and applied research
between scientific, industrial and higher educational entities and institutions in the United
States, Canada and Norway. Institutional networking represents a key operational approach
for the Forum.
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Participants
Central to the Meeting events will be the second gathering of the Forum’s Advisory Board,
together with Members of the Forum’s Steering Committee, as well as persons forming the
Forum’s General Membership. In addition, the Meeting will include invited speakers and
other participants from the U.S.,Canada and Norway. The Meeting will be followed by the
Research Conference on Climate Change and New Energy Technologies, October 7. Both
meetings are free and open to all interested persons.
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Advisory Board Meeting
This Year’s Principal Focus:
“A Trans-Atlantic University Summit”
October 6, 08:30 am – 06:30 pm
At the University Club, Washington D.C.
Draft Agenda
Registration starts at 07:45 a.m., combined with continental breakfast being offered.
08:30 am
Opening Plenary Session
Moderator
Marlene Johnson, Executive Director, Association of International Educators,
NAFSA, Washington D.C. (confirmed)
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Opening remarks by Knut Vollebaek, Ambassador of Norway to the U.S.,
and Forum Chair (confirmed)

Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation (confirmed)

Kristin Clemet, Norwegian Minister of Education and Research, “The
Potential and Need for Strengthening Trans-Atlantic Co-operation in Higher
Education and Research” (confirmed)

Per Nyborg, International Representative, Norwegian Council of Higher
Education, “Objectives and Processes in Intra-European Higher
Education: Some Trans-Atlantic Implications” (confirmed)
Discussion Round
10:00 am
Coffee Break
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Parallel Sessions 1 and 2: Selected Issues and Challenges for Enhanced
Trans-Atlantic University Co-operation
10:15 am
Forging Optimal Forms of Interinstitutional Co-operation across
the Atlantic
University-Industry Relations: Lessons Learnt Promoting Trans-Atlantic Technology Transfer
Objective: To identify optimal ways in
Objective: To identify criteria and modalities for
which to forge dynamic and operational
forms of transatlantic, inter-institutional
cooperation. As part of relevant background
information, a recent survey on NorwayCanada-U.S. co-operative relations will be
presented.
successful technology transfer and how these can help
promote transatlantic cooperation and mutually rewarding
competition.
Moderator:
John Vaughn, Executive Vice
President, Association of American
Universities (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
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Kirsti Koch Christensen,
President, University of Bergen,
Norway "New Contexts for
Norway-Canada-U.S. Academic
Exchange". (confirmed)
Robert N. Shelton, Executive
Vice-Chancellor and Provost,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, “Funding &
Programmatic Models for
Cooperative Research and Joint
Degree Programs between
Norwegian and U.S. Universities”
(confirmed)
Debra Stewart, President, Council
of Graduate Schools, Washington
D.C. (confirmed)
Christopher M. Thomforde,
President, St.Olaf College,
Minnesota (confirmed)
Tom Mills, Associate Vice
President for International
Programs, University of Oregon,
"What Makes University of
Oregon Exchanges Work Well?"
Moderator:
Charles Wessner, Director, Program on
Technology&Innovation, Board on Science,
Technology&Economic Policy, National
Academies of Sciences (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
 Eivind Hiis Hauge, President, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, “NTNU in the Learning
Mode”, (confirmed)
 Dennis O’Connor, Vice President for Research,
Dean of the Graduate School, University of
Maryland, College Park (confirmed)
 Kesh Narayanan, Director, Industrial
Innovation Program, National Science
Foundation, NSF (confirmed)
 Thomas J. McCoy, Vice President for Research,
Creativity and Technology Transfer, Montana
State University, Bozeman (confirmed)
 Robert Kvavik, Senior Advisor on Technology
to the Provost, University of Minnesota, “Cyber
Security and Trans-Atlantic Research Cooperation” (confirmed)
 Ross Armbrecht, President, Industrial Research
Institute, Inc., IRI, Washington D.C., “An
Industrial Perspective on University-Industry
Partnerships” (confirmed)
Discussion / Summary
(confirmed)

John Ettling, Vice President of
Academic Affairs and Provost,
University of North Dakota
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(confirmed)
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David Fenner, Assistant Vice
Provost for International
Education, Director,
International Programs and
Exchanges, University of
Washington, Seattle(confirmed)
Discussion / Summary
Plenary
Luncheon
12:30
Preciding:
Carl Gulbrandsen, Managing
Director, Wisconsin Alumni Research
Foundation, WARF, Madison
Honorary Luncheon Speaker:
David Ward, President, American
Council on Education, Washington
D.C., and Chancellor Emeritus of the
University of Wisconsin, Madison
(confirmed)
Parallel Sessions 3 and 4: Selected Issues and Challenges for enhanced
Trans-Atlantic University Co-operation
02:00 pm
Education and Workforce
Development in Science and
Technology: Options and
Needs for transatlantic cooperation
International Trading of Higher
Education – Transatlantic
Implications and Possibilities
Objective: By identifying the
common challenges facing
most Western nations and how
these are being sought handled
on national bases, discuss
concrete ways in which
transatlantic dialogue and cooperation may promote
optimally effective instruments
and policy measures.
Objective:
Identify the key “market” factors
affecting the increased international
trading of higher education, and how
the future challenges can best be met
in a transatlantic as well as in a wider
international perspective.
Moderator:
Kari Kveseth, International
Director, Research Council of
Norway (confirmed)
Moderator:
Trond Fevolden, Secretary General,
Norwegian Ministry of Education and
Research (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
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Panel Speakers:
 Kathie Olsen,
Associate Director,
Office of Science and
Technology Policy,
Executive Office of the
U.S. President
(confirmed)
 Subrata Sengupta,
Dean for College of
Engineering and
Computer Science,
University of
Michigan-Dearborn
(confirmed)
 Bjoern Haugstad,
Deputy Minister ,
Norwegian Ministry of
Education and
Research (confirmed)
 Judith Ramaley,
Assistant Director for
Education and Human
Resources, NSF
(confirmed)
 Kerstin Eliasson,
Science and
Technology
Counsellor,Swedish
Embassy, Washington
D.C. (confirmed)
 Mary Kavanagh,
Education, Science &
Technology Counsellor,
Delegation of the
Commission of the
European Union in
Washington D.C., ”New
Initiatives to encourage
researchers’ careers,
mobility and co-operation
across the Atlantic”
(confirmed)
Discussion/Summary
04:15pm
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Anne-Brit Kolstø, Vice-President,
University of Oslo (confirmed)
Sue Ellis Loparco, Associate
Registrar, University of New
Brunswick, Canada (confirmed)
Torger Reve, President, Norwegian
School of Management (confirmed)
Guy P. Pfeffermann, Director,
Economics Department, IFC,
World Bank Group, Washington
D.C. (confirmed)
Peter H. Henderson, Director,
Board on Higher Education and
Workforce, Policy and Global
Affairs Division, National
Research Council, The National
Academies, "International
Graduate Students and Postdocs
and the U.S. Science and
Engineering Enterprise."
(confirmed)
Discussion / Summary
Coffee Break
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04:45 pm
Closing Plenary Session
Objective:
To result in a set of guidelines, suggestions, as well as concrete
proposals for follow-up actions in the areas covered in the preceding
sessions.
Round-Table Discussion: How to move constructively forward? How
to make a difference? Identifying concrete suggestions for follow-up
initiatives.
Moderator:
Kaare Rommetveit, Director General, University of Bergen, Norway
(confirmed)
Introductory Statements:
 Jarle Aarbakke, President, University of Tromsø, Norway (confirmed)
 Carl Gulbrandsen, Managing Director, Wisconsin Alumni Research
Foundation, WARF, Madison (confirmed
 Ivar Langen, Rector, Stavanger University College, Norway
(confirmed)
 Peter Agre, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore (confirmed)
 Ole Petter Ottersen, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Oslo (confirmed)
 Michael Prather, Professor, Kavli Chair, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Discussion / Summary
Rapporteurs:
06:30 pm

Solveig Zempel, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and
General Studies, Professor of Norwegian, St. Olaf College,
Minnesota (confirmed)
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Sonia Noronha Mykletun, President & CEO, Transatlantic
University Studies, TRUST, Washington D.C. (confirmed)

Torleiv Bilstad, Professor, Stavanger University College,
Norway (confirmed)
Adjournment
06:45 pm: Departure for Reception Venue.
Coach and taxis from the University Club. Will return to the Club after
the Reception.
07:00 – 09:00 pm: Reception offered by Ambassador Knut Vollebaek,
at the Ambassador’s Residence,
3401 Massachusettes Ave, N.W., Washington D.C.
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The Norwegian Research & Technology Forum
in the U.S. / Canada
Under the auspices of Royal Norwegian Embassy, Washington D.C.
in co-operation with University of Maryland
and
hosted by The National Academies
organizes
A Trans-Atlantic Co-operative Research Conference on
Climate Change and New Energy Technologies: Policies,
Agreements and Processes to Protect the Global Climate
Venue:
The National Academies, Keck Center,
500 5th Street N.W. Washington D.C.
Some limited conference parking. Closest Metro Station: Judiciary Square, Red Line
Date: October 7, 2003
08.30 a.m. – 6:45 p.m., followed by a Reception hosted by the Norwegian Embassy, cohosted by The National Academies and University of Maryland.
The Royal Norwegian Embassy, Washington D.C.
gratefully acknowledges the following contributing co-organizers and seminar hosts:
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Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry
University of Oslo, through Cicero and ProSus
Institute for Energy Technology , IFE, Norway
Rogaland Research, Stavanger, Norway
University of California, Irvine
The National Academies
University of Maryland
SINTEF. Norway
Background and Purpose
The principal objective of the Conference is to initiate a Trans-Atlantic collaborative
network arena for front-line, solution-oriented research relating to the international climate
regime/The International Framework Convention for Climate Change. Through its coverage
of substantial research topics, the Conference is intended to foster further co-operation
between scientific and higher education entities, as well as industry related institutions in
Norway, the U.S., and Canada, and also opening up for participation from other countries as
well as from relevant multilateral institutions. Particular attention will be given to the
promotion of meaningful institutional networks and collaborative pilot projects / joint
ventures geared toward closer and targeted research cooperation.
To the extent that the Conference results in concrete suggestions for joint collaborative
projects, possible funding for a least an initial pilot phase can be made available.
The Conference will consist of two major parallel Sessions, in addition to the Opening and
Closing Plenary Sessions.
Parallel Session A, entitled: Achieving a Sustainable Climate
Part A 1: More comprehensive agreements: Research grounding policy on people’s and
earth’s needs
The first part of this session will deal will with the following key challenge pertaining to
climate change and long-term climate control regimes. How can research on earth’s natural
and social systems inform the next round of negotiations, the next round of climate policies?
The problems to be addressed by this research span widely, from how climate change and
mitigation can affect rich and poor countries differently, to how coalitions can form and be
sustained.
Part A 2: Alternative strategies: Appeal and teeth in environmental policy making
The second part of this session will focus more directly on policy options. Kyoto – doing
much but still little – leaves many research challenges. What steps can be taken in the near
future to expand options to mankind in the longer term? If agreements on emissions fail to
include important countries, and fail to address longer term issues, what other developments
can address these issues? How do we understand policy making in different parts of the world
(the contrasts between the US on the one hand and Europe/Japan on the other is particularly
important) and what are the research approaches that can bring us closer to an understanding?
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Parallel Session B, entitled: Design for the Environment – Challenges for the
Development of New Energy Technologies
Meeting the long-term commitments of the Framework Convention for Climate Change
requires better understanding of the factors that hinder or promote a more effective
transformation towards the implementation and use of low and zero emission energy
technologies. The innovation and diffusion processes are not linear. On the contrary, they are
complex, with several factors mutually influencing one another.
A sustainable development in the energy sector involves our ability to recommend changes
and solutions within energy efficiency and penetration of renewable energy sources in
traditionally fossil energy systems. Still the innovation journey and the realization of radical
changes may be hampered by economic and institutional factors, such as lock-ins caused by
existing infra-structures. Lock-ins are created and innovations with a significant potential
both in relative as well as absolute terms, are not realized.
The transition to a new more eco-efficient technological regime, Session B 1, requires
technical development and increased investment. But if the investment is to be profitable and
sustained in the long term, the corresponding reduction in cost must also be generated. In
sum, technical and non-technical factors must be studied simultaneously to enable the
diffusion of new and more sustainable energy technologies. This represents the primary
objective of this Session, which will put focus on a select group of specific energy
technologies.
The world market for silicon solar cells, Session B 2, is growing at an annual rate of 20-40 %.
The future growth in the PV market is mainly dependent on the supply of feedstock, a high
utilisation of the feedstock, and a more efficient production chain for the solar cells.
The Norwegian silicon industries including Elkem Solar, ScanWafer ASA, Solar Grade
Silicon Inc., and ScanCell AS intend to increase their production capacity to meet this market
growth. The key requirement for this market growth is a cost reduction per unit electric power
generated. This requirement can be met by lowering the cost of feedstock, increasing the
number of cells per kg of ingot produced and optimising the cell production process to
increase the efficiency of the solar cells.
In order to meet these goals, a number of research activities on crystalline silicon solar cells
have been started at Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), SINTEF and Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Hydrogen energy systems, Session B 3, have been proposed as a means to increase energy
independence, improve domestic economies, and reduce greenhouse gas and other harmful
emissions from stationary and mobile sources. Storage of hydrogen is still representing a
major technical challenge, particularly for car manufacturers. Another key factor is the
realization of the hydrogen economy in the development of the fuel cell. At present fuel cells
are encumbered with far too high production costs and insufficient operation lifetimes.
Finally, there remains a critical challenge as to how hydrogen is produced and to what extent
corresponding GHG emissions are handled in a cost-effective and environmentally safe
manner.
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An overview of the activity in Norway will be given in special sections both on solar cells
and on hydrogen.
Participants
Representatives from basic and applied research institutions, from business and industry, and
from government and NGOs actively engaged in the defined seminar topics.
Draft Program
Tuesday October 7
Registration starts at 08:00 a.m., with continental breakfast being offered.
08:30am
Opening Plenary Session
Welcome:
Charles Wessner, Board on Science, Technology&Economic Policy,
National Academies (confirmed)
Session Moderator:
David Halpern, Office of Science and Technology, OSTP, White House
(confirmed)
Opening Remarks by:

Knut Vollebaek, Ambassador of Norway to the U.S., and Forum
Chair (confirmed)
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Antonio J. Busalacchi, Professor, Director, The Earth System
Science Interdisciplinary Center, ESSIC, University of Maryland
(confirmed)
Keynote Addresses by:
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F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1995),
Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry & Earth System
Science, Department of Chemistry, University of California,
Irvine ( confirmed)
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James R. Mahoney, Assistant Secretary, and NOAA Deputy
Administrator, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Agency, U.S. Department of Commerc (confirmed)
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Bjoern Haugstad, Deputy Minister, Norwegian Ministry of
Education and Research (confirmed)
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 am: Parallel Sessions
Session A:
Achieving a
Sustainable Climate
Part A 1: More
comprehensive
agreements: Deals built
on Earth’s needs
Moderator:
Antonio J. Busalacchi,
Professor, Director, The Earth
System Science
Interdisciplinary Center,
ESSIC -- a joint center
between the University of
Maryland’s Department of
Meteorology, Geology, and
Geography, together with the
Sciences Directorate at the
NASA/Goddard Space Flight
Center (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
Robert Watson, Chief Scientist
& Director, ESSD, The World
Bank (confirmed)
Susan Solomon, Senior
Scientist, NOAA, Boulder,
Colorado, "Timescales and
processes in climate change:
Session B:
Design for the
Environment –
Challenges for the
Development and
Diffusion of New Energy
Technologies
Part B 1: Introduction
Moderator :
Rolf Marstrander, Senior Adviser,
Program for Research and
Documentation for a Sustainable
Society (ProSus), University of
Oslo, former Technology Director,
Norsk Hydro ASA(confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
Gerald M. Stokes, Adjunct
Professor, CMPS-Earth System
Science Interdisciplinary Center,
and Director, Joint Global Change
Research Center, affiliated with
U.S. Department of Energy’s
Batelle’s Pacific Northwest
Laboratory, University of
Maryland, College Park, “The
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some new directions”
(confirmed)
Technological Challenge of
Climate Change” (confirmed)
Scott Barrett, Professor of
Enviromental Economics and
International Political
Economy, Director of the
Energy, Environment, Science
and Technology Program,
Johns Hopkins University,
SAIS, Washington D.C.,
“After Kyoto” (confirmed)
Audun Ruud, Senior Research
Fellow, Program for Research and
Documentation for a Sustainable
Society, (ProSus), University of
Oslo,“Enhancing Industrial
Transformation in Industry: The
CondEcol Project” (confirmed)
Ivar Isaksen, Professor,
University of Oslo, Research
Fellow at Cicero, “The Role of
Chemically active Greenhouse
Gases in a Future Climate
Regime”, (confirmed)
Michael Prather, Professor,
Kavli Chair, University of
California Irvine, Department
of Earth Sciences: “Science of
climate systems and the future
Climate negotiations”
(confirmed)
Terje Berntsen, Senior
Research Fellow, Natural
Sciences Program,Cicero,
University of Oslo “Climate
Change and where we curb
Emissions: Policy Regimes
under Evolving Understanding
of Earth's Constraints”
(confirmed)
Ronny Gloeckner, Research
Scientist, Institute for Energy
Technology, IFE, Norway
“Hydrogen in Stand-Alone Power
Systems - Modeling, System
Analysis and Markets” (confirmed)
Tim Wallington, Air Quality and
Climate Change Research,
Scientific Research Laboratories,
Ford Motor Company, “Global
Warming and Ford Motor
Company: Science and Business”
(confirmed)
Harald Grether, Professor,
Manager of the Energy Program,
Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway (confirmed)
Discussion
Discussion
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12:30 Plenary
Luncheon.
Preciding:
Gunnar S. Eskeland, Research
Director, Cicero, University of
Oslo
Honorary Plenary Luncheon
Speaker:
Paul R. Portney, Senior Fellow
and President, Resources for
the Future, RRF, Washington
D.C. ( confirmed)
01:45 p.m.
01:45 p.m.
Part A 2: Alternative
Part B 2: Special session
Strategies: Appeal and on Solar Cells
Teeth in
Environmental Policy
Moderator:
Making
Moderator:
Lee Lane, Executive Director,
Americans for Equitable
Climate Solutions, Washington
D.C. (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
Raymond Kopp, Ph.D., Senior
Fellow, Resources for the
Future, Washington D.C.,
“Policies to Stimulate
Technological Advances”
(confirmed)
Gunnar S. Eskeland, Research
Director, Cicero, University of
Oslo, “Including all:
Developing Countries and the
Climate Change Agenda”
(confirmed)
Paal Brekke, SOHO Deputy
Project Scientist, European Space
Agency, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Maryland (confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
Arve Holt, Section Head, Institute
for Energy Technology, IFE
“Multi crystalline silicon solar
cells, cost reductions” (confirmed)
Jeffrey A. Mazer, Ph.D., Physical
Scientist, Photovoltaic Technology
Office of Solar Energy
Technologies, U.S. Department of
Energy, Washington D.C.,
“Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Present and Future Involvement of
DOE” (confirmed)
Sopori Bhushan, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory,
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Steinar Andresen, Senior
Research Fellow, The Fridtjof
Nansen Institute, and
Professor, Department of
Political Science, University of
Oslo, “The Effectiveness of
Multilateral Environmental
Agreements: Some Lessons
Learnt” (confirmed)
NREL, Colorado, “Meeting the
Challenge of Crystalline Silicon
Photovoltaics: R&D Issues”
(confirmed)
Ajay Mathur, Senior
Environmental Specialist and
Team Leader of the Climate
Change Unit, Environment
Department,World Bank,
Washington D.C.
“Multilateral Institutions and
their Role in resolving
Transnational Environmental
Problems” ( confirmed)
Aud Wærnes, Research Director,
SINTEF Materials Technology,
Norway, “Silicon Feedstock for PV
(confirmed)
Michael Allen Toman, Senior
Economist, Inter-American
Development Bank, IADB,
Washington D.C.
“Linking Sustainable
Economic Development and
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation”
04:15 p.m.
(confirmed)
03:45 p.m. Coffee Break
04:15 p.m Session
resumes
Asgeir Sorteberg, Research
Fellow, The Bjerknes Center,
University of Bergen, Norway,
“Climate Modelling:
Uncertainties and Strategies to
Reduce Them” (confirmed)
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Professor,
Centre for Ecological and
Evolutionary Synthesis
(CEES), Department of
Biology,University of Oslo,
"Direct and indirect effects of
climate fluctuations in the
Barents Sea ecosystem"
Erik Sauar, Research Director,
Renewable Energy Corporation,
REC, Norway, “The case of PV”
(confirmed)
Discussion
03:45 p.m. Coffee Break
Part B 3: Special session
on Hydrogen
Moderator:
Ronny Gloeckner, Research
Scientist, Institute for Energy
Technology, IFE, Norway
(confirmed)
Panel Speakers:
Steffen Møller Holst, Senior
Research Scientist, SINTEF
Materials Technology, Norway,
”Norwegian Hydrogen Activities –
at a glance” (confirmed)
Bjørn Arne Sund, Senior Vice
President, Norsk Hydro, “The case
of Hydrogen” (confirmed)
Odd-Even Bustnes, Special Aide to
the CEO, and Consultant, Rocky
Mountain Institute, Inc., Old
Snowmass, Colorado / Washington
D.C. "The Hydrogen Economy:
Dissecting Four Pervasive
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(confirmed)
Technology-Related Myths"
(confirmed)
Torleiv Bilstad, Professor,
Stavanger University College,
Norway, "Biomembrane with
Albedo for recovering a
Sustainable Local Climate" ,
(confirmed)
Miranda A. Schreurs,
Associate Professor,
Department of Government,
University of Maryland at
College Park, “Trans-Atlantic
Strategies for Environmental
Co-operation” (confirmed)
Tora Skodvin, Institute of
Political Science, University of
Oslo, “The Role of Non-State
Actors in International
Environmental Negotiations”
(confirmed)
Catherine E. Gregoire Padro,
Project Leader, Hydrogen Systems
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(confirmed)
J. Raymond Smith, Manager
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programs,
Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.,
U.S. Dept. of Energy/Univ. of
California
Bjørg Andresen, Head of
Department, Institute for Energy
Technology, IFE “Future Energy
Plants: Co-production of electricity
and hydrogen with integrated CO2
capture” (confirmed)
Discussion
Discussion
06:15 p.m. End of Parallel Sessions
06:1506:45
p.m.
Joint, Plenary Closing Round-table for Both Sessions
Moderator: Anthony Busalacchi, University of Maryland
Introductory statements by:
 Gunnar Eskeland, Cicero, University of Oslo
 Rolf Marstrander, ProSus, University of Oslo
 Arve Holt, Institute for Energy Technology, IFE
Summary and discussion, identification of concrete co-operative
follow-up actions.
06:45 pm :
Remarks:
Michael Smith, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, DOE,
followed by Q & A
Followed by Reception.
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Rapporteurs:
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Emily Becker, graduate student, Dept. of Meteorology,
University of Maryland
Julio Friedman, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of
Geology/ESSIC, University of Maryland
07:00 p.m. – 09:30 p.m. Networking Reception offered by The Norwegian
Embassy, co-hosted by The National Academies and University of
Maryland.
October 8:
Optional visit to Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Maryland,
Tour co-ordinator: Dr. Paal Brekke, pbrekke@esa.nascom.nasa.gov SOHO Deputy Project
Scientist, European Spacee Agency, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland
Optional Individual Post-Conference Working Sessions at the Norwegian Embassy for
further follow-up action. Contact person at Embassy: Science Counsellor Jostein Mykletun,
jostein.mykletun@mfa.no
For further information, please contact
The Royal Norwegian Embassy, Washington D.C. – (202) 333 6000,
the Research & Technology Forum Secretariat: jmy@mfa.no
Dr.Jostein Mykletun Science Counsellor, Head of Forum Secretariat, (202) 944 8928,
Ms Bente G. Andersen, Science and Technology Advisor, Norwegian Embassy,
bente.gaarder.andersen@mfa.no tel 202 944 8987
Ms Trine Fjellberg, Press and Information Officer, trinef79@hotmail.com , tel 612 801 4334
Mr Asbjoern Wee, Norwegian Embassy, ahw@mfa.no tel. 202 944 8985
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Regarding hotel booking, assistance may be obtained from Mr Per Marcussen at the
Norwegian Embassy, tel. 202 944 8931, pam@mfa.no and from Ms Tonje Ruud at the
Embassy, tel 202 333 6000.
For further information, see www.norway.org/restech
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