DAY ONE - DECEMBER 1

AM Session

8:30 - 8:50 - Opening Remarks

Prof Tim Blackman - Vice-Chancellor - The Open University

Prof B. S. Murty - Director - IITH Hyderabad

Prof M. Stanley Whittingham - 2019 Nobel Laureate

8:50 - 9:30 - Key-note speaker

Prof John Irvine - St Andrews University

SPEAKERS + Q&A

09:30 - 10:00 - Prof Vasant Kumar - University of Cambridge - Beyond Li-ion Batteries: Prospects for Li-S Batteries

10:00 - 10:10 - Break

10:10 - 10:40 - Professor Sagar Mitra - IITB - Familiar LIB battery materials with unfamiliar reactivity

10:40 - 11:10 - Prof Peter Raymond Slater - University of Birmingham - Evaluating the effect of doping strategies on the performance of garnet solid-state electrolytes

11:10 - 11:40 - Dr Jenny Baker - Swansea University - Beyond lithium – challenges and opportunities of hybrid flow batteries

11:40 - 12:10 - Break

PM SESSION

12:10 - 1:10 - Students' presentation

1:10 - 1:40 - Dr Yimin Chao - University of East Anglia - A Strategy of Synthesizing High Capacity Anode Using Barley Husks

1:40 - 1:50 - Break

1:50 - 2:20 - Dr Jagjit Nanda - Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Design Space for Cobalt and Ni-free High-Capacity Lithium-ion Cathodes

2:20 - 2:50 - Prof Vilas Pol - Purdue University - Low-Temperature Performance, Thermal Safety and Upcycling of Li-ion Batteries

2:50 - 3:00 - Closing