The Industrial Physics Forum 2007: The Energy Challenge (IPF): With an eye on repeating success, the 49th annual AIP Industrial Physics Forum (IPF) will again be held in conjunction with the 54th AVS International Symposium during 14-16 October, 2007 in Seattle, WA.  The AVS and AIP-Corporate Associates Advisory Committee jointly approved "The Energy Challenge" as the theme. Five half-day session topics have been confirmed by the planning committee. The topics include: Automotive Energy, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Energy, Energy for Low-Carbon Impact, and the ever popular Frontiers in Physics.

IPF1 Automotive Energy (INVITED PAPERS ONLY)

B. McCormick, General Motors, Inc., "General Motors' Perspective on New Transportation Technologies"

J. Turner, National Renewable Energy Laboratories, "Hydrogen for Transportation Fuels"  

Dan Sperling, UC Davis

Mike Tamor, Ford  

IPF2 Energy Efficiency (INVITED PAPERS ONLY)

Shuji Nakamura, UC Santa Barbara

Richard King, Spectrolabs-Boeing

Lon Bell, BSST

Larry Kazmerski, NREL

Melanie Kenderdine, GTI
 

IPF3 Nuclear Energy (INVITED PAPERS ONLY)

Richard Hawryluk, Princeton Plasma Physics

E. Michael Campbell, General Atomics

Mark Peters, Argonne Natl. Labs

David Hill, Idaho Natl. Labs

IPF4 Energy for Low-Carbon Impact (INVITED PAPERS ONLY)

Robert Burruss, USGS

David Carlson, BP Solar

Mike Himmel, NREL

David de Jager, Ecofys Netherlands BV

Rosina Bierbaum, University of Michigan

IPF5 Frontiers in Physics (INVITED PAPERS ONLY)

Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania

John Kasianowicz, NIST

Bill Bottke, Southwest Research Institute

Gerry Gabrielse, Harvard