Update May 27, 2009:

The deadline to apply for the Energy Summer School has been extended to June 8. Please note that all auditor spaces are now filled, so applications for auditors are no longer being accepted.

Original announcement:

Applications are now open for the Energy Summer School, a one-stop, intensive two-week program on energy science, engineering and policy. Topics range from global energy resources and utilization to basic science and engineering challenges and cutting edge technologies for energy generation, storage, transportation and usage.

The Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science at SLAC is co-hosting the school with Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and Global Climate and Energy Project, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. All four organizations support and conduct a broad portfolio of basic research in energy science and technologies that optimize useable energy, or exergy, while minimizing greenhouse emissions.

The school will provide a broad energy overview in the first week of its two-week program: energy resources and exergy analysis, economics and policy, nuclear and renewable energy, the electric grid, and current technologies in industry, building and transportation. The second week will provide an in-depth look at materials related science and engineering, such as photovoltaics, solid state lighting, thermoelectrics, catalysis, fuel cells, hydrogen storage and superconductivity.

Science and engineering graduate students and those accepted to begin their graduate study in the Fall who have a serious interest in energy science are invited to apply. Like the field itself, the school is multidisciplinary and welcomes students from a variety of fields, including condensed matter physics, materials science and engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, bio-sciences, geosciences, and electrical and mechanical engineering.

For the full program and application instructions, please see the Energy Summer School Web site. Please direct questions to the ESS Coordinator.