Lawrence L. Kazmerski, executive director of Science and Technology Partnerships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., will give the 70th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture Monday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
His talk, titled “Solar Photovoltaics Technology: The Beginning of the Revolution,” is free and open to the public.
Kazmerski was the first staff member in photovoltaics at NREL, a premier U.S. Department of Energy laboratory dedicated to renewable energy research, development and deployment. Hired specifically to establish efforts in the characterization of photovoltaic materials and devices, he led efforts in measurements and characterization for two decades. From 1999 to 2008, he headed the lab’s National Center for Photovoltaics.
NREL’s photovoltaic research focuses on decreasing the nation’s reliance on fossil-fuel generated electricity by lowering the cost of delivered electricity and improving the efficiency of photovoltaic modules and systems.
Before his NREL affiliation, Kazmerski served on the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Maine. His research included NSF- and ERDA-funded work in thin-film photovoltaics and the report of the first thin-film copper-indium-diselenide (CIS) solar cell.
He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
The Steinmetz Memorial Lecture commemorates world-renowned engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), professor of Electrical Engineering at Union from 1902 to 1913. Created in 1925, it has brought dozens of eminent scientists, engineers and innovators to campus.
Monday’s event is presented in conjunction with the Schenectady Section of IEEE. There will be a social hour at 5:15 p.m. and reservation-only dinner at 6 in Hale House.
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