Steven Chu - Steven Chu is Director of the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Professor of Physics,
Molecular and Cellular Biology, University
of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was at
Stanford and Bell Laboratories. His research
includes tests of fundamental physics, the development of methods to laser cool and trap
atoms, polymer physics, and single molecule
biology. He has become active in the energy problem and is co-chairing an InterAcademy Council (IAC) study Transitioning to Sustainable Energy.
Chu has numerous awards, including the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the
Korean Academy of Science and Engineering.
Meeting of the Minds Conference: The Innovations We Need for More Sustainable Cities
Fueling Tomorrow's Vehicles: The Promise of New Fuels with speaker Dr. Steve Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nobel Laureate.
The presentation is followed by a Q&A session.
Meeting of the Minds is a two-day leadership conference convened by the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, with the support of Toyota. The conference focus is on the new technologies, emerging urban designs and cleaner fuels.