Report title: Energy, and Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects. Environment

　　Speaker: Professor Long Evan, Professor DeLucia Madhu, Professor Khanna Stephen

　　Report time: October 8, 2015 9:30-11:00 am.

　　Report location: South Campus International Exchange Center 104 conference room

　　Invited Speakers：

　　Steve Long, a Fellow of the Royal Society (London); Gutgesell Endowed University of Illinois Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois; Founding Associate Director of the Illinois part of the Energy Biosciences Institute; Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project on Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE); Academic advisor, the Biomass Energy Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, NWAFU. Over 400 publications in peer reviewed journals, including Science and Nature, and an H-Index of 78; listed by Thomson Reuters ISI as one of the Most Highly Cited Authors in Plant and Animal Biology; listed as one of "The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2014”. Identified the most productive plants so far known from the wild and the attributes that set these plants apart. The first to show the potential of Miscanthus as a high productivity crop for sustainable bioenergy on both sides of the Atlantic.

　　Evan DeLucia, G. William Arends Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Illinois; Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois; Vice-President, Ecological Society of America (elected); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected); Founding Director, Global Change Solutions, LLC; Director, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois. Academic advisor, the Biomass Energy Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, NWAFU.

　　Madhu Khanna, Professor, Institute of Genomic Biology/Energy Biosciences Institute; Associate Director, Institute of Energy, Environment and Sustainability, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Chair (Member), Environmental Economics Advisory Committee,

　　Chartered Science Advisory Board, US Environmental Protection Agency; Member, Chartered Science Advisory Board, US Environmental Protection Agency; Chair (Member), Board of Directors, Management and Advisory Committee, South Asian Network of Environmental and Development Economics; Academic advisor, the Biomass Energy Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, NWAFU.