ARPA-E Headquarters
Washington, DC 

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Start Time
Event

 

8:00 AM

 Badge Pick-Up, Coffee, and Networking

9:00 AM

Kickoff Meeting Introduction
Dr. Robert Ledoux, Program Director, ARPA-E

9:45 AM

Technical Expectations and Project Management Overview
Dr. Edward Cruz and Dr. Gene Carpenter, ARPA-E SETAs, BAH

10:15 AM

 Networking Break

10:30 AM

Legal Considerations: Intellectual Property, Data, and Reporting
Mr. Geoff Goode, Deputy Chief Counsel, ARPA-E

10:45 AM

Capability Team Presentations


Ionizing Radiation Detection for Exploratory Experiments in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
Prof. Igor Jovanovic, University of Michigan


Advanced Materials Characterization and Nuclear Product Detection for LENR
Prof. Robert Duncan, Texas Tech University

11:45 AM

 Lunch and Learn: Electrochemistry and LENR
Dr. Evan Granite, Program Manager, DOE Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

1:00 PM

Experimental Team Presentations


1:00 PM – Systematic Eval. of Claims of Excess Heat Gen. from Deuteration of Pd-Ni Nanocomposites
Prof. Pramod Reddy, University of Michigan
1:20 PM – Quantifying Nuclear Reactions in Metal Hydrides at Low Energies
Dr. Thomas Schenkel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:40 PM – Neutron Emission from Laser-Stimulated Metal Hydrides
Dr. Florian Metzler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 PM – Nuclear Product Detection from Deuterated Nanoparticles Under Phonon Stimulation
Dr. John Dodaro, Aquarius Energy
2:20 PM – Cathode Scintillator Detector for Electro-chemistry
Cmdr. Ken Conley, Energetics Technology Center
2:40 PM – Nanostructured PD-ANF Composites for Controlled LENR Exploitation
Dr. Drew Vecchio, Amphionic LLC

3:00 PM

 Networking Break

3:15 PM

 Strategic Planning Mini-Workshop

4:45 PM

 Wrap-Up
Dr. Robert Ledoux, Program Director, ARPA-E

5:00 PM

 Adjourn

 

Project Title
Principal Investigator
Prime Recipient
 Ionizing Radiation Detection for Exploratory
Experiments in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions		 Prof. Igor Jovanovic University of Michigan
 Systematic Evaluation of Claims of Excess Heat
Generation from Deuteration of Pd-Ni Nanocomposites		 Prof. Pramod Reddy University of Michigan
 Advanced Materials Characterization and Nuclear
Product Detection for LENR		 Prof. Robert Duncan Texas Tech University
Quantifying Nuclear Reactions in Metal Hydrides at
Low Energies		 Dr. Thomas Schenkel Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
Neutron Emission from Laser-Stimulated Metal
Hydrides		 Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Nuclear Product Detection from Deuterated
Nanoparticles Under Phonon Stimulation		 Prof. Matteo Cargnello Stanford University
Cathode Scintillator Detector for Electro-chemistry Cmdr. Ken Conley Energetics Technology
Center
Nanostructured PD-ANF Composites for Controlled
LENR Exploitation		 Dr. Drew Vecchio Amphionic LLC