JUAMI 2018: Materials for Sustainable Energy
December 10 – 20, 2018, Kampala, Uganda
JUAMI 2018 was held 10-20 December 2018, in Kampala, Uganda, co-hosted by Makerere University. Building on the success of the previous JUAMI schools, the lectures of JUAMI 2018 focused on Materials for Sustainable Energy, covering areas from perovskite solar cells to flow batteries. As with prior JUAMI schools, JUAMI fellowships fully funded US and African students to attend and participate in the entire two-week program. Instruction was provided to 62 graduate students: 24 from the US, 37 from Africa (predominantly Eastern Africa, including 13 local students enrolled at Makerere University), and one from Israel. 50% of the students were female. Tutorials and frontier research seminars were delivered by 21 instructors and lecturers from the US, Europe, Africa, and Israel, 7 of whom were female.
Plenary Speaker
The JUAMI-2018 plenary lecture was presented by Sir David King.
Program Speakers
- Sossina Haile, Northwestern University
- Kelsey Hatzell, Vanderbilt University
- Simon Billinge, Columbia University
- Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern University
- Adrian Hightower, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- John Paul Eneku, The Open Forum Initiative
- Revocatus Machunda, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
- S Kar-Narayan, University of Cambridge
- David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah
- Mmantsae Diale, University of Pretoria
- Sara Skrabalak, Indiana University
- Tom Mallouk, University of Pennsylvania
- Kiros Guesh, Aksum University
- Jeff Snyder, Northwestern University
- Justus Simiyu, University of Nairobi
- Vlad Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines
