All right. Good morning. Good morning everyone. I'm Claire Mach and I'm the Interim Director of the an Linger Center for Energy and the Environment. And it's my true pleasure and honor to welcome you to Princeton University, the Linger Center's 2023 annual meeting with the title Next Decade Technologies for the Energy Transition. As a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as head of Whitman College, I have the privilege of helping guide our students in pursuing knowledge and purpose. At Princeton, we take it very seriously their responsibility to help train the world's future leaders in all fields. We strive to impart values that make our work embody Princeton University's informal motto. In the nation's service and the service of humanity, here in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, or as we call it S, we do this by creating new knowledge and technologies that can improve public health, environmental quality, communication, sustainability of industrial and energy system and so much more. Our institutes, centers, research initiatives, bring together and support faculty and students from many departments working on central issues such as energy, bio engineering, smart and sustainable cities, quantum science and the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning all to improve engineering and many other activities. Engineering, especially at Princeton, is a uniquely exciting place to be right now. For example, we have a very high visibility within the larger university. Specifically our six departments and many centers together make up roughly 25% of the university's faculty members, Postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students. This already large institutional footprint is in the midst of a rapid growth, new physical infrastructure, meaning all the construction you see around campus is being constructed to create a C's and Environmental Sciences neighborhood, which will provide new state of the art facilities for teaching research, and enhanced spaces to encourage cross disciplinary collaborations. This construction also supports Dean Andrea Goldsmith's goal for the five year period, 2022-2027 to increase our faculty and student population by a power 25% Such a growth will greatly expand our capacity for world class research and education. It will also allow us to increase the diversity of our community and enhance the culture of inclusion. Indeed, this is an important aim for Dean Goldsmith, who is committed to broadening the range of ideas and experience among as researchers and students in order to achieve better outcomes that serve all segments of society. C's also provides our faculty and students with unique opportunities to understand their work in a broad societal context. For instance, size not only encourages interdisciplinary work, it also attracts inherently interdisciplinary scholars within an established culture of the liberal arts and humanities. Strong ties between the School of Policy and International Affairs and the entire college enable our engineers to regularly engage outside of traditional bounds, understand difficult societal problems, and pursue multidisciplinary approaches to solve them. Finally, a culture of innovation supported by centralized operations under Princeton. Innovation has been rapidly growing at seas and the university. This is something that in Goldsmith routinely champions for its ability to drive use inspired research. It does not happen in a vacuum. Engagement with external partners foster success at innovation, interactions with them in regional, national, international arenas. Encourage knowledge and technology transfer aimed at solving the many pressing challenges we face today. All of these things differentiate engineering at Princeton and making as a special place for all of us, but especially for the Und Linger Center. The Undlinger Center's mission is to translate fundamental research into practical solutions for sustainable energy. Future pursuit of this mission rests on three pillars. Fostering research, engaging students, and cultivating external partnerships. Through our research programs, the center seeks to advance the frontiers of knowledge at the nexus of energy and environmental issues. In our faculty tackle an incredible array of challenges around technologies, materials, processes, systems, and policy frameworks to meet global needs for energy and materials, while mitigating climate change and other environmental imbalances. This is done in collaboration with our wonderful students, many of whose research projects are featured in today's poster session, undergraduates to graduates and post doctoral fellows. They are all passionate about making positive change. We're very proud of them and know that they will apply the lessons learned here at the Linger Center to be the next generation's leaders in the quest for a sustainable, healthy planet. The third pillar of the Linger Center and supporting our mission is partnerships. Partnerships to catalyze knowledge transfer and accelerate deployment of applied solutions. An important means of achieving this is a robust and distinctive corporate partnerships program administered by the center and called Princeton Affiliates Partnership, or simply affiliates. Affiliates is notable for its diverse sector coverage and the degree to which dialogue and collaboration occurs between members. The sector diversity provides our community a broad perspective of energy and environmental issues and the varied ways in which their talents can be applied. Support from affiliates sustains many avenues of collaborative research. And our members involvement in research, round tables, conferences, other initiatives is a critical part of how we strive to fulfill the Unliner Center's mission. Many of our members are here today. I would like to thank all of them, all of you, particularly our charter members, for their support and engagement. The theme of this year's meeting is next decade technologies for the energy transition. As we strive to move our energy systems away from carbon intensive sources, it is clear that no single technology, even a single set of existing technologies, provides an immediate path towards the goal of net zero emissions. While mature technologies like solar and wind have seen cost decreases in the past few decades that make them integral to a decarbonized electric grid. They're only part of the mix of solutions needed to achieve cross sector decarbonization. Recent policy initiatives and legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act and Repower EU have set an ambitious agenda focused on encouraging investments in new technologies and rapidly scaling them. This has created a moment of historic potential and risk, both for innovators and investors alike, all looking to improve decarbonization technologies that have struggled to scale and to create new ones that have not yet been imagined. Such a moment also creates many questions and uncertainties about how technologies will evolve over the next few decades and what mix of them will be necessary over short and long term timescales. It is in the spirit of addressing these questions that today's meeting agenda was developed. Our keynote speaker, Amory Lovins, will set the stage with a far ranging look at our energy future. After which, we will hear from a variety of expert panels about technology pathways they see as critical. I'd like to extend my sincere thanks to all of them for sharing the experience and insights with us today. Promises to be full of enlightening discourse and I hope you will find it enriching and enjoyable. With that, I would like to introduce Professor Barry and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Linger Center for Energy and the Environment. Barry is also the Unlinger Center's Associate Director for External Partnerships, and he has been instrumental in organizing today's meeting. Please join me in welcoming Professor Barry Rand to the podium to deliver his welcoming remarks and guide us into the day. Thank you, Claire and have a great lecture. Sorry you're late. And good morning to you all. Claire and I are thrilled to host you today for the An Linger Center's 2023 annual meeting. Again, let me offer my sincere, special thanks to members of our Princeton affiliates partnership for their support, attendance, and participation today, and for sponsoring the Post awards that we'll give out at the end of the day. I'm especially excited for our focus this year on next decade technologies for the energy transition, because it is a celebration of some of the core strengths of the Anlinger Center. Historically, much of our work has been at the Andler Center, grounded in engineering and technological innovation. Today, we are highlighting three emerging technologies with the potential to bolster the energy systems transition and hearing about issues and solutions regarding the energy supply side from an esteemed keynote speaker that I'll introduce in just a moment. While our research constantly evolves, one thing will never change at the Andler Center, which is that in developing solutions for our energy and environmental future, we embrace a truly multidisciplinary and multi stakeholder approach. We work with departments across campus and in exchange with practitioners across the public and private sectors, some of whom are here today. In this way, we turn world class research into actionable solutions by informing and stress testing the work through collaboration, then delivering knowledge into the hands of decision makers and leaders. At the Andlinger Center, we pursue research to enact real global change. Today is no different.