Green Talk Speaker Series

Saturday

Mrs. Laura W. Bush

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Mrs. Laura W. Bush

Former First Lady and Founder, Taking Care of Texas

Former First Lady Laura Bush is actively involved in issues of national and global concern, with a particular emphasis on education, health care, human rights and the preservation of our nation’s heritage. A hiking and outdoors enthusiast, Mrs. Bush encourages Americans to spend time in and care for our National Parks. As Honorary Chair of the National Park Foundation, she visited more than 30 National Parks and...

Mr. R. James Woolsey

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

11:30AM - 12:15PM

R. James Woolsey is Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC and a Venture Partner with Lux Capital Management. He also Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Mr. Woolsey currently chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group, chairs the Advisory Board of the Opportunities Development Group, and he is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin...

Mr. Mark Armentrout

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

12:30PM - 1:45PM

Mark Armentrout is President and CEO of Texas Technology Partners, with 30 years experience in electricity, information technology, oil and gas, renewables, and banking.

Mr. Armentrout is a Managing Director of the Texas Institute, an independent nonprofit institute for technology research, located at the University of Texas at Dallas. Visit www.texasinstitute.org.

From 2005 through 2008, Mr. Armentrout served as Board Chair of ERCOT, the Electric...

Mr. Al Armendariz

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

12:30PM - 1:45PM

Al Armendariz was appointed by President Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional Administrator for EPA’s Region 6 office in Dallas. He is responsible for managing Agency activities in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and 66 tribal nations, under the direction of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.

Dr. Armendariz has brought a deep commitment to environmental issues to his work at EPA. He has made working with communities a priority across the Region, frequently engaging directly with those most...

Dr. Mike Slattery

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

12:30PM - 1:45PM

Dr. Mike Slattery, Director, Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor in the School of Geology, Energy, and the Environment.

Dr. Mike Slattery is Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor in the School of Geology, Energy, and the Environment at Texas Christian University. Originally from South Africa, Mike is an internationally-trained geographer and environmental scientist: he holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto,...

Mr. Steve Bourn

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

12:30PM - 1:45PM

Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Steve Bourn has a unique background encompassing both architecture and the fine arts. Bourn has been with DART for four years, during which time his engineer’s precision and artist’s passion have served him – and the agency – well. Fittingly, he has overseen the agency’s Station Art & Design Program, and today he serves as Chief Architect.

Bourn’s most recent accomplishment was the award-winning conversion of Monroe Shops – an historical, long-mothballed structure that today serves as the...

Prof. Robert B. Laughlin

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

2:00PM - 2:45PM

Mr. Laughlin's current research is primarily high-temperature superconductivity theory. Recent work includes model studies of doped Mott insulators, computation spectroscopic quantities — optical conductivity, magnetic susceptibility, photoemission — from first principles, and development of new mathematical methods based on the fractional quantum Hall effect. These include the use of condensed matter lattice gauge theories, the use of quasiparticles carrying fractional quantum numbers, and the application of conventional Feynman rules to...

Dr. Andrew Dessler, Ph.D.

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

3:00PM - 3:45PM

Andrew Dessler is a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of climate change. His scientific research revolves around climate feedbacks, in particular how water vapor and clouds act to amplify warming from the carbon dioxide that humans emit. During the last year of the Clinton Administration, he served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Based on his research and policy experience, he has authored two books on climate change: The science and politics of global...

Hon. Katherine Hammack

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

4:00PM - 4:45PM

Ms. Katherine Hammack was appointed as the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment (ASA IE&E) by President Obama on 28 June 2010. She is the primary advisor to the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army on all Army matters related to Installation policy, oversight and coordination of energy security and management. She is also responsible for policy and oversight of sustainability and environmental initiatives; resource management including design, military construction, operations and...

Dr. Michio Kaku

Area 4 - EDD Map (Hall of State)

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Theoretical Physicist — Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-creator of string field theory, a branch of string theory. He received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1968 where he came first in his physics class. He went on to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972. In 1973, he held a lectureship at Princeton University.

Michio continues Einstein’s search for a “Theory of Everything,” seeking to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe—the strong...

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