KEYNOTE

Paul Brewer says

As Joel said, we are especially honored to have Dr. Steven Chu with us
today as our keynote speaker. Thank you GPSA for making this possible.
From January 2009 until April 2013, Dr. Chu served as the 12th U.S.
Secretary of Energy during President Obama's administration. Prior to his
Cabinet post, he was the Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab,
Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of
California Berkeley, and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at
Stanford University. Previous to those posts, he was with AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
During his time in the Obama cabinet, the DOE had an annual budget of
approximately $26 billion and was entrusted an additional $36 billion
through the Recovery Act. Under his leadership, DOE began the Advances
Research Projects Agency Energy, the Energy Innovation Hubs, the
Clean Energy Ministerial and helped double the deployment of renewable
energy in the U.S. As the first scientist to head the DOE, Chu personally
helped identify and recruit a number of outstanding scientists and
engineers into government service.
It was also during Chus time with the Administration that DOE
commissioned a two-part LNG Export Study to inform DOEs decisions on
applications seeking authorization to export LNG from the lower 48 states
to non-free trade agreement countries. The first part, performed by the
Energy Information Administration (EIA) and originally published in January
2012, assessed how specified scenarios of increased natural gas exports

could affect domestic energy markets. The second part, performed by

NERA Economic Consulting under contract to DOE and released in late
2012, evaluated the macro-economic impact of LNG exports on the U.S.
economy using a general equilibrium macroeconomic model of the U.S.
economy with an emphasis on the energy sector and natural gas in
particular.
Dr. Chu is the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1997, and has
received numerous other awards. He is the holder of 10 patents and has
published more than 250 scientific and technical papers. He remains active
with his research group and has recently published work on general
relativity, single molecule biology, biophysics and biomedicine, and on
scientific challenges and opportunities in clean energy.
Dr. Chu has recently returned to Stanford University as the William R.
Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular
Physiology in the medical school.
Dr. Chu, welcome to the GPA Convention!