As part of the University of Michigan’s significant, aggressive and strategic commitment to create multidisciplinary teams charged with one of the most pressing challenges – energy – candidates will be on campus over the next four weeks to deliver talks.

The four candidates for junior tenure-track faculty positions, their background and their talks are listed below. Those wishing to meet with the candidates may contact Energy Institute associate director Carl Simon at cpsimon@umich.edu.

• Shaun McRae
  Stanford University
  Wed. Jan. 27, 11:40 a.m.
  20l Lorch Hall
  www.stanford.edu/~sdmcrae/
  “Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap”
• Deepak Rajagopa
  University of California – Berkeley
  Wed. Feb. 3, 4 p.m.
  3240 Weill Hall
  deepak.berkeley.edu/Home.html
  Energy security and climate change trade-offs of US biofuel regulations: Comparing renewable fuel mandates and fuel carbon standards
• Nirupama Rao
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Thu. Feb. 11, 4 p.m.
  3240 Weill Hall
  econ-www.mit.edu/grad/nirupama
  Title TBA
• Ashley Langer
  University of California – Berkeley
  Wed. Feb. 17, 11:40 a.m.
  201 Lorch Hall
  sites.google.com/site/alanger/
  “Demographic Preferences and Price Discrimination in New Vehicle Sales”

Another candidate with an interest in energy — separate from the cluster hire positions — is scheduled for Jan. 28.

• Christopher Knittel
  University of California – Davis
  Thur., Jan. 28, 4 p.m.
  Room 1230 Weill Hall
  “Pain at the Pump: The Differential Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets”
  www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/knittel

Four candidates for the energy storage cluster hire in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment are presenting seminars beginning Feb. 1.

The position seeks expertise in energy technology assessment to analyze alternative energy supply based on renewable sources, energy demand from transportation and/or buildings as well as the storage and carriers required to link resources with end use activities.

The candidates are:

• • Shelie Miller, Clemson University
    Mon., Feb. 1, 4 p.m.
    1046 Dana Building
    “Beyond Carbon: Assessing the Impacts of Emerging Bioenergy Systems”
  • Jason Hill, University of Minnesota
    Mon., Feb. 8, 4 p.m.
    1046 Dana Building
    Topic: TBA
  • Jeffrey Bielicki , Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
    Mon., Feb. 15, 4 p.m.
    1046 Dana Building
    Topic: TBA
  • Jarod Kelly, University of Michigan
    Tues., Feb. 23, 4 p.m.
    1024 Dana Building
    Topic: TBA