Sustainable Systems Lunch Seminar

The grass roots Sustainable Systems Lunch Seminar (SSLS) was launched in 2024 to facilitate constructive exchange, general support, and playful ideation. Organized by and for Stanford folks, we welcome anyone from graduate students to PIs across micro-level (material and technology) to macro-level (system) interests. Seminar topics typically address technologies’ scaling potential and impact on systems of people, the environment, and the economy. Our goal is to stimulate exchange across and cohesion between technologies and silos covered by Stanford students and researchers interested in sustainability.

INterested in attendning or presenting? Please register here or reach out to julia frohmann.

Spring Quarter 2026

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 12 to roughly 1pm with lunch being served. They are capped at 30 attendees, and an RSVP link will be sent for sign-ups on a first-come, first-served basis until full. Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email before the seminar. The Spring quarter 26 is organized by Julia Frohmann, Mathis Heyer and Leo Peiseler.

Date

Speaker

Room

Title

Tue, March 31st
Julia Frohmann
How robust are U.S. battery energy system revenues?
Tue, April 7th
Leo Peiseler
Press Building 104
What to build, where to innovate, how to invest?
Tue, April 14th
Fran Reuland
Shriram 262
Unlocking credible space-based methane sensing through a year-long single-blind test
Tue, April 21st
Aniket Verma
Press Building 104
Quantifying Uncertainty in Urban Water Demand Projections
Tue, April 28th
Claire Petersen
Demand Response to California Governor's Text Alert
Tue, May 5th
Samuel Sahel-Schackis
Nanoparticle Photocatalysis
Tue, May 12th
Craig Tighe
Press Building 104
Determining the Legal and Financial Risks of Turning a Climate Technology into a Business
Tue, May 19th
William Xu
Adaptive Mineral Blending and Routing Using Reinforcement Learning
Tue, May 26th
AyoOluwateso Coker
Y2E2 101
The HABs and the HAB nots; Wildfire Impacts on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms in California Lakes
Tue, June 2nd
Will McNeil
Y2E2 101
Least-Cost Electricity Supply for Hyperscale Data Centers in the U.S.

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