The ANSER Center's Annual Symposium

The Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center and ISEN are proud to host the 6th ANSER Solar Energy Symposium on May 9-10, 2013 on the Northwestern University Evanston campus. The focus of this year's symposium is "Solar Electricity," and we are excited to announce an all-star lineup of speakers for this event:

Prof. Stephen Forrest (Univ. of Michigan) (keynote); Prof. Marc Baldo  (MIT); Prof. Christopher Bardeen (UC Riverside); Prof. Mario Leclerc (Université Laval); Prof. Michael McGehee (Stanford); Dr. Michael Woodhouse (NREL).

Please visit our Symposium website for more details!

Five Research Organizations, One Team

The ANSER Center was founded in July of 2007 to create a joint research effort at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory with selected groups from Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Chicago in the area of solar energy conversion and solar fuels production. In 2009, ANSER received a $19 Million Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Together, our five institutions offer a critical mass of world-class researchers, with unique capabilities and facilities in materials synthesis, characterization, and theory. The nature and complexity of these problems requires an integrated systems approach and focused, team-oriented interdisciplinary research with close communication and coordination among team members. read more

Research Areas

The ANSER Center is organized around three basic research thrusts, each dealing with a solar energy conversion chain culminating in a specific end use.