ARCS Members, Scholar and Friends are cordially invited to attend our March meeting:

March 11, 2026
11:30- 1:00 p.m.
Eccles Boardroom, Warnock Engineering Building
72 S Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

“Grid-scale Battery Technology with Dr. Tao Gao”

Dr. Tao Gao's research focuses on electrochemical energy storage technologies, which include Li-ion batteries, flow batteries, CO2 reduction and etc. His lab tackles the challenges in energy storage technologies with a multi-scale approach: they not only design new materials for better performance, they also study the mass transport and reaction inside batteries, and combine machine learning methods with physical modeling to optimize the usage of batteries.

Dr. Gao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Chem E department at the U.  Dr. Gao has received several awards including the 2025 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the 2025 Investigator on the Rise Award from the University of Utah and the 2023 Emerging Investigator Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Event

We will meet in the Eccles Boardroom in the Warnock Engineering Building at 11:30 a.m. with time to network before the program at noon.  We will preorder lunches.  Choose your meal in the registration form. If you need a parking pass, please provide your license plate number in the registration form.  We will purchase "virtual" parking passes that allow you to park in "A" lots.  The closest lot is across the street from Warnock next to the Alumni House.