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  • February 2023 3rd Meeting: Prof. Roland Horne

    We would like to cordially invite you to a talk by Professor Roland Horne on "How to Give an Effective Technical Talk" which will be held on February 22 at noon (Pacific Time) in Room 104 (1st floor) of the Green Earth Sciences Building at Stanford University.

    Professor Horne will share his insights and practical tips on how to give an effective technical talk. This talk is ideal for anyone who is interested in improving their technical presentation skills, regardless of their level of experience. 

    Please RSVP by Feb 18, 2022, to Professor Roland Horne: horne@stanford.edu.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

    Speaker bio  

    Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davis Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program. He was formerly the Chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford from 1995 to 2006.  He is best known for his work in well test interpretation, production optimization, and tracer analysis of fractured geothermal reservoirs.  So far in his academic career he has supervised the graduate research of 60 PhD and 120 MS students, including about 60 in geothermal topics. He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board 1998-2001, 2001-2004, and 2007-2010, and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA.  He was Technical Program Chairman of the World Geothermal Congress 2005 in Turkey, 2010 in Bali, Melbourne in 2015, and again in Iceland in 2020-2021.  Roland is one of the founders of the IGA online database of geothermal conference papers. 

    Roland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.  He is also a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo and an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum – East China.