Science on Screen®: Back to the Future and the Future of Electric Vehicles

When teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), he finds himself mixed up in a time-altering chain reaction that could vaporize his future — and leave him trapped in the past forever. 

In this Science on Screen® event, Professor Eilyan Bitar (Engineering) will discuss the history and future of electric vehicles, drawing upon his research on sustainable transportation and electric power systems. His presentation will describe the complex networks of communication, cooperation, and resources required to electrify the transportation system of the future with clean renewable energy resources.

Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Eilyan Bitar is an Associate Professor and the David D. Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell in 2012, Bitar spent one year as a joint Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley. In 2016, he was an invited Visiting Scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as part of a research program on Algorithms and Uncertainty. At Cornell, Bitar also serves as the Faculty-in-Residence for Hu Shih Hall. A native Californian, he received his B.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

Film website: www.backtothefuture.com