Spring 2012 Research Exchange Seminar Series

January 9, 2012

Free and open to the public, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlight ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues.

All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc. Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.

All talks take place at noon in the Banatao Auditorium on the 3rd floor of Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, unless otherwise noted. (MAP). The UC Berkeley Campus flyer can be viewed here.

Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall
Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100
Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building, Room 506

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JANUARY 25 From Information to Foresight: Getting Beyond the Bits
Laura Haas [Director of Computer Science at Almaden Research Center]
Link to YouTube video

FEBRUARY 1 Open Source Robotics
Steve Cousins [President and CEO, Willow Garage]
Link to YouTube video

FEBRUARY 8 The Untold Story of How Billions in Government Savings is Likely to Result from Current Administration IT Reforms
Marti Hearst [Professor in the School of Information, UC Berkeley]
Video is not available

FEBRUARY 15 Managing Historical Collections with IT
Da v id de Lorenzo [Associate Director, The Bancroft Library]
Link to YouTube video

FEBRUARY 22 Technology Future Shock: Society, Policy and Innovation in the Digital World
Dan Reed [Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft]
Link to YouTube video

FEBRUARY 29 Designing for the Market in Developing Economies
Kurt Kornbluth [Founding Director, UC Davis Program for International Energy Technologies/D-Lab]
Link to YouTube video

MARCH 7 Improving Health Care through Remote Monitoring: Evidence from the CTA Diffusion Grants Program
David Lindeman [Director, Center for Technology and Aging]
Link to YouTube video

MARCH 14 Printed Electronic Systems: The Confluence of Printing and Semiconductors
Vivek Subramanian [Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley]
Link to YouTube video

MARCH 21 Four Mobile Machines: Combining Information Design with Persuasion Design to Change Behavior
Aaron Marcus [President, AM+A]
Link to YouTube video

MARCH 28 No seminar due to Spring Break

APRIL 4 Robots, Climate, and the Life and Death of Marine Microbes
James Bellingham [Chief Technologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute]
Link to YouTube video

APRIL 11 Experiments and Modeling to Study Technologies Aimed at Behavior Change
Joan Walker [Asst. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley]
Link to YouTube video

APRIL 18 Using Cell Phones for Biomedical Device Development and Education Applications
Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu [Facilities Director at the NSF Center for
Biophotonics, Science and Technology, UC Davis]
Link to YouTube video

APRIL 25 Measuring and Interpreting Fluxes of Trace Gases Across Local and Global Networks
Dennis Baldocchi, [Professor of Biometeorology, UC Berkeley]
Link to YouTube video

MAY 2 Visualization and Analysis of Large Data from Simulations
Hank Childs [Computer Systems Engineer, Visualization Group at LBNL]
Link to YouTube video