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Spring 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series

The CITRIS-LBNL-CIEE i4Energy Center focuses on the development of information technology systems that facilitate significant energy and cost savings.

Free and open to the public, the i4Energy Speaker Series is a weekly roundtable of lectures and discussions that highlight these research issues. All talks take place at noon on  Fridays in 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus, unless otherwise indicated. Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc. The UC Berkeley campus flyer can be viewed here.

Webviewing at UC Davis: 1007 or 1065 Kemper Hall
Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100
Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building, Room 506

Links to previous i4Energy seminar series: Fall 2011  |  Spring 2011Fall 2010  |  Spring 2010  |  Fall 2009 

http://i4energy.org/

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JANUARY 27      Energy Savings with LEDs
Paul Michael PetersenPaul Michael Petersen, Technical University of Denmark
Link to YouTube video

 

 

FEBRUARY 3     Tackling the Load from Hell: Cooling Efficiency Research at UC Davis WCEC
Mark Modera, UC Davis/WCEC
Link to YouTube video

 

 

FEBRUARY 10     Electric Grid Modernization: How You Can Help Make a Smarter Grid
Wendy al-Mukdad, California Public Utilities Commission
Link to YouTube video



FEBRUARY 17    Automated Demand Response to Enable the Integration of Renewable Resources
Dave Watson, LBNL
Link to YouTube video

 

 

FEBRUARY 24    Enabling Technologies For Residential Demand Response
Yusuf Ozturk, San Diego State University
Link to YouTube video

 

 

MARCH 2     Opportunities for Low-energy, Low-carbon Cloud Computing
Eric Masanet, LBNL
Link to YouTube video

 

 

MARCH 9     Using Wireless Technology to Evaluate Building Performance
Tom Webster, UC Berkeley/Center for the Built Environment
Link to YouTube video

 

 

 

MARCH 16      Achieving UC Merced's Triple Zero Commitment: Zero Net Energy, Zero Landfill Waste, and Zero Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2020
John Elliot, UC Merced
Link to YouTube video


MARCH 23     Scalable and Energy Efficient Systems
Rajesh Gupta, UC San Diego
 Link to YouTube video

 


MARCH 30  No seminar due to Spring Break


APRIL 6    Optimal Demand Response and Power Flow
Steven Low, Caltech
Link to YouTube video

 

 


APRIL 13    Optimizing Data Centers
Raju Pandey, UC Davis/SynapSense
Link to YouTube video

 

 


APRIL 20    Large-scale Renewable Energy Infrastructure Modeling: Application in Sustainable Bioenergy Systems Development
Bryan Jenkins, UC Davis
Link to YouTube video

 

 


APRIL 27     Renewable Energy Microgrid Testbed at NASA Ames Research Center
Joel Kubby, UC Santa Cruz
Link to YouTube video