CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

UC Berkeley

The headquarters of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are located in Sutardja Dai Hall (SDH) on the UC Berkeley campus. Specially designed to house this interdisciplinary research institute, the building contains 141,000 sq. feet of laboratory space for collaborative research, faculty offices, the 149-seat Banatao Auditorium, conference rooms on each floor, and modern classrooms. SDH also hosts the CITRIS Invention Lab, a rapid prototyping space used by UC entrepreneurs in our CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program and the student maker community. The Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory occupies a two-story, 15,000-square-foot wing of Sutardja Dai Hall where academic and industry researchers develop prototypes for new biosensors, photonics devices, and other MEMS/NEMS sensors. SDH is equipped with hundreds of sensors and sophisticated systems for building management that form a living laboratory on campus for energy research and proof-of-concept demonstrations.

Contact CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley

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i4Energy Seminar: Legal implications of Climate Modeling

This presentation discusses the uses and limitations of these models for courts and agencies. Climate scientists have created a unique institutional system for assessing and improving models, going well beyond the usual system of peer review. Consequently, their conclusions should be entitled to considerable credence by courts and agencies.

Research Exchange: Advancing Health Through Technology: The Vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis

A nurse leader, educator and scientist and a nationally-recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis Health System in 2008. She also serves as the founding Dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.

Dan Kammen appointed first clean energy fellow to Western Hemisphere

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has named Daniel
Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Energy
and Climate
Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Fellow to advise our neighbors in the
Western
Hemisphere on clean energy issues as of April 15.

Cal Day talk by Greg Niemeyer

As part of the UC Berkeley Cal Day activities, Professor Greg Niemeyer will present a talk: “Community Science: Approaching the Climate Change Issue One Hearth at a Time”

i4Energy Seminar: The Challenges of Solar Forecasting: Reducing the Cost of Solar Power Through Research

The Solar Forecasting Laboratory at the University of California Merced has collected over 15 months of high quality horizontal and direct normal irradiance measurements at different wavelengths (UV, IR and visible) with the primary objective of developing, calibrating and benchmarking novel and more accurate forecasting models for solar irradiance at the ground level. Without effective forecasting methodologies, neither solar nor wind power plants cannot be effectively connected to the power grid, which presents a major obstacle for high-penetration utilization of intermittent sources.

Composting in Sutardja Dai Hall

The Banatao Institute and the Building Sustainability at Cal Program have teamed up to implement UC Berkeley’s first building-wide composting program, which launched on April 6, 2010.

i4Energy Seminar: Simulating California’s High Renewables Future

California ISO operates much of the California power grid. The ISO works with federal regulators, State agencies and market participants to conduct grid planning, improve system operations, and adapt wholesale markets for energy and ancillary services in anticipation of achieving a 20% renewable portfolio standard (by about 2013) and then a 33% renewable portfolio standard by 2020.

Research Exchange: Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare

Knowledge is power. Knowing of the quantities of specific molecules present in a biological system is fundamental to understanding systems level operation. This understanding is critical for translating basic knowledge of specific molecules into applied medical, agriculture, forensic, and drug development assays, and has created a need for methods that more accurately quantify an ever-increasing number of newly identified analytes with greater precision.

TSINGHUA WEEK AT BERKELEY – Academic Panel: Tsinghua-Berkeley Global Technology Entrepreneurship (GTE)

The Tsinghua-Berkeley Global Technology Entrepreneurship program is a joint program established in Fall 2009. Taught by faculty from both Tsinghua and Berkeley Engineering and based at Tsinghua, the program combines curriculum from Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management and Berkeley Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology to introduce Tsinghua graduate students, primarily in engineering and the sciences, to technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

TSINGHUA WEEK AT BERKELEY – Academic Panel: The Carbon Roadmap: Energy Efficiency for Buildings and Green Electronics

The Carbon Roadmap project is a multidisciplinary study to develop a trajectory for the energy system transformation from a high-carbon, lowefficiency system to a low-carbon, high-efficiency system, and will serve as a guide for the industries and government policies that will deliver this transition. This two-hour session will be divided into separate, one-hour overview and discussion sessions focusing on Tsinghua and Berkeley resources and potential collaboration on topics in energy efficiency for buildings (1–2 p.m.) and green electronics (2–3 p.m.).

i4Energy Seminar: Legal issues in Energy Policies and Climate Change

Although the Smart Grid promises to help meet goals of energy efficiency and renewability, incorporating IT into the electric grid poses new and substantial risks to individual privacy. At the same time, Smart Grid deployment is proceeding along a path that could make it difficult for individuals to control the flow of information about their energy use while also raising barriers in the market for in-home smart devices.

CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar Opening

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley has an immediate opening for CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of telemedicine and healthcare technologies.

i4Energy Seminar: Electrical Efficiency Trends of Computation over Time

This talk will describe long-term trends in the electrical efficiency of computation that enabled the development of laptops and other mobile computing devices. If these trends continue, they presage continued further improvements in battery powered computers, sensors, and controls.

Research Exchange: Security For and From GPS

These days, GPS is used by all of us, and our application space is partially spanned by the following far-flung examples. Several hundred million GPS chip sets were shipped as part of cell phones last year, where they added about $2 to the bill or materials. These will support consumer applications like location specific advertising.

Cyberattack as a Tool of U.S. Policy?

Much has been written about the possibility that terrorists or hostile nations might conduct cyberattacks against critical sectors of the U.S. economy.