The Spring 2012 Research Exchange Seminar Series
UC Merced
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Merced continues its path-breaking work in bringing computational innovation to bear on societal problems. Recent developments include forecasting for solar resources, new sensors for environmental monitoring and assessment, intelligent autonomous systems to assist humans in difficult scenarios such as first-response rescue operations, enhanced energy management and controls in buildings, domestic water resource monitoring, and new SmartGRID applications. The Robotics Lab, established in 2007 by Professor Stefano Carpin, investigates topics related to multi-robot systems and humanoid robots. The MESA Lab is pioneering new applications for UAVs, including University of California-wide policies and training for unmanned aerial systems. UC Merced also hosts the Computer Graphics Lab, established in 2006 to pursue novel multidisciplinary research topics in interactive immersive environments; computer animation and simulation; and humanoid robotics.
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Mountain Snow: Measuring California’s Water Supply
Providing real-time water supply information tool enabling optimized usage of increasingly threatened water supplies in California.
Spring 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Spring 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
Catching Supernova in the Act
Data-enabled science allowed detection of Type Ia supernova hours after explosion.
Lecture series on YouTube
Our recent seminar series can be found as playlists.
Call for Proposals – CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference 2012 at UC Davis
This conference will highlight cutting-edge case studies as well as research, curriculum development, and community partnerships.
Daniel Hirleman is Interim CITRIS Director at Merced
Daniel Hirleman has been appointed as the Interim CITRIS Director of UC Merced.
CITRIS Health Care Initiative Employs IT to Tame Costs and Boost Access
Many of California’s residents are tragically underserved.
NSF awards $2 million to expand Sierra Nevada water sensors
A 4-year grant will support CITRIS efforts to monitor our water supply.
UC system generates $46.3B in economic activity for state
The University of California is a key economic catalyst for the state, generating $46.3 billion in annual economic activity for California.
Student competition at CITRIS: $45K in prizes
Our annual student competition for student-led proposals.
Jay Han has been named CITRIS Medical Director
Dr. Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Fall 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall series will begin in September.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Fall 2011
The fall Research Exchange schedule is now online
Getting to the root of the water cycle
A Berkeley-Merced collaboration is using small moisture sensors with wireless motes to help predict water availability.
Announcing our new initiatives – CITRIS newsletter for June 2011
CITRIS’s ‘Big Bets’ emerge out of our strategic planning work and address problems that are of significant importance. They each address a fundamental requirement for human life: Health, Sustainability and Energy.
Mónica Medina
What are the real ecological effects of humans’ changes to the Earth – changes like ocean water pollution or global warning? One way to help find out is by studying the health of some very basic creatures such as corals.
Kevin Mitchell
My research addresses fundamental questions in nonlinear dynamics and its application to classical, semiclassical and quantum physics, especially to atomic physics. Nonlinear dynamics has historically played a fundamental role in explaining diverse and complex atomic processes, a role which in turn has stimulated numerous theoretical advances in classical and quantum chaos. This trend continues as advances in atomic and optical techniques provide an unprecedented level of control and precision for experimental studies of chaos in atomic systems.
David Culler appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy
The mission of i4Energy to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution.
Avatarizing the Past: an Archaeological Perspective
Archaeologists are currently immersed in a cybernetic cycle of digital information.
Florin Rusu
Florin is originally from the city of Cluj-Napoca in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. He received a B.Eng. degree in 2004 from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science under the supervision of Sergiu Nedevschi. In 2005, he joined the graduate program in Computer Science at the University of Florida where he received a M.Sc. degree in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in 2009. At UF, Florin worked on large scale data management problems under the supervision of Alin Dobra.
Congratulations to this year’s Big Ideas winners
This year, CITRIS awarded five student-led proposals a total of $45,000 in prize money at the April 14 poster session for our annual White Paper competition
Letter from the Director for April/May
The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross.
Follow solar forecasting experiments in real-time
Carlos Coimbra, an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering of UC Merced, is leading research in solar forecasting. You can follow their solar experiments in real-time.