Events

Access to affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world’s increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. […]

Alan M. Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. In honor of this pioneer of our digital age, the Mathematical Sciences Research […]

The 2012-2013 Big Ideas@Berkeley student innovation competition will officially launch on September 5th. The kickoff will begin with an event featuring an inspiring talk by […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

The schedule for the semester can be found on the Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 Webviewing at […]

Cal’s Aspiring Entrepreneurs (CAE), Agora Startup House, and Glooo.us are teaming up to plan a really special event for our students, friends, and supporters in […]

Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) kicks off the 2012-13 History and Theory of New Media lecture series with his talk “Applied Topology,” on burglary, tunneling, and urban […]

Cooling consumes nearly half of the energy in data centers, and cooling failures account for one-third of the outages in data centers. This seminar will […]

Sir Abed will share his experience founding BRAC, an organization that focused initially on helping refugees in northeastern Bangladesh, and now operates as an NGO […]

The College of Engineering presents the second View from the Top of the semester, featuring a panel of academic and industry experts speaking on Advancing […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Recent advancements in low-cost acquisition technologies have made it more practical to acquire real-world datasets on a large scale. This has led to a number […]

Thermostats are getting smarter, but are they doing their job of providing comfort and convenience to the occupant as well as managing energy consumption? This […]

, bringing multi-disciplinary minds together together to create information technology advances for our multi-layered energy challenges. i Energy is a collaboration among (U.C. Berkeley, Davis, […]

Come get inspired and learn how to participate in the 2012-2013 Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest! Big Ideas provides funding support and encouragement to students with creative […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

In this talk, I’ll focus on the deep motivations that drive so many to create, interact, and collaborate on Facebook, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Twitter, and countless […]

Attempts to sell the smart grid to electricity consumers and taxpayers have understandably leaned toward promoting the “carrot” of customer-side applications and their benefits, the […]

Gina Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She studies the contemporary economics of media production by examining the relationship […]

Last year, Stanford University offered three online courses, which anyone in the world could enroll in and take for free. Students were expected to submit […]

Each panelist will choose an Ansel Adams image from the Fiat Lux collection. The audience will first have a chance to discuss their own observations […]

The ability to sense electrical quantities without the need for direct galvanic contact enables several exciting application in the area of pervasive energy monitoring and […]

Energy and Resources Group/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint Faculty Candidate Job Talk

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg explore the joy of revelation: the special electricity of seeing a city from the air, of hearing a secret, of […]

Energy and Resources Group/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint Faculty Candidate Job Talk

Social media has changed the landscape of American politics. Candidates are using more sophisticated social media strategies and voters are communicating more actively among themselves. […]

This talk will present and critique a body of work evolving across several years of research at the intersection of computer science and participatory culture […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

ABSTRACT: Millions of end users today have access to programmable environments such as spreadsheets and smartphones, but lack the programming expertise to write even small […]

Jeff Hawkins will present the Hitchcock lectures on October 2 and October 3, 2012. The second lecture, titled “Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by […]

Innovators@Cal is an exciting event that fosters collaboration across the entire UC Berkeley campus. Come and attend Innovators@Cal to intellectually engage with students across disciplines […]

Join us to learn about the world-class public health research being conducted at Berkeley! Each week features a different, student-nominated faculty member presenting their latest […]

Innovators@Cal is an exciting event that fosters collaboration across the entire UC Berkeley campus. Come and attend Innovators@Cal to intellectually engage with students across disciplines […]

Join us to learn about the world-class public health research being conducted at Berkeley! Each week features a different, student-nominated faculty member presenting their latest […]

This all-day conference will bring together senior policymakers, academics and international practitioners from China and the U.S. to discuss two important topics: (1) Revisions to […]

An interactive discussion geared for entrepreneurs looking to learn about sourcing strategy for new technology products. We will use Tesla Motor’s Roadster sourcing strategy to […]

An interactive discussion geared for entrepreneurs looking to learn about sourcing strategy for new technology products. We will use Tesla Motor’s Roadster sourcing strategy to […]

The Blum Center for Developing Economies is honored to host USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on October 10th at 4pm in Sibley Auditorium. Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/12198375 […]

The maker movement has grown out of Make Magazine and Maker Faire. It is a grassroots movement that invites participation of amateurs of all ages […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Julia Washburn, Associate Director for Interpretation and Education at the United States National Park Service, will present the Park Service’s vision for the role of […]

Julia Washburn, Associate Director for Interpretation and Education at the United States National Park Service, will present the Park Service’s vision for the role of […]

The Student Environment Resource Center (SERC) will be holding its official grand opening event on Friday, October 12th from 3:30 to 5:00 PM. The event […]

Professor Akella will describe his research, which is based on extensive interactions with Silicon Valley and firms such as AOL, SAP, Cisco, IBM. He will […]