Events
Third Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems, Oct 28-29, 2013
The Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems, a forum founded in 2009, biennially brings together researchers who are working on breakthrough improvements in energy […]
Sustainable Tribal Buildings and Renewable Energy Systems, Oct 30
Sustainable Design is the art and science of designing products, services, and the built environment to meet the three pillars of sustainability: society, environment, and […]
The challenge of the Rebound Effect. Can energy use be decoupled from economic growth?, Oct 30
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The challenge of the Rebound Effect. Can energy use be decoupled from economic growth?, Oct 30
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Mapping and Its Discontents, Nov 1
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS SOLD OUT UC Berkeley Faculty and student seats available as walk-ins on a first-come first-serve basis Is a map a mirror, a […]
Electrified Vehicle Energy Management: Solutions and Opportunities, Nov 1
Abstract: One of the greatest opportunities and challenges in developing a sustainable and efficient transportation infrastructure rests upon intelligent energy management in electrified vehicles. This […]
Mapping and Its Discontents, Nov 1
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS SOLD OUT UC Berkeley Faculty and student seats available as walk-ins on a first-come first-serve basis Is a map a mirror, a […]
Big Data Seminar Series at UC Merced: Tom Kalil, Nov 4
Tom Kalil is the current Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for […]
How Data and Climate Models are Used to Measure and Verify Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nov 6
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Berkeley City College will host a free public talk on “Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” by Dr. Inez Fung […]
New Manufacturing Revolution: 3D Printing and its Impact on Society, Nov 6
CITRIS is hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on the New Manufacturing Revolution, featuring Paul Markillie , Peter Marsh , John Zysman and Björn Hartmann . […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Nov 7
The FBI claims it is going dark. Encryption technologies have finally been deployed by software companies, and critically, enabled by default, such that emails are […]
Ted Selker, “Activities in Considerate Systems” at UC Santa Cruz, Nov 13
Information systems are being called upon not only to help keep us organized and productive, but also to help in the fabric of the way […]
Demand-Side Modeling, Estimation and Control in Electric Power Systems, Nov 13
Duncan Callaway joined the Energy and Resources Group as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2009, and he also holds a courtesy appointment in […]
Energy and Climate Change: California's Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Renewables, Fuels, and Markets, Nov 14
Energy and Climate Change: California’s Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Renewables, Fuels, and Markets Thursday, November 14, 2013 Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall Earn […]
Social Innovation Hackathon, Nov 15
This year’s I School Hackathon is sponsored by the Peace Corps, and will tackle real-world problems faced by Peace Corps projects around the world. Thinkers […]
Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, Nov 18-20, 2013
The Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference 2013 is the premier event focused on understanding behavior and decision making with respect to energy usage, […]
Quantifying the Influence of Climate Change on Human Conflict, Nov 18
A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, […]
Policy Impact of Telemedicine, Nov 20
Information and telecommunications technology have evolved drastically over the past 2 decades and transformed many industries. Healthcare has experienced important changes but continues to lag. […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Nov 21
This talk considers how to restore electric power systems after a natural or man-made disaster. Such a restoration is extremely challenging from a computational standpoint […]
Labor, Energy and the Economy, Nov 21
While increasing energy usage by the largest nations in the world drives the global economy, the resulting burden of climate change is heaviest on the […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Nov 21
This talk considers how to restore electric power systems after a natural or man-made disaster. Such a restoration is extremely challenging from a computational standpoint […]
Labor, Energy and the Economy, Nov 21
While increasing energy usage by the largest nations in the world drives the global economy, the resulting burden of climate change is heaviest on the […]
The Innovation is in the Mind – The Converging Trajectories of IT, Neuro, and Nano, Nov 22
While major progress has been made over the past decades, the dynamic behavior of the brain at large is still poorly understood. A major charter […]
Automating Demand Response: From Hot Summer Events to Any Time, Nov 22
Mary Ann Piette is the Head of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Department and has been at LBNL since 1983. She is also the […]
ATC Lecture – From Timelapse to Timecollapse: Rethinking New Media Art and Platform in China, Dec 2
Reflecting on his curatorial projects in China and elsewhere, Zhang Ga invokes some of the fundamental concepts developed in Deleuze’s extensive work on cinema to […]
Overview of Rural Electrification Research in Kenya and India, Dec 4
Rural electrification remains a critical development challenge in low-income countries – one that promises great social benefits while simultaneously risking substantial environmental damage. Given that […]
A Talk by Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future, Dec 11
Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research […]
Diagnostics by Design, Jan 9
The Diagnostics by Design workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the challenges and lessons learned in developing and implementing global health technologies, specifically at […]
Diagnostics by Design, Jan 11-12, 2014
The Diagnostics by Design hackathon is a cross-communities effort to bridge the gap between makers and do-it-yourself innovators and the sphere of global health. The […]
Cognitive Computing for Utilities, Jan 22
This talk focuses on a cognitive computing approach to handle common problems within utilities, concentrating on utility operations and exploring the concept of using cognitive […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit, Jan 22
4PM-8PM @ 141 Sutardja Dai Hall. This event will facilitate the ideation & development of project ideas to help students define potential areas of interests […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Jan 23
Financial and trade secret theft, fraud, technical attacks, privacy intrusions, malware and other online criminal activity is a significant problem. Millions of internet users and […]
Electronic Materials Reaching Out To Mechanical, Optical And Thermal Functionalities, Jan 24
Electronic materials are materials in which mobile electrons play an active role in defining their relevant properties. However, their functionalities and applications are not necessarily […]
Targeted Efficiency: Using Customer Meter Data to Improve Efficiency Program Outcomes, Jan 29
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Does Rebound Offset the Savings from Energy Efficiency?, Jan 29
Abstract: Improving the efficiency with which we use energy is often said to be the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Jan 30
With the tremendous growth in cloud-based services, the web platform is now easily the most widely used application platform. In this talk, I will present […]
Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip: Merging Photonics and Microfluidics, Jan 31
A premise of the lab-on-a-chip paradigm is the integration of several processing stages of a chemical or biochemical analytical procedure together with microfluidics and detection […]

Technology for Patient Decision Making and Provider Choice, Feb 5
Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel The schedule for the semester can […]

Feb 5 – NSA Spying, Snowden, and Sparking Change
Don’t miss what promises to be a very timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, […]
Community Cellular Networks in Rural Papua, Indonesia, Feb 5
The price of cellular infrastructure is dropping dramatically, entering the sub 10,000 USD price point in the last few years. This shift has enabled a […]
HTNM Lecture – Lisa Nakamura "Indigenous Circuits", Feb 6
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The […]
View from the Top, Feb 7
On Friday, February 7 the College will host Thomas M. Siebel, founder, chairman and CEO of C3 Energy, as the first speaker for the spring […]
Games-Serious or Otherwise-for and about Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Feb 11
Please feel free to drop in to this workshop and brainstorming session where archaeologists with Erik Champion will work through some ideas and plans for […]
Breaking the Habits of Economic Growth: an Imperative for a Low Carbon Transformation, Feb 12
In this lecture, I will argue that a century of lived experience in the political economy of expansive capitalism in the rich countries of the […]
Heritage Via Games and Game Mods, Feb 12
In this informal talk, I will discuss classroom experiences (both good and bad) gleaned from teaching game design, especially work by students to develop serious […]
Air Pollution Kills! So What? Air Quality Engineering to Improve Public Health, Feb 12
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)

CITRIS Foundry Demo Day 2014
Kvamme Atrium Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe CITRIS Foundry is hosting very first Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our 2013-14 cohort. The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity […]
Cultural Heritage and Surround Displays, VR and Games for the Humanities, Feb 13
How are scholars using surround displays, stereographics, gaming technologies and new peripherals to disseminate new ways of viewing, interacting with, and understanding humanities content, and […]
Create Your Bot Hackathon, Feb 15
Learn how to build Chatbots with renowned artificial intelligence programmer and ChatScript language designer Bruce Wilcox as you compete to create the most human chatbot! […]
The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can't Have One Without the Other, Feb 18
Jaron Lanier scientific interests include biomimetic information architectures, user interfaces, heterogeneous scientific simulations, advanced information systems for medicine, and computational approaches to the fundamentals of […]
Crowdsourcing in Policy-Making: The Impact of Blended Expertise on Law-Making Process, Feb 19
This talk reports on a study about the impact of crowdsourcing on a law-making process in Finland. In the studied process, the off-road traffic law […]
Microelectronics and Microprocessors: The Early Years, Feb 19
Today we are so used to the enormous capabilities of microelectronics that we can hardly imagine what it might have been like in the early […]