Enabling Low Carbon Communities: The Roles of Smart Planning Tools and Place-Based Solutions, Sep 10
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Events
54 events found.
Efficient Technologies to Improve Daily Lives, Sep 10
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. He is Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, […]
WilmerHale Presents: Mistakes to Avoid for Startups
Berkeley Skydeck, East Overlook 2150 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Foundry@CITRIS, CET Venture Lab and Berkeley Skydeck will be co-hosting the first in a year-long series of monthly presentations by WilmerHale on legal issues that startup founders need to know. This […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 11
This talk will cover our study of three advanced web tracking mechanisms: canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and cookie syncing. Canvas fingerprinting, a recently developed form of […]
Digital Agenda for Europe, Sep 17
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyThe European Commission launched in March 2010 the Europe 2020 Strategy to exit the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 18
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Whitney Phillips (Communication Studies, Humboldt State University) will discuss her forthcoming book This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping […]
Blending Science Engineering and Design, Sep 19
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesHigh-Impact Research strategies could help large and small projects to deepen human understanding of the natural and made worlds, so as to promote sustainable use […]
Institute of Transportation Studies Friday Seminar, Sep 19
| 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building Speaker: Victor Knoop, Assistant Professor, Transport & Planning, Delft University of Technology Sponsors: Institute of Transportation Studies, […]
Agriculture and Fracking, Sep 22
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyAs the process of capturing natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” expands nationally, it has come under fire for its impact on water quality […]
Wireless Sensor Networks for Flash Flood and Traffic Monitoring in Urban Environments, Sep 24
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyThis talk describes a new architecture for distributed flash flood and traffic monitoring in cities using combined Eulerian and Lagrangian sensing. Unlike current traffic sensor […]
Control Your Career: Advice and Opportunities from the Founders of Sprig and Udemy
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesGagan Biyani, Co-Founder and CEO, Sprig; and Co-Founder of Udemy Matt Kent, Co-Founder and Engineering Lead, Sprig Join us for refreshments and conversation with Gagan […]
UrbanSim Model of Urban Development, Oct 1
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyPaul Waddell teaches and conducts research on modeling and planning in the domains of land use, housing, economic geography, transportation, and the environment. He has […]
Data Analytics in Energy, Oct 8
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyEd Abbo is currently President and Chief Technical Officer of C3 Energy, which offers smart grid analytics SaaS solutions that enable utilities to realize the […]
The Technology of Access: Allowing People of Age to Vote for Themselves, Oct 15
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyUniversal access is an important goal of technology. This talk examines several evolving voting technologies and their impact on persons with cognitive and physical disabilities. […]
BERC Energy Summit: Innovation Exposition, Oct 16
http://berc.berkeley.edu/innovation-expo/ The Innovation Expo is a research showcase that opens and connects the enormous wealth of leading-edge energy research from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National […]
BERC Energy Summit: Conference, Oct 17
http://berc.berkeley.edu/innovation-expo/ For seven consecutive years, the BERC Energy Conference has convened leading stakeholders for to tackle the world’s most pressing energy challenges. The prestigious event […]
>Play Conference Hackathon, Oct 17
>Play, the premier student-led technology conference in the country, is proud to be hosting its second annual hackathon! Join with your friends or form at […]
>Play Conference Hackathon, Oct 18
>Play, the premier student-led technology conference in the country, is proud to be hosting its second annual hackathon! Join with your friends or form at […]
Emerging Technologies Summit: Accelerating Innovation in Energy Efficiency
Accelerating Innovation in Energy Efficiency From October 20-22, more than 500 stakeholders in the energy efficiency and demand response emerging technologies sector will gather for […]
Image as Location, Oct 22
Knowing and seeing is not the same thing. — Regula Bochsler, Artist When man-made images constitute the evidence of our environment and even our existence, […]
How We Got to Now, Oct 22
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySteven Johnson is the author of eight books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. He has also co-created three influential web sites: […]
Queerness and Games Conference, Oct 25
The Queerness and Games Conference Theme: “Difference at Play” UC Berkeley, October 25 and 26, 2014 qgcon.com // @qgcon // qgconference@gmail.com Register at eventbrite. The […]
Pragmatic Translational Informatics for Health Care, Oct 29
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyAs director of informatics research at the UC Davis Health System, Nick Anderson does research into the effective uses of biomedical data, information and knowledge […]
TRUST Security Seminar
As web applications get increasingly complex to support sophisticated business functionalities, an emerging class of vulnerabilities, which are referred to as logic vulnerabilities (a.k.a, logic […]
A Formal Approach to Enforce Safety in Cyber-Physical Transportation Networks
The current progress of embedded computation and communication technologies are pushing several systems toward increased levels of autonomy. Transportation systems, in particular, are experiencing a […]
Information Technology Enablers for Deep Space Exploration
Technology innovation has always been the engine that has enabled new space mission capabilities. For interplanetary space exploration, nowhere has this been more evident in […]
Breakthrough Prize symposia live streaming
The Breakthrough Prize symposia will offer a day of inspiring and enlightening conversations that will shine a light on the science behind the Breakthrough Prizes. […]
Synthetic Biology Meets Organic Synthesis, Nov 10-12
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCITRIS is co-sponsoring an event in November that is designed to explore a new multi-leveled approach to speed up knowledge development and enter the fast […]
Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occuring in Our Midst, Nov 12
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesHuman beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, […]
Planning to Control Crowd-Sourced Workflows
Crowd-sourcing labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) are booming, because they enable rapid construction of complex work.ows that seamlessly mix human computation with computer automation. […]
The Value of Transmission in Electricity Markets: Evidence from a Nuclear Power Plant Closure
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Data Dialogs
What’s everyone talking about? They’re talking about data! Whether you’re interested in finance, gaming, travel, security, education, health care, commerce, or science, data will play […]
Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance, Nov 19
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyRichard Swart is the Director for the Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. Richard Swart leads […]
Decarbonizing China’s Power Sector: Potential, Prospects, and Policy
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Human Impacts Institute, German Consulate San Francisco, Transatlantic Climate Bridge Program of Germany, Bioneers, Impact Hub,Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Story Corps, and the Berkeley […]
Population Research in the Age of Big Data
An interdisciplinary symposium, presented by the Berkeley Population Center, together with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Department of Demography […]
Social Innovation Hackathon
“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]
Big Data for Better Medicine, Dec 3
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyUCSC has built the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) for the US National Cancer Institute, designed to hold data for all major NCI projects. To date […]
Software-Defined Networks and the Maturing of the Internet
The genius of the pioneers of the Internet was to keep the network of links and routers – the “plumbing” – dumb and minimal, placing […]
Movers and Makers
A Panel of Local Innovators
High Tech, Low Life (Stephen T. Maing; China/US, 2012)
With special guest Monica Lam. High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first “citizen reporters” as they roam the country reporting on social and […]
Count Me In: Walking and the City
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyAn afternoon discussion and poster session Presented by students, faculty and staff from the Global Urban Humanities program, CITRIS, BCNM, and the CITRIS Social Apps Lab During Fall 2014, […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit 2015
242 Sutardja Dai Hall 242 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Social Apps Lab at UC Berkeley create information technology solutions for many of […]
Erasure Coding for Cloud Storage
As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes […]
Reza Abbaschian, Trends in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Education
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyMaterials research over the last three decades has led to significant advances in the manufacturing of new materials with tailored and unique properties for a […]
Sackler Lecture in Astronomy
A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a softly-hued, ringed planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine […]
How Economic, Social, and Technological Forces are Re-Shaping Market Research and the Applied Social Sciences
In this presentation, the first to be held in the newly renovated Social Science Matrix space, Scott McDonald, Adjunct Professor, Marketing at Columbia Business School […]
Bending the Arc to Health Equity
The essence of public health is the prevention of preventable suffering and the creation and promotion of a world in which all can truly thrive. […]
Emily Jacobi, Harnessing Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Harnessing Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 […]
CITRIS Director Costas Spanos to speak at UC Merced
Room SSB 120 UC Merced, Merced, CA, United StatesCITRIS Director Costas Spanos is speaking at UC Merced on Friday, February 6 from 12-1pm in Room SSB 120. To RSVP, please visit: http://citris.ucmerced.edu/events/frontiers-information-technology-speaker-series-interest-society. Abstract: How […]