Events
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 […]
Meredith Fowlie: Field Experimentation on the Demand Side of Electricity Markets
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Field Experimentation on the Demand Side of Electricity Markets Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, February 11, 2015 from 12:00 PM […]
View from the Top
The View from the Top lecture series spotlights thought leaders in technology, industry and education, bringing them onto campus to share the latest developments and […]
Pat Hanrahan, Scientific Visualization and Big Data
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Scientific Visualization and Big Data Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, February 18, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM […]
Climate Policy and Politics: Changing the Conversation
Join Tom Steyer, advanced energy advocate, investor and philanthropist, for the 6th Annual Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy. Moderated by Governor […]
Stephen Wheeler, Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Urban Development
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Urban Development Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, February 25, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 […]
Social Enterprises in Developing Economies
Come join us for an exciting and thought provoking discussion on the role Bay Area-based social enterprises play in developing economies.
The Bosch Roadmap for Future Automated Vehicles
Advanced driver assistance systems already help drivers reach their destinations safely and more comfortably. Future systems will evolve from driver assistance over highly automated vehicles […]
Katherine Kim, Social Networking in Cancer Care
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Social Networking in Cancer Care Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, March 4, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (PST) […]
Michael Cohen, How Online Civic Engagement Can Increase Public Trust in Government
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: How Online Civic Engagement Can Increase Public Trust in Government Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 12:00 […]
Predicting Personality from Digital Footprints
Personality traits form a key driver behind people’s behavior, cognitions, motivations and emotions; and thus assessing others’ personality is a basic social skill and a […]
New concepts in high-speed bio-imaging: from bench top to clinic
High-throughput imaging technologies provide a pathway to deliver better health care solutions. This presentation introduces new approaches based on time-encoded single-pixel cameras, enabling a number […]
Stavros Vougioukas, Automated Agriculture
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSeminar Title: Automated Agriculture: Focus on Harvesting Room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, March 18 , 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (PST) REGISTER Abstract: […]
The Benefits of Clean Drinking Water: Perceptions, Payment and Policy
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge with Brewster Kahle
WHAT: “Universal Access to All Knowledge” presented by Mr. Brewster Kahle. Will we allow ourselves to re-invent our concept of libraries to expand and to […]
Fixing Congress’ Panel Discussion and Reception
Current and former members of Congress and Bay Area technologists address the prospects for solving congressional dysfunction The Ash Center, the Center on Civility & […]
Hack4Congress San Francisco
#Hack4Congress brings together political scientists, technologists, designers, lawyers, organizational psychologists, and lawmakers to foster new digital tools, policy proposals and other innovations to address the […]
New Media Best Practices: Gathering and Sharing Stories that Matter
Join us for the first FREE webinar of the 5th Annual 21st Century New Media Training Series, “Telling Stories That Matter: Visual Storytelling for Health” […]
David Hochschild, Sunrise from the West: The Growth of Renewable Energy in California
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleySeminar Title: Sunrise from the West: The Growth of Renewable Energy in California Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from […]
EECS Colloquium: Minimally Invasive, Wireless Neural Interfaces and Future Directions in Implantable Electronics
Neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is an electrophysiological technique where electrical potentials are recorded from the […]
BCNM Mobile Collaboration Conference
The BCNM is an interdisciplinary community that draws together artists, humanists, and technologists to effectively analyze and shape developments in new media. This Spring, we’re […]
The Networked World: How Foreign Policy Is Evolving In The 21st Century
Dr. Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and writer who has twice been elected Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was previously […]
Brad Pollock, Preventing Disease and Shaping Health Policy
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSeminar Title: Preventing Disease and Shaping Health Policy Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM […]
CITRIS Big Ideas poster session
Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Berkeley, CA, United StatesCITRIS Big Ideas poster session Presentation | April 8 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Please join us at 3pm on Wednesday, […]
Peak water or enduring thirst? California water, virtual water, and growth
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Patricia Moore, Design for all: Inclusivity by design
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDesign for all: Inclusivity by design with Patricia Moore WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015 Lecture: 5:00 – 6:15 p.m. Reception & Student Project Demos: 6:15 […]
Sustainability at Scale: How do We Look to Manage Major Planetary Resources for the Future?
UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group 21st Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment
Can we build the grid from the bottom up for 2050?
The electric power grid will need to be dramatically different by 2050. The existing grid is centralized and hierarchical. It assumes generation can be accurately […]
Minimally Invasive, Wireless Neural Interfaces and Future Directions in Implantable Electronics
Clinically viable and minimally invasive neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. To enable chronic and stable neural recording, we […]
William Nazaroff, Sustainably Improving Indoor Environmental Quality
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleySeminar title: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis: Sustainably Improving Indoor Environmental Quality Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from 12:00 PM […]
The Future of U.S. Climate Policy: Building Sustainable Legal Regimes
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
BERC Resources Roundtable 2015: Changing Lands in a Changing Climate
Our lands provide us food and resources in addition to acting as a carbon sink, making them one of the most important pieces of the […]
Global Health Leadership Forum
Executive education program for senior health leaders from around the world. Focus: globally-sourced solutions/innovations for health policy and management challenges. In a decade 480 leaders […]
Erik Porse, Managing Water Scarcity for Future Cities: What Makes Sense to Sense?
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Managing Water Scarcity for Future Cities: What Makes Sense to Sense? Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from […]
Watershed Collaborations: Entanglements on common streams
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Regis B. Kelly, Innovating Innovatively
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar Title: Innovating Innovatively at UC Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (PST) REGISTER […]
Joseph Stiglitz in Conversation with Robert Reich
Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich discuss Professor Stiglitz’s new book, The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them. Books will be […]
The UC San Diego Design Lab: Human-Technology Teamwork
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyDon Norman, Professor Emeritus, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego May 4, 2015 12:00pm 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium UC Berkeley Don Norman likes to […]
Lise Getoor, Big Graph Data Science
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleySeminar title: Big Graph Data Science Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Wednesday, May 6, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (PST) REGISTER Abstract: […]
“Machines of Loving Grace” John Markoff, New York Times
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyThe CITRIS People and Robots Initiative Presents: A Distinguished Lecture by John Markoff of the New York Times "Machines of Loving Grace" Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Time: 11am-12pm Location: […]