BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CITRIS and the Banatao Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://citris-uc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CITRIS and the Banatao Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130503T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4580-1367568000-1367600400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Advanced Energy Storage\, May 3 DESCRIPTION:Energy storage has often been referred to as the ‘holy grail’ of the electric power system – an unattainable panacea that would greatly improve the grid if found. Come hear why it is no longer unattainable\, but rather a true power system game changer making impacts today. Janice Lin of Strategen Consulting will show how energy storage is creating tremendous opportunities within the production value chain\, throughout the grid\, and across multiple industry sectors. \n ******************** \n The modern power grid was designed and is currently operated based on the premise that energy cannot be practically stored. That was a reasonable approach when both energy consumption and fossil-based generation were highly predictable and global warming a distant concern. \n Today\, with the implementation of large quantities of intermittent renewable energy and the concurrent electrification of transportation\, the nature of demand and supply is rapidly changing and becoming more difficult to manage. Power plants struggle to balance supply and demand in real time\, which causes a host of problems\, including the need for large fleets of idling power plants\, poor grid reliability and costly capacity additions that are utilized only a few days per year. \n Energy storage is a broad asset class that can respond quickly to these imbalances by shaping and shifting energy to when it is needed most. Storage thus provides enormous local and system-wide benefits\, including greater electric system reliability\, more economical use of existing assets\, faster response of the grid to changing loads\, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improved ability to integrate renewable energy. \n With so many demonstrated and potential benefits\, why isn’t there more advanced energy storage on the grid? In this talk\, Strategen Consulting Managing Partner Janice Lin will discuss the major policy hurdles to integrating energy storage onto the grid\, touching on why California is a role model for energy policy and how organizations like the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA) are working to create a level playing field for energy storage in the electric power sector. The discussion will also cover energy storage and the myriad benefits it provides\, as well as the opportunities that will be created as storage and renewables transform our electric power system to be cleaner\, more efficient\, more reliable\, and more cost effective. \n ———— \n Free and open to the public. \n Live broadcast at \n . Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISi4e. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n . \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/advanced-energy-storage-may-3/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4581-1368000000-1368032400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Berkeley Design Fest\, May 8 DESCRIPTION:Where is design happening at Berkeley? Everywhere! UC Berkeley students from all over campus have been engaging in design to solve a diversity of real-world problems. On May 8th\, the broader community is invited to see what Berkeley’s student architects\, engineers\, scientists\, planners\, biologists\, MBA’s\, artists and all forms of designers have been working on at the second Berkeley Design Fest. The Design Fest is an open house event where students will share their design projects. This open house event will give visitors a sense of the diversity and magnitude of the design activity occurring in departments throughout Berkeley. The first phase of Design Fest will take place at the College of Environmental Design from 10am-noon. The north campus phase of the Design Fest will take place from 1-5pm in the CITRIS Atrium\, CITRIS Auditorium and the Blum Center. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/berkeley-design-fest-may-8/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4582-1368172800-1368205200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Design for Change Lab: Sustainability\, Technology and the Dynamics of Rapid Change\, May 10 DESCRIPTION:Our world’s most pressing challenges\, such as Climate Change\, energy insecurity\, water insecurity\, social inequity\, and food insecurity are integrated challenges that are marked by scale\, complexity\, and urgency. In some ways\, the state of the crisis is a manifestation of our current approaches and institutional structures. Our disciplines work in silos\, but meanwhile the challenges are integrated. Pure technology or policy measures fail to give us the scaled outcomes that we desire\, and therefore our approach needs to encompass the integrated nature of these scaled challenges. The difficulty of challenges of this class requires that we develop new innovation methodologies. Since at the level of the larger system\, the boundary conditions encompass technology\, economics\, geo-political constraints\, socio-cultural backdrops\, the human behavior\, the regulatory landscape and resource flows\, we need effective ways of intervening with multi-agency in order to change system behavior. Prof Banerjee who is the director of Stanford ChangeLabs\, will talk about how his team is combining Design Thinking with other approaches such as technology strategy\, diffusion theory\, and behavioral sciences to develop innovation methodologies to address scaled challenges. \n ———— \n Free and open to the public. \n Live broadcast at \n . Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISi4e. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n . \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/design-for-change-lab-sustainability-technology-and-the-dynamics-of-rapid-change-may-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4583-1368172800-1368205200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ERG Master's Presentations\, May 10 DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/erg-masters-presentations-may-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4584-1368172800-1368205200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Problems with and solutions to global sustainability: culture\, biology\, and sociopolitical practices.\, May 10 DESCRIPTION:This is the final event in the Berkeley Sawyer Seminar series on “Speciesism and the Future of Humanity\,” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, featuring lectures and discussion with Paul Ehrlich and Clive Hamilton. Please RSVP to ematthes@berkeley.edu URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/problems-with-and-solutions-to-global-sustainability-culture-biology-and-sociopolitical-practices-may-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4585-1368604800-1368637200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Scheme IV: 4th Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare\, Engineering and Medicine\, May 15 DESCRIPTION:The complexities of health care research require a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to provide innovative solutions to today’s health care needs. By leveraging expertise across the 4 CITRIS campuses (UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced & UC Santa Cruz)\, researchers in various disciplines of healthcare\, engineering and medicine are able to work together to improve access and reduce disparities in healthcare across California. \n The 4th Scientific Colloquium for Health Care\, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME IV) brings together scientists\, engineers and healthcare practitioners from academia\, government and industry to share and discuss various topics in technology-enabled healthcare. The focus on this year’s colloquium will be around new technology-enabled models of translational research. New technologies are improving the future of healthcare delivery from cohort discovery to remote monitoring of patients. SCHEME IV provides a platform for discussing these exciting changes on the horizon. \n “…a collaborative & multi-disciplinary approach to…health care” URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/scheme-iv-4th-scientific-colloquium-for-healthcare-engineering-and-medicine-may-15/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4586-1369814400-1369846800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing\, May 29-31\, 2013 DESCRIPTION:This three-day symposium will bring together distinguished speakers and participants from the Bay Area and all over the world to celebrate both the excitement of fundamental research on the Theory of Computing\, and the accomplishments and promise of computational research in effecting progress in other sciences — the two pillars of the Simons Institute’s research agenda. \n The registration deadline has now passed. The Symposium is full and we are unable to confirm any additional guests. The talks will be recorded and posted online after-the-fact. Please check http://simons.berkeley.edu/symposium_visions2013.html in early-mid June to view the recordings. \n Support is gratefully acknowledged from the Computing Community Consortium. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/symposium-on-visions-of-the-theory-of-computing-may-29-31-2013/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4587-1369900800-1369933200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Center for Health Leadership 5th Annual Leadership Conference\, May 30-31\, 2013 DESCRIPTION:In Spring 2013\, we are on the precipice of dramatic\, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform health care and population health. \n We know that traditional public health approaches along with more and better health care are not enough to improve health outcomes\, equity\, and cost. We must also: \n • implement sustainable\, fundamental “upstream” changes that address the root causes of disease and disability; and \n • transform the way we deliver health care to ensure access to quality\, affordable health care for all. \n Public health\, health care\, and economic/community development organizations are all striving to develop and implement new ways to partner across sectors and with the community to achieve improved population health\, reduce cost\, and improve patient experience (the triple aim). \n While working upstream and transforming care delivery are compelling needs\, they are not easy to achieve. Innovative relationships\, strategies and collaborations are required – as is a different kind of leadership – in order to sustain these innovative interventions. \n Our 2013 CHL Leadership Conference will focus on: a call to action\, skills and vision for focusing on upstream innovation and care transformation. \n Please join us in this critical conversation! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-center-for-health-leadership-5th-annual-leadership-conference-may-30-31-2013/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4588-1369900800-1369933200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Center for Health Leadership 5th Annual Leadership Conference\, May 30-31\, 2013 DESCRIPTION:In Spring 2013\, we are on the precipice of dramatic\, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform health care and population health. \n We know that traditional public health approaches along with more and better health care are not enough to improve health outcomes\, equity\, and cost. We must also: \n • implement sustainable\, fundamental “upstream” changes that address the root causes of disease and disability; and \n • transform the way we deliver health care to ensure access to quality\, affordable health care for all. \n Public health\, health care\, and economic/community development organizations are all striving to develop and implement new ways to partner across sectors and with the community to achieve improved population health\, reduce cost\, and improve patient experience (the triple aim). \n While working upstream and transforming care delivery are compelling needs\, they are not easy to achieve. Innovative relationships\, strategies and collaborations are required – as is a different kind of leadership – in order to sustain these innovative interventions. \n Our 2013 CHL Leadership Conference will focus on: a call to action\, skills and vision for focusing on upstream innovation and care transformation. \n Please join us in this critical conversation! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-center-for-health-leadership-5th-annual-leadership-conference-may-30-31-2013-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4589-1369900800-1369933200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Par Lab End of Project Celebration\, May 30 DESCRIPTION:In 2008 we opened the Par Lab saying that industry needs the research community to help succeed in its sudden switch from serial to parallel computing. The goal of the $10M\, 5-year Universal Parallel Computing Research Center was to help sustain the rapid improvements in information technology that portions of the economy depend upon. We invite you to the end of Par Lab Project celebration on May 30\, 2013 to see the great progress we have made on this ambitious goal. \n Registration is now open! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/par-lab-end-of-project-celebration-may-30/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4590-1369900800-1369933200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Par Lab End of Project Celebration\, May 30 DESCRIPTION:In 2008 we opened the Par Lab saying that industry needs the research community to help succeed in its sudden switch from serial to parallel computing. The goal of the $10M\, 5-year Universal Parallel Computing Research Center was to help sustain the rapid improvements in information technology that portions of the economy depend upon. We invite you to the end of Par Lab Project celebration on May 30\, 2013 to see the great progress we have made on this ambitious goal. \n Registration is now open! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/par-lab-end-of-project-celebration-may-30-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4591-1370505600-1370538000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Innovative Leaders Speaker Series\, Jun 6 DESCRIPTION:Due to popular demand\, a morning session has been added for this performance improvement workshop with Dr. Tom Jackson! (It has the same content as the afternoon session.) \n This session will explore the effective A3 Lean Management Tool in a public health application\, though other industries are welcome to attend. In healthcare\, the A3 Lean Management Tool (A3) can play a pivotal role in addressing the pressing problems of high cost and poor quality. \n We encourage teams to participate in this interactive workshop; a team is 6-8 co-workers. \n The A3 is a large-format\, one-page report that summarizes an agreement between a manager and his or her superior to improve a value stream or process to meet organizational objectives. A typical A3 contains: \n – a succinct description of a problem or opportunity \n – focused improvement targets \n – a causal analysis of the problem \n – a proposed action \n – an action plan \n The one-page format of the A3 encourages: \n – clarity of thinking and presentation \n – improvement of communication both vertically (up and down the chain of command) and horizontally (between cooperating service lines\, departments or external organizations) \n In this session\, the second in the new Innovative Leaders Speaker Series\, Dr. Jackson will help participants: \n – understand how to manage change and develop leaders with the A3 team charter \n – understand how the scientific method defines A3 thinking \n – apply A3 thinking by developing an A3 team charter based upon a case study of a large integrated medical center URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/innovative-leaders-speaker-series-jun-6/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130715T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130715T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4592-1373875200-1373907600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Environmental Strategies for Peace and Nation Building\, Jul 15 DESCRIPTION:In many parts of the world\, rapid changes are occurring in both governance and the state of the environment. From social movements mobilized around environmental issues\, to large scale migrations driven by resource degradation\, to international efforts to develop technologies for climate change adaptation\, never before have the connections between environmental resources\, peace\, and stability been so striking and critical. \n On July 15\, 2013\, a panel of faculty experts and international practitioners will discuss how environmental issues are creating both challenges and opportunities for peace and nation building across the world. The panel is being held as part of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program\, a three-week intensive course in the College of Natural Resources for international environmental professionals. The panel will consist of: \n • Rida Sherif. Faculty and Department Head\, Dept. of Natural Resources\, University of Tripoli\, Libya. \n • Dana Rassas. Cultural Affairs Specialist\, American Consulate General\, Jerusalem (Palestine) \n • Kate O’Neill. Professor of Environmental Science Policy and Management\, UC Berkeley. \n • Martha Saavedra. Associate Director\, Center for African Studies\, UC Berkeley. \n • George Breslauer (moderator). Professor of Political Science and Executive Vice Chancellor\, UC Berkeley. \n Date: July 15\, 2013 \n Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm \n Location: International House\, 2299 Piedmont Ave\, Berkeley\, CA 94720 \n Cost: Free (registration required) \n Registration: http://environmentalstrategiespanel.eventbrite.com/ \n Sponsored by: \n Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program \n College of Natural Resources \n UC Berkeley URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/environmental-strategies-for-peace-and-nation-building-jul-15/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4593-1377849600-1377882000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Internet\, Cybercrime and the Occult in Contemporary Ghana\, Aug 30 DESCRIPTION:is a PhD. candidate in communication at Paris 8 University and is currently a visiting student researcher at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley. He holds a master’s degree in geography from Bordeaux 3 University and a master’s degree in cultural policy from Paris 8 University. He has done research on African musics in contemporary French cities and has recently been involved in an international comparative study on next generation networks deployment. His PhD. ethnographical research\, conducted in the context of a middle-sized city\, aims at drawing a social history of the Internet in Ghana with a particular emphasis on cybercrime. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/internet-cybercrime-and-the-occult-in-contemporary-ghana-aug-30/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140304T071633Z UID:4594-1378281600-1378314000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:What Big Data Can Tell You and Why It Matters\, Sep 4 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nAdvances in technology and the ever-growing role of digital sensors and computers in science have led to an exponential growth in the amount and complexity of data that scientists collect. We are at the threshold of an era in which hypothesis-driven science is being complemented with data-driven discovery. This alternate way to pursue research affects all fields\, from genomics in biology\, astrophysics\, to many domains in social sciences. \nThe data we collect are complex in size\, dimension\, and heterogeneity\, all three falling under the generic term “Big Data”. These data provide unprecedented opportunities for new discoveries; they also come with challenges that need to be addressed. I will discuss these opportunities and challenges with respect to three fronts\, namely Research\, Education\, and Infrastructure. \n——— \nThis semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n. \nAll talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n. \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/what-big-data-can-tell-you-and-why-it-matters-sep-4/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4596-1378281600-1378314000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest Information Session with Back to the Roots\, Sep 4 DESCRIPTION:Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual innovation contest aimed at providing funding\, support\, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of UC undergraduate and graduate students who have “big ideas.” On September 4th\, Big Ideas will host a Contest Information Session with special guest Alejandro Velez\, Co-founder of Back to the Roots. \n Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro and Nikhil Arora during their last semester as undergraduates at UC Berkeley in 2009. Excited by the idea of making food personal again\, Alejandro and Nikhil developed a plan to grow gourmet mushrooms from used coffee grounds\, and submitted their idea to the Big Ideas contest. That spring\, Back to the Roots was awarded a $5000 prize from Big Ideas—launching Alejandro and Nikhil’s plan to become urban mushroom farmers into action. \n To learn more about Alejandro’s inspiring story and how to enter this year’s Big Ideas@Berkeley contest\, join Big Ideas at their information session or visit bigideas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/big-ideasberkeley-contest-information-session-with-back-to-the-roots-sep-4/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T202118Z UID:4597-1378886400-1378918800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data-Driven Analytics in the Industrial Internet or How To Destroy My Job\, Sep 11 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe Industrial Internet is the third disruptive wave\, after the Industrial and the Internet revolutions. It is transforming our industries\, just like the Internet revolution transformed our commerce. In this new context\, we face a combination of hyper-connected intelligent machines\, interacting with other machines and people\, and generating large amounts data that need to be analyzed by descriptive\, predictive\, and prescriptive models. As a result\, we see the resurgence of analytics as a key differentiator for creating new services\, the emergence of cloud computing as an enabling technology for service delivery\, and the growth of crowdsourcing as a new phenomenon in which people play critical roles in creating information and shaping decisions in a variety of problems. We explore the intersection of these three concepts from the perspective of a machine-learning researcher and show how his job and roles have evolved over time. \nIn the past\, analytic model creation was an artisanal process\, as models were handcrafted by experienced\, knowledgeable model-builders. More recently\, the use of meta-heuristics\, such as evolutionary algorithms\, has provided us with limited levels of automation in model building and maintenance. In the future\, we expect data-driven analytic models to become a commodity. We envision having access to a large number of data-driven models\, obtained by a combination of crowdsourcing\, cloud-based evolutionary algorithms\, outsourcing\, in-house development\, and legacy models. In this context\, the critical issue will be model ensemble selection and fusion\, rather than model generation. \nWe address this issue by proposing customized model ensembles on demand\, inspired by Lazy Learning. In our approach\, referred to as Lazy Meta-Learning\, for a given query we find the most relevant models from a DB of models\, using their meta-information. After retrieving the relevant models\, we select a subset of models with highly uncorrelated errors (unless diversity was injected in their design process.) With these models we create an ensemble and use their meta-information for dynamic bias compensation and relevance weighting. The output is a weighted interpolation or extrapolation of the outputs of the models ensemble. The confidence interval around the output is reduced as we increase the number of uncorrelated models in the ensemble. This approach is agnostic with respect to the genesis of the models\, making it scalable and suitable for a variety of applications. \n—————- \nThis semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n. \nThe seminars are held in in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, and box lunches are provided *with registration*. \nRegistration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for lunch at UC Berkeley at \nLive broadcast at \n. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n. \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-driven-analytics-in-the-industrial-internet-or-how-to-destroy-my-job-sep-11/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4598-1378886400-1378918800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Roadmaps for powering states and countries for all purposes with wind\, water\, and sunlight\, Sep 11 DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/roadmaps-for-powering-states-and-countries-for-all-purposes-with-wind-water-and-sunlight-sep-11/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130912T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130912T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4599-1378972800-1379005200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Can "Open Data" Improve Democratic Governance?\, Sep 12 DESCRIPTION:IBM Information Strategist\, Steve Adler will also deliver a keynote address. \n This one-day conference explores the impact of open data on public policy and democratic governance in the digital age. \n Open data\, social media\, geographic information systems\, wireless communications\, and mobile devices are transforming the relationship between government institutions at all levels and the constituents they represent. The open data movement\, fueled by technical innovations\, offers opportunities to increase accountability and citizen participation through greater transparency and by generating more effective\, crowd-sourced solutions to public problems. At the same time\, questions of access and inclusion must also be addressed. Which groups are enabled to participate by these tools and whose voices are omitted? \n Registration opens August 1. Please visit website to register: \n The entire conference schedule can be found at \n or \n . URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/can-open-data-improve-democratic-governance-sep-12/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4600-1379318400-1379350800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative\, Future Conditional\, Sep 16 DESCRIPTION:Avatar Syndrome has come to refer to the intense longings experienced by fans of the 2009 James Cameron film for the depicted planetary moon Pandora and its Na’vi humanoids. Fans report subsequent depression and even suicidal tendencies because\, as one online post declared\, “you know you can never actually go to Pandora\, as it exists only in our imagination… sigh… :(” \n Avatar represents a current apex of imaging technologies\, even as it depicts a colonial fantasy of sublime nature and noble savages that is closer to that of the mythologized Pocahontas\, whose 1614 marriage to John Rolfe was the first recorded inter-racial marriage in America. \n This talk will consider deSouza’s own art and text works in relation to similar intersections of future-making technologies and past-reproducing fantasies\, nostalgias for authenticity and disciplinary cross-contaminations. \n Allan deSouza recently joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practices. Previously he was Chair of New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. His photography\, mixed-media installation\, text and performance works restage historical evidence through counter-strategies of fiction\, erasure\, and (mis)translation. DeSouza has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally\, including at the Gwangju Biennale\, Korea; 3rd Guangzhou Triennale\, China; the Pompidou Centre\, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; with recent solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery\, Delhi; SF Camerawork; the Fowler Museum\, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, SF; and the Phillips Collection\, Washington\, DC. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in various catalogues\, journals and anthologies\, including Shifter Journal\, NY; Earth Matters (National Museum of African Art)\, Washington\, DC; Third Text\, London; and X-TRA\, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a recent Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio\, Italy; a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Grant; and a California Community Foundation/Getty Fellowship Artist’s Award. \n The ATC series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)\, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Provost\, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)\, Meyer Sound and Theo Armour. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-avatar-syndrome-past-imperative-future-conditional-sep-16/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4601-1379318400-1379350800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative\, Future Conditional\, Sep 16 DESCRIPTION:Avatar Syndrome has come to refer to the intense longings experienced by fans of the 2009 James Cameron film for the depicted planetary moon Pandora and its Na’vi humanoids. Fans report subsequent depression and even suicidal tendencies because\, as one online post declared\, “you know you can never actually go to Pandora\, as it exists only in our imagination… sigh… :(” \n Avatar represents a current apex of imaging technologies\, even as it depicts a colonial fantasy of sublime nature and noble savages that is closer to that of the mythologized Pocahontas\, whose 1614 marriage to John Rolfe was the first recorded inter-racial marriage in America. \n This talk will consider deSouza’s own art and text works in relation to similar intersections of future-making technologies and past-reproducing fantasies\, nostalgias for authenticity and disciplinary cross-contaminations. \n Allan deSouza recently joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practices. Previously he was Chair of New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. His photography\, mixed-media installation\, text and performance works restage historical evidence through counter-strategies of fiction\, erasure\, and (mis)translation. DeSouza has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally\, including at the Gwangju Biennale\, Korea; 3rd Guangzhou Triennale\, China; the Pompidou Centre\, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; with recent solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery\, Delhi; SF Camerawork; the Fowler Museum\, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, SF; and the Phillips Collection\, Washington\, DC. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in various catalogues\, journals and anthologies\, including Shifter Journal\, NY; Earth Matters (National Museum of African Art)\, Washington\, DC; Third Text\, London; and X-TRA\, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a recent Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio\, Italy; a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Grant; and a California Community Foundation/Getty Fellowship Artist’s Award. \n The ATC series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)\, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Provost\, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)\, Meyer Sound and Theo Armour. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-avatar-syndrome-past-imperative-future-conditional-sep-16-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130917T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130917T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4602-1379404800-1379437200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Energy Research Symposium\, Sep 17 DESCRIPTION:The i4Energy is a nexus\, bringing multi-disciplinary minds together to create information technology advances for our multi-layered energy challenges. i4Energy is a collaboration among CITRIS (U.C. Berkeley\, Davis\, Merced\, and Santa Cruz); the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE); and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The research collaboration is focused on creating an integrated information infrastructure that will transform our energy grid into a cooperative\, “aware” energy network that is both efficient and able to use sustainable energy resources. \n The Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) provides a coordinating hub for all of Berkeley’s energy and climate efforts to ensure the integration of science\, engineering\, social science\, market\, and policy research. Specific programs launched in 2011 include the Cal Energy Corps\, a program created to engage UC Berkeley students in the design\, development and delivery of sustainable energy and climate solutions around the world\, the Innovation Seed Fund\, a fund that supports multi-disciplinary research by UC Berkeley faculty as well as the Berkeley Energy and Climate Lectures. \n The Symposium will present on-going energy research at the i4Energy and the Berkeley Climate Change Institute. Sponsors of the research include the CEC\, DOE\, NSF\, and private industry. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/energy-research-symposium-sep-17/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4603-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Climate Change and Health IdeaLab Meeting\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Join the (new) Climate Change and Health IdeaLab for our first meeting of the semester. This group provides a forum for campus members (students\, postdocs\, faculty\, staff) interested in the intersections of climate change and public health to find collaborators\, explore complex interdisciplinary issues\, share new research and learn together. \n Join us for an informal mixer as we discuss our plans for the year\, set up reading groups\, and begin projects in these areas. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/climate-change-and-health-idealab-meeting-sep-19/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4604-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with the radical growth of Online Social Networks (OSN) and attendant publicity about various leakages. For the last several years we have been examining aggregation of user’s information by a steadily decreasing number of entities as unrelated Web sites are browsed. I will present results from several studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks and popular non-OSN sites. Linkage of information gleaned from different sources presents a challenging problem to technologists\, privacy advocates\, government agencies\, and the multi-billion dollar online advertising industry. Economics might hold the key in increasing transparency of the largely hidden exchange of data in return for access of so-called free services. I will also talk briefly about doing privacy research at scale. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-19/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4605-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with the radical growth of Online Social Networks (OSN) and attendant publicity about various leakages. For the last several years we have been examining aggregation of user’s information by a steadily decreasing number of entities as unrelated Web sites are browsed. I will present results from several studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks and popular non-OSN sites. Linkage of information gleaned from different sources presents a challenging problem to technologists\, privacy advocates\, government agencies\, and the multi-billion dollar online advertising industry. Economics might hold the key in increasing transparency of the largely hidden exchange of data in return for access of so-called free services. I will also talk briefly about doing privacy research at scale. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-19-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130923T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130923T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4606-1379923200-1379955600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Algorithm Design for Map-Reduce\, Sep 23 DESCRIPTION:This talk will be broadcast from CITRIS@Merced: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/ucmerced \n Abstract: \n After a brief review of how map-reduce works\, we shall look at the trade-off that needs to be made when designing map-reduce algorithms for problems that are not embarrassingly parallel. In particular\, the less data that one reducer is able to handle\, the greater the total amount of data that must be communicated from mappers to reducers. We can view this trade-off as a function that gives the “replication rate” (average number of copies of an input communicated from mappers to reducers) in terms of the “reducer size” (number of inputs that can be accommodated at a reducer). For some interesting problems\, including matrix multiplication and finding bit strings at Hamming distance 1\, we can get precise lower bounds on this function\, and also match the lower bounds with algorithms that achieve the minimum replication rate for a given reducer size. \n Biography: \n Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979\, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969\, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994\, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012\, and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He has received the Sigmod Contributions Award (1996)\, the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998)\, the Knuth Prize (2000)\, the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006)\, and the IEEE von Neumann medal (2010). He is the author of 16 books\, including books on database systems\, compilers\, automata theory\, and algorithms. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/algorithm-design-for-map-reduce-sep-23/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4607-1380096000-1380128400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Driverless Cars: From Foresight to Concept\, Sep 25 DESCRIPTION:The talk describes how General Motors thinks about the longer term future and how it then applies that thinking to set research priorities and to develop future product concepts. Recent work in Urban Mobility and on Aging Drivers will be used as case studies to show the process and results of this work. \n Rick Holman leads the GM Global Trends Network\, a group focused on the future of the business and the world it serves. Working for major corporations Rick has held leadership positions in technology deployment\, change management\, organizational learning and strategy development. For the last 20 years he has been advising business leaders about the future and how to apply future thinking to innovation and strategic business decisions. Currently he leads a global cross-functional GM team that meets regularly to better understand emerging trends and their potential impact on the business. \n ———— URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/driverless-cars-from-foresight-to-concept-sep-25/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4608-1380096000-1380128400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:the First Five Kilobytes Are the Hardest\, Sep 25 DESCRIPTION:George Dyson\, author of Turing’s Cathedral\, the On the Same Page selection for 2013\, will give the keynote lecture to kick off this fall’s program. \n Dyson is an author\, boatbuilder\, designer\, and historian of technology whose interests have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka\, 1986)\, the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines\, 1997)\, and a path not taken into space (Project Orion\, 2002). His latest book\, Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (2012)\, illuminates the transition from numbers that mean things to numbers that do things in the aftermath of World War II. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-first-five-kilobytes-are-the-hardest-sep-25/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4609-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:Three years ago\, browsers started to add Do Not Track features\, and users flocked to the Do Not Track approach. Business\, however\, was not so eager. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gathered over 100 stakeholders to come to a consensus decision of what a site should do when a user asks not to be tracked. Aleecia was the initial co-chair of the effort\, and remained an active participant. Later\, she launched the Cookie Clearinghouse to increase user choice around third party cookies\, with an open invitation to the world to join a user group or business council\, and a small Advisory Board. In this talk\, Aleecia will discuss how both projects evolved over time\, and some of the challenges faced by both business and users in want of privacy. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-26/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T114325 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4610-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:Three years ago\, browsers started to add Do Not Track features\, and users flocked to the Do Not Track approach. Business\, however\, was not so eager. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gathered over 100 stakeholders to come to a consensus decision of what a site should do when a user asks not to be tracked. Aleecia was the initial co-chair of the effort\, and remained an active participant. Later\, she launched the Cookie Clearinghouse to increase user choice around third party cookies\, with an open invitation to the world to join a user group or business council\, and a small Advisory Board. In this talk\, Aleecia will discuss how both projects evolved over time\, and some of the challenges faced by both business and users in want of privacy. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-26-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR