A Berkeley Lab Sustainability Strategy, Apr 19
How does a mature organization change business-as-usual to meet aggressive sustainability goals over the coming decades? John Elliott, Chief Sustainability Officer at Berkley Lab, will […]
Events
56 events found.
16th Annual Travers Conference: California's Energy Future, Apr 19
The state of California has embraced an ambitious goal of meeting its future energy needs while increasing its use of renewable energy. But a recent […]
Minner Distinguished Lecture in Engineering Ethics: Engineering and Social Responsibility, Apr 22
The NAE’s Engineering Grand Challenges directive has led to a renewed focus within engineering education on the connections between engineering and the well-being of society. […]
Minner Distinguished Lecture in Engineering Ethics: Engineering and Social Responsibility, Apr 22
The NAE’s Engineering Grand Challenges directive has led to a renewed focus within engineering education on the connections between engineering and the well-being of society. […]
10th Annual Sustainability Summit, Apr 22-23, 2013
Save the date! The 10th Annual Sustainability Summit will be on Monday, April 22 from 2-5PM and it will be held at Sutardja Dai Hall. […]
On the Inference of Pattern and Process in Nature: What Information Theory Can Teach Us, Apr 24
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Virtual Angkor: Animating Zhou Daguan’s 13th Century Descriptions of Cambodia, Apr 24
Being the only surviving eyewitness description of Angkor as a lively and fully functional medieval metropolis, the account by Zhou Daguan, a 13th century Chinese […]
Transforming Health Care with Technology: Model-Based Approaches, Apr 24
The mounting need to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare due to economic pressures and changing demographics requires significant transformations in healthcare delivery. This […]
Smart Grid and Technology Integration at Pacific Gas and Electric, Apr 26
The Smart Grid has evolved from a concept to reality in California. In its earliest days, Smart Grid was a collection of interesting ideas for […]
Innovating Technologies for the Poorest Two Billion, Apr 30
Two recent technology innovations could improve the lives of tens-possibly hundreds-of millions of people among the poorest two billion people on the planet. Both technologies […]
Climate-Challenged Society, May 1
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Frugal Science and Global Health, May 1
Somebody once said, “What a damn fool can do for a dollar, an engineer can do for a nickel.” Thinking about cost as an engineering […]
Thought Leaders in Data Science and Analytics, May 1
Faculty and students are invited to join us at the School of Information for seminars on Data Science and Analytics by exciting speakers from the […]
Big Neuroscience, May 2
The talk will run from 7:30—8:30pm on Thursday, May 2 in the Berkeley City College basement auditorium. The reception will begin at 7pm with light […]
Plausible Fallacies and Inconvenient Truths, May 2
Throughout time, scholars and craftsmen have developed — and built upon — plausible explanations for what they observe in fields of technology and science. As […]
TRUST Security Seminar, May 2
Our relationships with systems that instruct us to choose ‘strong’ passwords might best be described as high maintenance (a term coined in 1989 by Ephron). […]
Advanced Energy Storage, May 3
Energy storage has often been referred to as the ‘holy grail’ of the electric power system – an unattainable panacea that would greatly improve the […]
Berkeley Design Fest, May 8
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 […]
Design for Change Lab: Sustainability, Technology and the Dynamics of Rapid Change, May 10
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 […]
ERG Master's Presentations, May 10
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Problems with and solutions to global sustainability: culture, biology, and sociopolitical practices., May 10
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, […]
Scheme IV: 4th Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine, May 15
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 […]
Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing, May 29-31, 2013
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 […]
Par Lab End of Project Celebration, May 30
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 […]
The Center for Health Leadership 5th Annual Leadership Conference, May 30-31, 2013
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 […]
The Center for Health Leadership 5th Annual Leadership Conference, May 30-31, 2013
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 […]
Par Lab End of Project Celebration, May 30
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 […]
Innovative Leaders Speaker Series, Jun 6
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 […]
Environmental Strategies for Peace and Nation Building, Jul 15
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 […]
Internet, Cybercrime and the Occult in Contemporary Ghana, Aug 30
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 […]
Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest Information Session with Back to the Roots, Sep 4
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 […]
What Big Data Can Tell You and Why It Matters, Sep 4
Abstract: Advances in technology and the ever-growing role of digital sensors and computers in science have led to an exponential growth in the amount and […]
Roadmaps for powering states and countries for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight, Sep 11
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Data-Driven Analytics in the Industrial Internet or How To Destroy My Job, Sep 11
Abstract: The Industrial Internet is the third disruptive wave, after the Industrial and the Internet revolutions. It is transforming our industries, just like the Internet […]
Can "Open Data" Improve Democratic Governance?, Sep 12
IBM Information Strategist, Steve Adler will also deliver a keynote address. This one-day conference explores the impact of open data on public policy and democratic […]
ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional, Sep 16
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 […]
ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional, Sep 16
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 […]
Energy Research Symposium, Sep 17
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 […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 19
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 […]
Climate Change and Health IdeaLab Meeting, Sep 19
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, […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 19
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 […]
Algorithm Design for Map-Reduce, Sep 23
This talk will be broadcast from CITRIS@Merced: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/ucmerced Abstract: After a brief review of how map-reduce works, we shall look at the trade-off that needs […]
Driverless Cars: From Foresight to Concept, Sep 25
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 […]
the First Five Kilobytes Are the Hardest, Sep 25
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. […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 26
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 […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 26
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 […]
Acing the Turing Test: AI and What Makes Us Human, Sep 26
As part of the On the Same Page program, distinguished panelists will discuss the Turing test and how it fosters the exploration of the boundaries […]
Acing the Turing Test: AI and What Makes Us Human, Sep 26
As part of the On the Same Page program, distinguished panelists will discuss the Turing test and how it fosters the exploration of the boundaries […]
The Net: Utopia vs. Dystopia, Sep 27
Join us for an enlightening and provocative evening as we explore the Internet’s double-edged sword: its ability to spread knowledge and democracy and its potential […]
Reimagining the Urban, Sep 30
Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists […]
Robotic Surgery – Engineering from a Surgeon’s Perspective, Oct 2
Abstract: Robotic surgery has made considerable strides in the last 15 years. FDA-approved robotic systems have revolutionized surgery by giving surgeons better visualization and precision. […]
Story of Stuff, Oct 8
Have you ever wondered where does all your stuff come from and where it goes when you throw it away? An organization called “Story of […]
Story of Stuff, Oct 8
Have you ever wondered where does all your stuff come from and where it goes when you throw it away? An organization called “Story of […]
Counting and Coordinating: How People Track their Personal Finances, Oct 9
Abstract: Many of the resources on the web for thinking about finances are focused on high-income, high-experience investors. In this presentation, I present a qualitative […]
Counting and Coordinating: How People Track their Personal Finances, Oct 9
Abstract: Many of the resources on the web for thinking about finances are focused on high-income, high-experience investors. In this presentation, I present a qualitative […]