View from the Top, Mar 4
For more than a decade, Olin College of Engineering has been exploring three questions with regard to engineering education: • Are we attracting the right […]
Events
78 events found.
Innovations in Disaster Relief Work, Mar 5
Brian Fishman is a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, a Fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point, and Philanthropic […]
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India, Mar 5
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 5
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
Pan-Optics: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy and Surveillance, Mar 6
This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Mar 6
We are in the age of networks and networked systems: communication, transportation, economic, biological, healthcare, educational, human, social, web-based, etc. This evolution and reality have […]
Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and Surveillance
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAdvances in drone aircraft, networked cameras, and recent disclosures about the NSA’s international and domestic surveillance activities have stimulated public protests, outrage from activists, and […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 12
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
Future of Demand Side Energy Management – Opportunities and Challenges, Mar 12
Join us for a talk by Steve Schiller. Schiller has thirty years of experience in the energy industry with a focus on demand-side energy efficiency, […]
Lifecycle analyses of energy options and climate change: what’s wrong, and how to fix it., Mar 12
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Leadership and Management: Implications for the Future of Health Care Reform, Mar 17
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present the upcoming lecture with Leonard Schaeffer, […]
Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture, Mar 18
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Sutardja (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88 EECS) will relate how he and his co-founders took Marvell Technology Group to global prominence in semiconductor innovation in […]
OpenROV: Open Source Underwater Robots for Exploration and Education, Mar 19
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOpenROV is a open-source underwater robot. But it’s so much more. It’s also a community of people who are working together to create more accessible, […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 19
Blum Hall B100 Blum Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
California Report Card: Learning from a New Platform for Civic Engagement, March 20
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin us for a public forum where Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Marina Gorbis of the Institute for the Future, Dean Henry E. Brady of the Goldman School of […]
Big Data: Values and Governance, Apr 1
Hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the UC Berkeley School of Information, and the Berkeley Center for Law and […]
The Core of a Game, Brenda Romero, Apr 2
242 Sutardja Dai Hall 242 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBrenda Romero is the Program Director for the UC Santa Cruz Master’s in Games + Playable Media and the CEO and Co-Founder of Loot Drop, […]
Robots and New Media, Apr 4
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA new medium is emerging: robots. For decades robots have been tasked to diligently perform a range of roles and duties within industrial manufacturing. But […]
Personalizing Cancer Diagnostics Using Microfluidics, Apr 4
390 Hearst Memorial Mining 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCancer therapy has a critical unmet need, which is to identify the best therapy for individual cancer patients. There are currently over 250 FDA-approved drugs […]
Betty Deakin Discusses California's High Speed Rail, Apr 7
Professor Elizabeth Deakin will speak with the Climate Change and Health IdeaLab (CHIL) about the community and environmental impacts of California’s High Speed Rail. Deakin’s […]
Brain-computer interfaces, Apr 9
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Berkeley City College will host a free public talk on “Brain-Computer Interfaces,” by Dr. Philip Sabes. Dr. Sabes […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Apr 9
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
An Operating System Architecture for CyberPhysical Systems in Buildings and Grids, Apr 9
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesToday's networks allow us to connect almost everybody and, increasingly, to connect almost every thing of value. This new tier of the Internet connects directly […]
2014 Minner Distinguished Lecturer, Apr 10
On Thursday, April 10, 2014, the College welcomes Dale Dougherty, founder and CEO of Maker Media, Inc., as the 2014 Minner Distinguished Lecturer. In his […]
Meet the winners of the QB3/Foundry Challenge
As health care becomes increasingly complex, there is a need for innovation at the intersection of biosciences and integrated digital technologies. New startups that operate […]
Reinvent Growth without Pollution, Apr 10
UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and the Center for South Asia Studies are proud to present the 20th Annual Lecture on Energy and the […]
Welcome to the Age of Access: Exploring the Sharing Economy and Shared-Use Mobility, Apr 11
A panel of leaders of the sharing economy and shared-use mobility will introduce the burgeoning economy, discuss various forms of shared-use mobility (such as carsharing, […]
CITRIS Open House for Cal Day 2014
CITRIS will be open on Cal Day on April 12, 2014! Highlights will include the PR2 Robot demo and our Tech Museum on the 3rd […]
The Future of Transportation in California, Apr 15
Malcolm Dougherty, Director of the California Department of Transportation, will speak on the current state of transportation in California, and on Caltrans’ forward vision of […]
In Drought and Deluge: How Applied Hydroinformatics are Becoming Standard Operating Data for All Californians, Apr 16
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA central problem for all Californians is that there is often not enough water or too much. While the Mediterranean climate of cool wet winters […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Apr 16
Blum Hall B100 Blum Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
CEE’s Spring Distinguished Lecture with Armen Der Kiureghian, Apr 17
390 Hearst Memorial Mining 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPost‐Hazard learning, risk assessment and decision‐making for infrastructure systems Armen Der Kiureghian Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Robust performance and […]
California in Drought, Apr 18
California is experiencing its worst drought in recorded history, but droughts are not new to California. Over the past 150 years, during which California’s water […]
Big Ideas: IT poster session, Apr 21
Kvamme Atrium Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RSVP at: http://bit.ly/1iUGprj The eight finalists for the 2014 Big Ideas Competition in IT for Society will present at an […]
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, Apr 21
210 South Hall 210 South Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesWhat is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? Youth […]
Renewables Integration and Grid Management: The Role of Storage and Electric Vehicles, Apr 23
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCarla Peterman, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, will speak about how California energy policy supports an ambitious transition from conventional fossil generation to renewable and […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Apr 24
Two decades of analysis have produced a rich set of insights as to how the law should apply to the Internet’s peculiar characteristics. But, in […]
Bone Flute to Auto-Tune: A Conference on Music and Technology in History, Theory and Practice, Apr 24-26
Elkus Room Elkus Room, Morrison Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesWhat shapes our music technologies? How do our technologies shape our musical practices and thought? An exciting body of scholarship has addressed such questions for […]
Recent Progress with Nanowires: Growth and Energy Applications, Apr 25
The scientific field of (compound) semiconductor nanowires got started seriously in the US and in Europe about 15 years ago, some ten years after the […]
Berkeley Angel Network Investor Panel
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Berkeley Angel Network (BAN) & The Foundry@CITRIS would like to invite the UC Berkeley entreprenuership community to our first Angel Investor Panel. Come learn about angel investment and […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Apr 30
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
Telehealth Challenges in the Future, Apr 30
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesWhat are the challenges for deployment of telehealth in the future? This lecture will focus on giving an overview of the evidence base of telehealth […]
Groundtruth and Airwaves: Sensor Networks and Emerging Technology for Environmental Journalism, Apr 30
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesGroundtruth and Airwaves: Sensor Networks and Emerging Technology for Environmental Journalism Symposium, April 30, 1pm - 5pm | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, University of […]
berkeleyByte presents: The Social Impact of Technology, May 1
berkeleyByte Presents: The Social Impact of Technology, A Conversation Featuring Speakers from The Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, Team4Tech, SocialCoding4Good, and VMWare Inc. […]
Valuing Design, May 2
Quality design is credited with providing a powerful competitive advantage to businesses and driving successful innovation. Metrics for measuring the value of design have included […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Demo Day, May 6
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTo promote innovation, community service, and career development among UC Berkeley students, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) sponsored […]
Intermittency-Friendly Community Scale Renewable Energy Microgrids, May 7
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe challenges proposed by long-term resource supplies, global climate change and energy market volatility require strategies and policies directed towards the development of technologically, economically […]
Beyond Computation: The P versus NP question, May 9
What are the theoretical limitations of computer power? In a remarkable 1956 letter, the great logician Kurt Gödel first raised this question when he asked […]
Biological Inspiration: How We Learn from Nature to Design Robots, Exoskeletons and Adhesives, May 17
Biological Inspiration is the use of principles from biology to generate novel designs through integration with the best human engineering. These fundamental principles have inspired […]
New Media Best Practices: Using Infographics and Data Visualization Webinar, May 22
Interested in learning how to transform data or complex, hard to understand information into something more visually appealing and meaningful? Or how to use tools […]
Everyone’s a Target, May 22
American author and journalist Janes Bamfordhas written extensively about the National Security Agency. Fresh back from visits to Glenn Greenwald in Rio and Laura Poitras […]
Agricultural Imagery, Governmentality, and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Texts, May 22
Ritualistic and agricultural imagery dominate depictions of the human and social body in early Chinese texts. In this presentation, I set out to dialogue passages […]
Innovations in Problem Solving: New Tools for Hands-on Solutions with Clark Kellogg, May 29
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present “Innovations in Problem Solving: New Tools […]
New Media Best Practices: Telling Stories with Images and Video Webinar, Jun 11
When it comes to communication, telling stories with images and video has a power few other mediums have. These engaging and increasingly shareable visual mediums […]
Innovation HealthJam, June 17-19
Registration is now open for the Innovation HealthJam, a collaborative brainstorming event that will be held online June 17-19, 2014. During the free, three-day virtual […]
MMDS 2014 Meeting, Jun 17
MMDS 2014 (2014 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets) will take place on the campus of UC Berkeley on June 17-20, 2014. Event: […]
Neural Dust and Neural Interfaces, Aug 16
Mulford Mulford Hall, Room 159A major technological hurdle in neuroprosthetics is the lack of an implantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. I will discuss the […]
New Media Fall Open House, Aug 25
Join us for light refreshments and conversation in the Commons to learn more about the Berkeley Center for New Media’s academic offerings and event programs. […]
The Transformation of Transportation: New Vehicles, Fuels, and Mobility Services, Sep 3
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyDan Sperling of UC Davis will speak at the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the fall. Passenger transportation was arguably the least innovative sector in […]
What is “Socket” Parity and is Rooftop Solar PV There Yet Without Subsidies?, Sep 3
110 Barrows Hall BerkeleyEnergy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295) http://erg.berkeley.edu Paulina Jaramillo, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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)
Patent Reform: Lessons Learned and What's Next for Startups, Sep 10
What does the recent battle for patent reform mean for startups and for the future of tech policy? Julie Samuels is executive director and president […]
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 […]