BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CITRIS and the Banatao Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CITRIS and the Banatao Institute 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:20130410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4553-1365580800-1365613200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:BERCshop: Who Owns Your Invention? A discussion on ownership and entrepreneurship\, Apr 10 DESCRIPTION:Come learn about patent rights\, ownership\, and commercialization for inventions and technologies developed at UC Berkeley and LBNL! Every day\, Berkeley research scientists are making discoveries with the potential to make a powerful impact on society. In order for these technologies to transition from bench to market\, the threshold question is: who owns the invention? Does the university own it? Does the PI or graduate student own it? \n This panel discussion will focus on patent rights\, ownership\, and licensing negotiations for inventions and technologies developed at UC Berkeley and LBNL. Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. \n A Panel Discussion featuring: \n • Professor Robert Barr\, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology \n • Cheryl Fragiadakis\, Head of Technology Transfer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab \n • Braden Penhoet\, Executive Director for Innovation and Business Development in the Office of the VC for Research \n • Vern Norviel\, Partner\, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati \n Lunch provided to those who RSVP at http://bercshop-who_owns_your_invention.eventbrite.com/ URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/bercshop-who-owns-your-invention-a-discussion-on-ownership-and-entrepreneurship-apr-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4554-1365580800-1365613200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Big Ideas@Berkeley annual “Information Technology for Society” poster session\, Apr 10 DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday April 10th\, from 2-4pm\, Big Ideas@Berkeley will hold its annual “Information Technology for Society” poster session in B100 Blum Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. \n All nine finalists in the IT for Society category will be in attendance\, to discuss their innovative projects and answer questions from judges and the public. The IT for Society contest category\, sponsored by the Rudd Family Foundation and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)\, supports student projects with the potential to channel information technology to address a broad range of social issues—including public health\, democratic governance\, transportation\, and disaster response\, among others. The upcoming poster session will allow teams to share their projects\, which have already demonstrated the capacity of IT in addressing major societal challenges. \n 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.” \n ——————– \n The projects in the 2013 Information Technology for Society category are: \n Access | Access will innovate a financially sustainable business model that provides free mobile phones\, subscriptions and SMS literacy curricula to the world’s illiterate poor. They plan on harnessing corporate interest at the bottom of the economic pyramid as an untapped market to finance this movement. \n Facilitating Independence for Photo Capturing\, Browsing\, and Sharing for Blind People | This big idea is to facilitate independence for blind people in capturing\, organizing\, browsing\, and sharing photos using an iPhone. \n FuturePress—Open reading\, writing\, and collaboration for enhanced ebooks | Electronic books\, content sharing\, and collaborative authoring have the potential to transform education and community knowledge building\, but proprietary platforms and limited authoring tools are standing in the way. FuturePress seeks to change this by building an open-source\, cross-platform ebook reader and a web-based collaborative authoring tool. \n Health in the Cloud | Health in the Cloud will build an easy-to-use\, but comprehensive\, platform for the global health community to collect\, manage\, and analyze diagnostic data. Emphasis will be placed on providing and standardizing powerful techniques for data visualization\, co-location of data\, and meta-analysis\, which they believe is the future of data mining and healthcare. \n Low-Cost Utility-Driven Guardian Robot for Older Persons Living Alone | This proposal aims to produce a robot that acts as a guardian for older persons living independently that is low cost\, low maintenance\, unobtrusive\, and gives the family peace of mind that their loved one is safe. \n m3d (Mass Minable Medical Data) | m3d is the “Google for Healthcare” —an intuitive and fast search engine for clinical and biomedical research. \n ParkExperienceMap | To survive\, California’s National Parks must become more relevant to people of diverse cultural backgrounds. Drawing on research about underserved populations and parks\, ParkExperienceMap\, in partnership with the national Park Service\, proposes to implement an online participatory mapping system for creating park maps that is tailored to underserved audiences. \n Science Foundary: A Series on How Scientists Change the World | The Science Foundary wants to inspire the next generation of innovators. Starting with Berkeley’s nine Nobel Laureates\, they aim to film a series of short “Science for Everyone” videos explaining their prizewinning work to spark the young minds of future scientists. \n Small\, Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for CAL FIRE Reconnaissance | The Sacramento firefighters memorial has over 1\,100 fallen heroes\, and UC Merced students have developed a way to improve firefighter safety. While combating fire\, information is key; therefore\, this big idea envisions a cheap way to continuously update CAL FIRE with small\, unmanned aerial vehicles. \n For additional information on Big Ideas@Berkeley\, or the IT for Society poster session please contact bigideas@berkeley.edu or visit our website at bigideas.berkeley.edu URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/big-ideasberkeley-annual-information-technology-for-society-poster-session-apr-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4555-1365580800-1365613200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Frontiers in Urban Exposure Science\, Apr 10 DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/frontiers-in-urban-exposure-science-apr-10/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130408T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4549-1365408000-1365440400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data\, Society\, and Inference Seminar\, Apr 8 DESCRIPTION:This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation\, data analysis\, and inference techniques. Talks will alternate between Berkeley and Stanford\, and logistics will be arranged for people from both institutions to see every talk. A light lunch will be provided. If you would like to be added to the distribution list\, email: brian_reschke@haas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-society-and-inference-seminar-apr-8/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130408T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4550-1365408000-1365440400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data\, Society\, and Inference Seminar\, Apr 8 DESCRIPTION:This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation\, data analysis\, and inference techniques. Talks will alternate between Berkeley and Stanford\, and logistics will be arranged for people from both institutions to see every talk. A light lunch will be provided. If you would like to be added to the distribution list\, email: brian_reschke@haas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-society-and-inference-seminar-apr-8-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130405T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130405T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4548-1365148800-1365181200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Role of Supply-Following Loads in Highly Renewable Electricity Grids\, Apr 5 DESCRIPTION:Driven by renewables portfolio standards and emissions limits\, electrical grids are phasing in renewable electricity generation at an unprecedented rate\, primarily displacing traditional fossil fuel-powered sources. Most electricity generation by renewables is non-dispatchable\, meaning that it often fluctuates unpredictably and cannot be scheduled or shifted. This makes matching supply and demand to ensure electrical reliability a fundamentally new challenge as the proportion of renewable sources increases. \n To overcome the challenges of fluctuating renewable generation\, I study the use of supply-following electrical loads that are responsive to grid conditions such as energy availability or electricity price. This talk presents the design\, implementation\, and evaluation of three supply-following loads: a home heater\, a refrigerator enhanced with thermal energy storage\, and a heat pump for cooling a room or house. I assess to what extent these supply-following loads can improve supply and demand matching by using a model of the California electrical grid at different levels of renewables penetration. Using what remains after applying supply-following loads\, I analyze the requirements for energy efficiency\, demand flexibility\, and seasonal energy storage to further improve the match in future\, sustainable electricity grids. \n Bio: Jay Taneja is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science\, advised by Professor David Culler and expecting to finish in May\, 2013. His primary research interests are in applications of information technology to societal-scale challenges\, particularly in energy systems. He received his B.S. from The Ohio State University and his M.S. from the University of California\, Berkeley. He has accepted a Research Scientist position at the new IBM Research lab in Nairobi\, Kenya. \n Webpage: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~taneja/ \n ————– \n All are welcome to attend. \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 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-role-of-supply-following-loads-in-highly-renewable-electricity-grids-apr-5/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T202150Z UID:4544-1364976000-1365008400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Clinical Integration at Kaiser\, Apr 3 DESCRIPTION:Registration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for LUNCH at UC Berkeley at \n. Everyone is welcome to attend\, even without registration. \nFree and open to the public\, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlight ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues. \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/clinical-integration-at-kaiser-apr-3/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4545-1364976000-1365008400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Engaging Digital Humanities Curriculum\, Apr 3 DESCRIPTION:Ray Siemens is the Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria in English and Computer Science. \n Siemens is co-editor of Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities (2004)\, Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007)\, the MLA volume Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (2013)\, and numerous articles and others works at the intersection of computational technology and the humanities. He serves as Vice-President of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute\, and Director of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative project Implementing New Knowledge Environments. \n Siemens will lead a brown bag lunch conversation exploring key elements of disciplinary and interdisciplinary change relating to technology in the Humanities and the response of Digital Humanities curriculum. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/engaging-digital-humanities-curriculum-apr-3/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4546-1364976000-1365008400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Thought Leaders in Data Science and Analytics\, Apr 3 DESCRIPTION: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 happening places: Google\, Yahoo\, eBay\, Facebook\, Kaggle\, LinkedIn\, BlueKai Data Exchange\, Cloudera\, Skytree\, Adobe\, Claritics\, Kaiser Permanante\, Wells Fargo\, and more. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/thought-leaders-in-data-science-and-analytics-apr-3/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4547-1364976000-1365008400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Renewable Energy Futures to 2050: Current Thinking\, Apr 3 DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Spring 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/renewable-energy-futures-to-2050-current-thinking-apr-3/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4539-1364803200-1364835600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data\, Society\, and Inference Seminar\, Apr 1 DESCRIPTION:This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation\, data analysis\, and inference techniques. Talks will alternate between Berkeley and Stanford\, and logistics will be arranged for people from both institutions to see every talk. A light lunch will be provided. If you would like to be added to the distribution list\, email: brian_reschke@haas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-society-and-inference-seminar-apr-1/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4540-1364803200-1364835600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture: Scott Summit\, Designer\, Bespoke Products\, Apr 1 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-scott-summit-designer-bespoke-products-apr-1/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4541-1364803200-1364835600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture: Scott Summit\, Designer\, Bespoke Products\, Apr 1 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-scott-summit-designer-bespoke-products-apr-1-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4542-1364803200-1364835600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Scott Summit\, Designer\, Bespoke Products\, "Art of the Exoskeleton: 3D Printing for the Human Condition"\, Apr 1 DESCRIPTION:What if you could communicate and spread physical products as easily as software or code? And what if you could modify each one to meet the specific needs of the individual? 3D printing offers just that ability\, though its potential has only recently begun to be realized. We are now able to create custom solutions for human needs\, based on the individuality of that specific body. But we can go further and infuse that product with beauty\, personality and uniqueness with no extra burden\, since an entirely digital process remains indifferent to complexity. This presentation will showcase some of the ways that a mass-customized process stands to improve the quality of life for people with needs unmet by mass-produced solutions. It will explore how design\, art\, and a new approach to product creation may invite new products into our lives. \n Scott Summit seeks to connect complex human needs with design and technology solutions. To this end\, he founded Bespoke Innovations in 2010\, based on 20 years of experience and research in design and additive fabrication. Bespoke was founded on the simple idea that an integrated approach that connects design\, medicine and new technology stands to offer more meaningful and individualized solutions to address a wide variety of human needs. \n As a designer\, his clients have included Apple\, Nike\, Palm\, Silicon Graphics\, and other innovations-oriented companies large and small. His designs have earned international recognition including top honors from the IDSA\, IDEA\, The Chicago Athenaeum\, IGood Design\, and Core77. Summit holds over 20 design and utility patents and has held faculty positions at Stanford University\, Carnegie Mellon\, and currently holds a faculty position at Singularity University. He has spoken at TEDx Cambridge\, the Vanguard Lecture Series\, the Summit Series\, Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series and keynoted at Autodesk University. Bespoke was acquired by 3D Systems in May of 2012\, and now drives its medical solutions research. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/scott-summit-designer-bespoke-products-art-of-the-exoskeleton-3d-printing-for-the-human-condition-apr-1/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130401T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4543-1364803200-1364835600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Scott Summit\, Designer\, Bespoke Products\, "Art of the Exoskeleton: 3D Printing for the Human Condition"\, Apr 1 DESCRIPTION:What if you could communicate and spread physical products as easily as software or code? And what if you could modify each one to meet the specific needs of the individual? 3D printing offers just that ability\, though its potential has only recently begun to be realized. We are now able to create custom solutions for human needs\, based on the individuality of that specific body. But we can go further and infuse that product with beauty\, personality and uniqueness with no extra burden\, since an entirely digital process remains indifferent to complexity. This presentation will showcase some of the ways that a mass-customized process stands to improve the quality of life for people with needs unmet by mass-produced solutions. It will explore how design\, art\, and a new approach to product creation may invite new products into our lives. \n Scott Summit seeks to connect complex human needs with design and technology solutions. To this end\, he founded Bespoke Innovations in 2010\, based on 20 years of experience and research in design and additive fabrication. Bespoke was founded on the simple idea that an integrated approach that connects design\, medicine and new technology stands to offer more meaningful and individualized solutions to address a wide variety of human needs. \n As a designer\, his clients have included Apple\, Nike\, Palm\, Silicon Graphics\, and other innovations-oriented companies large and small. His designs have earned international recognition including top honors from the IDSA\, IDEA\, The Chicago Athenaeum\, IGood Design\, and Core77. Summit holds over 20 design and utility patents and has held faculty positions at Stanford University\, Carnegie Mellon\, and currently holds a faculty position at Singularity University. He has spoken at TEDx Cambridge\, the Vanguard Lecture Series\, the Summit Series\, Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series and keynoted at Autodesk University. Bespoke was acquired by 3D Systems in May of 2012\, and now drives its medical solutions research. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/scott-summit-designer-bespoke-products-art-of-the-exoskeleton-3d-printing-for-the-human-condition-apr-1-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130322T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130322T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4538-1363939200-1363971600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics\, Mar 22 DESCRIPTION:A building can be an agile\, sentient\, complex dynamic system that delivers customized sequences of micro-environments to optimize comfort and productivity while minimizing carbon footprint. Such a building leverages pervasive sensing and information technology to realize and maintain tunable physical models\, and to synthesize state-of-the-art knowledge about occupant needs and patterns\, allowing optimal integration and management. This view introduces modern agile manufacturing principles in building operations\, with activities such as process control\, fault detection and classification\, planning\, forecasting and supply chain management when interacting with the grid\, the utilities\, and the environment. We will address this concept in the context of a newly established research program between UC Berkeley\, Nanyang Technological University\, National University of Singapore and Singapore’s National Research Foundation. \n ~ \n COSTAS J. SPANOS received the EE Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens\, Greece and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988 he joined the Faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as the Director of the Berkeley Microlab\, the Associate Dean for Research and as Department Chair. He works in statistical analysis in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits\, and on novel sensors and computer-aided techniques in semiconductor manufacturing. He also works on statistical data mining techniques for energy efficiency applications. He has contributed to two successful startup companies\, Timbre Tech\, (acquired by Tokyo Electron) and OnWafer Technologies (acquired by KLA-Tencor). He is presently a Director of the Center for Research in Energy Systems Transformation\, and of the Berkeley Educational Alliance for Research in Singapore. \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/building-efficiency-and-sustainability-in-the-tropics-mar-22/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4535-1363852800-1363885200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Bright Lights across the River: Competing Modernities at China’s Edge\, Mar 21 DESCRIPTION:The two cities of Heihe (China) and Blagoveshchensk (Russia) stand right opposite each other across the Amur River. But if they are comparable in footprint and population size\, they look drastically different. Having evolved from a small settlement two decades ago\, Heihe is a very modern city\, structured on an urban model that is emerging throughout China. By contrast\, Blagoveshchensk looks like a typical Eastern European town and has remained practically unchanged in the last twenty years. The contrast increases even further at night\, when the whole of Heihe’s riverbank illuminates in very bright lights. \n For the Russians in Blagoveshchensk\, these lights are symbolically crucial. If they continue to see their town as an outpost of Russian cultural presence in the East\, former assumptions of cultural superiority have been deeply undermined. Indeed\, no longer viewed as a ‘backward’ developing country\, China has now become a serious economic and geopolitical contender. This rise has been viewed by Blagoveshchensk residents with an ambivalent mixture of anxiety and fascination. For the younger generation\, the lights increasingly signal the ushering in of a new kind of modernity\, offered by an economically confident China where the future beckons and where everything seems possible. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/bright-lights-across-the-river-competing-modernities-at-chinas-edge-mar-21/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4536-1363852800-1363885200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Mar 21 DESCRIPTION:The electric power grid is a highly automated network that uses a variety of sensors\, information/control systems\, and communication networks for the purpose of sensing\, monitoring\, and controlling the physical grid. This talk first provides a brief taxonomy of potential cyber threats on the power grid and then presents a cyber-physical systems framework for risk modeling and mitigation of cyber attacks that accounts for dynamics of the physical system\, as well as the operational aspects of the cyber-based control system. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-mar-21/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4537-1363852800-1363885200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Mar 21 DESCRIPTION:The electric power grid is a highly automated network that uses a variety of sensors\, information/control systems\, and communication networks for the purpose of sensing\, monitoring\, and controlling the physical grid. This talk first provides a brief taxonomy of potential cyber threats on the power grid and then presents a cyber-physical systems framework for risk modeling and mitigation of cyber attacks that accounts for dynamics of the physical system\, as well as the operational aspects of the cyber-based control system. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-mar-21-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T202238Z UID:4531-1363766400-1363798800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:How Better Information Can Transform Water Management in California\, Mar 20 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bales joined the University of California\, Merced\, as Professor of Engineering in June 2003\, and is one of U.C. Merced’s inaugural faculty. Dr. Bales received his B.S. from Purdue University\, an M.S. from the University of California\, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He worked as a consulting engineer from 1975 to 1980\, prior to his Ph.D.\, and was Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona from 1984 to 2003. He has published over 100 papers in diverse fields of research including snow hydrology\, alpine hydrology and biogeochemistry\, polar snow and ice\, contaminant hydrology\, and water quality. In 2007 he was named Acting Director\, and in 2008 Director\, of UC Merced’s Sierra Nevada Research Institute. \nAt UC Merced\, Dr. Bales organized the Mountain Hydrology Research Group\, which is deploying new research instrumentation at several Sierra Nevada sites\, and has multiple ongoing\, collaborative projects investigating mountain hydrology. He has continuing research in Greenland and Antarctica. \n———— \nFree and open to the public\, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlight ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues. \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/how-better-information-can-transform-water-management-in-california-mar-20/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4532-1363766400-1363798800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Thought Leaders in Data Science and Analytics\, Mar 20 DESCRIPTION: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 happening places: Google\, Yahoo\, eBay\, Facebook\, Kaggle\, LinkedIn\, BlueKai Data Exchange\, Cloudera\, Skytree\, Adobe\, Claritics\, Kaiser Permanante\, Wells Fargo\, and more. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/thought-leaders-in-data-science-and-analytics-mar-20/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4533-1363766400-1363798800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Baxter Liberty Initiative: Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Gary S. Becker\, Mar 20 DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be held on Wednesday\, March 20 from 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm in UC Berkeley’s Banatao Auditorium. Professor Enrico Moretti from Berkeley’s Department of Economics will serve as the respondent for the discussion. A reception in the Kvamme Atrium will follow from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n Dr. Becker is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and a Professor of Economics\, Sociology\, and Business at the University of Chicago. In 1992\, he received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His research specializes in human capital\, economics of the family\, and economic analysis of crime\, discrimination\, and population. Dr. Becker’s current work focuses on habits and addictions\, formation of preferences\, and population growth. \n ABOUT THE PROGRAM \n The Baxter Liberty Initiative is a program in Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science\, established by UC Berkeley Foundation Trustee Frank Baxter\, former CEO of Jeffries and Co. and former Ambassador to Uruguay\, in 2011. Each lecture features an intellectual leader whose expertise and scholarship focuses on the ideal of freedom in political and economic life. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-baxter-liberty-initiative-nobel-prize-winner-dr-gary-s-becker-mar-20/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4534-1363766400-1363798800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Baxter Liberty Initiative: Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Gary S. Becker\, Mar 20 DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be held on Wednesday\, March 20 from 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm in UC Berkeley’s Banatao Auditorium. Professor Enrico Moretti from Berkeley’s Department of Economics will serve as the respondent for the discussion. A reception in the Kvamme Atrium will follow from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n Dr. Becker is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and a Professor of Economics\, Sociology\, and Business at the University of Chicago. In 1992\, he received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His research specializes in human capital\, economics of the family\, and economic analysis of crime\, discrimination\, and population. Dr. Becker’s current work focuses on habits and addictions\, formation of preferences\, and population growth. \n ABOUT THE PROGRAM \n The Baxter Liberty Initiative is a program in Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science\, established by UC Berkeley Foundation Trustee Frank Baxter\, former CEO of Jeffries and Co. and former Ambassador to Uruguay\, in 2011. Each lecture features an intellectual leader whose expertise and scholarship focuses on the ideal of freedom in political and economic life. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-baxter-liberty-initiative-nobel-prize-winner-dr-gary-s-becker-mar-20-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4528-1363593600-1363626000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Smart Materials and Advanced Manufacturing\, Mar 18 DESCRIPTION:The highlights of our workshop include our kickoff speaker\, Dr. Tom Kurfess\, who until very recently served as the Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Also featured is a distinguished industrial panel that will share with us their view of the industry needs for an “industrial commons”. In the afternoon\, a second panel will highlight some of the assets of the Northern California participants in this All-California program. Next\, breakout sessions will allow for considerable participant discussion on the day’s topics. Finally\, our distinguished closing speaker\, Mark Zdeblick\, CTO of Proteus Digital Health\, will describe new opportunities in manufacturing and healthcare. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/smart-materials-and-advanced-manufacturing-mar-18/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4529-1363593600-1363626000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Building Text-Analysis Tools for Literary Study\, Mar 18 DESCRIPTION:Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley\, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines\, information visualization\, natural language processing\, and empirical analysis of social media. Hearst has recently completed a book on Search User Interfaces. Bryan Wagner is associate professor in the English Department and affiliated faculty in the American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. His primary research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath\, with secondary interests in legal history\, cultural theory\, and popular music. \n Hearst and Wagner will discuss their National Endowment for the Humanities funded WordSeer project. This project began as an experiment by Ph.D. candidate Aditi Muralidharan asking how natural language processing and data visualization could be applied to the process of literary study. Two years and two NEH grants later\, the team has expanded their goal from matching up computational linguistics algorithms with literary questions to the creation of a publicly available scholarly tool for the visual and algorithmic analysis of text. \n A brown bag lunch conversation with Hearst and Wagner discussing lessons learned and the close collaboration\, field- testing and detailed understanding of humanistic work processes that are necessary for tool builders to be successful. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/building-text-analysis-tools-for-literary-study-mar-18/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130318T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4530-1363593600-1363626000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data\, Society\, and Inference Seminar\, Mar 18 DESCRIPTION:This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation\, data analysis\, and inference techniques. Talks will alternate between Berkeley and Stanford\, and logistics will be arranged for people from both institutions to see every talk. A light lunch will be provided. If you would like to be added to the distribution list\, email: brian_reschke@haas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-society-and-inference-seminar-mar-18/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4526-1363334400-1363366800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:BERC Resources Roundtable: The Future of Urban Water\, Mar 15 DESCRIPTION:The Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative is pleased to present the 2013 Resources Roundtable\, The Future of Urban Water. UC Berkeley is a recognized leader in research associated with assessment of urban water problems and the development of innovative policies and technologies for water supply\, urban drainage\, and waste treatment. A cross-disciplinary set of panelists from academia and industry will shed light on current and anticipated challenges related to urban water systems as well as market opportunities linked to urban water renewal. We hope you will join us for this fruitful discussion! \n Registration: http://futureofurbanwater-atom.eventbrite.com \n Event Contact: andrew_collier@mba.berkeley.edu URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/berc-resources-roundtable-the-future-of-urban-water-mar-15/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4527-1363334400-1363366800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:BERC Resources Roundtable: The Future of Urban Water\, Mar 15 DESCRIPTION:The Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative is pleased to present the 2013 Resources Roundtable\, The Future of Urban Water. UC Berkeley is a recognized leader in research associated with assessment of urban water problems and the development of innovative policies and technologies for water supply\, urban drainage\, and waste treatment. A cross-disciplinary set of panelists from academia and industry will shed light on current and anticipated challenges related to urban water systems as well as market opportunities linked to urban water renewal. We hope you will join us for this fruitful discussion! \n Registration: http://futureofurbanwater-atom.eventbrite.com \n Event Contact: andrew_collier@mba.berkeley.edu URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/berc-resources-roundtable-the-future-of-urban-water-mar-15-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4524-1363334400-1363366800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education\, Mar 15 DESCRIPTION:With the rapid growth of online education platforms\, institutions of higher learning must address pressing questions about the opportunities and risks related to the changing educational landscape. This two-day symposium at UC Berkeley brings together scholars\, educational media developers\, students\, and employers to explore and discuss critical issues in online higher education. \n Symposium speakers will share their diverse experiences with online education and examine\, from a variety of angles\, the conditions\, opportunities\, and tensions pertaining to learning online. Over the course of two days\, speakers will identify key factors for successful implementation of online and on-campus learning models as they examine shifting notions of equity and access\, as well as theories of learning\, communities of practice\, research opportunities\, the global reach of online education\, and learning tools and metrics. \n Keynote Speaker Peter Norvig (Director of Research\, Google) will present on Friday\, March 15 at 4:45pm. \n Featured speakers include Piotr Mitros (Chief Scientist\, edX)\, Carina Wong (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)\, Lal Jones-Bey (Coursera)\, John Rinderle (Open Learning Initiative\, Carnegie Mellon University)\, Gabe Kleinman (IDEO)\, Marti Hearst (Professor\, UC Berkeley)\, Suzanne Howard (IDEO)\, Pieter Abbeel (Professor and edX instructor\, UC Berkeley) and Christian Simm (Executive Director and Founder\, swissnex San Francisco). See symposium website for a full list of speaker biographies. \n Registration is now open at http://ciioe.eventbrite.com/. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited\, we encourage you to register early. \n Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Co-presented by the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative\, with support from the UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning\, the Banatao Institute @ CITRIS Berkeley\, and the Office of the President. \n To close our conference with a real service\, we are planning a Hackathon for Sunday March 17. The subject of this Hackathon is how to build an app that supports access to the UC schools for K-12 students. For more information\, see the Hackathon page at learningmode.org. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/learning-mode-critical-issues-in-online-education-mar-15/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T045151 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4525-1363334400-1363366800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education\, Mar 15 DESCRIPTION:With the rapid growth of online education platforms\, institutions of higher learning must address pressing questions about the opportunities and risks related to the changing educational landscape. This two-day symposium at UC Berkeley brings together scholars\, educational media developers\, students\, and employers to explore and discuss critical issues in online higher education. \n Symposium speakers will share their diverse experiences with online education and examine\, from a variety of angles\, the conditions\, opportunities\, and tensions pertaining to learning online. Over the course of two days\, speakers will identify key factors for successful implementation of online and on-campus learning models as they examine shifting notions of equity and access\, as well as theories of learning\, communities of practice\, research opportunities\, the global reach of online education\, and learning tools and metrics. \n Keynote Speaker Peter Norvig (Director of Research\, Google) will present on Friday\, March 15 at 4:45pm. \n Featured speakers include Piotr Mitros (Chief Scientist\, edX)\, Carina Wong (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)\, Lal Jones-Bey (Coursera)\, John Rinderle (Open Learning Initiative\, Carnegie Mellon University)\, Gabe Kleinman (IDEO)\, Marti Hearst (Professor\, UC Berkeley)\, Suzanne Howard (IDEO)\, Pieter Abbeel (Professor and edX instructor\, UC Berkeley) and Christian Simm (Executive Director and Founder\, swissnex San Francisco). See symposium website for a full list of speaker biographies. \n Registration is now open at http://ciioe.eventbrite.com/. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited\, we encourage you to register early. \n Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Co-presented by the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative\, with support from the UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning\, the Banatao Institute @ CITRIS Berkeley\, and the Office of the President. \n To close our conference with a real service\, we are planning a Hackathon for Sunday March 17. The subject of this Hackathon is how to build an app that supports access to the UC schools for K-12 students. For more information\, see the Hackathon page at learningmode.org. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/learning-mode-critical-issues-in-online-education-mar-15-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR