Events
Alan Turing: A Centenary Celebration, Sep 4
Alan M. Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. In honor of this pioneer of our digital age, the Mathematical Sciences Research […]
BigIdeas@Berkeley Information Session, Sep 5
The 2012-2013 Big Ideas@Berkeley student innovation competition will officially launch on September 5th. The kickoff will begin with an event featuring an inspiring talk by […]
Improving Building Performance: A Model of Industry/University Collaboration, Sep 5
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Emerging Wireless Applications In Biomedicine, Sep 5
The schedule for the semester can be found on the Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 Webviewing at […]
Cal's Aspiring Entrepreneurs Mixer, Sep 6
Cal’s Aspiring Entrepreneurs (CAE), Agora Startup House, and Glooo.us are teaming up to plan a really special event for our students, friends, and supporters in […]
History and Theory of New Media Lecture: Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG, Sep 6
Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) kicks off the 2012-13 History and Theory of New Media lecture series with his talk “Applied Topology,” on burglary, tunneling, and urban […]
Keeping Your Cool in the Data Center, Sep 7
Cooling consumes nearly half of the energy in data centers, and cooling failures account for one-third of the outages in data centers. This seminar will […]
A Conversation with Sir Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC, Sep 10
Sir Abed will share his experience founding BRAC, an organization that focused initially on helping refugees in northeastern Bangladesh, and now operates as an NGO […]
View from the Top, Sep 12
The College of Engineering presents the second View from the Top of the semester, featuring a panel of academic and industry experts speaking on Advancing […]
An Economic Framework for Analyzing Energy Efficiency Rebound, Sep 12
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Matching, Visualizing and Archiving Cultural Heritage Artifacts Using Multi-Channel Images, Sep 12
Recent advancements in low-cost acquisition technologies have made it more practical to acquire real-world datasets on a large scale. This has led to a number […]
Sensors, Networks, Usability-and Thermostats, Sep 14
Thermostats are getting smarter, but are they doing their job of providing comfort and convenience to the occupant as well as managing energy consumption? This […]
BigIdeas@Berkeley Information Session, Sep 18
Come get inspired and learn how to participate in the 2012-2013 Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest! Big Ideas provides funding support and encouragement to students with creative […]
i4Energy Center Research Symposium, Sep 18
, bringing multi-disciplinary minds together together to create information technology advances for our multi-layered energy challenges. i Energy is a collaboration among (U.C. Berkeley, Davis, […]
The Hidden Dimensions of Sustainable Neighborhoods: whole-system secrets for an enriched urban future, Sep 19
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)
What Lies Beneath: The Foundations of Motivation in the Age of Social Media, Sep 19
In this talk, I’ll focus on the deep motivations that drive so many to create, interact, and collaborate on Facebook, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Twitter, and countless […]
The Real Reasons We Must Have a Smart Grid for the 21st Century, Sep 21
Attempts to sell the smart grid to electricity consumers and taxpayers have understandably leaned toward promoting the “carrot” of customer-side applications and their benefits, the […]
Gina Neff: "Information Labor as Venture Labor: Policy Implications of Technology Industry Risk", Sep 25
Gina Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She studies the contemporary economics of media production by examining the relationship […]
Fiat Lux through the Lens of Science and Technology, Sep 26
Each panelist will choose an Ansel Adams image from the Fiat Lux collection. The audience will first have a chance to discuss their own observations […]
The Online Revolution: High-Quality Education for Everyone, Sep 26
Last year, Stanford University offered three online courses, which anyone in the world could enroll in and take for free. Students were expected to submit […]
Proximity-Based Monitoring of Electric Circuits, Sep 28
The ability to sense electrical quantities without the need for direct galvanic contact enables several exciting application in the area of pervasive energy monitoring and […]
ATC Lecture: Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, Designers, Boston, MA: Visualization and the Joy of Revelation, Oct 1
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg explore the joy of revelation: the special electricity of seeing a city from the air, of hearing a secret, of […]
Human Drivers of Climate Change: Energy, Economic Growth, and Trade, Oct 1
Energy and Resources Group/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint Faculty Candidate Job Talk